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    Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77

    Reviewer: WolfmansBrother - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 11, 2008 - Online Review

    Subject: setting me on fire

    left the orchestra section during ship of fools and arrived in the loge for the basso profundo MNS - it's the best of the tour so far, i think, and the balcony is shakin' to its raging outro leading. i sit to take a short break, too.

    yet another night of the first set seeming to spill over. first half of this second set is well-played, indeed, but the sugaree is the INSANE highlight, and keith and jerry are battling it out. one of the strongest estimateds of tour and i, for one, am happy for the FOTD break. the second half belongs to jerry - eyes is short but stellar and bridges to yet another rip-your-heart-out wharf rat, and NFA showcases some down in the weeds jamming. we're stomping and clapping and grinning our faces off, and then joint is jumping for sure as they close it down. another fine UJB encore sends me out the door, so very deeply in love with this band and its music. is there anything better than being a deadhead?

    Is there anything better than being a Dead Head when one of your favorite shows is officially released in its entirety? We'll double down on your sentiments WolfmansBrother, with DAVE'S PICK VOLUME 50: PALLADIUM, NEW YORK CITY, NY 5/3/77, and we'll bring the fire extinguisher to cool you off after you listen to Betty Cantor-Jackson's complete recording. Don't want the party to end? We'll stoke those embers with a few hot tracks from the first set of  5/4/77. Dave's Picks Subscribers score the monstrous second set from 5/4/77 featuring "Scarlet>Fire,"  "Terrapin," 'Playing In The Band," "Comes A Time," and more. Woowee!

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. 

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    Box me, Dave and Pals

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    Sensory overload....

    ....and I mean that in a good way and a bad way.
    First of all, I will say that the sound at Sphere is impeccable. It comes from all directions. Hard to explain really, but wow.
    The haptic seats were fun. Especially during drumz.
    The sensory overload begins when you enter the lobby and just ramps up from there.
    The screen? Jaw-dropping, but I will admit, by post-drumz it almost became too much. Hear me out. There is constant stimulation from all fronts for almost three hours. In your face, ears and body. I was a fan of the scenery shots though. Very cool. But I was numb by the end.
    Now. The band. First set was really, really good. I'll take a West LA, Bertha and a Jack Straw all day. Second set was average imo except for drumz.
    Long story short, the future is here re this building. I just don't know if I'm ready for it yet but I will say everyone should experience it at least once.
    No psychedelics for me. Two gummies.
    Also, ordered a double vodka mule. Fifty bucks. Shits expensive, but thats not just a Sphere thing really.
    The Dead Experience at the Venetian was pretty neat as well.
    Shifting gears, Trey Anastasio sat in with Billy Joel at MSG. 1st and 2nd place regarding number of times playing the Garden.
    I would say Trey being there counts as 1.

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    When I saw that heading, I thought it was brass resonator, misspelt. I got all excited, thinking we were moving on to guitars. In which area, a brass resonator is like a rolls royce.

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    Still have that very first head shop pipe purchase as P.T. describes. The thick red vinyl sleeved stem is gone and replaced with a handy reel seat from when I worked at the fly rod factory. Gorgeous wood I had saved for the rod I would build someday but never got around to. Leaves that brassy smell on your fingers from handling like sorting pennies. The resin chamber is basically your back-up bowl too. Gets little use since I started making exotic hardwood "flip-it" pipes in the '80s. The kind you fold up to cover the bowl. Tiny little orthodontic rubber bands attached to small brads nailed in the sides hold it closed or open. Very easy to make too! Stole the concept from a guy who did custom van interiors BITD (thanks Allen) and had lots of extra bits of wild looking hardwoods. Still my go to travel pipes. And all this talk of hash has me drooling. Haven't seen any out west here in 20 years or more. Can they sell it in recreational shops? Likely too much labor involved to be worth it? Or did shatter take its place?
    Cheers
    DMCVT: My 50th H.S. reunion is next year. Will anyone be recognizable I asked my buddy who went to the 10 and 20 with me. He said yes, and some of the ladies will be way hotter than we remember them, lol.

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    Maybe Monday will be box-day..

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    Not being preachy, but be careful with those silicone pipes. There is a difference between silicon and silicone.

    My company makes silicone based polymers, and those are some pretty heavy duty chemicals we use.

    I'll stick with metal or glass, even if I have to pay more.

    Peace

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    pipes, bowls and hookahs

    Back in the day (early 70's) these cats I knew snuck a 4 stem hookah into the Led Zepplin show at Tampa stadium. Talk about a trip, it turned into a community 50 yard line bowl for everybody who could muster up the lung power to hit it. It was crazy to see folks throwing in buds and chunks of hash into it. That was a fun show for sure. Orange Barrel and hash, what a rush.
    On the way home we had a bowl with a suction cup on the bottom of it and a long soft plastic tube coming from the bowl. Monster hits.
    Had a Chong bowl, but it was confiscated at a show, Foghat/Mountain if I recall correctly.
    My favorite bong was a little "glass head" that I had, about 9 inches tall with a shotgun hole and a removeable metal bowl with stem. Still have that one although the old copd lungs can't hit it anymore.
    Now I have two glass bowls that I use, one for use when the other is being cleaned. Works good and helps with what ails ya
    My very first bong was a plastic blue 24" thing that starting tasting nasty soon after it was lit. Things have really come a long way from those metal bowls we use to use, to the glass we get now. Remember you could add chambers to those old piece metal pipes, keep your smokables inside the chamber, gummed it up good for a head rush later.
    Ah memories, we shall enjoy them.

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    Holy Smokes, just returned from 50th college reunion and the conversation here? Pipes and Bongs. College where I first ran in to smoking in a chillum, pretty rough. Bongwater was horrible stuff... back in high school daze, we would tap stands of bamboo for the big ones near where I was, make our own bongs which became an art form... cured properly, they would last a good while, more durable than glass, much more pleasing than plastic, they were hand crafted and decorated. Lightweight for camping too. LiveDead, then Workingmans played often frosh year, poor roommates didn't know what hit them.

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    Gary and the 6' bong

    (sounds like a disney movie)

    We sold these at the store. One night a kid came in, he's holding it,,,, I repeat he is holding it. Ask me if he be able to light this by himself!?!

    I look and think you're holding it!!! Can you reach the bottom?

    But instead, I suggested one of them long bbq lighters.

    He smiled and said yeah,,, I'll take it!

    TN John,,, Bertha pipe cute, 120 bucks!

    For travel (which I don't use too much, since I don't go anywhere) those cheap silicon pipes with lids.

    They're like 10 bucks, flex in your pocket when you sit and if you leave screen out, doesn't show up on metal detector.

    We have a local gas blower who blows these very nice sherlocks. When I worked at the store I could get them for 10-15 bucks. We sold them at the store for 40. Big bowl, nice holding shape. Have about 6 extra in my sock draw.

    But I still have my little metal pipe from 1980,,,, great for hash!!! (hash and glass not so good together)

    Now the moment of truth,,,, will this go thru?

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Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77

Reviewer: WolfmansBrother - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 11, 2008 - Online Review

Subject: setting me on fire

left the orchestra section during ship of fools and arrived in the loge for the basso profundo MNS - it's the best of the tour so far, i think, and the balcony is shakin' to its raging outro leading. i sit to take a short break, too.

yet another night of the first set seeming to spill over. first half of this second set is well-played, indeed, but the sugaree is the INSANE highlight, and keith and jerry are battling it out. one of the strongest estimateds of tour and i, for one, am happy for the FOTD break. the second half belongs to jerry - eyes is short but stellar and bridges to yet another rip-your-heart-out wharf rat, and NFA showcases some down in the weeds jamming. we're stomping and clapping and grinning our faces off, and then joint is jumping for sure as they close it down. another fine UJB encore sends me out the door, so very deeply in love with this band and its music. is there anything better than being a deadhead?

Is there anything better than being a Dead Head when one of your favorite shows is officially released in its entirety? We'll double down on your sentiments WolfmansBrother, with DAVE'S PICK VOLUME 50: PALLADIUM, NEW YORK CITY, NY 5/3/77, and we'll bring the fire extinguisher to cool you off after you listen to Betty Cantor-Jackson's complete recording. Don't want the party to end? We'll stoke those embers with a few hot tracks from the first set of  5/4/77. Dave's Picks Subscribers score the monstrous second set from 5/4/77 featuring "Scarlet>Fire,"  "Terrapin," 'Playing In The Band," "Comes A Time," and more. Woowee!

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. 

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 05/14/2024 - 06:31

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Thx Icecrmcnkd, that WAS an LP, not a CD. I nabbed a sealed copy.

Maybe I need to get a turntable now.... I can see the domino effect cascading and becoming a vinyl slut.

Oh well, HF

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Tue, 05/14/2024 - 14:59

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In case you haven't heard, Real Gone is going to issue a vinyl version of Dicks 12. Which is a killer diller, some of jammiest jams ever. It's a run of only 3000, goes on sale Thursday. You've been warned.

Also, I've been trying (trying and trying) to post something to say how grateful I am to everyone who helped sort out my problem with the defective disc. Thanks Doc, Mary, and everybody else!

And also to thank everyone who sent kind words and good karma after I posted about my mom's dementia the other day. There's some very nice humans around here.

Hope this doesn't get Hey Now'd. To the best of my recollection, I am not now nor have I ever been a robot.

....this slut already spent his allotted record $ this month. Thanks Crow, I guess.
Then again, my birthday is next week.
So I have an excuse teacher.
Just listened to 12 a couple of weeks ago. Stays in semi-regular rotation, as it should be in all of our homes.
BTW, this is what I bought at the record store Sunday after seeing my mom. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana. Phish - Fuego. My Morning Jacket - Z.
I got a little high last night and was totally absorbed in that Gizzard record. Good stuff.
Careful HF. It's a helluva drug my man.
Edit. Good excuse to get 12 Joey. It's for sale on Real Gone. CD that is if you're not the slutty type.
Edit again because hey nows aren't effecting me yet. My father passed from Alzheimers Crow. It's a rough road that one. Peace.

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Submitted by Danehead on Tue, 05/14/2024 - 20:52

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Vguy.. sorry to hear about your dad.. think you said he was from Denmark.. my dad died from Alzheimers 8 years ago - maybe it is in the genes here in the North E.U. ? BW to you and familie.. Danehead..

....my step-dad got alzheimers. Married mom when I was five. My real dad was Danish and died in a car accident when I was one. However, good memory danehead. Impressive.
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Submitted by proudfoot on Tue, 05/14/2024 - 22:26

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I had was working with old folks with Alzheimers and other dementia types

Nasty thing, Alzheimers

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Submitted by topchinacat on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 06:12

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... and at all three of the Greek 83 shows ... some of the best times ever. As I sit here today, I STILL recall the Friday Let It Grow ... I was only a year into the Dead and this particular live rendition was just so over the top ... it kept building and building. IMO, it holds up after all these years .... tcc

Thank you Vguy, yeah cd for me or sometimes digital, no vinyl; I need that like a hole in the head. Man, these reissues are expensive, either way I'm looking for one. There are a few Dicks I never got, mostly the compilation types...

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Submitted by Forensicdoceleven on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 09:12

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JOEYMC check your pm's....................

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Rock on,

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 13:12

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Problem is, Vguy, I'm already a CD slut, a concert slut, and a just plain slut.

That's the upside....

Cheers, HF in Slutland (should be a board game...)

P.S. Anyone here heading to Joe Russo's Almost Dead at the Rocks, June 1?

P.P.S. My dad went out two years ago with dementia. Anyone suffering from it or being a caregiver has my complete support and best wishes. Truly.

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But many refer to it as the S L U T south lake union trolley

Quote unquote ride the S L U T

Nyuk nyuk

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Submitted by alvarhanso on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 19:22

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Really hoping to get this one, trying to be ready precisely at zero hour. Missed DiP 1 by that much. I think 11 minutes, and they were gone like Keyser Soze. But as much as I love that Here Comes Sunshine, I love the China Cat from 6/26/74 more. And my favorite Eyes. Phil's solo is as good as either of Jerry's solos in it that night, and as an encore, it was super tight. Then Phil suddenly at the mic with a hearty, "Good night folks, see ya on Friday!" And that Friday is just a monster. Well the Weather Report Suite - Jams - US Blues, is the real monster. Dark Star hints, Mind Left Body Jam morphs into a proto-Music Never Stopped Jam, and so many peaks and valleys until US Blues meanders out of the ashes. Too bad the most recent DaP vinyl was #2, #34 6/23/74 would have made a killer companion. When that one comes out on vinyl, I will be all over it. Oh, and the etched last side? Wow!

Now, fingers crossed I am able to go into a room and no wifi issues strike, and I am able to get this motha tomorrow at 1pm, EST. And good wishes to all those joining me in the online queue.

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Submitted by daverock on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 01:41

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Alvar-there speaks my mind. Slut is a shoddy word, no doubt about that, either.

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Submitted by JoeyMC on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 05:40

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is on Amazon currently for 134. I dont know if thats good...

Edit: its actually less on ebay.

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Yesterday was Wavy Gravy's 88th birthday, Happy Birthday anniversary to the pied piper of phun.

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Submitted by dmcvt on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 07:15

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Gave up on a couple posts due to Hey Now, hope it's fixed soon, THANKS MaryE for letting us know. Looking forward to Jims report on JRAD, have tickets to their show August 1, Jerry's birthday in Burlington. Alzheimers, ALS, my heart goes out to those whose families affected, have lost friends and family to both. To say it sucks does not begin to express the devastating effects which many of us know too well.

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Submitted by alvarhanso on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:11

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134 is a little less than what I ended up paying up paying from a record store online. That's not bad. It's worse right when they're released, then things seem to calm down, until they've been sold out a few years, then they jump above 200. Or so it seems. I saw the Talking Heads RSD release has stabilized and I could probably get it now more reasonably than on RSD almost a month ago. So, I'll wait a little more on that one.

Did anybody pick up Nightfall of Diamonds?

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:24

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....I got it. Sounds excellent. I will also be in cue for DiP 12 at 10 AM my time.
Dead & Co start their Sphere residency tonight.

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Submitted by bigbrownie on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:44

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Let's try this. A certain band about to start a major residency at a particular location has added a VIP perk.
"We will be screening an iconic live ____show...runs for 3 hours." Inside scoop, anyone?

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Submitted by Dennis on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 10:03

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Ordered.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 10:20

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.....secured. I feel slutty now. Need a shower.
I'm going June 8th. $250. 300 section.

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Submitted by alvarhanso on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 10:20

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Refreshed at 2 minutes to 1and able to add to the cart and check out in a minute. Funny enough, my notification emails came in 2 minutes later. Good luck to everyone else, and I look forward to RGM's usual quick turnaround. I love how they drop the announcement when they're ready to sell and ship. That helps because they will have done quality checks when they have product in hand. They delayed release on one of the DiPs a couple years ago due to a bad pressing, if I recall correctly. And I love they get Mr. Norman to mix and master from the original tapes, unlike the Brookvale releases, which were cut from the digital files. Can't wait to hear that China Cat in full vinyl glory.

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Submitted by daverock on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 10:27

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Yup, I've ordered it too. Costs an arm and a leg with shipping costs, but it's one of my favourite Dicks Picks - so it's worth it. No one outside this forum I know would think so, but hey ho.

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 10:35

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I may be $170 poorer, and the records might not sound much, if any, better than the CDs I already own, but by god I am going to thoroughly enjoy listening to that China Rider on vinyl. Along with the rest of it.

Last five!

Sly Stone: Stand
TTB: Best of the Beacon
Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Vanguard*
Ty Segall: Three Bells
Aaron Copland: Symphony #3

*All you vinyl sluts out there might like to know that Blue Note's "Tone Poet" reissue of Rollins' Vanguard material offers a substantial improvement in audio quality over previous issues. Well worth investing in, even if you already own this music. Hey, it's only money, right?

Round and round and round and round, don't take much to get me on the ground

I say yeah yeah yeah

And I thank you for a real good time.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 10:54

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Getting around to the 5-4 material and bonus. Love the jazz dead intro to Comes a Time. Clearly a highlight in this solid release.
As HF stated elsewhere, a nice box would include the Red Rocks/McNichols 1979 shows. Early Brent kills it!
Cheers

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 11:07

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....Go To Nassau.
That Jack Straw is the most metal sounding I've ever heard Jerry. He shreds it I say!

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Submitted by Anatexis22 on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 12:51

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Ordered this morning at and checked my email shortly after noon and the shipping notice has already been sent out.

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Submitted by bigbrownie on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 15:45

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The movie playing in Vegas during the residency will be Dead and Company: Barton Hall 5/8/23. I might just take that in. I've already paid for it.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 16:33

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Still available.
Guess not as hot a commodity as DP1.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 16:35

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....but rather be safe than sorry.
Jam -> US Blues will be here Monday.

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Submitted by alvarhanso on Thu, 05/16/2024 - 17:05

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Was surprised and going to post that as well. I literally got shut out of DiP 1 minutes after the onsale, so I'm baffled. Looking at discogs page on Dick's vinyls, the only RGM one I'll be missing is 24 3/23/74 Cow Palace Wall of Sound test. I have none of the Brookvales, but only sad about missing 8 5/2/70 and 4 2/13-14/70. They've chosen some really good ones to put out.

11/10/67 mmmmm, ahhhhhhh in my best Homer Simpson drool.

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