phil lesh, brent mydland, & jerry garcia pitch the grateful dead’s new year’s ’85-’86 simulcast on the USA network, 40 years ago tonight, with a sneak peak of the in-progress “so far” video. (only the 2nd set airs.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVmZBBTHi6k [1/8]

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations #psychedelics

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at home in #berkeley, with prelude, a rare non-acoustic opening act. bob menke & louis falanga audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-29.008657.jgb.fob-sonyECMs.menke-falanga.sbeok.t-flac16 [1/2]

💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔

14-minute SCARLET BEGONIAS > TOUCH OF GREY kinda short-circuits the SCARLET jam but admirably smooth segue. 55-minute TERRAPIN STATION > DRUMZ > SPACE > TRUCKIN’ > SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING > STELLA BLUE > AROUND & AROUND > GOOD LOVIN’. satisfying TERRAPIN coda with weir going hog & hart on balafon. deep DRUMZ noise/beam abstraction, though wish it lasted longer. good collaborative SPACE with a few para-ambient passages, nice burst into TRUCKIN’. good ol’ crisp DAY JOB encore. [4/7]

50 years ago today (if the dating is correct), the #GratefulDead working on “blues for allah” material at bob weir’s studio, with some of the best jamming on the tapes. tracks 18-34: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-06-07.bluesruffs.sbd.smith.94427.sbeok.flac16 [1/2]

garcia finds messy passage into chill ~100 bpm EYES. drummers settle & garcia/mydland get semi-quizzical before side door into pretty ragin’ GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD, with mini-coda DRUMS transition. beam flows into weirdo SPACE & articulate moody conversation. purposeful/atonal twist into ace CHINA DOLL, breathlessly drumless at first, impressive mutated weir counterpoint. mydland debuts jimmy reed’s BABY WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO, fine late-set addition, sung by garcia with saunders in ‘70s. [6/7]

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead begin their 1985 in #oakland at the newly-renamed/reopened kaiser convention center, the 1st chinese new year’s shows & the 1st gig since garcia’s bust in golden gate park.

soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-02-18.sbd.willy.7588.sbeok.shnf

audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1985-02-18.112038.beyer-senn.daweez.d5scott.flac16 [1/7]

universal music group sues nostr:npub1xrj3t052eyqclk39m85tvffsge35zr3kedkmsf8l6dheq8zrt8rs589q43 for digitizing old 78s whose rights belong to UMG & whose masters are in the universal archive. https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/

depicted below, actual universal music group archive. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html