So, what music are you listening to now?

[Ike Bana]

I enjoyed listening to some of this one this morning...



...although not anywhere near as much as I enjoyed it sitting 3rd row center of the first balcony at the Auditorium Theater on Friday night October 22, 1971. We dropped the red microdots, hopped in the Opel Kadett, and rolled down Lake Shore Dr. to see The New Riders of the Purple Sage with Garcia on pedal steel, and then the Dead.

A little triviality about this show. On October 19th the Dead played "One More Saturday Night" up at the U. of MN. for the first time. It had never been released on vinyl so the kids up there were the first people on earth to hear it. We were the second. Well actually the Thurs. night crowd was the 2nd and we were the 3rd. But anyway, nobody in the place, with the exception of travelers who had been at the Northrup Auditorium up there on Tuesday night and any returnees from Thursday night, had ever heard it before. The room went fucking nuts.

Sorry...I could not find a single youtube or other video anywhere on the web as a sample.