WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[lbpesq]

Peter and Dan, may I offer my deepest condolences.   These types of life passages are never easy, but the timing with covid really sucks.


My mom is 95 and was admitted to the hospital last Saturday after a fall in which she sustained a couple of cracked ribs and partially collapsed lung.   As Peter is aware, my son and I drove to New York and back from California a month and a half ago, with an overnight at the Cozmik Ranch each way, to help my mom out.  Now it looks like I may be doing it all over again.   


When I was in High School my mom bought the cast album of “Hair”.  (Growing up in New York, my parents were big Broadway Musical fans).   She put it on during dinner.  When this song came on my dad got very angry, turned red, looked at me and asked what the hell I had put on the stereo.  I just smiled and told him it was mom’s.   

Bill, tgo

[rv_bass]

Bob Marley...Lively Up Yourself

[elwoodblue]

Something I've never heard...so far so good.

[lbpesq]

Something I've never heard...so far so good.

I’ll bet those guys kicked ass in the rock star intramural basketball league!  And love the elephant bells!

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

Something I've never heard...so far so good.

I’ll bet those guys kicked ass in the rock star intramural basketball league!  And love the elephant bells!

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

I still have a pair of elephant bells I gopt new in 1972; you can even see a bit of denim here and there between the patches.

And no - they don't get worn a lot these days..................


(But I have worn them as recently as 1985; maybe even '86.  Can't show up a Dead show looking drab, ya know.)

Peter (who is more man than he was at 16 - almost twice more, in fact  )

[paulman]

Peter I am very sorry to read of your mother, it's a club no one wants to join!  I was lucky/unlucky enough to actually be with mine when she passed. 


In no relation to these condolences...


I said, like this I said it, I said "Hey Google, play Italian Polka music" and most un-polka music is being listened to.


What I said was an influenced by the Netflix movie "The Irishman" there is some captivating music in the sound track.


Again, thoughts out to your family Peter!


Bill I've been there...she's lucky to have had you!

[cozmik_cowboy]

Thanks, Roger.  I was with mine, too. 

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

The 'Dusters - "He's Gone" (another Grateful Dead tune I've been foolin' with lately... in the rare wakeful moments available for foolin')

[cozmik_cowboy]

The 'Dusters - "He's Gone" (another Grateful Dead tune I've been foolin' with lately... in the rare wakeful moments available for foolin')

Most excellent!  Every time I come across something like this, I am reminded that Garcia & Hunter played bluegrass together in the pre-Mother McCree's days.
Thanks, Greg.

Peter

[lbpesq]

The 'Dusters - "He's Gone" (another Grateful Dead tune I've been foolin' with lately... in the rare wakeful moments available for foolin')

Nice version!  Are you going to sing lead, like the bass player in the video, Gregory?

Bill, tgo

[edwardofhuncote]

I wish I could sing it like Travis.    Nah, offhand, I'd guess our frontman Josh would be better suited to take the lead on that one if we were gonna' cover "He's Gone"... I just like looking for something to help with the translation. The Stringdusters are well-known for rippin' Grateful Dead tunes. (in a very good way) Here's a live "Jack Straw" they pounded pretty hard.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Another superb take on a classic; these kids can pick a little.

My buddy Tex taught me to play; his government name is Jim Burns.  He named one of his daughters Shannon.  Shannon Burns ("Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon/Burns my eyes to see".......)
Yeah, he's a Deadhead.

Peter (who is not, however, sure how he feels about spinning laser cones on a bluegrass band.......)

[cozmik_cowboy]

Not what I'd call a prime example of the genre - but still a hoot; the Surfrajettes:

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Popa Chubby:

Otis Taylor:

Michael Burks Band:

Ben Poole:

Cristone "Kingfish" Ingram:

Fever Tree: 

Peter

[bigredbass]

So I'm in one of my favorite flea markets yesterday (at least ONE thing I can do as well as Leland Sklar . . . . . ) and for a grand total of 2 bucks in a pile of CD's for sale:

A dead mint, clean "TOWER OF POWER LIVE" from 1999, produced by Emilio Castillo with Garibaldi and Rocco in fine form.  I forgot what a welded-tight band sounds like, and while I rarely hear a recording and think 'I'm wasting my time playing bass, listen to THAT', in this case, yep.  I read the interviews about Vega subbing for FRP while he was out with his health issues, and what a hill it was to climb to play with them . . . . and I believe it. 

Here's 'Soul with a Capital S' from this project.  The stops, the starts, the chills, the thrills, hoooo-eeeeee this is a handful.  What a hoot !