Esau.

http://www.relix.com/blogs/detail/watch_bill_walton_gave_three_minutes_to_bob_dylan_and_grateful_dead_during_a_college_basketball_game

 

Last night during the Oregon-USC college basketball game, Bill Walton took a moment to reach something now known as Peak Bill Walton, as the former NBAer and Grateful Dead fan dished for three minutes on Bob Dylan and the Dead. It got so in-depth, in fact, that the ESPN producers whipped up a graphic on Dylan as Walton recounted his speech at the MusiCares Person of the Year Award and reciting lyrics from Dylan's latest record,Shadows of the Night.

 

The beauty of all of this is that during the rant, Walton would occasionally try to call the game, which lead to hilariously out-of-context quotes like, "This is about Nelson Mandela, Bob Dylan, Bill Russell, Thomas Edison, the light is on. Throw it down, Snoop Dogg!" Snoop Dogg refers to Oregon's Dwayne Benjamin, who he dubbed Snoop Dogg earlier in the game.

 

And of course, the conversation landed on the band we all associate Walton with--Grateful Dead. He reminisced about a 1989 show at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles where Dylan took over vocals for Bob Weir after the guitarist forgot the words to "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again."

 

Walton's play-by-play announcer, Dave Pasch, provided a comical counterpoint to the ranting superfan. At one point Pasch says, "This is how bad it's gotten. We're building full-page graphics on musicians." To which Walton responds, "You've got the equation wrong, that's how good it's gotten." Again: Peak Walton. Poor Dave Pasch just wanted to call a basketball game.

Local residents are trying to prevent WayHome from happening.

http://www.aux.tv/2015/02/local-residents-are-trying-to-prevent-wayhome-from-happening/

Here's a link to the transcript of Dylan's speech Lefsetz was speaking of. I'll save a second wall of text and just provide the link.

Read The Bob Dylan MusiCares 2015 Speech Transcript

http://njnnetwork.com/2015/02/bob-dylans-musicares-2015-speech-transcript/

 

 

Did you know this was out there? I had no idea until just now. Thanks Greg! Nice to see a Minglewood here, l always loved Brent Mydland solos on this song.

Oddly enough, I did, but way better quality versions. (same video after actually playing the video you posted. opps. lol)

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108139&highlight=Grateful+Dead+Hamilton

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108432&highlight=Grateful+Dead+Hamilton

Different torrent, but may be same sourced as above - read post 25 as noted.

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=89337&highlight=Grateful+Dead+Hamilton

I normally don't see much point in sharing this type of stuff. I figure folks who are on his mail list or enjoy reading what Bob Lefsetz has to say have probably read it already. I know he writes often about Dylan, some good, some bad, some not worth much more than the free email, and aside from the obvious bias I have regarding Dylan (my favourite artist), I still figured this one was worth the share and read.

"And if my thought dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine"

"It's Alright, Ma, (I'm Only Bleeding)"

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where Bob Dylan comes back from the dead and delivers the paramount rock and roll experience of the twenty first century?

That's right, MusiCares is a clusterfuck nonpareil. The number one networking dinner of the year. Not only is it peopled by wannabes and no-name Recording Academy members, the movers and shakers all show up, the conversation is scintillating and informative, and then you retire to the ballroom where household names go through the motions, singing songs via Teleprompter.

Now the best stuff I saw in the auction room were the photos donated by Richard Lewis. That's right, the comedian. He had one from the A.R.M.S. concert with every legend known to man, from Jeff Beck to Joe Cocker to Jimmy Page to Eric Clapton to Ronnie Lane, the inspiration for the show. Even more fascinating was the picture of Tim Hardin, before he was grizzled by heroin addiction, it was almost a completely different man.

And during the speeches I conversed with my table neighbors, nothing relevant or interesting was being said.

And then came the performances.

Now first I have to mention the crack band. Using all their chops and rehearsal to operate on a level so high, I don't think it can be topped. Don Was the bandmaster. And Kenny Aronoff pounded the skins. Heartbreaker extraordinaire, Benmont Tench, tickled the keys. The legend only insiders know, Buddy Miller, picked the strings. And Greg Leisz was on pedal steel, this guy deserves to be more well-known.

Anyway, all the stars were good, but I can't say there were many memorable performances. The song choices were confounding. A track from "Saved"? Another from "Oh Mercy"? Even the most dedicated Dylanologist would not only be disappointed, but would struggle to know the lyrics of these obscurities.

I figured John Mellencamp was gonna amp it up with a ripping version of "Highway 61," but he turned it into a dirge.

And Tom Jones was fluid, but he never put the pedal to the metal, he usually blows us away, here he just barely brought the kettle to a boil.

Beck was all one note, there were no dynamics.

Jackson Browne was really good on an endless number from the early catalog that evidenced magic, but didn't grab you by the gut and twist you.

Unlike Bonnie Raitt.

Bonnie Raitt, the Grammy darling, came back over the hill to reclaim her title as the sassiest mama with the best interpretive skills, all the while being a soulful slide player who can hold her own with the boys. She took the tertiary track "Standing In The Doorway" and not only made it her own, far eclipsing Dylan's original, but delivered the best musical performance of the night. It was like being jetted back to 1992. Or 1972. As if no time had passed. There were a few lines in her face, but Bonnie was every bit as good. Really, if you're a music lover, you would have smiled and then jumped to your feet, as we all did.

The second best performance, by a hair? Willie Nelson's rendition of "Senor."

Talk about a professional... Willie couldn't read the Teleprompter at the back of the room. And the one on stage wasn't working. So he and the band vamped endlessly until the glitch was rectified. Minutes. Talk about draining energy from the performance... But then Willie sang so beautifully, so soulfully, picked so amazingly, that he converted everyone on the fence into a fan. This guy is a deserved legend. He's heads above everybody else. He wrung meaning out of that song that we didn't know was there.

Jack White earned his place in the movie "It Might Get Loud." He wailed.

And the Boss did a solid rendition of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," and whipped out some leads to demonstrate that he's not about to hang up his rock and roll shoes.

And then came Mr. Z.

Well, first we had Neil Portnow's monotonic introduction. What a juxtaposition, a legend and an administrator.

But credit Mr. Portnow for knowing it was not his night, that he was not up to the task, for he relinquished the mic to Jimmy Carter.

That's right, our 90 year old ex-President who was put into office by the Allman Brothers. And I didn't believe half of what he said, but then he got truthful, you could feel the connection, and out came Zimmy.

Now this is usually the lamest moment of the show. When the winner holds the trophy, thanks the usual suspects and says nothing meaningful.

But not the poet laureate from Hibbing.

Bob talked in that insane voice he's developed, like his skin is a different color and he was brought up in the holler. And he made some perfunctory remarks. And then he told us he was gonna read.

Oh god, he's afraid of making a mistake, he can't do it off the cuff, get ready to be bored.

And all night we were wondering if Bob would perform. Most people do, but when Neil Young was honored he did not. And really, I don't want to see Bob mangle his old material, but maybe on this occasion he'll hearken back to the originals.

It was better than that. Bob didn't play a note, but he delivered a speech that dropped jaws and had you tingling, not believing you were there in attendance.

You remember that experience, don't you? When the gigs weren't productions matched to clicks and if you didn't go to the show you didn't know, there was no MTV, never mind YouTube? When you went because you never knew what would happen?

Well, something happened last night.

And what happened was that Bob Dylan revealed he's been listening all the while, he knows what we've been saying about him, he's got an opinion about it, and unlike everybody else in this sold-out business he's not afraid to step on toes, he's not afraid to offend.

It had a somewhat historical structure. These were not notes, Bob had written an essay, nearly a book, it took him half an hour to deliver it, turning the printed pages all the while. And he didn't go all the way back to Minnesota, then again, there was a reference to Highway 61, but he did start with John Hammond, giving the man props for signing him, alluding to the luck he was the beneficiary of that no one likes to talk about.

It's more than luck, it's personality and drive and cunning and making opportunities others cannot see, never mind take advantage of. But there's always luck.

And from there to his initial publisher Lou Levy, and Joan Baez, who he praised to high heaven, all the way to Jimi Hendrix on up to today.

Lou said Bob was ahead of the game, and if he was lucky the audience would catch up with him in three to five years.

Bob didn't want to write novelty tracks like Leiber and Stoller, whom he excoriated. Bob was only interested in the truth, which he got from folk songs, which he knew by heart and played incessantly.

Yes, Bob told us where his songs came from. Made the connection from the past to the present. It was positively mind-blowing, the guy who obfuscates for a living is giving us the god's honest truth in a way no one ever does. It's like the fathers of our country telling us what's behind the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the only difference being Dylan is still alive.

You see Dylan impacted the culture, we're just pawns in his game. The big story this week was the "Billboard 100," the executives who run this enterprise. That's how far we've come, we lionize the rip-off businessmen who'll soon be forgotten. Even David Geffen's almost been forgotten.

But Bob Dylan won't be. Great artists cobble together something new from the past and inspire those who come after. Bob Dylan is a great artist.

And what a perspective!

He talked about his voice and the criticism of it. Wondered why he was singled out and Leonard Cohen was not. Why everybody else can do a covers album and get away with it but the critics put him through the wringer.

The truth is Bob Dylan is different from the rest. We hold him to a higher standard. Because he's at the pinnacle, and we need to believe in him.

But Dylan's an elusive sort. Bobbing and weaving like a boxer. Confounding expectations.

That was a highlight, when Dylan said this was not a job description, this is not what he does, he's just following his own muse in search of the truth.

And I could recite more verbiage but if you're interested in the details you can read excerpts online.

But ultimately it was more than the content. It was the fact that Bob Dylan trail blazed again. That he did confound our expectations. That he pushed an envelope we could not even see.

And we were there. When he went on not worrying what we thought, not worrying about losing us, because that's what great artists do, follow their own path and not worry about pandering to the masses.

But now pandering rules the business. And those who are unique don't realize that Bob Dylan could get away with his unique voice because he was the best lyricist of all time. Are you? I don't think so.

And Bob Dylan is still demanding our attention. Who else can we say that of?

And I won't say everything he does is good. But you've got to respect the man for trying, for continually being born instead of dying.

So there you have it. This is what got us to go to the shows way back when. Because a friend went and couldn't stop testifying about what he'd experienced.

Last night I experienced the best speech by a rock musician ever.

And the honor is bogus, but all awards are. That was another of Dylan's targets, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. An empty institution where the second-rate are members and the genuine article is excluded. That's right, Billy Lee Riley might have only had one hit, "Red Hot," but that track got inside Dylan in such a way as to not only inspire, but never be forgotten.

You remember inspiration, don't you?

You remember the indelible experience, don't you?

Or are you just about the money, and if someone's got it they're above criticism?

If so, I feel sorry for you. Because you wouldn't have gotten Bob Dylan's speech last night, you wouldn't have understood where he was coming from, and you wouldn't have been made to believe that the future is still in front of us as opposed to being in the rearview mirror, and you wouldn't know that art trumps money every minute of the day, every hour of the week, and that without Bob Dylan our lives would be so much emptier.

So you can pledge fealty to false idols.

But the empty icons won't keep you warm at night.

Grammy weekend is already over. Bob Dylan took home all the trophies, made the entire ceremony look small and he never sang a note.

That's an artist.

Your move.

 

Bob Lefsetz

 

No worries or explanation required Booche, my post wasn't really a reply directed at anyone in particular. It was simply a declaration washed in bourbon, strong herbals and the warm memories I was having while listening to Hamilton 1990 (first night).

Personally, I just love The Grateful Dead. Fast, slow, in-between, happy or sad. What some corporate owned puppet journalist, haters, or even you freaks here on this forum think doesn't mean shit to me in the end, nor will anything change that for me.

Love, like or hate them, there isn't, never was and never will be, anything like the Grateful Dead, and I fuckin love that.

Cheers.

Reminds me of an article I have from 1990 from a writer in the Hamilton Spec after The Grateful Dead rolled through town. Though the article I refer to is more hate filled if I remember correctly. If my scanner still worked I'd share it. 

Well the retirement is not a surprise, but the move to the Blues front office is.

Perhaps. Though he signed a one year deal, got injured and retired. Which to me is understandable, and considering it was rumored (or was it known? I forget) he was going call it quits after his 1 year anyway. My guess is since he's a stand up guy (or perhaps it's a legal thing) he'll work front office with St. Louis until his contract expires then he'll make a move to Jersey.

Going out to my friend John's place in Scotland ON, another friend in town there is having his annual superbowl party, usually 15-30 people show. We're gonna have 3 webers rockin Ribs on sunday and due to time constraints John will be smoking & pulling a pork shoulder saturday afternoon for sunday. We may also make a couple bacon wrapped peameal sausage fatties on sunday as well, but still to be confirmed. Not sure what else will be available though.

If last year is any indication what to expect this year, there'll be a couple different chili's to choose from, I know one guy is rumored to have got his hands on some Carolina Reapers, so I'll be making sure to take my zantac early on.

Goin be outdoors for the next two days, so I gotta dig out my insulated over-alls. lol

Jan. 30 1969

Not really a huge surprise I suppose.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=750524

 

HAZELWOOD, Mo. -- Goaltender Martin Brodeur, whose 691 wins and 125 shutouts are most in NHL history, will announce his retirement and join the front office of the St. Louis Blues, the team announced Tuesday.

The Blues will hold a press conference at Scottrade Center on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. ET with Brodeur, who signed a one-year incentive-laden contract with the Blues on Dec. 2 after a knee injury to starting goalie Brian Elliott left them short at the position but had been on a leave of absence.

 

Brodeur will be joined by Blues general manager Doug Armstrong and Blues Hall of Fame members Bernie Federko, Brett Hull andAl MacInnis.

 

Brodeur, 42, holds multiple NHL records that may never be broken, including wins (691) and shutouts (125). His final shutout came Dec. 29 for the Blues in a 3-0 victory against theColorado Avalanche, coached by Patrick Roy, whose wins record Brodeur broke.

Brodeur finishes his 22-year NHL career with a 691-397-176 record, a 2.24 goals-against average and .912 save percentage in 1,266 appearances, all but seven coming with theNew Jersey Devils. He holds regular-season NHL goaltending records for wins, shutouts, games played and minutes played (74,438), and in the history of the Stanley Cup Playoffs he ranks first in starts (204) and shutouts (24) and second in wins (113).

 

Brodeur has been away from the Blues for the past two weeks. He had fallen to third on the depth chart behind Elliott, who returned earlier this month, and Jake Allen. The opportunities to play had dried up and trade options never came to light.

Brodeur was 3-3-0 with a 2.87 GAA and .899 save percentage with the Blues.

 

"I was kind of surprised, shocked," Elliott said of Brodeur's decision. "He's been around for so long, watching him grow up and having a chance to be on the same team with him, it's not something you really expect. He's been a New Jersey Devil for so long and face of that franchise. He's got so many records, has been around the game for so long with three Stanley Cups … heck of a career.

"It's kind of sad to see a guy like him hang 'em up. I'm sure it's a tough decision, but I was grateful to be on the same team with him, if only for a little bit."

 

The Blues have maintained that Brodeur's decision was totally in his hands, but they wanted him to remain with the organization.

"The biggest thing you take away from it, for me anyway, is you have a certain appreciation for guys when you play against them," left wing Alexander Steen said. "But I think getting the chance to know Marty and the type of person he is off the ice, how competitive he is, and just how much you appreciated his true skill for the game … he has outstanding hockey sense, and I think that's the biggest thing that really grew on me was what an incredible goalie he was. Such a different style.

 

"He really grew and got better and better as the time went on that he was here. Obviously, it's no fun to hear that he's retiring, if that's the case. You always want to see those guys continuing to keep playing. You never want guys to stop playing, same thing with Teemu [selanne]. It's obviously a tremendous honor and I'm extremely proud and happy to have had the chance to play with him."

 

Brodeur played 21 seasons with the Devils but did not re-sign with them this summer as they committed to Cory Schneider as their No. 1 goalie.

 

Devils GM Lou Lamoriello said Tuesday he spoke to Brodeur and Armstrong about Brodeur taking a front-office job with the Blues and that he supported the move. Lamoriello said he expects the job to be for the rest of the season and that Brodeur is welcome to rejoin the Devils in a front-office role at any time after that.

 

"He could have come here if he wanted," Lamoriello told NJ Advance Media. "I don't think this is a case of him choosing (between the two organizations). He's been there with the players. The (Blues) players and administration asked him to stay. He had an impact in the dressing room."

 

Lamoriello told NJ Advance Media he is confident Brodeur will rejoin the Devils at some point soon.

"Marty is a very loyal guy in both ways," Lamoriello said. "They gave him an opportunity (to play). There are a lot of things going through his mind right now. He'll be back with the Devils."

 

Brodeur appeared in 10 NHL All-Star Games and led the League in wins nine times, shutouts five times, and games played six times, including appearing in 70 or more games in 10 consecutive seasons from 1997-98 to 2007-08. He won the 1994 Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year and won the Vezina Trophy four times (2003, 2004, 2007, 2008) and the Jennings Trophy five times (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2010). Brodeur won the Stanley Cup with the Devils in 1995, 2000 and 2003, and was a two-time Olympic gold medalist with Canada (2002, 2010).

 

"Yeah, of course," Elliott said when asked if Brodeur's records will stand. "I think there's some games played records and shutouts … it's almost impossible to beat. I don't think he has to worry about losing those any time soon. We'll definitely shoot for them, but it is just awesome to be able to kind of stand on the same ice as a guy like that, especially when you look at the record books probably 50 years from now and you can be like, 'I played with that guy,' so it's cool."

Boston and Montreal.

http://bruins.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=103571

http://canadiens.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=750043&navid=DL|MTL|home

Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts.

 

The 2016 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic® will be played on Friday, January 1, 2016, with possibility of postponement to January 2, 2016. 

Hahha........this would have been a great idea in the early 2000's when most of the evening postings were coming from folks with bottles beside their keyboards. None the less, I like.

I have a bottle of Johnny Red, Gibsons Sterling and Jager sitting on my desk. Just in case.

how about one new forum a day?

A forum that randomly appears and disappears, no schedule or timeline. Suddenly, it's there and then its gone again (one day/week/month etc). Kind of like a carnival, but with more teeth.

Miss Canada at the Miss Universe pageant.

 This thread makes me miss the Russian spam in the politics forum.

Read this yesterday. Shame its an op-ed piece that makes the news considering this bullshit has been going on (and was well known) for quite sometime. If a union is getting fuc.ked over, you can guarantee you won't hear anything at a federal level (where policy created allowed for this sh!t) nor at a Provincial level. Only difference between the libs and the cons now-a-days is the colour of the jacket they wear.

I'm already boycotting the beer store as it is, but it would be great if someone had a list of the brewers who use crown. Both articles (the one linked within the above link) both leave out who the major players are. I haven't dug very deep here, so this info may be easily found I dunno, but I believe when calling for a boycott, (especially involving beer) giving a clear heads up who the players are would be nice.

Why boycott all cans if not every brewer uses Crown?

Why only boycott the can and not the company that hires Crown?

- do all brewers in Ontario use crown? If not which ones?

- do craft brewers use crown? If yes, which ones?

As a union member I support the workers, but I want to be clear I'm not screwing over a company that plays fair (and is Canadian even) and its workers in the process.

I've only seen that when processed chesse is used or maybe when a mozzarella/cheddar combo. I know the ones I make never do that.

Right on. Gotta use what you got. Our last batch was mulberry, oak and cherry. We have a 1/2 cord of peach seasoning we plan to use come spring. Since its impossible to make it where I live (city bylaws about fires) I only get to do it at my friends place in Scotland, being a cabinet maker he usually has large amounts of off cuts and scraps leftover from jobs, typically oak, cherry or maple. In spring we'll spend a weekend making it, which bascially equates to 3 days of drunkenness, stinkin like a bonfire and covered in black powder..lol

This would be a good example of our process, though we use a much bigger internal canister. Otherwise the process is pretty much the same except instead of making/starting our fire like he did within the larger drum, we shovel a 3-6" layer of hot coals from the bonfire fire-pit in first then add the wood. Same result, just gets it going a lot faster.

We make our own as well, though using a different process. It is sort of similar to your second post though. We have a 55g drum, with another smaller canister within it that holds the wood chunks and protects them from any direct contact with flame or open air (which can cause flare-ups). There is only a small vent on the internal canister to allow pressure release but restricts the amount of oxygen to not allow any flame at all. We make the fire in the space (roughly 2-3") directly around the internal canister. The process takes a little to get going, typically we start with hot coals from the fire pit. We've found the charcoal harder, burns a lot longer and evenly using this process.

I'll see if I can find a video of our process, if not I'm get to making one the next time we burn.

I find it an great time waster while sitting around the bonfire at night drinking beer, but over all, time vs money vs amount I can make, I still find it cheaper to stock up on charcoal when it's on sale or in late summer when bag prices drop drastically. I got 15 bags of lump & 15 of briquettes for well under $100. I've also found that when doing long cooks, 6-12hrs, especially during the winter the homemade simply burn too fast and I go through much more of it. Taste wise though, nothing beats the homemade so I save it for shorter cooks within the 3-6 hr range depending on wind, of course, also depending on what I'm cooking, sometimes I'll start with the homemade while I apply smoke, then switch to lump when the window for best smoke retention has passed.

For example: I smoked a 8 lb roast a few weekends before xmas, used roughly a  three quarters of a 16 lb bag of homemade charcoal. Last weekend, in colder temps I did another 8 lb roast using purchased lump charcoal and used less than 1/4 bag. With briquettes I can cook a similar size roast using a single chimney worth.