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60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

just came across these 2002 tonic schedules while looking for something else & only wish i saved more. mostly embarrassed at how much i missed on these because I wasn't yet cool enough (specifically damo suzuki with cul de sac & multiple holy modal rounders gigs). #nyc

this is kind of amazing: a handdrawn 2002 attempt to map every #surveillance camera in times square & midtown #nyc, by the surveillance camera players, activist/prankster group. feel like these #maps would bot…

11/17/85 long beach: good age for CASSIDY & LOOKS LIKE RAIN, thunder rolling bigger & bigger on both. graceful allmans-y ribbons at CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER > I KNOW YOU RIDER peak. 19-minute HE’S GONE > SPOONFUL > GOOD TIME BLUES. HE’S GONE jam starting to sweetly molt before weir takes over; not-bad by SPOONFUL standards. garcia splits before mydland’s tune. 35-minute DRUMZ > SPACE > THE WHEEL > THROWING STONES > NOT FADE AWAY. fun underwater circus-y garcialogue SP…

scene reports from night 2 of long beach ’85. #deadfreaksunite #gd111785 [3/3]

11/16/85 long beach: rare post-’74 2nd set TENNESSEE JED, last time as set opener, more juice than usual; same for CUMBERLAND BLUES, a lesh slot. 57-minute CRAZY FINGERS > DRUMZ > SPACE > COMES A TIME > GIMME SOME LOVIN’ > TRUCKIN’ > BLACK PETER > GOOD LOVIN’. shaky CRAZY FINGERS lyrics, but deep wounded COMES A TIME holds achingly steady. solid Beamin’ melts to thoughtful garcia/weir SPACE. GIMME SOME LOVIN’ vocal jamminess. weir takes mic off stand & wanders for GO…

sometimes really just need to hear jimmie dale gilmore's voice (though "when the nights are cold" might be the only really transcendent moment for me). @…

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 6.
opening act: jeff tweedy
comedian: jo firestone
mix CDR by georgia
post show DJ: miss christina ginger
benefitting mary mitchell family & youth center
#nyc

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 5.
opening act: this is lorelei
comedian: clare o'kane & patti harrison
mix CDR by james
post show DJ: matt clarke
benefitting just making a change for families
#nyc

calming the waters with francis bebey, in aglow classical guitar mode. (never thought i'd cross paths with an original bebey LP but that's what the @… record fair is for. it could happen to you!) @…