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  • liketohike
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    Ok, so after much thought and consideration here are my "deserted island 5": 1. Pink Floyd- Meddle. Floyd is my all-time favorite band and this album reminds me of "tuning in and dropping out" early in my high school days. I also am reminded of the house we lived in during high school with the windows ipen and the cool spring breeze blowing in while rolling bones with my mom and step dad. 2. DJ Shadow- Endtroducing. This album is electronic "trip hop" and was my first and best taste of what a DJ and two turntables can produce. This album also takes me back to my rave days from the ages of 16-25 and all the crazyness that encompasses 3. M.I.A.- Arular-young adulthood memories, discovering new music and genres. Great beats and fun rhythms to keep things light and interesting. She puts on an amazing show, I saw her in Chicago at Lollapalooza and she was climbing on the scaffolding to the dismay of her managers. She also had laryngitis from touring so much but she still put her whole heart in the peformance. 4. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antartica- reminds me of travelling between home and hometown between the big city and the rual prarieland...flat, flat, flat. Also, one of my favorite live acts discovered in my early twenties..saw them once on my bday and they signed this canvas bag I bought after the show with "Happy Birthday Holly!" I was so HAPPY! 5. The Squirrel Nut Zippers- Perennial Favorites. Big Band Swing, what can I say? Discovered in my teens love at first hearing. Katherine Whalen does amazing things with her voice and sounds straight out of 1930. A good album to keep around and would add variety to my "island 5" This is good exercise in choice. There is a lot of music and or songs that I may enjoy more than these but they are not included on one album. Some of my top 5 songs are all on different albums and the rest of each album I could take or leave. Since this was about whole albums for the rest of my life on the island these are my picks. 10 years from now these choices could be totally different. Thanks rrrgrrr for challenging us to "make up our minds"...did you ever have to finally decide?
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    Jeff glad you chimed in....this is indeed what I hoped we would become, a family united by Jerry, but much more diverse than that alone.....I as well ordered Boxzilla....but will keep it under wraps....since the desert island selection began, I know it's blasphemy but I tuned away from SXM 23, first time in like a year and am enjoying EVERYTHING else.... like a kid in a candy store..... Been listening to Springsteen for the first time since 2012 and just re registered with a Bruce live torrent site....soooo many SBDs out there.....so little time....if you'd like some live music, just ask it's an email away..... Say hi to Pam..... and yes everybody knows THIS is nowhere.....
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    Grate recollections here of late. Thanks to all Sunshine Daydreamers and friends for sharing your amazing memories. Please keep ‘em coming! Maybe we should consider a gathering where we could swap more stories and trade digital files of musical treasures. Our Pic-A-Nic in Chicago was a trip to be sure, but there wasn’t much time for subtleties – we were preoccupied with a more pressing mission over at Soldier Field. . . The Desert Fives have been perfect palette-cleansing diversions as we await the 30 Trips Box. One of my favorite tales was Rich's paean to Elaine a la Neil Young. Neil had a way of helping you ease past the many disappointments of teenage. I’ll never forget watching the sun rise over the Arkansas River to the strains of “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” after my “this-is-the-one” girlfriend broke up with me following our high school graduation and prom the night before (also my birthday). Neil understood! I've been blown away by the breadth and sophistication of y'all's lists and posts. Having come of age in somewhat of a musical backwater, I’m impressed and more than a little envious of the killer 60’s and 70’s music many of you witnessed firsthand. Even though there was less musical diversity to choose from, my Desert Five all came from those days when I was a wide-eyed, hormone-drenched teenager in the Arkansas Delta. Those are still the tunes that strike the deepest chords. Thank goodness for KAAY FM's midnight Bleecker Street out of Little Rock which was my sole alternative to AM bubblegum. Don't get me wrong, cruising cotton fields and levees on the way to bonfires on river sandbars with a little smoke and PBRs and the Woodstock soundtrack or the White Album or Sly or ___ on the 8-track provided many a fine memory (many of which I'm sure I can't recall) . . . and every now and then events like SDS meetings in Little Rock would punctuate the mundane with wisps of "exotic" music from the great beyond . . . In that world, we bought LP’s at places like JC Penney and Sears. Record shops were still a few years away in Pine Bluff. I discovered Disraeli Gears and Ars Nova at a head shop during a Latin/French Club field trip to New Orleans in '68. We thought things like an unknown Elton John opening for Chicago in Memphis were real discoveries. That's why I'm fascinated when I read posts from those who grew up in/near the City with cutting-edge radio programming and hip record stores not to mention vibrant club scenes and free concerts and FM streams of yet-to-be-mainstreamed artists. Once I got to college, I began a round of musical "catch up" that I'm still enjoying today. And back to the Desert Fives – Surely I’m not the only one that keeps remembering LP’s that got left off of my Short List. Ummagumma, Caravanserai, Hejira, Band of Gypsys, Burgers, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, All Things Must Pass, New Morning, Darkness and Scattered Light, Live at Leeds, Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, Tarkus, Blows Against the Empire, Roll Over, Wake of Poseidon . . . And back to the Grateful Dead – This forum, especially the Desert Five Diversion, has been just exactly perfect for preparing for 30 Trips to rumble into town. I’ll be ready with fresh ears. Even managed to score a few Dogfish Head American Beauties last week “out in the west Texas town of El Paso.” Onward y’all!
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    Of course, they do! But, sometimes the melody is enough for me. *HaHa* Sir Paul is singing "We Can Work it Out" in the background. I'm peeling my eyes off the monitor for the evening. Good night! p.s. Never had the privilege of seeing Springstein. On his way to being the Woody Guthrie of our generation? A discussion for another day.
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    Waiting for Columbus....?????Trade anything but Dylan.... Keep those choices.... Blah blah blah....... Boom Chaka laka!! Lyrics matter!!!!!
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    What could I trade for some Feat? Hmm... There are songs I listen to for the sheer sound of them, I couldn't care less about the lyrics (Obla Di Obla Da!) But, then there are the songs that I love. That's a different story.
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    wow....got to the encore.....and you are right.....seen many a Bruce show, ain't never seen that...nor heard it.... I also am a lyric person, and and lyric subtlety aficionado..... ....marye, I want a mulligan, I will swap out anything but Layla and other assorted love songs for Bruce 8/9/78 at the Agora.....on my island....amazing show.... And that's why I play this game....!!!!
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    Glad to see da dus is rolling along smoothly...gotta pick up all the children to take em back to school or the mines...Man I miss summer vacation as a youth. Just not the same as an adult.
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    the thing that blew the top of my head off in real time, listening to the scratchy radio broadcast, and every time I've heard it in the ensuing getting-on-40 years, is Fourth of July, in a version that as far as I know was made up on the spot and never repeated--"Sandy, the angels have lost their desire for us," and extended riffing on the fireworks being Angels on Harleys coming down from heaven, etc. I admit it, I'm a lyrics freak, but I'm still agog at that one. It's just brilliant. It is also, in a number of ways, Dover Beach in a different idiom.
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    and it indeed does marye...back in the day bought a 3 LP bootleg Live at Winterland December 78 Christmas show recorded off of KSAN....from an old time record store called the Music Box in Queens NY, only guy who had the stones to sell bootlegs..if I'm not mistaken he was the bassist for a NYC punk band called Tuff Darts...their big hit was Your Love Is Like Nuclear Waste.....bad boy cost me like $50 at the time...blind pig records if I recall...played it til I wore it out....now it's on a torrent website free and without pops n clicks...technology....and thanks, got Agora 8/78 and it is a smoking show....never heard it before... I so do miss the 70's..
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NYC born n bred.... Citi field aka new Shea.... Me n Mr Met....shaking our bones on the dugout.....
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im so happy for you mike! yippie! great news! so glad you made it! onward and upward, just a little bit Further now.
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Gans Lambert announcement at 3pm Klangstones Chicago bound.....!!!! We don't need NYC or SF.... Congrats... Mike. What a long strange trip it's been! Hop on the bus....
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but Klang's gotta chip in for gas on this magic bus....gotta keep our motor running.... I got some Seagrams gin, they all got cups but they aint chipped in just sayin.... Rollin down the street...smo.... Fo Shizzle yo! T minus 75 minutes......
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ahem,,yes well, ah my name is Boo, and I miss Jerry too, and do not take a taxi ride with Kane, he's a stiff
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I know.... and hes a drunk and a womanizer....cant hold that against a man....can ya?
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with the druken womanizer, but a stiff, man that is low ok I admitted, what are the other 11 steps
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Give the kid a break. Prodigy is a heavy burden to carry.
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It's gonna be a great Friday!!!! From the bottom of the ocean To the mountains on the moon Won't you please come to Chicago No one else can take your place T-Horse just blew a kiss your way. For luck.
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she just said 'stand by for a major CONCERT announcement'
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she just said 'standby for a major CONCERT announcement'.
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ooooh mama ooooh mama ooooh mama oooooh mama...... Van Morrison reference
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an update from the grateful dead at noon
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We are going to need a bigger bus!
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Yep..I'm on it. Oh yeah...”major, major concert announcement coming up from the Grateful Dead” Has to be more shows....Citi Field and Levi's, my guess...
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I wanna ride on top and wave to the strange onlookers
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With Bill Walton in the Jerry Slot. Wooohooooo!
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Someone posted a link to the dead50.net HTML code on Facebook. Scan the text below for the references to Santa Clara and tickets. No references to any other shows were in any of the other code he shared. This is just a small portion of what was there. page-template-template--santaclara #show .vc_column_container{ padding: 0px 20px 20px; } .option-ticket-btn{ margin: 0px auto !important; } html .wpb_button { font-family:inherit; font-size: 12px; border-radius: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 9px 14px; display: block; *display: inline; /* IE7 inline-block hack */ } .page-template-template--santaclara #tickets .wpb_button { display: block !important; font-weight: normal !important; margin: 0px auto !important; padding: 11px 14px !important; width: 250px; } .page-template-template--santaclara #tickets .wpb_button a{ color: #fff !important;
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3:00 PM I am listening on live stream, and feel like I am on a crazy rollercoaster. Was there this much drama back in the day ? This is crazy.. I have the radio on the internet, 2,000 dollars in cash, an index card, a collection of sharpies, kayak open in a browser to book travel, good god I need some xanax to calm myself down. -- Tom
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Now @ 12:15pm PT. HAS TO BE SANTA CLARA ONLY. Klang got wood !!!!!
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"They realized they have to go back to where it all started...."
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Well, it is LOCAL shows. So there ya go. I am relieved it will not be 10 shows. Too much drama if it was.
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sorry - just santa clara
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I'll forward the email to our SD list now but check it out. Huge news for Deadheads! The original members of the Grateful Dead — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir — have announced two additional shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on June 27th and 28th, as part of their “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” run. Along with three shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the run will mark the original members’ last-ever performances together. The band will be joined by Trey Anastasio (guitar), Jeff Chimenti (keyboards), and Bruce Hornsby (piano) and perform two sets of music each night. We are thrilled to offer CID Experience ticket packages and travel packages for this legendary pair of shows. CID Experience ticket packages include premium seating and special amenities; travel packages can be purchased with your preferred ticket type and offer a variety of hotel choices in the Bay Area with round-trip transportation to Levi’s Stadium included. Travel packages are ON SALE NOW – CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE! CID Experience ticket packages are NOW AVAILABLE FOR REQUEST through the CID Experience online ticket request – simply CLICK HERE to submit your request for CID Experience ticket packages. You may submit a ticket request for only one CID Experience ticket type – either Golden Road Super CID Experience Premium Reserved, Golden Road Super CID Experience GA Pit, Steal Your Face CID Experience Premium Reserved, Steal Your Face CID Experience GA Field. If you submit more than one order for CID Experience packages under the same name or credit card, your request will be canceled. However, you may enter the online ticket requests for both CID Experiences and regular tickets. There is no online ticket request for travel packages, which are now on sale. Please note – by entering the online ticket request, you are not guaranteed to receive tickets. Please make sure your card can be charged, and you will be notified whether or not your order will be fulfilled by 11:59 PM EDT on Sunday, April 19th. If there are CID Experience tickets remaining after the online ticket request period ends, they will be made available with the public on sale on Monday, April 20th at 10 AM PDT. If you have any specific questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Guest Services team via email at guestservices@cidentertainment.com or by phone at 888-805-8930. We hope to see you in Santa Clara for what promises to be an incredible pair of shows! CID Entertainment Guest Services 10AM - 6PM ET, 7 days a week (888) 805-8930 guestservices@cidentertainment.com Copyright © 2015 CID Entertainment, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website for more information. Our mailing address is: CID Entertainment 1 South Broad Street 17th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107
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Where are ya buddies? All my work concentration hit the shitter about 10 minutes ago. I may as well go get a few early.
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Hop on it man! Good sweet mother of Moses!
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Ours wasn’t just a long, strange trip — it was a VERY long, VERY strange trip. We weren’t sure what it was going to be like to put a punctuation mark on the end of it. None of us anticipated the overwhelming outpouring of love and interest following our initial announcement of the shows at Soldier Field, and we were blown away by the response. We have tried to do the right thing wherever we could for the Chicago shows by honoring the roots of where we came from, while dealing with the realities of the current times. But that’s hardly comforting when you’re shit outta luck for tickets and your only option is inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites. That would piss us off too. From the moment these shows were first talked about, we have been thinking about what we could do to honor the roots of our Deadhead experience, even in the face of changing technologies. (Remember: Ticketmaster didn’t even go online until we got out of the game.) These shows were always intended as an expression of our gratitude, to both the music and the fans, so it’s important that we get things as right as we can. We have always been proud of our in-house mail order ticketing process, and the phenomenal way our fans have built a tradition out of turning a standard envelope into a frame-worthy piece of art. Some 60,000 mail order tickets were issued for the Soldier Field shows by the good folks at Grateful Dead Ticket Sales — yet we were still crushed to see how many of your beautifully designed envelopes did not get tickets. For shows of this magnitude, it’s impossible to eliminate every scalper. However, we offer you this: Working with our partners, we are using an online ticketing platform for the Levi’s shows that will help ensure that the tickets for these shows will get into the right hands, the hands of our true fans. We believe that this process is the best way to give each of you an equal opportunity to obtain tickets at the most affordable possible prices. We are are proud to announce that 65,000 tickets per night will be available via the "online mail order" for the Levi’s shows. For the nuts and bolts, go to Dead50.net. We will not be adding any more Fare Thee Well shows. The three Chicago shows will still be our final stand. We decided to add these two Santa Clara shows to enable more of our fans to celebrate with us one more time. But this is it. We love you guys more than words can tell, and hope to see you in the Bay Area or Chicago. If you can’t make it to the shows, we are working on ways for you to still experience our Fare Thee Well, from wherever you might be. Stay tuned for those details. Gratefully yours, Billy, Bobby, Mickey & Phil
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A LETTER FROM THE DEAD GratefulDead-SantaClara-480 More Info Santa Clara Chicago Dear Heads, Although none of us knew it when we walked off the stage at Soldier Field on July 9, 1995, the Grateful Dead's long strange trip ended in Chicago that night. As you are aware, twenty years later, we’re returning to Chicago to properly say Fare Thee Well. But every good ending must start with a beginning. For us, it all began fifty years ago when we grabbed a bunch of instruments off the walls of a music store in Palo Alto California and began banging away on them in the back room, at night after the store had closed for the day. Since we made the decision to go back to Chicago to say our final goodbye, it has become clear to us that we first need to return to our beginnings, where we first said hello — to each other and to all of you. And so it is that we have decided to plug in for two additional shows on June 27 and 28 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California — just a dozen miles south of where Dana Morgan’s Music Store once stood. At Levi’s — as at Soldier Field — we will have the pleasure of being joined by Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti. Ours wasn’t just a long, strange trip — it was a VERY long, VERY strange trip. We weren’t sure what it was going to be like to put a punctuation mark on the end of it. None of us anticipated the overwhelming outpouring of love and interest following our initial announcement of the shows at Soldier Field, and we were blown away by the response. We have tried to do the right thing wherever we could for the Chicago shows by honoring the roots of where we came from, while dealing with the realities of the current times. But that’s hardly comforting when you’re shit outta luck for tickets and your only option is inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites. That would piss us off too. From the moment these shows were first talked about, we have been thinking about what we could do to honor the roots of our Deadhead experience, even in the face of changing technologies. (Remember: Ticketmaster didn’t even go online until we got out of the game.) These shows were always intended as an expression of our gratitude, to both the music and the fans, so it’s important that we get things as right as we can. We have always been proud of our in-house mail order ticketing process, and the phenomenal way our fans have built a tradition out of turning a standard envelope into a frame-worthy piece of art. Some 60,000 mail order tickets were issued for the Soldier Field shows by the good folks at Grateful Dead Ticket Sales — yet we were still crushed to see how many of your beautifully designed envelopes did not get tickets. For shows of this magnitude, it’s impossible to eliminate every scalper. However, we offer you this: Working with our partners, we are using an online ticketing platform for the Levi’s shows that will help ensure that the tickets for these shows will get into the right hands, the hands of our true fans. We believe that this process is the best way to give each of you an equal opportunity to obtain tickets at the most affordable possible prices. We are are proud to announce that 65,000 tickets per night will be available via the "online mail order" for the Levi’s shows. For the nuts and bolts, go to Dead50.net. We will not be adding any more Fare Thee Well shows. The three Chicago shows will still be our final stand. We decided to add these two Santa Clara shows to enable more of our fans to celebrate with us one more time. But this is it. We love you guys more than words can tell, and hope to see you in the Bay Area or Chicago. If you can’t make it to the shows, we are working on ways for you to still experience our Fare Thee Well, from wherever you might be. Stay tuned for those details. Gratefully yours, Billy, Bobby, Mickey & Phil
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fast fingers
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no ftw tix, now two shows even farther/more expensive I have got to step away from the madness this has become later
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We decided, we are everywhere and we will be moving in to your house for the weekend before the Apocalypse... I got a room at your place and airfare.... Whose in?
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Yo Mike !! We're heading west brother !! Warn the neighbors and put away the dog. rrrrrgrrrrrr and I are camping in your front lawn dude - mind if we borrow the head?
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That there is an RV.... Pardon me I gotta clean the Shitter.... If you wanna abdicate the seat on the bus.... Let me know... Hey Jeff n Tami.... We may need to change the back of the shirt.....
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I am in the MEGA "Grateful Dead Lottery". Wish everyone tickets:) Peace out..........
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Godspeed brother... We all deserve one miracle...
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CID ticket package requests do not appear to be actually selling tickets as of yet. Travel Packages may. I just cant tell.
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Much easier than mail order.... Klang... Change the sheets please? Hey Dudley you bringing Nell n Mr Ed?
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It's both like Chicago...got my hat in the ring.... Btw...touche' I'm a Yankee fan.... ;-)
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Get ready to fire the BBQ, paint the parking space lines on the neighbors lawns, and build a stage on your roof. I know of at least 50 psychedelic painted buses headed your way. We need to book some bands with Shapiro. Promise to have the music shut down by 4:00am each night. We understand you have to go on living with your neighbors long after the party is over. We will have to work up a showering schedule for 800 people. We'll need to rent portable showers if more show up. T-Horse is so excited, he's heard about your pool with the high dive. He's already running around wearing his snorkel mask and fins. He's getting away with not doing it here, but I'll see to it he's wearing his swim trunks.
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Got our magic bus Santa Clara way.... Living after midnight, rocking til the dawn... Fonts bring your Harley.... Vroom vroom..... At least I'm enjoying the ride!