Grateful Dead

Those colored ones, our mascots......
Those are the ones I like. They’re always super friendly and ready to party.

As a kid I saw a show bear (might have been at Autorama in early 80’s), don’t remember if he danced, did tricks, or both. But at the end he got a 12 oz glass bottle of Pepsi which he guzzled in 2-3 seconds.

In re-reading my last bear post, it sounds a bit cruel.. so some explanation might help. I was afraid that the bears would become too accustomed to people which ultimately invites harm to both species. My friends kept trying to convince me to get a gun.. I thought fireworks would instill a little fear of humans into the bears without causing any harm. So it was with the best of intentions I purposely aimed whistling bottle rockets at the bears. I think it worked out pretty well in the end, no bears were harmed. Also, for what it's worth, the bear that charged me ended up being euthanized as by the time I got to him, he wasn't too afraid of people and kept charging them (us). But there were a lot of cubs that hopefully grew up with either a fear of humans or a love of fireworks.

My father was an inveterate wildlife feeder and the black bears would come up on his deck, balance gracefully on the 6" wide railing and munch the birdfeed. My father was not inclined to discourage it and there were no problems, but I have some pictures of him standing on the deck a couple feet from the bear sitting on the railing and that was not an unusual occurrence.

You've got real bears in MT. MD bears like honey and beer.. they'll even hang out if you let em..

I lived in a rental when I first moved here that had a bear problem.. probably from decades of slackers not dealing with their trash. I would see them every day, it's usually fine unless you scare them or they scare you. I did get charged twice though, freak run-ins.. I found fireworks make great bear prophylactics.. they don't like whistling bottle rockets especially when you aim that at them. Of course these are gentle Eastern black bears and don't have the temper of the browns....

I heard a bear joke some time ago. Guy goes into a gun store in Montana and tells the clerk he wants the biggest, most powerful revolver they have. The clerk asks him what he plans to use it for and the guy explains that he wants in case he runs into a grizzly bear while hiking. The clerk shakes his head and says, no, what you want is a really small revolver for that. The guy asks how that makes any sense and the clerk explains, well, you want something small because after you shoot that grizzly with your revolver, he's gonna take that gun and shove it up your ass.

Definitely a head scratcher on what is going on at Dead.net. Bottom line is this is no way to run a business, we all know that. I have been bit by this bug as well and won't bore you with the details, but it falls in lines with the others here. No delivered product and no responses from customer service. This is a Rhino issue and not a Grateful Dead Productions issue, as they sold their rights to Rhino to run all aspects of this business. Clearly, this is not running well.
Crap, I can remember not too long ago I could hop on the phone and talk to Dead.net customer service and have them explain to me the differences between Flac files and Alac and how to manage both. Now, no way, they can't even tell you why you haven't received your order.

Of course my fear is that some day they will just throw their hands up and say the end is near. I hope that day never comes because there is so much more great music to release.
On that long note, peace to all!

Well, we can't blame them for liking beer. Honestly.. that sounds like a cool trip.

Saint Rhino strikes a pose
in and out with our dollars he goes
shipping problems, grumbling w' pain
with every release at least one'll complain

or something like that

Derpsareuss Shipping Company, how may I delete your call?

sorry for the problems y'all

please let it never happen to me

Maybe that will get Rhino’s attention.

You are correct, GD/Rhino does not give a shit about you personally, they just crave your money. They are basically testing the waters to see how extensively they can screw us over, while still getting us to keep sending them money.

The warehouse excuse is just that, an excuse for ripping you off while trying to place the blame somewhere else so that you will continue to send them money.

If the GD Organization did actually care about us, the fans and paying customers, they would issue a statement apologizing for the repeated screw ups, and a commitment to improve the situation going forward. But they are totally silent.

And Rhino is laughing all the way to the bank......