When I got to San Francisco before the tour a bunch of people were sitting around a table. They were opening Marlboro packs, taking out all the tobacco, filling them up with pot and putting them back into the packets. We’re talking about very detailed work because we had to get them through customs and have them look like they were never opened. Then they took Vitamin C capsules, filled them up with cocaine and we put them in a bottle. We carried around these things in a trunk and the band took stuff whenever they needed it. It was just a really druggy tour. I remember Stephen came in once and he was holding the biggest ball of cocaine I’d ever seen in my life. I just couldn’t believe it.
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(via Golden Age Of Audio)
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Rebecca
Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Rebecca
As a human being and especially as a parent, I couldn’t make it through any of this without sobbing. If you have a heartbeat, you will cry. It is absolutely worth reading though.
Just J: A Revealing Conversation with J Mascis (by Sub Pop)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Filaments on the Inner Ring of the Helix Nebula
This cropped version of the Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293) mosaic shows cometary-filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula’s red and blue gas ring. The Nebula is in the constellation Aquarius at a distance of 650 light-years from Earth. The Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth and it a frequency target of study. Because of its ere stare it is sometimes called the “Eye of God”.
Credit: NASA/ESO/Hubble/Helix Imaging Team
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Romain Laurent makes perfectly looped moving portraits of his friends and neighbors.
We asked him just how he does it.
AND HE TOLD US!
my golden road was first time hearing Box of Rain
Today’s daily dose of the dead is the song “The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion” from the March 18, 1967 show at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco. The song cuts in but this is a great song and the only live version I have. This is also the first time the dead ever played this live and they only did it 3 times.
I have heard great live versions of this by the Other Ones, Ratdog and Phil & Friends. This song is also played often during inning breaks at Fenway Park.
Of course the song describes well the devotion that many of us have for this music. For me the “Golden Road” was hearing the album Terrapin Station for the first time and then my first show on 1/10/79.
A really nice rarity for this Saturday!
“Well, everybody’s dancing in a ring around the sun, nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun. So take off your shoes, child and take off your hat, try on your wings and find out where it’s at.”
