Grateful Dead

Have you ever seen the rain..." Total chills, that one! CCR, sigh. My son and I were totally proud when we learned how to play "Bad Moon Risin'" on guitar-from the internet.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

"Hot Fun In The Summer Time" by Sly & the Family Stone "Hot Summer Day" by It's A Beautiful Day and "Groovin" by The Rascals. Man those songs bring back wonderful, happy memories! I hear those on the radio and I've just got to stop whatever it is I'm doing and sit back and close my eyes and smile. These songs came out during the best time of my life. I was young with no cares or responsibilities, my whole life ahead of me. I remember good times with my friends and endless summer days. Shit! Now I'm getting misty and nostalgic ... gotta go raid my record collection and put a few more spins on the old turntable .... "Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God" ... ... the Books of Bokonon

Yikes! Just reading the title, and I'm back in junior year at prep school, smoking bongs in Prosser and Pape's room. Zowie! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

Sitting my buddies basement in the early 80's smoking some good old 'Afganie' Gold Seal, we would get good and ripped then ask some one to but on side two of Zepplin 4. My buddies albumn for Zepplin 4 was pressed with two side 1 labels so who ever tried to find side 2 would sit there fried and go flip. flip. flip looking so hard for side two...man I still laugh thinking about it. No doubt the albumn is worth some cash, so where is it Mike...

Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World

Ditto that!!!

da Moody Blues Days of Future Past, love the whole thing. Down by the River, Cowgilr in the Sand Neal Young, do magical things.

"Pushin Too Hard "& "Mr. Farmer"

THE best drag racing tunes:

WILD THING---------- The Troggs! Jimi Hendrix works too.

by The Eagles. Don't know what brought that one to mind.

by the loveable Ringo Starr. and maybe Pat Benetar performing,"Love Is A Battlefield". It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

Todd Rundgren. In the throes of my first teenage-getting-dumped experience, I NEEDED to get another woman in the worst way...

Those Lyin Eyes

always flashes me out to outdoor shows, especially at the Shoreline amphitheater...warm nights, dancing on happy legs, whatever the previous song was...and then the notes started and I asked myself, "Is it Aiko? Of course it is!" So much fun. It works every time I hear it even this many years later. :)

Almost anything by Pink Floyd brings back instant memories of college sillyciben gatherings. They had a way of building intensity, followed by high tempo harsh "reality" sounds, then would bring you back with wonderfully mellow sounds, such as San Tropez.For some reason, while they liked the Dead, the group I hung with then never wanted them as a soundtrack, but wanted something more electronic. Another instant flashback for me is the Doors Soft Parade. The opening day of The Wall was the last time I took a hit (courtesy of a Dead concert the previous weekend), and after the movie, I took a swim by myself with that album blaring. While the Doors may be the antithesis of the Dead, that album is still a desert island choice for me.

Almost all the songs everybody talks about in these pages remember me great time. Hooked by the first album "Morning Dew".Our (civil) wedding tape feature Sugar Magnolia for the "in", It must have been the roses "during" and Trucking for the "out". Our song gonna stay forever "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young. Still love you Marjelaine xxxxxx.

Anyone remember Blue Cheer's version of "Summertime Blues", or "Kick out the Judge" by MC5. Metalheads should know where it all started. Country guy miself, "Commander Cody and his lost planet airman" still make me trip a lot. NRPS cover of the Stones "DeadFlowers" live is always one of my best. Doors "Strange Days" album and Cream live tracks from Fillmore. "Throught the grape wine" live from CCR.Let's the Good old time go FURTHER!

I forgot (don't know how) Quicksilver Messenger Service Who, where, when, how Do You Love live on Happy trails album.

"Help I'm a Rock" and James Brown "Payback" for Missy Motown, our personal Motorcycle Irene.

any music from this early trip band always take me back to the early 70's. one day in 1971 I decided to walk up to the local head shop (which was really small, had a pinball machine) and hang out. I was truly on a mission that day, to "trip out". After ingesting several window panes, I started the 3 mile walk to the head shop. Along the way, the pane took hold, and soon I was lost wandering the streets and sidewalks. I was barefooted and I remember saying to my self, "why are there so many cracks and breaks in the sidewalks?" As everything started to shift into chaos, I was approaced by an aquaintence from high school who could see I was having a rough time. He and his lovely girl friend grabbed me up, took me to there house, feed me chicken soup and put on the first Jade Warrior album. It was so beautiful, the soundscapes that those guys could paint. Took me to the local nursery and we walked around for seemed like hours just looking at the beautiful flowers, before I knew it, I was past peaked, and slowly floating back to this reality. To this day, I will always flashback to that day when ever I here Jade Warrior.Captain Beyond, sufficently breathless, or anything from the first self titled lp, dancing madly backwards, armworth, all flashback music. But sufficently breathless puts me right back in 73, studying for a college exam, it came on the radio, worj, first time it had been played and heard. Wow, latin american space rock, it was awesome. Still play the old lp now and again, especially if I want to get back there. Of course this was all before the first time I ever heard the dead, but that's another story.

Great station, unkle sam!Are you aware that they are once more "broadcasting" on the 'net? If not, take a look; still great music, being put out by Lee Arnold. I can't descibe the joy I felt when I re-discovered them! A rare medium well done... Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor.

Forgot to tell you where to look! www.worj.comDisclaimer: I am in no way affiliated or stand to gain from recommending this "radio" station. Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor.

i assume you meant the dave mason song. love that one. nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile

Every tune on that double LP brings back many childhood memories of my dad blasting from the garage, prolly and I was always with dad so just kinda fell into place, which to this day he still does, but so do I, its one of the greatest live albums ever sold, especially Whipping Post!!! I still get chills everytime i here it played. Thanks dad for listening to good music

I will listen that album till I died. Was it another jam band who play in the same range as GD at that time? Hope you have the two CD set. Hooked on "In the memory of Elisabeth Reed" forever.

Boy Scout camping trip in Vermont, 1967ish, wandering seemingly aimlessly through the woods for hours through a dreary, light mist, turning the forest into a dark, slightly sinister place. I'd bought the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane 45 the week before, and had played it obsessively up to the time we left on the trip. Strawberry Fields became my internal soundtrack for the entire weekend, couldn't shake it, "Let me take you down.." over and over. So on this hike I began to suspect that we were lost, then began to fear that we were lost, then hit certainty and PANIC that we were definitely lost...when we stepped into a clearing that I recognized. The relief that washed over me was otherworldly. Our scoutmaster knew where he was going after all! To this day I can't hear Strawberry Fields without flashing back to that moment we stepped into that clearing.

I listened to this song a lot while I was in San Diego (California) working in my Dad's tax office. Mostly I did nothing but sit around, listen to music, and read. It felt cool to get away from school and teachers and kick it in an office. I always dreamed about Beatles and Dead music reaching the ears of some rich office-working guy and maybe he smokes a joint and chills out . . . thinking about his life and common folks and stuff he may be missing in his life. When I hear the song today (or "Penny Lane") . . . there I am in the office downtown with the door locked sneaking a few puffs from a joint. Sometimes I'm eating a steak sandwich I used to make for hiking and am chilling in a secret spot in the canyon near my old home that we would sneak away to. We sure had fun in all of that nature breathing some nitrous gas from whipped cream cans and smoking bowls. Ahhhhh . . . memories.

anything, I guess

Well I know, you know betterEverything I say Meet me in the country for a day We'll be happy And we'll dance Oh, we're gonna dance our blues away LISTEN TO THE MUSIC !!

Not the only song that takes me back to a special time and place (Enya does that too), but hearing this takes me back to the first time I heard it, when I was just nailed to my chair and it felt as if someone were taking apart my brain and weaving it into a web around my head.

John Lennon I was 14 or 15, lying in bed one night with the midnight hour approaching, my little transistor radio on, my earphone (yes, mono, just one...may explain why I have more hearing loss in my right ear than my left) plugged in. My favorite FM station was about to play excerpts from the new John Lennon album -- their normal practice was to debut entire LPs, but my hindsight guess is that, despite the freewheeling times on some FM radio, "Working Class Hero" posed a threat to their FCC license. Midnight strikes, the DJ intones, "Ladies and Gentleman, Mr John Lennon." God..."God is a concept" got my immediate attention, and I was hyper-focused on all that followed. As the "I don't believe" litany progressed, there were a few items I didn't understand (example -- who or what was "Zimmerman"? I was a couple years from discovering Dylan, so I didn't have a clue). And then the kick in the gut: "I don't believe in Beatles!" Man, I DID believe in Beatles. What a blow! "The dream is over"....this from the guy who was just a short time away from writing "Imagine"... What can I say? A little innocence lost that night...

that Madonna song, I don't even know what the name is, but it goes "Open your heart to me, baby, I hold the lock and you hold the key". It came on while I was hanging out watching MTV on the couch with this guy that I had been close friends with for a long time when we started making out for the first time. I remember both of us saying something like "wow, it's about time!" It's a really sweet memory for me. "Inspiration, move me brightly"

I have a Grateful Dead DVD from Anaheim and Bobby is wearing a Madonna t-shirt.

I haven't seen it in years! What a nice flashback - Thanks :) "Inspiration, move me brightly"

I got to see these guys from the 4th row a couple months before the plane crash, incredible

"All is loneliness here for meLoneliness here for me Loneliness" from "Janis--Blow Away My Blues. This is San Francisco, at it's usual finest.....I forgot about this song. What a mind blower!

Help on the way...

check out the interview with Brent and Senator Al Franken on the vids that come up at the end.