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Bonnie Dobson was living in Toronto in 1967 when Bill Graham brought the Dead & Jefferson Airplane to town for a series of shows. Dobson attended one of the shows, and was urged to go meet the band backstage, but for whatever reason did not.

I have seen fall into 2 major categories. Serious music fans with love and knowledge, who just want to share. I like these fans.
On the other side of the ledger, we have unimaginably selfish, self centered spoiled little arrogant brats, who only care about themselves. These are the folks who can talk (loudly) through an entire 2 3/4 hour show. Move into a space you arrived an hour early to secure, or simply stand and block your entire view of the stage. These folks seem to outnumber the kind folks. A bit like society I guess. This might be the first year of them touring since ‘96 that I don’t see at least one show, though I would still like to see one, if possible.
I am beyond ready for my next 4-disc serving of ‘72 Dead!! Please, please, please, bring it on!!

Music is the Best!!

By Bonnie Dobson(she wrote the tune) and Robert Plant; plus some unknown(to me) guitar picker delivering a fine psychedelic solo.
Catch it on everybody's favorite internet streaming service.

Good luck to the GKs. Don’t be mad at me, but I wouldn’t mind seeing the Kraken take at least one game. Preferably at home.

I posted about a year ago regarding the therapeutic properties of psychedelic mushrooms. John’s Hopkins has been running research studies with addicts for a few years. Glad to see Nevada is on board.

My daughter works security at Seattle Center

She didnt have kind things to say about the Phans

Lots of griping about "specialty balloons" and general ickiness.

....decriminalizing magic mushrooms for therapeutic studies 4-1.
Nice. Not all news is bad.

For 7 bucks?
Deal!

That's a wild live album. I started dipping into Sun Ra when I saw them supporting the MC5 about 20 years ago. At the end of the concert both bands took the stage together for a mind pummeling jam - a joyful noise indeed !
Although Sun Ra himself has long since slipped this mortal coil, they are still amazing live - led by one Marshall Allen who is in his late 90's. I always tried to catch them when they came to London, and always came away a bit taller than when I went in. Many, many great albums - but I would single "Jazz In Silhouette", from the mid 50's as one that stands out. A more recent release - "Babylon Live", from 21/5/2014 is also worth checking out.

Fish heads are some tuned in folks.

I've read where they start song A, not finish it, weeks later finish it out of nowhere,,,, and the crowd knows!

....I learned long ago, it's not how a song starts regarding playing live, but how it ends.
Applicable to jam bands for sure.
Prime example, and apologies if I keep bringing them up, but Phish opened the second set last night with A Wave Of Hope. Always meh to me, but eight minutes in they shifted gears, and I didn't know where I was anymore. And I was sober.
It's on the toob.