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bourgwick

@bourgwick@heads.social

writer / WFMU DJ / good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / working on a history of music told through grey area recordings (hachette, 2025ish) / "big day coming" (2012), "heads" (2016), "wasn't that a time" (2018) / jessejarnow.com [searchable]

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bourgwick, to Montana
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50 years ago today, the bring the wall of sound to . spring ’74, show #2, now “dave’s picks 9”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RiiRe2sns&t=6s [1/6]

bourgwick,
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5/14/74 missoula: without the washoe zephyr blowing, a much tighter show. potent LOSER, “sweet susie” returns. 2nd SCARLET BEGONIAS finds a little flight with cool wah-wah rhodes & donna vocalizing over jam, though very much (to my ears) about having a fun new weir-involved rhythmic/harmonic conversation; all working together to click it to fresh space, before landing in IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES. casually brilliant k. godchaux throughout, especially 21-minute PLAYING IN THE BAND. [2/6]

bourgwick,
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centerpiece of the show is 48-minute WEATHER REPORT SUITE > DARK STAR > CHINA DOLL, elegant ’74 dead. LET IT GROW widens & dissolves into restless pre-verse DARK STAR jamming, nearly dissolving into ’69-ish arpeggio diamonds. post-verse noise blossoms, opening from garcia’s thick fuzztone into free freakout that opens to 5+ minutes of kreutzmann-led jazz dancing. the wild fuzz returns for CHINA DOLL via a psychedelic split guitar signal, the clean tone running in parallel. [3/6]

bourgwick, to guitar
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- sonic youth & jim o'rourke are heroes for so many reasons. the SYR series dropped me into expansive new worlds of when i got #1-3 not long after they came out in 1998. the changing silverscapes of "radio-amatoroj" still bring me to that place. also heroes because they were unafraid to put nearly 30 minutes of per side. https://sonicyoutharchive.bandcamp.com/album/syr-3-invito-al-cielo @vinylrecords

inset track label on LP with track timings

bourgwick, to ethelcain
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- pure '90s comfort food. micro-algorithmically: a little bit of twang, some of camper van beethoven's lightness, the less-outside parts of elephant 6, or maybe just the beatles-y parts of ween. also dutch, but singing in english. https://bingotrappers.bandcamp.com/album/sierra-nevada-album @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to random
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i'd never seen 's account of the rightly infamous related prank pulled on him in 1995. (urge overkill were the perpetrators, according to lore.) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6uZQp9sBkx/?igsh=MTYzNmh4Z25zdzI1cA==

bourgwick,
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@scottythered i now (for the first time somehow) wonder if any of the flyers survive! i think maybe the previous account i heard involved giving out his # over the radio.

bourgwick, to prog
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- a ground zero for so much, but why so many cowrites for kevin ayers & so few lead vocals? is it like the neil-young's-voice-was-too-weird-for-the-springfield thing or just cuz ayers was the new guy? and how many steps between "we did it again" & oneida's "sheets of easter"? @Corry342 @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to drums
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peace to johnny barbata, for the turtles, CSNY, jefferson airplane ('72 edition), jefferson starship, stray gators, byrds ('73 edition), etc. https://bestclassicbands.com/john-barbata-drummer-dead-obituary-5-11-24/

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @Corry342 according to billy's book, he bought it from barbata in mid/late '74 & lived there on/off for 20-25 years. harrison ford may've been involved in its construction.

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bourgwick, to animation
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a vintage 1978 interview with larry cuba, my dad's old experimental #animation buddy who designed/animated the targeting computer in the original #StarWars. we once crashed at larry's place & wondered why his abstract sculpture collection looked so familiar before discovering they were pieces of the actual death star surface from the close-up shots. https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/creative-computer-publishes-interview

bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- clearing away the local light pollution & channeling unseen aurorae with the panoramic buzzes/glows/beats/whoops/washes/vibrations/compositions of the new ka baird album, "bearings: soundtracks for the bardos" https://kabaird.bandcamp.com/album/bearings-soundtracks-for-the-bardos @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- ritual invocation of the weekend with harmonies by flo & eddie. @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to random
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peace to dennis thompson of the MC5, who died this morning. and then there were none. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/

bourgwick, to random
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the “loose lucy” episode of the good ol’ is up today & it is our delight! another dip into the CBS multitracks, plus we hit the road with the dead in june ’74. go under the hood of phil lesh’s new quad bass, hang out by the FREE STUF booth, & have a private lunch at the bank of boston with jerry garcia & ron rakow. (that’s our buddy steve brown behind the table in front of the custom courtenay pollack tie-dyes.) https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-loose-lucy /1

Steve Brown in front of 4 seasonal tie dyes at the FREE STUF booth

bourgwick,
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in the newest -cast, we get way into phil lesh’s quad bass, built as part of the new sound system. one of my fascinations is when people started using “wall of sound” to refer to the dead’s 1974 speaker set-up. there’s a news clip from ’74 that uses it but (in the new deadcast, thanks to a @dgans interview) we learn that phil lesh was still calling it the “gantry system” in the early ‘80s because it looked like the rigging used to launch rockets. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-loose-lucy /2

rocket with gantry system

bourgwick, to random
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reminded of one of the many reasons my partner is amazing: at the first american all tomorrow's parties in 2008, she beat in a few hands of poker (& actually won some $$) at the all-night table without knowing who he was or that he was a professional world series of poker player. she says he was... poker-faced.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely she's cool af!

bourgwick, to random
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bill graham on woodstock, 1970. made me lol.

bourgwick, to Eugene
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40 years ago tonight, the open a 3 shows on a sunday in , their 2nd of 2 stands at the swanky hult center presented in conjunction with the keseys’ springfield creamery. spring ’84, show . soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1984-05-06.sbd.walker-scotton.miller.77302.sbeok.flac16 [1/3]

bourgwick,
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5/6/84 eugene: 1st HELL IN A BUCKET show opener, becoming its usual slot in ’85. tight soaring CASSIDY. 63-minute PLAYING IN THE BAND > CHINA DOLL > DRUMZ > SPACE > TRUCKIN’ > SPOONFUL > BLACK PETER > AROUND & AROUND > PLAYING IN THE BAND. brief PLAYING, one drummer flying free, one drummer tethered to hi-hat. well-controlled CHINA DOLL. SPACE kawing/vocalizing with full-spectrum mixing fun by healy. loses its chaotic coherence as they tilt towards blooze. abrupt shift back to PLAYING. [2/3]

Dead Heads: An interesting sample of humanity at its mellowest
Dead, continued story
A wake for the Dead; Deadhead in face makeup with buttons

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely a little more expensive. spring tour seems like it was $10.50-$13.50. the rex benefits in san rafael in march were $25.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely and looks like the mezz tickets were reserved. but i bet heads found a way.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely there's seat info over on the left of that ticket. in the expanded masto view it's blocked by the alt text stuff!

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely kinda curious if these were actually benefits or just pricier cuz of the super nice venue. it's remembered as a benefit in one of those comments, but not mentioned in any of the ads or listings that i've seen. EDIT - muddying things further, the SEVA benefit in june (with The Band, even) was back at the more affordable $13.

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