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I saw Cecil this past Tuesday at the Blue Note. Did anyone else see him this week?? Here's a review of the Wednesday night late set. http://jstheater.blogspot.com/2005/07/ceci...-blue-note.html

Louvin Brothers - Close Harmony. 8 cds of pure heaven. Ira Louvin was blessed w/ one of the purest tenor voices in country music(His brother Charlie had a fantastic voice too). Unfortunately, Ira was seriously self destructive(and a racist) and the duo broke up in the early 60's. I got to see Charlie a few years ago. He still sounded great. They were a huge influence on Gram Parsons(He covered Ira's "Cash on the Barrelhead"). The booklet is marvelous - beautiful color photos, full discography/sessionography, and a great essay by Louvin scholar Charles Wolfe.

Maybe they should call themselves "Jefferson Wheelchair"???

Mieczyslaw Horszowski did a great performance of Book 1 that came out on Vanguard back in the early 80's I think he was close to 90 when he recorded it. Apparently he played it all from memory - pretty amazing feat. <edit> Here's a little info on him http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...sql=41:30335~T1

Oh crap. I just found out that Muhal Richard Abrams is going to be playing w/ the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet the same night Wayne Shorter is playing here in Philly. I've seen Wayne w/ this band and I've never seen Muhal Richard Abrams before. Guess I have to sell my Shorter tix.

Bob Dylan's press release regarding Jerry Garcia's death "There's no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. I don't think any eulogizing will do him justice. He was that great, much more than a superb musician, with an uncanny ear and dexterity. He's the very spirit personified of whatever is Muddy River country at its core and screams up into the spheres. He really had no equal. To me he wasn't only a musician and friend, he was more like a big brother who taught and showed me more than he'll ever know. There's a lot of spaces and advances between The Carter Family, Buddy Holly and, say, Ornette Coleman, a lot of universes, but he filled them all without being a member of any school. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic and subtle. There's no way to convey the loss. It just digs down really deep."

Not the best neighborhood but, there are certainly worse parts of Philly to live in. Parts of Germantown are really nice. I think Coltrane's house is in a rougher neighborhood. The MOVE house was located in West Philly - very far from Sun Ra's place. Thanks for posting the article.

July 1, 2005 War of Words By BROOKE SHIELDS London I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is caused by the hormonal shifts that occur after childbirth. During pregnancy, a woman's level of estrogen and progesterone greatly increases; then, in the first 24 hours after childbirth, the amount of these hormones rapidly drops to normal, nonpregnant levels. This change in hormone levels can lead to reactions that range from restlessness and irritability to feelings of sadness and hopelessness. I never thought I would have postpartum depression. After two years of trying to conceive and several attempts at in vitro fertilization, I thought I would be overjoyed when my daughter, Rowan Francis, was born in the spring of 2003. But instead I felt completely overwhelmed. This baby was a stranger to me. I didn't know what to do with her. I didn't feel at all joyful. I attributed feelings of doom to simple fatigue and figured that they would eventually go away. But they didn't; in fact, they got worse. I couldn't bear the sound of Rowan crying, and I dreaded the moments my husband would bring her to me. I wanted her to disappear. I wanted to disappear. At my lowest points, I thought of swallowing a bottle of pills or jumping out the window of my apartment. I couldn't believe it when my doctor told me that I was suffering from postpartum depression and gave me a prescription for the antidepressant Paxil. I wasn't thrilled to be taking drugs. In fact, I prematurely stopped taking them and had a relapse that almost led me to drive my car into a wall with Rowan in the backseat. But the drugs, along with weekly therapy sessions, are what saved me - and my family. Since writing about my experiences with the disease, I have been approached by many women who have told me their stories and thanked me for opening up about a topic that is often not discussed because of fear, shame or lack of support and information. Experts estimate that one in 10 women suffer, usually in silence, with this treatable disease. We are living in an era of so-called family values, yet because almost all of the postnatal focus is on the baby, mothers are overlooked and left behind to endure what can be very dark times. And comments like those made by Tom Cruise are a disservice to mothers everywhere. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general. If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease. Perhaps now is the time to call on doctors, particularly obstetricians and pediatricians, to screen for postpartum depression. After all, during the first three months after childbirth, you see a pediatrician at least three times. While pediatricians are trained to take care of children, it would make sense for them to talk with new mothers, ask questions and inform them of the symptoms and treatment should they show signs of postpartum depression. In a strange way, it was comforting to me when my obstetrician told me that my feelings of extreme despair and my suicidal thoughts were directly tied to a biochemical shift in my body. Once we admit that postpartum is a serious medical condition, then the treatment becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's care, I have since tapered off the medication, but without it, I wouldn't have become the loving parent I am today. So, there you have it. It's not the history of psychiatry, but it is my history, personal and real. Brooke Shields, the author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression," isstarring in the musical "Chicago" in London.

Check out the poster for Cruise's "War of the Worlds" and the cover of this L. Ron Hubbard book. Weird.

DP 35 is available to order http://stores.musictoday.com/store/product...5Fid=171&sfid=7

More videos... http://www.djangobooks.com/archives/video_...ry_honcoop.html

http://www.spikesbigadventure.com/mp3s/videos/django/

you can find them here: http://www.deadlists.com/default.asp

Just got a phone call from my wife that the shipment has arrived. Can't wait to get home tonight. Thanks for a speedy shipment/no hassle transaction Chuck!!

BTW, the lossless versions of 10/26/71, 4/30/77, & 1/18.70 are up now at Itunes in FLAC. Man, I still pinching myself over the Live Dead Box Set announcement.

GREAT NEWS! http://www.gdforum.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.c...8&list=postcard Dick's Picks 35, and other items First, Dennis McNally asked me to spread this announcement far and wide about Dick's Picks 35, then we'll deal with a few more items: A Note About This Dick's Pick: The Legend of the Houseboat Tapes Although the Dead's vault is enormous and impressively full, the band certainly doesn't have a tape of every show it played; in fact, they don't even have a copy of every show they recorded. Tapes drifted off in a variety of ways - including Jerry Garcia handing them out… And therein lies the story of Dick's Picks #35. This spring, our archivist David Lemieux got a call from Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay. It seems that in the late summer of 1971, just before Keith Godchaux began rehearsals with the Dead, Garcia handed him a big box of tapes and said, “Here, this is our most recent tour. Learn our music.” The irony was that Donna Jean doubts mightily Keith ever bothered to listen to them - he'd never listened to the Dead all that much before he auditioned, first with Garcia and then the rest of the band - he just had an uncanny innate facility for the music. In any case, he left the tapes on his parents' houseboat in Alameda, and there they stayed. For 35 years. A month ago, his brother Brian and son Zion were cleaning out the houseboat, found the tapes, and gave them to Donna, whose jaw dropped. One call to Lemieux later, and the Dead's long-lost missing tour from the summer of 1971 had resurfaced. Master tapes include April 28 and 29 at the Fillmore East (released as “Ladies and Gentlemen,” taken from the multi-track masters), the 7/31 Yale Bowl (alas, blank), a small piece of the Hollywood Bowl, Berkeley Community Theatre, and others. Dick's Pick #35 will be four CDs: the complete San Diego (8/7/71) show, all that was salvageable of the 8/24 Chicago show, and an hour-plus from the Hollywood Bowl (8/6). It will be available at dead.net Friday, June 17th. Not a soundboard-recorded note of that tour's music circulates among Dead Heads, so this is a truly remarkable find. How they survived 35 years in a watery environment simply proves, yet once again - if you needed convincing - that God smiles on the Grateful Dead. ********** Other coming attractions. By now you won't be surprised to hear that sometime in the future there will be some sort of 'product' release, it happens all the time. But I was told one interesting item slated for later this year, that is cleared for your consumption! In mid-October, there will be two items released, dealing with the same material. The Grateful Dead shows at the Fillmore West from 2-27-69 to 3-2-69 are legendary, and much of Live Dead comes from those shows. There will be a 10-CD package, limited to 10,000 copies, and available only from dead.net, that will contain every single note from the entire run. Rhino/WEA will release a 3-CD compilation of selected cuts from this series. The Rhino/WEA package will be available everywhere, including the GDForum store. So, there you go, now you have something else to look forward to!

Ah thanks. I think the file was too big okay let's try this......

Can someone tell how I can post the image in the message and not as link?? Every time I use the IMG button I get a error message. Can I upload from my hard drive?

Here's the latest of my son Jackson Thelonious. He will celebrate his 1st birthday 3 weeks from today. He's been walking for the past 6 weeks and he's become quite adept at it in the past week. Scary how fast they develop. Jackson 11 months

I love the first volume of the "Live 1969". After the VU & Nico album I think it is probably my favorite. The version of "What Goes On" is incredible. I also like the early versions of "New Age" and "Sweet Jane".

Okay Itunes has the following: Grateful Dead Download Series , Vol. 1 (4/30/77) 3cd's, 24 songs, $15.99 (includes filler: 4/29 Sugaree, Scarlet>GDTRFB) Grateful Dead Download Series , Vol. 2 (1/18/70) 1cd, 9 songs, 9.99 Grateful Dead Download Series , Vol. 3 (10/26/71) 2cd's, 21 songs, $12.99 Caveat Emptor!!!! These are not lossless recordings. Hopefully the lossless versions will be available next Tuesday on the Dead's website.

There's a rumor going round that Bill Walton made an announcement on his Sirius radio show that beginning next Tuesday June 7 that GDP will begin to open the Vault to digital downloading. The first show available will be 1/18/70 which has never circulated. There will be a new show available for downloading on the first Tuesday of every month. I have no idea how much it will cost or how it will impact free downloading/trading. I heard this from two different people who both claim to have heard Walton make the announcement on his show this week so I'm assuming that the rumor is true. Guess we'll know more next week.... Stay tuned.

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Yeah, they are depressing. I was going to delete the thread but I can't figure out how to do it.

Royal Prince ??