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I had that same moment at the Centrum in Worcester Massachusetts spring 1987. Yet mine was a bit more paranoid. I kept saying to my buddy we will never find the car or New York again. Forced my buddy to leave with me during drums. The car was there. Tried driving and I felt like I was driving into a ditch, I was not. Stopped immediately. Finally came down a bit and basically my little Datsun 280z helped to jump start a bunch of Heads’ stalled cars and vans. About 4am I was able to drive down the Massachusetts Turnpike going 25 miles per hour in the right lane. Heck of a trip

easter everywhere's slide machine...I was listening to that a few years ago while driving on very icy roads, going to pick up my wife. "slide machine" "trying to get back to you" it fit the moment very well.

Thanks for all the on-point posts today.. Shirdeep's bicycle post was a revelation to me.. so my first dead show (4/19/82), which happened to be my strongest psychedelic show (young and perhaps had one above my limit) was on the anniversary of the infamous bicycle ride on April 19th, 1943. The space from that show in particular, Raven Space in honor of Edgar Allan Poe as the show was in Baltimore was especially fun and gooey. I've given a show report from that night before.. the synopsis - on the way to our seats, who is this nice young gentleman under the stairwell making eye contact? Doses, yes please. First set.. very good. Second set, goodness I can no longer feel my hands. Raven Space, madness mayhem, then how on gods green earth are we going to find the car. More mayhem.. driving home with a taper meant we had to endure that Space again.. my nerves are shot and I can't take it anymore.. home and alive, up all night, school already. ahhhh.. The joys of youth. 1982 is a bit of a sleeper year.. a good year and under-rated albeit the recordings suffer a bit. So bicycle day was my first show. 36 years later, makes perfect sense.. I guess you could say part of the master plan.

I am planning on getting the Feb 1969 show on vinyl that is being released on RSD, but I have no intention of going out to a shop to get it on Saturday. The nearest one is about 40 miles away, and the only time I went on this day there was a massive queue-so I didn't get in. I just assumed it would be available on Amazon for a while after the day of its release, and that I would be able to order it from them. All the other ones seem to have been.

Always loved that show. Not sure I have ever heard a board of it. I still have never had the thin board issue, I just sink in and go with it. Just go with it, man...

First discovered The Elevators' "Easter Everywhere" and Roky Erickson's "The Evil One" in college. It was love at first listen. They've both been in regular rotation ever since.

A bad bad boy. Been doing so well on the Golden Road until about six weeks ago. I was at the local hippy hang out/restaurant about 6 weeks ago. I am full on shaggy, so shaggy, even a mother could not love it, me being it. I ask a young lady if she was going to sit at this table she responded back "No." I turned around and waited for the other couple of friends to show up. She turned around and asked me my name, I said "G", wink. She responded that she was Shauna. Shauna is a hospice nurse and she was brought in to stay with me over night after I got out of the hospital. She is so kind, she would sleep on the couch and all I had to do was call her cell phone and let it ring once and she would wake and tend to me. I was staying with family, so that kept the whole house from having to be awakened. She was there talking and laughing as I asked her, "how in the hell did you recognize me?" She responded "your eyes and your voice." So we are talking and all of a sudden a guy walks up and says, "G", wink. It was an old friend from childhood, a head that moved from my home town to San Fran back in 1986 or so. So then I asked him, "how in the hell did you recognize me?" He said he heard my voice laughing and booming across the restaurant. So anyway, he works for the red cross and also for hospice also. So then they hit if off and went on a long conversation for which I was basically a chair or stool or fool for lack of input. Well it turns out my friend Jim had moved to San Fran, then to Oregon then to Chicago, etc. but had now buried his mother and gad moved back home. He is a huge head. Not sure any can remember when we were having the WoS discussion back in early 2016 when Dave's Picks 17 came out. I discussed some of bear's thoughts, about him being in the air force, and how radar technology started him down the physics trail. I wrote about the owl and stereo and triangulation, etc. Different story for a different time. I also wrote about the WoS and the noise cancelling features and how they worked. I wrote about even BMW (???) had started to place microphones on the bottom of the car and then sending reverse sound wave, anti sound wave? laugh, back through the stereo system to cancel out the sounds of the car rolling down the road. One thing I discussed was Polk audio and how they were the first home stereo speaker system to use bear's research to create better stereo imaging. Jim had the Polk stereo system which had the noise cancelling system embedded. Still maybe the best stereo imaging I have ever heard. OK enough of that. This friend Jim is also a huge Zappa fan. As we discussed the fellas and Zappa and stuff he talked about seeing Dweezil and sound boards. So the reason I have been a little out of pocket is that he started feeding me some incredible Dweezil board tapes. Man that guy knows how to put out some tasty boards. I will explain more about that when we get on another Zappa tangent. I know many of you all are huge Zappa Freaks also. That is why I consider myself a bad bad boy...the Golden Road is never to be left for too long. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...

IFC network is showing s t o n e r movies tomorrow, including C&C's Next Movie. Always loved that one. Today TCM is showing some interesting movies. Right now, "A Hard Day's Night" is on. I watched at "Having a Wild Weekend" staring the Dave Clark Five. I have also been rewatching some of the old Beach Movie's with Annette and all. TCM shows "Greenwich Village: The Music that defined a Generation," with interviews of Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie at 6:15 Easter. It is short. Also tonight, they are showing "Hold On", destination way way way out, with Herman's Hermits.

And go Bruins! I’ve been watching them since early 70’s in the Orr Espo days and don’t ever remember them having this many good young players. They look might tough to beat.

I dig those 13th Floor Elevators, and particularly some of the lyrics. Easter Everywhere was background music on a lot of trips.