Grateful Dead

Truth Beauty.
And from Patti Smith's excellent new memoir, "Bread of Angels" ;
"The unsullied memory of unpremeditated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels."

Hey rockers!!

From Camus to Rilke, such an interesting journey. Poetry is just the evidence of life, if your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash...........

Right now, listening to Duke Ellington while I work on autopsy reports.............

Rock on!!!

Doc
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.....

….we send happy happy joy joy to bday boy Billy de Lion ; )
4/11/88 Hot Sugaree?
Wait wha?…do what to that Lil girl with a 9 pound hammer, you bastard, next it’ll be Kenny FFS! ; )
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3/28/81 first
4/25/81 acoustic middle
4/30/81 last
Onward…

Bonus disc of the October 77 Road Trips, and it's more fun than a frog in a glass of milk. It's a beee-ute.

And btw:

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. That's what I heard, anyways.

This crossed my listening radar via a comment re this show earlier today. IWT - only other spring tour '88 show I saw after Hampton run (sold my mail order tickets to Rosemont - school and such but ouch). According to Charlie Miller one of the only circulating SBDs from the year without ambient mics - sounds pretty darn good. It has a To Lay Me Down, which they broke out night 2 in Hampton! Lots of other goodies too! Also features a Drummers' Birthday joke - it's in fact both Drummerz birthdays - and a Happy Birthday sing along before a Brokedown Palace encore. On that note - Happy Birthday Dennis!!

And a happy birthday to Dennis!
Or this could be one of those prankster stage announcements like a fake Billy birthday or an unmarried Bob's 5th wedding anniversary. I just have a note on my calendar from last year when I misinterpreted a post and got it wrong. So either way...
Cheers
Oh, and Dennis, did you see that Tony Rice Unit's classic Manzanita from 1979 is available for pre-order in root beer vinyl from RGM? It features Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Todd Phillips and some David Grisman cameos. I must pull the trigger on that one. It is calling me. It has a Little Sadie and a Nine Pound Hammer.

9/7/73
Bonus disc of 9/8/73

Desperately needs to be released officially
Please

Good morning fellow rockers!

Today's commute----Port Chester February 23 1971. Not exactly perfect but it'll do nicely. Unusual Uncle John's Band opener. Unusual mid first set Morning Dew. Nice China/Rider. Decent doses of Pigpen. Delightfully crunchy second set.

Very underrated and always worth a listen. Hey, TPTB, why not release this and include the "missing" parts of February 20 as filler................

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time......

Rock on!!!

Doc
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death......

....thank you for the reminder. One of my favorite Cumberlands.
Starts at the beginning. But the sparks really fly at the 4 : 20 mark.
Got hey nowed. Spaces people, spaces!
Take a step back.