LG connection: trees gone, wind turbines, bloom judges…everything is connected

…I’ve never seen Jerry with an Ash Strat before.

Way Cool.

You’re so right about YouTube. As I try to hone my bass playing skills, it’s just amazing to be able to watch and listen to the greatest players of all time, including Jaco Pastorius, who’s been dead since 1987, perform their greatest hits and strangest tangents.

Thanks for the comments. Now I’m going to click on your “China Cat/I Know You Rider” link.

BTW, the photo in the linked post above is of Alvin Lee of Ten Years After. If you’ve never seen the movie Woodstock, you owe it to yourself to see him work out on the “I’m Going Home.” 

Gotta love YouTube… after finding the above-mentioned blister-fest of a song, I had to track down another of my faves from the movie, Santana’s “Soul Sacrifice” with an unbelievable drum solo by the 20-year-old-but-looks-like-he’s-15 Michael Shrieve. 

And then there’s the funniest music video ever banned on MTV, “This Note’s for You” by Neil Young (originally banned in 1988 for its anti-commercial nature, later to receive the MTV Best Music Video of the Year in 1989)

 And getting back to the Dead, how about “China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider?”

Oh dear, I seem to have digressed….getting back to the local angle, I’ve long thought that some enterprising local entrepreneur could do the community a great favor by resurrecting the old Heathstock/Arbstock and reaching out to the broader community, rather than just the St. Olaf and/or Carleton communities, perhaps on DJJD weekend…

Just think if the Grateful Dead archive was at the Carleton Arts Union, all the people who would be coming to the downtown!

All we get is an UN-Grateful Dead Ocelot (see Twenty Views of Dundas photo) ; Doomed to be the uncool, Upper, Upper Midwest forever!