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    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    The question above got me thinking about favorite songs.  Over the past few years, while working from home, I've been listening to more Dead than I have in a long time.  And almost all of the songs I go back to are Jerry songs: Bird Song, Dark Star, Scarlet>Fire, Morning Dew, Eyes of the World, Brokedown Palace, Ripple, Terrapin, Althea, Franklin's Tower, Friend of the Devil, China>Rider.

     

    I don't mean to crap on Weir - I really like his guitar playing - but in thinking about my favorite Dead songs, almost none are his.  There are some I like: the Other One, Cassidy, Estimated.  

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    Now Playing 2023

    in Someone Else's Song

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    On 2/24/2023 at 4:48 PM, chuckrh said:

    Live in Italy has a mighty Heroin, too. Robert Quine was in the band & Fernando on bass. Killer record, wasn't released in the States at least at the time.

     

    The latest edition of the Jokermen podcast discusses the album.  I like the podcast but I haven't listened to this one yet.

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    Now Playing 2023

    in Someone Else's Song

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    On 2/24/2023 at 4:48 PM, chuckrh said:

    Live in Italy has a mighty Heroin, too. Robert Quine was in the band & Fernando on bass. Killer record, wasn't released in the States at least at the time.

    Yeah, I'm a big fan of that album (and Quine). 

    But I haven't listened in a while.  Maybe I'll put it on now ...  

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    Now Playing 2023

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Been on a big Lou kick recently.

    Dating myself, but when I first got into Lou and the Velvets the first three Velvets albums were hard to find.  This and 1969Live were my intro and I still think of this as the definitive version of Heroin.    

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    Wilco's Longevity in Context

    in Just A Fan

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    1 hour ago, Chez said:

    After March 6, my concert bucket list will be down to two.  Feelies are one of the two.   

    And the other?

     

    The Feelies seem to only play the DC to Boston/I-95 corridor these days.  I know at least one of the band remembers doesn't fly.   

    Now Playing 2023

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Been listening to this recently, partly because singer/guitarist Paul Janovitz (younger brother of Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz) died recently.  It's pretty solid 90s grunge-era rock.  

     

    Trivia:  drummer Paul Harding went on to write Tinkers which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

     

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    Now Reading 2022

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I just read Frankenstein.  It was great - and really different than what I was expecting (based on comic books and cartoons).

     

    I read it, in part, because I recently read Rob Delaney's really good but sad book (A Heart That Works) about the death of his young son.  He references Frankenstein a number of times in talking about loss and grief.   

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    R.I.P. Gary Smith

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Gary Smith - producer and manager of a ton of bands I love - died the other day.  He ran Fort Apache Studios in Boston, and produced Pixies, Throwing Muses, Tanya Donelly, the Feelies, Blake Babies, The Connells, Juliana Hatfield, Scrawl, 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant, and Billy Bragg.  A lot of great stuff was produced at Fort Apache including Uncle Tupelo's No Depression, Radiohead, Weezer, Dinosaur Jr, Buffalo Tom, Superchunk, and Yo La Tengo.  Sad day.  

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