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  • johnman
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    i believe it has more p's and a number of l's, and i never said that you said what you said IF you said so...........HA! and yes, if you must know, i AM a nut and, occasionaly, a freak, not by de fact tho, i just are (arr!)
  • MarkintheDark
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    Another correction!
    It was Hunter that suggested they not use a gun photo, and the album was Beauty (the conviction Hunter mentions is non-violence): "Sometimes, adds Hunter, it was difficult to hold on to that conviction. "When American Beauty came out," he says, "there was a photograph due to go on the back which showed the band with pistols. They were getting into guns at the time, going over to Mickey's ranch, target shooting. It wasn't anything revolutionary; they were just enjoying shooting pistols. For example, we got a gold record and went and shot it up. "I saw that photo and that was one of the few times that I ever really asserted myself with the band and said, 'No -- no picture of a band with guns on the back cover.' These were incendiary and revolutionary times, and I did not want this band to be making that statement. I wanted us to counter the rising violence of that time. I knew that we had a tool to do it, and we just didn't dare go the other way. Us and the Airplane: We could have been the final match that lit the fuse, and we went real consciously the other way." " It is an excerpt from the book Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents By Mikal Gilmore I was just scanning articles, not really reading (at least I got the gold record thing right). I'll stop now. Bye! ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
  • MarkintheDark
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    Correction to my post above.
    Change that BMW to a Mercedes. Thanks. ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
  • MarkintheDark
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    Never said it did, johnman
    I never said owning a gun made one a nut or a freak (and the Nuge has called himself a "gun nut"). I did say that that Popper was a "gun freak", and I think (a) having a car full of secret compartments with four rifles and nine handguns is pretty freaky, and (b) Popper would probably agree with me. Next time I see him, I'll ask him. In a brightly lit place so he won't have to wear the night-vision goggles! The more I think about it, I'm sure I read at the time of the bust Garcia had a gun in the car when he got busted (and I remember being impressed with what kind of gun it was), and I seem to remember the car being a BMW. I never said the gun wasn't registered, I was just surprised that somebody with the reputation of being one of the Founding Fathers of peace-loving hippie-folk had a gun, and I remember being amused that he drove a Beamer like a yuppie. That whole "twenty something bags of coke and heroin" thing I just took for granted (and as an aside: gun or not, you all have to admit he got off incredibly light - rehab and a charity show. If he'd have been an unfamous black guy in Watts he would have been charged with big-ass felony distribution and just be getting out of prison about now). Earlier tonight as I was trying to find an article that said what kind of gun it was I read a piece of an interview with Garcia that mentioned a time when all the guys (Pigpen was still alive) were getting into going out in the country and shooting guns. Shot up a gold record, according to the article. Apparently some of them wanted to have a photo on the back of some album with all of them posed with their firearms; Jerry was against this as he felt it sent the wrong message. I don't remember the exact location of the article, but if you google "jerry garcia golden gate park arrest gun" it should be on the first page of hits. Sorry if I offended any gun owners, but if you're reading this you are de facto a freak anyway so spbspbspbspb (that was a raspberry, I forget how one's spelled) :^) Cheers, MarkintheDark ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
  • c_c
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    Jan. 18, 1985 Garcia got busted in GG Park with h and coke in his car, while he was freebasing. I am not sure and never heard if he had a gun in the car or not, but if he did, I reckon the gun was legal. or for some reason he wasn't charged with it.... peace.
  • johnman
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    sorry friends, but
    owning firearms does not make you a " nut " or a " freak ". however, i do know some nuts and freaks that own guns. then i also know alot of nuts and freaks that listen to the grateful dead.
  • MarkintheDark
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    Surprised the hell outta me
    I mean, you look at Ted Nugent and "gun nut" comes naturally to mind, but Popper, not so much. And he wasn't just carrying a gun, he had an *arsenal*. Night vision goggles? WTF. Personal protection is one thing, I'm all about that, but night vision goggles are for soldiers and assassins - I don't think they're legal for hunting, and the article I read didn't even mention hunting. It would be interesting to find out just what kinda guns they were - hell, nine pistols that's like "one of each kind there is". When I read it that scene of the Terminator in the gun store came to mind. I seem to remember when Garcia got busted in Golden Gate Park he was carrying some kinda gun, and being surprised about it. Then again, given the drugs he was doing and the quantities it's not really surprising. I think Popper just likes to smoke a little week and then shoot shit. Cheers, TigerLilly, hope things are going well over there across the Big Water MarkintheDark ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
  • TigerLilly
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    Agree Markinthedark
    Popper on harp is absolutely mind-blowing, or for me anyhow. His control and timing and rhythm-oof! Whole band is pretty tight actually. Gun freak thing sounds nasty to me, but somehow not such a suprise to read. ********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
  • MarkintheDark
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    Popper's among the best harp players
    Popper had a heart attack and ended up getting gastric bypass surgery. He's a gun freak. His wikipedia article says when he got pulled over for speeding in 2007 and the cops found a small amount of weed and a pipe they also found "The vehicle had a stash of hidden compartments which contained four rifles, nine handguns, a switchblade knife, a Taser, a set of brass knuckles, and night vision goggles". He didn't get charged for any of the weapons, they were all registered and locked away (and I assume unloaded), but the cops kept the knucks and the switchblade since they are illegal. He'll carry a gun where it's legal, even on stage. Let that be a lesson to ya: don't rush the stage, he'll pop a cap in yo' ass, or light ya up with that Taser! ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
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    am quite sure! John Popper-kick ass harp player who used to be heavy, but slimmed down considerably it seems, when caught em at Lollapalooza in hmmm 2006??? Guess is all up to perspective what we consider to be "blast from the past", as was heavily into Blues Traveller at LEAST 10 years ago. Perhaps mine just so fast moving, that that seems like ages??? :-) "Once upon a midnight weary, I woke with something in my head"---see not confused, especially as I have no clue who Bluesbreakers are. ???¿¿¿!!!¡¡¡ ********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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continuing the free-form from where we left it...
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I'm not one of them, I just pointed out that they ALL aren'tracist right wingnuts.
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and Lilly, you didn't really expect a "straight" answer to your question, didja?? these days I might be feeling a bit "bent" but my old lady is helping me `getting it all straightened out' ( -: hey now GIGI!! been missing you and everyone, time I should be heading back into David's VDO land... missing riding with you and the Bus et al. see ya on the other side of the rabbit hole, my sister. hope to catch up sooner rather than later. one day at a tiime, keep on keeping on. p.s. RIO 2016!!! capoeira y samba mucho gusto! the kids they dance and shake their..... love & peace.
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Rider and Bus sightings here few and far between nowadays. Iknow the lady has her hands full nowadays. Bus parks only over yonder now.********************************** Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
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thanks for the potato song again - Dark HalR, just had some great ones for supper. Just shared the song with my wife. But actually I live in Washington which is now the onion state. Am about 30 miles from the Idaho border. But we do grow yummy potatoes here. Ate my Washington potato with Washington onions. The Walla Walla sweet onion was designated our state vegetable in 2007. The potato growers wanted it to be the potato and the potato and onion farmer's lobbies each lobbied at the state house to have their vegetables made the official state vegetable. It was a close call but the Walla Walla sweet won. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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the thought of potato farmers and onion farmers duking it out in the state house for the right to be state vegetable. So funny it brings tears to my eyes! heheh
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that our state dance is the square dance. I can just see it now, next time at the Gorge when the Dead play, thousands of Washington Deadheads square dancing away. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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that our state fossil is the Columbian Mammoth? banana slug, lol If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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that our state saint is Jimi Hendrix? If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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bytheby, hal. giving credit where it is due, the title, "Dark Hal R" was an original idea come up by the Badger. hope your wife dug it. meanwhile, since i only got re-runs left inside of me here, I'll do a bit of one-up-manship with the badger: Cosmic Badger Cosmic Badger what's up with you You travel so far, that's what you do To 'WhereverthefuckitisStan' you flew Go on home, Mrs Badger's calling you Cooking up a pot of badger stew Light the fire -- put it under you Out the window a Great Tit flew Go on home, Mrs Badger's calling you Now you have just one more chance We all wanna see the Badger dance Trippin out and in a trance Poke my eyes, with a lance Meeting you in an airport bar Looking at the sky we see Dark Star Drinking beers all during the day My ears are clogged, 'what did you say?' You said you're a badger or are you a skunk Don't really know but there's a funk Is it you or is it me? Don't know, but CC's gotta pee CC Joe, the cops are on to you You are taking so damn long in the loo What you got there in your hand? What comes out is dry like sand You're feeling that 'itch' aren't you? Your old lady knows what you wanna do Poor old CC, please don't feel blue Turning her back she's just stalling you Stalling you Stalling you Stalling you Stalling you Maybe later, she says with a sigh Old CC is starting to cry No worries, mate. She's joking with you Get in bed, she says to you Get in bed, she'll be kind to you Get in bed, she'll be kind to you Get in bed, she'll be kind to you KIND TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love a good food fight during Farm Aid.
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And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually Gee, I didn't know Jimi received Washington sainthood? Everyday I eat my favorite apple, the Gala, your state fruit. My habanerro chili contains your state vegetable: a Walla Walla onion. Odds say that the goldfinch will fly over the banana slug, though.
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Farm Aid? Fans or musicians? I'll bet Willie was pissed, or maybe laughing. love the one your with
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as in drunk, or pissed as in perturbed?********************************** Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
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I was just referring to the virtual food fight occuring in this blog. Oh and by the way, I prefer the term "referring" as in you get high through the kindness of a stranger rather than the one where you point at someone. What would Willie Do?
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between the farmers at Farm Aid. I would want to have apples, peaches and corn on the cob, maybe a few melons. Would be very hard for the rice and wheat farmers to win in a food fight with their grains. But maybe then the wheat farmers would start chasing everyone around with those giant tractors and combines. What Would Wille Do? If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Willie? he'd smoke and chuckle me thinks. this is actually a prettygood interview, enjoy: peace.
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I meant pissed as in perturbed that people would be fighting at his show, I doubt Willie gets "pissed" as in drunk anymore. Hal R,'s post really cracked me up. All you really need...
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That was irony!********************************** Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
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everyone seems to be asking "what would Willie do?" I believe he would just light up another & keep on puffing.......
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write a song about it
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*** "I had a hard run" back when I was about 14/15, I ran the NYC marathon... way too hung over from partying the night before, got to the Staten Island side of the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge really late, sparking up to take the edge off... anyways, immediately after the race started I was the last of the runners. It was frigging embarrassing, I was literally fucking LAST coming off the 59th Street bridge, heading up First Ave, all through the Bronx, back down, and into Central Park, I was frigging last. Most of the crowd was actually cheering me on really loudly and supportively, yelling 'yo tie dye go!!' This guy in front of me, second to last, was making fun of me the whole way through the last few miles. With the finish line in sight, this mook says to me: "Hey kid, how does it feel to be last?" . I says: "You want to know?" and I dropped out. ( -; peace. (jojo the fish era)
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that is sweet. really sweet nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
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right on cc!!
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a tale in the category of: don't mess with the hippies freaks. ( -: peace.
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Your president got the Nobel price for Peace. S.V.P. Give him time.From "un voisin du Québec". Richard.
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Happy Birthday to the memory of John Lennon, 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980. You changed my life and woke me up. Imagine. Give Peace a Chance. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Thanks Hal for the your post. And thank you, cc for the clips. I never thought that this evening I would be sitting here honoring the memory of John Lennon. Thank you, again.
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Knock Knock . Who's there? . Al Most . Al Most who ? . . Al Most 100 pages in this thread! . ( -: ©2009 cc joe; AKA: CC Giuseppe; AKA: CC Zeppe; AKA: CC Jose; AKA: Jose Carlos Calio Hernandez Leal Delgado Sanz Fernández Luna Galván Los Muertos Agradecidos Pesce Bienvenuto; AKA: Joe Pesce; AKA:Jojo the Fish; AKA:Joey Fish; AKA: Joe Bienvenuto; AKA: Joe Welcome.
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Knock Knock . Who's there? . Anita . Anita who ? . . Anita some new jokes. ) -; . . ©2009 cc joe; AKA: CC Giuseppe; AKA: CC Zeppe; AKA: CC Jose; AKA: Jose Carlos Calio Hernandez Leal Delgado Sanz Fernández Luna Galván Los Muertos Agradecidos Pesce Bienvenuto; AKA: Joe Pesce; AKA:Jojo the Fish; AKA:Joey Fish; AKA: Joe Bienvenuto; AKA: Joe Welcome.
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Hi! I miss you!! So good to see your funny posts!! :) Keep sharing the LOVE! Peace xo