Grateful Dead

Sorry about Otto. I knew for sure the Bobby Sands, and then it slipped away.

Think it was Greek 86, maybe. Will do some foraging as I always like that He's Gone. Seems like a He's Gone into Smokestack. I am sure we can figure it out, but again sorry; and what a trooper.

We expect our mother to pass any day but sometimes the flesh won't shut down. She is sleeping and seems at peace. Helps comfort my own concerns about becoming GD.

The radical, he rant and rage.
Someone's got to turn the page.
We've known we had to do something since we were teens.
Everyone here is still fighting the good fight.
Let's keep on keepin' on.

As for tech, I miss being able to understand and work on my own car. Yeah, my VW bug was a polluter but It was said you could drive one for a penny a mile. Well at least when gas was fifty cents. And don't get me started on how much I don't know about my own computer. I'm a fossil!

Sad news: Little Big Man Otto, see avatar, didn't make it. Multiple cancers and only three years old. A trouper all the way. He had it good for those four months we had him. Maybe the Bobby Sands He's Gone today. Isn't that on a Dick's Picks?

Cheers

Dennis - You seem a tad pissed off today. Perhaps ordering the Miles Davis “The Electric Years” very limited Vinyl set will make you feel better. If ever I was going to break down for vinyl, this set would be the reason I would do it. But with a kid getting married, and a new car, and planning to move homes…too much, unfortunately. But it is a beauty collection, Wow! His best period IMHO.

As for Springsteen, I personally never “got” him (I can include Pink Floyd in that, too). I had friends that thought he was alright, but someone once said to me “You can never get Dylan to speak at a show, and you can never get Springsteen to shut up”. I think the boy suffers from a touch of hubris.
Anyway, feel better Dennis. We are on THIS side of the ground! ;)

A shoutout to my hombre Oro!

PS - Go Leafs Go! And now that baseball is back, Go Blue Jays Go!

I’ve been doing the same gig for 16 years.
In that time technology has increased the work, not lessened it!
Partly because half this crap doesn’t work.
These companies are run by greedy idiots who are in such a rush to get it to market, that they’ll knowingly release unfinished/imperfect product that the consumer can then waste their time on firmware updates and service calls until the product maybe functions as intended, but usually only intermittently/inconsistently.

In the past, we installed say one black medal box that worked the first time you plugged it it.
You might have to set a few things in a simple menu, but it was easy, intuitive and most of all, it came with what you needed and it worked!
Now, it takes more crap, power supplies, gadgets, widgets, dongles, converters and a seemingly never ending list of things you probably weren’t given with the product, or even knew you needed.
So after taking longer just to install, while loosing your sanity in the process, now you have to go through another ridiculous list of tasks, known or otherwise, to get the unit to function properly. Most of it requiring internet, which is itself then another possible rabbit hole of nonsense and fuckstration.
Meanwhile, your boss is now probably some kid who doesn’t know their ass from their elbow and doesn’t care but can’t understand why the job is taking so long?

So, when/how will technology make my life easier? I’m waiting…
In fact what’s this about we won’t have to work at all…yeah right.

And since we’re on a warm fuzzy roll. Overpopulation and wealth inequality are the 2 biggest problems we have that effect ALL other social issues. Every sperm is not holy, we are going to die from making our home uninhabitable.
Throwing Stones indeed..the futures here, we are it, we are on our own!

Sorry, I should have coffee first lol.

When asked how he wanted to be remembered, Garcia said "As a guy who had allot of fun".

Just finished his bio, written by him and read by him.

I like Bruce and the band, but Bruce the man, maybe not as much.

I listened to a 20/30 minute interview with Jerry and then did Bruce. Talk about 2 different people,,,, wow!

Bruce talks about HIS band being the baddest, greatest band that ever existed. AND it was HIS BAND.

Jerry said, when pressed, about how the future remembers him, he said he like to be remembered as a competent musician.

Bruce, a band you'd go see.

Jerry, a man you'd like to meet.

Opinions.

Go to the archive and try Phil and friends 3/15/23. Great opening run, Help -> Slip -> Cumberland. Very nice Scarlet -> Fire -> Scarlet.

Sorry for the rant, maybe this will redeem me!

Good points Dave. For YEARS now I've been asking (and never hear being asked), what are we gonna do with all the people? There are more people than jobs, period. Certainly on a worldwide level, I think we're close to that in America, maybe still have a couple more jobs than people here, but MOST places?!

Andrew Yang pointed this out during the last election cycle when he said your job ain't gonna to China, it's going to a robot!

So what do we do with everyone? Seems like people in general aren't down with someone getting "stuff" for nothing. I always hear at "gatherings" from people in my neighborhood about how the poor should work harded, about how "I" worked hard for what "I" got and they should too.

They NEVER want to believe it was luck and if they got "good shit", they deserve it. NEVER have they gotten a job because they knew someone or knew someone who knew someone. My old man worked 3 jobs his whole life, so don't tell me about hard work. NO one worked harded. Most of what we have in life is pure luck, think what you may.

So what do we do with "the people"? Maybe you have the balls to say "let's kill 70% of the world's population, it's an answer. Not a good one. (everyone will believe they are in the 30%) Maybe we do away with all robotic type machine and EVERYONE has a job. Maybe that job will only entail 10 hours a week of work (so everyone has a job)

But it seems like it will take a complete change in the base human personality. You would think this would be easy since EVERYWHERE we seem to have a "higher god" that tells us to love everyone. Certainly in the Christian world, we love what Jesus says, but fuck doing it.

For me it don't matter much, I'm old and it will be good until I die. I only have one kid and he will get all that my wife has earned when she croaks, so he will probably be ok for his lifetime. I look at people in our neighborhood group, they LOVE their grandchildren, they're GREAT christians, but don't want to hear about climate change and how fossil fuels are not forever. Where and how to they think these grandchildrens will live? Hint - they'll be in the 30% because they earned the right!

Sorry for the rant, maybe I earned one :-)

The Giants have a rough start against the N.Y. Yankees back in N.Y.

4/7/72 - the last Dead RSD album released on vinyl was delivered this morning. Steaming in with "Greatest Story.." - a real ray of sunshine. Sparks are really flying on side 2's "China Cat-Rider".