Crazy Fingers->
Playing in the Band->
Uncle John’s Band->
Terrapin->
percussion->
jam->
The Wheel->
Gimme Some Lovin’->
All Along the Watchtower->
Morning Dew->
Sugar Magnolia
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The Mighty Quinn – Grateful Dead 7/2/88 Oxford Plains, Maine
No Better Way – Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay et al., For Rex: The Black Tie Dye Ball
All Night Long Blues – Tom Circosta et al., For Rex: The Black Tie Dye Ball
Arise – Jeff Mattson, Donna Jean et al., For Rex: The Black Tie Dye Ball
Proceeds from sales of For Rex: The Black Tie Dye Ball go to the Rex Foundation.
For Rex: The Black Tie Dye Ball is a two-CD live set culled from a November 2005 event in New York City. I posted about it last week after spending a couple of days listening to it; over the weekend, I saw a live performance by the band that emerged from that November gig: Kettle Joe’s Psychedelic Swamp Review. This band has great songs, great energy, fine singing, and kickass jams!
Kettle Joe’s Psychedelic Swamp Review
Left to right: Jeff Mattson, Wendy Lanter, Joe Ciarvella, Klyph Black, Tom Circosta, Donna Jean Godchaux, Mookie Siegel
I am totally prejudiced, because they’re all friends of mine, but I was just knocked out by their performance at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park. Plenty of fine original music, and a very well-selected book of covers, including “River Deep, Mountain High,” a ’60s classic (written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, recorded by Ike and Tina Turner, produced by Phil Spector) that Donna Jean sang on the Keith annd Donna album in 1975.
Wow, that Philzone thingy should be a trip…I guess we will be seeing more – transcripts or something – soon. I’m not going to Jones Beach, but if I was…
My miricle, hmmm. I have a few…
I’m caught between the young and old. I’m too young to really take credit for anything before 1980…much too old to be seen as next genar – anything.
For me, I’d say I was too far removed from the GD world to have been directly affected by it’s interior workings. I belonged to a family and there were moments I felt as if I was soaking up a mytholoy as I listened to the stories that were shared.
Hopefully the idea of the oral history will be sharing that feeling.
The Selvin story was depressing. He put alot in I hadn’t seen. I probably should have heeded your warning before delving. I have that picture in my minds eye now…weird.
Nice of you to play a whole second set last night. I will enjoy…Thanks.
Mike
Not weird in a good way – or weird in a weird way… both of which are moment and memories which can exist, usually in a state between mattering and not mattering.
That kind of weird is more like “Awful Weird” or “Bad Weird”….
I claim it is something like devine grace, that weirdness of this sort, in our social culture as a whole, isn’t more common and more random, and affects people so realitivly little.
Seems like getting past the trivial, even though only for a minute.
Thanks for the connection. The electronic wasteland seems vastly populated by stranger and stranger weirdness, so here we are in a calmer place…Row, Jimmy Row…