"Can YOU pass the acid test?" On the eve of the Stones show, a little San Jose music history: On December 3, 1965, while performing 'Last Time' in Sacramento, Keith Richards was electrocuted on stage and wound-up unconscious on the ground. He was rushed to the hospital and by the next night, December 4, the Stones played two shows in San Jose. Also, that night in San Jose, the Grateful Dead played their first show as the Grateful Dead having previously been known as The Warlocks. The Dead show was at an old Victorian house downtown, and it was also the second of the Ken Kesey 'Acid Test' parties (the first had been over the hill in Soquel, next to Santa Cruz, Nov 27) and the first that was open to the public. The Merry Pranksters passed out flyers to the kids as they left the Stones show that night saying, 'can YOU pass the acid test?' (keep in mind LSD wasn't illegal back then)...and about 400 of them showed up and passed the test. Jann Wenner was there apparently, and it was rumored that Richards and Jones stopped by, and that it was Richards first time taking acid, but that part isn't clear. Unraveling The History Of The First Grateful Dead Show. - San Jose Rocks "Bill Wyman, the Stones’ bassist, later writes in his biography that band members Keith Richards and Brian Jones decide to show up for the big event on Fifth Street, though Richards says he doesn’t remember it. What is known: As meticulously described in Tom Wolfe’s book, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” the Dead set up in two adjoining rooms amidst a tangle of wires and speakers and proceed to freak out the attendees until 3 a.m. The long, strange trip has officially begun. (SOURCES: “THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST” by Tom Wolfe. “THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES,” by Paul Foster, who attended the party. Email from Rick Dodgson, Prankster historian. Email from Ronald Cook, owner of Coog Instruments in Santa Cruz, who lived in the 43 South Fifth Street house.)" The moment Keith Richards was nearly electrocuted on stage with The Rolling Stones - Far Out Magazine Grateful Dead Guide: Were Rolling Stones at an Acid Test? (deadessays.blogspot.com) "The First Acid Test that made much of a splash was in December, right after the Rolling Stones concert in San Jose. The band had just changed its name to the Grateful Dead, and played to several hundred tripped-out young people who followed the instructions on the mysterious flyer handed out at the concert, challenging “can you pass the acid test?” One of the intrigued Stones fans was aspiring journalist Jann Wenner, future founder of Rolling Stone, who remember the event variously over the years: “Here they were in the living room at someone’s house playing, and it sounded great. I was staggered, and I was taking drugs at the time, too I remember going, “What do you guys call yourself?” And they said, “The Grateful Dead.” And I went, “Wow!” “The impact, in my state of mind at that point, was severe.”
Listening to a summer mix on NTS Radio,* this track comes on, I Shazam it immediately. And my God, it's like I'm at the lake with a cold beer and an edible on hand while the sun shines. And I'm probably going to have a hard time finding this album, but that's the fun part. *NTS is an online radio station I'd highly recommend checking out. They play music from the well known to the obscure. I discovered some artists I would have not discovered otherwise. A singer who was big before the Khmer Rouge took power, a Chinese pop star covering Cranberries songs, or obscure folk musicians from Michigan. It's a treasure trove.
Ronnie Wood likes to do these paintings of their setlist. Here was last nights... Unbelievable how good they still sound, 'Midnight Rambler', 'Far Away Eyes', 'Like a Rolling Stone'...among the highlights. One last stop in Missouri on the 21st and their 2024 Hackney Diamonds USA Tour is a wrap.
Repped for them playing something in C# when they could easily just go to D. Their fanbase would never know the difference, and there's no way on earth Mick's range is caught between C and D like that. Of course, Keith and Ron probably just barre everything, so the only one to have to do any extra work would be Wyman (Jones/Palladino/whoever else since)
I haven't seen this in awhile... An early video of Mongoloid made by San Francisco artist Bruce Conner, whose thing was using found footage (when he was starting out, he couldn't afford film so he bought random movies at auctions and pieced them together, sometimes with music, sometimes not. Look for legendary French existentialist philosopher Albert Camus pulling a bus with his teeth at the 3:00 mark.
I've always been partial to the many covers of Black Sabbath by the Cardigans. Yeah, the love fool people. Well and the Dickies.
And if we're looking for new music with that 80's vibe. Man I'll miss NOFX. Here's an Australian band...
Great game and soundtrack! Perfect Dark replaced it in my collection because PD's multiplayer mode allowed the creation of sims (no longer necessary to have 3-4 human players present). That split screen nonsense also led to my unwavering belief that every console should have a monitor out for every available controller input. Then you could just grab your computer monitor or small flatscreen and take it to the console owner's house. I don't think that extra monitor output thing ever happened. No, I'm not rigging a whole desktop for gaming- that' old LAN stuff is overkill.
Rare always did have some great music. Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong, and Conker's Bad Fur Day for one. I'll post some of their stuff later, but they were all great. My username is from the main character of a video game series called Yakuza. The music alone goes hard. It also ignited my interest in watches (Long story lol).
Been a fan to some degree since High school but somehow had never got around to seeing The Pretenders live; until last night. Great show—Christie Hynde remains a pure distillation of rock and roll. This was also somehow my first time at the Warner Theater in DC. Beautiful venue and the sound quality was superb.
Jack White: No Name review – terrific surprise album is his most White Stripes-esque solo release | Jack White | The Guardian "Put bluntly, No Name is a rock record – an incredibly satisfying one. It sounds more like the White Stripes than anything White has cut since that band’s demise – its 13 songs are driven by the blues, his playing sounding like the bastard son of Elmore James and Jimmy Page, swinging between bare-knuckled riffs and sweet slide-guitar with a switchblade edge. The instrumentation is pared back to only what matters, what’s necessary. The drumming often channels the magical primordial stomp of the sorely missed Meg White’s poetic, bone-simple playing. The album is dark, heavy, thrilling, beautiful..."
Repped because it made me think of Jack Black, who doesn't deserve to sell another sixteenth note worth of music.
Not trying to bring too much politics into the thread, but I've already done so. He canned a band member for a comment about Trump, when he could have released a statement saying "it was handled in house" and nothing more.
Tenacious D cancels tour after Kyle Gass' offensive Trump joke (freep.com) "The Sydney concert date was on Gass’ 64th birthday. A robot sporting a party hat appeared onstage with a birthday cake that was presented to him. When asked to make a wish, Gass replied, “Don’t miss Trump next time.” I can't say if he over-reacted, maybe. Doesn't seem inexcusable (that he'd pull the plug on the rest of their Tenacious D tour dates after that) given that his partners comments came less than a day after the shooting. Jack Black would've preferred Kyle not wade in with that controversial remark and was pissed off about it and not wanting the backlash. Artists these days are walking a fine line.