pw! nice to see ya here on the dark side of the lake.

No Dead fan here, but this will do nicely
hey PW

Hey, i just showed up for the brownies. Pass one over PW… :)

are they special brownies or store bought?

Good evening PW, Suz, Newt and Kelly.

Bleak rainy and cold in Montréal.

hey q — only got up to 48 today although that was an improvement over yesterday’s 44. brrrr (but at least it is not raining)

:) Ask PW!

She Made Brownies Promises Assertions that there were brownies!

We just had our carport redone, the tar roof. It looks good, cause it came down hard for hours today. Left over humidity from some storm in the atlantic.

Here ya go!

I put them out on the coffee table. I’ve got more in the freezer if we run out, but I’ll have to put ‘em on the kitchen counter first so they thaw.

* greedily gobbles brownie, forgets to thank giver, like usual, but is totally blissed out *

i see nothing there pw

Quebecois!
Someone told me last week that when you guys get that way, they prefer the weather in London (not the one in Ontario). Never having been myself, I temporized by reciting the local temps here: 71, slight breeze, clear skies.
The reply was not a friendly one.

Hello Newt!

What a GREAT clip PW!!!

With Pigpen, too . . . man they were so young then, Capt. Trips was still skinny and not The Fat Man.

Great vid, thanks for sharing!

They’re invisible brownies. ;-)

brownies with ice cream

i used my magic mod powers and made em visible (and put some ice cream on top)

Yeah, right from the best era, IMO. Before Jerry’s health and waistline went to shit.

Well, yes, but only after you have one.

Ooooooh! Yummy!

I never was a deadhead either. My dorm roommates were total deadheads, but even listening just now I could only take 1/3 of the clip.

how’s the minnesota tonight pw?

Maybe Oregon brownies.

Oh, and since Quebecois’ here, we’ve got a lady making crepes with Nutella as well.

* Wow that totally explains EVERYTHING to me! Somehow, everything also tastes like patchouli smells, and somehow I understand what whales are singing about.*

These brownies are GREAT!

Yum…

its been getting a lot of coverage on the teevee up here. last report said she was going to up the air filtration system to help prevent the smell from bothering the neighbors.

Surprisingly nice, actually. After an October that felt like a November, we’re getting a November that’s behaving much like a normal October! My deck plants aren’t all dead yet — I’ll probably harvest some leaves from the thyme plant for my breakfast of cornbread pudding. Or something.

I don’t find them repellent. But my friends who traveled around the country following the Dead ( and could not remember that they had classes for months at a time) were also, shall we say, more experimental than me. And so I did not bite that particular weenie.
Hence, I still walk relatively upright, and most days I lack the drool.

some peanut butter brownies for those that swing that way

Thanks PW. That was such a great era for the Dead. I haven’t seen many clips with Pigpen. Bob (the bird, not the Weir) digs it. He started dancing right away.

ok, someone got it.

Best Frank Rich article ever.

The invective aimed at these heinous P.C. pantywaists nearly matched that aimed at Hasan. Joe Lieberman announced hearings to investigate the Army for its dereliction of duty on homeland security. Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, vowed to unmask cover-ups in the White House and at the C.I.A. The Weekly Standard blog published a broadside damning the F.B.I. for neglecting the “broader terrorist plot” of which Hasan was only one of the connected dots. Jerome Corsi, the major-domo of the successful Swift-boating of John Kerry, unearthed what he said was proof that Hasan had advised President Obama during the transition.

Hey, it is what it is, enjoy the great weather. I see a shooting star in your future…

Oh! Now you make me remember my youth. When I first started teaching, schools had their own cafeterias, not central food trucked out to schools. The only central part was the bakery, and man, did we get good food really inexpensively.

The peanut butter cake was the best! A really light peanut buttery cake with peanut butter frosting…the best.

Eye candy anyone, I got a brilliant set with an Iron Maiden tribute band, the stage is quite a sight, or the California Guiar Trio with the Montréal Guitar Trio, this one is quite special also, different speed, though. Your pick.

oooooh california guitar trio please followed by a dose of tribute if you don’t mind

I know! I felt so lucky to get one from that era.

The republicans are begging for another shock doctrine moment. They’re salivating, but not quite there.

CHILI…

with brownies???

CGTMG3

back in a few!

The snow gods must be appeased.

A counterpoint to the Dead. I’ll just never be that mellow.

your choice! but would be real good afterward… with the required Hagen Daz..

i like this one q — and this one

look upthread — way ahead of ya

oh I know..

how did i know that would be delbert (laughing)

HEE HEE HEE – Go ahead, tell me you didn’t like it :-P

Hey Suze, I’m getting LRP a big honkin Mac for a discount. He’s branching out into producing and needs the hardware (and lots of software) to compete. He’s been in the studio and has seven songs in the can, too, says he’ll be out here next summer.

I’ll let you know as I get more info from him.

sweet… long time lee roy parnell fan (as you know)

If he gets out here, you betta be able to make it down. J& I are also invited to stay at his house if we get to Nashville.

To see Jerry and friends doing some cool non-Dead stuff, check out this:

“The Thrill Is Gone” (with David Grisman)

and this:

“Old And In The Way” (from the album and supergroup of the same name)

and this from Peter Rowan and Vassar Clements (via the Jerry Garcia Band):

“Midnight Moonlight“.

Hey there Quebecois, I must apologize for my terrible manners as I didn’t realize you greeted me upthread.

But I generally have poor manners – ask anybody here!

i really like that cover of the thrill is gone… wow — an unexpected pleasure thanks pw

Fire the Pizza tapes up for these weenies too. They just showed Further during the Oregon-ASU game. Don’t know what that is do ya squares?

Suz, this is real different…

I was walking inside of those walkways , besides the drummer. I was three feet from him, had a blast doing this. My anatomical ear plugs were pushed to their limits…

I don’t own any of Maiden’s albums…

Wow, I had totally forgotten about “Old And In The Way.”

Send that to digby; she needs something to accompany the “catfood commissions” posts she’s been warning about.

My pleasure!

Jerry was a far more talented guy than most non-Dead fans realize. He was comfortable in genres from cool jazz to bluegrass to Irish tunes; it’s just that he didn’t get the chance to play these tunes as much as he’d have liked with the Dead.

And here’s Dylan and the Dead for you infidels.

The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down
You can’t let go and you can’t hold on
You can’t go back and you can’t stand still
If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will

With pleasure, sir!

Here’s Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice playing “Shady Grove”.

this- this and this

I will! Thanks.

Odd synchronicity. I was just reading something about Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald and then the setting for the Garcia/Grisman video has a Roaring Twenties ambiance…

Rowan and Rice play here now and again. You like Hillbilly Jazz with Vassar?

Delbert’s grand, I love his When Rita Leaves . . . <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pZvCnjiAbI&feature=fvw"<More Texas Boys And Gals

IIRC, the name spelling of the Pranksters’ bus is “Furthur.”

Edit:
Had to look it up, turns out either spelling is correct.

The correct name of both of Ken Kesey’s buses is Further.[2][3][4] The original bus had Furthur written in the destination sign for a brief period and Tom Wolfe called the bus Furthur in his book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The first Further died shortly after a trip to Woodstock, The second bus (a 1947 International Harvester) was created in the late 80′s. The second bus is also called Further (not Further 2) and is not a replica.

I thought seeing Keysey and the Dead pics on ESPN right before I looked at this post was pretty jungian too!

yup

They played the assembly hall, I have some great Chef Ra prints from that show.

Now yer into MY good stuff, and the camp jams!

Sweet! Thanks!

And, while were on it, don’t forget the NRPS. “Henry put those breaks on for this corner if you please”.

@ ratfood & Raven: Zeitgeist!

It’s a totally internet thing!

You’re entirely respectable!

I saw the Dead perform this past summer at the Rothbury festival (in Michigan) on the 4th of July. There was an encore of “US Blues” with fireworks in the background. I loved it!

Yea, I just walked back from an insane Georgia football game and fell back into my old life.

Warren Haynes on lead?

Hey Raven. I went to U of I and remember Chef Ra. A wonderful (although stinky) fellow.

The first time, when the Ass Hall crew cut the power to the stage because they played too long, or when they finally came back ten years later in ’81? I have a pretty decent boot of the latter.

That’s where he plays all the Bob Wills tunes, right? It’s probably somewhere in our collection.

We got into early country/bluegrass, and then into old-time music, as a direct result of being Dead fans: We picked up Will the Circle be Unbroken because Jerry had worked with Vassar on Old and In the Way and that sent us down a whole bunch of roads, including an appreciation of Doc Watson.

Yep. Government Mule also performed.

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and many others.

He called it a “cultivated funk”. We were great friends for many years, broke my heart to lose him. I went back for the 30th Anniversary of the Red Lion and saw him about 6 months prior. When were you there?

You must be confusing me with the nice Mormon girl that works in the movie business, who shares my name, much to her chagrin I’m sure.

As much as I envy her career, let me assure you I regret we share the same name too.

Anyone who has never heard of Tony Rice, need to know he’s Tony Tone.

Greatest git ever. With Grisman’s original Quintet for Dawg Music, and decades of bluegrass and newgrass before and after.

Once, the proud tenor voice that could make you cry. Now, in his later years, with no voice, he’s still pickin git like no one else can.

There was Django, Charlie Christian, then Doc Watson.

And along came Tony Rice.

Raised the bar so high all are compared to him.

PW, I had NO idea you were into the grass, and the alt, new, blue and jam grasses!
*G*

You familiar with the Bluegrass Album Band projects?

I had tickets to see Doc and Merle here and two weeks before the show Merle was killed in a tractor accident, may they both RIP.

Tony RIce is bad ASS!

I was there from 1988-1992. Studied engineering. Lived in Illinois my whole life (born in Joliet, currently live in Evanston).

Yea, great cover too. 23 cuts on a double

When I was looking at the pics from the Red Lion Reunion Jim seemed so much smaller than I remembered, then I realized I’d gotten used to seeing him wearing roller-blades back in the ’80s, which probably made him about 6’6″.

Delbert’s grand, I love his When Rita Leaves, She’s Gone . . . More Texas Boys And Gals

A redo from my 68 which I butchered somehow . . . sigh.

Aha, I moved here in 85 after 18 years in C-U (born there too). My old man was Jack Burmaster’s assistant basketball coach at Evanston before moving up to North Chicago in 57!

It is snowing out the bazoo at my house right now. Just had to say that.

Yea, that High Times cover with the skates and top hat is awesome.

After Doc came Norman Blake, and then Tony Rice.

But hey, here’s all THREE of them! *G*

“All sunshine and fluff?” Stuff it!

Now that IS an unusual weather phenomenon… “g”

I don’t recall that, is it online?

yay! baby girl… sorry stephanie (old habits) sent me a photo of her called ‘all parka’d up’. she loves the snow. will be interesting to see if she does after a colorado winter :)

Doubt it, I posted some pics on WEFT’s site. email me some time markann at that really famous hot type place dot com.

PW, thanks for having a thread I know something about. Nitey nite pups

i tried to figure out how to fix that but…

May I say, you’ve had GREAT influences and have made EXCELLENT choices!!

*G*

I’ve got a library of digitized live shows of grass new, blue old timey and more that would keep you up at nights.

And a couple of DVD’s of old American Music Workshop and Texas Connections shows from the 90′s. Incredible performances.

Ask Suz. *G* And if ya want my email addy, ask Suz, it’s kewl with me, and we can chat offline . . . ;-)

G’nite Raven.

g’nite raven

‘nite, Raven!

Doc’s still alive!

And I was lucky to see him and Merle about 4 times over 3 years in SF in the 80′s.

NOTHING like that duo, live. They had thousands of songs they could do at the drop of a hat.

Merle’s bottleneck slide work still raises the hairs on my arms.

that guy has been trying to post this comment and is having computer problems. he emailed it to me and asked that i post it for him:

Hey Y’all,

A friend of mine, Lee Roy Parnell, was recently involved with a benefit project I think just about anyone can believe in. The “Forgotten But Not Gone” CD project includes a truly star-studded lineup, From Lee Roy to Delbert, to Bonnie and Bekka Bramlett, to Marty Stuart to Steve Earle to Mike Farris.

Lee Roy sang and played the title track, along with the magnificent McCrary sisters. I cannot fully express the pride I feel in having such a friend. The entire record is an audio feast of Americana and Roots music.

The project benefits two Gulf-Coast charities, helping people displaced by Hurricane Katrina to get back into their homes. As we all know, the federal, state and local authorities have fallen down very badly with regard to the recovery from hurricane Katrina, so it’s left to us, the individuals, to help. And help, we must.

Rather than writing a lot about it here, I’ll link you to the web site and you can learn about it there. I believe we’re entering an era where we can no longer count on government, nor the private business sector to help people. Whether it’s housing, food, health care, you name it, we are all going to have to count on each other for help, because that’s all that’s left.

Please take a few minutes out of your weekend to read about the project, and if you believe it’s worthy of the investment of the cost of a case of Budweiser, please buy the CD. I know you’ll enjoy it, and really, how many times can buying a CD actually make you feel better about yourself?

@ rf and suz

Well, it just IS snowing like mad! The groovy part for me is that belch (my husbear, Christopher) decided to adopt headphones this evening, so I have all this snow and loud opera music playing. Weee!

[yes, I know it's a Dead Thread, but I already listened to the headline post and others, and now I got some Puccini cooking large.]

Heh, Sunshine Daydream runnin in the rushes down by the riverside!!!

Gotta be one big assed bazoo for THAT much snow!

Good for you! I suspect one doesn’t find many former residents of Joliet in Evanston. :-)

In the mid ’80s I was in New Orleans. While waiting for a friend to get back from a job interview I sat on a bench by the river near Jackson Square. I suddenly found myself surrounded by a group of amicable (scary) young men who desperately wanted me to go somewhere else with them and buy some cocaine. Fortunately, I talked my way out of that. At one point the leader of the group asked where I was from, I told him Illinois. “Illinois? I know Illinois… you ever been in Joliet?”

Thanks!

We actually like old-time a lot because there’s something about it that encourages anyone to join in, while also retaining a wild element that appeals to the younger, more punkishly inclined set. “Kitchen music” is what Irish music writer Ciaran Carson called it, and that’s high praise coming from him.

Wow, thanks for the update! Poor Doc, the rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated. He’s 86, does he still perform?

that guy has been trying to post this comment and is having computer problems. he emailed it to me and asked that i post it for him:

Hey Y’all,

A friend of mine, Lee Roy Parnell, was recently involved with a benefit project I think just about anyone can believe in. The “Forgotten But Not Gone” CD project includes a truly star-studded lineup, From Lee Roy to Delbert, to Bonnie and Bekka Bramlett, to Marty Stuart to Steve Earle to Mike Farris.

Lee Roy sang and played the title track, along with the magnificent McCrary sisters. I cannot fully express the pride I feel in having such a friend. The entire record is an audio feast of Americana and Roots music.

The project benefits two Gulf-Coast charities, helping people displaced by Hurricane Katrina to get back into their homes. As we all know, the federal, state and local authorities have fallen down very badly with regard to the recovery from hurricane Katrina, so it’s left to us, the individuals, to help. And help, we must.

Rather than writing a lot about it here, I’ll link you to the web site and you can learn about it there. I believe we’re entering an era where we can no longer count on government, nor the private business sector to help people. Whether it’s housing, food, health care, you name it, we are all going to have to count on each other for help, because that’s all that’s left.

Please take a few minutes out of your weekend to read about the project, and if you believe it’s worthy of the investment of the cost of a case of Budweiser, please buy the CD. I know you’ll enjoy it, and really, how many times can buying a CD actually make you feel better about yourself?

Thanks, Suz and That Guy!

“Kitchen Music”

I like that. A lot, the more I think about it.

Tony Sangin. With Norman.

Tony Sangs Norman’s Church Street Blues. This’ll make ya cry if yer human . . . . my god what a voice he once had.

Yep! He was out in SF for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest!

Insane, over 300,00 per day!

I’m a HUGE Old Crow Medicine Show fan . . *G*

Along with now defunct Reel Time Travelers, and many more of the old timey tradition!

Rat: He sure is! Here’s a YouTube of him from 1998.

Here’s another one, probably from around the same period, playing “Tennessee Stud”.

I should point out that the recording studios, engineers, musicians and everyone else involved in the Katrina project did the work pro bono. No one was paid and ALL proceeds go to the benefit of Katrina victims.

tis an excellent endeavor — i’m gonna have to get a cd as a stocking stuffer for myself

thanks for letting us know about it that guy

Tony Rice, a-yep. Did you ever pick up Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot? Fabulous, fabulous album.

Thanks very muchly!

Food and music are a good combo. I sing this to Bob sometimes while he chows down… like he is right now.

Oh, and if we’re talkin’ Norman Blake: Church Street Blues.

He and Nancy are back together, you know. And his fiddler, James Bryan, as well. (James’ daughter Rachel is now playing with them!)

Don’t have that, but have Tony singing Gordon tunes in live shows with various configurations over the years.

Don’t GET me started about Gordon Lightfoot! *G*

Love that man’s music and voice.

Wow, gracias. I think Doc might have been why I started playing guitar and got into finger-picking.

I’m so glad to hear he’s still going strong.

I came late, what a great thread!
Hope this isn’t a repeat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCpCmt0OXNc

Norman Blake is another of my all time heroes.

He did some work long, long ago in the 60′s with Grant and Ginger Boatwright that also had Tut Taylor on it.

They called themselves Red, White And Blue Grass.

It was the first time I’d ever heard the song Ginseng Sullivan.
I’ve been in love with that song ever since.

*G*

RE: Tony Sings Gordon — Just. Get. It.

Meanwhile, here’s one of my favorite Norman Blake tunes, “Billy Gray“. I can just imagine Jerry (or Tony Rice, or Doc) singing this, can’t you?

Heh, Doc did that to folks, didn’t he!

Like many, I first knew of him at age 16 or so, in Bay Area.
High school buddy had the first Circle Album.
And a few Doc N Merle albums.

Messed me up for life!

*G*

Nope, and a nice pick!!!

Campjam fav!!!!!

w00t!

Heh. My fat ass baby loves to eat too!

That would actually be MY fat ass.

Here ya go Larue

I thought you’d like that. ;)

Nice thing about Doc, aside from helping preserve all those great traditions, was that he didn’t play so insanely fast as to make the technique seem completely unattainable.

I would love to accompany you; we could collaborate over the Internet and youtube.

Give it some thought rf.

Crap I miss Vassar Clements.

Sigh.

Okay, one last one and I’ve gotta hit the hay. You all be good for Auntie Suz, ‘kay?

My brother enjoys the Watsons a lot. (He has, or used to have, two guitars, one of them a twelve-string.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0onxQIY_w

Thanks but I had to give up playing after arthritis twisted my fingers like pretzels.

Think I’ll wind down. Thanks to PW and all for the fun Late Nite. Splendid evening to y’all.

Damn that’s beautiful. Never seen that vid.

Thanks for sharing that.

Yeah, it’s one of THOSE songs, THOSE guys would do, and any ONE of them could just nail it tight, and make it their own in the process.

Sigh.

What great music being shared in here tonite, thanks to all for same!

IGBOBLAB!

g’nite pw — i’ve got a great cartoon on tap for late late nite

Epic, EG!!! *G*

g’nite rat

Dang! Thanks for that, Margot.

Reminds me: One of the cool things about the Spinal Tap crew is that they are also fine acoustic musicians, and they would either have “The Folksmen” (which was Chris Guest et al as a fake folkie band instead of a fake rock band) be their opening act or have an acoustic set where they played everything from Irish to old-time tunes. When they were in Nashville for their album tour, they played the Ryman and Vassar sat in with them on a few tunes in their acoustic set!

Dang another one! *G*

g’nite ratty!

And now I really must be getting to bed. ‘Night, all!

Adios, mi amigo!

sleep well — thanks for a great trip down memory lane pw

For some reason, I cant resist when someone says ‘Now dont get me started….’

Two masters of their craft, both highly underrated outside of the hippie rock realms.

Both, still pickin the snot out of it these days.

Wow, that was long ago, they’re so YOUNG!!!

RF, sorry to hear about the arthritis.

I just met someone who had to stop playing for same reason.

She found out two years ago she was glutin intolerant!

Stopped eating wheat and anything that HAD glutin in it!

Arthritis went away!

Best to ya hoss, sad to lose the music . . . I feel for ya.

*G*

Must be close to LLN time . . *G*

cartoon upstairs

Ahhh, such wisdom. “Please don’t dominate the rap Jack, if you got nothin’ new to say”.

I exit in silence.

the anti fluff

Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all,
All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall.
Lost is the long and loneliest town fairy sybil flying.
All along the, all along the mountains of the moon.