60 years ago tonight, the #SanJose acid test, the grateful dead’s 1st gig under the name “grateful dead,” in a residential house downtown after a rolling stones show. several hand drawn flyers showed up this year, as described in tom wolfe’s electric kool aid acid test, but with seemingly the wrong address on them. [1/4]
afternoon melodica zone: augustus pablo's american debut, october 4th, 1984 at the hollywood palladium. #reggae
40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in worcester, with the band singing happy birthday to bill walton, plus a few stage-crashers. fall ’85, show #9.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-05
immensely enjoying @…'s clipping-by-clipping tour of velvet underground history: https://grantmcphee.substack.com/archive?sort=…
float through the night with the frow show, new music & sound adventures from now 'til 3am ET on @…, filling in for rich hazelton. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260103
wearing my boots that served at coventry, i braved brooklyn bowl & got in tune with taper's choice. the live debut of "song hat," a bunch of "whoa dude" peaks/pockets/turns, nearly as many "eleanor rigby" quotes, & '90s jam receptors generally activated. https:/…
william burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up