Another trip to the library

Well I'm about to head to the library again, that is, I should say, after a good warm shower since I just got back from a REALLY wet soccer game which we lost (but that's a different story for a different blog...). But yeah, who knows what I'll discover this time? I returned a bunch of stuff last week. The past few times I've been there I've sound some great box sets. Right now I have three- The Byrds (on cassette!), who were great and vastly underrated; The Velvet Underground, "Peel Slowly and See" which I'm curious to hear about from my parents as they were very much an "indie" band of the time and didn't sell many records, but are one of the foundational bands of what would eventually become punk rock, and then alternative and indie rock- so yeah, really interesting connections to today's music even though they were in the late 60's; and then I also have a box set from the Grateful Dead, who I have been surprised about. I never really knew much about them and figured from they're name that they'd be a lot mroe of a hard rock band like Led Zeppelin or something, only to find out that it's a totally different story. They still have a lot of the drug influences, but their music is really interesting- very improvisational and jazzy many times. I can almost detect some songs that have influenced the sound a great postrock Chicago band like the Sea and Cake. So anyways.... I've got a bunch of other stuff too and hopefully none of it is due today. WEll that's for now- I need to leave early enough to have time at the library...