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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 10h

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in cupertino, about 6 months before the founding of apple. wonder if jobs & woz were there. audience tape (with 1st circulating version of a garcia/hunter classic), photos, review, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite

lush handdrawn poster for Jerry Garcia Band by Jake Pierre, featuring wizard/alchemist

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 10h

“Shrunken Elvis’s Nashville Dreams” is the grabbiest headline I’ve seen in a while; I couldn’t not click.

The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 10h

British-born pedal steel player Spencer Cullum discusses his move to Music City, the organic formation of ambient-adjacent trio Shrunken Elvis, and why staying true to his musical identity matters more than fitting the Nashville mold.

Pedal to the Pastoral — Shrunken Elvis's Nashville Dreams:

Pedal to the Pastoral — Shrunken Elvis's Nashville Dreams

British-born pedal steel player Spencer Cullum discusses his move to Music City, the organic formation of his experimental trio, and why staying true to your musical identity matters more than fitting the Nashville mold

www.thetonearm.com

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 10h

Did I mention we’re getting a nor’easter this weekend? Pretty aggressively do not want.

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 10h

tawdry scandals in the bullpens

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 12h

“Gaze deeply into my eyes, my beautiful…”

New York Times spelling bee puzzle. Today’s letters have been arranged to spell PUKELILY, which is either a good band name or a suitable term of endearment for some sort of scabrous relationship founded on undercurrents of bitter lust. I should write trashy novels, I think, sometimes

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 12h

Impressed by the Garcia sculpture, but I wanna see some town put up a 15-foot replica of Phil Lesh’s Osiris bass.

Visit Gallup @visitgallup.bsky.social · 6d

We the People park main outdoor sculptures: "We the People" is a 110 foot semi-circular wall of figures inspired by the community, the guitar sculpture is a 7' tribute to Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead & the "Pulling Pay Dirt" sculpture is an homage to Gallup's mining history.

#VisitGallup #art

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14h

I remember taping this one off the radio, many years ago, when one did such things.
This promo video is pretty laughable:

The Moody Blues - "Tuesday Afternoon" (Official Video)

YouTube video by The Moody Blues

www.youtube.com

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14h

had friends in HS who had every Moodies album (save perhaps for the very first from 1964 or whenever.) Never got into their trip myself, but they did quite well for themselves.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 16h

yeah, there's no line like "the captain pulled up in his Gremlin" or anything.
I just thought the story was pretty well-publicized. But, maybe some people don't know.

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 16h

"Many who hear the song, with its opening invocation of Chippewa legend, assume it’s about a 19th-century shipwreck, or perhaps a fictional one."

do they, now?

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

just gonna assume the script for the Dennis Wilson biopic is on Dando's desk as we speak

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

front cover of album cover that is clearly from the 1950s. It shows a bunch of thirtyish guys n' gals having a swinging time wearing party hats and blowing hooters in a room decorated for a party. The album title: Riot In The Rumpus Room, by "Cliff Steward and his boys"

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

let @archive.org provide the soundtrack to your weekend get-togethers:

Riot In The Rumpus Room : Cliff Steward And His Boro Lounge Boys : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Tracklist: 1. Red Head 2. She Lived Next Door To A Firehouse 3. Lovey Came Back (With 14 Kids And A Cadillac) 4. Don't Put A Tax On The Beautiful Girls ...

archive.org

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 18h

"I'm not gonna pay a lot for these gables!"

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 18h

why, that's practically Buy 3 1/2 Gables, Get 3 1/2 Gables Free

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 18h

a sandwich made at certain times of year, consisting of a thick slab of tomato and a thick slab of vidalia onion. Sometimes with a little olive oil, sometimes not.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 20h

This wasn't even the NLCS -- just one of the seven freakin' rounds of playoffs or whatever we have now -- so yeah, I imagine a fair number of people will forget about it.
But, yay hyperbole!

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

From @TheAthletic: Orion Kerkering is only the second player in Major League Baseball history to commit an error that ended a postseason series. No one will ever forget where Kerkering threw the ball, no matter how hard some might try. nyti.ms/48owLkr

Orion Kerkering sits devastated in the dugout after the Phillies were eliminated. A quote from Phillies manager Rob Thomson over it: “I feel for him because he’s putting it all on his shoulders.”

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 20h

Hello there, ladies and gentlemen! Are you ready to rock?

Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 20h

50 years ago tonight, on Friday, Oct. 10, 1975, a "great Top 40 show group" played at Les and Jim's Lincoln Lanes in Merrill in north-central Wisconsin. That group was Cheap Trick, just getting started with Robin Zander as lead singer. This was a year and a half before their first LP came out.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 21h

"Their monument sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat."

- Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead"

Boston Archives and Records @archives.boston.gov · 21h

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, was born #onthisday in 1837!

Image: Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial from "Exercises at the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry", 1897.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 22h

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 22h

I guess Gumby was willing to take the $750.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 23h

everybody raves about SNL's musical history but they got some pretty chintzy performers in the early days

Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 23h

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 23h

#OTD in 1992, yr boy the college student sees Robert Cray at the Orpheum in Boston. Good show.

ticket stub in familiar style, done up in early '90s light purple and mint green. Ticket admits one (1) bearer to the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, to see the Robert Cray Band on Saturday night, October 10, 1992.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 23h

Snider missed Warren Spahn in San Francisco by a year, too.

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1d

dude can breathe easy: the title of “most publicized sports boner of 2025” belongs firmly to Travis Kelce.

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