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Bad News for Deadheads

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In a nutshell, the pioneers of music trading appear to have joined the dinosaurs of the recording industry. Read and weep (there were 2300 shows here yesterday).
I’ve downloaded only a few complete GD shows from the Archive, streamed quite a few more, bought many commercial releases over the years including the just shipping 1969 Box Set (why hasn’t it arrived yet) and never, ever traded one of the Dead’s commercial releases. And still won’t. But I also will not be adding any new commercial releases to my collection for a while, if ever again…hell, I don’t even get close to cycling through my collection once every 5 years.
The music is theirs to control however they want. However, if they want to change the culture I can damn well change my buying habits.
Update: David Gans has some thoughts to share.

Friday Night Music

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Well, this is cool!
Mrs Modulator ran across a live audio/video stream of Dark Star Orchestra playing tongiht at the McDonald Theater in Eugene. We joined in at halftime and it appears that tonight’s show is 6-4-76 from the Paramount Theater, Portland, OR. which I had the pleasure of attending live!
They are doing Samson & Delilah right now and will shortly perform the last Cosmic Charlie.
Update: 10/15 00:40 AM PDT Well! That put some bounce into what had been a sleepy Friday night. It was clear the live crowd was having a dancing good time and they and we were pleased to get an extra encore of St Stephen->Attics of My Life that was not part of the original performance:

In the book of love’s own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me

NB: Grateful Web will make this show available as a download on Sunday.

RIP Jerry Garcia 8.1.42-8.9.95

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It all rolls into one
and nothing comes for free
There’s nothing you can hold
for very long
And when you hear that song
come crying like the wind
it seems like all this life
was just a dream
Stella Blue
Stella Blue, Lyrics by Robert Hunter

Also see Scott and John.
It’s great to see the NYT note this day but for a much clearer view of Garcia, the band and their music Phil Lesh’s recent book Searching for the Sound is well worth the time to read.
Update – Today’s Music: The Jerry Garcia Band, Kean College, February 28, 1980

Update 2: David Gans has more links and The Days Between which includes some words from Robert Hunter.

Not Just Your Ordinary Boxed Set

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Via Scott I just found out that my favorite band has a little 40th Anniversary treat headed our way this summer.
Niftily wrapped up on 55 discs:

The Tour: European Dead, 1972
650 Tracks
75 Songs
22 Concerts
11 Dark Stars
8 Jam Sessions
6 Soundchecks
1 Midnight Mediterranean Beach Party
AND�
Plenty�O�Bus Music (Bolo or Bozo? You decide!)

It will, you know, take more than one sitting to get through it all.