Final Grateful Dead shows to be offered via pay-per-view
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— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 24, 2015
… “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead,” the summer concerts billed as the jam band’s final performances, will be broadcast live via pay-per-view from Soldier Field in Chicago, July 3 through July 5, the broadcasting company Live Alliance announced Wednesday…
A webcast of all five concerts will be available for $79.95 starting May 1. For details, check Dead50.net.
Other options for catching Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir together one last time (plus special guests Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti and Bruce Hornsby) will include visiting some movie theaters that will screen the Chicago shows live, and video-on-demand, which will make the concerts available for 45 days…
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Long-time faithful commentor J. Michael Neal/Tissue Thin Pseudonym has a Kickstarter up towards getting his first novel published:
Eighteen-year-old Phoebe Rose spent her childhood in one foster household after another, never having a place she could feel safe or a group of friends she could say she belonged to. What kept her going was hockey. The rink was the only place she felt at home.
Now what she wants more than anything is to play on her college hockey team—where she hopes she can leave her past behind and create a new life. But she knows things are never that simple or easy.
Becoming Phoebe is about painful secrets, unexpected friendships, and joining a team so you can become your true self.
Read the prologue here.
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And Doug Hughes, campaign finance activist, has a GoFundMe page up for his legal expenses:
I’m Doug Hughes, the mailman who delivered letters to the front lawn of the Capitol building in a gyrocopter. At the moment, I’m under house arrest in Florida facing up to 4 years in jail for my civil disobedience.
I’m not whining – I know there would be consequences for my flight, but I hoped my actions would spark discussion and action to end the corruption of Congress. It has.
I do need help – I spent every dime I had, and then some, to accomplish my flight. I have expenses associated with the legal fight – my family and I need to eat, keep the power on and pay the mortgage. The flight was the opening round of a fight that will cost money. For info about the fight, go to thedemocracyclub.org. I’m conducting the fight now from my home…
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Apart from the daydream believers, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up a busy week?
raven
Damn, I’m sitting here going over my cable and Amazon bill and trying to decide whether to go with a dish instead and get the bite put on me from the BJ! What up wit dat?
OzarkHillbilly
Waiting for the rain.
David Koch
for $80 bucks they better dig up Jerry
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m a little miffed that my contractor delayed starting because it was so wet and it’s dried out pretty well this week. We’re supposed to get more this weekend and it’s gonna suck if they can’t dig the dam footings in for another week.
NotMax
$79.95.
Because a flat $80 would be a dealbreaker?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I’m a little surprised it’s taken this long. Expected you to be at sill plates and joists at least by now.
Mustang Bobby
Stayed up past my bedtime last night because I went to see a performance of Oklahoma! at the University of Miami’s Ring Theatre, the very same stage where I started my alleged acting career 44 years ago. The kids did a great job and the show holds up well for being 72 years young, but now I feel like I’ve got a hangover without having done anything to earn it.
OzarkHillbilly
I love the optics here: Teenager jumped out window after mother fed him pot brownie – police
Sure enough, they go there:
It was the latest of several incidents of pot users harming themselves that authorities in Colorado have confronted since retail sales of the drug began in 2014.
Like the pot was so much safer when it was illegal? And if we are going to make an issue of it, shall we talk about how people who use alcohol harm themselves? Motorcycles? Skateboards? Tiddlywinks?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’ll be thanking people for publicizing my Kickstarter and working on reshaping Part II.
Actually, I’ll be sitting here bored off my ass for another two hours and then I’ll go home and go to bed. When I get up I’ll do the above.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Well, it really really rained hard for about a week. I’m pretty confident he knows what he’s doing and, from what I can gather, pouring footings in wet soil is a bad idea. We’ve been so patient I guess it wouldn’t make sense to cop an attitude now. I guess the worst thing is that he’s building his own house right now too and, as much as I try not to, it keeps creeping in my head that “We’re Number 2”!!! My bride thinks the forces of darkness want to wait until May 1st so it is exactly two years since this cluster fuck started!
Zinsky
The Dead may be one of the most overrated rock bands of all time. Boring, uninteresting music and very little talent. Saw them in the late 1980s and hated them. I wouldn’t spend a nickel to see them, even if Jerry Garcia rose from the grave to play another concert.
raven
@Mustang Bobby:Here I was going to say “Peter Palmer” until I remembered he was in Lil Abner!
raven
@Zinsky: Fuck you!
Mustang Bobby
@raven: A lot of people confuse Peter Palmer with Max Baer, Jr. (“Jethro Bodine”), except Mr. Palmer actually has talent.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: And played football at Illinois!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
Yeah, you don’t do dat. I just hadn’t realized you were getting that much rain.
BillinGlendaleCA
Sounds like Donny luvs him some Marco.
Tommy
Having seen the Dead with Jerry play at Solider Field, I am pretty sure they played their last concert ages ago. It just doesn’t seem right they can even tour under that name anymore.
raven
@Tommy:
We will not be adding any more Fare Thee Well shows. The three Chicago shows will still be our final stand. We decided to add these two Santa Clara shows to enable more of our fans to celebrate with us one more time. But this is it.
We love you guys more than words can tell, and hope to see you in the Bay Area or Chicago. If you can’t make it to the shows, we are working on ways for you to still experience our Fare Thee Well, from wherever you might be. Stay tuned for those details.
Gratefully yours,
Billy, Bobby, Mickey & Phil
NotMax
Oddball low budget (but not devoid of talent) Vietnam war-era chiller about a veteran and some, um, problems he has airing soon on TCM.
Deathdream – 2:15 a.m., Sunday April 26.
Tommy
@raven: I just don’t like it and I was a dude that followed the Dead around the entire midwest for a summer. For me the Dead died when Jerry died. A sad day.
geg6
@Zinsky:
Hell, pay to see them? There isn’t enough money in the Koch Brothers’ bank accounts to pay me to see them. Shittiest band ever and their fans are even worse.
Tommy
@geg6: That is why there is a lot of music. Art. You might not like the music or art I like but we have all kinds.
PurpleGirl
I like to watch NY1, the local news show on Time Warner Cable. They just had a comment that (paraphrase) “it looks like the Comcast — Time Warner Cable merger will not take place, Comcast to make a statement later today.” Yay! (I like Time Warner, I haven’t had problems with their service department.)
OzarkHillbilly
America’s Toughest Sheriff ™ is a little… meeker these days:
The normally brash Maricopa County sheriff gave soft-spoken and terse answers in his second day on the witness stand in the contempt-of-court hearing that could lead to fines, increased oversight of his agency and a possible criminal contempt hearing. He said, “I don’t recall” on several occasions.
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Arpaio apologized again for disregarding a 2011 order to stop the immigration patrols. The order was issued after a judge found the agency racial profiled Latinos. Arpaio has acknowledged the violation, which lasted for 18 months.
“I have a deep respect for the courts,” Arpaio said. “It really hurts me after 55 years to be in this position. I want to apologize to the judge. I should have known more about these court orders that slipped through the cracks.”
Asked whether defying the order meant he violated his oath of office, Arpaio said, “I did not intend to violate my oath.”
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I never had any trouble with Comcast’s technical support people. I did, however, have a major problem with their customer service department after my divorce when they transferred all of my email addresses to my ex-wife’s account and wouldn’t let me get back into them.
ThresherK
@raven: Have you seen the musical “Li’l Abner”?
It was never playing anyplace very near me, and I wonder if it’s a “must see”. (“Oklahoma” is in that category.)
(Disclaimer: I like “Annie” more than enough, even if I never have to hear Tomorrow again. On the other end of the comic strip adaptatins scale I would put a musical of Beetle Bailey which doesn’t get staged any more.)
Mustang Bobby
@ThresherK: Li’l Abner is a decent show; I’d put it on the same level as Finian’s Rainbow, so if it’s playing nearby, there are worse ways to spend an evening.
Oklahoma!‘s claim to fame is that it is considered the first musical that used the songs and dance numbers to advance the plot; up until then they were diversions. (Actually, Showboat did that, too, but not to the degree the R&H show did.) And it has some damn fine music.
[/theatre geek]
debbie
I prefer to remember groups like the Dead and the Stones when they were at their best, and when they were at their best, there isn’t a whole lot of current music that could even begin to compare.
I could still listen to Gimme Shelter and Ripple over and over.
ThresherK
@Mustang Bobby: Decent like “Finian’s Rainbow”? Because that show’s a favorite of mine. Must be a thing I have for Yip Harburg. Even the strange, nearly unchoreographed*, movie works for me. (*Fred Astaire and Tommy Steele excepted, every number seemed to be a bunch of people running across hillsides.)
And I would turn in my theater buff card if I couldn’t recite the following legendary (as in, possibley didn’t happen) review snippets: Showboat per one source (NYT?) was “Crammed full of plot”, which goes to show how hodge-podge musicals were in the ’20s. Oklahoma!, in tryouts in New Haven, had “No gags. No gals. No chance”.
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
raven
@ThresherK: Nah, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was about the only musical I ever liked.
ruemara
I’m about 10 minutes to getting on the road. Up at 4:30 am. What fresh hell is this? But I am working on a production and that makes me happy. Scared because I have a managerial position and don’t know nothing, but hopefully I won’t make a fool of myself.
Mustang Bobby
@ThresherK: To each his/her own. I’ve seen Finian’s Rainbow in both professional and amateur theatres and I like it, but I’ve only been in Oklahoma! once and can hum the entire score, including the overture, from memory. Maybe because it was my first time in a musical (Grade 8 in 1968) that it imprinted.
I think the snide review for Oklahoma! was when it was in try-outs in Boston, still under the name of Away We Go! and without the title tune, but even so, it’s like the casting agent who wrote about Fred Astaire: “Dances a little.”
OzarkHillbilly
The optics…. They don’t look good:
A Tulsa judge ordered Reserve Deputy Robert Bates, 73, to return to court July 2 — but approved his request to first vacation in the Bahamas.
Something tells me the civil suit that is about to be filed is going to demand everything he has. “Got any dreams? We want them too.”
Germy Shoemangler
Dave Tough was a great drummer of the swing era. Go on youtube and look for Dave Tough. He had a powerful, driving rhythm. He didn’t have traditional “chops” (as the musicians call it), hated to solo, but whatever band he played with was lifted into the stratosphere. He later tried to make it as a writer, but died young (drinking problems, fell and hit his head).
I’ve been listening to his recordings and loving them.
WereBear
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I am trying to convince Mr WereBear that this is why you NEVER use the email addresses from your provider for anything important — they change names and servers and merge and unmerge and you move and it’s annoying as heck.
Even hotmail is more stable than that.
I own the domain and for less than ten bucks a year anyone can. And then they own their email address.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Yay. I’m here extra long because, as happens about half the time on this post, my relief is late.
Germy Shoemangler
@Mustang Bobby: Only Broadway play I ever saw was on a high school field trip (1970s) to see the original cast 1776. I was strictly a movie buff; I sort of agreed with John Lennon that theater was “a bunch of people onstage pretending to be somewhere else” but I was impressed with the show. First, I recognized an actor I’d been watching on tv throughout my childhood. I think he’d played “Captain Nice” or “Mr. Terrific” or something. Also, halfway through the show, the guy playing Ben Franklin STOPPED THE SHOW to chew out some kids who were talking (not from my school) through his performance. After he yelled at them, the orchestra started back up and he continued his number.
I remember thinking “wow, live theater.”
But I’m still just a movie buff.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@WereBear: Yep. I’m at melancholy-donkey.com.
Cervantes
@Mustang Bobby:
You may be thinking of the snide comment reported by columnist Walter Winchell:
I believe (read: “Don’t quote me but I think”) it was his secretary who made the remark after watching the preview in New Haven.
Also, to be fair: Before the show became a hit, it was heavily re-written while playing in Boston.
Anyhow, a good topic! Thanks for re-kindling some fond memories.
Germy Shoemangler
@WereBear: For about twelve years I had an earthlink email account. Then I moved to a different town. They cancelled my email! I called them to ask what happened, and they asked “well, did you move?”
The error message I kept getting when trying to log in was “please try again” – idiots.
After a frustrating conversation with tech support, I finally told him “I’ll go on gmail.” He didn’t seem to give a shit. Later, I read that morale is bad there with layoffs, etc. He was probably glad I was ending the conversation.
Gee, I thought email addresses were something you could carry with you wherever you moved. Silly me.
Gin & Tonic
@Tommy: Hell, I saw them when Pigpen was alive.
WereBear
@Germy Shoemangler: Gosh, I had Earthlink when they were hot. Fifteen years ago. And yeah, when we got Time Warner Cable internet, I lost the earthlink address, and I’m “don’t want to do this again.”
ThresherK
@Mustang Bobby: “Can’t act. Balding. Can dance a little.”
With people like us around, these showbiz stories will never die!
WereBear
Durn Mustang Bobby. Now I’ve got Oooooooooooklahoma! stuck in my head.
And I don’t even like musicals.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: I’ll get up and fly away. . .
I saw em at the Fox in St Louis when Tommy wasn’t even a blip on the radar!
Germy Shoemangler
@ThresherK: Groucho Marx told the story about Percy Hammond, a theater critic who was known to be…. extremely critical. His newspaper wanted to send him overseas to be a war correspondent.
Groucho asked “But what if he doesn’t like the war?”
Mustang Bobby
@Germy Shoemangler: You’re thinking of William Daniels who created the role of John Adams both on the stage and in the film version of 1776 (a lot of the original B’way cast was in the film). He played Captain Nice and Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere. He can do the Brahmin Boston accent to a T even though he’s not from there. I remember seeing him first in the 1967 satire The President’s Analyst with James Coburn and Godfrey Cambridge. He played a suburban dad so well that he stuck with me.
Germy Shoemangler
@Mustang Bobby: That’s him! He had a busy career. There was a time when he was everywhere.
Wow! I just looked him up on wikipedia… he’s still working. Something called “Girl Meets World” and he was born in 1927.
He was the archetype “suburban dad” on tv, as well as the white collar worker office type.
Cervantes
@WereBear:
But if you switched to a new ISP, why would the old one have continued to provide you with a service?
Mustang Bobby
@Germy Shoemangler: He’s got a great line in The President’s Analyst talking about his suburban neighbors: “The Bullocks next door? Real right-wingers. American flag up every day. Real fascists. Ought to be gassed. You know the type.”
Cervantes
@Germy Shoemangler:
That worked out, more or less.
Contrast theater critic Frank Bruni’s coverage of the GWB campaign.
WereBear
@Cervantes: Oh, I’m not blaming them, any of them, for badly designing their service. It’s what they do.
Cervantes
@WereBear:
I didn’t realize blame or bad design was at issue. I asked why the old ISP should have kept providing a service you were no longer paying them to provide.
Gin & Tonic
@WereBear: What’s “bad design” about e-mail that’s provided by an ISP? Someone has to physically host your mailbox. Once you stop paying service provider A to do that, and move to service provider B, A has no contractual relationship with you.
ThresherK
@Mustang Bobby: And the voice of the magic car KITT alongside David Hasselhoff in the ’80s. You can probably win a bar bet about how Daniels was one of a very few select performers on two scripted network primetime shows running at the same time.
Because of his 1776 role, I was the only one laughing in my college apartment when on St. Elsewhere his character traveled to Pennsylvania in the summer. Daniels belted out a few bars of “It’s hot as Hell, in Philadellll, phia!”, whereupon the other three guys were looking at me quizzically.
@Germy Shoemangler: I thought I was up on my Grouchoisms, but that’s new to me.
Germy Shoemangler
@Gin & Tonic: My provider was the same. Earthlink. I moved to a new town, about a half hour away from our old place. My email address disappeared.
I just wish they’d made it clear from the start. When I tried to log in, I kept getting “error, please try again.”
And like an idiot, I kept trying again.
They should have said: “you moved a few miles from your old home. Did you really think you could keep your same email address?”
Germy Shoemangler
@ThresherK: It’s from the concert he gave in 1972, when he talked about his old times. It’s a great show. He’s a lot slower, but he’s full of anecdotes from vaudeville and WWI. I had the LP in the ’70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhn-MKhP6o
Mustang Bobby
@ThresherK: St. Elsewhere was filled with little in-jokes like that.
WaterGirl
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I know that friends take sides after a relationship ends, but even Comcast? I think that would have put me through the roof.
When my -ex and I split, they started sending his insurance bills to his new address. Apparently they were also sending my homeowners insurance to his address. I was a lot less organized back then so it was months before I said, hey, I don’t think I’ve gotten a state farm bill lately. I called to ask about it. The agent knew both of us personally and he KNEW we had split up, but they still cancelled my policy for non-payment. Without even a phone call! So for 6 months I had no homeowners insurance, without even knowing it.
I will never use State Farm again.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Fillmore East for me. And Boston Garden, Capitol Theater in Passaic, Watkins Glen … plenty of venues.
Tripod
Another Who farewell tour, and the Stones are touring again, so why not?
On that note, anybody seen Keith Richards horribly arthritic hands? there is no fucking way he can still play.
WereBear
@Gin & Tonic: I guess I’m old-fashioned. I think all that corporate bleating about “service” really means something.
At the least, they should explain what they are doing, and what happens when they stop doing that.
And while email started out at a geeky affectation, it’s now vital in some ways. Access to certain sites can be dependent on access to an email address. Doing business depends on it. It’s a vital lifeline in a lot of ways, and yet, corporations like Earthlink go “meh!” and toss it without warning.
Gin & Tonic
@WereBear: I think we’re talking past each other.
You were an EarthLink customer. You were paying them to provide a service for you, including Internet access and e-mail. You stopped being their customer, and became a customer of Time Warner, paying them to provide a service for you, including Internet access and e-mail. Once you did that, why would you think that EarthLink should continue to service an e-mail address that you were no longer paying for? And why do you think it’s “bad design” or “poor service” for them to no longer provide a service that you were no longer paying them for?
Germy’s problem is different – he moved physically, but still within EarthLink’s service area and still on their network, so there’s no technical reason why they should have screwed him up. But your complaint is, essentially, that you cancelled Comcast cable and switched to Verizon FiOS and can no longer get TV over your Comcast cable connection.
WereBear
I was complaining because Germy got trashed and there was no reason for him to see it coming.
When I canceled Earthlink, I knew I’d lose that address, and I’d spent considerable time moving things over. But that wasn’t because they TOLD me. That was because I knew that already.
They should TELL people, all I’m saying. And they don’t.
Germy Shoemangler
What bugged me was them not telling me, and then the stupid error message “Please try again” when they’d obviously cancelled my email account. And then the conversation with tech support; a guy who clearly had no interest in helping me. I get the impression the employees are passively rebelling by providing bad customer service.
I had to contact all the businesses, banks, etc. and give them my new gmail address.
The only good thing that came from it is that all the spam assholes lost track of me.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Germy Shoemangler:
I can almost guarantee you that your Ben Franklin was the famously irascible Howard da Silva:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0196247/?ref_=nv_sr_1
He almost lost his role as Franklin in the movie version because he was such a giant pain in the ass throughout the Broadway run of the play, but he basically begged the director (who did both the play and the film) to let him stay and promised to not be such an asshole and the director eventually agreed.
Cervantes
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
May have been Rex Everhart, actually.
Da Silva suffered a heart attack just before the show opened. I think he managed a few performances, then came back in for the movie.
wrb
@Zinsky:
And Zinsky is an idiot.
BobS
@Zinsky: I saw them several dozen times starting in 1971 at the Easttown Theater in Detroit (I also was lucky to see a couple incarnations of the Jerry Garcia Band/ Legion of Mary, Kingfish, & NRPS throughout the 70’s — one of the few good things about getting old is the music and sports legends I was able to see). I’ll admit the Dead could be less than stellar on a bad night, & I’m aware they didn’t do it for everybody, but anyone who would argue that Jerry Garcia wasn’t a talented guitarist has their head and ears up their [email protected]Tommy: I kind of agree — it would be like the remaining Beatles calling themselves that had they reformed after John Lennon was murdered.
John Revolta
@BobS: Or, for example, the Who after Moonie (and Entwistle).
Then again, the Wailers are still touring, so what do I know?
Tree With Water
Don’t know if the link will work, but this is a favorite photo of mine. The Dead minus Jerry on a bench the day of their sentencing for their 1967 mother nature’s son bust in San Francisco (“..find me in a field of grass, Mother Nature’s son..”). That’s a obviously stressed out Bob Weir on the far right:
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/wp-content/blogs.dir/2328/files/grateful-dead/morgue25_dead_weir_clowning.jpg
Germy Shoemangler
@John Revolta: Or the Rolling Stones after the death of their founder, Brian Jones.
John Revolta
@Tree With Water: Hilarious.
Aaaand Harold Ramis as the Public Defender!
John Revolta
@Germy Shoemangler: Well, now……….
as the “We Are the World” people said to Carly Simon’s people, “We have to draw the line somewhere”.
Zinsky
@raven: Another adolescent comment from Raven. We have come to expect it. Seriously, the only people I know who like the Grateful Dead are those who have a tin ear, can’t carry a tune in a bushel basket and like them for reasons that have more to do with mind-altering substances than with music.
BobS
@Germy Shoemangler: Or the Grateful Dead after the death of co-founder Pigpen (playing keyboards in the Dead carried the same risks as drumming for Spinal Tap). I get your point, but by the time of his death the face of the Rolling Stones was ‘Jagger-Richards’ and Brian Jones had become a more peripheral figure (his replacement Mick Taylor remains the best musician to have played in the Rolling Stones — I saw him play in Jack Bruce’s band a couple of years after he left). Similar to the roles Jerry Garcia and Pigpen played in the [email protected]John Revolta: They weren’t THE Who after Keith Moon died. And that’s not to belittle his replacement, whose former band was quite possibly the best rock n’ roll band I ever saw.
wrb
@Zinsky:
And more evidence that Zinsky is an idiot.
Of the 2 or 3 thousand concerts I’ve seed at least 90 of the most powerful, moving, intellectually engaging and brilliant in the top 100 hundred were the Dead, JGB or Bobby and the Miidnights (one early show w Tim Bogart on bass. Alfonso Johnson )
The only others to crack the top were Neil Young w Crazy Horse, Joni, Van w the Caledonian Soul Orchestra, Miles, MJQ, and the Band. I remember sitting in a Springsteen concert in 78 thinking ” Outwardly this is energetic, but there is nothing new being created tonight within the music, it is canned, boring”
BobS
@wrb: Good list. I’d agree that almost all of them (never saw the Modern Jazz Quartet & with regard to Joni Mitchell, just alright) were some of my most memorable concert experiences with one caveat — Van Morrison was transcendental on most nights, but if he’d been drinking too much…come to think of it, that was memorable too. I also disagree regarding Springsteen — he’s a brilliant songwriter and next to James Brown and the MC5 the most infectiously energetic performer I’ve seen — especially at the smaller places he was playing back in the 70’s.
Any top 10 list I made would have to have room for about 100 names — in addition to who you’ve listed: Sun Ra, Fela, Richard Thompson (with&without Linda or Fairport Convention), the Mothers of Invention, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Little Feat, the Neville Brothers, the Clash, Ornette Coleman, the Roots, P-Funk, Ry Cooder, Mavis Staples, Husker Du, Outkast, Arcade Fire… I could buy a fucking house with what I’ve spent on concert tickets.
Zinsky
@wrb: Are you a trained musician? I am. The Dead use tired, repetitive chord progressions and their arrangements are sophomoric. The lyrics – meh. I stand by my assertion that they are a crummy band for people who know jack about music.
BobS
@Zinsky:Those “people who know jack about music” include Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, David Murray, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Bob Dylan, & Airto Moreira. But hey, you’re “a trained musician”, so what the fuck would they know — where can I hear your music?
wrb
@BobS:
Absolutely agree with regard to the Nevills (and the Wild Magnolias, for that matter, and for anything on which Zigaboo drummed) Ornete, Joe Pass, and yes, yes Richard Thompson and the brilliant Sandy Denny,and yes to the Staples family (Pop was cool) and Emmy Lou.
I was working a gig at which Aierto and Flora opened. She, being a dramatic Brazilian, wrapped her arms around the goofy kid at the truck ramp and gave me a long kiss.
BobS
@wrb: I think you mean The Wild Tchoupitoulas, but I wasn’t aware the Neville family ever toured except as the Meters or the Neville Brothers.
Tree With Water
@BobS: Indeed, in his autobiography Dylan credits the Dead with reviving his love of making music. And no band has ever covered Dylan tunes any better, either.
He also wrote that he made an intentionally shitty album in New Morning in order to drive all the Dylan Is God nuts out of his life (which ridiculously enough ticked me off momentarily because I bought it when it was first released). “If dogs run free, Why not me?” has been a little mantra of mine ever since, those times I’ve been cornered by circumstance and reduced to plotting an escape.
BobS
@Tree With Water: Dylan & the Dead
wrb
@BobS:
No, although I would include the Wild Tchoupitoulas among the all time greats (They we the Meters, with some more Nevill Bros, plus the Wild Tchoupitoulas indian gang. Their one album is one of my all-time favorites. However the Wild Magnolias, with big chief Bo Dollis singing lead were another all-time great