It doesn't look like much is actually available, nor do they list all the recordings they are trying to save, they just want money to save them.
Seems like something Wolfgang's Vault or something like that would invest in for later releases.
There is one Owsley recording I'd love to hear/have that has never to my knowledge seen the light of day...
I saw a show in a little church in Berkeley in 1982 that featured a father & son I'd never heard of, Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain. I went because Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain were listed as the opening act. As a 22-year-old dead head who loved Mickey, that's all it took to get me there.
Before the show, Owsley came up on stage and told us that he was recording the event using especially sensitive microphones located in/on the floor, and he sternly admonished us to be quiet and DO NOT TAP YOUR FEET!
The show of course was amazing, with Mickey & Zakir improvising among all sorts of percussion instruments set up on the stage, and then Zakir & his father performed the main set, with Zakir explaining all the small rituals & details of what they were doing and why, including the particular way they would tune their tabla's. I became a huge Zakir fan from that night, but damn his father made his son look like a novice. I've never seen hands move like Alla Rakha's moved that night, like hummingbird wings.
An amusing moment at that show was during the set break when a few of us were hovering around Owsley at his board and he was grumpily explaining some details about the setup, when Mickey came up and bummed some weed from him. At first Owsley said he didn't have anything but Mickey said, "Common' Bear, you ALWAYS have something!" Which of course he did and gave Mickey some amazing looking buds.
I've always kept an eye out for that recording but not surprisingly I've never heard anything about it; I wonder if it's stashed among this collection.
I'd be more willing to contribute if they'd say more about what exactly is in that stash of recordings that need to be saved.
Zakir and my Uncle have made music together since the late 80s. Zakir was in my uncles wedding and is super human being.
lance, check out Ken Zuckerman if you dig listening to the sarod. Ken used to run the ali akbar khan's music school in San Rafael and he now runs the one in Basel
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It doesn't look like much is
It doesn't look like much is actually available, nor do they list all the recordings they are trying to save, they just want money to save them.
Seems like something Wolfgang's Vault or something like that would invest in for later releases.
There is one Owsley recording I'd love to hear/have that has never to my knowledge seen the light of day...
I saw a show in a little church in Berkeley in 1982 that featured a father & son I'd never heard of, Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain. I went because Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain were listed as the opening act. As a 22-year-old dead head who loved Mickey, that's all it took to get me there.
Before the show, Owsley came up on stage and told us that he was recording the event using especially sensitive microphones located in/on the floor, and he sternly admonished us to be quiet and DO NOT TAP YOUR FEET!
The show of course was amazing, with Mickey & Zakir improvising among all sorts of percussion instruments set up on the stage, and then Zakir & his father performed the main set, with Zakir explaining all the small rituals & details of what they were doing and why, including the particular way they would tune their tabla's. I became a huge Zakir fan from that night, but damn his father made his son look like a novice. I've never seen hands move like Alla Rakha's moved that night, like hummingbird wings.
An amusing moment at that show was during the set break when a few of us were hovering around Owsley at his board and he was grumpily explaining some details about the setup, when Mickey came up and bummed some weed from him. At first Owsley said he didn't have anything but Mickey said, "Common' Bear, you ALWAYS have something!" Which of course he did and gave Mickey some amazing looking buds.
I've always kept an eye out for that recording but not surprisingly I've never heard anything about it; I wonder if it's stashed among this collection.
I'd be more willing to contribute if they'd say more about what exactly is in that stash of recordings that need to be saved.
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Zakir and my Uncle have made
Zakir and my Uncle have made music together since the late 80s. Zakir was in my uncles wedding and is super human being.
lance, check out Ken Zuckerman if you dig listening to the sarod. Ken used to run the ali akbar khan's music school in San Rafael and he now runs the one in Basel
https://www.discogs.com/Ken-Zuckerman-Zakir-Hussain-Sounds-Of-India-Live...
https://www.kenzuckerman.com/
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Alice D Millionaire could
Alice D Millionaire could have done better with the Bear legacy, perhaps.
That said, bring on the recordings.