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Posts by So Many Reads: A Grateful Dead Book Club
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Picture of me presenting at a conference with a slide on the projector that states “‘camp is a mode of seduction’ — Sontag”
Picture of me presenting at a conference
always a hoot presenting at the Grateful Dead Studies Association at SWPACA
join us on Zoom Monday, March 16th as we discuss Here Beside the Rising Tide with the author, Jim Newton! if you’re not on the list, the means by which you get the link, please DM me 💀🌹⚡️ #somanyreads
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Jerry Garcia played on two unreleased Peter Rowan demos recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito on August 21, 1973. The Dead were recording Wake Of The Flood at the time. Warners financed the demo. Bill Kreutzmann, John Kahn and David Grisman played on the demos, and Chris and Lorin Rowan sang. 4 other tracks from the demo were on Rowan's 1979 album Texican Badman, released in Italy.
The reel from the Record Plant demo by Peter Rowan on August 21, 1973 with two tracks featuring Jerry Garcia on electric guitar ("Lazy Bones" and "Dragon On The Moon." I have not heard the tracks.
Undiscovered Garcia country, even now: a reel with two unreleased Peter Rowan tracks with Jerry Garcia has surfaced. Recorded August 21, 1973 at the Record Plant. 4 other tracks were released on Rowan's 1979 Texican Badman album. Updated an old blog.
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Dennis McNally, Nicholas Meriwether, and I are talking about the Grateful Dead tonight at Manny's. Hosted by Adam Hirschfelder. No one has done more than Dennis and Nick to help us understand the Dead and their achievement. 6 pm, see you there.
great news — Len Dell’Amico will be joining us to discuss his book, Friend of the Devil, at our next meeting on Monday, September 15th at 7:30 PM Central! hope to see you there #somanyreads 💀🌹⚡️
What are you doing Monday evening? Join me on Zoom at the @somanyreads.bsky.social Dead book club, where I’ll be chatting all things LOUD AND CLEAR. 8 PM CT. Will be a good and heady hang! (DM the So Many Reads account for invite link.)
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Blind Boy Fuller was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss. Fuller's repertoire included a number of popular double entendre "hokum" songs such as "I Want Some Of Your Pie", "Truckin' My Blues Away" (the origin of the phrase "keep on truckin'"), and "Get Your Yas Yas Out" (adapted as "Get Your Ya-Yas Out" for the origin of a later Rolling Stones album title), together with the autobiographical "Big House Bound" dedicated to his time spent in jail. Though much of his material was culled from traditional folk and blues numbers, he possessed a formidable finger-picking guitar style.
Remembering the originator of the phrase "Keep on Truckin'," blues guitarist & vocalist Blind Boy Fuller, born Fulton Allen on July 10, 1907, in Wadesboro, NC (d. February 13, '41), known for his fingerpicking guitar, soulful vocals, and songs w/ blues, ragtime & folk influences. More: alt text
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happy Jai Alai day! A fun fact about this show that I learned from @thebanderson.bsky.social’s book is that the crew had to “bust out the sledgehammers” in the words of Steve Parish to get the Wall of Sound into the venue, leading to the Dead having to pay to repair the exterior later
Ramrod on guitar, Steve Parish on drums, Rex Jackson bass, Dan Healy on guitar, Sparky Raizene on harmonica, Danny Rifkin on piano
small ridiculousness: the owsley stanley foundation seems to have found a few tapes of sparky & the assbites from hell, the grateful dead's roadies' band. maybe what the shaggs sound like to people who don't like the shaggs? sorry for the fb link. www.facebook.com/OwsleyStanle...
Dennis McNally's 'The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties' explores the circumstances that gave birth to the 1960s counterculture.
Preview the newly available book from the best-selling author + former #GratefulDead publicist
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we meet tonight (Monday 5/12) to discuss Deal by Bill Kreutzmann and Benjy Eisen! join us at 7:30 PM Central on Zoom. if you need the link, send me a message
5/12/1991 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA – This show is a gem, energized by Bruce Hornsby's presence. The band delivers expressive material, making it a standout performance. Written listening guide is at: www.gratefuldeadbook.com/post/this-we...
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🎸🌹 4/25/1983: The Spectrum, Philly! Parts of this epic show are on Dave's Picks Vol. 39. A spirited performance with classic staples & new gems. Sadly, only audience recordings exist, but they're worth a listen! #GratefulDead #LiveDead www.gratefuldeadbook.com/post/this-we... 🎶⚡
The book, Improvised Lives, by David Gans
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