deadthinking

  Dunno what on earth possessed me to go down this rabbit hole today, but I saw the song Someday Baby credited, as it always is on Garcia r...

In which I listen to the five known live Garcia/Saunders performances of Merl Saunders' short-lived tune "The System" and make...

I hadn't listened to 1/19/73 at the Keystone in years, but a little discussion about bass players and musicians who subbed with Garcia/...

  There's a quote somewhere (I told the intern to go look it up; dunno where he got to, though) where Jerry says that a song ideally has...

jazz tangent: one thing that has pulled me away from more consistent GD/JG listening (besides the ebb and flow of life) is my new hobby (cal...

wrong show, wrong band, great pic: 9/29/93 by Robbi Cohn   I have alluded to loving this overlooked show before, so for its 30th anniversary...

  satellite view of the Dead lighting up downtown Cleveland It is peak fall in my neck of the woods, and fall '72 feels very right right...