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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: How Not To

There’s a clip I watch on YouTube and I’m not joking when I say I look at it most weeks.  It’s a film-student interviewing  John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably […]

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July 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 95

The Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (1970) I am a Grateful Dead fan but I don’t own much of their stuff on vinyl; maybe it’s just too much of an undertaking – there’s too much so I never really wanted to get started. But I’ve always wanted this and one day I must get American Beauty […]

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October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Weir: Blue Mountain

Bob Weir Blue Mountain SMG Here the former Grateful Dead co-frontman sits up with a set of cowboy tunes, campfire songs – and even if his big production cost was the time taken to grow that beard it was time/money well spent – for this is Weir’s best set of songs since way back to […]

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September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Grateful Dead: The Best of The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead The Best of The Grateful Dead Grateful Dead/Rhino It’s Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Season if you didn’t already know. It’s also 20 years since Jerry Garcia, spiritual centre of the band, left this world to spiral on elsewhere, down some other tie-dyed highway. The band has played its last ever shows under […]