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Mastodon outpost for the Save Your Face mixtape blog.
Notes and mp3s: https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/
Streams of most of the Grateful Dead mixes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yyM8q9j5gYkJCSTEeciFyUItDQjFxcK

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I am once again considering printing out stickers to put on the spines of my official CDs.

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@mrcompletely I would expect nothing less from Mr. Completely. I would know and remember the music/shows (on physical media) better, if the spines reinforced the important info, as cassette cases once did.

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It's currently the sweetest, softest Spring-into-Summer evening where I am... Great weekend so far. Biked the neighborhood yard sale Friday, collecting little treasures to give to the 1-3 year-olds we saw at brunch and a bbq today. Brunch hosted by someone we met when she was nine. BBQ hosted by our young neighbors, whose toddler is letting us try out being grandparents. Spring + humans vibing together is an amazing reminder of the reasons to be hopeful.

improv 6/18/94

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@mrcompletely The seasons when the line between inside and outside disappears are idyllic. I wouldn't want to live in San Diego, where this is always true; it's important to have the idyllic times arrive, after going away for a while. Spoken as a true Michigan boy.

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@mrcompletely Yes, this, exactly (though I'm in another climate zone). I lived in the south between the ages of ~24-44, and I think I had seasonal affective disorder the whole time. Three months of hard winter is comparatively energizing. A summer where the outside is welcoming is priceless.

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@mrcompletely Interesting to hear! I could easily imagine that the climate of wherever one grew up would become a lifetime baseline of normal and good.

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@mrcompletely I visited Memphis last summer to reunite with my 1997-2008 peeps. Haven't been back to Durham, NC (1989-1997) in at least a decade. Insanely, I ended up teaching Southern Lit and African-American Lit in a Memphis college. Amazing carpet-bagger episode, but long enough.

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@mrcompletely Nascent hipster Durham was where I lived 1989-1997, and it was really great. I'd come from Ann Arbor, which had just started to become a fashion-anxiety town, and the weirdness x unpretentiousness of Durham was very welcome.

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@mrcompletely Also, Memphis was not "relatively sane." It was as riven and un-repaired as in 1968 and before. Truly a broken place where the entirety of US history continued to be apparent.

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@mrcompletely I think Durham was probably equally broken in my time there, but there was a college town inside it, which was real, even if not representative of the whole.

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As May ’77 madness comes ‘round again, bolstered this year by the release of 1.5 more May ’77 shows (Dave’s 50 shipping now), I encourage you to check out two hours of jammy highlights from the tour’s first two shows on April 22-23, in Philadelphia and Springfield.

If you find May ’77 too “same-y,” I think you’ll find this music less so. Second and third performances of "Fire!"

Indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxnwRd5S20

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-the-first-two-may-77-shows-april-22-23

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The announcement of a live 1968 Mothers of Invention box brings this household great joy.

A while back, Save Your Face sifted a ton of late ‘60s Mothers tapes and created a couple of big mixes of instrumental and improvisational material. King Kong, Pound for a Brown, Sleeping in a Jar, Eric Dolphy Memorial BBQ, Green Genes, Uncle Meat, Dog Breath Variations, Orange County Lumber Truck… that kind of music.

The SYF mixes remain available to grab as mp3s.
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/the-mothers-of-invention-seriously-live-volume-2-1968-1969-bootleg-highlights

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Status: whelmed

4CPcomics, (edited )
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@mrcompletely Your post leaves me plussed.

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@mrcompletely @godzero Sounds like a very combobulated fellow.

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Hey I just got laid off, anyone got a job? Sadly I'm just a manager recently but I'm superb at it. Glad to work outside of tech. Whee

Edit: and software designer. I kick ass at that. But mostly I translate and coordinate between different specialties to make a coherent team, turn goals into plans and then run those plans. Done a lot of hiring and professional development work too. Great at weeding out the bozos and assholes. Oversight and compliance of every kind. Would love to work for a cause

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@mrcompletely I'm so sorry. I don't know if it ever caught fire, but I did content strategy and copywriting for this company that offers to pair software experts with companies for gig work. https://myworkerbee.com/

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Stained glass, vinyl edition

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fans: There will surely be a "Blues for Allah" reissue in 2025. Will we get a comprehensive boxed set of the vast/important rehearsals... or something much smaller and extremely disappointing?

Here's a delightful little creature from those rehearsals/sessions:

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@mrcompletely I don't truly want a comprehensive box - just a large one. I'm a pretty dedicated purchaser of archival Dead releases, but I haven't bought any of the recent series of studio album reissues. They seem like bullshit to me.

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I really like the early throbbiness of “West LA Fadeaway.” At some point it relaxed into a more “Althea”-like execution and lost some of the grim, hard edge. This version is the 10th performance of the song from 41 years ago this week.

West LA Fadeaway
April 9, 1983, Hampton Coliseum

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@mrcompletely "Way to Go Home" underwent a similar shift, throbby in 92-93, jaunty in 94.

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35 years ago, my most fun Grateful Dead run - Ann Arbor, April 5-6, 1989. Walked to the shows from my apt. Center of the 8th and 13th rows with all my hometown Heads. Club show experience.

I’d seen some 1988 shows, and this seemed like a different band. Tight, confident, energetic, having fun, singing well, jamming fluidly. Mighty!

I pulled together my favorite 3 hours from the run.

Archive stream:
https://archive.org/details/grateful-dead-save-your-face-shortlist-ann-arbor-89-april-5-6

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-shortlist-ann-arbor-89-april-5-6

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It's the 33rd anniversary of me finally getting what I was looking for.

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@mrcompletely I was only thinking about sober evaluations based on tape listening. Based on retrospective listening, I underestimated the live experience more than I overestimated. LOL.

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@chopaganda @mrcompletely I'd say that Bruce was the best keyboardist they ever had, without throwing anyone else (including Vince) out of bed.

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@mrcompletely @chopaganda I look to keyboard players first for their dialogue with Garcia. I want to say Hornsby was the best one for jazz-level jousting. Mydland was maybe best as a Jerry-prompt '79-'81, and later maybe too much a competing flavor?

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@mrcompletely @chopaganda Agreed. I have no categorical gripes against Brent, but I do feel that those who write off post-Brent Dead are overrating Brent and/or underrating post-Brent Dead. Space opened up, and you can judge how it was used however you like.

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