Searching for the Sound by Phillip C. Lesh

[TooStonedToType]

Sounds like a typo.  Should read 1000 mics?

[laughingwillow]

LOL I'm guessing phil got closer to a 1000ug dose from the apple juice jug during the intense experience described in the book than he did to 100ug. hehe

jrl: Sure the incident with bobby happened way earlier in their career than the deal w/ healey. But he ran sound for them on and off for many of those years, I'm guessing.

lw

[JRL]

Have you heard that rehearsal tape on "So Many Roads", at the end of the tune(can't remember which) Garcia says "Dan, Dan, where are you?"
he sounds a bit perturbed.

Nothing worse than a sound man on a power trip. I was on a show with Maria Mulduar. For our set( I was playing with The Lewminators) I remember that the monitors really sucked.

Well when Maria got up there she started giving to the sound man big time and he just  turned on her.  Every time the guys tried to sing the back up parts the mics weren't even on in the house.

later I did a gig with Chris Burns, Maria's keyboard player and musical director. He told me that normally they would have interceded with the crew, smoothed things over, but she had just cheated them out of their travel money and they just let her twist in the wind.

[Maverik]

Another book on the Dead I need to buy, I'm already so behind in my reading. thanks for the reviews guys.

[JRL]

Maverik- Put this one at the top of the list. It's the real deal from the horse's mouth.

[TooStonedToType]

I'm not finished but so far this is a great book.  

Page 153 - "I've always felt that different batches of acid had different personalities, alchemically fused into the experience by the consciouseness of the person who made it."

Probably the same could be said for extracts.

[JRL]

I am reading it for the second time. First time for the story, second for the jewels.

[space]

Okay, okay, I ordered the book.

Which part of the CD do I lick? :shock:

[laughingwillow]

LOL

The dose on the disc is for your stereo, silly.

That reminds me...... There was a run of dead shows back in a different statute of limitations where the dose du jour on the first night was on green, non-perfed construction paper. The little odd shaped pieces looked bunk as hell. But when me friends had me eat one, they only had to follow me around for about 10 minutes before I was able to give a seal of aproval to buy a quantity.

The next night featured purple construction paper, just as knarly as the green. But you should have seen some people's faces when presented with cut up shards of a material straight out of childhood. hehe

lw

[TooStonedToType]

It reminded me of the "cammo" blotter story.  It appears lost to spiritplants.com, but basically, I had this dream were I was in this lot.  This guy was tring to sell obviously bunk sheets of paper.  I confronted him and he admitted there was no acid, but they were magical anyway.  Each pattern printed on the paper did different things.  I couldn't quite understand his descriptions of some of the stranger fractal and eyeball patterns in my already enlightened condition, but settled on a free sample of some with a cammo pattern.  He explained it would make me and everyone else who took it tonight invisible to everyone else.  Anyway the show when on and I realized i was invisible.  I could look around and notice the other "invisible" people.  It was cool for a while, but then the spinning girls saw right through us and it was a bit scary their magic was so powerful.

[judih]

WELL wake me up and smell new coffee!

it finally dawned on me that Phil speaks this book - he must have dictated most of it into a tape recorder. This book is meant to be told not simply visually read...(this is a 'duh' situation)

This book is spoken word and it's brilliant. You can hear the orchestrations, the sounds woven. You can hear the sudden epiphanies and waves of creativity. It's all there in the voice.

What a great writer.
You know i made the strange comparison of Dylan's Chronicles which is totally a word on the page book - a joyous amalgam of metaphors and juxtapositions - all visual (e.e. cummings - if you know what i mean)...but Phil! Phil is not to be followed along silently! Phil is to be read aloud.

To an appreciative friend with minds enhanced and open!

what a book!

thanks again jrl for putting this one in my hungry grasp.

judih

[JRL]

Ain't it though? I read it once for the story and again for the music. Phil is a mensch, no doubt about it. Makes me proud of my hippie roots.

Hey, Sistah! We started recording Yogev's tune "Not the One" yesterday and are going back today to work some more!!

[judih]

Great. Ahl's happy - just shared that good piece of news with him. "It's a good song" and he's nodding his head.

May the energies flow!

j

[JRL]

Give my love to the whole family, I feel that we are one through SPF and young Yogev he just blended in to ours like he is with yours. Just a great young man and a giant talent. What a diamond in the rough! And he will come home a changed man.

[judih]

a diamond in the rough, that he is!
a jewel.

(He has a brother as well - more rounded and a double bass player. Sweet as sugar pie.)

Work your spell, joe, and the spell will work its charms over all.

goodness gracious vibes

j