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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 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.

mrcompletely, to random
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shoutout only to the repeating L sound in "down in Carlisle he loved a lady"

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely probably also related to "the lady of carlisle" https://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-LadyCarlisle.html

bourgwick, to BayArea
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- had i been buying LPs in 1967 & only had debut albums to go by, there's a very good chance that country joe & the fish might've been my favorite band, at least at first. way sharper, weirder, & more outwardly than the first albums by the dead, airplane, quicksilver, etc. (though "surrealistic pillow" came out before it). should probably revisit their earlier EPs. @vinylrecords @Corry342

bourgwick, to random
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"ohio" returned to neil young's setlist yesterday at (the solo electric heavy af version), presumably because it was the anniversary of when government representatives slaughtered peaceful protestors (& bystanders) at , but really hope he keeps playing it this tour. seems... topical. https://sugarmtn.org/sm_show.php?show=202405040

bourgwick, to brooklyn
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sumptuous eyeball kicks & exploding colors in smoke signal #42, new issue of the splendorous oversized newsprint #comix anthology from #brooklyn's desert island #comics. free in #nyc or order via domino: https://dominobooks.org/smokesignal42.html

comic about alternate reality Beatles
centerfold of Smoke Signal, collaboration between artists
Characters stuck on strange boat, arguing

bourgwick, to jazz
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- don & moki cherry & the organic music theatre, france, late august '72. the height of the cherrys' is-this-even- commune vibes in the middle of a giant straight jazz festival featuring mingus, blakey, etc. kids on stage, puppet shows, lots of chants & singalongs & percussion (including nana vasconcelos), some light . from the(?) period when cherry didn't play any at all. https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/organic-music-theatre-festival-de-jazz-de-chateauvallon-1972 @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- may the q be with you. @vinylrecords

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely i've only really clicked with them in the past 10 years maybe. i remember seeing their name in a few jam trend pieces in the early '90s, but (now that i've vibed with it some) i'm actually amazed that they're not remotely part of the jammy canon even though people like gary lambert & @Corry342 (hi, hello!) were way into them (& gary even managed them for a bit later on). seems so adjacent, almost literally, to the non-nyc jam scenes of the '80s. maybe terry's anti taping stance?

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @Corry342 there's such a fun lightness to it that puts it on a different family tree than so much other rock in that era. hadn't thought about the retro aspect but maybe they got lumped somewhat into the cracks of the long '60s tail, closer to the band/bobby charles/post-folk-rock circuit?

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @mmahaffie @Corry342 yeah, i guess basically they just fall on the roots side of the rootsy/jammy line. funny that they pulled in so many other kinds of heads as hardcores. besides the others mentioned, the 3 people i know most committed to nrbq (besides g. lambert) are the members of yo la tengo.

bourgwick, to nyc
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getting ready to vibrate at this evening's #psychedelic sangha at judson church in #nyc. ooze on through! https://withfriends.co/event/17803335/blotter_bath/default

faux stained glass windows with Octavia Butler, bell hooks, James Baldwin. and more
Bubba in the light zone
keyboard overlooking venue floor

bourgwick,
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had an amazing time at our local sphere last eve, totally get the hype! soul-rattling drone thunder by isaiah from earthless, 2 formed/formless sets by garcia peoples (with sub drummer), drifting vibraphone, balcony synth by kendraplex, invocation by erik davis, film by arik roper, the return of bubba's lights, etc. also, a spontaneous opening prayer, when a woman named river harmonized to the field recording i was playing of san francisco fog horns. (#psychedelic sangha at judson church, #nyc.)

Laptop, band, light show
Heads sprawl out while Garcia Peoples jam

bourgwick,
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and i brought my califone turntable & environmental LPs out for a stroll, too. thanks for capturing, @RecordCratesUnited. https://ieji.de/@RecordCratesUnited/112383710366916160 @vinylrecords #psychedelic #nyc

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@bourgwick @FateMusic @mrcompletely @dminches

This seems like the outcome here:

  • Jerrybase is NOT introducing any new "song" to represent the D/S section of the show.

  • @InstituteJerry thinks the way that section of the show is not coded correctly since variations are often not listed. But no one liked this suggested solution, so he is going to roll up a wooler and get over it.

Thanks for your input on the subject. :stealie:

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @InstituteJerry @FateMusic @dminches in the long term, i definitely support more precision/granularity rather than less. i'll start with 2 spaceless exceptions that could be updated: 7/28/82 goes right from drumz into the spanish jam, 8/29/82 goes right from drumz into not fade away.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @InstituteJerry @FateMusic @dminches checking my listening notes, '81 shows with no space, it happened a lot! - 2/26, 3/3, 3/14, 3/23, 3/28, 5/4, 5/6, 5/22, 7/13, 8/15, 9/12, 9/26

bourgwick,
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@InstituteJerry @mrcompletely @FateMusic @dminches my impression is that hart plays at points during the vast majority of space segments in the early '80s, usually hanging for a bit after garcia returns.

bourgwick,
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@InstituteJerry @mrcompletely @FateMusic @dminches from a data point of view, complicated/annoying af. but from a musical perspective, way fascinating (to me, anyway!) & exactly why i'm going through tape by tape. might take a bit, but it'll get there!

FateMusic, to random
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OK Heads, here is a question for you.
https://jerrybase.com/events/19721227-01 the first image --> Does that look like David Grisman sitting right at the bottom of the pic? I really and truly think it does. @bourgwick and anyone else - thoughts? (photo credit: Dave Tamarkin)

bourgwick,
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@FateMusic @Corry342 i thought that was just a name he used on records, did he actually introduce himself with it, have it on his license & use it in day to day life, etc.? not that you apparently needed a last name or ID to be on the lion's share guest list.

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