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Dylan actually won a Grammy for Slow Train Coming - category: 'best rock vocal performance' - it's funny to see the words 'best', 'vocal' and 'Grammy' together when talking about Dylan. Always enjoyed "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" - fun, little ditty.

I would buy the 79-80 set -- i enjoy the music quite a bit -- perhaps not necessary the lyrics - per say, but the band was pretty good. Dylan was into it, too - vocally.

You probably saw the SS Spartan in action -- it's still docked in the harbor - my kid and I enjoyed it's massiveness - especially it being so close to the dock -- we saw it on the way into the town/campsite and he and I wanted to look at it again on the way out. Both times we went to the harbor the SS Badger was gone.

This past weekend,the family and I camped up at Ludington State Park in Michigan, the wife and enjoyed a six pack of the below. Good stuff.

I didn't realize they did a whole record of Disney - definitely will need to check that out.

I was driving around with my kid and had XM Kids Place Live on - Los Lobos' version of "Heigh Ho" came on - kinda reminded me of 70s Satana (mostly because of the percussion). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp9gtCseNQw Also WXRT is still streaming a recent live in "studio" show. http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/show/live/

Yeah - I thought the same thing - all all the studio tracks on disc 2 of the soundtrack come from these sessions.

Checked his Wiki page - didn't realize that he made so many solo records, nor did I realize that he discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd.

No I haven't read it - he definitely was in some cool sessions, so it might be an interesting read - if he doesn't overly fawn over himself too much.

That should be a good set --- Al Kooper, for some reason bugs me, mostly because he comes off as a pompous ass - hopefully his quotes are not all over the liner notes - or worse writes the liner notes. Usually the liner notes for these sets are great - I am sure it will continue to be so with this set. Probably will settle with the two disc set - like I did with the Basement Tapes.

http://www.dozin.com/ The above is a great site on Grateful Dead gear and instruments.

It is nice to have exciting baseball in September again in Chicago - hopefully it will keep on going through October.

Not sure if you read the Grateful Dead Gear book - but I bet the above is discussed in the book. Obviously the Dead spent a shit ton on gear --- of course it all starts with the musician, but I am guessing having great gear helps immensely.

Is this from Disc 2 in the Grateful Dead Movie DVD - I haven't watched it in awhile, but it looks like it.

https://archive.org/details/gd70-09-20.aud.remaster.sirmick.27583.sbeok.shnf 9/20/70 --- 45th Anniversary of one of my favorite shows. Perfect show for a Sunday afternoon, too.

Poor choice of words on my part -- what I meant was that I saw Phil play with Billy, Mickey, and Bobby at the Fare Thee Well shows - so I won't miss him too much down in St. Louis. I did not go to Lockin -- worldrecordplayer did - he may know.

My friend got two cheap tickets for the St. Louis' Dead & Company show. Looking forward to see how it pans out -- really looking forward to hear Oteil ---- since I just saw Phil play with them over three days -- I not that upset that he won't be around this go around --- esp. happy that I don't have to worry about hearing him sing. Hopefully Mayer and Oteil will be allowed to push the tempo's a bit... Also looking forward to seeing the Billy and Mickey playing again.

Well the tax code probably could use a few bullet holes shot through it --- I do understand your whole point about pandering to the gun-owning-tax-hating people and I do see it as such, too - but that's politics. Like I said, I havn't read much into Paul's tax ideas.

Regarding last night debate - I thought Rand Paul was alright - at least he doesn't want to invade every country on the earth. He has a sound drug policy, too --- maybe tax policy, too - but I haven't gotten too involved on Paul's tax stance.

John,too.

First I would get Being There --- then with Uncle Tupelo - I would start with No Depression and go down the line -- all are great. Still Feel Gone is my favorite.

I saw that this morning - my sister who was big REO fan in the 70's/80's, happen to be in town last night -- I didn't see the news until this morning, though. I still listen to them from time to time -- they remind me of my youth and listening to stereo with my sisters during the 70s - they are about 10 years older then me - so it was always a hoot.

Regarding the Dead & Company shows, I may go see a show in St. Louis. I guess it depends on the ticket prices - not keen at seeing them in a hockey rink, though. I was suppose to go see Ratdog with my St. Louis friend, back when Weir canceled the tour -- it was going to his first time seeing any actual GD member play before - so he was pretty bummed on the cancellation. This will make up for the lost Ratdog show, I guess. On paper the band looks fine -- not a big Mayer fan - but he should make thing interesting, hopefully. I am excited to hear what Oteil may bring to the table, too.

That's a good one. He has put down the Dead in the past, too. Like Rap, Sgt. Pepper/Satanic, etc. before it. None of this is new news - i guess he is re-spewing this stuff to publicize the new record. He does sound like an very old curmudgeon, though. When he was saying this stuff 20 years ago he just sounded like an old curmudgeon. Would be cool if played a theater show in Chicago with the Wino's (and it doesn't cost an arm and leg).

That 12/28/72 is a Garcia/Saunders show -- I had to look it up. http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1972-12-28-lions-share-san-anselmo-ca/ My go to Dead setlist page is Deadlists - mostly because it has recording info. http://www.deadlists.com/default.asp