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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 nyc
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the recent crackdown on unlicensed #nyc #cannabis bodegas has ushered in a massive overnight vibe shift from over-the-top garish to hilariously anonymous. the next phase in weed bodega aesthetics, already a topic for street art documentarians. (photos by a pal, but expect to see it in my neighborhood soon.)

frosted glass store front with new sign hanging on awning reading CONVENIENCE

chooban, to random
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What is the correct setlist for 's Rockin' The Rhein? Wikipedia mentions a third set, the archive.org has the same ordering as the official release, and deadlists begs to differ. :/

bourgwick,
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@InstituteJerry @chooban would recommend jerrybase as an arbiter for the most updated/corrected setlists, as @InstituteJerry was too polite to mention. https://jerrybase.com/events/19720424-01

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @chooban @InstituteJerry fascinating, i don't remember the specifics, but jeremy berg & janelle west did a presentation (as i recall) about how the musicbrainz data fields didn't smoothly accommodate the metadata for a dead show, though not sure how far deep they were going. vaguely recall it causing confusion when there were 2 "versions" of a song in the same file set. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/109916839026558170

bourgwick, to random
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50 years ago today, the & wall of sound in with maria muldaur & the great american string band. love to the compuserve tape tree, probably my 1st exposure to ’74 dead. with the new "mars hotel" reissue, now the 1st ’74 dead show without official release.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.sbd.jmiller.205.sbeok.shnf
vivid audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.aud.gems.111301.flac16
silent footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYt8RQQoMjA [1/10]

bourgwick,
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vibes from the Dead in santa barbara today in 1974. excellent summer fit by owsley stanley, possibly wearing 2-3 watches? [2/10]

Wall of Sound from the back of the stadium
crowd shot, detail
Owsley Stanley in sunglasses, with tape measure, in tucked-in tie-dyed shirt and hat

bourgwick,
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david grisman & richard greene’s great american string band opens, featuring garcia on banjo & (replacing taj mahal on bass) buell neidlinger, cecil taylor/archie shepp collaborator (!!). photos & some silent footage, but no tapes seem to have survived. according to some lore, it was a day/period when the roadies were still busting tapers, but see below... [3/10]

David Grisman and Jerry Garcia onstage with the Wall of Sound behind them
David Grisman (playing mandolin) and Jerry Garcia (playing banjo) onstage
the Great American String Band with Wall of Sound behind them

bourgwick, to bookstodon
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restarted a book i thought i maybe didn't like, but turns out i was just in an airport experiencing interminable delays when i tried before. @bookstodon

bourgwick, to jazz
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happy 100th arrival day to the deputy marshall allen, "dep" as he was/is known inside the @SunRaUniverse arkestra. can't believe i've gotten to see him play as many times as i have (& hopefully will again soon). WKCR is playing 24 hours of marshall today to celebrate. https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/marshall-allen-birthday-broadcast

bourgwick, to books
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recent-ish reading/rereading. @bookstodon

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @bookstodon it kept me going & i certainly didn't hate it, but felt kinda old-fashioned (or at least pre-gibsonian) & not really my bag.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @bookstodon yup, & quite present (unlike, sadly, greatdismal). and, yeah, i meant just dialogue/vibe wise, the way most pre-star wars sci-fi movies feel/look different (even though this is technically post neuromancer).

bourgwick, to Podcast
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friends, we’ve the reached the “scarlet begonias” episode of the good ol’ -cast & it is W-I-L-D. alongside the studio multitracks (& a supercut thereof) & excellent jams, we’ve got vampire weekend’s chris tomson, the story of how robert hunter met the woman in scarlet begonias, and... https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias /1

bourgwick,
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today’s deadcast includes an interview with one of the 2 people in this photograph! photographer/filmmaker lee jaffe (& ron rakow) on the never-told true story of how the the came legitimately close to signing to their own record company in early 1974?! (not hallucinated by a chatbot!) https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias /2

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely that was pretty much my verbatim reaction.

bourgwick, to nyc
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50 years ago tonight, television (in their original lineup with richard hell) tape an appearance on the underground tonight show at cafe wha?, alongside & david peel & jackie curtis & others, aired on public access sometime later that year, surfaced incredibly in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlhYiN4gmU [1/2]

Underground Tonight Show logo, the mouth of a cave

bourgwick,
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5/22/74 cafe wha?: amazing 3 minutes of television on , playing verlaine’s HARD ON LOVE & making excellent rock faces (as is one of the hippies on the side of the stage, also doing some great gesticulating, visible behind hell). apparently john lennon saw it when it aired. as punk as they ever sounded. [2/2]

Television onstage - Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine sings
Richard Hell and Richard Lloyd onstage

bourgwick, to Seattle
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50 years ago today, the & the wall of sound in , including one of their longest standalone jams. the 2nd of 3 shows with more than half of the forthcoming “from the mars hotel.” more wonderful photos by crew member richie pechner. spring ’74, show #5. https://archive.org/details/gd74-05-21.sbd.belkin.2597.sbefail.shnf [1/4]

bourgwick,
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5/21/74 seattle: 1st set includes almost an hour of material introduced in past year & change. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES feeling more elegant with each performance. 5-minute SCARLET BEGONIAS slightly longer than previous, sweet quiet donna vocalizing, almost karen dalton-y. final version of MONEY MONEY is tightest yet, but good riddance to some gross lyrics. 23-minute WEATHER REPORT SUITE > CHINA DOLL is understated set closer & wish they’d closed on quiet note more often. [2/4]

bourgwick,
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46-minute PLAYING IN THE BAND is wondrous monster, one of the longest standalone pieces in the band’s history. gets a bit abstract/free/noisy early before (mostly) focusing on fast-flashing attention-holding conversation. moves towards end-space a few times, but someone picks up thread. 34-minute EYES OF THE WORLD > STELLA BLUE > SUGAR MAGNOLIA. powerful EYES with aggressive bass solo leading into 7/8 outro. nice musical pause before SUGAR MAGNOLIA, which gets a bit tattered as it goes. [3/4]

bourgwick, to random
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rode with neil young & crazy horse again in & 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 ("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.

Neil Young solo acoustic
Neil Young & Crazy Horse take a bow

bourgwick,
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@PaulInRainCity ugh, yeah, i'm sorry you have to choose like that. both shows i saw were seated with a surprising amount standing for the whole show (& more surprising, no "sit down!!" wars), but can't imagine a full GA neil show at this point. there have to be others in your situation. call/ask venue? you probably qualify for seating!

bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- if i'd been a first wave pink floyd fan, i'm pretty sure i would've been more into kevin ayers than post-"piper" floyd while waiting for syd to get his act (briefly) together. @vinylrecords @Corry342

mrcompletely, to vinyl
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Anyone know if Discogs is a good place to work? They're hiring. They're not like doomed for some reason or anything, or just laid off all the good people or something? I feel like the people here might know

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely there was a twitter thread that blew up last year & was subsequently deleted: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1680798692066902016.html
and this follow-up article: https://www.theverge.com/23899461/discogs-sellers-vinyl-cds-community-fees
i almost exclusively use it as a reference source (practically hourly tbh, if not more) & don't buy many used LPs online, so i've not felt any of the stress points (except for a layout change that i find frustrating cuz it adds load time).

bourgwick, to Futurology
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does anyone happen to have access to the wall street journal archives from the '70s? i'm looking for one specific article that should be pretty easy to find (and, really, just the date of that article) & would very much appreciate some assistance.

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]

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