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    Great suggestion Marye. I just listened to One O'Clock Jump and was transported. The entire recording from Carnegie Hall in 1938 with its impressive supporting cast looks tempting. What an amazing time capsule from an era that I only glimpsed hazily a la parent's and grandparent's record players in the 50's. In the meantime I'm queuing up the soundtrack from Ken Burn's "War" with jazz, big band, swing, etc. from the WWII era. It's from early 60's, but maybe some Preservation Hall Jazz Band is next. . . Oh yeah. It may be a reach, but there's a Grateful Dead connection here too: Ken Burn's "War" is followed in my iTunes list by "The Warlocks: 10/8/89". I told you it was a reach.
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    Marye, now you're talking....love your musical suggestions.....btw, have you heard the final Springsteen Clarence show from November 2009? Played on Miami Steve's birthday....it was special in many ways...Initially billed as the final E St show, and unfortunately foreshadowing proved correct, as it was the last time Clarence would perform with anyone, his health was failing, but the mugging he and Bruce did onstage especially during Growin Up is etched in my brain .....35 songs and over 4 hours of magic, played the Greetings from Asbury Park recording in its entirety....half of the show was dedicated to suggestions from the crowd.....if interested, pm me your email and I can send it your way in digital format....It's an audience recording from the floor but well worth a listen and the smile that the listen will bring.....
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    Marye, I know that track and it rocks.....Amazing what our mutual connection to the good ol Grateful Dead has allowed us to experience in our lives....
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    there actually is a Grateful Dead connection
    to that Benny Goodman track. Back when I was en route to Red Rocks 1987, I bought a bunch of cassettes at a truck stop in, as I recall, Rock Springs, Wyoming, including a Benny Goodman anthology. It was a mixed bag of generally horribly re-re-rerecorded material from some foreign bootlegger, as I recall, but this one track, with NO PROVENANCE WHATEVER, was just stunning, even if it did sound like it was recorded in a bathtub. It took me decades to find the actual source, which was a good deal better recorded.
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    check out One O'Clock Jump in the Carnegie Hall concert.
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    and free beer yesterday
    but never free beer today.........
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    free beer tomorrow
    can't find the Habanero Sculpin yet.
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    Traffic John Barleycorn and David Bromberg..."Dead or Alive" or "Demon in Disguise" might make it there today, but not sure which other album would get voted off the island? I need an atoll, not just AN island. Jeff...I agree Ummagumma might make it some days. I gotta check out some of the newer stuff listed here.
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    See...Heart of Gold is one of my top 5 fav songs but it didn't make the final cut...Stevie Knicks Stop Dragging My Heart Around, Tom Petty Breakdown and You Got Lucky and Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd. Done and done
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    wow....Huh? Wow..... Whaaaaaa? Wooooowwwww..... thanks for playing...... Ok, time to pay my AARP dues..... Carry on my wayward dus briver....... ;-) Feel like Marty McFly from Back To The Future...... I keep on searching for a Heart of Gold, and it's getting old.... I want to hear some Benny Goodman.....
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We don't need a website. That's way overboard for what I'm here for. Count me out.
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Totes has a point... My life has been lived in the moment for a while now....about 2 years... This merry band of strangers have been brought together by a cultural phenomenon and will convene for but a second in our virtual lives... I am happy to support and contribute ideas for a website...if asked Unfortunately I am unlikely to use it as well... But....I do understand that some people need living testaments and memorials and others like me are fine with the faded memories....they are almost always better than the real thing. Irrespective of personal preferences ...our collective thanks go to geohelpingtobuildamemorialforSunshinedaydreamersastheyseefitmeister After all we all have our own paths to follow... someone set me straight on that just about a month ago.... And I'm so lost down mine there ain't no going back! thanks George...hope you're feeling the love... :-)
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I'm Reckoning. Speaking of moments...
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Feeling the adrenaline rush... Deep Purple circa 72..... cmon, cmon lets go Space Truckin' How bout them Hawks brah.... Let's get Pat Kane another cup....do it for South Buffalo!!! Back to carpet shampooing sunshine n suds not necessarily in that order...
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Well said rrrrrgrrrrr. As much as these memories will live on and be a part me, it's all forward motion. The scrapbook idea is very nice though. I guess the SSDDer mission statement needs to be revised now. Contact the Poobah, we need chase this wabbit down the hole and create an IT department! The pill mother gave me didn't do anything at all. Tap, tap. Dammit, is this thing on? Where's Alice, I think she'll know. Hey Alice!
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Norton! Ralphie boy just sent her to the moon.... To the moon Alice....after all I am Space Truckin' And totes it's not a mission statement.... we are not on a mission, that's too much like work.... We are happy wanderers... Valderie Valdera... with a nap sack on my back.... to quote Wet Willie.... Keep On Smilin'..... Back to the ozone for me......
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Thank you brother... we are a figment of our own imaginations the only absolute is that we are Deadheads and we.... All miss Jerry.... Can I get an Amen from the choir?
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to those agnostic and athiest here a simple disaffected I know will suffice....
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Amen to that, and amen to Totem, I don't know nothin about no website. Whose dumb/clever idea was that? Actually, the URLs were procured so no scum bag would grab them and try to scalp bootleg tshirts or something. What about that back 40 acre spread down by the river we were planning on getting for an annual pic-a-nic? Who's in charge of that? And what about the go-fund me kickstarter campaign to fund indigent sunshiners? And the Daydreamers? The house band? we gotta have a place to practice, if we existed, which we don't, but I play a mean air-guitar, and keep knocking into my monitor here. What about the pies? We need more pies. And Ice Cream. And cobbler...a big old dutch oven full of peach cobbler, plenty of cinnamon and maybe a sassafras stick or three. Anyone got 40 acres we can have? maybe with a river, you know, one that we can listen to as it sings sweet songs to rock our souls...and our canoes...gotta have canoes... Gonna be a nice pic-a-nic... Have a great day everyone... geomusemeister
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group hug....it's time and stop calling me Shirley!!!!! rrrrjrjrjrjrrr.....out of the park.... don't leave me hanging here... missing Jerry, listening to Vince Gill.... A sucker for a shiny guitar and a sweet voice.... OhhhhhyeahhhhhayyyyyahhhhhOhhh... Not down by the river...that's where I shot my baby... PTSD....
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All of matter is just very very very very very very condensed energy - no one has ever been here ever, but still there are albums and memories, faded and clear, and every once in an while a service is born from an idea and sometimes it helps... nothing born out of nothing and that's become everything. We are all in the story. Some will be on the site or in the non-profit, and it's all just right.
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Crying like a little bitch here....thanks for the affirmation!!!! We are in this for one reason and one reason only... When the John Mayer rumor surfaced I was Dead in my steps.... Gravity stay the hell away from me...Totes say his body is a wonderland... Good enough for me.... Just sayin' @stella, Stella, STELLA Mmmmmm bopbop bop bop.... We love Jerry and our love will not fade away!!!!! Peace from my snow bank
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Words matter. Spiritual not religious.
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Don't know why iluvyalike I doAll them changes you put me through
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My minds goin through them changes.... Sorry Buddy Miles on that jukebox..... free form forum, yo....
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Through the GD50 Limbo group on Facebook I got a suite ticket (No View) at face value $200) that at least gets me in. So there's that. Looking for Friday now. Steve
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I have no idea who you are but speak with the Poobah and if you clear security.....???? (But I do know that you know somebody that I know...) Someday I'll be able to say so glad you made it! Congrats... On the ducat..... It's been a strange day cryptical envelopment.....oh my
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I note that 1) you have been on-board this forum bus since the last decade, and 2) you scored a single sweet Saturday suite ducat in a clever way, and 3) you know the magic handshake and posted on our friendly pic-a-nic board, and 4) it looks like you may already a sunshine daydreamer of the finest caliber and be in Chicago for that celebratory weekend, and last, but not least, 5) you probably do know how the songs go. Noting also that rgrgrrrgr hit the brakes long enough for you to hop on board and you got a nod from him... We welcome you to our friendly group of travelers...it appears all you have to do is PM one of us and you may find yourself taking it to the next level as it were, for we need to get you specific information...like tshirt, meet-ups, etc...for that we need your all important email address. Grab a seat, buckle up, say hi, but watch out, if you raise your hand, rgrgrgrrr may ask you to brive da dus... Good to know you! geonotthepoobahmeister
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He's ok by me.... ssshhhhhh..... I'm hunting wabbits!!!!!
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Hey now, Steve......check your PM brother. Thanks !
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......you stepped back from that ledge my friend. Rumorz??? We don't need no steenkeen Rumors! I know.
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Standing on the ledge makes one feel alive....gives one an adrenaline surge....and allows one to say f@ck Gravity....Totes is our man.... No more need be said on that.... A fall tour with Totes, Bieber and Bruce Jenner... Now go rip this joint.... Better watch my speed.....
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amen
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Went to Oriole Park tonight to see my birds play, and what had been a peaceful demonstration against our local death by cop episode, escalated into a bottle/stone throwing riot right outside the stadium. My first thought was "i hope nothing like this happens in Chicago" Ive GOT to get my head more into the now. I love my city. I believe we we can find justice without tearing it down.. probably just naive. mmmbop bop bop madswan needs more Ghandi.
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Hear ya about the Charm City happenings. Close by but saw it on the news - kept feeling bad for all those baseball fans who just went to see a game. Really people?
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Happy Sunday one and all..... Saw the Baltimore incident....shook my head.... Has to be a better way....and hope Chicage is at least organized chaos... If not at least the hippie stoner to asshole ratio may be in our favor.... Got the coffee brewing....bagels n cream cheese My boys band coming to rehearse at 10..... Porterhouse steaks with Montreal seasoning on the grill tonight Plenty to go around....stop on by... ....goo goo g' joob mmmmm bopbop, bop bop!
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Good Morning Daydreamers! Walk along the river, sweet lullaby. Oh yes, it's Sunday morning again. Have an awesome day. 62 days to Saint Clara 68 days to Shikaakwa
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morning rrrgrrr & co. Sun's out and hope springs. . Work gloves and push brooms. How bout we listen to the victim's family and keep it peaceful. I've got a gig w/ my son downtown this evening covering Widespread Panic show for local website. Irony factor: Jamband
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1992 Allmans show...Gregg sez Brother Dickey couldn't be here tonight, he got drunk and shot his wfe.... Let me introduce y'all to Derek.... then they played Temptation is a Gun... isn't it ironic, its like rain...ehhhh Enjoy the gig Swannie... Totes...as always you rock around the clock mahalo
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Welcome back... question to you or #88..... any idea if public transportation can get me from Midway to W Adams St? Rather not cab it unless I have no other choice.... Have a peaceful Sunday....
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From Midway to downtown take the Orange Line get off at Adams. You'll get a card (Ventra) that you'll be able to reload. Ditto from O'Hare http://www.transitchicago.com/
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Muchas Gracias..... May be taking a dry run to Chitown before July just to get lay of the land and check out the night life... just trying to reduce the chaos.... carry on my wayward son....
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Headed home. Visiting early? Give heads up.
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will do brah...home safe... Stay in touch... Go Hawks.....
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Woke up late to the party. Any more coffee? Jamaican me crazy please with brown sugar.
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Just like a black girl should..... Say yeah, yeah yeah...whoooooo! Coffee still on... Enjoy this glorious day....kid.... Be good... More Stones in the air..... and her face just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale......
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Catch em if you can. GREAT dead cover..more than a dead cover. If anyone is in Chi 7/1 or live there, catch this show. this band is hot. martyrs 8/1 with kadlicek (pardon mangled spelling please) opening. i wish i could get there 2 days earlier.
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Hippie stoner to asshole ratio...what the world needs now.
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You gave me no warning...... coffee is on.... Belgian waffles on the menu.... another week, another day closer to Dead... Up and at 'em kids....
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:| 62 days to Saint Clara 68 days to Shikaakwa Shine on you crazy diamonds (and patch on TOO).
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I don't like Mondays Morning Kyle! Whew, for a moment there I thought you lost track of time...silly me.
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My first message mysteriously did not appear. I re-posted it. I blame Monday for that. Logging off, closing office door, putting on headphones, and spending my day on the computer. Monday morning couldn't guarantee.
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You and me both.... ....well you wore out your welcome with random precision.... Maybe more coffee will help
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Sugar. And the coffee. After three me gets the jitters. Just another manic Monday. Jerry is like a sloth. Cool and chill. Just sayin.
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Talking about Almost Dead show and the Bertha closer. He got all excited..."Bertha! That's the dead right?!?" Bless his heart he didn't know it was a cover band LOL I think he is at the bus stop trying to figure out his crazy wife