Forever and Ever, Amen is such a perfect piece of country songwriting. Plain, true, and real. Everybody knows every word of it. He was a great craftsman and it’s a shame his life and work aren’t being celebrated more after his death.
I might be down to fight through this show with the soloed inputs unedited. Might be a fun listen.
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of @treyanastasio.bsky.social's first solo project, the the free-form, big-band jazz ensemble Surrender to the Air:
www.pastemagazine.com/music/phish/...
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Some very cool / freshly uploaded you-are-there footage of Talking Heads at a Connecticut country club on the Fear of Music tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRcT...
…and sure enough:
Olympic Center in Lake (Pl)acid, NY.
October 17, 1983. Hockey barn confirmed. Complete with a legendary “Sugaree” opener.
archive.org/details/gd83...
Watching Miracle: The Boys of ’80 and immediately started thinking of a favorite @stevenhyden.bsky.social theory about the Grateful Dead playing every midsized hockey barn in America. Of course I went digging…
1/2
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
Thank you! Brought a smile to my face and Rick is riffing great bits somewhere.
i wrote an afterword about bobby weir for @pitchfork.com, but probably could've kept going for a few more days. pitchfork.com/features/bob...
This and a few other of Willie’s 80s records show him giving back to people who helped him when he was on his way up. Paul Buskirk’s name was on the label of the first official release of Night Life (Nite Life featuring Hugh Nelson). Loyalty.
@bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy Do you know the date/location of this photo?
I’m so glad you didn’t bail on Willie. He’s one the artists I’ve seen most in my life and was a little worried when I went to Outlaw Festival on July 5. And he absolutely killed. Held the crowd just where he wanted them for a full hour. Pin drop moments to standing ovations. Long Live Willie!
Did you hear that idiot yell “Will you play us some Grateful Dead?”
That was me.
Ronald McDonald is such a good clown name. You wouldn't have thought of it. You would have given him something obvious like Bloopers McBurger, the name of a clown. They gave him the name of a man.
wild/wide new '90s san francisco tape collection, now added to @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy, supposedly made by an usher who worked at shoreline/warfield/greek, etc., with microphones on wristband. not the highest of fis, but lots of cool stuff. tons posted already: archive.org/details/@nee...
Get a box of Ticonderoga pencils. You won’t go back.
Let us not forget that aside from his musical contributions, Garth Hudson RECORDED The Basement Tapes!
Rest easy, Garth. Thanks for everything.
“I think it goes without saying that [Garth Hudson] is the greatest organist in rock history. But that is a little too reductive to what he was as a musician.”
@stevenhyden.bsky.social nailed it.
I started a podcast called I WAS IN THAT BAND!
Will you ship?
Check out my friend’s one and only Dead concert review. I guess he missed the bus.
www.dallasobserver.com/music/echoes...
There is only one extant show from this day in Dead history, and it includes a sweet LL Rain, Candyman, and Stagger Lee in the first set. The second half is highlighted by a rocking Scarlet which finally gives way to a relentless, searching Fire. Enjoy it all! gratefuldeadoftheday.com/12-22-1978
Apropos of absolutely nothing, a good holiday watch this year would be the Station Eleven miniseries (on Max in the States). Moving and surprisingly life-affirming, I promise it’s not just about a deadly pandemic.
computer made flyer for Yo La Tengo and Antietam
40 years ago today, the very first yo la tengo show, with antietam, at maxwell's in #hoboken. happy birthday, YLT!
I love the little metal chain that his soprano sax is attached to. Little details…
