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    So, we've all had some great conversations interrupted by that misbehaving chatroom lately. Mr. Pid wrote a great song on the subject...

    Feel free to pick them up again here. Or report your more surreal episodes of being booted for misbehaving. 

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    KA: Everybody got older...
    ...and after "put it on the plastic and I wonder where we''ll be when the bills hit", they found out. People got married, got careers, had babies and went through raw life. Attitudes change even as they still love the same music. Accept that pure long-hair hippie behavior is hard to find -- even at a Rainbow Gathering. Rather than complain, gravitate toward the people who are kind and stick with them. I don't know who passes that litmus test in the chat room. Chat room nerds tend to dominate the medium. I am reminded of going to a reunion of a fraternal organization wen I go to Dead/Furthur related events. I therefore don't expect to find the good-old-days in the chat room. Even some people who post in the forums here are right-wing-nuts and pro nuclear power now... What can you do? Marye does a good job keeping order here. The chat room is a strange beast to tend to. Still, no need to despair! ~ When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna dose! ~
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    a different take
    I'm not a chat room regular, but I had a great time there last night, on and off for a couple hours as I did other work. Only positive conversations, thanks to mona, gamedad, david, twirlingirl and many others. Good storytelling! I don't often have time to chat, but sometimes I'll have a peek and if it's a conversation of interest and i feel like i have anything to contribute, I'll take a chance. For those with negative experiences, i can sympathize. But one strategy that i'd suggest is one I use with telemarketers. Hang up. You don't need to give jerks your energy. Just drop them and they'll have no one to talk to except their lonely self. As for the privacy, I'm not too concerned about joking around under alias. It's all fiction as far as i'm concerned. So, just wanted to say.. it's not all bad.
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    bla bla as usual !
    It used to be that rock and roll was a world event , but it now sounds like a provencial habit for a small american club. The Rolling Stones stayed a planetary happening, and it would be ridiculous to resume it to a british only local band .Rock and roll used to be about rebels who had enough understanding about the world and dared to think for themselves, but this deadheads scene narrowed its views to think as their tv tell them to ! When hippies have the same opinions as their tv, it's called brainwashing, but as lilly said , it's useless to say different as no one wants to hear it and whoever has any opinion other than what 's approved is unwelcomed ! To top it all , me who used to travel with deaheads anywhere , days and nights, never planning ahead how and with who, because i was certain to always be with decent people around me , now i refuse to go anywhere with any of them ! That resumes clearly what's going on nowadays ! This chatroom clarified that , definitly .
  • cosmicbadger
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    oh dear
    well it is a sad day when the poison starts to spread to reasonable people with good intentions and kind hearts. All the more reason to stay away. I don't think a chatroom 'community' is like any other community. It is not typical and not representative of deadheads or humanity as a whole. Its members are self selected, with their own reasons and motivations for being somewhere where they can be anonymous and unaccountable. Sometimes those motivations are benign, but they can also be disturbing. I am particularly suspicious of anyone who does not ever post on the forums. Best just stay away.
  • TigerLilly
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    that post
    sound very full of bitter "narrow minded intolerance" to me. Sounds to me like you really want to be able to chat, otherwise you would not have posted what you did. So instead of throwing such harsh words around, why don't you try to accept what is and hold onto the "30%" that you feel is in there. Or if you can't, then do something else. But postings like this one aren't going to help anything. This community is human, just like any other-with strengths and weaknesses. Of course is not "ideal" but then nothing ever is.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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    chatroom trashers
    Since early 80's i loved deadheads,so when i discovered this deadnet chatroom i thought i could renew frienships i had when in america .But now, after months gone by, i know all these great deadheads never go in there. Too many mean and vicious obsessional haters in there , as if playing with evil became a routine to spice shallow postures of "peace and love" bla bla .Coupled to the indifference cop out of those who never take a stand against the worse, the narrow-minded intolerance , bored druggies and warped drunks pretending their foul behaviors should always be excused simply because they like GD music ,enough is enough ! Whatever is left nowadays of the Greateful Dead , I don't recognize it most of the time, as music nor as people ! Sure , it's still ok for about 30%, but compared to the the 95% goodness I was used to, methinks the standards now just won't do anymore Eternity was never guaranteed, I realize we have to each go on our own Way and i'll let the wheels of Times roll on .C'est comme ça , et pas autrement !
  • JackstrawfromC…
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    I just gotta poke around
    In there again sometime :-) "Here's my half a dollar if you dare .. double twist when you hit the air. Look at Julie down below .. the levee doing the dopaso"
  • johnman
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    well....i'll keep tryin'
    i know there is still some good in there....jus' gotta drag it out....kickin' and screamin'
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    Biffidence regularis...
    ...of some sort.
  • stuman
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    what swan said
    I said this a year ago when I stopped using the chatroom . it took this long for others to notice. And yes it is sad as the chatroom was a haven for me when me wife had her surgery and I had to stay home all the time . Thank goodnes that is all done now .
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So, we've all had some great conversations interrupted by that misbehaving chatroom lately. Mr. Pid wrote a great song on the subject...

Feel free to pick them up again here. Or report your more surreal episodes of being booted for misbehaving. 

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We have a chat room? It seems to be down for maintenance every time I go there. Oh well I'll chat here. Looks like Gigi had a grate day selling her old wares. I'm never that lucky. My junk usually is junk. Have a grate day everyone gotta go, my boy is waking up!!!
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was the creation of a Grateful Dead ARchive based on all the stuff Eileen Law saved over the years, at UC Santa Cruz. With regard to the chat room on the test site, I can't even get into the test site at the moment, so I suspect people are working on stuff behind the scenes, but I've emailed Jonathan to see what's up. I am hoping we'll have it up and running (properly!) over here real soon now.
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I can't get in the test chatroom either....I can't wait until the new and improved chatroom is up and working!!
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for the update Mary. take care, Ami
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How was the show??
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beautiful warm(but not too warm)day, got in about 3:30, tye-dye and stealie shirts everywhere, found spot close to stage to call home. ran into old friend who had actually turned me on to the mule years ago, this was gonna be fun, in time for set chage to "grace potter and the nocturnals",ate some cheerios, That girl can sing and jam, drummer was actually jumping off his seat, good set,stomach growls,ate some morecheerios next up "robert randolth and the family band" sunset was glorious, mountains awash inwaves of purple and grays,finishedcheerios, people cani hear usay yeah! YEAH! like a revival so good,can't wipesmileoffn'feetandarmswon'tstopmoving, now the mule, just WOW! those boys were smokin, half wat thru set grace came out and sang "take me to the river" oh wash me down inlightcolorsandsound, ahhh gettin chilly in desert nite air, closed show with "soulshine"and robert randolth joined in on that, hell everyone joined in on that, good time was had by all. so yea IKUR the show was ok:)))
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Wasn't there a chat room at one time? Must be having a flashback, er flashbulb...that's it, flashbulb! I didn't say that, honest :)
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i also remember something like that, but that could just be the price we pay, volunteering for unknown substancial conversations that took place in an empty space of time filled with thoughts seeking fingers to speak words so eyes can hear.ow that hurt!:)
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I haven't been able to get on the test site for two days. I suspect others are having a similar experience. I don't know what's up but I've reported this to Jonathan.
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I have been able to get on the test site ,, however just momentarally..and with great time lags .. so i did`nt stay ,,... : ( nice to know it`s being worked on though,,.... sometimes internet will not rvrn open it ,,.. it`s all good ,,..someones working on it ,,.
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i cannot even get to the test-chat,and if after eternal waiting it open up its doors,than it works veery sloooow:-)(-:
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is the test over? will we be graded? if so, will it be on a curve?all seriousness aside,is the ahhh reverse that,is the test phase over?? my grade for the test site; seems to play well with others, no signs of misbehavior, no noticeable lag time except thought2keystroke, participation while sparse at times(mr. pid is away),was great fun once 4-5 others got on, it will be crazy with more folks post rerelease. shhh,wait, did u haer what i just heard, there seems 2b a beat now
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is the test over? will we be graded? if so, will it be on a curve?all seriousness aside,is the ahhh reverse that,is the test phase over?? my grade for the test site; seems to play well with others, no signs of misbehavior, no noticeable lag time except thought2keystroke, participation while sparse at times(mr. pid is away),was great fun once 4-5 others got on, it will be crazy with more folks post rerelease. shhh,wait, did u haer what i just heard, there seems 2b a beat now
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One of the things I was testing by being perpetually logged in, even though I was often away, was to insure that I was advised if the boot monster came swarming out of the jungle. Booting always affected all users, so if it happened, it would happen to me too. The good news, of course, is that it didn't happen the entire time the site was up. Obviously there were some changes applied to that environment recently that have caused some other issues, but those issues appear to be affecting that entire site, not just the chat implementation. By and large, I think that most of the chat issues have been remedied, and I'm looking forward to seeing it redeployed here. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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as of about five minutes ago, 5:05pm et 4/29, the chat room was working, so if you feel brave...
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the chat room on the test site. The one here is still on hiatus.

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... in this topic! Thank you dead.net, I'm honored, and I will keep on working to maintain this level of "Deadication"
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and in your honor i will follow suit! thx 4 being so diligent.
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just testing to see if this now works Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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It appears we have a ghost (ghosts) back in the "ex"perimental prototype new, improved chat room. Folks who are in the chat room see their names appearing more than once. It's no big deal to me...in real life I find I'm beside myself often too. Just thought I'd bring it to the attention of whomever this may concern (or not concern, as the case may be).
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I'll pass this along. Lemme know if this persists or it seems to be a temporary glitch.
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heavens to mergatrode(?ask snaggle tooth), whats become of the chat, heck it's been 3 days since the last post here(still celebrating hittin' the 420 post:), and no one home back in test site??? Did the release hit a snag, i thought i heard (read) the chatroom was going to open back up to the masses last week?
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over the past couple of days I have logged on to chat, but no one's home. I think a lot of folks are ready for it to come back to dead.net.
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Heading out tonight to see Splintered Sunlight,an excellent GD cover band , never been to this venue and I'm looking forward to checking it out! Should be sweet!
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that rain shouldn't bother a lucky duck, but i hope it clears up for your show, sounds like a good time, i see the girls had fun on prom nite, cool. sounds like they too should have a blast this weekend, tellem that the cops don't need them and they xpect the same. maybe u can use this; (trouble u got in@18yrs x.33 - 2.5yrs = what your kids are doing now) this is my formula i came up with comparing me to me jr.. scary, huh! and how about that vp of yours, bad person talk about higher education! i just got news WSP will be in Flagstaff @end of june:) 2hrs north in the cool pines, must start finagling now:) have a GRATE nite, gratefulmom. peace tc
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I asume no start yet? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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I asume no start yet M? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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u mised an "s", but looks to be a good assumption
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I like your new avatar sweet :) It's your kind coffee table You are listening to some grate jams today I love Rickie Lee Jones too!
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this is a great show - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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still not running then looking forward to it coming back i promise not to misbehave much Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Sometimes I feel so uninspiredSometimes I feel like giving up Sometimes I feel so very tired Sometimes I feel like I've had enough tire tracks all across my back looks like u had your fun
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Darlin Can't you see My signals turned From green to red ? And with you I Can see a Traffice Jam Straight up ahead.....
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but more the way i'm feeling,wish i had some trafficn'jimi here @ work, i cleared my drive for more dead:) ain't got half of what i thought i had peace
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Crosstown Traffic So hard to get through to You - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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so they sayIs the root of all evil today But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise That they're Giving none away today Roger Waters 73 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Money, it's a crime Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie..... I know there are those who don't care for Floyd with Waters, too bad ~ your missing out. He He PEACE RIP Syd
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Get a good job with good pay and youre okay.
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would trouble me less if he hadn't so obviously become everything he once lampooned. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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> Bob joined Phil and his band last night to play the Dead's first two> albums in full. This was the first of a multi-night run at the > Warfield. Is the discography performance going to continue??? Gotta > get a listen to this show quick. > > "http://www.ibabuzz.com/concerts/2008/05/14/phil-lesh-setlist-and-review/" > > Warfield Theatre, Tuesday, May 12, 2008: > > Wow, what a treat for Deadheads. If you missed the first night of Phil > and Friends' five-night stand at the Warfield, then you really missed > something special. I highly recommend that you try to catch one of the > four remaining shows. Visit www.livenation.com for more details. > > OK, here's the deal. The bassist's band (featuring lead guitarist > Larry Campbell, drummer John Molo, > guitarist-vocalist-multi-instrumentalist Jackie Greene and keyboardist > Steve Molitz - plus special guest, vocalist-guitarist Bob Weir) > performed the Dead's first album (1967's "The Grateful Dead"), from > start to finish, during the first set. Here's the setlist for that set: > > "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" > "Beat It on Down the Line" > "Good Morning Little School Girl" > "Cold Rain and Snow" > "Sitting on Top of the World" > "Cream Puff War" > "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" > "New, New Minglewood Blues" > "Viola Lee Blues" > > Then the group returned and performed the Dead's second album (1968's > "Anthem of the Sun") for the second set. That means these songs: > > That's It for the Other One" > "Cryptical Envelopment" > "Quodlibet for Tenderfeet" > "The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get" > "We Leave the Castle" > "New Potato Caboose" > "Born Cross-Eyed" > "Alligator" > "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > > (The encore, by the way, was "Not Fade Away.") > > So, if Phil stays the course, this could mean that the band will be > performing one Dead album per set for the rest of the run (with the > third album, "Aoxomoxoa," coming in the first set of Wednesday's show > and so forth). That also means that an already hot ticket will get > even hotter. Is there a Deadhead in NorCal who wants to miss a > complete performance of "Workingman's Dead" or "American Beauty"? And > what if Phil decides to include the live albums into the mix? Wouldn't > that be rad to hear "Live/Dead" at the Warfield? > > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll be back to the Warfield for > any of the rest of Phil's run. Thus, I'd really appreciate if someone > would post the setlists of the shows on this blog. Thanks in advance. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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watching archive.org patiently, it will come soon, meanwhile i'll download the filmore shows, ahh 5-8 just finished and down comes 5-9. hmmm no post from bob 5-11or5-12, were you there,bob? thats a spanish jam!
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They didn't play 11th and unfortunately i wasn't there i have the Fillmore shows, and they are on there way to St louis with the winwood vine Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam