If I could vote over, it would be Aoxomoxoa. I wonder to what extent people shy away from talking about it because they don't know how to pronounce it. A record store owner I knew in the 90s pronounced it "ahhg-ZON-dra" and pretty soon he had several of his hangers-on doing it too.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
Ah, didn't realize it was a new thing--maybe my bobblehead guess is right. (Maybe the Jays will mix things up and make it a Pigpen bobblehead.)
I can't pronounce Aoxomoxoa either, but I do like it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
Lol I might have to start saying "ahhg-ZON-dra".
If I could only pick one release I'd probably go for Steppin' Out, the comp of UK material from the Europe 72 tour. Studio, either American Beauty or Anthem of the Sun.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
Agree that Steppin' Out is very fine - beautiful version of Comes a Time, red hot Greatest Story Ever Told etc. I also really like the 71 Fillmore East comp, Ladies and Gentleman ... the Grateful Dead, especially the whole of disc three.
Years ago, Dave Gibbons told me he referenced Aoxomoxoa in issue five of Watchmen because the whole comic is filled with palindromes, doubles, mirror images etc. You can just about make it out on the first and last panel of this page:
https://preview.redd.it/e5bq0fgzpqsa1.jpg?width=1066&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=052ea61be0b58228bd8843bd4a3c16ff25bd7bb9
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Our local AA team - the Bowie Baysox - has been doing Grateful Dead nights in the past few years as well.
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/301663697_10160287791379675_2630031181872030361_n.jpg
Lots of potential for overlap between Dead and baseball audiences - long, boring-to-outsiders events in huge stadiums with the possibility of nerding out over deep minutia and stats.
https://i.redd.it/qfdgc2qqdvs41.jpg
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/301663697_10160287791379675_2630031181872030361_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=n52-zLgLu4cAX_TdC6m&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=00_AfDi0niQL6e-mCujZYHGlN2QodL6iFkwWyjsG7Lum64EVA&oe=6442F222
God, I love Mickey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWvEh-oSk_8
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.io/jYdzon9_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:47 (one year ago) link