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Jerry Garcia Tribute DAYS BETWEEN
BOB DYLAN - The SculpturerRome 7/9/23“Gorgeous renditions of old tracks such as Gotta Serve Somebody and I´ll Be Your Baby Tonight just give a break through the musical journey and rough poetry of the new songs. When I Paint My Masterpiece is again sung in Rome the exact place where it was imagined. It starts in the known way and it finishes like a waltz.
Surprise track of the evening: Only A River by Bob Weir. Maybe there´s a river theme on this tour (this song, Crossing The Rubicon, Watching The River Flows opening track, and the other song recently picked in the Dead basket: Brokedown Palace).
Then, of course, TRUCKIN´! The ghost of Jerry Garcia seemed to hang over the stage. What a stunning and powerful singing and playing. The lyrics suits perfect for a travelin´ band in a 3 years World Wide Tour: Sometimes the lights are shining on me, Other times I can barely see! Bob sings the fast verses without even a doubt. Perfect shape for a stage! 19 songs set and never a shadow of boredom.”
Claudio Manara
Rome, Italy
Special thanks to Bill Pagel @ boblinks.com
Bob Dylan performs STELLA BLUE first time live in Barcelona, Spain June 23, 2023 STELLA BLUE Lyrics/Music by Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia STELLA BLUE - Bob Dylan
CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER by Uncle John
I saw this documentary, “California Typewriter”. There´s an excellent segment with musician John Mayer that clicks with me. John Mayer eloquently shares with us that it´s not the same trying to write on a computer. John Mayer explains this about his songs, how he has many hard drives with his lyrics and work, and yet he´s never going to go back and look at that. Something typed comes from a different mind process, the song flowing from the typing. You can hold it, touch it, see it, roll and scroll it.
I corresponded with the Grateful Dead office in California. I went to the Lincoln Avenue office in San Rafael and Annette invites me in and has me sit at a desk in an office by myself to wait for a phone call from a band member. The whole place is like a musical wonderland of ideas. What I notice in this room is the Selectric typewriter and its balls of different fonts. When I was in New York, I wrote to the Office asking for the lyrics to about eight of the Grateful Dead songs. They mailed them to me, typed, with a script font from an IBM Selectric typewriter. One of those songs is “Scarlet Begonias” and I´m thinking of this song singing to myself:
Once in a while, you get shown the light Look at it write, look at it write John Mayer shares a clip with us from the documentary “Don´t Look Back” that shows Bob Dylan playing the typewriter typing. It´s just like another musical instrument for him, like the guitar and harmonica, John Mayer shares. He is in his own world. I see Bob Dylan writing a song tapping the keyboards on the typewriter and the keys he´s tapping are dancing to his words. John Mayer was inspired to buy a typewriter to see what it´s all about. "I realize the reason that I was able to come alive on a typewriter where I wasn´t using a computer, or even a pen, was that you´re at sort of a safe distance where you can express yourself openly without having to edit yourself at the same time. And so it became sort of like a confessional for me where I would sit and just type, and the reason I was able to go deeper into an idea was because I wasn´t stopped anywhere in that writing by a red squiggly line. And what is spell check or grammar check if all you´re really try to do is sort of dig into this sort of mercurial sort of world of what your ideas are." John Mayer is holding a stack of typed lyrics. "If these were in Microsoft Word I´d never see these again, all these typed out lyrics, some of which made the records, most of which didn´t. " He sings "Queen of California" as we watch him read the typed pages. "It´s almost what thoughts look like."
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Review by D. and Mademoiselle Lili“And then it happened... Something didn't seem right. At first we thought it was a new version of "Jimmy Reed" but then we heard the word "truckin'"... Sporadic roars from around the audience (jumping from Dead heads), we wanted to rush the stage- the reaction would have been bigger but it is so difficult to express oneself in this venue. But this was special, so special, Really special. Bob was loving it, the band were loving it. He sang like a 20 year old do dah man, giving it everything, every word was clear, next level stuff. As the song finished Tony punched the air in delight - smiles all round. And then it was over - from Truckin' to Mother of Muses - like nothing had happened. This is the rough and rowdy tour and don't forget it - a great show. What a long strange happy night it's been!”
Thanks to Bill Pagel @ boblinks.com
"ONLY A RIVER" Bob Dylan, Nagoya, Japan 4/20 ![]()
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CLARE MALONEY Dream Within A Dream by Uncle John Sunday, March 19 is the 100th show Phil Lesh has played at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.
Clare Maloney & The Great Adventure is playing a Phil Lesh & Friends pre-show next door at Garcia´s, and all concert ticket holders get free admission to this show.
I spoke with Clare after a show with The Airplane Family at The Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, California. Her talent is astounding as a musician playing guitar in a band, and a premier vocalist with deep operatic training, and her golden voice is present through songs that move the spirit.
A touch of Hot Tuna, “Hesitation Blues” helps me understand what is going on. Her vocals on “Blows Against The Empire” are deep and mesmerizing. “Paul Kantner and David Crosby are here tonight very strong in the spirit.” I tell her, and she agrees with me, smiling. I share that I met Paul Kantner at an acupuncture clinic with Dr. Ron in San Francisco.
Her rendition of “Sunrise” is pitch perfect. Clare Maloney was an international opera star before she became a rocker. During the pandemic, Clare wrote over a hundred songs and it reminds me of the time Robert Hunter went on the road with The Grateful Dead and wrote a song with a hundred verses, “Truckin´”. The Grateful Dead recorded the first five verses. I tell Clare that Jerry Garcia is here tonight. “Yes, he is!” she says.
Clare Maloney & The Great Adventure have a new album out called “DAYBREAKER”. Check out “Legend Lives On” and “Dream Within A Dream” and “Song To The Moon”.
I tell her that she sounds just like Grace Slick. She personifies, amplifies and emanates her vocally. “White Rabbit” is maravilloso.
"Inspector Rabbit" by artist Grace Slick .
Clare reminds me of Grace the musician, yet she has her own style. This girl knows how to rock on!
Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley California January 28 & 29, 2023
GREEN COMET 1/24/2023
Jupiter & The Moon 1/25/2023
I'm sitting at a table directly across from Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Starship & Jefferson Airplane. He's reading the Chronicle and I'm playing one of the puzzle mazes. Paul's profile is facing me and he looks just like I do with pins sticking out of our ears. We are at Dr. Ron´s acupuncture clinic and I engage Paul´s attention and bring up my musical science fiction play, "RAINDANCE". In the play, extraterrestrial time travelers, seven sirens, intercept the Voyager 1 and capture the Golden Record and listen to it, including Chuck Berry's song Johnny B. Goode, and when they arrive on Earth they become seven gypsy dancing women who sing to Bobby "Sugarfree" Sugaree, and in one voice tell him "Take us to your leader Johnny B. Goode". Paul Kantner and I talk about Jerry Garcia's love for science fiction, Blows Against The Empire, and Sirens Of Titan.
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THE PLAY RAINDANCE THE PLAY by Uncle John Characters Storyteller Sundance Raindance Lady Liberty The Joker The Purple Sage The Hermit Daniel Rafael Michelle Pretty Peggy Ida Red Billy Dee Jesse Freya Chanteur Johnnie Walker Harry Jardiniere Maria Bonita Seven Gypsy Women Bobby “Sugarfree” Sugaree Rainbow The Magician
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IRISH Café "Seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay The night comes so quiet close on the heels of the day”
There´s Always A Story
under the midnight moon
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" She come skimming through rays of violet She can wade in a drop of dew She don't come and I don't follow Waits backstage while I sing to you"
Venerable rock and blues guitarist Joe Patenaude released (2022) SNAPFINGER, an album dedicated to original instrumentals, offering a creative landscape of lush guitar compositions, spiced with a few rockin’ blues tunes—Patenaude records and plays on guitars, bass, piano, organ and several vocal numbers, and its mastered by Steve Johnson of Big Blue Studios in Astoria, Oregon. A departure from years of rock, blues and pyschedelia, yet drawing from all, Patenaude musically paints with programmatic themes, musical memories and using his snap fingers, as he refers to, that have been playing the guitars for over 50 years. Guitar Maestro Joe Patenaude
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Bob Dylan is more than a singer songwriter poet musician & author. He´s also an amazing and prolific artist.
SUNSET, MONUMENT VALLEY, 2022 Artist, Bob Dylan BOB DYLAN´S NEXT BOOK : THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG AVAILABLE NOW
from Bob Dylan´s The Philosophy of Modern Song "Volare" Illustration from UK TV series SUPERCAR by AP films/Shutterstock
"Fill a need and find it.”
"Total invention: something which fills a need which does not yet exist.
After Leonardo DaVinci´s invention of the parachute, the first airplane was as
good as on the wing."
--Robert Hunter
"A good way to invent the
future is to predict it." --John Perry Barlow
"It's darkest 'fore the dawn (oh, Lord)" --Bob Dylan from Rough and Rowdy Ways
Uncle John Reviews Bob Dylan´s Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour 2024 MultiMedia Review
Bob Dylan´s album released 6/ 19/ 20 Bob Dylan´s World Wide Tour 2021-2024 Tour begins November 2, 2021
King Solomon & The Queen of Sheba "There was never a king like Solomon Not since the world began Yet Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man" -- Rudyard KiplingRobert Hunter from his album Jack O´ Roses
MARIA MULDAUR´S 80th Birthday Celebration September 2022
WAVY GRAVY
View here: David Letterman & Jerry Garcia play Scrabble
The first time I am backstage with the Jerry Garcia Band, I’m sitting at the main round table listening to Jerry Garcia carry on a half dozen lively conversations at the same time. He is astutely following each one and contributes brilliant observations, upbeat, with a good deal of laughter. I finally capture his attention with my eyes and interject a question, "Have you seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind?" I ask him, not realizing he had a cameo in the film. He immediately replies, "Im not answering anymore questions until we find out who you are." There is suddenly silence in the room. And I introduce myself as "Uncle John" "That improves things considerably," Jerry Garcia responds, lifting his eyebrows with a twinkle, and smiles, and the banter in the room resumes. MIDNIGHT NORTH performs Coyote with Amy Helm and Mikaela Davis Live at Levon Helm Studios 2-27-2022
Selections From Levon Helm Studios Tracklist
"Find a need and fill it." --Robert hunter
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How sweet the sound with delicious food & festive smiles in friendship gatherings
Set 2: WATCH->Deadheadland Television Terrapin Crossroad's Backyard Stage, Beach Park, San Rafael California. 10-31-2021
Snapshot of our solar system captured by Voyager 1, 1st man-made machine to fly into interstellar space
We´ve Never Seen This Before WEBB Telescope First images unfolding
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