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Wow indeed.

Listened to Disk 1 last night - definitely sounds nice. This show will be perfect for road trips with the wife/family - lot's of tunes, without the long meandering jams (I seem to be the only one who enjoys a 35-40 minute Dark Star)

A triple record - jeez. Guessing this will clear out all the standard recordings. I probably listened to both the other ones about twice each. I still haven't gotten around to listen to the whole 66 Live set, yet. About at a half way point. Tried to do it in order, but failed. Those Royal Albert shows are pretty great.

according to the 'puter - mine should be in the mail box when I get home.

And the way it's going, they are going to need every penny https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/30/the-aclu-says-it-got-24-million-in-donations-this-weekend-six-times-its-yearly-average/?utm_term=.4b4d5201e594

Yeah - hoping for tomorrow.

We did the same thing last night.

Yeah - last month our neighborhood meeting had about 8 attendees - two days ago we had about 30 (so far we are meeting monthly). We are focusing on letter writing and calling into our Senate/Congress reps. We are about 100 strong via social media and growing. Start local. Focus local and expand. We are in a strong Democrat area - but that does not matter, still write your congressman, even if they already support your views. Ask them to reach out to moderate Republicans -- ask them to speak out forcefully.

I think we need to focus on what he and his people say, as well as what they do. The press needs to question and pressure them at every press conference and interview. Of course it will be exhausting, but what else do have to do, right? https://qz.com/895047/trump-wants-to-turn-the-white-house-into-reality-tv-its-up-to-you-to-change-the-channel/

Like KevinG say - very scary.

Yeah, it was suicide -- horrible. Story below, depressing as hell. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4157864/Allman-Brothers-drummer-Butch-Trucks-shot-head.html

Oakley is really in the high in the mix on the Stonybrook - sounds great. The Ludlow show on the reissue does sound better than the original - but is still doesn't sound that great. I have always enjoyed Ludlow. It seems like the Allmans were always complaining about monitors, like the Dead.

45:13 minutes on the reissue. My friend had the original release, so I never gotten around to buy it, since we always listened to it when we were at his place.

Weir seemed to be feeling it that night - yikes. Never heard him sound like that.

Yes, the reissue has the Ludlow set and Idlewild in 5.1. All the reissues sound great. (Fillmore East / Brothers and Sisters / Idlewild) I do have the Stonybrook show - definitely will be listening to tonight. When suites mentioned the Blue Sky, I remembered the show. Haven't listened to it in awhile.

This one -- I think I do have it on my hard drive -- need to check when I get home. S.U.N.Y. at Stonybrook (9/19/71) : Stonybrook, NY

Usually the only good thing that comes out of musician' deaths is the usual flood of torrents that follow --- of course we won't be getting those. Definitely will be playing some Allmans tonight. Last week I listened to Idlewild South reissue, again. (read through some of this thread today - man some people got cranky -- lot's of 'bags of' stuff...)

Yeah - I read it on the Hoffman board earlier this morning and was waiting to get confirmation. Hopefully it's not true. Doing a quick search this morning to find out anything on his death, I came across the below interview. Didn't realize he had a place in France. http://www.cltampa.com/music/interviews/article/20847834/qa-butch-trucks-talks-trump-gaga-and-paris-before-nye-show-in-clearwater

KIDZ Bop has ruined my kids... My two kids went - their best part of the day was the train ride and playing at Maggie Daley Park. The 7 year had a basic understanding why we marched and understood it. The 5 year old not so much. They both got a kick out of the signs that people had.

Yeah - Phil looked like he as battling a cold of Friday.

Below is a link to last night's Phil/CRB sets --- Neal Casal sang lead on some the American Beauty tunes, which kinda of surprised me. Realy liked his take on Sugar Magnolia. Kinda wish the other guitarist wan't there - he was kinda of a one trick pony - guess he is Phil's tour manager. http://www.jambands.com/news/2017/01/21/phil-lesh-kicks-off-brooklyn-bowl-las-vegas-run-with-complete-performances-of-workingman-s-dead-and-american-beauty

Not to mention the whole speech at the CIA, where he said the press created the whole Trump bashing the US intelligence community. Of course he brought up the inauguration attendance there, too. But the below was the most chilling spot of the whole CIA speech. Are we going to war with Iraq next week? His supporters will still continue to believe what he says and think that the media is 'out to get him; - but with the shear numbers out today - it won't last. Of course the opposition has to keep up the momentum that was started today. I think we will.

We were there - got down there around 9am --- kid's got restless and we caught the 1:30 train back home. Great, friendly crowd. It was rather amazing that the march was actually called off during the rally, due to the amount of people. There were so many people - we filled the entire intended route, so we had no where to march to - which was rather amazing. Props to the city to reroute the parade mid-stream and marched we did. Chicago PD definitely has their issues -- but they know how to throw down a protest/rally/march as peacefully as possible. They definitely were observers today - all

Don't forget Satisfaction and It's all Over Now (yeah, it's a Womack tune).

I finally gotten around to listen the entire Trigger Hippy record, via Spotify -- a real solid record. Never been a huge fan of Jackie Greene.