grateful dead and raga raga raga shankar
Recent Acquisitions: the Genius of Ravi Shankar and 80 min. live Dead mix cd from co-worker.
In other words: Head Muuuuuusic.
among lots of hip folks, at least since punk and on, getting into sincere 60's hippy music is tre-uncool. liking grateful dead era 67-75 was tantamount to liking phish (or for most of punk-time to being a deadhead still) which is downright anti-punk. or digging non-western fusion world music (aka not fela or baile funk or tropicalia) is to be on the same side of the fence as middle age liberal whole-foods yuppies. no thank you.
but these days that seems to been thrown out the door. or at least some what. as there are hipster coalition approved hippy bands to get into and ones not too. psychadelic acid folk = okay. i don't know if the grateful dead have made it yet. i thought i saw it coming around the amount a couple of years ago, but not having my ear to the ground any more, i think i was off the mark. and i don't know if it will happen, unlike incredible string band or christopher cross, gd is a monolith to penetrate that a lot of (un-hip) people are laying bricks on still. and there's a wide variety in their output, they never really rocked and they made a fair amount of bad music that hardcore deadies even acknowledge as no good. (apparently songs by the female vox in the disco-dead era are taken off of bootleg concert recordings because people don't like them that much.) so i don't think it'll ever reach hipster critical mass as that would require, you know, talking to uncool folks to find out what the good jams are as well as acknowledging that deadheads might actually have decent taste in music despite other questionable lifestyle/outlook-on-the-world choices. AND don't tell me yr going to be a better dead fan than a dead-head cuz that's just rude.
so the live dead mix by my co-worker dead-head is totally worthwhile. it's safe to say i might listen to it multiple times. it doesn't jump out at me as something i need to chase down a lot of (see comments above) but it is perfectly enjoyable and a lot to hear. (same could be said for fleetwood mac (for different reasons) and, as the original premise of my heading would indicate, ravi shankar (but i'm to lazy to write anymore)).
In other words: Head Muuuuuusic.
among lots of hip folks, at least since punk and on, getting into sincere 60's hippy music is tre-uncool. liking grateful dead era 67-75 was tantamount to liking phish (or for most of punk-time to being a deadhead still) which is downright anti-punk. or digging non-western fusion world music (aka not fela or baile funk or tropicalia) is to be on the same side of the fence as middle age liberal whole-foods yuppies. no thank you.
but these days that seems to been thrown out the door. or at least some what. as there are hipster coalition approved hippy bands to get into and ones not too. psychadelic acid folk = okay. i don't know if the grateful dead have made it yet. i thought i saw it coming around the amount a couple of years ago, but not having my ear to the ground any more, i think i was off the mark. and i don't know if it will happen, unlike incredible string band or christopher cross, gd is a monolith to penetrate that a lot of (un-hip) people are laying bricks on still. and there's a wide variety in their output, they never really rocked and they made a fair amount of bad music that hardcore deadies even acknowledge as no good. (apparently songs by the female vox in the disco-dead era are taken off of bootleg concert recordings because people don't like them that much.) so i don't think it'll ever reach hipster critical mass as that would require, you know, talking to uncool folks to find out what the good jams are as well as acknowledging that deadheads might actually have decent taste in music despite other questionable lifestyle/outlook-on-the-world choices. AND don't tell me yr going to be a better dead fan than a dead-head cuz that's just rude.
so the live dead mix by my co-worker dead-head is totally worthwhile. it's safe to say i might listen to it multiple times. it doesn't jump out at me as something i need to chase down a lot of (see comments above) but it is perfectly enjoyable and a lot to hear. (same could be said for fleetwood mac (for different reasons) and, as the original premise of my heading would indicate, ravi shankar (but i'm to lazy to write anymore)).
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