into the endless summer @vinylrecords

3 hours of new #music, night flights, & solidarity, from now 'til midnight ET on the frow show, on listener-supported @WFMU https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250610 #freeform #radio

oh right, the sly stone/jerry garcia crossover: the title track of the new riders of the purple sage's "mighty time" (1975), sly on vocals, garcia on (non pedal steel) guitar. https://youtu.be/LU19PDwo6F8

@bourgwick they should have just called the game Six Degrees of Jerry Garcia.

@bourgwick they should have just called the game Six Degrees of Jerry Garcia.

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at ace’s in mill valley, with the 1st rehearsals of “help on the way/slipknot!”
part 1: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-06-05.145778.sbd.pcm.dalton.miller.noel.flac16
part 2, begins with track 12: https://archive.org/details/gd75-06-05.sbd.backus.14292.sbeok.shnf [1/2]

50 years ago tonight in san rafael, the only circulating tape of the full seastones ensemble featuring ned lagin, phil lesh, jerry garcia, david crosby, & mickey hart (in orchestra pit), celebrating the newly released LP. definition of a fully blended quintet & the last circulating lagin/garcia tape. one of the gems of the tape canon. owsley tape, tracks 34-42: https://archive.org/details/gd73-11-28.sbd-seastones.finney.968.sbefail.shnf [1/3]

The Sacred Calendar of Subgenius Saints :jrbd:
June 8:

St. Iggy Pop

@bourgwick @bookstodon haven't read Icehenge, will add it to my list thanks !

50 years ago today, sunday in the park with garcia & saunders, back in palo alto with kingfish & the rowan bros., benefit for the institute for the study of nonviolence, founded by ira sandperl, once a literal benefactor when he ran the nearby peace center, crash zone for garcia & hunter circa 1961. 1st garcia/weir shared bill outside the dead? audience tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhlgrfCdIA [1/3]

Some old faves and some to check out...

#hardbop #jazz #randb
https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-hard-bop/

slip inside last night's frow show, 3 hours of new music, global zones, jazz departures, cosmic arrivals, etc., via the @WFMU archive. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603

today, rich & i hit the end of our enjoying the ride deadcast season with some deep head history. thanks to sociologist rebecca adams (& her receipts!) we can pinpoint wide use of “shakedown street” to describe the parking lot scene to summer ’89. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-ride-tour /1 #GratefulDead

open your third nostril to the beautiful sounds all around you with the gentle aid of the frow show, new music & other adventures from now 'til midnight ET on @WFMU. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603 #freeform #radio #music

and also 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer. menke/falenga audience tape, quality getting better as it goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCY9CZyDp4w [1/2]

50 years ago today, a #GratefulDead “blues for allah” writing session at bob weir’s home studio, stretched over 2 (questionably dated) tape pieces.
tape 1, tracks 1-8: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-06-07.bluesruffs.sbd.smith.94427.sbeok.flac16
tape 2: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-06-03.145776.sbd.pcm.dalton.miller.noel.flac16 [1/3]

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

wow !
New special tour bus parking permits to help bands touring in Seattle
https://komonews.com/news/local/new-parking-permits-to-help-bands-touring-in-seattle-musicians-concerts-summer-shows-tickets-tour-parking-ticket-expensive-downtown#

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.