As I Was Saying in the Chat Room

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April 8, 2008 - 1:15pm

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marye

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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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May 9, 2010 - 9:30am

#271

Anonymous (not verified)

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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! ~
May 9, 2010 - 9:22am

#272

krs10

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March 25, 2009

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.
May 9, 2010 - 8:44am

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Anonymous (not verified)

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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 .
May 9, 2010 - 7:32am

#274

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.
May 9, 2010 - 1:36am

#275

TigerLilly

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July 2, 2007

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
May 8, 2010 - 10:10am

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Anonymous (not verified)

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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 !
February 4, 2010 - 7:51pm

#277

JackstrawfromC…

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January 2, 2009

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"
February 4, 2010 - 7:43pm

#278

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'
February 4, 2010 - 3:46pm

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Anonymous (not verified)

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Biffidence regularis...

...of some sort.
February 4, 2010 - 3:41pm

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stuman

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November 21, 2007

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 .

John Perry Barlow

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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.

Dylan and the Dead...

thought you all might dig this site: www.howtolistentodylan.com

the dead in a movie in the sixties ....hollywood....vague to me

Someone somewhere in here wrote about a vague memory of the dead being in a movie in the sixties. Well, their vague memory became my vague memory....a couple flashes of the dead in golden tones of light, Jerry's dark beard. I think it was called Petulia with Julie Christie and George C. Scott. I looked it up. Thanks for another "flash from the past" as they used to say on KDIA-AM, the soul of the bay out of Oakland who just kept pumping it out and keeping it real. Dancin' in the Streets

chat room move?

Does anyone know anything about plans to move the chat room back to the main site? Chats are a bit few and far between in the experimental room, since the number of participants is very limited. Looking forward to the change, so everyone who wants to can yak.

Yes, it was Petulia

The Dead make a few appearances. One trippy scene in a club of them playing Viola Lee. Another where Julie Christie is being loaded into an ambulance. Jerry in the backround with, I believe, his captain trips hat on. Jerry pre-beard looking like on the cover of the first official album. Couple more plus some good scenes of SF. It used to run once or twice a year on tv. I would look every sunday in the tv guide section of the paper to see if it was playing that week. This was before cable so it wasnt to difficult to look up channels 2,4,5,7,9,11,13 and a few fuzzy UHF's. Havnt seen it in years now.

yes yes

that sound just like it, thx so much! my son works at hollywood video, i'll have him find it for me. christie and scott huh, i was close :) now, how about that TV apperance? shindig,naw it was countrywestern show. but BIG thanks to you docks of the city and stella blue, you have restored that partitiion of my harddrive:) and that is exactly how i'm seeing garcia looking... as i break out into baba striesand MEM OR REIS from the corne..........

just kiddin'

i can't sing.

Test chat room is gone

I went to check it out and it was gone! I Hope the chatroom comes back soon! I promise to misbehave too, really I do.

gigi, you're scarin' me

It's there right now, though no one's home but me and Mr. Pid's ghost.

Sorry Marye

I wasn't logged in so it wasn't showing chatroom...I scared myself too! LOL! I got in and was all alone with a few ghosts!!

Ghosts

still ghosts then nothing has really changed, except booting Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

Phil and Friends

When I saw them play in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom at the end of January they played many of the same songs the Grateful Dead had played at the 1st show there 40 years ago, did the same thing the next night , repeated much of 2nd show. Did I really read that Bob was playing with Phil for two nights? Nice if that would happen once in a while. I know lots of foks would like to see the remaining four get together. I think it is pretty incredible that there are four bands out touring this year, seeing how this thing continues to eveolve and spawn new sounds. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

Boo!

Sometimes the perceived ghosts are more than they appear. Often they are users who are logged in but are "marked as away," such as me earlier today. There does still seem to be a trivial ghost issue remaining, but I have found that if there is at least one user logged in and there are no posts for about four minutes then any ID's that are actually ghosts will get cleaned up. Outside of that, Chat Room 2.0 (beta) seems pretty well behaved to me. Still have yet to find any evidence of someone being booted. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

Chat Improvement

I think this may enhance our security. I don't know if it works on ghosts, though.

"Missed it by THAT much..."

Phil and Friends

listening to the 13th now amazing caution just started the download of the 14th, no Bobby for the 14th but MK sat in for Live Dead Perhaps Bobby will be back for Working Man's and Beauty. and Mickey for Europe 72 (~):-))) Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

Right, Chief!

Chat room actually has a variation of this, the whisper function. Perhaps one day we'll even all have holographic projection monitors so users can have the plastic bubble appear around them when using it. Thinking about how to code that as I type... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

I Love Yous Guys

You're a trip, Pid and keep those Phil shows spinnin' Bob! "You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music."

u guys

pid is trippin and bob is spinnin? some things never change.....thankfully

Phil

waiting for the 14th to finish downloading so i can listen to that - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

Phil's setlist last night

1st set - Workingmans2nd set - most of American Beauty enc: Attics and Truckin tonight's special guest(s): David Nelson and Teresa Williams *w/DN +w/TW The band was rockin from the first notes tonight. A full-tilt boogie. set 1: UJB - vox by JG and band *High Time - vox by DN *Dire Wolf - vox by JG *New Speedway - vox by JG *Cumberland - vox by band *Peter - vox by PL *Easy Wind - vox by JG and DN Casey Jones - vox by JG set 2: *Box - vox by PL *FOTD - vox by DN w/LC on fiddle and pedal steel Sugar Mag - vox by JG Operator - vox by PL Candyman - vox by JG *Ripple - vox by DN w/LC on mandolin Brokedown - vox by JG w/LC on fiddle +Till the Morning Comes - vox by TW enc: +Attics - vox by TW, PL and LC w/LC on guitar and no other instruments *Truckin - vox by JG and band It was all good tonight, folks. The first set was absolutely smoking with a hot, snaky Speedway and a sizzling, dizzying Cumberland. Vocals were breathtaking at times with just a few weak spots (Easy Wind). Phil sang as good as I've ever heard him and was impressive on Peter and Operator. In the second act, the whole set was a grin-inducing treat with a monster Sugar Mag, a tender Brokedown and perhaps the best version ever of Attics. Truckin was the perfect way to send us out the door.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

News

stiull no news i s'pose - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

News

stiull no news i s'pose - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

Phil

Phil Lesh & Friends May 18, 2008 Warfield Theater San Francisco, California 1st Set Come Together Dark Star Loose Lucy West L.A. Fadeaway Wheel Not Fade Away On All-Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, John Molo Joining during West. L.A.-Jeff Chimenti, Larry Campbell Set Break Mini Acoustic Set w/Larry Campbell & Jackie Green Deep Elem Blues ????? Good Night Irene 2nd Set Phil Lesh, Larry Campbell, Jackie Greene, Steve Molitz, John Molo Shakedown Street Ball & Chain Big River Mississippi Half-Step (w/Mark Karan) Althea (w/Mark Karan) Mexican Girl Stella Blue (Instrumental Version)> Sugaree Jackie and Tim Bluhm mini set? 3rd Set Balloons Drop From Rafters Sugar Magnolia Unbroken Chain Uncle John's Band Mountains of the Moon Terrapin Station I Know You Rider E: Truckin' And We Bid You Goodnight I don't know if this is correct, just trying to piece it together as I watch also Gdad said that there was an NFA reprise somewhere in there this represents the most complete aetlist to now - I'll be back later- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

Hey Marye...

If the test chatroom works...why not use it on this site????? I really miss the chatroom :( It was always fun, even when we got the boot!

i feel like a fish

flip floppin' in the bottom of a boat, nobodys there anyhow, not even mr.p incognito(away), and where is buddy? boo hoo, i need a good boot:(

I think

there are a lot of things that have to work together to move it over here. I haven't heard a thing lately, but I'll ask about it.

I think

there are a lot of things that have to work together to move it over here. I haven't heard a thing lately, but I'll ask about it.

couldn't resist,huh!

marye's a double poster too!

just happened to me

I just double posted down the street.

just happened to me

I just double posted down the street.

happened

happened alot yesterday. what I used to do to solve this problem was 'preview comment' first, that also seemed to help avoid getting the mail sent to the spam filter for marye or other admins to allow in. but yesterday even previewing didn't seem to work. let's see NOW...

happened

shucks

shucks, for no apparent reason, I just quadroupled posted. ) -; maybe I will skip the preview option.

shucks

shucks, for no apparent reason, I just quadroupled posted. ) -; maybe I will skip the preview option.

hmmmm

hmmmm... me thinks it be time to log off. peace

yeah...

I emailed with Jonathan about this a bit; it seems to be a function of the servers in the company IT department having their clocks out of sync, but why this keeps happening remains a mystery. At the moment I'm finding the site essentially unusable as well and have multiple posts a go go. On the subject of the chat room: Jonathan says that in theory they're holding off on the big changes here till after they've finished the migration to a new hosting service, but he'll see if he can figure out a way to move the chat room over here sooner. Fingers crossed that I can get this to post...

seems

seems to be working just fine, now. (I'll take famous last words for 400, Alex) only one double post in the garden section, and I think I did that myself by accident.

seems2

test site seems to be missing? it too like the chatroom is down for MAINTAINence, so i think i'll try to double post this.... what do i do now, CCj? preview com....huh!what?