Grateful Dead

Accordingly.. knowing the math.. if I was jerry, I would look like I was 75 and a week from now I would be dead.. exactly.. wait for it.. a week from now. In truth, I am old and grey, but still feel healthy and young.

So sad, like a red giant, his flame burned bright, he lived his life, and then.. (not so unexpectedly) it was over. Actually.. like a slow moving car crash I did not expect it.

Still.. he left so much for so many. I love the GD, all so talented.. but with JG, it would have never been. I'm so thankful for what they left us with.
Hope that's ok to say, no negative vibes intended.

....agreed muleskinner. His sound during that show is like nothing I've heard from him before. My favorite show from the box. I haven't removed it from my carasol since I plopped it in.
....the AOXOMOXOA news is grate! We all get a brand spankin' new Alligator and a Caution. Blotter level stuff.
Did the math, and realized I'm older now than Jerry was in '91. Wow.
C'est La Vie....https://youtu.be/thkqtpjjIIg
.... yummy.
Hornsby killing it y'all. Where is that Bruce/Vince release Dave? Fuck man.

Cranking In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida at the moment, the full 17 minute version (3 minute radio edit, cmon). Love the Mosrite fuzz and the organ, not to mention the drum solo. Not exactly the sound of thick air, but it works. Reminds me of Home Improvement...

The next year, but glad to see the Ox-oh-mox-oh-ah announcement. As with the previous two releases, I'm sure the live release will be the best part here.

Enjoying the Eel; speaking of organ, sounds like Melvin Seals stole the church organ for the '91 show Deal to close the first set.

Reminds me back in 2006, not long after I first got 'serious about music' and into Dylan in college, we went back up to Hibbing for the Dylan Days celebration, which at that time was in it's peak. That year, they had the Blood on the Tracks band playing the headlining show, that was the band that played on the Minneapolis sessions of the album.

They performed in the Hibbing High School Auditorium (where Dylan got the curtain pulled on him for singing Little Richard, and my parents attended a decade later) and before Idiot Wind, the keyboardist Gregg Inhofer told the anecdote how they had to 'borrow' the organ from the local funeral home. "Hope they don't need it tonight." :D

Anyways, dig the Eel. I've also had I'll Take A Melody and Waiting For A Miracle in my head all week (not Leonard Cohen, though that's good too).

Yes of course....I can contribute. I purchased the 2018 Bicycle Day Print as my avatar now displays. To my surprise it came with 900 potential hits of acid that looked just like the print. I have the print framed but the potential acid hits are a big book mark in my Dead Base 50, and that makes me sad :-( .........

I recently asked a friend to send me a liquid vial of white lightning, but all I got was an external drive full of 3 hour concerts labeled GD.....WTF??? Did he not understand? Maybe some hidden messages in those FLAC files....

And to the "Powers That Be".....we have now figured out how to post pictures on Dead.net....only a matter of time until my compadres have tunneled into the vault, and then what will you do???

Oh and ...the picture is the blotter, not the print!

I checked this out a while back too.. very cool..

Ok.. so now I have some blotter paper, all we need is the secret recipe for acid, some beakers and Bunsen Burners and we should be good to go. What could possibly go wrong?

I stumbled across the newer blotter art stuff from Zane Kesey a couple of years ago, kind of interesting. Perhaps even more interesting is the Blotter Barn site which features images from Mark McCloud's "Institute of Illegal Images", vintage blotter designs from sheets that circulated. If you have never heard of Mark McCloud or his legal battles, check it out, it is a pretty fascinating story. The images on the Blotter Barn site include a number that I recognized as identical to designs that I had come across in the '80's as markings on blotter that had definitely been dipped, a virtual trip down memory lane.

FYI stuff,,,,, I just ordered a load of Firesign Theater. If you know who they are I need say no more. If you don't,,,, you're too god damn young :-)

If any interest out there, hit me up with PM

A friend of mine owns a head shop (yes and I work in one), one of the things they sell in his store is sheets of blotter art. He gave me a sheet with Jerry on it. I will be using this pic for a short while :-) He had a small photo album with sheets of blotter art, one was all the Dead albums covers, steal your faces, can't remember what else, but a shit load of "dead" art. He pointed out they were all signed by Ken Kesey!!!! I'm like how the fuck did you get blotter art designed, printed and autographed by KEN KESEY??? He's like, "yeah, it's ken kesey,,,,,,,,,,,, ken kesey JR! I gathered Jr has a business selling blotter art. He said 20 bucks a sheet online. I have not looked into where, how and if.

Thought I'd share.

LoveJerry, that is funny. I have the 5/4/72 Paris show spinning now because I thought maybe that is the one with the more chaotic Dark Star that I was thinking of, but now I am gonna have to go back to the 5/11 Dark Star again and see if it still sounds melodic or if I just spaced out during the chaos. Also, there is a certain amount of chaos in most Dark Stars, it is the contrast of the melodic portions and the chaos that makes the song what it is, so it in my mind it is really a question of which portion seems to stand out more on any given Dark Star, if that makes sense to any one other than me. It always struck me as following a similar pattern to tripping, with the contrast of calm and chaos shifting and stabilizing then shifting again, often in ways you didn't anticipate.

Just got the official dead net e.mail .
Cheaper for us limeys to buy it on amazon though . 😸😸😸