Some of my favorite music

• Grateful Dead, Capitol Theater 4/27/77, Scarlet Begonias
• John Gorka, I'm from New Jersey
• Bonnie Raitt, Angel From Montgomery
• Grateful Dead, Shakedown Street
• Steve Goodman, Ballad of Penny Evans
• Grateful Dead, Alpine Valley Theater 1989, Deal
• Grateful Dead, Ripple (acoustic)

 

Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.

 

I'm from New Jersey. I don't expect much.

 

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

 

Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart...

 

No quote. This just makes me cry.

 

Since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose, you and me better spend some time wonderin' what to choose.

Reach out your hand if your cup be empty / If your cup is full may it be again

A collection of links to interesting live music

• Grateful Dead
• The Dead
• Ratdog
• Moonalice at the Internet Archive
• The String Cheese Incident
• Cowboy Junkies

When viewing music on the Internet Archive, look for the "VBR ZIP" link on the left side of the page. It's a single .zip file that contains the entire live music presentation as variable bit rate MP3 files. Download, unzip, and you've got the entire show.

Here's something really cool from the Internet Archive, Geroge Gershwin playing Rhapsody in Blue (side 1, side 2), recorded in 1924 at Thomas Edison's studio in Meno Park, N.J.

When I buy music, I buy it from Amazon. There's no DRM involved, no limits, Just music.

 

You may already know about the Internet Archive because of the Wayback Machine. Well, Sherman, the Wayback Machine contains an online history of the World Wide Web. Using it, you can find stuff that's disappeared from current websites (and websites themselves that have disappeared). That's only a small part of the archive.

At the fairgrounds in Des Moines, on May 13, 1973.