Grateful Dead

What dont you get vguy?

Juss askin

Makes a hard man humble

80s pop song reference

....who doesn't get the 30 Days Of Dead? I mean. I just don't get it.
Jim. Still on the Rush references. Lol.
Regarding bears. Went camping years ago with a friend in Yosemite. Packed his boombox (yeah. That long ago) into our tent. I asked him why? "Because bears don't like loud music."
Sure enough, a bear was snuffling around in the early hours. I smelled it before I heard it. Cue Metallica's Ride The Lightning. Bear gone. Vguy checking his shorts.

Ha

Can't argue with reason.

I'm a major train guy.. how could I not see that?

‘Train Wreck’ has only good memories.
Ask KF.

What this mess needs is Jimmy Buffett.

“Wasting away again in Customer Service land.
Searching for my lost package of DaP32.
Some people say there’s a warehouse to blame.
But I know, it’s not my damn fault.”

Customer Service, Train Wrecked to Bangkok?

Bear got his nickname because he was a hairy, hairy dude.. he was also (I think) a trained dancer.. so when he twirled, which he did.. there was a bit of a strange aura about it (imagine that). A psychedelically, awkwardly graceful twirler perhaps. To Cone Kids point, the dancing bear was born first appearing on the cover of Bears Choice.

If I got any of this wrong.. feel free to add

Bear’s Choice, the album.
The bears are on the cover.

Got me again Jimbo. I'm as gullible as they come.

Speaking of bears, my daughter asked me when the Grateful Dead bears became part of the Grateful Dead culture. I don't rightly know. I don't know if that is how today's discussion got started but I only turned into the last couple posts here. I know the Steel Your Face logo is been around since the early 70s, and obviously Bertha AKA skull and roses has been around for just about as long. I assume the turtles came along with Terrapin Station, not that I've seen one on the front cover.... Wait that's Shakedown Street nevermind. Don't mind me I've never listened to a studio Dead record except for the 5.1 surround sound American Beauty that Uncle Gary gave me. And of course I've heard the three big ones off of in the dark and I love them, as well as Foolish Heart. But I'm way off track here.

What I came here to say is there is Les Dark Star in the 46 minute version from December 6th 1973 than there is from this Philly Spectrum show. I listen to that puppy twice through today and with the exception of about two or three minutes of the first verse, the rest of it has no more to do with Dark Star then the Philly Jam track that precedes the 4-minute Dark Star on this new Dave's Picks. It had been a while since I put that one on and I decided I was going to get down with it today. It's still 43:33 minutes of pick my face up off of the floor Fender Rhodes / Wolf extravaganza. Plus a few DaP 9 Jim-type nightmarish atonal meltdowns (sequentially speaking they weren't that far off from each other).

I'll tell you what else I did. And stop me if I mention this because I did this last week wants too. I listen to the other one, Parts 1 2 and 3 in sequential order with crossfades in between so that it made one big other one. May 3rd 1972. It's a different kind of experience. You should try it sometime. Naturally I proceeded it with Trucking and succeeded it with Wharf rat so it was all good.

That’s where I think Customer Service moved. Bangkok.

It would be funny if the spambots started using Rush references to get KF’s attention.
KF = potassium fluoride.