Augustus Owsley Stanley III, LSD Chef Also Known as Bear, is Dead at 76

[Ed Jewett]

For those needing a reminiscent tingle, check out the band known as "The String Cheese Incident". I know them having discovered what I regard as the best cover of the jazz classic "Take Five" I've heard and, in looking to find it again,discovered they have also covered the immortal "So What" (at least I'd guess or hope it is the Miles Davis tune). Both can be found on albums noted and which you can sample here: http://www.stringcheeseincident.com/# The web site has a built-in media player. "So What" is on the "Trick or Treat" album (and itcan't be sampled). "Take Five" is on the "Carnival '99" album (and it can't be sampled either).

But you aren't looking for jazz, are you? So I wondered whether "Shenandoah Breakdown" might be a good jam (it's on the "Rhythm of the Road" album (disc 3) (but it can't be sampled). But, at last, there might be a mini-treasure: "Walking On the Moon" (which if memory serves me was the tune that caught my ear with the Grateful Dead those many years ago) can be sampled. It's on the "Trick or Treat" album.

http://www.stringcheeseincident.com/music.html