Current status: Shuffling around my kitchen to 4/22/78 while preparing a Hatch chili infusion. Hot times in the old town for sure!

Every birthday is a victory of some kind

40 years ago tonight I was at the BCT. I had informed GDTS that it was my birthday — true story — and they sent me seats in the first row right in front of the B3. So I had a very up close view of Brent’s meltdown. What an intense (and sometimes painful) experience (and bicycle ride). Witness!

Saddle up! That bicycle isn’t going to ride itself.

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Crippled Symmetry

“(Morton) Feldman was fascinated by the designs in Turkish rugs. Their symmetry was never quite perfect; in other words, it was crippled. Feldman realized this concept in musical terms.”

The fate of Belshazzar …
#nokings

Point San Pablo Harbor is a Bay Area trip that’s always worth the journey. Especially with a Nicki Bluhm / Jennifer Hartswick / Grahame Lesh (aka “Snow Cash”) show at the Knot Club.

There is nothing like a Jazz Mafia show in Oakland on a Saturday night. ❤️🎶👐🏻

I’m on something like my 5th re-listen since ABQ tonight. Berman!

cover of new edition of Bear's Sonic Journals

the next release from the owsley stanley archive is... john kirkpatrick performing charles ives's "concord sonata" in march 1974, recorded at phil lesh's behest/insistence. got a preview at the dead scholars caucus last month & it's one of bear's most gorgeous tapes. www.facebook.com/OwsleyStanle...

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
(Sun Ra)

The Free Mexican Air Force
Was flying tonight,
High over Berkeley
In the Midnight Moonlight…

Panhandle-monium …
Hippies and dogs, unite!
#hardtohandle

My music demonstrates infinity, Most people can’t comprehend that.
(Sun Ra)

I think musicians are on a superior level, but unlike scientists, they haven't been accepted for their abilities.
(Sun Ra)

If you attentively regard almost any quadruped’s spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls

ICYMI

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Yeah not a complete copy just the last leg

Today we found ourselves high over Albuquerque on a jet to the Promised Land. Oh, what a week we had. We’re already hatching a chili plan to return next year …

Catalog listing for a conference session on the Blues For Allah sessions

Logo of the GD Studies Association

The Grateful Dead and Friends at Ace's Studio 1975, presented at the 2026 SWPACA Dead Studies Conference

Angels In Flame - a curated guide envisioned by @bourgwick.bsky.social and executed by me, in FLAC and MP3

The Complete Collection available early next week

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We gonna ███ a ██ dang ████ all ███ long…

A people without wisdom will surely perish. How very careless has America been with its willful neglect of true art and beauty.
(Sun Ra)

You may think that it’s gravity that holds us all together but it is not, it’s music.
(Sun Ra)

The real aim of this music is to coordinate the minds of people into an intelligent reach for a better world, and an intelligent approach to the living future.
(Sun Ra)

I play some music that will astound some people. But they need to be astounded, they need to be shook up before it’s too late..
(Sun Ra)

I have been to outer space I've had experiences going out there I know it's possible.
(Sun Ra)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

I roam the cosmos I visit a planet now and then, My visits are so seldom that sometimes The people on the planet forget who I am
(Sun Ra)

I take the position of a scientist who comes from another dimension..
(Sun Ra)