Comments on: Bob Moose

By: sb1902

sb1902 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:40:24 +0000

Hippie Parents Club? Wow, my experience was totally different. My dad was drafted and fought in heavy combat on the Mekong Delta. He was a boxer and an ironworker for 30 years and came back to be the most scary person I ever met in my life. Although he never talked about it except when extremely drunk or stoned, he once mentioned that the guys sometimes used to tie Viet Cong corpses to the back of jeeps or whatever and drag them through villages.

In other words, there was no room for Jerry Garcia in my childhood.

By: sly jones

sly jones — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:37:30 +0000

39. Hey, Ian:
The listings for 1969 shows at http://www.deadlists.com specifically mention the Glass Family playing at one show (6/8/69) and imply they opened for the Dead for the entire run (6/5 through 6/8.)
Go to the left side of the page, select 1969 and click “see all shows from 1969″ for the listings.

As Wilker suggests, archive.org is one place to look for recordings.
bt.etree.org usually has a fair amount of Dead too, though you have to have BitTorrent to get hold of anything.

Best of luck.
(I had the pleasant experience a couple years ago of downloading a Miles Davis show my dad attended in 1969 and playing it for him again. Not quite the same thing but still kinda cool.)

By: MC Safety

MC Safety — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:53:42 +0000

38. 33 Definitely not Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. Strawberry Alarm Clock at the Malibu Inn in June was pretty amazing.

By: Ian Capilouto

Ian Capilouto — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:52:49 +0000

37. Yeah when I asked him once about the band name being after the Salinger Glass Family, his response was, “Yeah that probably was what it was. We combined it with the fact that we lived in a house literally made of glass bottles in Topanga Canyon.”

That is a cool description from that link and I should forward that to him. Thanks man, I appreciate that! He is the guy with no shirt and the huge mustache holding a doll. They pop up on comp albums every few years and things like that. It is cool, but they still get together to play every few weeks these days, sans the original drummer who sadly let the drugs get the better of him.

My dad was always frustrated by the label release and mix of the full length. He felt they used takes that were done to mix as “psych pop” instead of going with the versions that he liked. I would send you a cd of some sort of it, no problem man. My email address is iancapilouto@yahoo.com. Send me your address and I will see what I can do.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:50:42 +0000

36. 34 : There are few things that would intrigue me more than a now unknown psychedelic band named (I’m guessing) after one of my favorite author’s (J.D. Salinger) fictional brood. I did a quick search to learn more and came up with this description:

http://tinyurl.com/34kvkd

Now I want to hear the album! It kinda sounds like another great unsung psychedelic album by an L.A. band of that era, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Volume II.

By: Ian Capilouto

Ian Capilouto — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:32:32 +0000

35. Sorry if that was confusing, I answered with my other baseball toaster screen name.

By: Ian Capilouto

Ian Capilouto — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:14:33 +0000

34. 31 They were called The Glass Family and recorded a few records on Warner Bros. which had the Dead on their label for a while too, I believe. That is how they ended up doing a bunch of Dead shows. They never made it big, but they did get all of the good times from those times. I have always wanted to find those nights on recording to give to him as a gift or something. He refers to those nights as the most magical and insane ever in his life. Thanks for the link and the ideas. I should really search it out and see if someone has those exact dates from 1969 because I know that from a certain point on, every show the Dead played was recorded off of the soundboard. Looking forward to the next chapter!

By: El Lay Dave

El Lay Dave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:48:18 +0000

33. 28 That sounds like Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, pretty well-known dude. I did get to play once with my guy at a school event. I am a rudimentary hack, but he was, of course, awesome, sitting in with zero rehearsal. It's amazing to watch someone that good up close and contributing in even the smallest way, maybe like being a ballboy in the dugout and watching Pedro Martinez (or even an average MLB pitcher) pitch.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:09 +0000

32. It was the latter, Josh. This was only 2 or 3 years ago.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:57:36 +0000

31. 27 : I wonder if you were at the original 57th Street location or the later location on 42nd Street across from Bryant Park. I worked at the former until it closed. (The latter location shut down too, sometime last year I think.)

29 : Wow, what was the name of your old man’s band? As for Dead stuff, there’s certainly no shortage of recordings from those days. I imagine the tape-trading scene remains thriving today, and is probably aided by the internet, but I don’t know much about it. You might try poking around this site for some streaming audio and downloads, though:

http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead

I’m enjoying the meandering discussion here. I hoped to get another chapter up today, but it probably won’t be until tomorrow…