Grateful Dead

....the more you understand. fourwindsblow bringing the groove. High five.

....there is a burg in Pennsylvania named Jim Thorpe. I don't know about bolo, but I'm enjoying it. Kimock....

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....he owns fifty skrateboards. Blown away that he showed up here. Really funny stuff. Grate call. YouTube him. Jerry Garcia's Before The Dead arrived today. My late father in law would have loved this. Day late....cranking it for Joe.

Listened to 8-24-85 in the car over the last two days.Wasn’t the train wreck I was expecting based on how this show is derided. Yeah, there were technical difficulties in the first set, but the overall performance didn’t seem bad. In fact it was quite good compared to Deer Creek 95. Now that was a train wreck. I was just minding my business dancing on the lawn with a bunch of other heads and we all got tear gassed because a bunch of ticketless idiots felt that they were entitled to be inside. And then the show pretty much fell apart. So next time you want to criticize Boreal 85, just remember Deer Creek 95. Is K-Tel brand bacon made in Gainesville?

Bolo - Ya know it's funny, the Dead are pretty low key when it comes to love songs. Weather? YES!! Love? Not so much! Sure the Dead have their share of love songs (Looks Like Rain is weather AND love!), but not a lot. Their songs are more about mysticism, adventure, cowboy tales/imagery, community, psychedelia, liberal activism, death/nostalgia, rebirth, enlightenment, and the OCCASIONAL love song. And the songs that ARE about love usually aren't gushy at all! Heck, they barely show a hint of being emotionally involved. Sugaree is about a prostitute and Jerry pleading her not to rat on him, and Peggy-O, Terrapin, and Samson are more like a Chaucer tale/Biblical passages in the 3rd person rather than gushy 1st-person missives. TLEO is THEY love each other (3rd person). Often they're just about "getting' in on!" Good Lovin, Sugar Mag, Easy Wind (ballin the shiny steel jack hammer - a ref to Pig's black girlfriend at the time - how romantic!), Not Fade Away's "I'm gonna tell how its gonna be" romance, Loose Lucy's "She'd come running and wed ball all night!" (note, SHE's running to HIM), Lovelight with the overweight $1.25 hookers that make Pig wanna "jump in the saddle and ride!", It's A Man's World, Cumberland with "ya keep me up just one more night... till 4:00" (yah, I hate nymphomaniacs, too....), Dupree's where the judge knows your baby well, Friend of the Devil's multiple wives. In Rider, Jerry sings about how SHE is gonna miss HIM while he's off shining his headlight somewhere else! Jack Straw where they're sharing the women with same indifference as sharing cheap wine. Ha! SO romantic!!! "Sing me the song about fu@king a fat hooker, Babe!" she purred... And I haven't even mentioned Brent's mysogynistic onstage rants at his "F'ing BITCH" ex-wife, and "never trust a woman", "I Just Wanna Make Love to You", etc etc. Oy. Let's not go there. I Will Take You Home IS sweet and tender and heartfelt... because it's to his daughter. Sure Bobby has some love songs, and Jerry sings a few Dylan love songs, but gushy songs like "If I Had the World to Give" are rare and seem out of place - better for JGB. I think the most tender/romantic moment I can think of in a Dead song (off the top of my head) is Brown Eyed Women where Delilah Jones meets her God and "the old man never was the same again." That's about as emotionally involved as they get - and it's sung in the third person about someone who is... Dead.

Stupid website crashed on me as usual. I put one in the cart and clicked ‘checkout’, then got a message saying that my cart was empty. Why does this always happen? I’ve been calling for this Box for years, and now I can’t even order one. They’re already on eBay for 10x the price. Damn scalpers. And is K-Tel a brand of bacon? Because I’m not making the connection between a 7 lb box of bacon and this release.

“She got her leg up against the wall”Pigpen style of love song

Dylan covers, you say? One of the first I was aware of was the Baby Blue from 12/3/81, it was used in Dylan's film Masked & Anonymous and I believe is the one on Postcards of the Hanging. I think that song (not necessarily that version) is my favorite Dead on Dylan. The Bobby ones are all good fun, I have a soft spot for Queen Jane as well. I think it and Baby Blue are the ones where the arrangements themselves are inspired. Thin Man, Desolation Row, are fun but not quite there for me. Tough time with Phil on Tom Thumb. Memphis Blues is pretty fun, and reminds me of that time.....so Bob Weir forgets the words. And Bob Dylan has to step up..at the critical point, and throw in the one liner to close the deal. And people, just get uglier, and I have no sense of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OBNnGQ4jmM That is still my favorite video on Youtube. You've got the equation wrong. That's how good it's gotten. Also, Miles M - Right On, I don't know much Ray Wylie yet but love that song. I know it first from Hayes Carll who has played alot with Ray. Great song, I couldn't believe Hayes omitted that verse when I finally heard Ray's. And weather box? I'm in. Things are tough all over When the thunder storms start Increasing over the southeast And south central portions Of my apartment, I get upset And a line of thunderstorms was Developing in the early morning Ahead of a slow moving cold front Cold blooded With tornado watches issued shortly Before noon Sunday, for the areas Including, the western region Of my mental health