Approach of The Dead

So it looks like I'm going to both the Nausea Mausoleum Nassau Coliseum and Madison Square Garden shows this weekend, Friday and Saturday. Never seen a show at either venue, so I pick up a little East Coast deadheadcred.

I'm looking forward to seeing some old friends (people with whom I saw Grateful Dead shows as far back as 1980) and enjoying some improvised music and well-crafted songs. The setlists have been interesting and wholly unpredictable so far, eight shows and only I think 3 repeated songs, so that's fun. I'd love to hear certain tunes, of course (Here Comes Sunshine, Morning Dew, Crazy Fingers, etc.) but whatever.

It's a different band, and there's nothing wrong w/ that. *shrug* Nothin left to do but smile, smile, smile...

Heroes #5

I quote from Blair Jackson's excellent liner notes to the recent archival Grateful Dead release, recorded in Feb. 1968:

...hipster hero and Merry Prankster Neal Cassady, of On the Road and Acid Test fame, driver of Kesey's psychedelic bus and one-man living conceptual art piece....[Bob Weir:]"He was the guy who was the most completely in-the-moment of anyone I've ever met."