57 years ago, members of the Grateful Dead played the first of a number of intermittent shows without Bobby and Pigpen. Originally advertised as Jerry Garcia and Friends and later known as Mickey and the Hartbeats, it’s fun and loose but certainly missing something. #Deadheads
Summer 2024, I had 12 nights of music festival. This summer, had zero. It’s not me. All the festivals I liked either ended or were canceled. One canceled while people were in line to get in.
Not the anniversary of this show, but I listened to it last night and it’s something special. Moon People gets pretty heavy and Five B4 Funk goes into some pretty interesting spaces. This lineup of Steve Kimock Band with Mitch Stein, Rodney Holmes, and Alphonso Johnson is my favorite.
Getting close to peak foliage here in Craftsbury, Vermont. Foliage is early this year due to drought. If you’re planning to come second week in October like usual you’ll miss out!
I’d like to think I’d recognize it when I see it, but it will get harder as the tech improves. As a middle-school English teacher, I have to continually reinforce the idea with my students that using AI in their writing is unethical, even as I have colleagues who use it in their professional lives.
Right? Who’s paying $70 for a foil print of AI slop? I mean, I’ll pass on a poster made by a real-life human because it’s just not my thing. Passing up AI slop should be an easy choice.
First-time listen for me. Jerry and Merle, and Billy and John and Tom Fogerty, 54 years ago today. It’s a nice soundboard and perfect for anyone with a half-hour commute. #Deadheads
53 years ago, the Grateful Dead played an interesting second set, with a Baby Blue smack-dab in the middle of the second set and the final Cryptical for 13 years until its revival in 1985. #Deadheads
