jesse jarnowNov 7, 2024
this week, on a left-turning/zig-zagging good ol' #GratefulDead-cast, we recover a lost tape of the dead jamming with #SanFrancisco's sufi choir at winterland in march 1971, diving into hidden threads of dead history. it features the remarkable story of choir director allaudin mathieu (now 87!) who was an arranger for stan kenton & duke ellington, a downbeat #jazz writer, & #improv #comedy pioneer with second city & the committee before meeting sufi sam lewis. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-sufi-choir-371 #podcast /1
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Show threadjesse jarnowNov 7, 2024
this week's deadcast explores the entwined roots of the #GratefulDead & longform #improv #comedy, including an interview with wavy gravy. before founding the sufi choir, allaudin mathieu helped invent (& personally named) The Harold, an influential structure for longform improv, alongside del close, who'd collaborated with the pranksters & the dead at the LA acid tests. close's partner john brent was one of owsley's early LSD distributors (as was w. gravy). https://www.dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-sufi-choir-371 #podcast /2
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Show threadjesse jarnow
this week's deadcast uncovers the #GratefulDead's multiple connections to the sufi choir. vasheest philip davenport later did arrangements for the dead's songbooks. before that, he elicited robert hunter's first published writing, "starship grateful dead: an instruction manual", featured in the san francisco oracle of the spiritual revolution (a successor to the earlier haight street oracle). https://www.dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-sufi-choir-371 #podcast /3
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Show threadjesse jarnowNov 7, 2024
maybe the strangest connection in this week's #GratefulDead-cast: also on the bill at winterland in march '71 was the fire-walking kalias shugendo buddhist sect, including a young initiate named jigme, aka the composer arthur russell! then a composition student of allaudin's, a few archivists (& one ex) think that young #ArthurRussell is in michael parrish's photos, on the left, obscured by a mic stand. they'd record at alembic with allen ginsberg that summer. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-sufi-choir-371 #podcast /4
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Show threadjesse jarnowNov 7, 2024
the (sadly quite flawed) tape of the dead & the sufi choir first came over our transom like 3 years ago, & it took a while to unravel & find a place to slot an episode about it. despite the shitty, shitty week we picked, i'm extremely excited the story is out in the world! https://www.dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-sufi-choir-371
part of the reason it came out now is allaudin mathieu's deep recent #music lifer memoir, "the shrine thief" (in which his dalliance with the dead never comes up). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781949597295/the-shrine-thief/ #podcast /5
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Show threadMitch CarrollNov 7, 2024
@bourgwick was just listening to Arthur Russell on the newly released version of Psycho Killer.
Show threadTodd EllenbergNov 8, 2024
@bourgwick lovely tribute to Phil on the esposode