"A Night of Rock and Roll Remembrance: Grateful Dead at MSG, 1990" Larry Mishkin pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix, reflecting on his iconic rock career and tragic passing 53 years ago. He shares anecdotes about Hendrix's influence on rock music and highlights the infamous 27 Club, a group of rock legends who died at the age of 27. The episode also previews upcoming music events, including Fish Fest and Tedeschi Trucks Band's shows with special guests like Warren Haynes and Norah Jones, promising an exciting lineup for music enthusiasts. .Produced by PodConx
"A Night of Rock and Roll Remembrance: Grateful Dead at MSG, 1990"
Larry Mishkin pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix, reflecting on his iconic rock career and tragic passing 53 years ago. He shares anecdotes about Hendrix's influence on rock music and highlights the infamous 27 Club, a group of rock legends who died at the age of 27. The episode also previews upcoming music events, including Fish Fest and Tedeschi Trucks Band's shows with special guests like Warren Haynes and Norah Jones, promising an exciting lineup for music enthusiasts.
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Grateful Dead, September 18, 1990, MSG, NYC
This show was on the 20th anniversay of Jimi Hendrix’s death. Interesting because I see it in headlines re this show, but they really didn’t play anything Jimi related as far as I can tell and none of the comments even mention that. Neverthless, it is a noteworthy anniversary (53 years he has been gone, almost double his life span of 27, he’s in that club).
Dead also did a show on this date in 1970, the day Jimi died but when I checked that show there was no acknowledgement (that I could hear) of Jimi dying but of course, back then with no interenet, they may not even have known on that date anyway.
Nevertheless, Jimi is Jimi so I’m openkng the episode with him on the intro and then switching over to the Dead show.
INTRO: Foxey Lady
Jimi Hendrix
Miami Pop Festival, 1968 (great You Tube video , check it out)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxey Lady (Miami Pop 1968) - YouTube
Start – 1:30
One of my favorite openings of any rock song out there. Just loud Jimi from the outset, Even if you are not a big Jimi fan, you may also recognize this because of how distinctive it is.
Jimi born on Nov. 27, 1942 in Seattle
Died in 1970 in London
Member of the “27” club along with;
Brian Jones (Stones),
Alan Wilson (Canned Heat),
Jim Morrison (Doors),
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana),
Pig Pen
Amy Winehouse
Dave Alexander (Stooges – with Iggy Pop)
Peter Ham (Badfinger)
Created three of the most famous albums in rock:
Are you Experienced
Axis: Bold as Love
Electric Ladyland
Jimi died 53 years ago today.
Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates.
Still considered the greatest rock guitarist ever although there are a few who could give him a serious run for the money.
Dead
Great show, Vince’s third show (started on 9.7.90) and Bruce Hornsby’s 3d as well. Show known for all of its epic jams which I will primarily be focusing on.
SHOW #1: Minglelwood Blues
Track #2
3:15 – 4:23
Perenial tune that the Dead played from Day one (and even before) through the end. Check out Bruce’s jam on this clip and then band comes crashing back in. Very cool.
SHOW #2: To Lay Me Down
Track #7
Start – 1:33
I know I have mostly been featuring jams, but Jerry’s vocals are so beautiful here, with great crowd reaction, that on this one I had to go with the vocals. A nine minute version of one of Jerry and Hunter’s prettiest ballads. When Jerry’s voice is on, like here, you can make a strong argument is is their best.
SHOW #3: Promised Land
Track #8
3:33 – 5:00
Love this song whether it opens the show or closes the set as here. Just a rocker written by Chuck Berry while he was in jail – used the prison library atlas to help him pick out the geographic route taken by the “Poor Boy” on his trip from Norfolk VA to LA via bus, plain and the houstontown people who care a thing about him and won’t let him down.
But check out this jam at the end of the song. Normally breaks right off after the final lyrics but today they just jam it out – the spirit of Jimi?
SHOW #4: Foolish Heart (jam out of – from So Many Roads Boxed Set)
Track # 11
6:20 – 7:45
Classic Dead jam that got a lot of attention when it was included in the Dead’s original box set, So Many Roads, released a long time ago (Nov. 7, 1999) as a separate track actually titled, “Jam Out Of Foolish Heart”. At their improvisational best here. Strong Other One foreshadowing which plays out as advertised after a strong drums and funky Space. The whole second set just rolls along. A good night to be in MSG seeing the boys.
OUTRO: Knockin On Heaven’s Door
Track # 18
Start – 1:30
Again, the music intro jam is so great that’s what I am featuring. Be sure to check out Bruce Hornsby’s jumping in on the accordion! Really nice Bob Dylan cover, Jerry played it for years. Was released on his Run For The Roses album.
Larry:
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Deadhead Cannabis Show. I'm Larry Mishkin of the Michigan Law in Chicago. Today in lovely St. Louis with my family, laying down this show for you all to listen to. And, um, we're going to be mostly focusing on the dead today. But, uh, today is a significant day and we can't let it go without honoring it. So Dan, dive right in for us, please. No, you're on the right channel. This is the Grateful Dead, the Deadhead Cannabis Show, and that of course is Jimi Hendrix. That's one of the most well recognized openings of a rock tune out there. Just hard charging, dramatic rock and roll the way Jimi laid it out. Foxy Lady, which was on his album Are You Experienced from about 1967. everybody recognizes this it's distinctive not everybody can necessarily put their finger on it being Jimmy but if you were listening to FM radio at all uh... in the nineteen seventies and of course uh... have even the little bit of uh... littlest bit of uh... you know rock and roll experience uh... just from having gone to college or something it would be hard to have missed uh... anything from Jimmy uh... especially Foxy Lady you know you're walking down the hall in a dormitory and you hear it halfway down the hall and everybody comes running to see what's going on Unfortunately for us, 53 years ago today, September 18th, 1970, we lost Jimmy. Basically, not an overdose, but he asphyxiated on his own vomit, aspirated, excuse me, on his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. We all heard the stories of Jimmy's excesses, including the legendary stories of soaking his bandana in liquid LSD and then wrapping it around his head so that as he's sweating, his pores opened, he was sucking in all the LSD and taking us all to crazy places with his music. And so we certainly want to acknowledge him today. And for those of us who, you know, came into our rock and roll consciousness, not too long after Jimmy died, you know, there's certainly a sense of, boy, we just missed maybe the greatest rock and roll guitar player of all time. left-handed, just out there shredding constantly, and just a force of nature. Unfortunately for all of us, Jimmy was part of the infamous 27 Club, a whole string of rock and roll legends who have died at the age of 27, and it's a list that, you know, sometimes feels like it's getting longer and longer. but it includes Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones, Alan Wilson of Can Heech, Jim Morrison from The Doors, of course, Janis, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, and another left-handed guitar legend, Pig Pen, our boy Pig Pen, Rod McKernan, who we talk about all the time, and he was 27 when he died. More recently, Amy Winehouse was 27 when she died, Dave Alexander from The Stooges, who played with Iggy Pop, and Peter Hamm of Bad Finger. just there's more names on this list and for some reason 27 just seemed to attract in a lot of these people and yes of course it pulled Jimmy right along with them he probably created three of the most famous albums in rock and roll are you experienced that this song we were just listening to Foxy Lady came off of Axis Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland and you know it's funny how people kind of work their way up the ladder of music and uh... every generation my kids and uh... people who are uh... in the sandwich generation between me and my kids uh... everybody's heard of jimmy hendrix everybody makes their way through jimmy hendrix everybody goes out and buys a jimmy hendrix poster and has some period of time where jimmy hendrix is just jamming out as we all recognize oh my god look what we've discovered And the beauty of Jimmy and a lot of these guys is when you hear it, you can think like you've discovered it for the first time. And then when you go out on the internet and you start looking around, you realize, no, not only did I not discover it for the first time, uh, but there's everything I need out here to, to dive right into this and become a Jimmy legend myself. So, uh, we, uh, give Jimmy a shout out today, uh, recognition that is well-deserved and, um, we're all sorry that we missed them and, uh, we'll go and listen to some Jimmy today. to make us all feel better and not to forget this rock and roll legend. The Grateful Dead, you might be wondering how all this fits in, really love Jimmy's birthday, excuse me, the anniversary of his death. In fact, they played a show on September 18th, 1970 that was a show the night that Jimmy died. Unfortunately, it was at the Fillmore Reefs, but I'm guessing that back in that time the modern convenience of the internet so you know things two minutes after they happen was not available and it's questionable whether even as they were performing that night the dead were aware that Jimmy had died. They knew Jimmy they had shared stages with Jimmy. Didn't really play a whole lot with Jimmy and never really played a whole lot of Jimmy music themselves. I think we had a clip in there a while back where Jerry came out one night and was doing a little Jimmy riff. But it was just, you know, one of his, hey, I'm noodling around here and this is the tune that's popped into my brain so I'm gonna just jam on it for a minute. No singing, no nothing. But then the show we are going to feature today, flash forward ahead 20 years to September 18th, 1990, the debtor back in New York, this time as part of one of their many MSG runs from that period in their career. And so now it's the 20th anniversary of... of Jimi Hendrix passing. And so of course this just leads to all sorts of questions about what might the Grateful Dead do on a day like this. And the short answer is not a lot as far as Jimi is concerned but they came out and played a hell of a show in MSG for anybody who was there they know and anybody who follows the dead in those MSG stretches during that period of time knows how good they were. And this one is great with some wonderful, wonderful jamming by the boys that we're gonna focus a lot on. And so let's dive right in to our show, September 18th, 1990 from Madison Square Garden. Okay, so that's Minglewood Blues. Minglewood Blues is as old as the Grateful Dead and older than them. And they're playing Minglewood Blues back in the mid 1960s. It's on their original album. It's on the Go To Heaven album. Now they title it the all new, brand new and improved or whatever they called it, Minglewood Blues. And it was a Bobby standard that would typically show up somewhere around the second, third or fourth song of the first set, depending on the order. came out and opened and whether they were just doing a single opening tune or a combination opening tune. But it would always be right in that same slot with Little Red Rooster and C.C. Ryder and they would all just kind of rotate around. And you know they were all the same kind of tune in the sense that you know even if the boys came out with just an on fire starter and then they kind of slipped into mingle wood blues, not that we didn't like and appreciate mingle wood blues, but it was you know such a standard dead tune that you know if they came out and opened with something really unique you might be hoping for something unique and then you just get the standard mingle wood but this mingle wood is not your standard mingle wood as you could easily hear during this musical jam. We all love Bobby but you know today was not a day to be focusing on his singing but really to be focusing on the music that was being created there in this show. These series of shows were significant because this was Vince Wellnick's introduction to the world of the deadheads. He had just played his first show with them two nights before on September 7th. Bruce Hornsby and he were now to their third show of the grateful dead as you and played a series of shows with the dad right around the time that Vince started to kind of help ease Vince into the to the whole scene and uh... you know give him a little backup on the keyboards and everything like that but Hornsby of course is such a unique keyboardist and when we say keyboardist with Hornsby we're really basically talking about a grand piano which was his keyboard of choice uh... and of course uh... we've talked long and hard about how Vince uh... was on an electric keyboard but not the Hammond P3 because inexplicably Jerry had decided at that point that maybe they'd had enough of the Hammond P3. Hard to imagine Jerry saying that, but that's the way the story goes. So Vince was playing on his, you know, relatively speaking, kind of small or much tinier electric keyboard and I think that, you know, the band all felt that Bruce had jammed with them before he knew their tunes. He was a big fan. They knew Bruce and it would be good to have him along. But if you're a fan in Madison Square Garden that night, none of that matters. All you know is You've got Vince Wellnick up there doing his best as he breaks in, and you've got Bruce Hornsby. And that minglewood blues to hear Bruce's piano just come shining through, he really steps in and becomes part of the jam. Jerry gives him the freedom to do it, and it's great to hear. And then of course, as Bruce's jam dies down, the band comes crashing back in, and it's nights like this and different... different versions. We always say they never play the same song twice. Well sometimes they kind of play it close to the same, but this was a minglewood that really stood out for a lot of those reasons. And it's just, it's great when you get guys like Hornsby who can step right in and Vince Welnick who was learning his chops at that moment. And they just fit so naturally into this whole on stage conversation that the boys are having that we all hear as these wonderful musical jams. And that was really, really a good one. Now, this next song that I want to feature here really quickly before we dive into some other stuff, many people say it may be the song of the night. And it's such a strong Jerry tune. His lyrics and singing voice are so great that you'll see this one we've kind of bypassed the jam just right into the meat of the song. But as soon as you hear it, you'll know why. So, To Let Me Down is just one of those beautiful, beautiful songs that the Dead play, that Jerry plays, Robert Hunter tune, that they obviously came up with together and that we all know and love so much. Jerry's vocals are so beautiful here and you can hear the crowd reaction. Then on this one we really had to go with the vocals. It's a nine minute version of one of... Jerry and Robert Hunter's prettiest ballads. When Jerry's vocals are on like this, you can make a very strong argument that actually it may be one of the best tunes that they ever put together. To lay me down to Deadhead's quote unquote in the know is also a special tune because it's one of the magical trio of lyrics, if you will, composed in a single afternoon in 1970 in London. over a half bottle of Retzina. And according to Robert Hunter, he sat down that day and as he drank his bottle sitting in London, this song came tumbling out right along with Ripple and broke down Palace. So what a day, right? I mean, any of us would go to work and have a day like that and just amazing. To get that type of creative flow. uh... in one sitting is just incredible so you know clearly uh... we're talking here you know really almost at their peak uh... robert hunter and jerry putting it all together and uh... hunter wrote about this in his book the complete annotated grateful dead lyrics it said and i wrote a ream of bad songs bitching about everything under the sun which i kept to myself cast not And once in a while, something would sort of pop out of nowhere. The sunny London afternoon, I wrote, broke down, to lay me down in ripple, all keepers was in no way typical. But it remains in my mind as the personal quintessence of the union between writer and muse, a promising past and a bright future, prospects melding into one great glowing. I'm not even going to try with the word they used here. Never mind. One big glowing effort in South Kensington, writing words that seemed to flow like molten gold onto parchment paper. And just amazing. And such a beautiful song. And when the fans hear it, they react so strongly to it. And well, they should, because it's just really one of those tunes that makes you feel good. It makes you appreciate the genius of Robert Hunter, and it makes you appreciate the absolutely incredible multi-talents of Jerry Garcia, both to be able to play the song so beautifully, and to be able to sing it so beautifully. And it's just such a fun one to have, and such a great example of it like that. And especially on a day, as you'll hear on a lot of the other stuff that we're still gonna play here, just jamming things out like nobody's business. Now, uh... for those of us that like to think uh... that the uh... the grateful that are paying attention to what's going on around them to lay me down would of course be a beautiful song to play on the anniversary of anybody's passing let alone uh... jimmy hendricks but of course the dead being the dead uh... there wasn't anything where they got up to the microphone and said hey today's the twentieth anniversary of jimmy's death so we're gonna play this song in his memory or anything they just played it But, and then maybe they just decided to play it without even thinking about that. But, you know, for those of us who like to think that there's no real coincidences when it comes to a Grateful Dead show, I like to at least think that whatever inspired Jerry to play this today had to do with, in part at least, to the sense that it was a historical day in the world of rock and roll, an era of rock and roll in which Jerry and the band really came into being and really, you know. came to life. They were at Woodstock with Jimmy and they were at all these places with Jimmy and they knew him and well I just like to think that Jerry was thinking about that kind of stuff. So who knows? In the meantime we've got just so much great music going on in the world right now folks that I guess can't go the entire episode because some of it is so much that you know you start to get to that moment where you even hyperventilate a little bit and you're like oh my god look at all this great music coming down the line. How am I ever going to be able to make it to all of this? And of course, inevitably, unless you're my good buddy Alex, you don't make it to all of it. And you make it to as many as you can, and then get the stories from everybody else who were at the shows you weren't at. You give them the stories of the shows they weren't at. And we all read about it in today's wonderful world of YouTube within 24 hours, if not sooner. We can be experiencing the music and the moments ourselves. not quite the same as when you're in that concert hall or outside on a big field and you sense what's happening and you say, oh my God, here I am on this great moment. But nevertheless, it's much better to be able to do this than to have heard somebody tell you about the show and hope over a course of a few months that you can find somebody with a tape and that it'll be decent quality. We just go boom right there and we turn on and we get it right away. And oh my God, is there music for us to talk about? Yesterday, the Borderlands Music Festival out in East Aurora, New York wrapped up. And that was a hell of a weekend for people who could make it out that way with, in addition to any number of great bands playing, the headliners are just outstanding, right? On Friday night, this past Friday night, Goose was the headliner. Saturday night, the Trey Anastasio band was the headliner. And last night it was Moe. are well known on their own and have really established their own footprint in the world of rock and roll and jam band rock and roll. But I think it's fair to say that all of them have a little bit of the Grateful Dead spirit in them and inspiration from the Grateful Dead. And a number of the other bands that were playing here this past weekend also have very similar Grateful Dead connections to them one way or another. And they're all, of course, known for their... jamming styles and the things that make us love the dad and the whole vibe and the whole scene. Our Craig producer, Dan Humiston's son, Jamie, made it to Borderlands, which is just a few minutes outside of the Buffalo, New York area, as we said, in East Aurora. And on our show next week, Jamie's going to join us and he's going to give us a little bit of insight as to what went down at Borderland, the music, the whole scene. And it's always nice to hear from somebody who was there to really get the scoop on what's going on, which is the way this works, right? When you can't be there, but somebody else was, then you're counting on them to be able to pass along the good vibes and let you know both what you missed and what the highlights were and all that kind of stuff. And so we'll look forward to Jamie coming on the show and sharing that with us next week. So we will look forward to that. Of course, if we're really gonna talk about uh... what's going on in the world of music far and away the biggest news in the jam band world uh... is that fish is reinstituting their summer festival scene they haven't really had one i don't think since twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen uh... sorry kids i'm not quite adept enough to remember which year it was when the uh... the festival curveball that was supposed to be taking place out in the watkins glen area in upstate new york uh... had to get canceled because the rain had um... that they had uh... the water system had been broken down and they couldn't provide fresh water and they couldn't uh... have a system to take away wastewater and they wound up having to cancel the show. My son Matt and his buddies were all out there and pulled into the parking lot literally of the campground to find out at that moment uh... after they'd gotten all the way out there that it was canceled and there were no new festivals canceled after that point in time and we ran into the pandemic and everything else and uh... you know which has been going on out in Denver over Labor Day weekend for 12 or 13 years now. I think for many people it has become the de facto summer get together for people who are really interested in seeing just a huge amount of fish over a short number of days. But kind of out of nowhere is the sense that I get just about a week or two ago, fish dropped, they keep the date open for next August out in Maryland for Fish Fest. And we don't really have very many of the details yet. That's all being worked out, whether anybody else is gonna come play with them or not, how many sets they're gonna do, blah, blah. But of course it'll be a large number of sets because that's the way those guys rock. There'll probably be some overlapping sets if there's other talent out there with them. And on any level, it just sounds like it's gonna be a very exciting time. Talk to my son and... and he and his crew were already hot at work having secured two RVs because they're now getting to a stage two like their old man, where it's a little more comfortable to sleep in a real bed in an RV than it is to rough it sleeping out in a campground. And although I love sleeping out under the stars or in a tent after some good hiking or anything like that, in a situation like this, I'm just gonna confess and say that I'm old enough and whatever, that the idea of staying in an RV appeals to me a lot more than the idea of camping outside. And it always helps when you have a son who you share strong interests with, because apparently I've been invited to join the crew, which is very exciting. So next August, we will have a lot to talk about with Fish Fest, and eventually I'll get the name and be able to call it by the right thing. Because just as I say, it takes me a little bit longer to focus in on all those details than the fish heads themselves. um... and you know it's strange because the dead never really had anything like this that the dead never really had like a long weekend festival i mean sure they play alpine valley over the course of the weekend sometimes four nights and everybody would go up there and camp out at the alpine valley grounds so in that respect it kind of felt like a festival uh... but it was really just you know uh... three or four nights of standard dead shows in a row not that there's anything wrong with your standard dead shows uh... but my impression of the fish festivals is that in addition uh... to sets being set up in a regular show format that they also drop a few extra in here and there. So you really wind up getting your total fish fix over one long weekend. Now the interesting thing is that it is going to be in August and of course that leads to the question of will they then immediately follow up next year with their four nights at Dix as well and I guess that remains to be seen. But there's a lot to be said for that and we'll see just how much energy Trey and the boys have. uh... after keeping everybody happy at a festival for an incredibly long weekend uh... they're ready to come back you know in very short time turn around and head back out to commerce city and uh... do the dicks thing so we'll see and uh... gives us all something to look forward to uh... gives me plenty of time to uh... really drill down a little bit more into the uh... fish catalog and familiarize myself with some of those fish tunes that aren't regularly getting played because you'd like to also hope that a festival like that They will dip down into their bag of tricks and pull some stuff out that might not be in the front of our minds, or at least guys like me who are just getting into fish and now do a pretty good job of recognizing the songs when they start playing them, but still don't really command that overall knowledge and sense of where they're going, what they're doing, what they're playing like you do after seeing over a hundred dead shows. But I'm making my way up the ladder with fish, and Fish Fest will be a great way to go about doing it. So, very excited about that. Our friends over at Tedesky Trucks Band are just breaking out all over the place. And I don't remember if it's the end of this week or the beginning of next week, where they're going on their garden tour. Tedesky Trucks is doing a night in Boston Garden where they will be joined by Warren Haynes. And then a night or two later, they're going to be in Madison Square Garden in New York where they will be joined by Trey and Nora Jones. Now either one of those nights sounds just like a fantastic night of music. Right, with Warren Haynes, that's Warren and Derek reuniting again. They were the bulk of the guitar section of the Allman Brothers band for most of the last eight to ten years of that band. And really gave it a whole new life and introduced the band to a whole new generation of fans who were a little too young to ever really have heard the original Allmans and I say that including me because when Dwayne died, I think I was ten years old. But we had been singing the Almonds for a number of years and this was, you know, far and away after Dwayne. The best combination you could get Derrick and Warren on the same stage doing their thing. And one would have to believe that in Boston at the Boston Garden out there, that those fans are in for a treat and shouldn't be surprised if they get a little bit of And then certainly Trey has a history with Tedeschi trucks, having joined them at Lackin a few years ago to perform the entire Layla album. Nora Jones has such an incredible voice and just brings so much more to the table. The opportunity to hear her and Susan Tedeschi maybe harmonizing and belting it out together. And then of course, Susan's totally first rate guitar chops as well. They're gonna be two shows. They're gonna be absolutely amazing. Unfortunately. I think it's probably a little bit much for me to try and get out and see all of those as much as I would like to. But I will be hearing about them as will all of you and we will talk about them and look for really tremendous clips that maybe we can share with everybody and have some fun with that too. But in the meantime, folks who can get out there and enjoy it, by all means, go and have a great time. It's going to be wonderful, wonderful shows, I'm sure. Such amazing talent all congregated on one stage. And then we have JRAD who just completed their... Miracle in Mundelein show a week ago or so. My son Jonathan was there with his fiancee Bella and they had a great time, really loved it. This was not only great music by JRad, but it was the Miracle in Mundelein was an opportunity for Illinois licensed marijuana dispensaries to come and be able to set up shop and sell their marijuana on site. And you could come and buy their marijuana and smoke it on site. This is the first time in Illinois we've had an on-site consumption. rule that allowed this to happen. Unfortunately, my wife and I had a very important family obligation to go to a wedding of some dear, dear friends of ours. And we were not able to join in on the fun, but we heard great things about it. And the silver lining for me was when I got to the wedding and seeing their kind of miserable thinking, look at all these people sitting here at the wedding, none of them even realize that Tedeschi Trucks is, excuse me, that JRAT is playing, that this show is going on up at the Miracle in What's a guy to do well in that situation? A guy is you have to walk around for a few minutes and you're bound to bump into Danny. And Danny knows everybody under the sun from the Bronx, went to Syracuse, good, good friends with my very real fake cousin, Eric from Philadelphia. And Danny was a breath of fresh air, man. And this crowd of people who I all love, they're all wonderful people, but none of them are very jam bandy or cannabis related. There was Danny and we had quite the night like. many deadheads do when you meet another deadhead, you know, it's basically from your age and your background in terms of having been exposed to all of it and write down the list of our favorite dead songs, our favorite dead shows, our favorite dead cover bands from top to bottom. And now Danny's been added to the list of very cool people in my life who share the things that I share and the music that I love and we had a good time kind of. Joking about it a little bit, you know, that here was a couple of hip, cool deadheads among all these. I don't like to use the word squares because these are lovely people. But you know, like I say, people who've never quite made the leap over to the jam band side of life. But Danny was great. And so shout out to Danny who's now lives in Ann Arbor. And look forward to getting up there to see him, see a football game, check out Grateful Dead Knight in Ann Arbor, which he was kind enough to send me some clips for last week. So Danny. Great to meet you, man. Look forward to finally catching a show with you one of these days. And the world works in mysterious ways and we really love that. So, Miss Jayrad met Danny. So overall it was a plus night for me. And now Jayrad's just announced that they're coming back to do two shows at the RIV again, the RIV Air and Night Club here in Chicago on the north side of the city on December 1st and 2nd. The only problem is right now the tickets appear to be coming out very expensive. In excess of $200 if you wanna sit upstairs and get a seat. Well over a hundred or hundred and fifty dollars to get a general admission and that's before you get into all of the other Crap that they throw on their charges and all of that and on the one hand I get it I say hey look Jay Reds made the big time a lot of people want to see them and You know they got to cash in on the other hand You know say what a bummer Jay Reds made it big time So now tickets have gotten expensive but the wife and I grabbed our tickets for Saturday night because price be damned if Jay Reds come into town we have to catch them at least one of the nights and doing that and so looking forward to having the opportunity to see Jay Rat of course even before that. Fish is coming here in October and very, very excited to catch the fish shows at the United Center in October. Dark Star Orchestra is doing a show or two up in Milwaukee at the Pabst Theater in November. That's close enough to me that that's a possibility. I'll make it up there for one night. Maybe even see good buddy Ronnie up in the Milwaukee area. and uh... kitchen i'd have to use so i know they love my walking the love the paps theater so that's probably is good places i need to see him if you can catch him at martyrs here on the north side of the city in chicago uh... where they really basically got their start so maybe their home court if you will uh... but they have a special affinity for milwaukee and always played great shows uh... when they get up there so that's what's going on in the music scene folks it's just it's coming in fast and furious and you really gotta stay on top of it. For me that means being buddies with Alex because he usually knows what's going on before I do. Or with my son's buddy Kevin, who also is right on top of things. He was the one leading the charge for the RVs for Fish Fest. So just very excited about that. You know, a nice thing is I'm going with all of them. They're all fish experts, so I can just kind of go along for the ride and don't have to sweat all the details. I'm sure they got that all figured out. As does Fun and Cool Cousins. uh... who we will be going to the show with as well uh... susie and her husband sky uh... will be joining us on hopefully it's fish fest from california and uh... just many cool people uh... and really looking forward to having an opportunity to see some great music and hang out with some cool folks so great live music all around and uh... if you just catch one or two of any of these shows you'll be so happy that you did and such a great opportunity uh... to really get in there and jam with people and just have some fun. Speaking of fun, let's turn back here to our show that we're featuring from September 18, 1990, and 33 years ago today. And let's dive into our next song, a song they play all the time, a little Chuck Berry. You know, we love Promise Land. It's a great tune. It's one of my favorite Chuck Berry tunes that they play. You can never really get tired of it. But a night like this, man, when they're just jamming and rocking, I love that. You know, sometimes they play through the song pretty perfunctory and just kind of, you know, brief jam here, brief jam there, but not on this night. They're taking the opportunity to rock everything out and just love that sound and the way they do it and how they play it out and... It just really adds to the overall theme of the show. Again, a little spirit of Jimmy in there with all the great jamming that they're doing. Jerry really picking it up and going hard with it. The boys on the keyboards filling in very nicely and really, really makes for a great version of Promise Land. And you know, when you're at the show and they're doing it, that's all you can ever ask for is, we know you're gonna play this song, you play it a lot, jam out on it, and we love to hear it and put a smile on our face. So, a great Promise Land and for a great show. One thing that I did wanna go back and touch on very quickly before we continue to explore this wonderful world of the Grateful Dead, but in the vein of music that we're talking about is that producer Dan is always on the lookout for great music out there, and he has discovered a whole vein, if you will, of great tribute bands and great cover bands, and we've talked about a few of them. But the latest one of the day is Meatloaf, M-E-E-T-L-O-A-F, as opposed to the standard Meatloaf spelled like the food your mom used to make for you on Tuesday nights. And Dan drove over to Colorado Springs to see Meatloaf perform this past weekend. And Dan's review of it is that they were just awesome. Dan's always been a big Meatloaf fan. Who hasn't been? Bad Out of Hell is a great all-time tune. It's Bad Out of Hell is a great tune. It's a great album. Paradise by the Dashboard Light with Phil the Scooter Rizzuto doing the play-by-play over the radio, the whole double entendre thing going on there. And then of course Meat Loaf is in the Rocky Horror Picture Show and it was really bigger than life both in terms of his physical presence and the impact that he left on rock and roll. But this Meat Loaf is a husband and wife team, the resonance people, Benny Resonance and his wife Ariel. Dan, close your eyes and you think you're actually listening to Meat Loaf. Benny and Ariel are from Florida, they're on tour year round, so the next time they come through Chicago, we will have to jump out and catch them and be able to give a dead head perspective on this Meat Loaf and whether they pass the test, but I'm going to put my money on Dan if he says that they sound like the real thing. So look, and we may try and- I drop a link or something to their schedule so that if anybody out there wants to check them out, please go do it. And if you like them, let us know. And we always like to feature Dan's musical tastes on this show too and hard not to when they combine with all of ours anyway. So meatloaf,
Dan Humiston:
I have a clip.
Larry:
M-E-E-T-L-A-F. I'm sorry?
Dan Humiston:
I have a clip.
Larry:
Oh, Dan is telling us even better. We're going to get an opportunity to experience meatloaf right here. Go for it, Dan. Let's hear him. I have to say, Dan, you are right. If you hadn't told me and I'm just sitting here listening, I would say who put on Bad Outta Hell? What are we listening to here? But no, it's just Benny and Ariel doing their thing. So yeah, they sound great. Look for a link and if they're coming by, this is a band you wanna see. Dan, as always, thanks for sharing with us and we will always look forward to the stuff you have for us because it's just a lot of fun and that's what this show is all about, if nothing else, right? Making sure. that we get to see all the cool things that are going on and have some fun with music all together. Before we dive into our cannabis talk for the day, I do want to just dip back into our show here one more time because this next jam that we're going to listen to is one that I really, really love. It kind of was surprising. all the attention it's gotten, but when you listen to it, it's really worthwhile. So let's hit it. So everybody recognizes the tune, it's Foolish Heart. It was one of the dad's quote unquote newer tunes from the late 80s and into the 90s and on from there. But what we're playing here is something that's very unique because it has its own name. This isn't just Foolish Heart, this is the jam out of Foolish Heart. It's such a distinctive jam. uh... that it got a lot of attention and was included in the Grateful Dead's original box set that came out in ninety eight or ninety nine so many rows was a five disc set that you know purported to kind of track their whole history each one of the discs represented a separate time slot in the Dead's career uh... and with some of the newer stuff like uh... this the uh... the jam out of Foolish Heart uh... rather than featuring the song itself they featured the jam on this uh... so many Rhodes box set and even at the time I remember listening to it and thinking, well, you know, Foolish Heart is one of the newer tunes and not that we didn't like it, but you know, it didn't carry the same weight as some of the others and they weren't even featuring the tune, they were featuring the jam out of the tune. Guess what? The jam out of the tune is just fantastic and this is just one of those examples where you're at a dead show one night, they're playing what, you know, my old accounts appears to be a quote unquote standard set for the dead, meaning all of their tunes and they may all be great, but they're not necessarily pulling out a diamond in the rough or something like that. And then you get this jam just out of nowhere. For whatever reason, this night, coming out of Foolish Heart, the boys just decided to jam away. Again, another Jimi Hendrix thing, who knows. But in a night of jams, this one may have stood out just because of how well known it became, really to have its own complete identity. And... you know, it just represents, I think, the band at their improvisational best, right? If you start to listen to it even just a little bit farther, you get some strong other one foreshadowing which ultimately plays out as advertised because after this jam, they go into really strong drums, a funky space, and the whole second set just kind of rolls along after that right into the other one. So it's a great night to be in Madison Square Garden, seeing the boys and... you know, who knew that you were gonna see a famous jam that night, but yet you did. And those of us that weren't there get to listen to it forever. Just another example of them really coming out and giving their all and making the evening special for people who took the time to be there. So, just a tremendous show from 33 years ago in Madison Square Garden. And we will still get back to it for one more tune, but now it is time to turn to the other side of our coin here. after some strong, grateful dead work. Let's get into the wonderful world of cannabis, Dan. Uh, that dad keeping right in the theme of things today with Jimmy and purple haze, you know, uh, excuse me while I kiss the sky. Um, yes, I think that, uh, people who have, uh, had a peak experience on marijuana, uh, may have had that before. Although I think by the time we were listening to that, we were all associating it, uh, um, with something else, but just besides marijuana, um, then as you recall at the beginning, we talked about Jimmy and his headbands, uh, but yeah, Jimmy's a Jimmy's the man. He was a party and guy. and he was the soundtrack for many an early bong session back in the Mary Markley and Alice Lloyd dormitory days at the University of Michigan in the 1980s and perhaps even some fun sessions up at the radio station in Eagle River, Wisconsin, where our good buddy Bono, long before there was a Bono associated with U2, this was the original Bono from Columbus, and he would always spin magical music for us. and up in his radio station there and it was not uncommon for us to have a little Jimmy while we were having some funs with Mr. Peanut. So thank you Dan for doing that but let's dive right into the marijuana talk here if we can. And you know, here's just a great example I think of the government and its dysfunctional taken approach to marijuana. You know, last week we kind of went off on it a little bit, maybe on Ted Cruz and some other people for being kind of stupid about it. So let's dive in here and talk a little bit for a moment about what's going on, the latest news out of the DEA and the Health and Human Services, right? We talked about how previously the Health and Human Services is recommending that marijuana be rescheduled from schedule one to schedule three. Everybody's patting themselves on the back for that because look, we'll avoid 280E, we will get banking services, and won't all of that be a great thing? We've already spent time talking about why no, it's not going to really be a great thing. In my opinion, and I think in the opinion of some of the more sophisticated people in the industry, it's a classic bait and switch. Marijuana will still be illegal unless it is specifically illegal. prescribed by a doctor. Now you understand right now, for medical patients, doctors are not prescribing marijuana. No doctor prescribes marijuana. What doctors do under these state laws is they write a recommendation, a recommendation that based on the person's symptoms that they report, that those symptoms fall within the scope of conditions that qualify you to get a medical card in a particular state. So they're basically verifying if somebody has one of these conditions and in doing so they are quote unquote recommending that the use of medical cannabis might be a good thing. Schedule 3 doctors are prescribing, they're pulling out their pads and they're writing prescriptions for medicines that are on schedule 3, schedule 2 and schedule 1. And so we talked about this, does this mean that dispensaries now have to have licensed pharmacists? Or Will you even be allowed to own a dispensary? If you're not a licensed pharmacist, I'm sure that there's a whole organization of licensed pharmacists out there right now who are licking their chops and thinking, this may be the best thing that ever happened. With all due respect to them, that's great. And if I'm really going to get a drug that requires that type of specialty and expertise, by all means, I'm all for using a licensed pharmacist, but this is using marijuana. We don't need a licensed pharmacist to sell us marijuana any more than we need a licensed pharmacist to sell us cigarettes or... alcohol or caffeine or any of those other kind of substances that we all use freely in this country even though we know that they are far more dangerous than marijuana and they don't come close to matching marijuana in terms of medical efficacy and everything that else goes along with it. So the article that we're looking at today from our friends over at MJ Biz, shout out to them also for providing us with wonderful marijuana content and a quick reminder to everybody that the uh... annual conference in las vegas is just around the corner if you haven't made your reservations yet uh... to get out there now is the time to do it you get a chance to meet everybody really see what's going on and uh... just get a true feel for the marijuana market if you're involved in the industry it's kind of a must be at event and uh... it's really stood the test of time over all these years while other conferences have kind of come and gone mj biz uh... is still the gold standard i think for people if you can only go to one conference a year That's the one you want to go to, but we thank them for that and for keeping us up to speed on everything that's happening news-wise in the marijuana world. So let's listen to this. It says that the DEA confirmed to Congress in 2020 that it is bound by law to defer to the Department of Health and Human Services on matters of science and health. But don't forget, we talked last week that 35 years ago there was a recommendation to reschedule marijuana. And the DEA said, no, we ain't going to do that. So apparently they're bound by law when they want to be, and they're not bound by law when they don't want to be. So we're already looking at something here that's problematic. So I'm not really sure what everybody is talking about here. This is part of the ongoing federal review of marijuana's legal status that President Biden launched last October. The DEA is now tasked with reviewing how a new classification affects questions of law and policy, including US obligations under international drug control treaties, and on and on and on. So yes, we know that it would have major implications for the cannabis industry because 280E would no longer apply. That only applies to schedule one and schedule two. It might, although not for sure, remove barriers to federal employment, public housing, immigration visas, firearms ownership, and all the rest of that. However, schedule three drugs are legal available only with a doctor's prescription and only after a rigorous FDA approval process. Folks. maybe 30 years ago, 35 years ago when this was first suggested, that might have been a good move to make. But now it is not a good move to make. It is a bullshit move to make. And it's a, oh look folks, we're going to give you something without really giving you something. It's still illegal under federal law. Marijuana should not be illegal. Marijuana should be available everywhere, not only with a doctor's prescription. If it comes schedule three, are you going to be able to walk into an adult use? uh... dispensary by marijuana you don't have a doctor's prescription to do it unless they're gonna start writing exceptions i don't know how they can be and if they're gonna write exceptions then why the hell are they keeping it scheduled that way anyway so yes this is a pet peeve of mine but most of these issues are because ultimately they're just based on being stupid government being stupid government being scared to act government uh... just being frozen in place nobody really willing to take the next step forward and really kind of make this thing a reality, just truly legal marijuana. They did it with hemp, finally, right? They got to that point. Nobody says, well, we're gonna put hemp on schedule three or schedule four or schedule five. Why? Because it would have been stupid. This is stupid. So while everybody over at Health and Human Services and DEA are patting themselves on their back for being so modern and forward thinking with all of this, remind them that 35 years ago, they had the opportunity to do it and they blew it because they thought they knew better, even though they didn't. And now that they have an opportunity to do it again, they know that they should do it, but they still think they know better, and they still think that schedule three is the way to go. They're morons, they're idiots. This is just a waste of everybody's time. It's just them trying to dig up some good publicity for themselves and make them look better. But it's stupid, and here's why it's stupid, folks, because the very next article that we're going to in MJ Biz points out... the overwhelming stupidity and hypocrisy of all of this, right? Notice that the health and human services is not saying that marijuana should just be de-scheduled. Why? Because it's not harmful. Because we know that it has tremendous medical benefits because I've been reading off articles week after week, whether it's resulting in lower healthcare premiums, whether it's resulting in people having a better quality of life. Veterans, uh, have all across the board said how it's so much better than the opioids they take it. It helps them mentally. It helps them physically. It helps them every possible way under the sun. And we still have people pushing back. If the DEA and the Health and Human Services would just come out and say, forget it. We're taking it off all the schedules. We're making it legal. But they don't. They play this game. So what happens? Well, let's look at this. 14 Republican federal lawmakers are voicing their opposition to a key federal agency's recommendation that marijuana be rescheduled. We're not talking about taking it off. We're rescheduling it. So they all jump in. They all do their thing. They wrote a letter to the DEA chief, Anne Milgram. Eight Republican senators, six GOP reps declared that the Department of Health and Human Services recommendation to move marijuana from schedule one to schedule three of the Controlled Substance Act is part of an irresponsible pro-pot agenda and urged that marijuana remain among the list of the most dangerous drugs. OK, so let's just start off by saying we don't even have to know who these people are. These people are stupid morons and I'm sorry my wife gets mad when I call people that but I just don't know what else to call somebody who sits there and says, oh, all these other articles that are out there, nope, we're going to ignore those because we think we know better. We think we know the answer. We think we've got this right. Right? So this of course is being led by James Lankford of Oklahoma and a Senator from Oklahoma and Texas GOP rep Pete Sessions and Lankford and Sessions are already on the list of whack jobs. who will tell you that Biden didn't win the election, who will tell you that COVID wasn't real, who will tell you all these kinds of things. And now they're gonna come back, surprise, surprise. Current research, science and trends support the case that marijuana should remain a schedule one drug. Why? Well, let's see what they say. 30% of cannabis users have marijuana use disorder. That's bullshit. That's just such bullshit on so many levels. They have nothing to cite to that. They have nothing to prove that. This is just a... 30% of users have marijuana use disorder. What about all the people that are alcoholics, raging alcoholics out there that are killing themselves, killing people on the road? Marijuana use disorder is a nonsense term that you come up with and you invent when you're trying to demonstrate, oh, that this is a dangerous drug. Are there people who shouldn't smoke marijuana? Yes, there are. There are people who shouldn't drink alcohol. There are people who shouldn't use caffeine. There are people who shouldn't do a lot of things. There's wonderful medicines out there. I myself am allergic to a number of. of medicines out there. And it doesn't matter though. If you can't take a particular medicine, you switch over to another medicine and you do it that way. You don't say to everybody else in the world, well, this medicine doesn't work for me, so therefore we shouldn't let it work for you. This is 30% cannabis use disorder. OK, great, thanks. Please tell us when the 1930s. frame of reference here in reefer madness is over and we can all go home right modern day marijuana is three times stronger than it was 25 years ago leading to a higher rate of addiction nobody gets addicted to marijuana there is not a physical addiction that develops there are people who become dependent upon marijuana just like there are people who are dependent every day on taking psychotropic drugs or having their morning cup of coffee because without caffeine they cannot start their day. A dependence is different than an addiction and there are so many substances out there both pharmaceutical and regular that people have a dependency on but don't have an addiction. So again, you know, you're citing statistics and we've gone through these studies but these people don't care. No marijuana treatments have been approved by the FDA. What are you looking at? What are you seeing? How many articles have we read about people who are helped by marijuana? It gets them off of addictive drugs. It helps vets get over PTSD. It helps for people who are having depression episodes. It helps for people who have bad appetites because they're sick and they don't have an appetite because of the meds they're on and everything. And now they're gonna come out and say, no marijuana treatments have been approved by the FDA. Why? Because you can't even test it in this country. You people are morons. So who are this? It's almost, we don't even have to read the list. You can almost imagine who's on this list along with Langford and Sessions. Marcia Blackburn from Tennessee, surprise, surprise. She may be one of the dumbest human beings out there, but we don't have time to get into it. Ted Budd from North Carolina. Ha ha, that's funny, Budd, but North Carolina. Tom Cotton, this man is just a walking disaster who still wants to walk around and still thinks that Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted for Benghazi or whatever. He's just one of these guys who will tell you that, yep. Joe Biden committed crimes. I don't know what the crimes are, but I know he committed crime. Tom get high and get over it. My crapo from Idaho. We've read about him and his involvement on the Senate banking committee and stuff, Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Hey Mark Wayne, why don't you wake up to the fact that your state has one of the largest cannabis markets in the country right now and go out there and tell us please how many of them are all being carted off with marijuana use disorder. Um, and all these other things you're talking about. Senator James Risch, not as well known but from Idaho, that's all we need to know. Senator Michael Rounds from South Dakota. South Dakota says it all. Senator Robert Adderholt from Alabama, right. Alabama's the state that told us even when the Supreme Court says we have to add a second voting district that's predominantly black, we know better so we're gonna do it our way and we're not gonna follow, right. A state that basically tells the Supreme Court of the United States to fuck off on instructions on how to drop their voting maps and one of their representatives, surprise, is out here. harping on the dangers of marijuana and why it should remain on schedule one. Earl Buddy Carter from Georgia, right? We got that nickname going, it's a whole Georgia thing. Yeah, Andy Briggs from Arizona, Andy Biggs, excuse me. Nobody knows the difference with him cuz he's another election denier and another crazy person out there. Chuck Edwards from North Carolina, Hal Rogers from Kentucky. Who are these people? You might wanna ask, why the hell are they saying this? Why are they doing this? Because these are all extreme people. These are all people who take extreme positions. who think they know best, who think they know the way they run the country. And instead of fucking worrying about everybody else's, why don't you worry about your own stuff? Marsha Blackburn was the one who got all excited about trying to ask somebody to define what a woman was when she was doing her whole thing about transgender. She's from the state that ruled out all sorts of stuff that is. trans-related, that is gay-related, drag shows, drag shows for children, nope, these are the worst things in the world, they're going to ruin us, they take books out of libraries. These people want us to all be stupid, they want us to buy into this stupid way of life. Anytime you have a group that says that the educated people are the enemy, you know you're dealing with a problem. So here's a perfect example. These people are all going to tell us that they know better, that they know that we should not be allowed to smoke marijuana. while they all go back to their states and sit around and drink their bourbon and drink their whiskey and drink their shit and people die in alcohol related car accidents and kids die from alcohol poisoning in schools and on and on and on but nope we're going to take the time and we're going to focus on marijuana and we're going to say that Health and Human Services doesn't know what the hell it's talking about and even though they come out and say that it should be. rescheduled, we say no. Well, how about if Health and Human Services comes out and just says, you know what, you people are all morons. This does not belong on any schedule at all. We're taking it off the schedule. We're not going to. By putting it on schedule three, they had just a sense of the fact that, yeah, it needs to be controlled a little bit, that it gives these guys a platform to get up and say all of their mind-numbingly brain-dead statements about this. And as a government, as a whole, we have to be better than this. We have to know that just becomes you know some weirdos who never inhaled or whatever they want to talk about and think that they're being out there and telling us the way that the world should work that they have no idea what they're talking about and we have to move past them. Now you'll notice that one name that's not on that list who often comes up in these types of situations is Lauren Bobert, our good friend from Colorado. Now in Miss Bobert's case there's probably a good reason why she's not on this list because anybody who's been following the news knows that she went out to see a live performance, a stage performance of Beetlejuice. The old... a movie starring Michael Keaton from way back in the day. And now it's a musical and I don't know if it's good or not, but she went with her husband or some man to see it. And of course, right in the middle of the performance, she was asked to leave. And why was she asked to leave? Because she was being loud and she was being obnoxious. And we all say, yeah, so what? That's the way she is anyway. But she also got kicked out for vaping. Now, interesting thing about this, she didn't come out and say, hey, I'm from Colorado and Colorado, you know, marijuana is legal. We use marijuana in Colorado. I'm just vaping. It's not that big of a deal. Oh no, she denied she was vaping. I wasn't vaping. I would never do that. I'm being an apologist for this. I don't vape. Well guess what? There was a security camera and she sure as hell was vaping. And then her response was, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Sorry for what? Sorry that you lied to us. Sorry that you were vaping. Okay, look, I understand that if you go into a regular movie theater, a regular... theater these days that's not necessarily the place to smoke especially if they have rules that say no smoking that's fine but how about instead of being all apologetic about it you say i made a mistake because i was vaping in a place where i shouldn't have been vaping i'm not apologizing for vaping i'm apologizing for the place where i was vaping but she can't even do that and so it all just becomes a big clusterfuck of people saying oh well you know Again, bad use of cannabis in a situation. Hey, Lauren, if that's the way it's gonna be, do us a favor, don't try and be hip and get high, just stand off to the side. But come on, guys, come on, all of you, just insane, hardcore right-wing Republicans who anything that the administration says you're gonna disagree with, you don't get to disagree with this when well, well over the majority of adult Americans today. not only say they approve of legal marijuana, they've tried legal marijuana. And when you get to that point, you cannot criminalize something that so many people do just because that's the way it was in the good old days and that's the way we're gonna keep it now. And don't think for a minute that some of these people also don't have racial animus in mind because as we saw when we talked about the history of marijuana, keeping marijuana illegal is a great way to help keep control of certain. groups of people when we're sure not what else to do. Well, we know they're going to be smoking marijuana, so we'll just go in and bust their ass for that. So all of you 14 whose names we just read and we won't read again, because quite frankly, you don't really deserve the attention, do us all a clue and just please get the hell out of the way and let this all go down the way it should so that people can relax and enjoy what it is that they like to do. And we don't have to worry about the government telling us any more about what we can or cannot do. So. I'm going to get off my soap box here and we'll move on. But I just, I can't tell you, I'm sure it comes through loud and clear how frustrating this is to see people saying stupid things. They don't know what they're talking about. They're mimicking lines from Reefer Madness from a long, long time ago. And quite frankly, if you'd worry about real problems in this country and not about owning the libs or any of this other stuff where you think you know best. the world might be a much better place and let's just start with this and see if we can't get there. Okay, so having said all of that, we're getting to the end of our show here. Nothing like a good rant to carry out for those last 15 or 20 minutes and it feels good to get it off my chest. So we are going to wrap things up here in just a second. Thank you for listening today and hope you will be back next week. Again, we're gonna have Jamie Humiston on to tell us all about his wonderful experience. uh... at uh... borderlands uh... this past weekend uh... hopefully we'll be getting some more information soon about fish fest that we can share with everybody uh... these uh... ttb shows with warren and with uh... trey and norah jones are to be coming down the pipe and we'll be able to talk about those and all sorts of other good stuff so at any rate uh... i hope that uh... your day is as beautiful as mine is here in lovely st louis and uh... before we hop in the car to head back to chicago we will be stepping outside to enjoy the nice weather and some of the wonderful product that can now be found in Missouri as I say. I'm not often proud to say I'm from Missouri, but when it comes to their marijuana program by God I sure am because they've done a job that should be the model for the rest of this country in terms of how to successfully roll out and run a program and a lot of states including Illinois could really learn a lesson from them and hopefully they will. So we're going to say goodbye and a day of great jams. We're going to leave. uh... september eighteenth nineteen ninety at mass square garden with the encore from that night knocking on heaven's door at a tune uh... that many of us love kind of made its debut with jerry on the run for the roses album uh... that came out a number of years ago uh... think in the early nineteen eighties i believe it was his last uh... solo album and uh... he's played in concert a lot typically comes as an in as an encore uh... but one of the reasons why i'm playing it tonight is because a period of jamming and you'll hear at the beginning again we're not really focusing on the singing. On top of everything else for the encore Bruce Hornsby steps away from his grand piano and picks up the accordion. It's a beautiful thing. Enjoy Knocking on Heaven's Door. Thank you all for listening. Stay safe this week and enjoy your cannabis responsibly. Thank you everyone.