Kate

Jam-filled coronaries on serve during the fourth iteration...spectacular brace of soaring sets - and a riffin reprise of Lawn Boy to close a Julius encore?!

Announcement of the deluxe CD box set @ about $500 slated for release later this year - and with accoutrements lost on my Spartan style - sparked anxiety about the continuing availability of individual shows in physical form, so I belatedly pulled the trigger on the latter. Certainly the most extraordinary live performance RnR event in my lifetime.

Phish: Baker's Dozen. Individually on livephish.com ($299). Perhaps the greatest RnR transpiration in my 33 years on the planet. Pending release of a deluxe box set consolidating all 13 shows with a cache of flea market accoutrements likely indicates the pending death of individual installments on CD; thus, purchase of all separate shows for 60% of the new glambox will be one of those future laments if eschewed. If you don't know about the band's legendary 2 week MSG residency at this point, then I can be of no assistance. The Caps won, eh?! Ovie #8!!

and just about the entire CAKE catalogue after hearing RnRLifestyle on Sirius Lithium. Dry irony is so deliciously British, regardless of etiology. heh

On the cusp of a new decade, a beacon into the mists of rock's future presaging punk, post, and a burgeoning alt underground.

I readily hear this as a Who album; material largely derived from a fruitful period circa Who's Next, which certainly sat in high cotton no matter which direction you travelled along the release chronology!

et al. Familiarity most certainly breeds contempt on an interpersonal level, but not with great art. Had The Floyd been recorded and released with any degree of prolificity, they'd dwarf my favourites, from LVB & Mozart to Mingus & Miles to Kimbrough & Burnside to The Dead & ABB. Genres and their varied geniuses would be laid to waste by the inimitable inferno of performing Pink in the heyday prior to capitulation to ego. With so little of great live sound available, the Peel sessions are an invaluable chronicle of the hottest burning meteor that entered terminal orbit far too soon.

My inaugural listens during Saturday's long trail run. Phenomenal. While that opinion may be as remarkable as proposing citizen ownership of anti-tank weaponry at an NRA convention, the following does seem a bit controversial in light of universal praise following release this past week: I needed a Youngian antidote the intermittently anemic and often sterile play of the Roxy set. Treasure provides a consistent pulse, live animation of studio work, and optimal use of a stage full of outstanding complementary talent.

Monotheistic saturation. And then on to the next deity.

Along with Sticky, Bleed is the gambit of a 1-2 knockout combo situated in the radioactive heart of an arguably unprecedented 6-string studio run from Satanic Majesties through Goat's Head. Woody Payne lives.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IQ5kab3Mr4M

Slumming along the luminescent edge of musical footnotes...

Having never attempted a serious exploration of Bowie's early work based on initial exposure to a bit of distasteful late 80s/early 90s dross (pun intended, I suppose), the first 3 era oriented box sets - sporadic sound issues aside - have proven an explosive revelation. That 13-year run from s/t through ScaryMonsters is a protean feat of unrivaled artistic creativity and sustained excellence to my admittedly limited musical exposure. Current persona fixation: The Thin White Duke

"Here's lookin' at ya"...I love it when Neil explores, exhalts, and ultimately exhausts an idea; happened quite a bit on this magnificent late vintage album.

FDA certified holistic healing powers: I was blind, but now I see - in varying shades of blues...

Layers Celestia

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C3B2, the road to funky '79 SS dreams lies 5 months and 200+ miles further ExSE along scenic NY-17/I-84 into the Ivy heart of my undergrad alma mater...

the cool divine / electric spine / a space in time / Crick's design / we are all young once

Like an early Cambrian arthropod that breached the surf for at least a quick turn on turf, a bit of RnR evolution is neatly exhibited in the Du's discography. The transition from Punk to Post Punk yielded some magnificent work, but little better than this.

As Moses tamed the Red Sea, so did the perfectly unnatural force of REM's initial LP trifecta cleave a corridor of optimistic originality through the hair metal hazards and brite-pop saccharineswamps of the post-punk's apocalyptic landscape. At least that's what I got from Faulkner.

[video] http://spiritcats.com/gd-tour-europe-1974-Wi-Fi.mp4 This is something of a hybrid NedDead post: I find Ned quintessential to the resurgent "weirdness" that helped elevate that Summer 74 tour to epic status in my esteem, particularly June, and no show more than 6/23, which put "strange" into the "long trip". I've been following Ned's site since discovery of his fantastic recent release "Cat Dreams", which contains some terrific stuff, beginning with the linked video above, about which he says: "More than a few years ago I received a DVD in the mail from Steve Brown. I was quite surprised that it contained Steve's Super 8mm movies he made during the 1974 Grateful Dead tour of Europe. He only asked that I not copy or share it publicly. However, recently he gave me permission for it to be viewed on Nedbase (and on the archived Nedbase on spiritcats.com.) but not for wider distribution. Steve retains copyright and ownership. With the exception of "The Grateful Dead Movie," and a video snippet from the September 21, 1974 Paris concert, there are no other movies or videos in which I appear from those years. I met Steve when he went to work for the newly formed Grateful Dead Records and Round Records in 1973. Steve had several roles including album recording sessions, production and promotion, live concert on-site promotion, and working on the "Mars Hotel" LP and "The Grateful Dead Movie." I remember Steve as a very nice, sincere, knowledgeable person who really cared about the band and the music, and truly helped make good things happen. Steve's Super 8mm movies cover the 1974 Grateful Dead European tour. London's city life of the times and the Alexander Palace set up of the Wall of Sound (2:02), Munich and the Olympic Halle (4:26), band (5:37, me at 6:00 reading the Sunday Times) and family members getting on the bus and the bus ride from Munich through Luxembourg to Zurich, hanging out on the street in Geneva with Jerry, Parish, Hunter, Keith, Donna, baby Zion, Bob Matthews, and others, and then Phil, Steve, Dan Healy, and me on our drive through the high Alps and villages of Switzerland (7:25), into rural France (with castles) and on to Dijon (14:58) ending in Paris. Two additional notes come from Steve: *It was silent 8mm so I added a soundtrack from that Summer's U.S. tour -- Roanoke, VA 7-27-74. **Most of it was filmed while in an altered state, thank you Bear. So wonderful we all traveled together and that Steve was wise enough to capture the adventure, and the spirit of the times, on film." ****** Additionally, there are a couple recordings, the first, and truly 'beyond the pale', a soundcheck for one of my A-list shows, Dijon: http://spiritcats.com/gd_091874_nlagin_cro2_n90-nr_dn1_soundcheck.mp3 The second is just a fantastic historical nugget: " This was a jam session ("The Other One Jam" > "The Wall Song", "Jam", "Blooz", and "R&R Jam") with members of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby, and others. Ned plays organ and piano." http://spiritcats.com/nl_aditc_ok.mp3