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It's a bit of a grab-bag today. I found myself needing to finally learn the melody to a couple of songs that I'd so far only played guitar on, because I want to do them in my upcoming concert at Consonance. You know that thing about dominos? That.

So the only recordings I could find were back in 2009. And, for some unaccountable reason, I hadn't put up the audio for that concert. It soon became clear that one reason I hadn't was that the performer tags in the audio files were wrong...

... and once I'd fixed that, I decided to put my concert index into a sensible, most-recent-first format. (It had been most recent year first, but most recent last within each year.) So that's done now. And Baycon 2008 didn't have an index.html file. It does now.

So here you go:

... and if you're still with me, there's a somewhat off-the-wall bonus. You see, this week the R&D lab I work for publicly announced a subsidiary in India called Ricoh Innovations Private Limited (RIPL)

So what was the first song that popped into my head when first I heard about it? Right. The Grateful Dead - Ripple. I've been waiting five months to post that one...

Date: 2012-02-19 05:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acelightning.livejournal.com
Ripple... wow. One of my favorite songs. Chris Hillman recorded a more explicitly country version of it, and I used to play the fuck out of it when I was a country-and-western DJ. There's just so much waiting behind those lyrics, just out of reach...

And when I heard that Garcia was dead, the first thing that popped into my head was, "If I knew the way, I would take you home..."

Date: 2012-02-19 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acelightning.livejournal.com
I was singing along with that video. Comfortably. Which means my vocal range is the same as Jerry's was...

Date: 2012-02-19 05:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] technoshaman.livejournal.com
You.... are an *incorrigible* punster. And sixteen-bar Jerry-Garcia-powered blues is a damn fine thing on Sunday morning.

Date: 2012-02-21 04:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] westrider.livejournal.com
My mom's band do Ripple as one of their standards. Always gets a great response. Just a wonderful song.

Date: 2012-02-23 09:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] filkferengi
Thanks for sharing these, Steve!

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