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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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Grateful Dead: 1976 Improvisation

This 1976 #gratefuldead mix - the contents of which were not defined by me - has become a mainstay of my Dead listening.

It's a fantastic and unexpected version of "jazz Dead" unlike any other, and a beguiling calling card from 1976 that asks you to listen more closely to the whole year.

"Out of Nowhere Jams," 1976, based on Dead Notes' detective work.

Indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaE2_wHDGw&t=498s

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-out-of-nowhere-jams-1976

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Grateful Dead: May 1976 Rehearsals

Ahead of their June 1976 return to touring, #gratefuldead rehearsed seriously enough to produce beautiful recordings of numerous songs. (Reggae-inflected “Attics!”) This mix includes notable as-recorded takes, plus multi-take edits of Supplication and Eyes.

Could have been a radio/tour-supporting promo album. So good.

Indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn5CHV959_E

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-on-returning-may-1976-rehearsals

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Using just your ears, what year is this Dark Star passage from?

4CPcomics,
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It's from 7/18/76, between Let It Grow and Wharf Rat.

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@mrcompletely Not a year I know well.

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@mrcompletely This is what the date spread looks like for the list of 1976 "out of nowhere jams" compiled by Light Into Ashes.

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@mrcompletely There must be a lot of Playing jams that could count, in terms of measuring use of open spaces. Maybe also those dissolving Slipknots.

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@mrcompletely I played a '76 Dave's Picks on a drive to pick up a cousin from a distant train station and thought that it was boring as a show, and also that it would be interesting to take the vocals out of a bunch of 1976 material and create a long "sleepy Dead" (minimalist?) instrumental mix.

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@mrcompletely Looking at my CDs now, and I can't remember. Maybe if it had distinctive cover art...

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LOST LITTLE FEAT SOUL-JAZZ-FUNK ALBUM (1969-1975)

Here’s an imaginary studio Little Feat soul-jazz-funk studio album. It does not include anything from the seven Lowell George-era studio albums. It shuffles together selections from recordings with jazz drummer Chico Hamilton (1973) and singer Robert Palmer (1975) with relevant, officially-released Feat studio outtakes (1972-1975, with two 1969 outliers).

Sadly, this mix does not stream.

Explanations and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/little-feat-surprise-1969-1975

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

4CPcomics,
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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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