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But will there be a Chicago multi-night indoor theater run again this year? That's what I really want.

Wilco GA seats tix for $18.75 each for Scottsdale July 3 on ticketmaster, special offer code JULYSRF Not great seats, but cheap. I'm gonna be out of town, can't go.

Dream covers for me: Wilco rocking the fuck out on One Hundred Years From Now and then soothing my soul with Glad and Sorry.

http://www.amazon.com/Every-Nights-Saturday-Night-Legendary/dp/1582437831/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417631663&sr=1-1&keywords=bobby+keys He did write a book with a lot of those tales. I'd still like to hear the ones he left out, though!

Yeah its true that I really dislike CRB and its still shocking to me the number of people who like CRB so much and how little enthusiasm there is for Rich's projects, but there is no need for you to feel sorry for me over it. Musicans take different directions with their music and sometimes somebody that I really loved at one time does starts making music I can't connect with and they are gonna do what they do. When that happens, because I've had such a strong emotional connection to the music, it takes me some time and thinking and talking to sort it all out. That's what I am trying to do

Good article here http://www.relix.com/articles/detail/the_war_on_drugs_headphones_on_the_highway

I know a lot of people like Before The Frost. I think its way too much of Chris' vision. The best songs, to me, are So Many Times (Rich has impeccable taste in his covers, I think), What Is Home and a very great CR composition, Fork In The River. Been A Long Time was excellent live. Appaloosa aint too bad. But the rest of it is fair to poor, IMO. It also has the atrocious Garden Gate, probably my least favorite Crowes song. Yuck! I know lots of people connected with it, but I see it as the beginning of the decline for CR's music.

I have a very different opinion of CRB than many. I saw CRB when they first started out and was not that impressed. I didn't go see them again until this past weekend in Joshua Tree, CA at Pappy and Harriets because there were two good bands opening (Howlin' Rain and Buffalo Killers, whom i thought were both very good) and a bunch of friends were going and Joshua Tree and Pappy's are such cool spots. My friends loved the show, I absolutely hated it. I find CRB to be a very weak version of the Dead and/or Garcia Band. Neal and Adam are not good soloists to me. There are no real crescendos

Rob Eaton on Dark Star Orchestra "I think we’ve got it now to the point that these young kids that are coming and we are seeing an increasing amount now that Furthur is off the road, we’re seeing a lot more younger kids and they’re really getting it. They’re getting a taste of that late 60s, early 70s, mid 70s thing, or even the 80s thing. These were kids that were born in the 90s, they were in diapers when Jerry passed away or they weren’t even born yet. And there’s also a lot of Heads that only saw the very tail end of the Dead, like the early 90s until Jerry died, and they never had a cha

Fuzz Machine! I love this album, loud raunchy guitars, great songwriting, Neil Young-like vocals, which I like in this musical setting. I hear so much Crazy Horse influence in this one. I'm pretty sure I've said all that before. I agree, Marc Ford's new album is too mellow and not strong enough on the songwriting for me. Songs like these probably need better vocals. i think Rich's singing has gotten much better in the past few years and he's frequently mentioned in interviews that he's learned to write songs that fit his limited vocal range and abilities. Through A Crooked Sun is qui

I get what you are saying, winterland, but I see Jerry and Phil more as co-leaders (musically, not vocally or in songwriting or personality) in the improvisation. They both studied and perfected their techniques with lots of diligence and single-minded focus for many years before the Dead ever got going, both listened voraciously to other music to create a pallette of sounds and styles to draw from and they both were, to my ears, the prime instigators of the adventurousness in the music and I think they were relatively equal in their musical brilliance. Bob was not on their level, particular

http://vegas.brooklynbowl.com/calendar/ CRB is doing three nights at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas and the tix are only $8! Rich Robinson is also doing two nights at the same venue a couple weeks later and both shows are FREE! What is up with that? Peter Shapiro feeling generous? I absolutely loathe Las Vegas, especially what its become in the last 20 years, but I just might have to head up there to see Rich and his band.

Completely agree with ya, mountainbed. That band freaking blew me away. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys at the Kaiser for New Year's eve in 2000

The Outrider album was not great, but the band was damn good live. It was the first time I saw Jason Bonham live and they did In My Time Of Dying, it put me absolutely over the top in excitement. John Miles on vocals did just fine. I'd take Miles over Coverdale in a Page band any day. And while Paul Rodgers and Page seems like a fantastic match on paper, the Firm, both in the studio and live (I saw both of their tours) left ALOT to be desired, very disappointing. Maybe it'd be better now that we are well past the 80s and its music production values and cheesy keyboards and synthetic tones

http://kboo.fm/content/whatsinbetweenagratefulddeadsong Interesting radio show Saturday at noon Pacific Time. Just the jams, no songs, trying to stump people so they can't guess what song it came out of or is going into.

Yeah I'm a hippie.

Well, joking aside, I don't really believe in evil as a force or entity or the concept of Satan either. To me there is only degrees of separation from God and the dysfunctional behavior it results in.

Yeah, it is remarkable to see Jimmy in a shop I used to go to alot. I remember seeing Page on the Outrider tour when I was living in Boston. The show was in Providence or some other close by city and back then Jimmy's mystique was still powerful enough to me that it seemed like a "holy-shit-I-can't-believe-I'm-in-the-same-building-as-him" moment. I never believed any rock stars were evil or satanic, but I never believed any of the bullshit they tried to indoctrincate me with in church.

I guess nobody but "Parrotheads" thinks he's great, but I can't stand Jimmy fucking Buffett.

http://jerrygarcia.com/jerrys-story/ I can't remember if this has been mentioned or not, but jerrygarcia.com got a major overhaul and the results, to me, are stellar. Some really great photos ( I love the photos of Jerry wearing what appears to be a black sequined Nudie-style jacket with skeletons. Looks to be around 1972 or so http://jerrygarcia.com/guitars/#alligator), tons of good basic info, not too busy graphically, easy to navigate, just really really nice.

Talking Heads

Hilarious understatement of the century from the New Yorker article: "...and there were nights when at least one member was not entirely sober"

The musical director at my high school was a jazz player and had some connections. In the mid 70s he brought the Count Basie Orchestra (when Basie was still alive and playing with them) to our high school gym in Escondido, California, so I got taken to that when I was just 7 or so. Don't remember much of that one, but later when I was 16, I took my Mom up to see Ella Fitzgerald in Westwood at a little theater. I was a rebellious stoner kid and my Mom a prim and proper Pollyana, so it was weird that we went to see a concert together. We ended up with seats in the first few rows, the very f

I have a friend from New York about 10 years older than me and he has, to me, an incredible concert resume. in 1970, his older cousin took him to the Fillmore East when he was 16 or so to see the Allman Brothers with Duane Allman with the Grateful Dead on the bill, too It was his first real rock concert, unfuckingbelievable to be so fortunate. He saw Derek and the Dominoes there later that same year. He also saw The Band shows at the Academy of Music in 1971 when they recorded Rock of Ages and had Allen Toussaint arrange the horn section and Bob Dylan was the surprise guest for New Year's E

Thanks, analog man. Not much news then. There seems to be so much talk but little comes of it. Frustrating.