Streaming up to Buffalo

Believe it or Not. We are featuring the 9/26/81 show from Buffalo, NY. When it is all said and done, we will have a fairly decent snapshot of the Grateful Dead from a rather specific date - Sept. 26th - not to mention a rather strong association with the 2nd largest city in the state of New York.

Join Shakedown Stream for another excursion into the realm of the Grateful Dead. Plus, we will check out some of the highlights from this Fall Furthur Tour from out west.

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Streamin up to Buffalo

Jerry Garcia / Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

The Odd Couple

"Garcia taught Saunders — then a well-paid, straight-laced side man — how to loosen up. Saunders taught Garcia — the always-smiling centerpoint of counterculture darlings the Grateful Dead — how to play the old standards. They’d perform together throughout their careers, in bands called Legion of Mary and Reconstruction, behind Creedence Clearwater Revival guitarist Tom Fogerty on his 1972 album Excalibur, during a trio of Dead shows, and on Saunders’ 1990 release Blues from the Rainforest. Saunders even helped Garcia recover his musical bearings after the guitarist roused from a diabetic coma in 1986." (somethingelsereviews)

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Compare & Contrast

Shakedown Stream will do a Compare & Contrast theme for the next 2 weeks on mvyradio.com. We will be devoting the next 2 weeks to 9/26/73 & 9/26 81 shows from the War Memorial from Buffalo, NY. It's funny, but what are the odds that the Dead played at the same venue on the same day and month, but on a different year. Well, when it comes to the Grateful Dead - anything is possible.  Join me and all of us this week and next week on the Stream as we compare & contrast these two shows from Buffalo, NY.

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

How I Listen & Stream

"Jer Bear - I just discovered the Shakedown Stream a few months ago and thought I'd answer the question you asked during second Jerry Treats 'Stream about how we listen. I download 'Stream episodes through iTunes, put them in a 'Shakedown Stream' playlist so the play in oldest to newest sequence, sync to my iPod 160 GB Classic and listen to them at work through a Harmon Kardon Play n' Go (1st Gen) boom box (truly fantastic sound). I have an office by myself and listen to music all day long. In addition to the 'Stream I have over 200 episodes of the Deadpod, 15 or so Dick's Picks,nearly all the Road Trips subscription to the new Dave's Picks and lots of JGB, L of M, Pizza Tapes etc. The CDs are managed in iTunes and I create such are put on individual playlists by Venue/Date. All this I manage on iTunes converting most everything to WAV files (2 TB hard drive with mirror back-up). I have a very eclectic music collection (pushing 800 GB of music on the home computer) but I sometimes go 2 weeks listening to exclusively the Dead or Jerry music - 8 hours a day. I struggle to explain to people why I don't get bored or tired of it - but I don't - I just keep listening.

Side note: I'd be interested in learning how you manage what I can only imagine as an overwhelming collection shows and songs. Perhaps you have addressed this in a blog.

I like your show a lot - especially the Bear Essentials. Jerry's and the
Grateful Dead's influence is large and diverse and you do a very nice job spreading the wealth.

Thanks for your time and effort,"
Dick Mc.
Marin/Sonoma County CA

Digitization 101

"Description: The Grateful Dead Archive (GDA) at UC Santa Cruz represents one of the most significant popular culture collections of the 20th Century and documents the band’s activity and influence in contemporary music from 1965 to 1995. At CNI’s spring 2012 membership meeting, UC Santa Cruz University Librarian Virginia Steel and Project Manager Robin Chandler discussed the particular challenges of merging a traditional archive with a socially constructed one."
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"Twenty years ago, Don and Jenn McCallister — psyched to meet other people in Columbia as devoted to Jerry Garcia as they were — became customers of Loose Lucy’s.
Before long, the couple bought the Five Points shop near the University of South Carolina.
 
And after two decades, they’re still playing the Grateful Dead on the sound system."

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Mickey's Groove

-For Mickey Hart, it’s still all about groove.
“I’m having one hell of a time; I’m having some big fun and the audiences are loving it,” said the former Grateful Dead drummer, now on the road with the Mickey Hart Band. “Yeah, I could do this until the day I die.”

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Shakedown Stream is devoted to the Grateful Dead. Week after week, we stream entire Dead shows. We are diverting the current this week to a whole complete Jerry Garcia Band show from 1977. Such a detour has occurred only once before on Shakedown Stream. Maybe we are engaging in phenomenology. Last week's "Jerry Treats" was delicious, yet, we Streamers want more of Jerry sweetness. Join me this week as we continue to celebrate the life and music of Jerry Garcia. Click on http://www.mvyradio.com/ Shakedown Stream Tuesday @ 5pm (East Coast Time) How Sweet It Is!

Inspiration Move Me Brightly

This week we celebrate the life of Jerry Garcia. He would have celebrated his 70th birthday this past August 1st, however, ... and this August 9th is the 17th anniversary of Jerry's death. Shakedown Stream will feature a cornucopia of Jerry's 30-plus years of music. No specific plan or road map is necessary for where we are going. The wisdom of the Stream will take us to a different time and space. Together we will experience a streaming memorial to the music and scene we all love.

Join us for a special episode of Shakedown Stream and get your annual fill of Pure Jerry on http://www.mvyradio.com/.