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@that was just a dream.....

I fixed my Jerry jones..... Spent some time bonding with a pole, a cool kitty and the Chicago Blackhawks....I'm out another $20 Reminisced over personal losses, celebrated life and new found friends who are all dreamers.... Woke to the sound of the thunder and the rain pouring down, and it looks like the old man is.... ....getting on..... Bye B.B. If anybody sees Lucille give her a hug for me.... Coffee is ready! It's Friday....let's be thankful for all we are blessed with, 'cause as Chandra pointed out... The wheel is merciless night dear Stella...good morning Campers! The Thrill may be Gone But Our Love Will Not Fade Away...... Mmmmmmbop bop, Bop Bop.....

@the blues boy

RIP big blues man

@Dear Jerry, Bob, Phil, Mickey, Billy, Bruce, Jeff, and Trey

Will you be ready for the Sunshine Daydreamers? This ship is damn near ready for sailing! Dear Jerry was a nice warm up listening party on the couch, but we want to hear for the Dreamers who dreamed it! Happy Friday! 6 weeks, 1 day, and 14 hours until showtime in Santa Clara! 7 weeks and 12 until showtime in Chicago! Patch Those Sails and Shine Those Rails! Have a Buzzy Day.

@totes

That smell in the air during Shakedown was just lil ol me doing some late night baking in da Buff!

Not a bad way to spend Thursday

Morning all. Ears Buzzin, head mushin, after show wake up day. Sweet weariness! Had a blast yesterday. Got caught up in the horrible backup on Rt. 29 getting to the show and missed the Shakedown scene and Daydreamers meetup, really sorry guys - next time for sure. Made it to the venue Just as Phil was starting.. I brought my 3 sons (Phil, Spiro, and Costa) to the show - first live Dead related experience for all them - fulfilling a promise to them, and a dream to me. That for me was what the night really ended up being about. I wanted to wait until they were old enough to appreciate the music and not worry if we got separated in the crowd. This was a family bonding night I will treasure forever, especially since they're at or getting to an age when family activities seem fewer and paths are branching off for them. We danced and laughed, pranked and shared post-show pie (cherry crumb). . Jambase has a good rundown of the shows events: http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125076/All-Star-Cast-Honors-Jerry-Garci… (BTW - that's me and Costa's "J" in the first photo - sign was about 15' high) . SPECIAL SHOUTOUT: Who ever started the tin foil hat thread, we made and wore them to the show as a goof, but they are really great for finding each other in a large crowd, and at least ten people told us we were reference points for finding friends. Genius idea!

@Chris....

So glad you had family time at the show....that's what the spirit of the scene is, I remember taking my oldest to 2003 Dead with Hunter and Dylan opening, then in 2009 both of my daughters....it's my boy's turn in Chicago.... Streamed the show vicariously with Totes and Kristine..... Nice set list and overall representation of all that was is and forever will be Jerry... Grab a cup of coffee and remain comfortably numb.... torrent up on bt.etree.org...127 seeds...wicked fast...

a special message from mayor

First, good morning SD group and happy Friday (glad Deer Jerry was a fun success trip for all who went). OK, for the message (you may recognize it, heard it on the way to work this morning and made me think of the 'dreamers): "You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day Lord you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way Turn you love my way, yeah, yeah." ...we're having a high time, living the good life... * brought to you by Mike and Klangtones

Klangfest BBQ

We here in Sactown USA have a skunk problem, they are everywhere. So we have a special entrée this year at the 50th anniversary of the Klangfest. BBQ Skunkburgers. Stallone said, "This is Rat. I'm eating a ratburger. Not bad!" Well, you haven't lived until you've had one of Klang's infamous skunkburgers. The bad smell of a live one somehow transforms into a culinary delight once charred over the Weber. You have to use pinewood to smoke it though, mesquite or hickory just doesn't get it done. You need that pinetar sap to seep into the skunk for the proper flavour to come out. Then top it with bbq sauce and tarter sauce (don't ask, it just works). Happy feasting, see you at the camel ranch...

@skunkbuger

Stink on a bun. That's exactly what I need right now. Bust open the sinuses and revitalize. Better than a big Jolt cola.

on repeat for awhile...

GG with "The Thrill is Gone." Sending my deepest sympathies, Lucille. Such fun listening into Set 2 of Dear Jerry Last night, with excellent company. Watching the scene actually brought a tear to my old eyes (*lol* especially when upside down.) I particularly enjoyed Trampled by Turtles and Yonder Mountain (a banjo Shakedown Street? It was awesome!) Confirmed my thought that we'll all go home Sunday in July humming Ripple. Let there be songs to fill the air! Have a grateful day, all.

@rrrrgrrr

sorry to hear, my condolances.......pass the coffee please, it is Friday, wearing comfey clothes in the mine today, casual fri, on Mondays, we have necktie day (optional) I get to break out one of my Jerry ties from my collection of over 40, I wondered many times when the heck I would ever wear them, now I know, Mondays!

@ Stella

I'll bring you a CD or a file to Chicago I should be able to swing a SB , I also have a nice SB of Del from a couple years ago, Del is great to see, they set up two vocal mics and two instrument mics and dance around them depending on singer, lead instrument etc, it is an old school sight to see and hear!

@booboo, Katniss , and Swannie

Check your emails soon.... Let there be songs to fill the air....indeed.... On its way to #88, Air Canada, and Mr Flinstone as well... Yeah Totes and Mr Ed....you have been Jerrycurled as well Yabba Dabba Doooooooo

Boo & Co.

Love those Jerry ties! I don't have forty, but I have an exclusive collection as I've rid myself of imposters. I get comments all the time "is that a Jerry Garcia tie?" Lol, people know more about the Dead than they let on sometimes. Let's hear it for Fridays! Humping pants are in the hamper, ties in the drawer, and jackets in the closet. A bit of rain for the parched desert and my Rockies finally won a game! Dear Jerry was awesome--the parts I got to see. Still need to take a gander at Scarlet and Shakedown but saw the rest. RIP BB--filled the air with songs from start to end. Have a tin-foily Friday everyone!

@rrrrrgrrrrrr

very nice, sounds way better than audio that was streamed, so lucky to be able to listen to the cans in the mine, Audeze LCD-2's with a little tubed amp, my coworkers laugh at my setup, I also have a CD player on the desk, no one seemed to know what a CD player is anymore, they really bust a gut when I told them I also have a turntable.......

BooBoo....

I am vinyl or flac CD players are coasters here on the Ponderosa...... Blu Ray is another story.... Enjoy my brother in all things Jerry!

@ vinyl

is my preferred choice, the new spring '90 with Branford and the truckin up to Buff sound amazing, have to settle at work, I have a very nice VPI HW 19 MKIII for sale if you know anyone looking.....

@ you know what?

I very well may....

@ MadSwan...

Swanny - so happy for you bro !!!! What a fucking post :-) Gave me chills dude at 33K'. Thanks, man !! TGIF SD famlia - great, safe weekend to all !!

@da Fonz

You back east yet????

Sunshine Daydreamers

Wish I had scored tics to Chicago so I could hang with all you shiny dreamers. It just wasn't in the cards but maybe I'll run into a couple of you in SC. Happy birthday to Wavy Gravy!

@rrrrrrgrrrrr

Getting there bro.... Wheels-down ATL. Board at 3:30 for PBI. Sporting my GD 50th lid baby!!!!

@Oh Atlanta....

Get home pour a cold one, hug the dog....n Lana.... And experience Dear Jerry....... Godspeed....

Hey now Truck...

We got room on the bus, bro !! Seen you post here a bunch. Drop me a PM with your personal email addy if you wanna join this merry bunch of brothers & sisters. Chicago attendance not a prerequisite. Cheers !!

@truckineric

We do glimmer and shine, don't we? I've been surprised you haven't hopped on our little bus, already. Welcome aboard! But, watch out for rgr -- he'll try & make you drive.

@Eric....

pm me your email if you'd like a little electric aural DearJerryCurl.... Curse you woman.....the words change as I read them!,,, Happy Friday Ms. Katniss.... And remember.......You ain't lived til you brived this dus.

@truckineric

As the psueudo-mayor (not Sotomeyer) of SD-land I welcome you with open arms, open beerbelly and open lungs. Not to worry my fellow local constituent, we will find YOU in SC... Next month, man!!! WOOOHOOO, shine those chrome rims....

@Spock....

Listen this is being typed with all due respect that our Mayor deserves....new avatar please? On behalf of your constituents.... Live long and prosper....

@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Your wish is my command... ...but be careful what you wish for...

@wish upon a star....

Send in the clowns....where are the clowns?

dus briver and treckinuric

You may be the dus briver but, I am the ... "Bus Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-der (get up in the morning get on the bus)" Anyone guess who that band is? Are we 40 (forty/forte) strong now????? Long live (and prosperous) the dreamers!

it's a gif

Dang it, it's supposed to move... Arrrgh!

klang bus

exactly whos on first?

@shake it up......

Shake it up now, Klangeree....we will meet you at the Jubilee....and if that jubilee don't come....we will come to Klangstock.....be ready....ample notice given..... re the avatar....jiggle it a little....

YOU'VE GOT MAIL !!!

Check your in-boxes SD'ers.... Weekend Update awaits :-) Cheers !!

@Saturday

Good morning.... Must be getting old here, back in the day I could sleep past noon.... Another weekend upon us that is bound to go slip sliding away..... Coffee is on..... Carpe Diem.....

Cast your Sails and Steer your Rails!

We are in the deep 6's 6 weeks and 11 hours until Santa Clara! 6 weeks, 6 days, 9 hours until Chicago! HAVE A GRATE SATURDAY

Goin' down the road...

Hey SD'ers. What are some of your favorite tricks for getting back on the sunny side of the street? The grind's got me down and I want to howl at the moon... but it's a new moon so she's in hiding. Natural remedies please ;) Should I just call it and listen to Blues 24/7 until it lifts? Blessings on your day. :)

Facepalm

You know what doesn't hurt? Jam of the Week!

@stella

Mmmmmmbop bop ....bop bop

Stella Dear

I would never advocate a quick fix.The time course of getting right is proportional to the duration of the situation that got you down. Nevertheless, In the end there's still that song Comes crying like the wind Down every lonely street That's ever been

@stella blues

Some small thngs I do to turn a frown upside down: do something kind randomly, get outside for a walk, bubble bath, watch mr bean, stand on your head or stretch upside down off your bed for a bit. Drink water...

Water!!

I have a whole theory about water and "the way things go." I really ought to test it. I just need to set an hourly alarm to remember to drink the stuff! :) Thank you family!! <3

I wept for Jerry

Just a few weeks ago, and for the first time, I shed real tears for Garcia's death.I had been a lapsed Deadhead after seeing some lackluster shows in the early 80's, and back when I first learned of Jerry's death, I sighed and shrugged; I lamented more how he had contributed to his own demise, than on what he meant. Thank goodness for the Internet Archive: it has brought me all the way back to a seat near the front of the bus. Only with the passage of time do I fully appreciate the towering musical accomplishment of the band. Reveling in all of those recordings, totally independent of the "scene", has validated for me that that those magic moments were as authentic an experience of transcendence as any person has ever had. And so recently when it came to picturing myself saying to another one of you beautiful people, "I miss Jerry", it really moved me, thinking he gave so much of himself to so, so many people, and how much life he fit into his 53 years. Praise be to the source of all Love.

@grace...

Beautifully said my brother... And I'll never forget that day when I first heard the news in '95. One of those moments/times & place of where you were, that one never forgets.

@Sunday mourning coming down....

I just read your post Graceful....and I am crying like a little girl..... 8/9/95....at work, saving lives and a co worker comes up to me and said, Jerry is dead.... I walked around in a fog the rest of the day....when I found out Bobby had Ratdog on the road and didn't cancel his tour.....I wrote him out of my life....selfish SOB I thought.... I boycotted all things post dead until 2003 when the Dead announced the 2003 tour with Herring and Joan....sat 12th row with my then 15 yo daughter, saw Hunter, Dylan and the Boys.... Opened with a long jam into Music Never Stopped>Casey Jones.... Back on the bus....since....in a very obsessed and some would call sick way....since then both parents died, and despite my wonderful wife of 31 years and 3 magnificent children....here I sit crying... ....there's something about a Sunday, makes a body feel alone.... I too Miss Jerry, and my parents....and you guys who I feel like I know.... disclaimer .....second anniversary of my dads passing.... I'll be better tomorrow...promise.... Coffee is on....

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March 29, 2015 - 1:21pm

#4471

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@gods of Magog

Hey you...yeah you stop swarming around...back on the path.... Ya know Fred...gotta keep them on the path! At a honky tonk...guess Jerry was wrong...found one open on Palm Sunday Rock on children
March 29, 2015 - 12:56pm

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@tom

With the gods of Magog... In unison... So glad you made it!!!! Welcome!!!
March 29, 2015 - 12:25pm

#4473

tom hanlon

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January 28, 2015

I am here, now, just like Ram Das said..

Hi you all, I am here, I am reading but every time I go to post I start to ramble, then I wander and then I get distracted so I come back to an hour old post and I never click "post" So this will be short yet hopefully I will actually post it :-) I love the rggrrrr suppers ready stuff, makes me want to go see Steve Hackett from Genesis. Phil is playing with my favorite non-hippie guitarist Bill Frissel on April 22 or something. Bill Frisell is really something he plays big fat melodic notes and makes great use of pauses and space. Check him out, my favorite is "good dog happy man" but his John Lennon tribute is pretty wonderful. If I lived in Cali (hint hint to Klang, I would go to that show at TRX) I nearly went for it myself, the flight was $350, the car rental out of SFO would be brutal, and to visit Marin, or point Reyes or drive through Napa would be wonderful. My patient wife could only make a 3 day trip out of it, so the 10 hours or more in travel each way made the trip seem way to brutal. You do not rush a visit to Marin. Madness and adventure is fine, but it is way more relaxing when you have all the time in the world with no pressure except the next show. Anyhow, I am trying to quit obsessing on this thing and enjoy the spring. Things will most certainly work out. I am lucky that the experience of tour has helped create the courage in me to follow a path that has led me to an opportunity to do at least some of this 50 year celebration. Whatever burdens I have taken on they seem to be out of my way for a stretch of time. woo Hoo for that !!! So with a positive vibe I may try to spend less than 2 hours a day searching for tickets, hoping for news and all of that. See some of you at Dear Jerry.. Yeow!!!! -- Tom
March 29, 2015 - 11:18am

#4474

seeing red

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$300/day

Just sold, 3-day obstructed view pass for $900. Not sure if it was a legit ticket or not, but none-the-less prices are still dropping.
March 29, 2015 - 8:52am

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it looks like Palm Sunday!

and also to you....
March 29, 2015 - 8:49am

#4476

tfonts

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re: Totes and rrrrrgrrrrr....

What would a morning be with out our daily Totem greet and rrrrrgrrrrr menu item(s) :-) Happy and blessed Palm Sunday to all !!
March 29, 2015 - 7:07am

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Totem

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September 29, 2007

Rise and Shine Sunshine Daydreamers

Only 96 days until showtime. 96 inverted is 69, yin and yang, tangoing fish, Pisces. Wildflower seeds are planted. May the four winds blow us safely home.
March 29, 2015 - 6:08am

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Rastafariii!

Coffee is on... Trying something new today... Fried plantains... Herbal tea from Grandma's Tea Room in Negril... Make yourselves at home, and I know you will.... Goin' out back to do some cliff diving!!! if anyone sees Totem, remind him to trim the sails and shine the rails....and all that other stuff he does Irie....
March 28, 2015 - 3:12pm

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for your dining pleasure...

courtesy of Totem... varmint stew, sausage gravy with buttermilk biscuits and collard greens, Cain's bringing pecan pie... Supper's Ready.... Off to see the Wizard!!! See you all in the am, having Jamaican Me Crazy roasted coffee ....fresh ground.... Peace peeps...
March 28, 2015 - 11:29am

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Totem

....he's a regular Lord Byron Back to the old grind....on the Dark Side of the Moon... Hey you, yeah YOU get back on the path!!!! On my way to ask Alice....I think she'll know!!!