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Literrata & Cybernalia (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In Requiem for all our San Geronimo Valley and 60s Lagunitas School District (LSD) classmates: LSD Class of '69 Barbara Wilson Mark Peacock Mike Frank St. Cecelia's altar boy Johnny Kaufman St. Cecelia's altar boy Scott Weaver Scott Huntsman? Contrary to popular belief, Steve Tristano, whom we believed to be dead for years, is alive and well and living in Oregon. This I found out after I wrote a piece...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This Friday, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning will hit the big screen as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in a dramatized telling of classic girl-rock band, The Runaways. I haven't had the opportunity to see it yet, but I hear that's it pretty good, and mostly Fanning's show. It's opening in limited release this weekend [...]
Confused of Calcutta (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of my favourite t-shirts, second only to Help>Slip>Franklin’s. [That's a reference to one of the finest sequences ever played live or laid on vinyl: Help On The Way, Slipknot and Franklin's Tower, taken in sequence from Blues for Allah.] Both t-shirts, by the way, available from zazzle. You guessed it. I’m one of those. A [...]
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 03/15/2010
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music - Film by Steve Gebhardt (1993, Steve Gebhardt, 01 hours, 31 minutes, Color). "...No single figure in American music so dominated a genre as Bill Monroe did bluegrass. This film stands alone as the most intimate and detailed portrait of this unique musical innovator, creating an experience akin to having a one-on-one conversation with the bluegrass master....
The Liberal Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
The Grateful Dead were one of the best interpreters of the music of Bob Dylan. Here three band members perform a soulful rendition of "She Belongs To Me." This 1992 recording included Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia, vocals and acoustic guitar, and Phil Lesh, bass. Weir and Garcia's trading off verses and Garcia's guitar solo are particularly enjoyable.
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
The Rumpus has a conversation with Banksy. Here’s a Times article on testing Google’s new translation software (via Sara Faye Lieber’s facebook). Jezebel has a sympathetic Q&A with a guy with a female-constipation fetish (believe it or not, this is actually SFW). Julia Cohen posts poems by her 4th and 5th grade students. Ron Rosenbaum, who you probably know [...]
Burning Oak (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
“Adams befriended Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, after first meeting him at the Jammys awards in New York in 2005. The two performed Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter’s Grateful Dead classic, Wharf Rat. Adams performed at subsequent outings of Phil Lesh and Friends, including a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver, Colorado and on New Year’s Eve 2005 at the Bill...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Triceratops I wanted to write a song in a minor key. This and Good Time are the only two songs on the record that someone else contributed to. Jeremy Korpas, our guitar player, helped write some of the lead guitar parts. It’s kind of wicked. We wanted to make an all-out face fuck guitar tune. It’s abrasive. For a while we’d hear crickets every time after we played it at a show. People...
Pundit Review (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Back in August, on the 14th anniversary of his death, I did a post titled: RIP Jerry Garcia: The Godfather of social networking Seems like that idea is catching on, as both The Atlantic Magazine and CNBC, the business news network, have done extended pieces looking at the Dead and their business success. The Atlantic: Management [...]
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 03/07/2010
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 03/04/2010
On March 5th, New York City’s oldest museum will open its doors to the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive for The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society. Although the band formed in California and the Archive itself is located at the University of California Santa Cruz, [...]
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
By Jerry Del Colliano There was a great piece in the Atlantic Magazine recently about the influence – as unlikely as it is – that the Grateful Dead has had on the business world. The article was fascinating especially in light of all the Harvard and Stanford grads that are using their Ivy League educations to – well, ruin the media business. And even if they are not Harvard and Stanford...
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
I attended 100 or so Grateful Dead concerts and a couple dozen more with side bands led by Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and percussionist Micky Hart. My first was in 1969 and my last circa 1990, but most were in the 1970s when the Dead were at their creative peak and not in the 80s and early 90s when they were more popular than ever but wildly inconsistent and sometimes...
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
ATTICS OF MY LIFE By Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia In the attics of my life Full of cloudy dreams unreal Full of tastes no tongue can know And lights no eye can see When there was no ear to hear You sang to me I have spent my life Seeking all that's still unsung Bent my ear to hear the tune And closed my eyes When there were no strings to play You played to me In the book of love's own dream Where...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
Even more media, here’s a video of Dave & Tim: Emmylou Harris : Emmylou Harris is all over this Cover Wars. Not only did she record this song herself in 1998, but she also has sung it with the original artist, and sings backup on Willie Nelson’s rendition you’ll hear in a minute. That is some serious Cover Wars incest. Source: Spyboy Emmylou joins Daniel Lanois: Jerry Garcia...
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