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http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Grateful_Dead.htm http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead My introduction was the Skull and Roses and Dead Set records. Dead Set may not be the best, but it's a good introduction for the later phase of their career. The first link is their discography, rather daunting to look at, especially if one is trying to figure out what to purchase. The second link is their live shows that are streaming or and some(the audience recordings) can be downloaded. 1971 and 1972 shows, to me at least, are the most "accessible", though 1972 at times get's out there (

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/reco...e-line-rarities A Pitchfork review of The Memorial Collection and Down the Line.

http://expectingrain.com/ Today, the Expecting Rain site has a decent comprehensive collection of links on The Day the Music Died.

It looks like the original seeder pulled it. Not sure if this link is valid any longer.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=522027

Have not listened to it yet, but it's up @ bt.tree.

It's done. He's out. The vote was 59 for impeachment and zero against.

J.D Salinger can write the liner notes.

Now Dylan's Things have Changed...Liking these tunes. Hopefully Obama is not just passing through.

Thank you, indeed.

Well I guess it's "really" official. Chief Justice Roberts swore in Obama tonight (again) at the White House. I heard Roberts brought a cheat sheet this time.

up at the fest web site now, too. http://www.10klf.com/

It was a bit interesting to me that the Obama's first dance song at these balls was to Etta James' song "At Last". Must admit Beyonce performance with the Obama's dancing was pretty cool. (Is Etta James still performing? Although Beyonce did a great job, why didn't James perform it?) But At the Mid Atlantic gig, the Dead should have been asked to play it while the First couple danced, since the Etta performed with the Grateful Dead in the early 80's (82 new year i believe?). I just streamed it off of Archive a few weeks ago, I never heard it before. It sounded like Etta was having fun on sta

Wow, this is a coincidence. I posted the interview link before I read it all the way through; the below is from end of the interview. LP: If you could move forward 200 years from now and people were interested in knowing what your fondest memories were, what would you tell them? BW: Well, when we were playing in Egypt and let me first say that we really didn't play that well, which was a result of being jet lagged along with other numerous difficulties. The electricity was hit and miss and was very disruptive to our flow. And the first night that we went on stage, we sound checked and t

That made me crack up. True "deadication", to say the least. Do you think people hung out behind Wilco's Loft to see if they can find info on a 2009 residency? Perhaps that's why people in the past were always asking where the Loft is? Uh oh, I hope I didn't give anybody any ideas.

I concur. I heard bits of these shows before I got the Craddle release and the audio of the tapes was not very good. Rhino and the Dead organization did a good job cleaning up the sound. The DVD is great to watch, if nothing else for just having a visual of them play in front of the pyramids. Sure the camera work is a bit erratic but it does not hamper the the viewing much. Garcia is rather animated throughout the performance. There are definitely some clunkers, but worth the purchase. Plus it is fun listening and watching the discs while reading the Compendium write up.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31645 A rather lengthy Weir interview.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endID=441639542 Further explanation is on her Myspace page. You can find past play lists there to, which is nice. Made it to 11pm last night (I pretty much suck at the whole live blogging thing, hence I just follow along reading it.) Interesting and somewhat mellow stuff last night. I think pretty much every song was new to me (which is a good thing) or one I haven't heard in a while. Another Bowie song...it was fun to him sing with Tina Turner. It was funny hear the spot on the upcoming Irish Fest where they mentioned the Dorians. I did a

Thanks for the upload.

Bring the kids and have fun.

Nope.

I started to re-read this book about a week ago, about 20 pages in I wanted to whack Holden Caulfield upside the head and I put the book back on my shelf. When I read the book in high school I loved it, now 20 years later I find Caulfield aggravating. Which I guess is Salinger's point. I should just plow through it, again. (That's great you found a first edition, no matter what shape it was in) I have reread The Great Gatsby a few weeks ago, a book I have not read since high school, and that book was a great as I remembered it being. Just started to reread Hesse's Steppenwolf, another

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/..._world_ord.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/us/10zan.../partner/rssnyt The song is about a specific event, yes. Dylan did take some "poetic" liberties (like most do). What makes this song so great is not because it is about the specific event, but the overall theme of if you have money, the justice system sees you in a different manner. All this talk of Dylan "slandering" or creating non existing scenes about this Zanzinger fellow is kinda absurd. Zanzinger is not the subject of this song. Injustice is. Of course, I might feel differently about this if I were Zanzinger. But critics should know better.

You would think she would store them properly --- she won't make any money off of a moldy tape. I haven't been following this that closely, but I believe there might be some more litigation to clear up, perhaps she is saying the tapes are getting moldy to expedite things. A threat, if you will. Which is clearly demented. Arrrgh!