Will future scholars of the Grateful Dead look upon post-Jerry incarnations with the same reverence and analysis as is done for the classic era? If not, what is the demarcation for exclusion? Jerry? Original music? Level of sincerity/authenticity? Not looking for a Mayer bash, genuinely curious as to what and how different eras of the conceptual through line make the cut for obsession > scholarship.
Scholars really aren't supposed to revere their objects of study, but that said l think Mr. C is probably pretty much correct in thinking that the extended career of "the Grateful Dead or Whatever's Left of 'em" will remain a useful lens through which to understand broad (counter-) cultural/social dynamics. The most recent example, the Sphere shows, would be a chapter in a book about the GDOWLOE's long relationship with technology.
"They come up to me in the yard, these big, tough gangsters, with tears in their eyes, and they say 'Sir! We've never seen someone with such a perfect verdict against them!'"
I chuckled at Kreutzmann having an index entry for "horses, cocaine and" in his bio (p. 231 if you're wondering). I thought it was just a BK/Benjy Eisen thing.
But of course I am an infinitely ignorant fool. Because, of course:
cocaine's for horses not for men
doctor say it kill you but they don't say when
cocaine done killed my honey dead
Well played.
note to self: I see now this is the second time I have made that same connection, as if fresh and new, 3 years apart.
rode with neil young & crazy horse again in #bridgeport & so happy i did. got tons of songs i didn't catch tuesday ("barstool blues"! "down by the river"! "dangerbird"! "fuckin' up"!), tour debuts ("when you dance"! "big time"!), & what felt like even deeper #jams ("powderfinger"! "love & only love"!). molina & talbot have always had their own special pocket & it's so rare/cool to hear a rhythm section age with their singer into something even heavier, if less nimble. also, a j. mascis sighting.
@bourgwick I'm really torn. I need to see the show, but l'm really not sure my broken body is up for standing in a field in the potentially hot sun all day. I really wish it was in a seated venue here.
So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option
I dunno? Stop building settlements on occupied land and using the force of the state to exercise power over people without their consent? Does that seem like a start?
No, I'm not going to make fun of Trump for wearing diapers. Many disabled and elderly people do, including my late mother, who also had dementia. But I'm happy to point out all the other reasons why you shouldn't vote for a terrorist cult leader and rapist who packed SCOTUS with grifters and undoubtedly sold top-secret intel to the highest bidder while tens of thousands of Americans were dying of COVID because of his policies.
Thanks. Laughing at a guy for wearing diapers is a step away from laughing at a guy for using a colostomy bag, which l will straight-up crack someone in the jaw for.
#NowPlaying - decent audience-recorded #bootleg of the flo & eddie era mothers' hometown debut at santa monica civic, august 1970, misdated as el monte '71. totally dig kaylan/volman as front-mothers, increasingly less into the mud shark skit sequence, here in early draft, a premonition of my least favorite #zappa. stunning & fun kornyfone art. @vinylrecords
Gilbert Shelton/Hub City Movers "Set Your Chickens Free"
long shot - anyone have a better recording/transfer of THIS version (the original) of this song - not any of the other fine versions out there, lovely as they are. If so, please share in whatever format you can, thx
(lyricist Gilbert Shelton is the creator/artist of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but they have nothing to do with this song really)
