Monday, February 15, 2021

Soundtrack To The Book Dept. - Deadly Origins

 

This is a swell "live" recording of the Grateful Deads group performing a special "in concert" appearance for lucky pop music fans at a Fillmore West in 1968. Luckily, an electrician was on hand with a microphone to capture this famed rock n' roll combo as they treat the audience to up-tempo renditions of their big hits! You can bet "the joint was rockin'"!

Enjoy the experience of a lively "rock" music concert in the comfort of your own home with this very special recording!

This post made possible through the auspices of millionaire philanthropist jcc, to whom we extend our cordial gratitude!

14 comments:

  1. JCC supplies this text, which he probably copy-pasted from somewhere else:

    The deluxe edition of Grateful Dead Origins [graphic novel - Ed.] includes an LP record of the Grateful Dead performing at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on August 21, 1968. This previously unreleased show includes the first known West Coast live rendition of ‘St. Stephen’, and the first known performance of its ‘William Tell Bridge’, which would join ‘St. Stephen’ to ‘The Eleven’. The show was recorded to 8-track analog tape, and was mastered by Grammy-winning engineer David Glasser at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, CO.

    Side 1:
    “Dark Star” (Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) – 14:33
    “St. Stephen” (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 4:45
    Side 2:
    “The Eleven” (Lesh, Hunter) – 11:07
    “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” (Reverend Gary Davis) – 8:09

    Any youse nogood bums wants dis swell album recording, simply state why you think agrarian reform in the Low Countries during the 17c was so vital to the economy.

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  2. Van Gogh's Potato Eater was a no go, dat's why.

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    1. Like your style (and your knowledge of root legumes in Art) gmh!

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  3. The increasing control of the emerging class of capitalist farmers. Like the capitalist class more generally, in order to emerge as a dominant class, agrarian capitalists had to first gain control over production, independent of the landlords, and second, employ a reorganized labor force to produce a marketable surplus.

    A man wiser than myself, sang:
    "Mule's in the barn
    No crop laid by
    The corn crib's empty
    And the cow's gone dry
    Well water low
    Nearly out of sight
    Can't take a bath
    On a Saturday night
    No use talkin'
    Any man is beat
    With 7¢ cotton and 40¢ meat"

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    1. And we're not even automated, yet!!!
      (although Van Gogh might have been)
      Capitalist Farmers were all Company Men
      whether they knew it or not...
      That's a real clever company.
      At least a washboard never goes out of tune...
      (to an ear of corn)

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  4. The tulip economy is the still foundation of the world monetary system, only a lot of people don't know it yet.

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  5. The whole transition from feudalism to capitalism (with a handy li'l stop at mercantilism) was a thing, as teh kidz say. Hard to underestimate the extent to which Amsterdarn and the Dutch were at the center of the new emergent economy and it's twin "liberalism." Agrarian reform was key because it kept the rural folx engaged while aiding (and abetting, I suppose) the growth of cities/urban areas...JKC nails it, above: control, control control with a healthy dollop (wallop?) of command. As capitalism and liberalism emerge and pull nascent democracy (or at least the euroversion of such) along in their wake, they grow up together, seemingly intertwined and inevitable, indeed, ineluctable (pro tip: they are not). We are, with apologies for the capitalist inf(l)ected language, paying the price yet. The Dutch, y'all.

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    1. As for the Dead, friend, I believe it was the Son o'God, no doubt a close personal friend of Don Farq, who said to let the dead bury the dead, a nice line Marx nicked for "The 18th Brumaire" where he also noted that "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." So howsabout a link?

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  6. Turn the key...
    the engine runs.
    The Dead were/still are...
    Colonialism at it's finest.
    Longevity is a good thing!
    Let The Dead live...
    Call it Freedom or Courage or whatever.
    The Grateful Dead were a structural component thereof.

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  7. Stealth Link

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