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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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doesn't really solve any problems, but sure is satisfying.

bourgwick, to random
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i have been a paid pro customer of otter.ai for 5+ years, the deadcast would not be possible without it, & i am beyond miffed at their account changes.

my "pro" plan previously allowed for 1,200 minutes of transcription per month, which i never used. but now i am limited to 1,200 minutes over 10 files. in a typical month, i upload 40-50 (or more) much shorter files from different sources.

my entire working library of audio is in there, so feeling trapped.

fuck otter. hard.

bourgwick,
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in addition, otter have also eliminated direct email tech support & now everything has to go through their stupid knowledge-base system. i chose to pay for a pro account for a few reasons & otter just eliminated them.

bourgwick,
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in short, if you need a reliable automated transcription service, choose one that's not otter. i'm really sorry if you're using them based on my previous glowing recommendations & you're now just as fucked as i am.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely i'm truly at a loss. like, i can't emphasize how much the deadcast runs on otter. in addition to all the interviews we've done, i've spent tons of time uploading & organizing old archival interviews & news scraps, like hundreds of them, so they can be searchable, and there's no way to really export it & start fresh. upset with myself for trusting (checks notes) other people!

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely even more maddening: a few times, we've had to download individual audio files we'd previously uploaded, but they were severely compressed into lesser quality audio.

bourgwick,
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oh and files are suddenly capped at 90 minutes instead of 120, so i have to pay extra to read the 95 minute interview i just uploaded. shaking with rage.

bourgwick,
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@sbourne appreciated. my hope is to ultimately switch to a local app (with no subscription costs) on my harddrive. the pain point right now is exporting the hundreds of hours of audio from otter.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @sbourne yeaaaaah, even trying to get my head around the logistics of starting fresh without a mass export option feels fully insurmountable right now given all other projects/deadlines. the source files are spread over so many places. i knew i shouldn't trust the cloud, but sometimes we fuck around & find out in no particular way but our own.

bourgwick, to bookstodon
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that flawless & unmatched feeling of finishing a book as the train pulls into your stop. @bookstodon

bourgwick, to nyc
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the recent crackdown on unlicensed 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 #GratefulDead & wall of sound in #SantaBarbara 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

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