mostly writing

It is fun to see new people discovering a love of mine that started around 1997: Tape-trading. I’m still impressed by how well the community has evolved. I remember mailing around cassettes, then DATs, then CDs. Then it was one-two day FTP sites that would run in college. Now you can practically stream everything from the LMA on archive.org.

If you like this track, check out the Phil Lesh & Friends from 4/15/1999 with Trey Anastasio & Page McConnell.

marco:

Phil Lesh and Friends - St. Stephen (live at Bethel Woods Center For The Arts, July 9, 2006 — the enitre show is legally downloadable for free at that link)

I like modern jam bands, but could never get into the Grateful Dead. Fortunately, they have a lot of great cover bands. (Correction from truestory: Phil Lesh was the Grateful Dead bassist, so this isn’t really a typical “cover band”. I don’t know what you’d call it.)

Here’s a great 12-minute jam that’s loosely related to the Grateful Dead song, St. Stephen. (It starts slow. Give it time.)

Thanks for the recommendation, John at Aroma! (Big shout-out to John for always having very good music playing on weekday mornings when I get coffee.)