"Mindbender" by the Grateful Dead - live performance at the Fillmore 1965 - with a voiceover explaining "what was happening" with those hippies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLh_60s_WOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQlBTdVV-yE

"Mindbender" Song without all that talking... 

<~~~~~~(~);-} ~~~~~~>

Free Concert on Haight Street 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TnyOKI5BSM

If only I could be less blind
If only I knew what to find
Everywhere and all of the time
It's bending my mind

Confusion's prince is at my door
The crown I wear is the one he wore
He's here to bring me down some more
And bend my mind

The friendly stranger calls my name
He only wants me for his game
But it don't matter, just the same
I'll bend his mind

I've waved my flags into the sun
I've fought my wars and now they're won
And I didn't need nobody's gun
I bent their mind

If only I could be less blind
If only I knew what to find
Everywhere and all of the time
It's bending my mind

Dead & Company Concert Golden Gate Park August 1, 2 & 3 Polo Field. This is a free concert? Is camping allowed in the park? Public transportation? (formerly known as the Grateful Dead)

Where can I plug in my phone? Where can we go for lunch? 

Official website: https://www.dead.net/

They estimate that 60,000 people will attend... So I guess that camping in the park will be happening mainly because so many of those people will want to attend all three nights... And we sure as hell don't want to spend money on a motel room... I predict that this event may be much larger than what is predicted... perhaps a half a million people... 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BqBNHUDHxiNbEcNz7

I've been to the Polo Field during the Anti-Vietnam war protest march called the Moratorium... 

Huge crowds of people filled that field...

LINK: https://www.foundsf.org/Moratorium_1969 

a history of San Francisco website...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/dead-and-company-concert-proposal-san-francisco/3866661/

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Monday that he will propose holding three Dead and Company concerts this summer at Golden Gate Park in celebration of the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary.

If approved, the ticketed concerts will take place Aug. 1 through Aug. 3 at the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park.

Expected to draw up to 60,000 attendees each day, Lurie said that the shows will bring a boost to local businesses, restaurants, and hotels. Lurie estimates that the weekend could generate tens of millions of dollars, as the Dead and Company's three-day show in 2023 generated $31 million in local economic activity.

"The weekend will celebrate our city's creative spirit, boost our local economy, and bring generations of fans together," Lurie said. "This is more than just a concert -- it's a San Francisco homecoming."

The Grateful Dead's psychedelic rock sound was deeply rooted to the counterculture scene of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the 1960s.

The proposal will go before the Recreation and Park Commission on Thursday. The concerts will be presented by Another Planet Entertainment and co-produced with Live Nation in partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.

To accommodate the tens of thousands of people expected to attend the concerts, a "comprehensive transportation plan" will be developed to help encourage use of public transport and minimize impacts to the neighborhoods surrounding Golden Gate Park, according to the press release. Enhanced security and extensive cleanup efforts will also be employed.

Play Music on the Porch Day 8/26/2023

 

https://playmusicontheporchday.com/

So far Play Music on the Porch Day will be happening in over 1200 locations, in over 25 Countries around the world! Help us grow by tagging any musicians you know, or any musicians who inspire you!
#music #porchfest #porchmusicfest #internationalmusic #worldmusic #oud #guitar #sitar #dotar #tar #zither #lute #singer #songwriter #slideguitar #fingerstyle #indonesianmusic #bassguitar #uke #ukelele #ukeleletutorial #berlin #tokyo #harare

Instrumental Music by 

Biff Rose on the Mighty Kurzweill... 

https://biffrose.bandcamp.com/track/the-best-of-the-beast-or-vice-versa Psychedelic with Synth Sounds!

and

https://biffrose.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-good-if-you-like

Mostly Piano sounds...

and 

https://biffrose.bandcamp.com/track/thru-the-roof

Outer Space!

and

https://biffrose.bandcamp.com/track/thru-the-basement

Swinging Progressive Jazz... 

https://biffrose.bandcamp.com/album/the-battle-of-seattle

Talking... excellent but, WHO IS JOE???

and the Movie Phantom of the Paradise? 

Starring the TONTO Synthesizer

https://biffrose.bandcamp.com/track/side-b

Even More Talking by Biff... World Trade Organization Protests

On FaceBorg I Read:

A message of empathy to guitarists when it comes to learning music theory...

It's totally normal to be confused at times. Unlike the piano, the guitar was not designed for an efficient overlap with how theory is constructed!

The guitar was designed for open chords to be easy to play with full-sounding voicings. It's a culture. It's about singing tunes around a campfire with friends or jamming in a garage... It's relatively easy to pick up and the first few open chords are accessible to strum. But the moment you start wanting to go a bit deeper, things get kind of confusing...

Just look at an open E major. It's one of the first chords you learn as a guitarist. It's a triad! Yet you play 6 strings on the guitar when you play an open E major .

Yes... but that's because notes repeat. Got it! So, what are the notes of this voicing from bottom to top? E, G#, B, E, G#, B? NOPE! Because the notes are actually NOT in that order. Sorry. It's E, B, E, G#, B, E.

And look at the fretboard! And how the notes are laid out. On the piano the easiest way to learn a chord or a scale is not to use shapes, it's to learn the notes of the scale, and THEN, just play those notes on the keyboard. It's easier to think of notes which implicitly require learning the theory behind scales first!

On the guitar, a shape is definitely your best option if you want to play quickly and not step 4 hours finding the notes on the fretboard. So you learn shapes and forget about the reason behind them or their notes. I get it!

So many things stack up against the guitarist in their quest to make sense of what is going on, even with the best intentions!

I get why you would give up and just play without thinking about it. I did that too. But I promise you that there is a way to learn theory efficiently in a way that makes sense. It doesn't have to take long, and when you get to the other side, your instrument and music, in general, will open up in a way that's hard to envision.

So if you're motivated to learn theory, or re-motivated after a long break, GOOD FOR YOU! You won't regret it. And don't feel bad if you find it confusing. Theory is not difficult, but it often IS for guitarists, and that's okay.

and then SG Replied:

I often avoid using theory for lessons for this reason. More often than not, it seems to confuse people. I could definitely see how theory is more easy to visualize and approaching on piano. When I explain triads to more intermediate students, I generally use the piano to show it.

and then SOD Said:

Theory is theory. It is applied differently on a piano than guitar. It is applied differently again on a flute or the bagpipes. But it is not harder.

That E Major triad is the same across every instrument. The easiest way for a beginner to play it on guitar is the way you have described but that does not make the concept any more difficult.

If I'm trying to figure out chords on guitar I am certainly guided by scales rather than shapes and I imagine any semi-serious guitarist would be the same.

The guitar originated in Spain early in the 16th century, so I think it's probably a bit of a stretch to say it was designed for open chords (but happy to be corrected).

I think where many piano players do have an advantage is that their learning is structured from a very early stage so they learn basic concepts (correctly) and can then apply those concepts to an understanding of more complicated ideas.