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  • liketohike
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    Hey now Daydreamers we're truckin along... Saw a Head last night at dinner with a Truckin to Buffalo shirt on. I'm taking that as a good omen. Lots of LE out in force today keeping the motorists safe They're tryna be tricky...posting little signs saying checkpoint ahead...on the interstate. Just keep truckin on!
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    Play it sweet for out travelers... Truckin' got my chips cashed in. Keep truckin', like the do-dah man Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on. Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street. Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street. Your typical city involved in a typical daydream Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings. Dallas, got a soft machine; Houston, too close to New Orleans; New York's got the ways and means; but just won't let you be, oh no. Most of the cast that you meet on the streets speak of true love, Most of the time they're sittin' and cryin' at home. One of these days they know they better get goin' Out of the door and down on the streets all alone. Truckin', like the do-dah man. Once told me "You've got to play your hand" Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay'em down, Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me; Other times I can barely see. Lately it occurres to me What a long, strange trip it's been. What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine, All a friend can say is "Ain't it a shame?" Truckin', up to Buffalo. Been thinkin', you got to mellow slow Takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep truckin' on. Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window. Got a tip they're gonna kick the door in again I'd like to get some sleep before I travel, But if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in. Busted, down on Bourbon Street, Set up, like a bowlin' pin. Knocked down, it get's to wearin' thin. They just won't let you be, oh no. You're sick of hangin' around and you'd like to travel; Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down. I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin', Get out of the door and light out and look all around. Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me; Other times I can barely see. Lately it occurres to me What a long, strange trip it's been. Truckin', I'm a goin' home. Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong, Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin' on. Hey now get back truckin' home.
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    Hey Sir, Ma'am, I heard your dus all night long, winding it's way thru the ribbons of highways from here to there... And look! it's right outside... Tiime to hop on...you Chicago Bound???? Are those our seats? Thankee kindly, Hi puppers, greetings all mind if we set a spell? Thanks. Sure I heard of Truckin...me and Bobby screw up the third and fourth verses all the time, Hit it Sarge, turn up da dass! Chicago bound! Color us happy! See you soon!
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    All packed and ready to go. Leavin nice and easy when we rise...See you in the windy city. STL has started lighting up the sky for the 4th of July! Leaving St. Louis, the city of blues, in the midst of a storm I'd rather forget... Ah, Mother American Night, here comes the light! PS the hitchhikers fell off da dus...sobbing something about responsibilty or some such... The show must go on
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    To the train.....and bus To Kingston mines and the chop house To the cats n kittens puppets n pugs To Miller to Stella to every other gal n fella Hit it Sarge..... Let me run with you tonight I'll take you on a moonlight ride There's someone I used to see But she don't give a damn for me But let me get to the point, let's roll another joint And turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud You don't know how it feels You don't know how it feels to be me People come, people go Some grow young, some grow cold I woke up in between A memory and a dream So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint Let's head on down the road There's somewhere I gotta go And you don't know how it feels You don't know how it feels to be me My old man was born to rock He's still tryin' to beat the clock Think of me what you will I've got a little space to fill So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint And let's head on down the road There's somewhere I got to go And you don't know how it feels No, you don't know how it feels to be me Chicago Rocks!!!!!!!!
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    Pretty nice and wonderful to know the first wave has gotten off da dus and is representing the Sunshine Daybreamers Clan most enthusiastically in Chicago. Looks like our wheels are in good shape as we spin around and pick up round two and three. All you gotta do is wave, smile, and hop on...see you on the fields of green...remember to bring that magic carpet to assist you when traffic gets a bit heavy...and don't forget the towel... Here's a blast from the past from the KDED radio dial... Hot summer day (Hot summer day) Carry me along Oh, hot summer day (Hot summer day) Please carry me along Hot summer day Carry me along To its end Where I begin Long summer dream (Long summer dream) Sliding round my mind Those long summer dreams (Long summer dream) Are leaving me behind Hot summer day Carry me along To its end Where I begin Circling like a river Over brightly colored stones Breaking up my soul And taking part of me home Leaving the other half To tumble all alone Love, love, where did you go? Hot summer day (Hot summer day) Carry me along To its end where I begin Those long summer dreams (Long summer dream) Still spinning round my mind And they end where they begin And I want to grab that river And stop the love that's dying Because I know that somewhere Deep inside my soul you're still lying Waiting to awaken And shake that river's flow Love, love, where did you go? They told me that the sun turned green I said I didn't know And they told me that the moon turned blue I said it didn't show And they told me that I looked a fool And I said I'd let that go But when they told me that our love was dead I had to turn and go Oh love Love Love Love Love Where did you go? Hot summer day (Hot summer day) Carry me along To its end Where I begin Long summer dreams (Long summer dream) Sliding round my mind And they end Where they begin Circling like a river Over brightly colored stones Breaking up my soul And taking part of me home Leaving the other half To tumble all alone Love, love, where did you go? Songwriters DAVID LAFLAMME, LINDA LAFLAMME ...love went to Chicago all...see you there!
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    You wanna know what the Heavens think of this weekend's Fare Thee Well? Well, here's some astrology on it, anywho! By my friend, Tom Kaypacha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-81A6G3qolI
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    Rgr, that! See you there!
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    This might be a repeat, but my final play on KDED, sent with love to Miller's horse and a missing moonchild - If you're driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who's bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on I'm a radio I'm a country station I'm a little bit corny I'm a wildwood flower Waving for you Broadcasting tower Waving for you And I'm sending you out This signal here I hope you can pick it up Loud and clear I know you don't like weak women You get bored so quick And you don't like strong women 'Cause they're hip to your tricks It's been dirty for dirty Down the line But you know I come when you whistle When you're loving and kind But if you've got too many doubts If there's no good reception for me Then tune me out, 'cause honey Who needs the static It hurts the head And you wind up cracking And the day goes dismal From "Breakfast Barney" To the sign-off prayer What a sorry face you get to wear I'm going to tell you again now If you're still listening there If you're driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who's bound to love you If you're lying on the beach With the transistor going Kick off the sandflies honey The love's still flowing If your head says forget it But your heart's still smoking Call me at the station The lines are open
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Preach it girl... My better half is along for the ride.....and that's it..... As are Id say 80% or so just of our merry band of 35 or so Give or take a spascarella.... If he ever shows up for his welcome package........ Hey Steve? Where's you at brah? Seriously Geeky if only true heads had tix.....there would be 40% more miracles..... I like math.... but I miss Jerry!
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Hey maybe we can do something nice for those widowed by the Dead? Even a pretty card with some tie dye wonderment and a little thank you special one sentiment... I think tie dye would look very cool on a vellum...for you guys that's a paper!
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I second that emotion, spouses, friends, soul mates who love US more than we love ourselves....!!!!!! We need an artist and ideas..... Volunteers????? On behalf of the congregation....Yay we say!!!!!! Klang I'm voting yes for you, mmmm ok? Tony we need boxes and columns and a subcommittee.... Somebody take the wheel....I gotta go opine a minute.....
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OMG folks....my guess is virtually all of our beloved and patient spouses are on that same bus. It was last week I think when Klang had a great idea that we should create a t-shirt for them. I ran it by my wife and she came up with this: "MY MARRIAGE SURVIVED THE FTW-GD 50th !!"
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Have totes make them a flag that says I'm with Buzz..... We need rails shined, we need digital countdowns, we need pontification, we need Canadian bacon, we need Florida Sunshine, Cuban spice, Texas hospitality, California Fun, Horses, Chicago BBQ, #88,Rochester soul, Buffalo snow, that grass growing in Saundra's state....and whatever else it takes to make this happen....we need drums and space and Bieber....And we need Stella! Klanger, I'm your proxy here.... Unanimous..... Hey I still miss Jerry here, focus please..... Don't leave me hanging..... Can I get an agnostic. "I know"?
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Sorry, responded to your nice emails. Ready for the welcome package and ordered my t-shirt already. My girlfriend will not be coming. Tried to convert her but she's not interested. Played her all of the Dead's country tunes but to no avail. Oh well. Steve
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On behalf of Munchkinland I speak for Mayor Klangstone as well... SO GLAD YOU MADE IT....... Coffee is on, shuggah in the house.... Roll on up to the bar, and smoke em if ya got em.... This is a free form forum for the most part.....kinda performance art with soul... We are all one in Jerry and all you need to say to us to complete initiation is.... Confess you are a deadhead and you miss Jerry... Fate will decide the rest.....
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Steve welcome. my wife is along for 1 show. kids along for the rest. big debate whether wife should attend 4th of July...we "feel" this will be the rocking-est; or the Sunday shows, which "could" be more emotional. So far, she picked Saturday, anticipating US Blues and Jack Straw. Oldest son's job on Sunday is too keep me from completely melting down at the last song. Good luck with that, son. grrrr...what happened to your buh-wheat post?
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Not sure how I feel about Mondays. "I like it, but it doesn't like me" or something similar to that Jimmy Stuart said in the best Philadelphia Story. Want to drop out but also want to patch those sails... I once heard that political correctness was invented by the right. Without making a judgement call on directional leanings, the nature of each make political correctness a farce and parody of itself. Nothing wrong with consciousness, inclusion, awareness, tolerance, and respect though. I'm all about that. I have ten fingers and ten toes and I miss/ed Jerry. My sister is not coming to Chicago but she's along for the ride in Santa Clara. I ask if she wants to come just Saturday or Sunday and - bless her heart - she says "I want to go Saturday. That way if I want to go Sunday too I can." She's got a spark of faith she do. Know telling how far she'll go down the road ;) "And nobody knows it like you do babe, nobody knows it like you do Nobody knows it like you do babe, the lengths we will go to" - Shovels and Rope Everyone get enough coffee? I'm tempted to make another pot.
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Most likely you go your way and I'll go mine.... Love 75 Rolling Thunder Dylan.... Have one more cup of coffee...for the road.... heavy cream n sugar is flowing like wine.... ....dogs begin to bark now...HOUNDS begin to howl....watch out stray cat people....little red roosters on the prowl ..... just cuz I could.... and we know, all of our respective digits know....
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Okay I am slow on the uptake but as I was reading about your wife's t-shirt idea - grate idea BTW -it finally hit me that when my husband is saying WTF?!?!? He is just spelling FTW backwards right? He is actually, subconsciously, calling on all Freudians here, expressing his joy about the shows! Am I right?
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Sigmund at your service... 4 years of psychoanalytic training....... Zo you dreamed of a tunnel unt a banana? Shirts are good.... Or thank you cards.... Gift baskets... Party favors..... Little baskets with seashells and sea horses..... Gotta do something... How about we just tell our significant others we love them and appreciate their co dependence of our addiction....I will..........just sayin' Or have Klangman preside over divorce court at the fountain.... Your mileage may vary..... Follow your arrow wherever you go.....
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But what a hoot to read :-) Mama Bear's making home made Za for dinner tonight - yeah baby !!!!!
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And make lots of noise n kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're in to.....if the straight n narrow gets a little to straight... Roll up a ..... I would! And follow your arrow wherever you go.. White chili here..... goo goo g' joob yo!
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Baltimore is in chaos.... Prayers for you guys.... to quote the Tragically Hip.... New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim..... All we are saying is.... Give peace a chance....
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Roger that, rrrrrgrrrrr. Bal'more on fire - literally. Ugly, ugly scene... O's cancelled their home game too. Trust our peeps are home and safe. STAY HOME !!!
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"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously." Jerry Garcia
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Cuz the vandals took the handles. When will we learn this never works. Just sucks and riding out the rage. This town had a chance for a few days to make a statement that would have been heard. There was a lot of sympathetic ears to the story of a young man dying in police custody with a broken back. Even the proper folk round here looked beyond a criminal record to see things went too far. All that gone. Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name
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..how early the first pick-ups are on this bus route.I recall hearing bold talk about a 4:30 am shift.
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Bro, I hear you... From Ferguson to Baltimore, protesting is one's 1st amendment right; but looting and destruction of property are crimes. Extremely sad societal statement. Don't blame your great city - the issue is much, much larger.
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Better than Monday.... Coffee on.... Ready to face today's challenges.... Hi ho, hi ho.....back to the mines I go..... @baltimore..... ....I pity the fool who doesn't let there be peace in the valley...... Mr. T don't dance with Mr. D......
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Tie down the deck, a huge storm is coming my way off the Gulf of Mexico. Sorry California, keep patching those sails, and if it's clear, leave it there! 61 days to SC. 67 days to CHI. Watch those skies fontsman, it might be coming your way!
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Yeah baby - I'm getting weather advisories now...looks like mama nature gonna put a bit of a hurtin' on us today. Hey bro, as you know, it's the price we pay to live in paradise :-) How's your flip-flop tan lines looking today? Patch-em' !!!
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we pay a different price for a different form of paradise up in the northeast, Eh rrrgrrr? Beautiful day today, nothing but blue skies and mid 60's, could use 10 more degrees, but this ain't bad at all, not after this winter. So nice out I had to break out the bike, nothing like pedal power..pass the java if you would be so kind, maybe one of those scones...
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Right you are Boo buddy..... 65 and sunny here, no wind and cloudless blue sky..... Guess us Nor'easter's adapt to it...we have all 4 seasons, past 2 winters proved to be a harsh mistress, but Spring, Summer and Fall in the Buff and Rachacha are the cats ass..... Assuming Toronto weather is similar, eh? Nanuk?? Fresh pot of coffee is on, scones out of the oven.... cream and some sugar on the table.... back to work on the southernmost regions of mental health.....
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Yo Boo, cool cat dude !! And bro, I grew-up in Philly. You can keep your "four seasons" and frozen tundra, and mountains and mountains of snow. I paid my dues. Kinda like it where the weather suits my clothes :-) (although we're gonna get slammed in about 15 minutes with a big ass storm...lol) Later !!
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That is one of my boys, Black Bart, he's a Bombay and he likes to greet me when I arrive at home, that is him with front paws up on my thigh, he is quite a character. It isn't the 4 seasons that are so nice, but living through a winter up here makes you really appreciate the nice weather, and when it is nice here, it is fine! and a little snow doesn't bring down the house......
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Yo T, I know...... somebody help a brother out....that avatar was a nice memory of Philly but we are done with the past....tear that old building down...btw great run in 09.....saw it with JeffTOO @Boo... Where you been living, son. West Seneca NY had 7 feet of snow in 3 days November 2014...... Now that's a lot of melting....
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anywhere but south Buffalo..............here to the east we got an inch that November ah Philly the (sp)rectum, which year did they bring out the teargas, '87, '88????
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reading that title over again....mmmmm...let it be...might spur new interest in our mindless banter..... I remember being there in the 70's for a Rangers Flyers Stanley Cup Game....Eddie Giacomin vs. Bernie Parent.... Great memories of an old careworn barn..... I would tear that old building down.....
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Hey now brother, don't you be messin' with the Spectrum. Most famous and MOST PLAYED building in the entire east coast. We were nice enough to let you "up to Buffalo" folks even come down for a few shows :-) Sat row 2, sect 102 (dead center) for the last show in '09 (The Dead") with they unveiled the tie-die 53 banner in the rafters. What a moment.... If I had my way, I would tear this ole' building down... And with that they closed and after that came the wrecking ball on the old gal.
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Nanuk from the North reporting blowing winds.May on its way...sell in May and Go away? Taxes on my Mind. Can't complain, at least the health care is Covered. Right doc? By now my mental health bills would have made me house poor. Socialism communism canadian ism. All I am saying is give peace a chance.
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I've jumped thru the avatar hoops too, and the solution seems to be to do the following: 1) Remove picture from profile. 2) Do not add new picture. 3) Close your computer down. 4) Click your heels three times. 5) Turn your computer on again. 6) Wait 48 hours. 7) Add profile picture. It appears there are avatar gremlins and trolls lurking about, and they quickly replace all new pictures with the old one. The trick is to wait a couple of days, using no picture at all when you post. When you finally do log on and decide to add the picture, the gremlins and trolls have partied, slept, have awoken with groggy minds, and have forgotten about the old picture, allowing your new picture to appear in its rightful place. Good luck...btw, Item #4 is not mandatory, but if it feels right, do it anyway. Disclaimer: Void where prohibited, not valid in states with snow, results may differ, and objects in mirror may be closer than you think...allow 46 weeks for delivery. all the best....and good luck geo
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I overrule... Foul I say... There may be many paths And only one way to rock..... but.... It's the only way back to Kansas, ask Dorothy...the meek.... there's no place like home..... rrrrrgrrrrr out!
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I didn't mess with the spectrum, it messed with me,har har, saw many a show there.
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public service announcement brought to you by geothere'snoplacelikehomemeister. ;D
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LMFAO....... way to bring it.....
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All hail the geotechweeniemeister !! Thank you my brotha !! I will now go avatar-less for a brief spell.... Click... Click.... Click....
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A lost little kid up here named Frank..... Anyone missing a little kid named Frank......? sorry....carry on.... you know it's gonna get stranger....... Tony click them heels thrice....
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And Frankly, I've always wanted to be a weeniemeister.... but methinks I've created a monster...or a legend in his own mind...or a lone ranger...or maybe just a silly signature that strikes a G major chord on the wayfaring dus ribing friends who are whiling away their valuable work and play hours thustly engaged... Thanks guys... geohotdiggitydogwe'rehavingfunnowmeister
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Shirley just got the 3:10 to Yuma... I'll be waiting at the Marriott with Jesus n John Wayne..... RIP Warren Zevon..... almost miss you as much as Jerry......
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Peace and prayers go out to those in chaos. Don't understand the mindset of destruction of property and disruption of innocent lives to make a point "against" the establishment. You are defending the rights of individuals against such crimes by committing worse crimes. Senseless! Violence begets violence. When will people ever learn...(super sad)
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Yessir, despite all the chaos here, you drove the point home.... mean people suck..... just give peace a chance....John Lennon sang that at that Live Peace thing.....eh? Montreal, Ottawa, Saskatoon? Nah that place with Yonge Street, Bay n Bloor.....and all those cool record stores back in the day...... anyway welcome back Mr.Mayor....