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Steven Lipski has vowed to stay off the booze for a bit after the Jersey City Councilman urinated from the second-floor balcony of a Washington D.C. nightclub onto revelers groovin’ to the sounds of a Grateful Dead tribute band Friday night. Cops dragged Lipski out of the popular venue after staffers spotted his drunken weenie raining down on concert goers. The 44-year-old Democrat refused to comment on the peeing incident, but told reporters gathered outside his home that he’s “resolved not to touch alcohol again.” Doin’ Jersey proud, one peeing legislator at a time!

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I did some checking, and it was definitely the Dark Star Orchestra show in D.C. Man, that is just bad vibes all around…

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I caught a song or two from this Phil & Friends show on one of Jaybird’s archived podcasts from his radio show, Endless Boundaries. I think it was show 542, but I’m not sure. I was blown away - the band is tight. But who makes up the “& Friends” portion of the band on this gig?

• Trey Anastasio
• Joan Osborne
• Larry Campbell
• Rob Barraco
• Jeff Sipe

Phil was gracious enough to allow soundboards for this show to be seeded, and that is what I grabbed. Thanks Phil!

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And somewhat related… I spotted a great one-of-a-kind interview with Jerry Garcia back in a hotel room in ‘81. He covers quite a bit of ground and even addresses the issue of taping - which is surprisingly much more convoluted now that he’s not around. The recording can be found at the Internet Archive. Worth a listen.

Ram Rod was one of the beautiful people. His family deserves everything they can get. I know I would have kicked down at that auction if I had the means. BTW - Garcia was smoking non-filtered? Holy shit - that sounds worse than the Persian bindles…

On Tuesday the Grateful Dead collection belonging to the group’s longtime road manager Lawrence ‘Ram Rod’ Shurtliff brought in over $1.1 million through a public auction. The property offered was consigned for sale by his son Rudson Shurtliff. The auction’s top selling items included guitars played on stage and in-studio by Jerry Garcia, original art used on album covers and equipment and collectibles associated with the Dead.
Spotlighted items include Garcia’s guitar The Eagle which sold for $186,000, a Travis Bean made electric guitar Garcia used in the mid-1970s which sold for $312,000, a Garcia acoustic guitar which sold for $102,000, and a Garcia Gibson electric which sold for $39,000. The above mentioned Bean guitar came in a case which included several other rare items, including Garcia’s Vinci guitar strings, a tuning fork, a string winder and an unopened pack of Garcia’s cigarettes (Camel non-filters for those keeping score at home). Other items auctioned included a 1973 Garcia stage-worn tooled leather guitar strap by Nudie’s which sold for $20,400, a flight case filled with Garcia’s picks, never-opened guitar strings and other accessories which sold for $16,800, and a never-before-seen original Garcia drawing from 1970 which sold for $14,000.
Ram Rod, who acted as President of the Grateful Dead’s corporation after years of serving as the group’s road manager, passed away in 2006.

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