It’s been a long time since I have contributed to the Contrast Podcast.  For those who don’t know, it’s something of a meta-podcast of music bloggers.  If you take a look at the blogroll on the sidebar of the website, you can see just how extensive the list of contributers has become.  The theme of podcast #63 happens to be a song chain.  Three different podcasts were made, starting here, proceeding to here, and ending in our current episode.

If you haven’t caught on, Person A picks a song, Person B picks a song based off of the previous song, etc, etc.  The song preceeding mine was The Walker Brothers, “Deadlier Than The Male”, picked by ZB from So the wind won’t blow it all away.  While I know nothing of The Walker Brothers, whose music sounds like a theme song from a long lost James Bond movie, I do know of The Walker Brothers Pancake House, in the Chicago suburbs where I grew up.  My immediate reaction:  Jack Johnson’s “Banana Pancakes.”

While these podcasts are always unique and interesting due to Tim’s editing and the wide variety of music and contributers, this episode is particularily fun to listen to because of everybody’s explanation of why they picked the song they did.  Without further stalling, here’s what you need:

MP3: Song Chain Part 3

Contrast Podcast iTunes Subscription: Click Here

Contrast Podcast Website: Song Chain Part 3

A couple weeks ago FADER dedicated their current issue to Jerry Garcia, and on top of that, decided to distribute the .pdf of it for free.  Though the Grateful Dead will give any band a run for a spot in my all time top 5, I’ve rarely posted on them here at Burning Oak and the last two posts plus this one make up the first three Grateful Dead posts at the site.  Sad, eh?  Oh well, I’ll make up for it with a Garcia podcast, link, a free Garcia magazine, and if you stay tuned in the next week or so, a Garcia poster/shirt giveaway compliments of Burning Oak and FADER magazine.  Good stuff, no?

Podcast: http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/category/podcasts

Magazine PDF: http://thefader.cachefly.net/thefader_issue46.pdf

Items to be given away (details soon):

Shirt: Link here

Poster: Link here

“If you get confused, listen to the music play.”

…and it’s looking pretty good.  It features include a show tracker and some new content it appears.  Those of you lucky enough to have made some shows before 1995, go join.  For the rest of you, check it out anyways.

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June 17, 1991, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey:

Opening the show with “Eyes of the World,” one of my favorites, this video was apparently transferred from a VHS as you can see at the beginning, and has good quality video and audio for a transfer.  It starts in with a cool zoom in through the crowd, already dancing, and has a lot of good closeups of all the band members.  Looks to have been done professionally.  Total Time: 14:48.

Don’t forget, you can stream the entire show’s audio at Archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd91-06-17.sbd.miller.25608.sbeok.shnf

Setlist from DeadBase.com:
June 17, 1991, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey (Mon)
Set One:
Eyes of the World >
Walking Blues
B. E. Women
Masterpiece
Loose Lucy
Cassidy >
Might As Well

Set Two:
Saint >
Ship Of Fools >
Dark Star Jam >
Truckin >
New Speedway >
Uncle John >
Jam >
Drumz >
China Doll >
Playin Reprise >
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
The Weight

More downloads below, full download listing here.

New Archive.org downloads as of 4pm 06/02:

moe. - 05/27 A

New bt.etree.org torrents as of 4pm 06/02: 

Toubab Krewe - 05/26
MMW - 05/27
Pnuma Trio - 05/26