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It was the first one I read and a fine place to get started.

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This is interesting. Apparently, you can blind preorder Dave’s Picks 56.
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I always enjoy it when Karina Rykman drops by for a visit.

Come and get ‘em!

Big day at the post office, picking up a package with three new moe. Instant Live CDs. 30 shows were released in total. Six were later mass produced. The other 24 are tough to find. These are three of the tough ones. With these CDs, I now have 17 of 30, with another one coming next week.

Rubio had to whisper the message because Donnie can’t read.

Grateful Dead Live at The Matrix on 1968-10-08 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive Clementine Jam, Clementine Jam>The Eleven Jam>Death Don't Have No Mercy, The Seven, Dark Star Jam>Cosmic Charlie Next Time You See Me Jam, Jam, The Other...

57 years ago, members of the Grateful Dead played the first of a number of intermittent shows without Bobby and Pigpen. Originally advertised as Jerry Garcia and Friends and later known as Mickey and the Hartbeats, it’s fun and loose but certainly missing something.
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Jerry’s opening guitar licks at the start of UJB from 12/26/79 are among my favorite. That Fall/NYE ‘79 run of shows is something special.

Summer 2024, I had 12 nights of music festival. This summer, had zero. It’s not me. All the festivals I liked either ended or were canceled. One canceled while people were in line to get in.

Comes a time when a blind man takes your hand and says, “Don’t you see?”

Man, that second leap is something!

For some reason, this resonates with me.

I listened to this show on Friday. It’s a good one!

Steve Kimock Band - 2/24/02 8150, Vail, CO Download nugs.net February 24, 2002, 8150, Vail, CO MP3 FLAC

Not the anniversary of this show, but I listened to it last night and it’s something special. Moon People gets pretty heavy and Five B4 Funk goes into some pretty interesting spaces. This lineup of Steve Kimock Band with Mitch Stein, Rodney Holmes, and Alphonso Johnson is my favorite.

Peak foliage in Craftsbury, Vermont

Getting close to peak foliage here in Craftsbury, Vermont. Foliage is early this year due to drought. If you’re planning to come second week in October like usual you’ll miss out!

I’d like to think I’d recognize it when I see it, but it will get harder as the tech improves. As a middle-school English teacher, I have to continually reinforce the idea with my students that using AI in their writing is unethical, even as I have colleagues who use it in their professional lives.

Sorry, I assumed that some band was making AI posters for sale.

Right? Who’s paying $70 for a foil print of AI slop? I mean, I’ll pass on a poster made by a real-life human because it’s just not my thing. Passing up AI slop should be an easy choice.

YouTube video by jerrybase Jerry and Merl - 1971-09-24 (late) Lion's Share, San Anselmo, CA

First-time listen for me. Jerry and Merle, and Billy and John and Tom Fogerty, 54 years ago today. It’s a nice soundboard and perfect for anyone with a half-hour commute.
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YouTube video by Elaine Oliveira Grateful Dead - 9/23/72 - Palace Theater - Waterbury, Connecticut - sbd

53 years ago, the Grateful Dead played an interesting second set, with a Baby Blue smack-dab in the middle of the second set and the final Cryptical for 13 years until its revival in 1985.
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Turkeys and bunny, living in harmony

Occasionally, I have to drive a vehicle that takes diesel fuel? Why are the diesel fuel handles so much more vile and disgusting than the regular one?

I like the name

"Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” -George Orwell

Snowball had a good thing going until Nader came in with his seatbelt bullshit.

Ohio Players: Pleasure, Pain and Ecstasy

You getting frost? We had a warning this week.

The neighbor abides