Testing my replacement headphones with some Froskull.
They are a hoot!
Everything from this:

 
To this:

Bands doing return to forever covers on You tube. One of my plans for next year is to do a gig of return to forever tracks.
I like this one.  

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve & Other Stories.

Pearl Jam - Bootleg from the board from the October 20th Milwaukee show (which I was in attendance at.)
 
:-D

Meat Puppets 'Lollipop' and 'Sewn Together', I am loving the newer Meat puppets albums; some of their best music, although 'Monsters' has some of my fave solos...anyway, good music to listen to while I do jewelry work; especially stone setting, which can be silly amounts of stress (stones crack or pop out of the setting for no reason, just to send you crawling on the floor to find them...fun!)...Tony

Alpine Valley 8/22/82 (22/8/82 for our friends Over There).  Possibly the best show I saw; Zakir Hussain & John Cipollina sitting in 2nd set.
 
Peter

Peter, I was at that show!
Albeit I had a bit too much of a certain 'medicine' and don't remember much from the night . . . .  :-(

I was at both shows at Alpine in '82 (amazing!), and a few months later saw the sun rise during their show at the Jamaica World Music Fest. If I recall, they played from sometime after 4AM until about 7AM. Looks like I'll be dipping into my archive of 80s Dead shows.

One of my favorite Phil & Friends lineups, 11/14/14, Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Joe Russo, Jeff Chimenti, John Kadlecik.  .  Audio and video aren't the best quality, but the performance is wonderful.  And two nice looking Alembics on stage!

Listening to that darn train horn from Buffalo!
 
Sad thing is I usually enjoy the sound of a train . . . .

Dave , that is a great show , Thanks  
 
Paul , I live miles from the tracks and also can hear the trains . I can hear the subway as well . The nice trains I like a bit better then the subway. ___ When I lived in San Francisco I loved the evening fog horn symphony. Mechanical frogs !

This time of year always makes me think of people who've gone home.  
 
I'd forgotten about this, and happened to think of it the other day.  Two legends from Mississippi who made good, and another reminder that great singers and musicians can do justice in situations we might not ordinarily imagine them, and that they do listen to other artists and other things:
 

 
The affection is obvious.  For the 'who played what', read-the-back-jacket types like me:
 
Don Was, producing  
Kenny Aranoff, drums
Willie Weeks, bass
the late Barry Beckett (from Muscle Shoals) on piano
Reggie Young, guitar
 . . . and the other cats I'm afraid I don't know.
 
Joey

But then again . . . . . Robert always had a big man-crush on Elvis, and this Honey Drippers track with Beck AND Page-y is absolute, incontrovertible, undeniable truth that 'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing', a sadly lacking aspect of groove in this digitized and quantized world.  Sample Rates can't Swing !
 

 
Can't help myself, it's just way more fun than 'Immigrant Song'.  I'm trying to imagine Vikings doing the jitterbug in the land of ice and snow . . . . .
 
Joey

I was there in the crowd at this show  @ Keystone  Berkeley;  JGB  11/17/75

Nice groove, Wolf!  I have the vague recollection of having played this tune in a band in the mid 90's.