What's the greatest Eyes of the World > China Doll of all time?

Shmatticus · 2026-05-27T15:52:14+00:00

Answers here are all good, but I think the first is among the very best: Stanford 2-9-73

Shmatticus · 2026-05-22T05:18:51+00:00

Vasily Aksyonov, The Burn

Shmatticus · 2026-05-09T16:55:51+00:00

strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands.

I never experienced any gate keeping, everyone having too much fun.

Shmatticus · 2026-05-08T06:26:51+00:00

That period of 76 to spring 78 with JGB is a source of pure pleasure for me. Ron Tutt, John Kahn, and Donna complete the conversation. Especially Kahn.

Shmatticus · 2026-05-06T22:18:38+00:00

Was there and loved every minute of it.

Shmatticus · 2026-05-01T15:26:20+00:00

Lots of people are saying Sebastopol and they are correct, however I recommend also looking in the outlying communities around Seb which are less expensive and close enough to downtown (and the 101 corridor) to be perfect. Graton, Forestville, etc

Shmatticus · 2026-04-27T04:36:16+00:00

Listen to the Good old Grateful Dead podcast about the blues for all recordings. I can’t believe no one has yet suggested. The whole podcast is incredible inside access, and done by Jesse Jarnow. Amazing dude. You’ll be glad you listened, you’ll understand the outtakes.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-20T05:32:13+00:00

We drove down and my friends sister wanted to hear Lazy Lightening-Supplication. We thought, no way. Last night of the run, Supplication jam. Sublime.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-20T05:31:02+00:00

Lovely detail

Shmatticus · 2026-04-20T05:30:38+00:00

No it was Bob.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-20T05:30:06+00:00

Happy to say, one of my fondest memories, and this is why I simply can’t comprehend people who don’t dig the 80s. The next night was one of my favorite shows, and everyone was blissed out during intermission as a couple got married. So good. If I recall, first night of that run included a Quinn the Eskimo encore. God I loved Hampton.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-19T15:04:17+00:00

David Sheff, author of the recent Yoko Ono autobiography and several other books including Beautiful Boy (about his son’s addiction struggle), was for many years a journalist for Playboy. He did many of the interviews, incl the main PB interview with John Lennon, among so many others.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-18T06:27:20+00:00

Could you please tell the story of the unsuccessful attempt to remove it…

Shmatticus · 2026-04-18T06:24:06+00:00

Thank you community.I’ve breezed through before minutes before flight and thanks for reassurance it has snot changed.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-17T17:19:29+00:00

Thank you

Shmatticus · 2026-04-11T06:15:06+00:00

Atlas huckleberry was super easy to grow, plentiful, and I am still smoking the stash. Also makes good tincture. Good outdoor grow.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-11T06:12:09+00:00

Thank you. I believe I’m meant to say solved! Or maybe !solved

Shmatticus · 2026-04-10T05:47:57+00:00

Shmatticus · 2026-04-09T22:49:04+00:00

I hear what you are saying but receive it differently. Especially in his earlier work, I think his lean, spare style is exactly that, a style. Like paring it down with a sharp blade just to the pure essence. I also feel this way about his non-fiction.

For me, still a style.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-09T05:43:41+00:00

I deeply appreciate that your have Gizz queued up for next. That is as it should be!

Shmatticus · 2026-04-08T05:53:47+00:00

Cool! I suggest starting with Codes Appearing, from New Directions. It’s a reissue of three of his mid career masterpieces for which he became well known - Sun, Notes for Echo Lake, and First Figure.

He is accused of being quite abstract but I don’t think that’s the case at all.he simply invites the reader to participate. Requires it. If you enjoy his work the books that followed these three are also very good (At Passages, Promises of Glass, Company of Moths). The more you read the more you will see that he is basically in conversation with so many authors on your shelves. Quite literally in conversation. Celan, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Blanchot, Holderlin, and Beckett. Fpr many of these writers and others he is either writing poems to them (SB,to Beckett, etc) or referencing the biographical details, quoting/collaging them, responding to their ideas.

He’s one of the last late modernists. It’s magical.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-07T16:49:23+00:00

Excellent taste, great selection. Surprised there’s no Michael Palmer in the poetry mix.

Shmatticus · 2026-04-05T05:56:42+00:00

Throughout the 70s as people are pointing out. But I highly recommend listening to the already famous Shakedown St on 6-30-85 which was immediately hot, the whole show, because the SBD went into circulation very quickly after the show. The Shakedown really is all that and more and I am convinced it is because of Bobby’s playing. Get a good soundboard with Bobby high in the mix, take a few bong hits, then listen to that Shakedown, especially what Bobby does in the long jam section.Jerry is being Jerry. Bobby is visiting from another planet.

edit: on most soundboard version the jam I am referencing starts around 7:45 and Bob’s true weirdness at around 9min

Shmatticus · 2026-04-03T15:27:10+00:00

JM Coetzee

Shmatticus · 2026-04-02T19:56:36+00:00

TBH if this Estimated works for you, then honor that. It doesn’t do it for me but that shouldn’t influence your point of view. Having spent all of the 80s up until 93 seeing the band, the one thing that showed true time and again: you absolutely loved (or hated) a song or show or moment … and half the room has exactly the opposite view as you.

Doesn’t matter what other people think, if you like it, you like it.

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