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Test of the Boomerang: Best of 2008

Ben Wiser January 7, 2009 4

Test of the Boomerang – Top Ten of 2008 I will dispense with the usual bullshit “Let’s take a look back…” year-end review. USA Today will have that shit in spades for the next

Test of the Boomerang: Winter Mix

Ben Wiser November 19, 2008 0

Things have been hectic at the Test of the Boomerang headquarters: I just became a father, and things have been understandably hectic. I took a break from changing nappies, though, to put together a

Test of the Boomerang: Mostly Free Music

Ben Wiser November 5, 2008 3

Free Phil! Phil Lesh has just released a free Soundboard recording of the Phil Lesh and Friends concert at the Warfield in San Francisco, May 13th of this year. That was the first night

Test of the Boomerang: Rocking the Cradle — Egypt ’78 30 Years Later

Ben Wiser October 22, 2008 5

Its unthinkable now. A crusty old rock band packing up family and crew to play a series of concerts at the Giza Necropolis. To kick out the jams at the last wonder of the

Test of the Boomerang X: Report from the Land of the Dead

Ben Wiser September 24, 2008 0

I. Report from the Land of the Dead It has a been a busy time in Deadland. Most notably, tickets went on sale this past weekend for the Deadheads For Obama show on October

Chartburn: 8/29/08

The Chartburn Panel August 29, 2008 3

Mainstream Rock: Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey” (1987) John C. Hughes: Puppets! Â Well, marionettes. Â Everything is better with puppets/marionettes. Â Except for this. Jon Cummings: In which the Dead

Test of the Boomerang V: The Jerry Post

Ben Wiser August 20, 2008 10

I had originally intended to post this during the week of August 1st and August 9th, but I wanted to give a shout to Isaac Hayes last week. Get out your copy of Hot

Test of the Boomerang III: Three from the Llama

Ben Wiser August 6, 2008 Comments Off

For Test of the Boomerang III, I retired to a simple cottage in the Welsh countryside to reflect. This post was done acoustically. Hey gang, today I have brought three shows for show and