May 18, 2005
an easy moment
I returned home yesterday afternoon from work. I needed some rest and to sit in the sun. I drifted in and out of sleep whilst listening to the reggae rhythms of the Grateful Dead's 1975 CD Blues for Allah.
This music is a long way from their earlier 'American Beauty'(1970) and 'Wake of the Flood'(1973) and rootsy American musical traditionalism. They were not yet just a touring old white band on a non-stop touring schedule. That came in the 1980s with the alienation, drugs. These took their toll, the magic----the development of a melody out of chaos---eased out of the music and the show became more and more of a ritual.
However, I was too tired to think about aesthetics, rock music and rock criticism, so I surfed the net looking at the day's cartoons:
good huh.