PITTSBURGH (AP) — In an astounding turn of events Tuesday evening, 4,000 Deadheads managed to put aside their crippling grief and anger over internet downloads and actually had some fun listening to live music. OK, especially in light of the band’s reversal, I’ll try to keep the sarcasm to a minimum. But so much of… Read More without a warning.
Apparently, GD has decided that its original decision concerning archive.org was, at least in part, the wrong one. We’ll never know for sure, but I’d have to think that the public pressure — hopefully the constructive kind, at least — and the accompanying media attention — there was plenty more besides those I cited in… Read More this must be heaven.
I’ve got a ton to say about last night’s Phil show — mostly along the lines of “Holy Shit!” — as well as what it means in the context of the current Internet Archive issues. While I’m working on that, here’s some other stuff to consider. New York Times story that ran today. Rolling Stone… Read More food for thought.
Things are a bit tense in GratefulDeadLand, thanks to an interesting decision, apparently by the band, about a week ago. You’ve heard me babble about Archive.org, the site that had made available for download nearly every Grateful Dead show ever. I had a blast looking up all the shows I attended and finding copies of… Read More in the end there’s just a song.
I’m in the middle of another musical downloading frenzy, and I think it has something to do with the fact that we haven’t seen any live hippie music (excluding Ohio State’s marching band, and I’m not sure that counts as hippie music) since the Panic show last summer. That’s bad. What makes it worse is… Read More dis. com. bob. u. lated.
@ When a group of citizens gets together because they’re concerned about something, how come they can’t ever come up with a better name than “Concerned Citizens of (Insert town name here)?” @ Punkin Ale from Dogfish Head is the best pumpkin beer I’ve ever had. @ And I intend on having several more. @… Read More thoughts.
Uncle Crappy 