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bourgwick, 4 months ago to random

kris kristofferson vs. toby keith, 2003, as told by ethan hawke in rolling stone.

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bourgwick, 9 months ago to RadioControl

turns out that tibetan singing bowls aren't tibetan, but probably japanese & were misidentified in the '70s by new age #drone musicians (& mickey hart collaborators) nancy jennings & henry wolff, leading to a whole lot of messy cultural appropriation. forensic musical history: https://tricycle.org/article/tibetan-singing-bowls/

bourgwick, 10 days ago to random

doesn't really solve any problems, but sure is satisfying.

bourgwick, 13 days ago to nyc

the recent crackdown on unlicensed #nyc #cannabis bodegas has ushered in a massive overnight vibe shift from over-the-top garish to hilariously anonymous. the next phase in weed bodega aesthetics, already a topic for street art documentarians. (photos by a pal, but expect to see it in my neighborhood soon.)

frosted glass store front with new sign hanging on awning reading CONVENIENCE

bourgwick, 2 months ago to tv

gently panicked article about modern archiving issues. mostly about #tv & #film but applies to #music, too. short translation: all #media is endangered, keep up the #piracy. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/digital-preservation-film-tv-shows-archives-1235851957/

bourgwick, 4 months ago to Oakland

50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders (with bill kreutzmann) at the pauley ballroom in #berkeley, a benefit for the black panther-founded community center in #oakland. MC’d by legendary blank panther artist emory douglas, with the panther-affiliated acts messiah & the intercommunal youth band. tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB9lwpoX1mk [1/2]

bourgwick, 6 months ago to LosAngeles

the person who runs this high-res live music blog says it's gonna self-immolate at the end of the year. lots of stuff i've never seen on bittorrent & a few things not even in the etree db. tons of #LosAngeles area tapes (lots of early punk), but much beyond that, too. https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com

bourgwick, 4 months ago to random

happy 50th to brian #eno's "here come the warm jets," still gloriously fresh to me after listening to it for half its lifespan. the short making-of documentary is always a hoot & often zapped when posted: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81aix1 ht @doomandgloomfromthetomb

eno plays guitar, adjusts tape machine
eno adjusts tape loop
eno in kimono at studio board

bourgwick, 2 months ago to nyc

veteran music critic robert christgau meditates on what to do with the contents of his #nyc apartment, crammed with #books & #records, & visits the similar #archives-slash-apartments of deep undergrounders danny fields, vince aletti, richard goldstein, & jim fouratt. includes christgau & warhol/VU/WFMU ultra-insider danny fields chilling to the #GratefulDead. https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/i-have-to-deal-with-it-it-is-the @vinylrecords

bourgwick, 25 days ago to Futurology

does anyone happen to have access to the wall street journal archives from the '70s? i'm looking for one specific article that should be pretty easy to find (and, really, just the date of that article) & would very much appreciate some #research assistance.

bourgwick, 4 months ago to music

want to work at @WFMU?! the groovingest freeform #radio station of the local galactic cluster is hiring a new #music director. https://wfmu.org/music-director/

bourgwick, 6 months ago to random

really enjoyed this story about scientists trying to identify a mystery #whale species by triangulating recordings (live tapes?) from across the world. the elusive cross seamount whale still hasn't been definitively sighted or identified. https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-whale-thats-known-only-by-the-sound-of-its-voice/

bourgwick, 5 months ago to Tampa

50 years ago tonight, the #gratefuldead in #tampa, opening their last shows of the year. late fall ’73, show #18, stellar mix: https://archive.org/details/gd1973-12-18.sbd.miller.97511.sbeok.flac16 [1/4]

bourgwick, 3 months ago to random

tfw the straights are trying to freak us out again.

bourgwick, 2 months ago to random

baloney moccasins: when 23-year-old laurie anderson illustrated a very #psychedelic underground comic written by leo dicaprio's father, 1970. https://archive.org/details/baloney-moccasins-comics-1970-pyramid #comix #psychedelics

botanist describing luk vine
smoking vine to communicate with animals
guiltless newtbergers

bourgwick, 2 months ago to nyc

alright #nyc heads: the next #psychedelic sangha/bardo bath is friday, may 3rd at judson church on washington square park, feat. garcia peoples, earthless's isaiah mitchell, erik davis, kendraplex, chris dingman, the return of bubba on lights, me, & more, celebrating erik's new book from MIT (that i assistant-edited) annotating #LSD blotter from mark mccloud's collection. one long evening, tickets on sale now. https://withfriends.co/event/17803335/blotter_bath

bourgwick, 18 days ago to nyc

50 years ago tonight, television (in their original lineup with richard hell) tape an appearance on the underground tonight show at cafe wha?, alongside #PattiSmith & david peel & jackie curtis & others, aired on #nyc public access #television sometime later that year, surfaced incredibly in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlhYiN4gmU #punk [1/2]

Underground Tonight Show logo, the mouth of a cave

bourgwick, 2 months ago to random

weird vibrations & happy 76th to brother ned lagin. #seastones #NedFreaksUnite

bourgwick, 10 days ago to random

i have been a paid pro customer of otter.ai for 5+ years, the deadcast would not be possible without it, & i am beyond miffed at their account changes.

my "pro" plan previously allowed for 1,200 minutes of transcription per month, which i never used. but now i am limited to 1,200 minutes over 10 files. in a typical month, i upload 40-50 (or more) much shorter files from different sources.

my entire working library of audio is in there, so feeling trapped.

fuck otter. hard.

bourgwick, 2 months ago to Podcast

the good ol' grateful deadcast (the official #podcast of the #GratefulDead) is back for a 9th season, launching a week from today, bigger & weirder than ever! to celebrate their 50th anniversaries, rich & i are going fully into "from the mars hotel" & the wall of sound. short trailer up now. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-the-mars-hotel-50-trailer/id1522914723?i=1000649966411 #deadfreaksunite

bourgwick, 1 month ago to random

peace to dennis thompson of the MC5, who died this morning. and then there were none. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/ #kickoutthejamsmotherfuckers

bourgwick, 5 months ago to history

thoroughly disappointing & depressing (& yet entirely unsurprising) that google is killing support for usenet, which remains a powerful resource for '80s/'90s #history #research. #archives (& active groups) will continue to remain accessible via eternal september: http://www.eternal-september.org/hierarchies.php?language=en

bourgwick, 1 month ago to random

i learned this week that the amazing singer jimmie dale gilmore's 1st recorded appearance was this 1969 hub city movers 7-inch, setting a gilbert shelton comic to music, with jimmie dale singing lead on the cosmic c&w b-side. https://taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2022/08/hub-city-movers-chicken-song-bw-i-cant.html
...which i learned about by passively facilitating this beautiful interaction between @mrcompletely (who requested it) & @SidFudd (who'd already digitized it). https://heads.social/@mrcompletely/112275981607794436 #comix

original Gilbert Shelton comic

bourgwick, 2 months ago to ai

the unceasing barrage of #AI bullshit has made april fools' day mooter than ever, but things are probably still going to get worse before they get better.

bourgwick, 4 months ago to random

the former site of magoo's pizza in menlo park, where the future #GratefulDead played their earliest electric gigs as the warlocks in may 1965, has apparently been taken over by deadheads & will be reopening as an events space. hopefully they revive family night with free spaghetti bucket. https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/193lq11/the_dead_return_to_magoos_pizza/ #deadfreaksunite

ad for Magoo's, May 1965, when the Dead played on Wednesdays
vintage Magoo's photo