{"id":1946,"date":"2009-01-17T23:55:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-18T00:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T00:07:42","slug":"jamuary-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jamuary-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMuary, Day 9: Mother&#8217;s Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/jamuary.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"353\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I thought it was only fitting, following <strong>Townsman Geo<\/strong>&#8216;s posting of the Mother of All Jams, <strong>The Grateful Dead<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Live\/Dead<\/em> version of &#8220;Dark Star,&#8221; that we also run <strong>Henry Kaiser<\/strong>&#8216;s loving cover of this classic jam.  This one&#8217;s from his <em>Those Who Know History Are Doomed to Repeat It<\/em> album, courtesy of Geo. I remember this release causing quite a fuss when it came out. It seemed to be part of the avant-punk scene&#8217;s acknowledgment of the Dead&#8217;s forgotten cred. I didn&#8217;t get it then, but hearing it after all these years, compared with the extremely <em>subtle<\/em>, shall we say, classic Dead version, this even longer jam grabs a hold of my attention more readily. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/HenryKaiser-DarkStar-ThoseWhoKnowHistoryAreDoomedtoRepeatIt.mp3\">Henry Kaiser, &#8220;Dark Star&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A funny coincidence: I was watching <strong>Werner Herzog<\/strong>&#8216;s documentary about the South Pole tonight, and who should appear in it but Henry Kaiser! He&#8217;s seen <em>jamming<\/em>, man, on the roof of a trailer. Turns out he even produced the movie and did the soundtrack with <strong>David Lindley<\/strong>. What&#8217;s the deal with Henry Kaiser, anyhow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it was only fitting, following Townsman Geo&#8216;s posting of the Mother of All Jams, The Grateful Dead&#8216;s Live\/Dead version of &#8220;Dark Star,&#8221; that we also run Henry Kaiser&#8216;s loving cover of this classic jam. This one&#8217;s from his Those Who Know History Are Doomed to Repeat It album, courtesy of Geo. I remember <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jamuary-day-9\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}