Happy 8/8/2012 Jerry Week continues- many years ago I
stumbled into a little hippie shop in Richmond
Virginia which was a notorious
dead head enclave back in the day. As I
thumbed through their CD collection amongst incense and tapestries I found
something called "Bay Area Boogie" that featured West Coast Shows
from Berkley, Oakland
and San Diego. The San
Diego slice is Cold, Rain and Snow from
1/10/1970. The Berkley
slice is Deal and Dark Star from 7/13/1984 and the Oakland selections are Slipknot/Franklin's
Tower, One More Saturday Night and US Blues from 10/09/1978 and Shakedown Street
and Samson and Delilah from12/28/1982.
I'm sure to hard core collectors these selections or even
this collection is nothing new but to me finding this little gem in Richmond when I was going
to be away from home for six months was a god send. Thank you Bay Area Boogie for softening the
road for me and for the wonderful mix - smile, smile, smile.
Another disc I'll be getting to today features the classic
"Eat at Dave’s". If memory
serves this is Jerry riffing on US Blues either because he forgot the lyrics or
sang it so many damn times he had to goof it up for grins. This disc arrived in my hands through a story
of wrath and redemption all within a week which I have become all too used to
in my Journey fooled by looks, manipulated by fear, fueled by pharmaceuticals, tarred
and feathered all within 24 hours.
Fortunately for me I'm largely clueless as to the subterfuge that whirls
around me and I just go plugging along.
This does leave me confused when people come and go abruptly or try to
run circles around me, but I've learned to be undeterred. In the end vindicated is a word I have sadly
become all too familiar.
This 1987 collection from New York is a peach and chock full of good
stuff along with classics it features la bamba, devil with the blue dress on,
good golly miss molly and the aforementioned eat at daves. So here's to you NY if I can make it there I
can make it anywhere! And all of you out
there who can and do eventually think for yourself....rock on!
Keep the vibe going and enjoy your simple twist of fate that
has brought you to the here and now life is amazing, the planet is real and you
are the song that the morning brings make it a good one. Paul (~):D
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