Music Trivia Question

Cool some other deadheads. I too found some great stuff with spotify. North Mississippi Allstars, Leftover Salmon, James Mcmurty to name a few. A lot of Phish and Grateful Dead. It plays pretty much all day but often turn it down and just cruise with the window down. Tried listening to stand up comedy but didn't like it on the radio. Rather watch it.

Rick, you may already know this, but a few months ago I was in California and I came across a stretch of highway that was dedicated as a memorial to Jerry Garcia. I wanted to go back so I could stop and get a picture of the sign, but I ended up dispatched in another direction for my back haul load. He was such a talented man.

Amazon Prime just came out with a Grateful Dead Documentary.

Left a lot of stuff out, I cried a few times watching it. I had fairly good connections with the crew (and Mickeys mom RIP was a close friend, so that got me into a lot of shows - even though I paid for my tix), and got me a lot of backstage passes. I had more than one opportunity to sit down with Garcia through the years and chat. Aside from his talent, he was a truly genuine human being. Watching him slide into the abyss in '95, was tragic for me. I did most of spring tour that year, with backstage passes. Jerry was so messed up that tour, I passed on the summer (final) tour. 347 Grateful Dead shows, some 150 Jerry Band shows, 100 Bob Weir shows - you could say I was a fan. Many of my friends that were "Tapers", ended up working in the industry later (myself included) doing sound or recording.

On my honeymoon (first one '82) I took the wife on a driving tour of Cali. We did the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to San Francisco. Picked up a hitchhiker near Carmel, and he told us his buddy had his office right next to the Deads studio in San Rafael. So we went by there, and sure enough - Club Front Studio at 20 Front Street. Walked in - all the gear was setup - but no band or staff present. A real treat for a hardcore deadhead to just roam around unsupervised in the room where so much magic was made.

Went to see a band at the (re-opened) Avalon Ballroom in San Fran in '02. All my hair stood up on end walking into that room. EVERYONE from the old scene in the '60's played there. Janis, Jimi, Morrison - the room just reeked of the history. Some friends of mine were playing (Dave Nelson of New Riders fame), so I got to walk around the stage/backstage- the same stage where so many of my hero's played.

Since the thread is "music trivia".

Rick

The headsets cover only one ear ;). Google blue tiger or blue parrot and you will see.

The radios have an audio in jack too. But I've had two cascadias and both had the USB port

Of course, music will not be heard in STEREO with a phone for one ear only. I prefer STEREO music to be heard over the loudspeakers in a vehicle anyway.

The single earphone might be good for talking: two-way voice communications in the cab. Hands-free commo is preferred.

Simple. You get your mp3 player, phone, tablet, or whatever you play music on. Then you get an auxiliary (audio in/audio out) cable, put one end into the device's headphone jack, the other end into the truck's Aux Input (Most have them, even these days), and switch the FM radio to Aux mode (usually there is a button that says "aux"). Voilà! You have whatever would usually be coming out of your phone (whether that be YouTube, MP3, Google Play music, or whatever else) speakers is now coming through the truck speakers. If your want stereo or surround, I'm pretty sure that if you look on the packaging it will say "Stereo support" or "5.1 (or whatever blank point blank number) surround sound support", and then it will play as stereo. Most devices, even ones built to be used in one ear, will support stereo or surround sound.

Now, I am not an audio technician. But, I have been the "DJ" at a few of my sibling's B-Day parties ;)

That was awesome Rick! I didn't know all that about ya. Very, very cool.