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- Grateful Dead
- Bob Dylan
- Rolling Stones
- Beatles
- Wilco
- Neil Young
- Ry Cooder
- Television
- Orange Juice
- Velvet Underground
- Steely Dan
- Black Crowes
- David Crosby
- Giant Sand
- Robyn Hitchcock
- The Kinks
- The Band
- XTC
- The Clash
- Graham Parker
- Janis Joplin
- Joni Mitchell
- Little Feat
- Pretenders
- Bob Marley
- Pink Floyd
- Tom Waits
- Nacha Pop
- Faces
- David Bowie
Yep, I'm an ageing rocker...
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Shortest: Seville: 3 miles
Longest: Florence (Italy): 1046 miles
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Found this on Mickey, when he was in the Army...in Spain. In fact, he maybe lived in my house before me, as I lived in a borough populated by American soldiers and my dad rented the house to one of them.
For Spanish and English text on this see here http://estacionterrapin.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/grateful-dead-50-aniversario-conexion.html
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Speaking of '72 Dead, if any of you kind Dave's Pick's subscribers would be willing to help a brother out, I discovered to my dismay tonight that my Vol. 11 from 11/17/72 is totally MIA...I don't have the discs, I don't have copies of the files on my iMac or external hard drive... I even checked my Amazon account to see whether I had stupidly sold it without remembering to burn a copy for myself, but nope. It's like it never existed....Really weird. It's in the Twilight Zone.
Wish I had gotten this release, if for no other reason than starting in '73, the Academy of Music was our home away from home, growing up in Nassau County. Didn't catch any of the '72 Dead shows there, but so many amazing nights were spent in that theater.
Hey guys, PM if you want it/them (mp3) via dropbox
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5. Johnny Burnette
10. Johnny Burnette, Elvis Presley, Lionel Hampton
15. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Spencer Davis Group
20. Rolling Sones, Grateful Dead
25. Steely Dan, Graham Parker, Television, The Clash
30. Velvet Underground
35. Ry Cooder, American Music Club, Orange Juice
40. Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, John Coltrane
45- Grateful Dead, Miles Davis
50- Wilco
55.- Wilco, Grateful Dead
60 - Grateful Dead
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^ I'm almost sure there's some song by U2 that I enjoyed back in the Cenozoic, but my hate to Bono et al. doesn't allow me to recall which one. Fortunately.
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An interview with Bill
http://www.wsj.com/articles/grateful-deads-drummer-pens-a-memoir-1430236048
Quote:
You can see by looking at Apple and Microsoft which one took acid.
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Enjoying Phil & Friends, 4-22-15, including Bill Frisell. Very jazzy and intimate performance. And Phil sings rather well, to my surprise.
Check it out: https://soundcloud.com/quinfolk/sets/txr-frisell
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^ speaking of which....A rapper publishing a scientific paper in Evolution, the most prestigious journal in the field.
Abstract
Using hip-hop music and performance to communicate the science of evolutionary biology is a dubious-sounding notion; I’ll be the first to admit. Although I currently make my living as a rap artist and science communicator, performing for thousands of people around the world every year, I can’t take credit for the key idea that led me to this strange vocation. My original idea was to use rap to communicate arcane literature, starting with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In a previous phase of my life I was a graduate student in medieval literature and an avid hip-hop head, and after completing my masters I embarked on a world tour with my one-man show “The Rap Canterbury Tales.” It was on tour in the UK a few years later that I encountered Dr. Mark Pallen, bacterial genomics professor and author of The Rough Guide to Evolution (Pallen 2009). Mark is a hip-hop fan and Darwin expert, and he challenged me to write a “Rap Guide to Evolution” to accompany the publication of his Rough Guide in 2009.
Complete paper (pdf format, free access) here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12657/pdf
(disclaimer: as Jerry Garcia, I also consider rap as no-music, but still...)
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I don't think there's a Jefferson Airplane thread, so I post here
Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner suffers heart attack.
http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2015/03/27/jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-suffers-heart-attack/
Not surprising, I read somewhere that the 74 years old guy apparently smokes 5packs/day
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This is intriguing:
SF police might be sitting on a briefcase full of unknown Jerry Garcia songs
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Been delving into some '72 stuff, in anticipation of the next DaP from Academy of Music. Checking this deadessays.blogspot.com site led me to this quote from Jerry about rap:
Love that guy.
My exact thoughts on rap! Also agree with Jerry when, speaking of heavy metal, he said something as 'it simply has no sense'On other grounds, Garcia and Hunter inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame
http://www.songhall.org/news/entry/songwriters_hall_of_fame_announces_2015_inductees1
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Really sad. The man has been around for as long as I can remember from my hippie days
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Can you link to the specific article that quote is from? Not sure which one.
Maybe they should've had Clapton fill in for Jerry...
Sorry jw harding, I picked out this out of context. It really seems Clapton did not enjoy the Dead, at least in records
http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/03/cream-and-dead.html
In September '67, Clapton mentioned one surprise in San Francisco: "The first thing that hit me really hard was that the Grateful Dead were playing a lot of gigs for free. That very much moved me. I'd never heard of anyone doing that before."Cream didn't see the Dead live, though. At some point Clapton heard the Dead's first album, but didn't have a positive reaction. "I don't think the quality of their music is as high as a lot of other good recording bands. People are more concerned with live music, maybe, than recording. If the Grateful Dead are one of the best, they're not doing a very good job on recording....they're not really my bag."
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I didn't know about this...
"The Grateful Dead moved me very much..."
Eric Clapton
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The most grateful Deadhead: an interview with David Gans:
http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2015/01/28/grateful-deadhead-interview-david-gans/
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I need the object. Electricity/batteries-dependency is unavoidable but risking one of my biggest pleasures to the very existence of internet connection and streaming services is not my ideal of life. It's just that simple...
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^ a great one! also my favorite
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Some good selections in this year's 30 days of Dead (http://www.dead.net/30daysofdead). I finally got to like even Box of Rain, thanks to Donna harmonizing and, in a way, overlaying Phil voice's scarce melodic skills (I'm challenging you, Donna haters!).
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Tonto's Expanding Head Band
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^ditto, same experience in other solo Tweedy gig.
Also Bill Fay, via Tweedy/Wilco
Edit - And back in the Cambrian age, I still recall discovering the Stones through the Beatles' I wanna be your man
The Grateful Dead
in Someone Else's Song
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Speaking of books...
http://jerrygarcia.com/jerry-on-jerry-the-unpublished-jerry-garcia-interviews-to-be-published-this-fall/
Jerry on Jerry, an unparalleled collection of candid interviews with Jerry Garcia conducted by Dennis McNally, is due to be released this November by J.P. Leventhal, publisher of Black Dog & Leventhal, an imprint of Hachette Books. The book will be available in hardcover, eBook and a special audio edition from Hachette Audio, featuring more than eight hours of the original audio recordings covering Jerry’s thoughts on religion, politics, his personal life, and his creative process. Trixie Garcia will provide a personal foreword to the book.