the master nick paumgarten visits dead & co. at the sphere (excuse me, "sphere") in the newest new yorker. heavy, heady, funny, dark. almost certainly the 1st time the conde nast stylebook has had to reckon with the terms "garciaverse" & "chompers." relieved to see good ol' lee ranaldo not buyin' josh's playing either. chuffed to get a deadcast reference, too, to our irv azoff wtf from last year. https://archive.ph/AiDdb #GratefulDead
@bourgwick Fantastic piece. Thanks for sharing.
Haven't been to a big show in…decades, but recently heard some Phish Deer Creek "tapes." I was shocked by the constant hum of voices throughout the show, as if the entire crowd were making dinner conversation.
Rick Beato recently took some flack for saying the experience of music had been cheapened by streaming. For years I've felt we were being conditioned to think of music as something in the background. Music is piped into every space, even outdoors. Talking over it has been normalized.
