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bourgwick

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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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40 years ago tonight, the in , a thursday night party. spring ’84, show . soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-26.sbd.miller.91432.sbeok.flac16 [1/6]

bourgwick, to random
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up today, the good ol’ -cast gets into “unbroken chain” & it’s 2-hour a symphonic blowout! we explore the multi-tracks & get deep into the life of poet/lyricist bobby petersen, who wrote 1 song with phil lesh in the ‘60s, 2 in the ‘70s, & 1 in the ‘80s. in addition to many other heady guests: a visit from animal collective's avey tare, on sampling "unbroken chain" a few years back. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-unbroken-chain /1

bourgwick, to jazz
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- @SunRaUniverse at montreux, july '76. coincidentally, almost exactly concurrent with the previous don cherry session. but, maybe not coincidentally, also near the end of the arkestra's furthest-out period, before they headed for more inside orbits. not inside yet, though. sprawling full-spectrum 20+ member 2-drummer ensemble arrangements blowing apart & back again, led by sunny's powerful (& wonderfully recorded) & noisy starstuff . @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to RadioControl
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- the last (known) session of don cherry's organic music ensemble period before cherry returned to the states, toured with lou reed, & returned to slightly more inside/outside sounds. recorded in italy, summer '76, with an om-ing/droning quartet featuring genius brazilian percussionist nana vasconcelos, guitarist gian piero pramaggiore, & moki cherry on tanpura. https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/om-shanti-om @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to random
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40 years ago tonight, the ’s final show at the coliseum, an east coast home since ’77. scheduled to play there again in fall ’86, but canceled with the rest of the tour. spring ’84, show . soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-24.sbd.walker-scotton.miller.105854.flac16 [1/3]

bourgwick, to music
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immersive sonic magick with a flowing 1-hour set by setting on last night's frow show, like an appalachian version of the necks (as someone else put it), plus many other strains of wonderment, via the @WFMU archive. https://bit.ly/3Qg5Mxu

Room full of gear, including keyboards, drums, harmonium
harmonium and synth set up
keyboard with cassette deck on top

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @WFMU very much same! and this set is already into the next phase from the album zones (& even the bandcamp live set) with new instruments/voices in the mix. sounds like they're committed, lots planned.

bourgwick, to bookstodon
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yes, please: forthcoming from the brilliant weirdo songwriter & surrealist storyteller robyn hitchcock. excited for his take on the syd-era scene. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/1967-how-i-got-there-and-why-i-never-left/ @bookstodon

bourgwick, to random
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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their last shows in new haven. spring ’84, show #14. soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-23.sbd.walker-scotton.miller.32536.sbeok.flac16 [1/3]

bourgwick,
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4/23/84 new haven: 1st set is barely 45 minutes. 14-minute SUGAREE glows in places. weir watch: slide guitar & whammy bar supplanted this set (& this tour, mostly) by harmonizing pedal, a vast improvement! no blues/C&W tunes helps, too. 88-minute LOST SAILOR > SAINT OF CIRCUMSTANCE > UNCLE JOHN’S BAND > ONLY A FOOL > DRUMZ > SPACE > SPANISH JAM > TRUCKIN’ > BLACK PETER > AROUND & AROUND > GOOD LOVIN’ is rough around the edges but has fascinating turns. [2/3]

screenshots of memories from Internet Archive & elsewhere
screenshots of memories from Internet Archive & elsewhere
screenshots of memories from Internet Archive & elsewhere

bourgwick,
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garcia unspools SAINT OF CIRCUMSTANCE into UNCLE JOHN’S & keeps at UNCLE JOHN’S with long middle & exploratory coda. after garcia/weir/lesh split, mydland & drummers debut ONLY A FOOL (pissing lesh off, per scene report), its only performance. oddly, more appealing to me than DON’T NEED LOVE (almost Band-like keys groove?). satisfying extended SPACE wilding, garcialogue matched by stereo weir/keys & chaos-retaining SPANISH JAM with sweet soaring garcia tone. [3/3]

Mickey and Billy in a drum duel at New Haven. Photo by Mark Currie.
screenshots of memories from Internet Archive & elsewhere
screenshots of memories from Internet Archive & elsewhere

bourgwick,
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@tor_haxson this is definitely peak jerry/phil/weir-leave-and-brent-sings, which i don't think is what happened later.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @tor_haxson yeah, the garcia/mydland bromance definitely hasn't kicked in yet, at least in any audible way, almost the opposite with garcia's early exits.

bourgwick, to random
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tired: being annoyed when people refer to vinyl as "vinyls"
wired: being annoyed when people refer to the sun ra arkestra as "sun ra"

bourgwick, to random
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unless i'm missing something, it's somehow still not possible to actually check the alt-text in @ivory? (yeah, yeah, it's still on the multi-year "road map" several years into the project.) kind of a drag. besides accessibility, adding additional info in the alt-text has become a norm, ala @nedraggett's great review of last night's matmos show that i just boosted, which i had to switch to a different app to read.

bourgwick,
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@ivory still missing something! at left is what a post looks like. at right is what happens when i single tap the image. please advise on specifically where i'm supposed to click to toggle.

what happens when I single tap

bourgwick,
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@ivory when i do that it just gets smaller & retracts back to the version on the left.

bourgwick,
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@ivory and yet that is exactly what happens i tap. definitely not doing anything resembling swiping.

bourgwick, to philadelphia
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40 years ago tonight, the conclude 3 shows at the civic center. spring ’84, show . soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-21.137247.sbd.miller.flac1648 [1/6]

bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- staying uplifted with this very sweet 2021 album by jonathan richman with his former modern lovers bandmate jerry harrison, among others. https://jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/album/want-to-visit-my-inner-house @vinylrecords

bourgwick, to Metal
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#NowReading - adored every damn page of steve waksman's "this ain't the summer of love," broadly about the unceasing #metal / #punk / #underground collision, but beautifully granular, connecting micro-scenes to #musicology. it equally brought alive conversations i know about in detail (punk), ones i don't (metal), & made me thirsty to read more #zines, listen to more #music, etc.. combined with his masterful "live music in america," i now wanna read everything waksman has written. @bookstodon

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely if you're in the mood for a deep music history book, this one might be for you!

bourgwick, to Banjo
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50 years ago tonight, david grisman & richard greene’s great american string band in los angeles, feat. on & taj mahal on bass, the 1st real glimpse of the & hot fusion grisman was chasing. an outdoor afternoon show with doc watson at the pilgrimage theatre, now the john anson ford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcbAMgLNpx0 [1/3]

bourgwick,
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4/20/74 pilgrimage theatre: a step up in complexity, but less chemistry & tightness as old & in the way (or later grisman bands), which is weirdly unsettling at first. garcia mostly hangs back, not a lot of soloing. debuts of grisman’s DAWG’S BULL & show-stopping DAWG’S RAG, hot including SWEET GEORGIA BROWN & django reinhardt’s SWING ’42, guitarist david nichtern’s MY PLASTIC BANANA IS NOT STUPID & I’LL BE A GAMBLER IF YOU DEAL THE CARDS. [2/3]

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Richard Greene on fiddle
Taj Mahal on bass

bourgwick,
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set unfolds into hootenanny mode. maria muldaur (grisman’s former bandmate in the even dozen jug band) duets with taj mahal on ROLL IN MY SWEET BABY’S ARMS, SWEET GEORGIA BROWN, & WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN & sings MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS, her new swing/exotica/pop hit written by nichtern. the los angeles times reviews it. [3/3]

David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, and Maria Muldaur share microphone
Maria Muldaur sings
Informality Reigns at Doc Watson Concert, review in Los Angeles Times

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely the "all of the afternoon's performers" reference in the review is making me wonder if there's another finale wirh doc?! he certainly doesn't get any spotlight or mention in "circle"

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