Lammycat

I was thinking about this the other day. CRB has a more laid-back vibe, I think. Even a tune like "Sunday Sound," which I really like, has a different live feel to it in CRB over New Earth....

I agree on Big Moon Ritual. "Rosalee" is my favorite things he does live (only watched videos of live shows, missed 2 in Denver 2 weekends ago even though I had tickets). This band really is the shit right now.

It makes perfect sense to put beans in chili if you like beans in your chili.

Yeah, well, I work in a grade school. I also have grade-schoolers that live with me. So, we do organic ground beef tacos often (sometimes ground buffalo, too).

Carne asada/steak tacos. Nobody eats chicken tacos. Chicken is to the meat world as Jim Morrison is to the poetry world.

Apparently, it's this: Brackety-Ack, Brackety-Ack Hoc, Hoc Haec, Haec Team, Team, Team

Maybe you planted the wrong breed? Try a Monarch or a Painted Lady.

Alone Together is one of my favorite albums. I've never seen him live, though.

Watched, over the weekend, the seedlings to the snapdragons and sunflowers sprout after only a week in the ground. Shit tons of hail and rain helped last week,

I don't think one needs to compare any of the above-mentioned bands to the Grateful Dead. That's ridiculous. Of COURSE nothing compares. It's not a contest or a race to a finish line that has ended. I've never once thought that any Weir/Lesh/Hart/Kreutzman-configured band was trying to capture the essence of the GD, but rather keep good tunes alive. Nothing wrong with that, in my book. If some folks can't stomach any of the offshoots, that's cool. But really, they (the offshoots)needn't be taken too seriously, anyway. Besides, I'd rather have the remaining members still playing live tunes than

The Q was/is awesome......I also liked when C Robinson sat/sits in.

Probably going to check out a re-creation of the Watkins Glen show with 3 different bands doing The Allman Bros, the GD, and The Band's sets. Starts at 4:20, yo.....

Come on, man. There are plenty of good shows post-Brent. There has been plenty of good music made in this scene post-Garcia, too. It's different, of course, but a lot of it is certainly worthy of a night out of fun. I 'll never get the bashing of anything that resembles anything close to someone playing tunes that Jerry used to wail on. I appreciate the fact that I can still go out for a night and here this music. It is what it is and what it is, to me, is decent night out of memories and live music of tunes I dig.

Woke up this morning thinking about these lines....

Well done and pretty apt.

Oh yeah! Almost positive it's "pen" not "pin".

I always thought it was a "if I could stick a knife in my heart, suicide right on stage."

It'd take Herring/Warren with Phil any day, but don't mind John k. at all. His playing suits the line up and his voice is fine, imo. Yep, to each their own. Funny how DSO, a 100% fake everyone, is ripping on John K, who has his own side band with original material (and I LIKE DSO). Furthur is the kind of band that I think sounds fine live but don't listen to any recordings of. Billy rips on Furthur, as a band, not just Jon K. Ryan Adams sucked in P&F, imo. It was painful at times to hear him play and sing a lot of typically great tunes.

Yeah, I still don't get the "fake Jerry" shit. I'd rather hear a guy that plays songs in a truer form than have Ryan Adams or someone mangle the hell out of Garcia's tunes.

I've read about The Lampshade before and am interested, too. PT, you've probably read Four Perfect Pebbles, too, then. I like to use that one every now and then in my literacy circles for my students just because most of them know little-to-nothing about the Holocaust and it's a "kid-friendly" way to the subject.

"Fake Jerry"? Cripes.

I got it off Amazon when it recently came out but gave it to my ex to read before I got to it. That "Beer Run" story he does live sometimes, too. In fact, most of the stories in the book are part of (at various times/shows) his live act.....Funny shit when heard live, too.

Jack While. A little aloof?: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jack-whites-private-world-inside-rolling-stones-new-issue-20140521

This is solid. Todd Snider was asked to write a column on a songwriting hero and he delivered this free-verse poem: http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/05/todd-snider-mick-jagger/

I would have been all like "don't do me like that" to my wife.....