Grateful Dead

....drone shots are cool.

Such an amazing set of shows! > Basically required listening
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I think just about everyone, everywhere, should own a copy.

; )

5/3/72
Yummy!!!

I tried to show these in my avatar in a previous post but they were unreadable. Here are the dates for the tour.

2026 Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Acoustic Reckoning Tour
THU APR 9
Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
FRI APR 10
Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
SAT APR 11
Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
FRI APR 17
Oakland, CA at Fox Theater
SAT APR 18
Oakland, CA at Fox Theater
THU APR 23
New Orleans, LA at Saenger Theatre
JUL 24 - 26
Newport Folk Festival*

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings doing a 45th anniversary Reckoning tour. Haven't seen the schedule. I'll bet that will be good!
Cheers
Edit - I thought someone had already posted this but I didn't find it. Thanks Colin

China Cat Sunflower / Doin’ That Rag (Family Dog At The Great Highway, San Francisco, 30 August 1969) Thanks to 30 Days 2025!

So weirdly wobbly wonderfully weepingly sublime.

Hey, poetry rockers!!!

I always struggle reading Stopping By Woods to my girlfriend. I'm usually a crying puddle of goo by the end. And LOL it's not a long poem. Short and strong. Serves me right for being a sensitive 70 year old. Not exactly sure what it means, but powerful stuff just the same..........

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity....

Think I'll go write a poem,

Doc
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.....

there once was a pirate named Bates
who did the fandango on skates
he fell on his cutlass
which rendered him nutless
and practically useless on dates

Robert Frost always makes me think of 5th grade, when the teacher made us memorize a poem and recite it in front of the class. What a different world it was. As kids, we were often tasked with memorizing state capitals, times tables, all sorts of things that would be considered pointless and in fact downright cruel in this age where such information is always just a tap on the smartphone away. I didn't like it much at the time, but now I'm kind of glad we had to do all that memorizing. Mental calisthenics, if nothing else. And I despite all the many things I have learned and forgotten since 5th grade, I can still remember every line of Stopping By Woods.

Listening to Miles at the Plunged Nickel at the moment. They reissued this one, which is now available as a budget box set, got the whole shebang for $60. Packaging is beyond cheapo, a flimsy paper box that's going to fall apart almost immediately, but the music is amazing. You all know about this one, no need to go on about the Miles-Herbie-Wayne-Ron Carter-Tony Williams group. Wonderful to just put in a disc and just drift and meditate along with them.

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Yes, many shows in common, mostly in New England. LOL I was the guy shouting for Dark Star, Alligator, and Viola Lee Blues. I think they did all three of those while I ran to the bathroom......

Then you relocated to the left coast................

Seek not in me the bit I capital,
Not yet the little dotted in me seek.
If I have in me any I at all,
'Tis the iota subscript of the Greek.

So small an I as an attention beggar.
The letter you will find me subscript to
Is neither alpha, eta, nor omega,
But upsilon which is the Greek for you.

Rock it!!

Doc
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.....