Grateful Dead

Don't forget Mr. Lee Scratch Perry!I'd recommend "Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle" and "Sound System Scratch", Dub Plate Mixes 1973-1979. After all, without Lee Scratch Perry's work with a very young Bob Marley, would Bob Marley & the Wailers ever have existed? I don't think so.

I hope it wasn't something I said :DGood to see you back my brother.. Wise words from a wise man. Whenever something like this happens (which seems to be way, way too often), I always think of the song New Speedway Boogie. This Darkness Got To Give... and it will. Keep the peace y'all and have a great weekend.

welcome back my broto the nutty nutty Deadhead show

A while ago I dropped out for a bitChanged my moniker............however I am FloridaBobaloo. In case it matters............ Have a safe weekend y'all.

so incredibly sad and frustrating. Joseph Campbell said the GD are the antidote to the atom bomb. We use that antidote for many things in our daily lives. "Be kind". simple words of wisdom.

May I suggest if you see Blue, thank them for the job they do. Blue never knows what the next 5 minutes could bring, yet they do the job to keep us safe.Tell Blue Thank You.

Hey bro, I attended RFK '73 with the GD & ABB. The crusher is, we had to get home Sunday to keep our 15-yr-old lives together, so we caught the Dead in the afternoon, the Allmans that Saturday night and had to hitchhike a couple hundred miles home on Sunday and missed the big one. The situation on Saturday was classic for the day -- a lot of LSD making the rounds (we brought our own 4-way blotter) -- and a very long, hot day with inadequate water for maybe 15,000 people? We had no food, no money, just a few spleefs and the blotter. The GD were great all afternoon (many tales told in this space in the past) and then the ABB really blew the roof off the place that night, when it cooled down and we all re-approached humanity (and re-upped on the blotter). We were veterans by that time (I'd seen my first show in fall '72); I was still 3 months shy of my 16th b-day. Looking back, however, it was a bit of a maelstrom and, in those days, the liquid lady was everywhere and large crowds could get a bit freaky. As in, we learned early to hang back from the front because the L-buzz was almost audible and, being kids, the crush of people seemed perilous. Yet we thought nothing of hitchhiking a couple hundred miles in t-shirts and jeans (stuffed with illicits) to catch the Dead. My folks saw my determination and, because I had an affinity for hitchhiking hundreds of miles to go solo backpacking at that time, they figured (I guess) that I could handle myself. Apart from getting hassled occasionally for our long hair (this was smack in the middle of Vietnam), we mostly met with kindness... Sooo... like I never caught Jimi Hendrix in person, although I started listening to him in '69, the deal is, if we had gotten out there any younger -- or, to the point, if you had -- we'd all be much crisper fry-babies than we are anyway. Your dad sounds like a wise man to escort you in '95. Back on June 9, 1973, things were ... different.

...for this corner if you please! The weather cleared a bit last night, enough for me to ride the scoot down to Norwich to catch a little NRPS. Go see these guys whenever they play near you, you won't be disappointed- it seems like they're touring everywhere, all the time. On my way back through Hamilton (site of DaP12) Syracuse Symphoria was playing on the village green and must've been balls deep into the 1812 Overture, as all the church bells in town were going ape shit. It sounded like a million car alarms all going off at once. Ya just gotta love songs about dope smuggling (and growing). EV’RY YEAR ALONG ABOUT THIS TIME IT ALL GOES DRY THERE’S NOTHING ROUND FOR LOVE OR MONEY THAT’LL GET YOU HIGH HENRY GOT PISSED OFF AND SAID HE’D RUN TO MEXICO TO SEE IF HE COULD COME BACK HOLDIN’ TWENTY KEYS OF GOLD NOW THE ROAD TO ACAPULCO IS VERY HARD INDEED AND IT ISN’T ANY BETTER IF YOU HAVEN’T ANY WEED HENRY’S DRIVING HARD AND STRAIGHT ON TWISTY MOUNTAIN ROADS THERE’S FIFTY PEOPLE WAITING BACK AT HOME FOR HENRY’S LOAD AND NOW HE’S ROLLIN’ DOWN THE MOUNTAIN GOING FAST, FAST, FAST AND IF HE BLOWS IT THIS ONE’S GONNA BE HIS LAST RUN TO ACAPULCO TO TURN THE GOLDEN KEYS HENRY KEEP THE BRAKES ON FOR THIS CORNER IF YOU PLEASE HENRY GOT TO MEXICO AND TURNED HIS TRUCK AROUND HE’S TALKING TO THE MAN WHO HAS IT GROWING FROM THE GROUND HENRY TASTED, HE GOT WASTED, COULDN’T EVEN SEE HOW HE’S GONNA DRIVE LIKE THAT IS NOT TOO CLEAR TO ME AND NOW HE’S ROLLIN’ DOWN THE MOUNTAIN GOING FAST, FAST, FAST AND IF HE BLOWS IT THIS ONE’S GONNA BE HIS LAST RUN TO ACAPUCO TO TURN THE GOLDEN KEYS HENRY KEEP THE BRAKES ON FOR THIS CORNER IF YOU PLEASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON TIJUANA IS A LOVELY TOWN BULLFIGHT BRINGS THE TOURISTS AND THEIR MONEY FLOWING DOWN THE BORDER GUARDS ARE MUCH TOO BUSY THERE AT FIVE O’ CLOCK HENRY’S TRUCKIN’ RIGHT ON THROUGH, HE HARDLY EVEN STOPPED (REPEAT CHORUS)

I'm with you on the NRPS. I enjoy their last two albums also, Where I Come From and 17 Pine Avenue. Quite a few Hunter/Nelson songs on these. The songwriting and playing is relevant, the albums quite good. I look at the recent years as somewhat a renaissance for these old time country rockers.. They are still out there delivering the goods and David Nelson is playing like a young god. A good band to see live and you might just catch a dead tune or two... Great call catching the scoot to Norwich.

I have the unfortunate luck of being born too late. I only got to see the boys once, 6/25/95, RFK. A show much maligned and rightly so in some ways, but to me, as a 15-year old with my father, (who would not allow me to attend a GD concert without parental guidance as he was at 73 RFK, oh.... to be a time-traveler...,) this show was THAT GD life changing moment. I remember before the show talking to my older step-brother, who had seen MANY shows from the early 80's onward, and he asked me what song I would like hear. I responded 'Ship of Fools,' and he laughed, saying "good luck with that.' I razzed him a bit in the parking lot afterwards, (they had much better seats than me and my dad.) On a side note, my dad and I went to the Fare Thee Well shows together, which was a nice way to say goodbye and close the circle... Anyway, I got heavily into Phish afterwards, and have seen them over 100 times since 96' (Hershey, 8/14/96 was my first.) That band filled the smoking crater that the GD had left for me in a lot of ways, but as I have gotten older, I find myself listening to the Dead more than my 'other' boys. I am getting married in the fall, so this is the first summer that my lady and I are not seeing Phish, and I am bummed that I'm not going back to that magical place that is a Phish concert, (or mini-tour, which is my favorite thing to do in the summer-time.) DMB - I saw them around 20 or so times in the 90s, and I thought they were the damn bee's knees, until the album 'Everyday' and the show I saw at RFK in 2000. Ben Harper opened, (whose first three albums are killer, IMHO.) That show was SO BAD, and the crowd was so obnoxious, that even I, as a 20-year old, said "F'It." I also thought that Dave's music got pretty bad... There are maybe two good songs on 'Everyday', (again, just my opinion.) Then 'Busted Stuff' was so over-produced and terrible, I simply stopped paying attention. I remember liking 'The Lilywhite Sessions,' but I still don't know if I would pop it into my iPOD anytime soon. To this day though, DMB will always remind me of getting to various bases with my first girlfriend, memories I will treasure till the end. Finally, My Morning Jacket has been my favorite band of the recent crop, and they SMOKE! I got the chance to see them at Radio City, among many other places, (including Maryland's own beautiful Merriweather,) and they have always put on a ROCK show for me. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you are interested, I would suggest 'At Dawn' for more of an Alt-Country/Neil Young-ish feel, and 'It Still Moves,' which simply kicks ass. Jim James is so talented. Also, let's not forget about the beauty of The Flaming Lips throughout the 90's and early 00's. I still believe they have more to give... Peace, and if you read all of this, thank you. I have been hanging out with a friend name Jim (Beam) and he tends to make me a little too talkative...