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Historic Dead

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Over at dead.net the folks have started a new weekly feature. Well, new to me, as it kicked off in the last week of November 06:

In this space, every Monday, you will find information on the recorded history of the Grateful Dead’s music as it pertains to that week, specifically focusing on the shows for that week, through the band’s 30 year performing history, that reside in the Grateful Dead’s storied tape vault. Although not everything is in there, with more than 1,600 of the band’s 2,400-odd shows represented, there is plenty about which to talk. Check back weekly for new entries and insight into the vault, as well as exclusive audio clips relating to that week in the Grateful Dead’s recorded history.

The audio clips are all MP3 which may bother purists but, hey, in addition to stuff from previously released material there is plenty of unreleased vault stuff that many of us have never heard before.

My lunchtime choice today Dark Star>China Cat Sunflower>The Eleven>Caution (MP3 46.05MB) from 2/22/68 at Kings Beach Bowl.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs…

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Greybeards and newbies alike will appreciate the music on Saturday, February 3, when David Gans hosts the annual KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon from 10 am to 1 am Pacific time:

KPFA webcasts all the time, and so does our simulcast station KFCF. For the Marathon, we’ll also be carried by nugs.net for maximum global bandwidth.
Live music by The Waybacks (at around 4pm pst); other surprise guests may appear.
Music will include some classic unreleased live Grateful Dead (natch!); an April 1986 performance by Kingfish with Bob Weir; Bob Weir and Ratdog from the fall of 2006 (which we’ll be offering as a premium for those who contribute to the station); musical highlights and interviews from the American Beauty Project, a tribute concert that took place in New York January 20 and 21; and various other rarities, interviews, etc.
We’ll have a chat room, hosted by Marc Evans.
Many parties have contributed gifts for those who pledge support for KPFA, the nation’s first listener-sponsored radio station. Featured premium will be Grateful Dead Live at the Cow Palace, New Year’s Eve 1976, just released by Rhino Records.

For those who want even more: archives of Gans’ weekly Dead to the World radio show are now available.

The other day…

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The other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded,

On the rail at the Greek…

Solemnly they stated, “He has to die, you know he has to die.”

It was one of those moments so many have had…

All the children learnin’, from books that they were burnin’,

Eye contact with Garcia from 20 feet away…

Every leaf was turnin’, to watch him die, you know he had to die.

You knew what was coming…

The summer sun looked down on him,

Yet it was always new…

His mother could but frown on him,

I remember it as if it happened, well, is still happening…

And all the other sound on him,

Anything and everything is possible….

He had to die, you know he had to die.

Rest In Peace: Jerry Garcia

On The Road

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My well-thumbed Signet edition of Kerouac’s On the Road will probably fall apart when next read and it is close to time to re-read this dazzling burst of adrenaline that fired so many, many years ago.
T’m going to wait until next year to read this story again and I’ll leave the old Signet edition on the shelf. Instead I’m going to buy the unedited scroll version that will be released next year!

…Kerouac wrote his breakthrough novel “On the Road” in a three-week frenzy of creativity in spring 1951, typing the story without paragraphs or page breaks onto a 119-foot scroll of nearly translucent paper.
n fact, the Lowell native revised the book many times before it was published six years later, and while the scroll came to symbolize the spontaneity of the Beat Generation, the early, unedited version of the novel never reached the public.
Now, in time to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the novel’s publication, the version of “On the Road” that Kerouac wrote on the scroll will be published next year in book form for the first time, said John Sampas of Lowell, the executor of the writer’s literary estate and the brother of his third wife, Stella. It will include some sections that had been cut from the novel because of references to sex or drugs.
The scroll contains numerous passages that were edited out of the book and uses the original names of characters who were closely modeled on friends of Kerouac, including fellow writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

This is a must read for anyone who participated in or is interested in the culture that spawned the Beat Generation, the sixties, great music and much, much more.
Hey, Cassidy will be at the wheel!

Via Bookslut.