~The 87th Weekly Freak Magazine ~
(October 2007 – January 2008)

As this warm indian summer simmeringly hinting fall comes winsomely on strong, out launches the Weekly Freak #87 our 20th Annifreakinversary Harvest Fall Edition. You can find it at music venues, coffeeshops, record stores, retailers, restaurants, cafes, headshops, galleries, glass shops & other freak friendly locales everywhere as the latest full moon has now come & gone. As ZZ Top would say: We’re nationwide. Or GD deadheads: We are everywhere.
The artist friendly cover art of Freak #87 [see attachment] features the local talent of our own in-mansion freakerhouse Jesse Brödd.
The 87th Freak also features the Freak's exclusive conversation with our friend & lead guitarist Bobby Weir of today’s most beloved American bands of our time: The Grateful Dead & Ratdog.
Freak 87's much beloved Freak of the Week for this celebratory edition is Freak’s friend & World Boogie purveyor slash guitarslinger Luther Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars.
Also in this issue are our Freaker's Choice [our growing choice for live music futures & our recommended pre-freaks worthy shows]. Our Pre-Freaks 87 always give an extra deserved charged plug to the horizons of future live music freaking. Plus our always informative Festival Freakiness 2OO7/2OO8 highlighting our highly dream & wish list worthy fave festival fun for our fall, winter seasons & beyond.
Speaking & freaking of freakiness & scenetrotting, 87 also features our little thank-you shoutout for the hysterically good hard touring sensory sensations Widespread Panic in Memphis by freakwent jetsetting Jetro.
Another feature here is our listen worthy CD review of "Coming Down" by Anders Osborne in "Magical Music". Soul survival is love. We also have a highly recommended special historical feature “For 20 Years” done by our in-mansion own golfing professional trumpet player Zack Lozier.
The truth feels good.
Plus we spotlight with funky honour & scene love, the friendly eclectic Caspar Inn on Northern Cali’s Mendocino coast. A true live music stronghold of goodness in Freak Friendly Venue 87. Once there, ask for our friend Jai (pronounced Jay). Karma dreams positivity.
And also deserving props go out to the new The Grateful Dead Channel on Sirius Radio [channel 32]. That’s satellite radio for you non-geeks. Tune yourself into Freak Friendly Radio 87.
No simple highway...
In addition to our quintessentially rambling roving freaking adventures in music from Minny to whereever told as told by Timmy the Freak's "The Freak Has Been Scene" 87 documenting the very best of musical scenery.
You'll find here within the FHBS 87 more of our freakwently featured worthy ultra scenescaping inner content including:
[in Mpls/St Paul: John Butler Trio, Dave Pirner & the Volunteers, Yonder Mountain String Band, God Johnson, Jeff Austin, Rebirth Brass Band, JBB, Trampled By Turtles, White Iron, Ryan Young, Michael Franti & Spearhead, G. Love & Special Sauce, Jack Brass Band, [in Detroit Lakes: New Primitives, Blueground Undergrass, Wookiefoot, Dubconscious, Galactic, Zappa Plays Zappa, Umphrey’s McGee, Disco Biscuits, Outformation, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Moe, String Cheese Incident, TBT, The Tragically Hip, Pnuma Trio, Keller Williams, Little Feat, Gov’t Mule, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Warren Haynes, Kimock, The Lee Boys, [in mpls/st paul: The legendary Combo, Roosevelt Collier, Steel Pulse, The Wailers, Femi Kuti & Positive Force, Melvin Seals & the JGB, Stu Allen, Marc Ford, Susan Tedeschi, Todd Smallie, Kofi Burbridge, Yon Rico Scott, War, Patti Smith, Tony Glover, Dave Pirner & Danny Murphy, Dr. Mambos Combo, Fred Wesley, The Dollys, Lucky Dube, The Bangles, Los Lobos, The Lee Boys, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Jack Brass Band, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Allman Brothers Band, Davina & the Vagabonds, Cooker John, Pert’ Near Sandstone, Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, David Bazan, [in geneva, mn: TBT, Great American Taxi, Vince Herman, Heatbox, New Monsoon, dubconcious, wookiefoot, [in mpls/st paul: The Gourds, Sam Bush Band, Devendra Banhart & the Spiritual Bonerz, Healing Records launch, Toubab Krewe, Yawo, White Iron Band, The Samples, & so freaking much more you'll have to read it to believe.
Also you'll find some surprises with new, improved, newly imagined & improvised content. Look for our freakadelic delight finale issue Weekly Freak #88 the Freak's Holiday Oddity Peace Edition (with a homegrown grassrootsy brave knew cover by all the Weekly Freak designers) coming out just prior to the Freak’s birthday in early January.
PEACE= planet encouraging active courage everyplace.
PEACE= people engaged actually caring everywhere.
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