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The fabulous Bob Weir and how the Grateful Dead invented the internet
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A tie-dyed-in-the-wool rock & roll space odyssey to infinity and beyond which stops off this week at …
… why the Dead’s music was “like lighting a match in the wind”
… Ha Ha Harlem! Rebels Without Applause! – Morrissey song or Lenny Bruce comic routine?
… Sting v Sumner & Copeland and what Every Breath You Take makes daily just from streaming
… is Oasis “the biggest exchange of money for old rope in the history of commerce?”
… rock stars in shorts
… John Hartford and his Willie Nelson Sliding Doors moment
… how Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions became the most hi-tech band on the planet
… Rock ‘babes’ in the Bob Weir mould – eg Michael Clarke of the Byrds, Evan Dando and Mark Gardener from Ride
… has anyone made more by doing less than JJ Burnel on Golden Brown?
... plus Warren Zevon song titles, Mary Coughlan in a coracle and the first records we reviewed for money.
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