Please join me in crowdfunding a documentary on one of the greatest musical events in history: #GratefulDead, #theBand, and #AllmanBrothers, playing to the largest gathering of human beings in North America. The Watkins Glen Summer Jam. (I was there.) http://kck.st/3rN3YTh
hop in, the good ol' #gratefuldead-cast is back for season 8 (?!) starting with part 1 of an epic 2-part visit to the record-breaking watkins glen summer jam, 50 years ago today, with the dead, the allmans, & the band! we've got the late sam cutler, donna jean godchaux, the allmans' chuck leavell, promoter jimmy koplik, @stevesilberman, sonic youth's lee ranaldo, one of the dudes behind the pirate radio station, john belushi stories, & more. tune in: https://www.dead.net/deadcast/watkins-glen-summer-jam-73-part-1
today, the #gratefuldead-cast begins our new season-within-a-season: 6 epic episodes about spring 1973, the newly announced “here comes sunshine” box set, & the most ambitious world-building business-spawning period in the band’s history. we’ve got guests (today: donna jean! alan trist! rosie mcgee! steve brown!), unprecedented access to the band’s business documents, & many surprises to come. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/here-comes-sunshine-grateful-dead-co
I used to be thrilled to get #GratefulDead tickets by mailorder. Now I'm thrilled to get an online appointment for my next #COVID19 booster. Life is weird.
New official release - Old & in the Way, Sonoma State College, 11.4.1973 (Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, John Kahn)
Released by Acoustic Disk, Grisman's label, as a download. Thanks to @bourgwick for mentioning it in his review of the show, which was of course 50 years ago today.
This is the last full length show by this lineup and that's a real shame. The band is in smoking hot form here, a fantastic listen
#BobFried created this headshop #poster for the #GratefulDead in 1967. It was printed on plastic to let the light shine through!
I know he took the image of the skeleton using fountain pens as stilts from a fin-de-siècle artist but I can't find it now. Anybody know who did the original?
"Don Was is the current president of Blue Note Records. But that is just one of many titles he holds at present. He is also the bassist for Bob Weir’s Wolf Bros, as well as an active producer who has worked with everyone from Bonnie Raitt and The Rolling Stones to John Mayer and Bob Dylan."
interior of magoo's pizza in #MenloPark, 1970-1971, about a half-decade after the #GratefulDead debuted there as the warlocks, from the 1971 menlo-atherton high school yearbook, via @Corry342. apparently magoo's had an upstairs with pool tables, which this looks like, but maybe not where the warlocks played?
I can’t say I have a general take on the sporadic #gratefuldead performances from the summer of 1973… except for the luminous quality of the improvisation, featuring one of the great improv themes, The Phil Jazz Jam.