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  the auto-generated summaries on the transcription site i use have successfully graduated from merely annoying to actively terrorizing me. neil young isn't even mentioned in this interview. WTF?!

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  50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in los angeles at the shrine auditorium, their 1st LA gig since july ’74 & 1st at the shrine since ’68. fall ’76, show #12. 1st set is only on murky audience tape, 2nd set is soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd76-10-14.sbd.cotsman.12614.sbeok.shnf [1/3]

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  new bonus grateful deadcast this week! we celebrate the deluxe 10th anniversary reissue of bob weir's "blue mountain," maybe my fave post-dead project, with collaborators josh kaufman & josh ritter, plus @conrad, cowboy #folk history, & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bonus-bobby-weir-blue-mountain #gratefuldead #podcast #music

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  50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in los angeles, the last road gig of the ’76 comeback & the day the band signs to clive davis’s arista records. fall ’76, show #13, 2nd set filled with nice surprises. soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1976-10-15.sbd.miller.84260.sbeok.flac16 [1/3]

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  at cassette in ridgewood, joe westerlund & trever hagen billowing 4th/5th/6th/7th world jazz (& a few satellites beyond)

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  autumn jammer today at the industry city bandshell with wet tuna, chris forsyth's what is now, & the slopqy heads! moved the start time up to 3. https://industrycity.com/event/sloppy-heads-chris-forsyths-what-is-now-wet-tuna/ #nyc

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  lovely new "tangled up in blue" arrangement debuted by bob dylan tonight in oslo featuring, i believe, a handful of new lyrics (in addition to many previous revisions/additions) https://youtu.be/RKgFl8V9c0w

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  2 more sloppy heads shows this week, both at mama tried in #brooklyn: today, the annual BNS benefit, with james mcnew in a duo with mike mcginnis, & arturo o'farrill & band! and thursday, at the record release party for our good buddy ben copperhead's new zolephants album!

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  these should be absolutely banned from #nyc & any other town/city with sidewalks & pedestrians. another fromt in the war on cars. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117031243158587006

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  somehow not *not* a beach book: made a game of trying to spot the proto-heads among the communards in chris jennings' brilliant, oddly fun, & wonderfully written "paradise now," a history of 19th century american utopians & socialist forerunners. #books

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  the new killed by junk shop glam zine by @scottythered is stacked with weird music history & grotty fuzzy summer jams. maybe my fave discovery is the danish country pop single "boom boom" by mabel. much fun!

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  recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

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  3 very different & nearly equally surprising new books about the grateful dead & surrounding universe in the 1980s, a mini-thread... #books

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  transmitting from my headscape to yours via the frow show, 3 hours of new music & perfumed sounds from now 'til midnight on @WFMU. get in tune: https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260728 #music #radio

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  40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30+ dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

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  graffiti cover-up as shitty rothko. #nyc

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  safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

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  the digital church bells in our neighborhood are sounding especially lo-fi this morning. #nyc #brooklyn

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  i just realized it's possible to search the elvis setlist database by jumpsuit & that there were so many jumpsuits cataloged that they can't fit into 4 screenshots. bowing to the king freaks! https://www.elvisconcerts.com/concerts/dbsearch.php

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  evening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i

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  40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead open 2 shows in #sacramento at the very chill (& at this show, chilly) cal expo. spring ’86, show #20 soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-05-03.sbd.miller.81516.flac16 audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd86-05-03.beyer.cronk.9626.sbeok.shnf @gratefulseconds covers it: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2020/08/michael-and-juliet-go-to-sacramento-for.html [1/7]

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  holy wow, just realized my book "heads: a biography of psychedelic america" came out 10 years ago this week. available from da capo press through fine independent purveyors of paper, electronic, & audio books! what a baffling time-dilated trip it's been? https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/jesse-jarnow/heads/9780306921988/ #books #psychedelics

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  the good ol’ grateful deadcast is back! we open season 13 with part 1 of our bobby weir tribute, with lots of archival audio, teen letters to john perry barlow, water balloons, the mccoy tyner influence, firing tape & glorious redemption arc. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bobby-weir-part-1 #gratefulDead #podcast #music

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  surprise! i'm on @WFMU from now 'til 6pm ET, filling in for scott williams & feeding new music to live human brains! joiiiiiiin us. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260504 #music #radio

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  60 years ago today (maybe), the muir beach acid test, during which the grateful dead & owsley stanley encounter one another for the very first time & owsley promptly freaks out & drives his car into a ditch. muir beach photo from later in the '60s. (sometimes the palo alto acid test is placed on 12/11 & muir beach on 12/18, but rosie mcgee says she met phil lesh for the 1st time on 12/11 & attended palo alto the following week, which seems to settl...

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  satellite #radio heads: i'll be co-hosting tales from the golden road this afternoon with the eminent @dgans from 4-6pm ET on the grateful dead channel. rich mahan will be stopping by, too. #GratefulDead

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  PSA: there's a (paid benefit) livestream tonight by bill frisell + ron carter + vijay iyer, early & late sets. tickets were a bit pricey for me but will definitely be availing myself of one of these sets. #jazz https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/carter-frisell-iyer-apr10-2026

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  when i think about #research as being fun & rewarding & something that can't be automated, it's that 2 am giggle fit as much as it is finding the image itself, getting to the realization that a batshit anecdote was at least partially true (& requires even further research). https://heads.social/@bourgwick/116448956521354273

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  40 years ago tonight, the last full grateful dead gig at the berkeley community theater, though almost all the band members will return for other benefits. pretty boss 2nd set jam. spring ’86, show #19. soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-04-22.sbd.miller.34767.flac16 oade bros’ audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-04-22.140245.fob.schoeps.cmc4.mk41.oade.wise.miller.clugston.flac1644 [1/3]

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  60 years ago tonight, the grateful dead at a non-prankster trips festival knockoff at san francisco’s longshoreman’s hall, their 1st gig since returning from LA. 23 minutes worth from a nice-sounding owsley tape, tracks 4 & 5: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-XX.sbd.GEMS.81254.flac16 [1/2]