Roarshock @ Sacred Grounds

Roarskock Reads @ Sacred Grounds
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Set List

Spirit-Catcher
My Friend Giant
The Old Man of the Mountain
Garcia's Death
Sometimes the Roses Fade
First Hours of a Rainy Day
Saxmar the Unholy
Shadow Boxes

Thanks phriends for kind comments! Yes, I did have SUCH a fun time!

Here is Dan Brady's review from Sacred Grounds Newsletter:

Feature, Roarshock: This was a fabulous presentation by an astute, and perceptive poet synchronistic as it was Jerry Garcia passed and, being a fan, he read to honor the man, “The times are changing as they are encapsulated, contained on disc and tape, but even should the poles shift and all magnets disappear, erasing Jerry’s voice, even then the songs will be sung around campfires in the primordial forests under eternity along the wild wind swept beaches of nature inside the castles and caves or bus where we maintain our freeholds. Remember Jerry on the stage, his expressions as the music played the stories of existence. Never mind abusive uses of dangerous substances, or the impudent impotent reviews of ignorant imbeciles, none of that matters. What matters are the curious expansive trips further into, out of spaces and bubbles of consciousness. Jerry left us many signposts, and the long strange trip continues there is much work that remains to be done. The Grateful Dead can never die The Grateful Dead are life”

He also read a piece about a particular man, unhoused, whom he knew and spoke with on rare occasions… “Homeless, by definition without shelter in the world, must live private lives in public spaces. A.. A… grew up in the 20th century East Bay (Before most things familiar were swept away by Bong! Cuckoo! 21st century BOOMS!), and he remembered the “street people” of Telegraph Avenue. Maybe most of these folks had places to crash (It was, after all, a time before weirdos had been priced out of existence), but they lived their social lives publicly in coffee houses, parks, and along the sidewalk. The roots, known and unknown, understood and misunderstood, were found in Hobo culture and the unwritten “Code of the Road,” and also the Bohemian lifestyle of places like Prague, Paris and Amsterdam, where crowded personal accommodations encouraged people to live as communities in public settings, like bars and public squares. San Francisco also had its 20th century street people from the remnants of the Beats in North Beach to the Hippies born too late in Haight- Ashbury, questing for the lost illusion of a Summer of Love…” All in all a great read, my only regret is that, due to an unseemly error, I lost the recording.

He is part of Spoken World Online (Online Iteration of Spoken World Paris), Tuesdays, 11am PT. Host: David Leo Sirois. Co-hosts: Roarshock & Rick Spisak. This is the link to next Tuesday’s event -  

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9275470975?pwd=Q2s5Q3NDSWZreDlrcU1tL0x5d1krUT09