64 sats \ 3 replies \ @jasonb 18 Oct \ on: Question Authority: FOSS & The Grateful Dead Music
I can't speak for Sly or Rahsaan, but late in their career, I played with a couple different versions of George Clinton's bands:
...and I can tell you unequivocally that these guys stayed true to a rebellious sense of freedom well after their commercial success.
Wow! You played with them! I am a fan. This is so cool. You must have a fun life.
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I've had some fun...had some hard times too. The music thing alone has been bittersweet, especially with three kids in a post covid environment. I'm trying to find something in the bitcoin sphere right now.
But if you're a dead head, there's probably a lot of stuff I've done that'd you'd dig. This is a horn part I wrote for Mike Gordon of Phish* right before the lockdowns:
I literally only played with him this one time though.
*always thought it weird that they are so associated with the dead. Sounds more like prog rock to me.
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Very cool. I'm not a big Phish guy myself, and I agree the music doesn't seem similar. I think it's the whole jam band label more than anything else. Same with String Cheese Incident.
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