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    @ Yeah, the worst is over now
    Blue Skies, sunshine, birds are singing... Marvelous, simply marvelous darling! doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all And though my lack of education Hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my Kodachrome away If you took all the girls I knew When I was single And brought them all together for one night I know they'd never match my sweet imagination Everything looks worse in black and white
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    Good Morning Miami....
    And a glorious Friday it is indeed....More coffee.... Let's let the Cyrkle have the floor.... I should have known you'd bid me farewell There's a lesson to be learned from this and I learned it very well Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball You never care for secrets I confide For you I'm just an ornament, somethin' for your pride Always runnin', never carin', that's the life you live Stolen minutes of your time were all ya had to give And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball The story's in the past with nothin' to recall I've got my life to live and I don't need you at all The roller-coaster ride we took is nearly at an end I bought my ticket with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball Oh, oh, oh I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball
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    Hey Now, Happy Friday
    Good morning beautiful people, glad to have everyone aboard this makeshift raft. I got a song it ain't got no melody... I'm gonna sing it to my friends. Will it go round in circles?
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    Play a song for me
    Coffee's on...Friday morning sun coming up...Just me and the pups rocking this morning... Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels To be wanderin' I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way I promise to go under it.
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    @Lisa.....
    Geeky you are indeed correct, once you are part of it you can't go back. We are a unique breed. Kind, tolerant, accepting. The spirit of Jerry is still alive and well.... As long as we allow it to be so..... As Neil said.... First time I heard "Lie A Rolling Stone" I felt that magic and took it home Gave it a twist and made it mine But nothing was as good as the very first time Poetry rollin' off his tongue Like Hank Williams chewin' bubble gum Askin me "how does it feel?" Rollin down the road in a dream of mine Two lane tour through a state of mind. Singin in the place where I first saw Roy Playin that place gave me so much joy Flash bulbs poppin' at the stage door Brand new song with familiar chords All the time lookin for somethin' new Walkin with the devil on a twisted road Listenin to the Dead on the radio That old time music esed to soothe my soul If I ever get home I'm gonna let the good times roll Coffee is on.....
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    @Safe Harbor
    For me there will never be anything like FTW. The music was amazing! The stadium was lit as if from an eternal flame. But as I ponder my experience I only remember the music as it relates to the people. Thousands swaying to Ripple in perfect time. SDD family all around me. Teaching me about the music. Sharing the vibe. Becoming family... Althea hugs and high fives! Locking eyes with Chuck walking up the stairs then they start playing Built to Last... Listening to the music. Sharing the vibe. Family all around me. I want to thank each and every one of you.. For sharing the music For sharing your time For catching my tears For sharing my joys I think I'm a Dead Head I know I miss Jerry I love you all!
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    amen.thanks for the tip on Crack the Sky...I literally have not heard anything of them in nearly 40 yrs...when I was still in Baltimore
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    @Crack the Sky.....
    Hey now mkav..... Crack the Sky were a staple on WNEW-FM in the mid 70's.....love them, still play regularly in Baltimore.... They aren't as well known as Queen, but they should be....they are just as good......still making music as well.....check out their live release....Alive and Kicking Ass.....amazing And that's why we are the Dreamers....we have a common bond.....music......
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    CRACK THE SKY????? holy cow
    I thought I was the only one in the world anymore who had even HEARD of them. I can remember their being at a campus event in a venue that generally had bad cover bands who butchered the stones and other popular rock acts of the time. We did not know what to make of these guys, except they were different, and good! I don't recall specifics, as that was long ago...
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    it's your party and you can cry if you want to..... don't, it's way overrated..... -'What you gonna do when you get out of jail? ' "I'm gonna have some fun" -'What do you consider fun? ' "Fun, Natural Fun." I'm in heaven With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend. There's no beginning and there is no end. Time isn't present in that dimension. He'll take my arm When we're walkin', rolling and rocking. It's one time I'm glad I'm not a man. Feels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleeping. I'm in heaven With the maven of funk mutation Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins Raise expectations to a new intention No one can sing Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson Wailin' and skankin' to Bob Marley Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie Ipsimama... Ipsimama All the weekend Boyfriend was missing I surely miss him The way he'd hold me in his warm arms We went insane when we took cocaine. ...[foreign language]... Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow. Who needs to think when your feet just go? With a hiditihi and a hipitiho Who needs to think when your feet just go Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Who needs to think when your feet just go Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon James Brown, James Brown James Brown, James Brown If you see him Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend. Well he's the genius of love He's got a greater depth of feeling Well he's the genius of love He's so deep This is not a contest....no one wins.....it's lifes journey......
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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....