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    very nice.
  • tfonts
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    Okay, Marye...I'll say it...
    Maybe Rich and Holly ought to have their own dueling song lyric thread and then the SD'ers can chime in every now and then :-) Love to all !!
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    it's been a fun trip.... This ones Deadicated to us..... They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors Mortatone is in town Here comes Mayor Klangstone and Mad Swan Disease... His custom amps got them in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in their pants And Oat Willie and Pam who says hi are restless They need somewhere to go As Pupper and I look out tonight From Desolation Row. Katniss, she seems so easy "It takes one to know one," she smiles :-) And puts her hands in her back pockets Tom Hanlon style....nice hat brah! And in comes Devil's Friend, he's moaning "You belong to Me I Believe" And Totem says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend You better leave" And the only sound that's left After the ambulances go Is Stanley sweeping up tonight On Desolation Row. Now the moon is almost hidden The stars are beginning to hide Holly and OzarkMatt Have even taken all their camping gear inside All except for Cain74 and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is either making love Or else expecting rain And Bob Loblaw, he's dressing He's getting ready for the show He's going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row. Now StellaMoon, she's 'neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid To her, death is quite romantic She wears an iron vest Her profession's her religion Her sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed upon Jerry's great rainbow ASL just spends her time peeking Into Desolation Row. Boo469 disguised as Kurt009 With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk and kids in tow... He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet You would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row. rrrrgrrrr, he keeps his world Inside of a coffee cup But all his sexless patients They're trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loser She's in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read "Have Mercy on His Soul" They all play on penny whistles You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row. Across the street they've nailed the curtains They're getting ready for the pic-a-nic geophantomoftheoperameister In a perfect image of a priest They're spoonfeeding Bobby69 To get him to feel more assured Then they'll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words And Graceful is shouting to skinny girls "Get outa here if you don't know" Tfonts is just being punished for going To Desolation Row. At midnight all the Dreamers..... And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart-attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping To Desolation Row. Praise be to Gobs black Licorice Ba dus sails at dawn Spascarella's shouting "Which side are you on ?" And Miller's horse and mkav Fighting in the captain's tower While Geeky just laughs at them And Roadking just holds flowers Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow And nobody has to think too much About Desolation Row. Yes, I received your letter yesterday About the time the door knob broke When you asked me how I was doing Was that some kind of joke ? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, we're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Dont send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them from.... the Sunshine Daydreamers subforum....
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    ....c'mon pretty mama let's get on the road again.... musical history lesson.... Furry Lewis.....re done by James Luther Dickinson and the North Mississippi Allstars Kassie Jones Parts 1 and 2 I woke up this mornin', four o'clock Mister Casey told his fireman get his boiler hot Put on your water, put on your coal Put your head out the window, see my drivers roll See my driver roll Put your head out the window, see my driver roll Lord, some people said Mister Casey couldn't run Let me just tell you what Mister Casey done He left Memphis, it was quarter to nine Got in Newport News, it was dinnertime It was dinnertime Got in Newport News, it was dinnertime I've sold my gin, I've sold it straight Police run me to my woman's gate She come to the door, she nod her head She made me welcome to the foldin' bed To the foldin' bed Made me welcome to the foldin' bed Lord, the people said to Casey, "You're runnin' over time" "You'll havin’ a collision with the one-o-nine" Casey said, "This engine's mine I'll run it in close just to make my time" Said to all the passengers, "Better keep yourself hid Natural' gon shake it like Chainey did Like Chainey did I’m natural' gon' shake it like Chainey did" Mister Casey run his engine in [a miles of place] Number four stabbed him in the face The depot told Casey, "Well, you must leave town" "Believe to my soul I'm Alabama bound" "Alabama bound" "Believe to my soul I'm Alabama bound" Missus Casey said she dreamt a dream The night she bought her sewin' machine The needle got broke, she could not sew She loved Mister Casey, 'cause she told me so Told me so Loved Mister Casey, 'cause she told me so There was a woman named Miss Alice Fry Said, "I'm gonna ride with Mister Casey 'fore I die" I ain't good looking but I takes my time A rambling woman with a rambling mind Got a rambling mind Casey looked at his water, water was low Looked at his watch, his watch was slow On the road again Natural born eastman on the road again Lord, there's people tell by the throttle moan The man at the fire's Mister Casey Jones Mister Casey Jones Mister Casey said, before he died One more road that he wants to ride People tells Casey, "Which road is he?" "The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe Santa Fe" This mornin' I heard someone was dyin' Missus Casey's children on the doorstep cryin' “Mama, mama, I can't keep from cryin' Papa got killed on the Southern line On the Southern line Papa got killed on the Southern line” "Mama, mama, how can it be Killed my father on the first degree" "Children, children, won’t you hold your breath Draw another pension from your father's death From your father's death" On the road again I'm a natural born eastman on the road again Tuesday mornin', it looked like rain Around the curve came a passenger train Under the boiler lay Mister Casey Jones Good old engineer, but he's dead and gone Dead and gone On the road again I'm a natural born eastman on the road again I left Memphis to spread the news Memphis women don't wear no shoes Had it written in the back of my shirt Natural born eastman don't have to work Don't have to work I'm a natural born eastman, don't have to work
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    Hello lovely people! We have among us a poet and didn't know it. Thanks, rrrrgrrrr for that thoughtful piece, including all of us merry pranksters. Makes me a bit verklempt... As for a new thread....I dont think we need it...thoughts? The page loads fine for me still and I would hate to leave all the other thoughts and memories from this forum behind. Geoits420somewheremeister had the honors of post 4020...but it doesn't have to stop there... On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is makin' music with my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seein' things that I may never see again And I can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Like a band of gypsies, we go down the highway We're the best of friends Insisting that the world be turnin' our way And our way Is on the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is makin' music with my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Like a band of gypsies, we go down the highway We're the best of friends Insisting that the world be turnin' our way And our way Is on the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is makin' music with my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again And I can't wait to get on the road again
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    do you want a new thread? Is this one starting to load slowly because it's got like 4K posts? I don't want to get the bus off course, but we can do this if you want.
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    Dang, Richers...that's one fine twist to a Dylan classic. Very creative...fun reading (or singing) the clever references to our family....see where daydreaming gets you? Well done, maestro, well done. Have a grand day- g
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    work so busy but I will be at ny for dead and company if anyone else is going to be there
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    Another one bites the dust.... Another post older and one post closer to death... ;-)
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    No one is posting because we don't want it to end! Let's skip 4020 and just Keep Truckin Geeky
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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!