A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Cribbed from my friend Jim Leftwich: Speaking of which, that fuckhead Bill O’Reilly is back on his hobby horse about the “War on Christmas.” Please please please let him pop a blood vessel and check out once and for all.
Thoughtful post by Jesse Jarnow on the Live Music Blog… Over the summer, I interviewed Dead lyricist, Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder, and professional righteous dude John Perry Barlow for a Rolling Stone blurblet about archive.org. He mentioned that he and Grateful Dead Productions president Cameron Sears had recently spoken about the situation, with Sears none-too-happy … Read more
This just in, from Relix: Grateful Dead Downloads Likely To Be Restored at Archive.org Complete recordings of Grateful Dead concerts should once again be available at the online Internet Archive (archive.org) – perhaps as early as tonight. According to Grateful Dead spokesman Dennis McNally, the removal on November 22 of all downloadable Dead recordings from … Read more
My friend Barbara has collected some great photos of our potemkin president on her blog, “fetch me my axe.” And of course, the title of this entry comes from a great anti-Bush blog produced by my friend Jeff Tiedrich.
The “Thanksgiving massacre” issue is a week old. The New York Times has covered it, and of course it’s been thrashed out all over cyberspace. Phil Lesh posted a message on his web site that has given many aggrieved heads reason for hope. Here is a post from The Well, by Craig Hillwig (reproduced here … Read more
Morning dew #3, originally uploaded by dgans. Los Angeles, California, the morning after Thanksgiving.
Yesterday the Grateful Dead’s archive was removed from public access at archive.org. From the announcement: …the Internet Archive has been asked to change how the Grateful Dead concert recordings are being distributed on the Archive site for the time being. The full collection will remain safe in the Archive for preservation purposes. Here is the … Read more
My friend and colleague Steve Silberman – we hang out together in The Well, a seminal online community that still chugs along in a plain-text meeting of the minds, sheltered from the roar of the broadband universe – just posted the first piece of journalism he ever published. It was a review of the Jefferson … Read more
Robertson tells Dover, PA citizens, after the election: ‘Don’t turn to God if you need help’ “If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don’t wonder why He hasn’t helped you when problems begin…” – Pat Robertson On today’s 700 Club, Rev. Pat … Read more
That’s the headline on today’s Oakland Tribune. The Governator, who I like to call “Schwa,” came into office through a procedural fluke and some excruciatingly mindless voting by my fellow Californians. He proclaimed himself to be a man of the people, but he was in the pockets of the corporate right from Day One. The … Read more