A Hippy Moment, Joint Me....
So last night while crusing on my way to see Life Aquatic, I was jammin' some tunes on my new sirius satelite radio (mondo props to my lady, dude)! Well one of the stations on this said radio is called "Jam On" - leaning towards current and older jam music. A pretty cool station to say the least. All the new shit of course sucks (phish, moe, string cheese - probably the reason I dont listen to this station more), but you can hear some pretty awesome live Dead and older late 60's/early 70's mind expanding jams from the likes of Flying Burrito Brothers, New Riders Of the Purple Sage, the Allmans among others.
Here is where it gets weird. Bill Walton (yes the famed NBA star and apparently king shit among the hierarchy of all dead heads) hosts a show every saturday night on JAM ON. Its a show dedicated to the best of live Grateful Dead from all the way back. This dude sounds soo hopped up on air, but the music he plays is pretty awesome. Last night's re-air of the new year's day brodcast was focused on the closing of Bill Graham's Winterland concert hall in San Fran.
They closed the doors on 12/31/78 and the dead (and New Riders Of the Purple Sage!) played the club's final show. Man, the dead was rippin' that night.
Some good licks and a good buzz. I left my car to enter the movie and returned and the band was still jamming! More tickling of the brain if you will. More awesome licks. When the jam ended, Walton returned to introduce a "set" from '73 where the Dead jammed a little with brothers Allman. Walton was giddy. This was the only brodcast that I had ever heard him do that didnt involve basketball so I was really intrigued at how weird he sounded. So he signs off into the song with...the following..."well ladies and gentlemen, sit back with your kind and let the Dead and the Allmans take you higher on this "MOUNTAIN JAM""....I was cracking up. The song actually ruled. Oh, totally fucking hippie-fried but still some pretty good interchanges b/w Jerry and Gregg.
???Goofball!??
***yes i totally realize this post is ridiculous.