spinnin' spinnin' free, Part Four

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February 5, 2013 - 9:25pm

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I found my 2005 Official Grateful Dead Calendar. I hung it on the month of June. It is awesome. The Executive Editor was Mickey Hart and it was by Grateful Dead Productions The border is -as wonderful as it's contents. And those... arms and... He would get my vote. With just so much more too! Grateful Good, cheers, xo.
February 5, 2013 - 5:22am

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Randall Lard

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signal to ambient ratio

Chris Watson a whisper in the leaves open spaces extension intimacy simple perspectives locations in isolation
January 5, 2013 - 8:39pm

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slo lettuce

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a true pioneer goes home....

"Gerda Lerner, a pioneer in the field of women's history and founding member of the National Organization for Women died Thursday in Madison, Wisconsin at the age of 92. Gerda was born in Austria to a privileged Jewish family in 1920, and spent six weeks in a Nazi prison as a teenager. She later wrote that the experience taught her how society manipulates people, a lesson she saw reinforced by academics who suggested history was only about men. She and her family fled the Nazi's and came to the U.S.in 1939. She earned her Ph.D. in history in 1966 at Columbia University and eventually established the first graduate program in women's studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. Later she moved to Madison where she founded a doctoral program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin." Now with 101 women in the 113th Congress (includes 3 nonvoting members), one can only wonder how many women (and men) did this one very intelligent and determined woman inspire in her lifetime. See how everything lead up.....
December 29, 2012 - 7:16pm

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sherbear

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Well, it's... 10:16:01 A Perfect Second on This Night.
December 26, 2012 - 5:16pm

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Anna rRxia

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Robert Hunter's words

Sadly elegant. The Dead, the unborn, becoming... Dr. Spasmodious & the prophetic mop maid. Worthy and perhaps inspired by Bob Dylan. This land is too sad and we knew it too. Still we danced with the dead, the dead also peeking from around the corner.
December 26, 2012 - 4:00pm

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Mike Edwards

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And Happy Boxing Day too.

But don't make too many people complain, marye? Where's the line, I'm wondering?
December 26, 2012 - 3:57pm

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Mike Edwards

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Dancing Bears Repeating

This was written by Robert Hunter to be read over the air at a Grateful Dead NYE concert broadcast from Kaiser Auditorium in 1986. The last two lines vary to rhyme with the year. The Boxes of Dr. Spasmodious Dr. Spasmodious sat at his desk, the end of the year drawn nigh, haunted, harried, full of gloom, watching the seconds die. The maid behind him sloshed her mop in a bucket of silvery suds; unborn children watched through a crack in the floor of the attic above. We were together, you and I, with other children yet to be born, between the ages, if not in life, one to the other, eternally sworn. You, frail and fair as a lily, held my hand by light of the moon, pale beams brightly spilling on boxes all over the room - boxes heavy with dust of the dead, time and decay - all but one: tied with a shining bit of thread fine as a baby's hair and red. "Tell me your prophecy, Maid of the Mop," said the Doctor downstairs below, "What's simple to you is subtle to me. What sort of year will this coming year be?" She shook a spark from her long red hair which flew like a star to his tree "Spring will be damp and Summer dry and Autumn come presently . . ." So saying, she bound her flowing hair with a ribbon of scarlet twine, returned to mopping the floor away until nothing remained but shine. Down we came with cautious tread you, I, and all of the others - bearing the box tied with a thread fine as a baby's hair and red. The maid once more unloosed her hair, gray now as clouds when laden with rain. You she chose, took by the hand, allowed, out of all, to remain. The rest she kissed both sides of the cheek as the chimes of the New Year dinned, one by one sent each through the door to dissolve in the rain and wind. Dr. Spasmodious watched from his chair on the point of a tear but refrained. He smiled instead, held out his arms to you who were spared from the rain. "Welcome my child to life again, to the kingdom of hope and pain. Ring in the New, Two Thousand and Five May grace prevail and we survive!" Other endings have included: Two Thousand and Six! Ring in the year! Deliver us peace and freedom from fear." Let two thousand and seven arrive; may grace prevail and we survive!" From http://www.whitegum.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/BOXESDRS.HTM
December 26, 2012 - 11:09am

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marye

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Happy St. Stephen's Day!

Enjoy the garden and don't make too many people complain...
December 21, 2012 - 2:43pm

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Anna rRxia

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Noonie

I will do a Medicine Buddha puja for you so that you might heal in physical and mental aspects. Please know that this is not the end of the world. Out of the ashes of the old many good things can come and usually do. In the short term are challenges and raw emotions that are difficult to confront. Please know that this suffering is the expiation of your negative karma IF you calmly accept that nothing can happen to you which you don't already deserve. The cards you have to play right now are ever so hard and the urge to lash out is so easy to give into. Don't give in. Stay strong and stick with a plan for the future. Sometimes it is necessary to rely on the kindness of strangers. These strangers may have very important points for you to glean. I can't speak to your particular situation, but I can sympathize that it had been a really crappy year that isn't over yet. I hope the Medicine Buddhas and their retinues allow you the space to vitally heal and bring you to a better place than before. Never give up, three kids depend on you...
December 20, 2012 - 2:54pm

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Mike Edwards

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All the Lonely People

Where do they all belong?

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The 2019 archival release train continues to defy entropy...

...some new Duane from SBD masters? Yes sir, please. I've recently entered honeymoon periods with Radiohead, Rush, and - of all things, Doom Metal(?) - Khemmis, so Tuscaloosa and the RTR box still sit unmolested in shrinkwrap. That phenomenal cover for the ABB release would make a rich poster; as well, the bonus Mtn.Jam @ 45 min. from the Warehouse just eclipses that magnificent beast from Ludlow's.

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Boxed In

Okay. On Monday, our very own NCDead summarily referenced a purported comment by Gans & Lambert about the next box set on their Sunday show "Tales from the Golden Road" (7/21). After I made inquiries in all the familiar e-places, this response was posted by well-known participant HighThyme in the Dead community over at SHF:

"During last week's Tales from the Golden Road, David Gans said he just got the email for the August 1 Meet-Up at the Movies featuring the 6/17/91 Giants Stadium show, which notes that David Lemieux will announce the upcoming box set during the intro, and Gary Lambert replied "Very good. And I think, and I think, it's related to, uh, that Giant, that Giants Stadium show may have some, uh, some role in that, but I'll say no more for now. I'll let Mr. Lemieux do the talkin'." So take what you will from that."

So there's that.

Kate. C Box

So, are we thinking this is going to be a 91 box? How many shows do think we will get?

Thanks for the info.

Box Set: res ipsa loquitur (perhaps?)

DV - I don't know. Later years open the possibility to multi-media releases, which apparently serve the multitude well, but I only managed half a show of the old "So Many Roads" box before shelving it … I simply can't watch my music (unless its live, of course). That said, it occurred to me that many might simply be playing DVD & Blu-ray releases through speakers w/out video; Summer & Fall '91 are sufficiently special that I'd bite and purchase a new player to shelve above my current CD & TT outfit. For ideas, I'd love to hear how people are playing audio only w/ A/V media. Lord, I've got stacks of DVDs & B-R discs purchased w/ expanded album editions that I've never touched: the Stones, the Tull reissues, et al.

Edit: Wouldn't it be grand if the PNW blueprint were used for a small-to-mid sized box that contemplated multiple years or tours circa '91? As I've said before, the single greatest personal revelation from 30T was the '91 - '95 contingent of shows; I didn't see those coming (esp. Salt Lake City...wow!).

Meet Up Black Out

Having reported in elsewhere, Aussie viewers have stated that the box reveal isn't a universal component of the 7pm local shows worldwide. I wonder in which time zone it'll kick in?

Edit: Well that quickly became moot. What a smashing day to be a Head with an expendable $160! I note that my confirmed order hit the in-box 38 minutes before the official email announcement.

a happy occasion: some (more) late era live

The final decade shows in 30T were its greatest surprise, as was the epic 91 show in the Giant's Stadium box; plus that download series show from Pine Knob - fantastic stuff! So this live recreation of a proposed late-career studio effort - that clearly wasn't going to happen given that it took LG's herculean effort to keep the boys focused nearly 20 yrs earlier for Terrapin - is highly anticipated in my consumer demographic of one!

http://www.imwan.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=110404&sid=e6db369a687…

Perhaps the more enduring value of my previous post...

...would be an introduction to the "new release" thread on the IMWAN website to those who aren't familiar, which allowed me to effectively consolidate my regular internet searches for prospective new line-item debits on my credit card...

http://www.imwan.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=15&sid=03ab1c6d0cab22fae70e…

It doesn't catch everything, but it's consistently proven more comprehensive for rock-related releases than any other single source I've yet found.

Edit: anyone else been really digging Fear Inoculum since release? It was my intro to Tool and I've since scooped up the (admittedly limited) catalogue...remarkable stuff.

Adult Behavior

I have never read this list before.it's very informative and updated list thanks for sharing

Cataloging Your Music Collection

I'm lazy. I've been considering this for a couple years and am ready to get serious (which is about par for the course on my action curve!). So, I sat down to Discogs this past weekend. Umm. I started with the Dead and made it through '70 before my first scream; by December '72 I was disoriented to person, place, and time. Hours later I woke in a cold sweat realizing that it would take me 6.2 years to complete my collection.

Consequently, I'd love to know what you're using. I discovered an endorsement for Collecterz on SHF, and after doing a bit of reading and watching a few video tutorials, it looks really promising - I love the UPC scanner function and the ability to ID a release by putting the disc in the player. Anyone used this, either in download or cloudbased format? If you use something else, let me hear about it: the good, bad, and ugly! Thanks/K