Elegy for Phil Lesh 10/25/24 Turn your trumpet into a bass guitar And your bass guitar into a UFO And your UFO into Tom Thumb’s Blues And Tom Thumb’s Blues into The Midnight Hour And The Midnight Hour into a Long Strange Trip Turn your Long Strange Trip into a Brokedown Palace And your Brokedown […]
Grateful Dead
In Memory of Robert Hunter
Laying in his bed and dying, his momma called him home. Did he see the dark star crash? If you look out of any window, you might see the dark star crash. Like a whiskey drunk china cat, with no more songs to sing, like a Candyman come and gone again… Was he right, is […]
Gratitude for the Tapers
I listen to a lot of Grateful Dead. Every once in a while, I pause to think about the fact that I can, with a few clicks on my phone, start streaming one of a thousand live performances from the Dead’s archives. This morning I was listening to Dick’s Picks Volume 16. It’s a show […]
Grateful Dead Meet Up at The Movies, 2018
Last night I attended my 2nd Grateful Dead Meet Up at The Movies event. This year’s enticement was a live show from 7/7/89. And what a show it was. It’s a delightful feeling to pull up to a local movie theater for a Grateful Dead concert rather than the more typical fare– say Ant Man. […]
Concert Review: Dead and Company, Lakewood Ampitheater, ATL, 6//8/18
At about 4pm on the day of the show the heavens opened up. It poured all across Atlanta. I was sure the venue, where I had lawn seats, was going to be a mud pit. More on that later. Met up with my buddy and musical compadre, Robert. We jammed a few tunes before heading […]
Grateful Dead: Meet up at the Movies
Last night I conducted a little sociological experiment: I bought a ticket and went to a Grateful Dead “Meet up at the Movies” show at a local Atlanta movie theatre. I took my seat in the theatre and settled in for a screening of a Grateful Dead concert from July, 1989 (7/12/89). I thoroughly enjoyed […]