It was 47 years today,
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| Barton Hall |
If you ask Deadheads to name their all-time favorite Grateful Dead show, a resounding answer would likely be May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall. Of course, choosing a favorite Grateful Dead concert is remarkably subjective, ultimately swayed by personal experience more than any other factor. Yet, for many, May 8, 1977, stands alone.
Fun Fact: I have an uncle (by marriage) whose name is Barton Hall. He married my aunt Madeline, and they lived happily ever after in Québec City, Canada.
First Set
- New Minglewood Blues
- Loser
- El Paso
- They Love Each Other
- Jack Straw,
- Deal
- Lazy Lightning
- Supplication
- Brown Eyed Women
- Mama Tried
- Row Jimmy
- Dancing In The Streets
Second Set
- Scarlet Begonias
- Fire On The Mountain
- Estimated Prophet
- St. Stephen
- Not Fade Away
- St. Stephen
- Morning Dew
Encore: One More Saturday Night
For the freeload (trust me, it sounds better than the one you have), tell us about images you came across on "blotter paper".
Micky Mouse / Mr. Natural / Bullseye
ReplyDeleteand that's all, folks!
Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice is the only one I remember
ReplyDeleteBesides the aforementioned Disney characters, I’ve also seen Goofy, Pluto, and Minnie.
ReplyDelete“Joe cool” Snoopy from Peanuts.
Several incarnations of Jerry Garcia, my favorite was one that underneath Jerry’s picture was the acronym WWDJ (what would Jerry do). Other dead related “perfs”, skull and crossbones, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh “Phil Zones”.
Rod Serling, William Burroughs, Mr. Natural, Buddha and Zippy the Pinhead.
An old connection, used to show me entire sheets (100 perfs), that were air brushed with a large single image of a unicorn, Pegasus and Ganesha (the Hindu is the elephant-headed god).
Dragons, thanks Babs
ReplyDeleteI remember some of those mentioned, but I also had some Barbie blotter. Picture of a cartoon girl's face.
ReplyDeleteBetty Boop? I wonder if there are collectors that have periodic expos like the comic book people.
DeleteA while back in an art gallery here in Manhattan, there was an exhibition called “Heroin Stamp Project”. On display were empty glassine heroin bags, with various “brand names,” trademarks and slogans stamped on them, that were picked up on the streets of “Alphabet City” (Lower East Side) . IIRC, there were something like 1,800 items, which was estimated to be the number of bags, a heavy heroin user might go through in a year.
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I think that Jesse Jarnow has curated a show of "blotter art." He's the author of this (very poorly formatted) post that I found which mentions a blotter illustration I never saw, but a close friend has mentioned, in connection with an 80's show at the Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland. "Gorby blots" was what I searched for, and here's a reference to the book "Skeleton Key," where I first read of them:
ReplyDeletehttps://jambands.com/columns/jesse-jarnow-brain-tuba/2003/12/29/the-days-between/
D in California
https://blotterstore.com/collections/best-selling-prints
ReplyDeleteA friend once told me that after returning from Vietnam he asked his wife if she had any acid She said she had some blotter. He'd never heard of that. Wasn't around when he left for service. Said it was about as big as a Jack Daniel's label. He shrugged his shoulders, wadded up the paper and tossed it in his mouth. He said he was high for 3 or 5 days, (I can't remember as it's been so long and he had a tendency to exaggerate) His wife told him later that you were supposed to cut it into hits and he took about 15.
ReplyDeleteThe Alfred E Newman face (Mad Magazine) was on a lot of the blotter floating around New Orleans back in the day.
ReplyDeleteIn the UK, Ganesha (Elephant God). Also Purple Om symbol.
ReplyDeleteI also remember Windowpane & Purple Pyramid & Green Pyramid
ReplyDeleteMy first trip was a dosed sugar cube. Did any of the freeloaders drop "Sunshine"?
DeleteI'm wondering about the provenance of this recording. Did you digitize your original Maxell cassettes after letting them bake in a glove compartment for decades so that the iron oxide particles are firmly embedded in the tape substrate like a pro tape head. Or is this one of those Japanese sourced 24bit/192 recordings, etched a single bit at a time on a grain of rice by Budhist monks as part of the remastering process.
ReplyDeleteThe freeload is from a 1/2 inch reel to reel, given to me by Betty Cantor-Jackson, many moons ago, whom I'm still in touch with. I've tweaked it using Pro Tools 2023.12. The digitized files have been fermenting in a Cognac barrel (French oak), on Ram Dass' back porch, for superior sonic nuances.
DeleteYou might take a page out of reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry's book and try burying your master alongside some top-grade colly. It may bring our yet further nuances in the Dead's endless noodling.
DeleteActually, I did take a leaf, from Rasta “Scratch” and blew the smoke from a joint of Bananaconda #6 (30.22% THC, not for abecedarians) from my local dispensary, all over the reel to reel as it was spinning.
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You had me at Cognac. Not usually a Dead fan, but I'll partake. Thanks, Babs.
ReplyDeleteYou had me at Betty. Thanks Babs. How's the autobiography coming along? I'd like to pre-order.
ReplyDeleteBlotter never reached us in Hut 5 at Coventry Technical College. We had tiny light blue pills with a memorable metallic taste, provenance unknown. Never knew any strength measurement other than the top of my head blew clean off each time, and going down the rabbit hole into the fractal zone of visible thought chemistry . Much later, a friend gave me the last few doses of clear liquid LSD given to him in a phial by the man who made it - a professor at MIT. It was this I took at Angkor Wat. Not that I needed it.
ReplyDeleteI just recently came across your site while exploring links from the memory foam. Is there any way that you could re-up the link to 5/8/77?
ReplyDeletethank you