About me:

....This profile was edited with MySpace Profile EditorPeaceful greetings to all who visit! I'm a Deadhead and live in distant, romantic Pittsburgh PA. My gig is DJ-ing Grateful Dead Night every Sunday night at the fabulous Thunderbird Cafe - check it out at http://www.thunderbirdcafe.net/ (Dead Night has now moved from Logan's, which used to be my old haunt Thirsty's for many years). I love to DJ GD music - please come by the T-bird some Sunday night and check it out! (I do take requests, and feel free to wear your tie-dye!) In the past, I'd also hosted Dead Nights here in Pittsburgh at Tessaro's, Jack's Back Room and the Artery (now Soba) --- It may interest you to know that I am a published author, having contributed several dozen reviews of Dead tapes in of The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, specifically the second (1975 - 1985), third (1985 - 1995) (published in 1999 and 2000, respectively, by Owl Books / Henry Holt & Co.) and fourth (an addendum - published by Pepper Tonic) editions . See this link http://www.thebestofwebsite.com/Bands/grateful_dead/Misc/Tapers_Compendiums.htm or http://www.geocities.com/bsmall2/Articles/TapersAdd.htm for more details ---- Here's a former website of mine, check it out - Stargate went out of business years ago but the page exists in cyberspace nonetheless There's some pictures and some good links: http://users.stargate.net/~tdkof/ -- Live music is also a big interest of mine - seeing it, trading recordings of bands, discussing same. I was a DJ and behind-the scenes organizer (promotions, fund-raising, security, etc) for WYEP from 1979 until it went temporarily belly-up in 1985. I had a live Dead tapes show before David Gans started his in San Francisco, and did the fund raising so that WYEP to broadcast the 1984 New Year's Eve national simulcast. After that I was did the following year's NYE broadcast from WPTS while YEP was off the air, then filled in a couple of summers at WRCT (until the studio got raided while I was broadcasting 7/6/87 Pittsburgh show!) and I helped support the national Grateful Dead Hour when it was on WDUQ. When it got dropped a few years later I found it a new home on WRRK (thanks to TelaRopa for sponsoring it). Alas, the "Bob" format WRRK switched to did away with the GDH here in the ..burgh, our possibilities are limited. --- I was born and raised in Baltimore but moved to Pittsburgh in early spring 1978 (just in time to catch the 4/18/78 Civic Arena show but alas too late to catch the JGB 3/19/78 Stanley Theatre show) and I love it here. Love the Steelers! I'm a fan of local bands like Three Apples High (now alas defunct) and A.T.S., which doesn't play much anymore, see http://www.glyphs.com/music/95/gr950925.html plus the Dead tribute band Fungus (which had incorporated some members of my other favorite local band Sandoz)and the Cause. -- Plug: There are lots of good places to grab a bite in town but I highly recommend Vento's Pizza in East Liberty - next to Home Depot on Penn Circle North (www.ventospizza.com/) - Big Al and Little Al with do your hunger right! Tell them "Mr. Friday" sent you and order an "X One Nine Dash Four"!!<br /