good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
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it's the *700th* episode of the frow show on @wfmu.bsky.social & the last in a regular slot for a bit! taking a (slight) break after being weekly for 10+ years, hopefully back doing fill-ins soon. (hit me up, DJs!) tune in for 3 hours of new music & jammy intrigues. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
thanks, man!
The latest episode of the Deadcast is top-tier, an all-timer!
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40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead celebrate labor day in oklahoma city. good party jams! tapes, video, my notes, rare kreutzmann interview, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
important PSA: @actualylt.bsky.social hanukkah tickets on sale this friday, with no-fee tix at record grouch in greenpoint. see you at the bowery ballroom in december!
@brokensymmetry.art not yet on bluegrassarchive that i can see.
Peter Rowan, Tony Rice, Vassar Clements, & Ronnie Simpkins 1998-10-24 - Arts & Science Center - Hickory, NC https://archive.org/details/rowan-rice-clements-simpkins-1998-10-24-arts-science-center-hickory-nc-0110
FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen
One highlight of my vacation was a side-quest to the Olsen Farm, the setting of this painting!
Even by the standards of the Deadcast , this is a brilliant episode. Anyone who’s maybe wanted Dark Star to go electric Miles (and who hasn’t , come on) should tune in for the SNACK benefit jam.
thank you, john!
50 years ago today, a grateful dead session at ace’s, working on jerry garcia’s “reflections” album, reviving a pair of then-sidelined dead songs, both with 2 drummers for the 1st time. heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
an oxygen mask, but it's just the smell of mass market paperbacks
coming to grips (or not) with the end of the long weekend with a nice soundboard of peter rowan, tony rice, & vassar clements at a house party in 1998. gdarchive.net/Bluegrass/Ar...
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
pre-tape! made with a disc cutter by jerry newman (research topic for long-in-progress book)
The lyrics of Lou Reed’s song Sick of You (from New York, 1989) floated into my mind. Quite an uncanny set of scenarios.
![[Verse 4] They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps And died being treated at Mt. Sinai And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill Some wired doctor prescribed for stress My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps They discovered some animal no one's ever seen It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire After running over Rudy Giuliani They say the President's dead, no one can find his head It's been missing now for weeks But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit I'm sick of it I'm sick of you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwb7aulelog3wpb6o3nwx33e/bafkreicp6jcayvbnnedaksdpol5vuyu72amqylod3gsw6nshwpnoegsmza@jpeg "Click to view full size")
handy compilation of loosie jim o'rourke covers, compilation tracks, & song-adjacent miscellany.
exhilarating jazz-adjacent beats/beat-adjacent space/space-adjacent jazz from brazil that makes me suspect i should check out everything guilherme granado has contributed to. keroxenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-...
Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: I am proud to finally announce that the website I was working on, the Looney Tunes Restoration Guide, has officially launched! With some basic info on each of the shorts and home media releases, a calculator, and more to be added in the near future! ltrestorationguide.com
40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead’s last ever show in austin. tapes, notes, scene reports, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
bright multitracked "solo" congolese guitar by vumbi dekula, mostly instrumental. enormous hits of light, sweet sunshine. vumbidekula.bandcamp.com/album/congo-...
There may come a day I will dance on your grave If unable to dance, I'll still crawl across it If unable to dance I will crawl!
fresh neil young & the chrome hearts BBC soundboard from glastonbury in june, so pro mixed that you can actually hear spooner oldham's B3 (mostly inaudible when i caught them last week)
Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism, Avanzi, RAI 3, Italy, 27 nov 1992 LIVE BROADCAST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCAtxwLCkY
closest thing there is to an archive is mark rodriguez's book collection of j-cards called "when all is said & done". he might have some idea. www.instagram.com/dead_tape_co...
surely one of the all-time most promising starts to a sci-fi novel i've encountered. (@johnshirley2024.bsky.social's "black hole of carcosa") (no spoilers.)
40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in swampy houston, a sweaty evening at astroworld. tapes, notes, photos, etc. heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
i think the submissives might be on hiatus, but delightful weirdo rock, like an all-women "freak out" era mothers with the shaggs knob turned up slightly (minus the disjointedness), or maybe like an expanded version of the late great grass widow. submissives.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
bold move to put out an album in august titled "august" that successfully channels august (& especially mellow late august evenings), but good for scree, who at least put out "jasmine on a night in july" in spring. airy floating jazz, ala super gentle frisell. screeband.bandcamp.com/album/august
...now resuming, a rolling/occasional thread of new(ish) jams & releases i'm enjoying.
50 years ago tonight, the keith & donna band feat. jerry garcia & billy kreutzmann in san francisco, the 2nd (& currently final) tape of the all-too-brief & very fun lineup, the very end of garcia’s 1st jazz period. tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1...
The NYC subway system is installing new emergency gates (to exit platforms) that are "delayed egress." There's a 15-second (!) delay to open the gate. This seems nutz to me. The main problem I forsee is people panicking and piling up at the door during a smoke condition, fire, or flooding.
on this week’s "blues for allah" deadcast, @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i attempt to untie “slipknot!” & explore the grateful dead’s harmonic & personal ambiguity in early 1975. were they even a band or a “more or less permanent musical association” as jerry garcia put it? www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...
I’m with you in Rockland where there are twenty-five-thousand mad comrades all together singing the final stanzas of the Internationale
Live music options in NYC, September 1975
sometimes i can really groove on the phrase "groove on" but less so the idea that "how to speak hippie" listicles are apparently part of the AI corpus (because i, a genuine human hippie, understand that "freak out on" is an antonym for "get high on")
Added new song No Name https://jerrybase.com/songs/1819
Tall Firs Live at Trans-Pecos on 2015-03-15 https://archive.org/details/tallfirs2015-03-15transpecos
dept. of corrections: it turns out the wild odd-metered jam on ned's birthday session is actually a lagin piece titled "no name" (as in "feral cat, unknown name," in ned's description). track 6 here, if you'd like to update your j-cards: archive.org/details/gd75...
this deadcast lingers in march '75, hanging out at ned lagin’s birthday jam with @thedavidcrosby.twitter.com & others, & unpacking the dead’s semi-reluctant 8-musician return at the SNACK benefit, where they debuted a piece they were then calling “space age” www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...
on this week’s "blues for allah" deadcast, @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i attempt to untie “slipknot!” & explore the grateful dead’s harmonic & personal ambiguity in early 1975. were they even a band or a “more or less permanent musical association” as jerry garcia put it? www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
White Sand, New Mexico, USA - Raymond Depardon, 1982
come happen with the heads at the next heads happening, 9/11 at @mamatriedbk.bsky.social, feat. geologist from animal collective (solo hurdy gurdy!), rare NYCing by tom carter/pat murano, & yr very own sloppy heads, plus dj sets by @dumpland.bsky.social! amazing flyer by abraham.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.
will never get over that al strobel, the 1-armed man from twin peaks, helped build the stage at the dead's springfield creamery benefit (with 1-arm chainsaw technique!) & that i got to interview him! sunshine daydream flame keeper adrian marin made it into a very wee doc. youtu.be/soE-Wu4ismo?...
the grateful dead's springfield creamery benefit, today in 1972. come for the galaxy-bending "dark star" & stay for organic yogurt (& huey lewis, on driving the truck), naked pole guy (his name was gary jensen!), & al strobel, the 1-armed man from "twin peaks." also LSD. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...
Don’t know who made this but thank you
Legendary San Francisco Punk Club Mabuhay Gardens Is on the Verge of Reopening
the show where @stevesilberman.bsky.social worked backstage security. didn't realize it was just 2 weeks before his beloved cleveland '78 dead gig, where (as he put it) *somehow* lots of heads enjoyed red dragon LSD blotter. miss him every day.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
i'm in a different part of the air this evening, away from @wfmu.bsky.social. please freak out with @kendraplex.bsky.social in my absence, 9pm-midnight on wfmu.org.
if you too aspire to not-stop reading "vineland," may i recommend these page by page annotations. vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.p...
the ideal way to play Flaming Lips' Zaireeka has finally been invented
he sang on nearly all the Beach Boys' classics, side by side in harmony with his lifelong friend Brian Wilson, and now he's on the road keeping the band's legacy alive. love this Al Jardine profile by Andy Greene: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
The history of Music Papers and Fanzines by Giovanni Dadomo and Jon Savage in Sounds 20th, August 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social
In the 1970s, landlords burned their buildings for profit, displacing thousands of tenants in poor neighborhoods. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about @benchansfield.bsky.social's excellent “Born in Flames” and the consequences of the arson wave. thebaffler.com/latest/ring-...
In memory of Nancy Burton (1941-2025): www.tcj.com/nancy-burton...
the reliably delightful blog fanzine hemorrhage gets into a 1997 issue of baseball/music zine chinmusic. fanzinehemorrhage.com/2025/08/19/c...
10 years ago today, Steve Silberman's groundbreaking book NeuroTribes was published. It changed how the world discussed autism and inspired many autistic people to write their own books. Stay tuned for information on a 10th anniversary edition coming very soon.
the show where @stevesilberman.bsky.social worked backstage security. didn't realize it was just 2 weeks before his beloved cleveland '78 dead gig, where (as he put it) *somehow* lots of heads enjoyed red dragon LSD blotter. miss him every day.
DUMMY let's the cats out of the bag . . . www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
Wow! www.bbc.com/news/article... This is a good example of "AI scam you hadn't even imagined." It'd be very interesting to know how many people instantly recognized what was going on. Seems at least a decent number of people bought it completely.
excellent panorama of the dead & heads at boreal ridge, 40 years ago today, by larry hulst.
40 years ago today, the grateful dead at boreal ridge, “the highest grateful dead concert in the world,” at the infamous donner pass. often called the worst dead show ever. not a disaster but pretty bleh. tapes & mega-thread of scene reports, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
almost-perfect stupid beach read for apocalypse-addled gen x'ers. and almost totally different from the movie. same characters, different plot.
when the bluegrass discourse crosses an unthinkable line.
some genius on Reddit saw the pics of Mark Mothersbaugh's original marker-on-paper synth patch sheets in the DEVO documentary and recreated them on proper patch sheets: www.reddit.com/r/devo/comme...
Today on WFMU: On Radio Row, Nate the K. presents Honey Radar live from Monty Hall, in their hat-trick appearance, for a special, and dare we say unusual, live performance. Tune in to Radio Row or drop by Monty Hall in person, but don't miss this one. (5 p.m. ET).
Now a bunch of riot cops are here with pepper ball guns and face shields and a dangerously low-flying police helicopter is giving orders to disperse, because police in Los Angeles are unusually wound up at all times
ah, yes, the self-driving cars that will surely make nyc a better place.
neil did play the unreleased "singer without a song" but nothing from the new album. can't say i was hankering, really, but a block of new songs that neil REALLY wanted everybody to hear feels like it was a guaranteed (even crucial) part of all tours up until lockdown, i think, & i miss it (kinda).
correction, the first "long walk home" since '89, my bad.
temporarily healed by neil young & the chrome hearts at jones beach, GA pit abandoned to post-hurricane high tides & return of venue's old moat. windswept mix in balcony, birds dislodged from stage roof flocking during loud tunes. 1st "long road home" since '86 & "singer not the song" since '13.
no nits harmed! turns out he played it once in '89, too.
also got to experience neil's "greendale" era setup, where he sang into a mic, sent into a rotating megaphone itself miked by several small microphones. underrated neil young analog ridiculousness!
spooner oldham was basically, er, ambient on b3, though floated through in places. still, like, that dude cowrote "i'm your puppet" & "sweet inspiration" & played at muscle shoals (& with neil & everybody else).
temporarily healed by neil young & the chrome hearts at jones beach, GA pit abandoned to post-hurricane high tides & return of venue's old moat. windswept mix in balcony, birds dislodged from stage roof flocking during loud tunes. 1st "long road home" since '86 & "singer not the song" since '13.
I appreciate all these random fed cop agencies coming together to thermostatically destroy American trust in policing more efficiently than any civil rights movement
This is hard to fathom.
Truly psychedelic to live through the criminalization of mask use for health reasons while these fucks mutate into the secret police.
thanks, jeff!!
[feed cleanse] Jeff Bridges emerges from John C. Lilly's isolation tank as Burgess Meredith looks into the middle distance; Malibu, early 1970s
doesn't even have "indian rope trick," pfffffft.
i got text spam from the eric adams campaign today & i'm a little sad there's probably no human seeing my replies, honestly.
We are thrilled to announce that our documentary on the incredible Racoon Records label, featuring an extensive interview with Lowell "Banana" Levinger, is now streaming. 🦝✌️ nqra.live/the-story-of...
my interest in NYA has zero to do with having his catalogue in high res (which i already have) & entirely about access to live streams/recordings, which were absolutely selling points when they started, right up to the introduction of more expensive tiers.
yes, when i "locked in" my pricing in 2017-2018, they were all available & they'd just livestreamed 3-4 shows, implying many more to come. i think it's more they gave up rather than it eating into tickets. those were all at small sold out gigs (& one big one) & they never tried again post lockdown.
i have definitely been known to bring more books than the amount of vacation days, depending on destination & type of book. i'm still almost entirely an analog book reader but the prospect of being able to get ebooks if i run out has soothed me just the tiniest bit.
Sloppy Heads Live at Mama Tried on 2025-08-14 https://archive.org/details/sloppyheads2025-08-14.mk4.flac24
a lifelong fear really, apparently experienced vicariously by (& inherited from) my parents, which once resulted in me reading religious comics (specifically one about chuck colson finding jesus in the slammer) because it was all we could find when i ran out of books.
still a bit salty that one of the 2 main features i signed up for (timeline concerts) got bumped to a more expensive tier & that the other (live streams of shows) seems to have been abandoned altogether.
Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site …. Apologies … We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Never thought Calvinball would be cited by the SC (even in dissent) but here we are in the years
oh look, how about that, no more public buses to jones beach for concerts, canceled because too many people use uber etc. something else to place in the handy "fuck the rotting corpse of robert moses" file.
