Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Norton Buffalo , a singer-songwriter and the harmonica player for the Steve Miller Band since 1975, died Friday, Oct. 30, at the age of 58. Buffalo first wrote about being diagnosed with lung cancer in September after feeling ill following a concert. After his personal doctor mistakenly told him that his lungs sounded fine, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Adenocarcinoma of...
DCist (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From The Beatles and Ravi Shankar , to John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra , to Mickey Hart 's collaborations with Zakir Hussain , South Asian classical music has long influenced western musicians. In recent times, the reverse is also true, what with hip-hop loops underpinning the latest bhangra and Bollywood grooves. But this West to East influence was less prevalent in the mid-60s, especially...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Back in the mid-nineties I read an interview with Dick Latvala wherein the Grateful Dead archivist told a story about being in the Vault with Mickey Hart. The percussionist was suddenly tuned in to the ripping version of The Eleven playing on the stereo, and said something along the lines of “Damn! We were on fire.” To which Latvala replied, “This isn’t you. This is the Zen...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Mickey Hart Discusses Sounds From Space "The Universe: Pulsars and Quasars" Scheduled to air on THE HISTORY CHANNEL Tuesday, October 27 at 09:00 P.M. Mickey Hart During The Dead's Spring Tour, Mickey Hart debuted the "UNIVERSE OF SOUND." Each night of the Tour Hart connected audiences with the universe's most celestial vibrations from the Big Bang to the rings of Saturn to the Black...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Banjoist Béla Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer both have countless colleagues who would sell body parts and firstborn for the opportunity to work with them. And yet, when the longtime collaborators were commissioned to compose a triple concerto for banjo and bass plus one -- and given free rein to pick the third musician -- one name topped both their lists: Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain.
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In the spring of 1971, Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten, along with the band Touchstone, produced and performed the music for an off-broadway show at the Circle in the Square in New York City. The performance was called Tarot and the music was later recorded and released in 1972 on United Artists. The performance and resulting [...]
frogblog.biz (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
What causes burn out? Is it the path to competency? It seems the world is full of paths to follow, many of which leave us isolated from different modes of thought. Different points of view. When your right brain and left brain argue interesting things develop. Was reading October’s copy of Smithsonian while baking in the Community Center [...]
rejon.org (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Awhile back Jane Metcalfe asked me to contribute some artwork for an upcoming art auction this Sunday in Sonoma County. I created a project from my stack of IDEA2009’s called Virii 2009 Conficker which is an annual certification for the most replicated computer virus for 2009, Conficker. The format is a standard RIAA platinum record [...]
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Many readers probably don't remember when Tipper Gore became strange bedfellows with the self-rightous right to take on explicit music lyrics, and how the late and sorely lamented Frank Zappa took on all of them. Here's a clip of Zappa making mincemeat of the late Bob Novak and some closet case from the Moonie Times on the original Crossfire : Zappa is responsible for one of the filthiest albums ever...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Wolfgang’s Vault, the digital warehouse of concert bootlegs, recently announced plans to upload roughly 165 previously unreleased Grateful Dead concerts to their site by early November. The fun starts now, as the Vault has posted May 15th, 1970 show of the Dead performing at New York’s Fillmore East. Recorded a month before [...]
TechBanyan (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was earlier known as Strictly Bluegrass. Now it is popularly known as HSB for short. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is an annual free music festival held the first weekend of October in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Cost From initial conception to till date, the festival has been sponsored and subsidized by [...]
DCist (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart wrote in his excellent book, Drumming at the Edge of Magic , that "[w]ords are so inadequate at capturing the spirit of percussion." One need only go to Malcolm X Park on any given Sunday to see the indescribable and spiritual effect drumming and rhythm can have on the receptive listener. Unfortunately, access to this experience is not universal. Any glance...
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Renegade Art and Democracy, an art auction and fundraiser for Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, takes place October 4th at The Gardens at Cornerstone in Sonoma. The event features a Conversation of Renegades including Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, filmmaker Lynn Hershman and writer/director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo & WALL-E), hosted [...] This is a blog...
Survival Research Labs (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
What do Andrew Stanton (writer director of Wall-e), Lynn Hershman (acclaimed filmmaker/video artist), Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), Anne Lamott (author/activist), Mark Pauline (SRL), and Jane Metcalfe (co-founder WIRED) have in common'They (and 40+ other artists and activists) support the Renegade Liberal (as labeled by the National Journal) and champion of the public option in health care reform,
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Btms up for September 11. Drink Forecast for Today (DF 4 2day): Dom Perignon! 2 toast 2 the 1st ascent of Dom, the 3rd highest Alps summit 2day in 1858. Dom Perignon is just 129.99 everyday at the Barns! Celebrate Oktoberfest @ Hamburg in Lexington today, 4 to 7 pm! - Sample complimentary German meats, cheeses and pickled veggies! - Meet [...]
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