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observing the (approximate) 55th anniversary of the disastrous/canceled powder ridge festival by sitting in traffic in #connecticut.

today, rich & i hit the end of our enjoying the ride deadcast season with some deep head history. thanks to sociologist rebecca adams (& her receipts!) we can pinpoint wide use of “shakedown street” to describe the parking lot scene to summer ’89. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-rid

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now concluding an all-too-brief 36 hours in vacationland.

wild combination of words, cold war edition. if you read it literally, the headline is basically a david lynch script direction.

50 years ago tonight in san rafael, the only circulating tape of the full seastones ensemble featuring ned lagin, phil lesh, jerry garcia, david crosby, & mickey hart (in orchestra pit), celebrating the newly released LP. definition of a fully blended quintet & the last circulating lagin/garcia tape. one of the gems of the tape canon. owsley tape, tracks 34-42:

at tv eye, totally ripping set by takaat, 3 members of mdou moctar, ecstatic tuareg desert blues dialled up until reaching, like, horse lords levels of rhythmic facemelt. saw one very excellent local drummer basically (politely) elbow his way up front to watch agog. #nyc #guitar

#NowPlaying - aw, peaceful departures to cosmic traveler ariel kalma. i wrote notes for this anthology of his '70s recordings. a truly heady & wonder-filled sweetheart, like a french terry riley or something.

50 years ago today, #JerryGarcia & legion of mary at the great american music hall, only 2 circulating songs (#7 #13): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-Yr80KfG

50 years ago tonight in #berkeley, the final show by #JerryGarcia & legion of mary, also the last circulating garcia/saunders tape until their 1978-1979 reunion (though they gig together ’til the end of july). audience tape:

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at ace’s in mill valley, with the 1st rehearsals of “help on the way/slipknot!”
part 1: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-06-