Mr. Heartbreak

https://archive.org/details/gd80-12-06.cantor.clugston.5478.sbeok.shnf Someone posted this on Facebook today, as it's the anniversary of this show. A Betty Cantor audience recording, that is kind of unique in itself. Cool little performance, mostly for sick children, I guess.

Yep, that too. There's no more ability to download Dead SBDs from there, but there are some decent one of other folks.

I have tried to use BT a couple times, and it simply didn't work on my iMac. When I opened it to use it (or opened the torrent I had downloaded, I forget which), all it gave me was a bunch of indecipherable computerese gobbledygook. I tried it twice before saying, Screw this. There are plenty of cool music sites that offer music in folders that can be downloaded from Filefactory, Mediafire, Rapidshare, etc. Many of the ones I have used offer the files in FLAC, and include art work, etc. Others are mp3. I know some folks are audiophiles, in the sense that they won't touch mp3, but I can't hea

I watched that too, and it was eye opening. I can remember back in the 1990s hearing Michael Parenti on NPR talking about how there was a greater and greater % of America's wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few obscenely rich individuals. Today, it is much, much worse. That presentation shows how much worse. Nobody wants to do much of anything about it, oddly enough. Even millionaires seem strangely detached from the reality that something like 0.01% of the population controls 40% of the nation's wealth. Millionaires are middle class or even poor compared to the 1%.

One correction to that Kansas City Star article: Not for the Season (a.k.a. Laminated Cat) is also, technically, a Loose Fur song.

Jerry band, 7/23/77. Nuff said!

All right, I'll change the thread title to "Lucky Pommy Bastards."

I kind of understand their point. We do have a history (Vietnam, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq...) Thing is, many people here in the U.S. confuse Iran with its government. The younger generation of Iranians are quite pro-Western in general. A good way to turn a whole generation - and about half their population - against us would be to intervene militarily there. Shame that so many Americans are totally ignorant about Iran. Pretty good article here about the way things are there now in the modern age: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/opinion/kristof-in-iran-they-want-fun-fun-fun.html?_r=

I figured you'd have it. I guess Sahm has gotten kind of a resurgence since his death in 1999. I know that there were some fairly well-known folks covering him on a tribute album, like Los Lobos, Delbert McClinton, etc. I think I first became aware of him through those Coffee Creek recordings from Cicero's. If I remember correctly, they covered She's About a Mover, Mendocino, and Is Anybody Going to San Antone, maybe some others too.

I just have it as my homepage on my work computer. Now it's actually netscape.aol.com.

Damn, that is some tough stuff. Good read. Any of you Dylanologists have the Doug Sahm & Band album that features Dylan? I just downloaded it and put it on the iPod, never heard it before...though I was already familiar with Wallflower from the Bootleg Series and Is Anybody Going to San Antone? from Coffee Creek covering it. I feel like I'm about 40 years late to the party on this deal.

This is pretty unbelievable. http://www.aol.com/article/2013/11/27/americans-back-iran-deal-by-2-to-1-margin-reuters-ipsos-poll/20777491/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing14%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D412115 Only 20% of the Americans polled want to use military force against Iran? Seriously? What the hell? Who did they poll, John McCain? Damn, I would have that by now, that number would be about 98 or 99%. Well, at least most people want to either increase sanctions or use diplomacy if the deal fails. Happy Thanksgiving fellow soldiers, er, Americans!

Beach Boys version of Blue Christmas is pretty stellar too. I play that and Joni Mitchell's River if I really want to enjoy those holiday blues to their fullest.

Not soon enough.

Good call. I absolutely loathe Xmas music, but might make an exception for this one and Xmas in February by Lou Reed.

"Monty Python Add Four More Reunion Shows" http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/monty-python-add-four-more-reunion-shows-20131125?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Yeah, it just popped up on my iTunes today, and I wondered where it was from, so I checked. Apparently, I've only got a couple tracks from that show. Have to see if I can find the SBD online in mp3 format, 'cause I just don't have much space left on the ol' computer...

Well, then I guess I'm not going to be able to post what I like the smell of...

Anyone have the bonus disc that came with the preorder of the Closing of Winterland set? There's a really nice Easy Wind from 12/31/70 on there as bonus material. That sounds like a show that would be primed for release, but I think only a few tracks have officially come out. Love that late 60s to early 70s Dead sound.

Not too long ago, the other great songwriter named Bruce (Cockburn) mentioned that he could only carry about 20-25 of his own songs in his head at any given time. Part of it might be age, but if you write fairly complex lyrics - and have to sing them while playing guitar - I can see where that could happen. Maybe if Springsteen didn't use the teleprompter, he'd be forced to play the exact same songs every night like some big acts do.

I already mentioned that I had been at one of the Long Island Sound shows that are coming out next month, the 9/5/89 show. You meant anyone else besides you and me, right?

I got that one and it's pretty good. For some reason, I prefer the material from the following year...probably because I love Mountains of the Moon, Dupree's, and the more developed Dark Stars.

Not everything improves with age, but Weir sure has. Well, except for his slide playing. Listen to him try to sing blues tunes when he was younger and had a higher vocal range. Pathetic. Now, he growls the stuff out like Howlin' Wolf!

Nice! I wish they were coming back to Florida, I would totally go. Bob sounded great at the AmericanaramA shows. He's turned into a pretty credible blues singer, and he was working hard, really belting it out. Hopefully you'll get a Walking Blues or Smokestack Lightning or something to really show it.