jesse jarnow
@bourgwick.bsky.social
good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
some albums really just require nag champa. which, thankfully, i have.
February 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
some albums really just require nag champa. which, thankfully, i have.
wearing my boots that served at coventry, i braved brooklyn bowl & got in tune with @taperschoice.bsky.social. the live debut of "song hat," a bunch of "whoa dude" peaks/pockets/turns, nearly as many "eleanor rigby" quotes, & '90s jam receptors generally activated. taperschoice.net/setlists/tap...
February 1, 2026 at 5:08 AM
wearing my boots that served at coventry, i braved brooklyn bowl & got in tune with @taperschoice.bsky.social. the live debut of "song hat," a bunch of "whoa dude" peaks/pockets/turns, nearly as many "eleanor rigby" quotes, & '90s jam receptors generally activated. taperschoice.net/setlists/tap...
omg, @sartorialpsychic.bsky.social of the deadhead style archive not only found someone with an original keith haring grateful dead shirt from '77 but turned up another piece of keith haring dead art & the story behind it. (more at the link & also in "heads"!) www.instagram.com/p/DUHjArljC9_
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
omg, @sartorialpsychic.bsky.social of the deadhead style archive not only found someone with an original keith haring grateful dead shirt from '77 but turned up another piece of keith haring dead art & the story behind it. (more at the link & also in "heads"!) www.instagram.com/p/DUHjArljC9_
60 years ago tonight (maybe), 14 minutes of early grateful dead at the matrix from a badly dated owsley reel, just before the band follows the merry pranksters to LA. management pulls plug on the band, largely at lesh's instigation. tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 AM
60 years ago tonight (maybe), 14 minutes of early grateful dead at the matrix from a badly dated owsley reel, just before the band follows the merry pranksters to LA. management pulls plug on the band, largely at lesh's instigation. tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, the 3rd show with the godchauxs & a few more songs disappearing. tapes, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
January 29, 2026 at 6:37 AM
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, the 3rd show with the godchauxs & a few more songs disappearing. tapes, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, the 2nd show & 1st (live) tape with the new keith & donna godchaux lineup. a nice soundboard, with a bunch of songs appearing for the 1st time. tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
January 28, 2026 at 2:39 AM
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, the 2nd show & 1st (live) tape with the new keith & donna godchaux lineup. a nice soundboard, with a bunch of songs appearing for the 1st time. tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @andybeta.bsky.social's epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even deeper inside the music. heady important history.
January 26, 2026 at 2:27 AM
spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @andybeta.bsky.social's epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even deeper inside the music. heady important history.
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band rehearse with their 7th keyboardist in 5 months (including 2 auditions earlier in the week) & he’s juuuuust right, the dead’s own keith godchaux, with donna jean natch. tape with fun curiosities: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
January 25, 2026 at 11:28 PM
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band rehearse with their 7th keyboardist in 5 months (including 2 auditions earlier in the week) & he’s juuuuust right, the dead’s own keith godchaux, with donna jean natch. tape with fun curiosities: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
thawing out at a packed union pool for @modernnature.bsky.social's cracking tour closer, moonlit UK motorik & calm-on-the-outside unison vocals & post-whatever jangle, all doing double duty backing the luminous brigid dawson as the mothers network.
January 25, 2026 at 4:23 AM
thawing out at a packed union pool for @modernnature.bsky.social's cracking tour closer, moonlit UK motorik & calm-on-the-outside unison vocals & post-whatever jangle, all doing double duty backing the luminous brigid dawson as the mothers network.
the berries went hard. the b-side was "swingin' on a scab"
January 23, 2026 at 2:52 PM
the berries went hard. the b-side was "swingin' on a scab"
just call me sam cutler! it definitely got more dramatic/ripping in the 2-drummer sense in late '77/early '78.
January 21, 2026 at 6:37 PM
just call me sam cutler! it definitely got more dramatic/ripping in the 2-drummer sense in late '77/early '78.
weird, i get the full thing on multiple devices, though it really might be a case of being on a slightly older browser. (keeps going after these screenshots...)
January 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
weird, i get the full thing on multiple devices, though it really might be a case of being on a slightly older browser. (keeps going after these screenshots...)
calming the waters with francis bebey, in aglow classical guitar mode. (never thought i'd cross paths with an original bebey LP but that's what the @wfmu.bsky.social record fair is for. it could happen to you!)
January 19, 2026 at 4:30 AM
calming the waters with francis bebey, in aglow classical guitar mode. (never thought i'd cross paths with an original bebey LP but that's what the @wfmu.bsky.social record fair is for. it could happen to you!)
vivid percussion dreams & off-world jazz by joe westerlund. joewesterlund.bandcamp.com/album/curios...
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 AM
vivid percussion dreams & off-world jazz by joe westerlund. joewesterlund.bandcamp.com/album/curios...
with love to the late ralph towner. enjoying a peaceful uneasy sunday with his first sublime acoustic/electric duo album with john abercrombie from 1976, a cornerstone @stevesilberman.bsky.social fave. not at all like fripp/eno but i also sometimes can hear it as a jazz adjacent place to them.
January 19, 2026 at 12:40 AM
with love to the late ralph towner. enjoying a peaceful uneasy sunday with his first sublime acoustic/electric duo album with john abercrombie from 1976, a cornerstone @stevesilberman.bsky.social fave. not at all like fripp/eno but i also sometimes can hear it as a jazz adjacent place to them.
when i boosted this on mastodon, one of aadam's old friends chimed in, who later became the art director for matador for many years.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
when i boosted this on mastodon, one of aadam's old friends chimed in, who later became the art director for matador for many years.
bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/
January 18, 2026 at 1:46 AM
bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/
dylan posted a super cryptic bit of text to his instagram, purporting to be by a character from a forthcoming sci fi novel, though more questions than answers tbh. www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/
January 18, 2026 at 1:35 AM
dylan posted a super cryptic bit of text to his instagram, purporting to be by a character from a forthcoming sci fi novel, though more questions than answers tbh. www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/
acid tests forensics update: an eagle-eyed head noticed that the merry pranksters' full film includes 45 seconds of silent footage of the velvet underground (!), likely shot at the exploding plastic inevitable in LA or san francisco, may 1966. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL2V... bsky.app/profile/dead...
January 17, 2026 at 9:58 PM
acid tests forensics update: an eagle-eyed head noticed that the merry pranksters' full film includes 45 seconds of silent footage of the velvet underground (!), likely shot at the exploding plastic inevitable in LA or san francisco, may 1966. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL2V... bsky.app/profile/dead...
added a new hampton grease band date, a new-to-me 1971 music fest in florida, dusserah, also featuring a band called dark star. the ashes of moby grape & iron butterfly didn't show. one site says the amboy dukes, tom petty's mudcrutch, & lynyrd skynyrd played, too. jessejarnow.com/2020/05/hamp...
January 17, 2026 at 9:41 PM
added a new hampton grease band date, a new-to-me 1971 music fest in florida, dusserah, also featuring a band called dark star. the ashes of moby grape & iron butterfly didn't show. one site says the amboy dukes, tom petty's mudcrutch, & lynyrd skynyrd played, too. jessejarnow.com/2020/05/hamp...
i compiled my tape-by-tape grateful dead listening notes for 1985 & have now covered every dead tape, 1965-1985. jessejarnow.com/2025/12/dead... #deadfreaksunite
January 17, 2026 at 9:30 PM
i compiled my tape-by-tape grateful dead listening notes for 1985 & have now covered every dead tape, 1965-1985. jessejarnow.com/2025/12/dead... #deadfreaksunite
record changer, september 1946.
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
record changer, september 1946.
an alternate universe in which esp-disk' signs the 13th floor elevators & pre-big brother janis joplin in early '66.
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
an alternate universe in which esp-disk' signs the 13th floor elevators & pre-big brother janis joplin in early '66.
in which dick clark endorses the velvet underground.
January 17, 2026 at 6:03 PM
in which dick clark endorses the velvet underground.
it was recorded with the venue's in-house microphones dangling from the ceiling & sent via phoneline to a nearby transcription service who cut it to disc.
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
it was recorded with the venue's in-house microphones dangling from the ceiling & sent via phoneline to a nearby transcription service who cut it to disc.