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drljefe
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Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 10:30am PT
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"That is a beautiful post and I have no problem with it as such. It's a nice thing to say about a wonderfull artist."
Tradman, why didn't you just say that in the first place?
I didn't really have to release the hounds, you know.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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At first glance it flashed me back to when jerry died and all the heads were in the pool room at Uncle Sams Roadhouse and they were all crying about how he should never have gone to rehab and should have just kept doing the drugs. the same theam was repeted over and over again at the candle light vigils and concert that we held. A few years later the 32yr old bass player from that concert had his own rock and roll heart attack due to kidney failure brought on by alchohol and drug abuse..
Jerry brought a wonderfull light into this world and it was extinguished early due to a chronic lifestyle of drugs, booze and chili dogs.
It gets a bit sad when kids worship the vices of their heros. The music is special but the lifestyle ain't what it's cracked up to be.
Pate is still a liar and a bully.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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And you are a liar and a bully.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 11:15am PT
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 11:21am PT
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 11:25am PT
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420
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BrianH
Trad climber
santa fe
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The Dead Head Thread (OT and Not) drljefe Jun 8, 2010 08:25am 420
Ha, this is where I saw this thread.
My first show was Madison Square Garden, fall of '79. What were my parents thinking, letting me go like that? I traveled the east coast seeing their shows, the last was in Wash. DC in the mid-90s, one of their last.
All sorts of beautiful memories come tumbling out right now.
I was in Boulder when I hear of his death. One of my colleagues mocked my grief and I did tell him to STFU. I went and banged drums that night and very much enjoyed the energy there. It's the one and only time I've been part of a drum circle.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sat.
American Beauty -> Working Man's Dead -> Anthem of the Sun
Sun.
Blues for Allah -> Aoxomoxoa -> Terrapin Station
Bravo.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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woof. woof.
jerry always had that jenius just beyond his finger tips. he grabbed it, yes and held on tight but the pursuit of which devoured the achievement.
that glorius moment which beckons us onward is still. we ramble on and diesel down and dance around the sun in admirable efforts to be, in that glorious moment. but it is still.
so in our hasty pursuit, we fly right by it, and if we're lucky we sneek a glimpse of that which we pursue and behold it's potential though then we coast on by to beyond the moment because no emotional brakes are strong enough to interrupt the momentum of our glee and, then, we're gone. and we cant find it anymore, because it is still. and we are not.
beyond the moment is grandoise in it's confusion and wonder. we are lost, and all of our screaming dreams are reduced to one, feeble wish, but it whispers and is caught up in the aimless breezes and taken to all places simultaneously but noone hears it except wall street and the boss cannot explain the sudden thousand percent jump in the dow.
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cowpoke
climber
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Can't talk to you
without talking to me,
we're guilty of the same
old thing
Talking a lot about less and less
and forgetting
the love we bring.
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cp0915
Mountain climber
LV NV
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Sat.
American Beauty -> Working Man's Dead -> Anthem of the Sun
Sun.
Blues for Allah -> Aoxomoxoa -> Terrapin Station
Bravo.
Indeed. And Friday night was better than either.
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dr. juicer kaniglio
Trad climber
san diego, ca
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I saw the Further crew (bobbi, and phil), in Angels Camp a week ago. Amazing venue, and close to the valley. It was my first Dead show and I was completely blown away. The scene was down and dirty, and there were some roughneck people about. I saw the sunrise all three days. One of the best three day shows iv ever seen. Those people definitely know how to party...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I'm not now nor was I a Dead Head back in the day. I remember debating Workingman's Dead back in high school when it was released, whether or not that represented a step forward or a step backward... since I was a big psychedelic rock fan I missed the interesting direction the Dead were going in... many steps forward.
But when you look at the whole SF rock scene its hard to separate the players into bands... I remember a couple of years later, when a student at UCB, going by the Keystone on University Ave and seeing on the marquee: "Jerry Garcia and Friends" it seemed like it always was happening, so I never saw a performance there, assuming we'd always be able to...
...it was more fun, for me, to travel out to Golden Gate Park and attend a free concert at Speedway Meadow... and I liked the Airplane better, anyway, even though the bands mixed members for these sorts of impromptu performances... maybe it was Grace...
...but I listen to the Dead now, and marvel at their musicality, and especially at the quality of their recordings from back when some truly bad stuff was recorded... and the apparent ease of it all, and the fun.
Hard to be judgmental about the drugs, seems we all had fun with that back then, and paid the bill later in one way or the other. Part of the "thrill of living" when we had these great bodies and minds and anything seemed possible. Unfortunately we turned a deaf ear to the wisdom of our elders, "you don't need to experience everything, especially if you know what's likely to happen."
Who can regret the indiscretions of youth?
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2010 - 01:18pm PT
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A rare and different tune...
Ed, cool. You must be familiar with the PERRO recordings and Wally Heider Studios and that whole scene. The "cross polination" that has always seemed to exist in the Bay Area music scene is really cool.
I'm not able to provide a link right now, but a great, widely circulated bootleg of Garcia, Grisman, And Tony Rice was eventually released officially as the "Pizza Tapes".
Legend has it that a delivery guy lifted one of the masters of the guys pickin an grinnin on a boat in Sausilito. Great stuff with some funny interludes. Check it out!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jun 10, 2010 - 01:39pm PT
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i done f*#ked up already!
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jun 10, 2010 - 03:23pm PT
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Nice! I dig Perro tapes.
An aside, I just saw Govt Mule last weekend and Warren is still crushing it! His Sat night set was almost all covers, done VERY well! I got to go backstage and hang out in the sound trailer at the end of the show, it was really cool to see how those guys make it happen behind the scenes, even if I was a little, um, nevermind.
Also saw Allison Krauss, Spearhead, Levon Helms, Derek Trucks,Les Claypool,Sam Bush, Steve Earle, many others. Such a worthwhile roadtrip.
Any east coasters should check out Mountain Jam next year.
Now I've got to get ready for Nateva Festival (sick!), Gathering of the Vibes, and Black Rock City. It's going to be a long, strange summer.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design...
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2010 - 12:28pm PT
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just got a copy of this
http://www.dead.net/features/road-trips-volume-3-number-1
79 was an exciting time for the Dead-
Debut of "Tiger" for Jerry
Bobby playing his "Cowboy" Ibanez solid body
Phil on "Big Brown"
New house PA
"The Beast"- New drum set up developed for Apocalypse Now
Brent finishing up his first year
The sound is cracklin' on this one boys!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jun 15, 2010 - 12:46pm PT
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Send me a bootleg copy....heh..heh....
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