Grateful Dead

when tons of steel is totally done it will stop and say replay, there are a bunch of little boxes below of other videos to pick from, click on the one with Brent with long hair, that's it. Glad you liked it!

"Row,row,row yer boat gently down the stream........................."

keep on dancin

Holiday Inn First hotel I ever stayed at in my life, the Holiday Inn in downtown Portland, ME (across from the Civic Center, I'm sure a few of you know this one). Senior year in high school I was at a state CYO convention. We were the first occupants of this brand-spankin' new as-yet-not-open-to-the-public hotel. We were packed 6 to a room with an adjoining door to a room full of girls next door. One of my roomies scored some beer (legally -- he was 18) and reefer (not so legally), and we all spent the afternoon enjoying some definitely-not-CYO-sanctioned pleasures (including, sad to say, throwing the empties out the window -- a few stories down to a roof below-- to get rid of the evidence). Where oh where were our chaperones? Policing the dance that night, making sure we weren't, you know, getting too friendly on the dance floor. They sort of missed that adjoining-door loophole. Oh and you ain't seen nothing till you been In a motel baby, like a Holiday Inn...

Im in my 79 bus, me and a friend just ran away from home. I loved her, she loved James Dean and Van Morrison. That song always puts me right back on the snow banked highway in New Mexico, far far from home.

we'll just have to wait until then to find out. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

The Earth is dancing with the Moon And there's a whole lot of shakin' goin' on

seeing this movie ( DVD ) in a Theater is like entering a time machine ! went to see Crimson White and Indigo last night !I was lucky enough to actually buy a ticket from a kind person at the theater ! Thank You ! It was sold out ! because they used the largest screen at ' The Little' with a digital version of the film, for the screening, which is a smaller room, at the theater ( 175 seats ) The movie is wonderful, fantastic close -ups and completely focused on the show, the band, and the music ! very few audience shots, which made it truly feel like you were at the show. Its an intense experience- at the start of the film, when you first see Jerry. People were singing and dancing in the theater ( to the dimsay of some but most everyone loved the show -vibe, even though its 'the movies' ) They raffled off a copy of the DVD before the film, a friend of mine won ! The close ups are wonderful, you can see every bead of sweat and all the chords that they are playing. This show is a classic and it looks wonderful on the big screen. The audience was a 50/50 combination of old school Deadhead- family and those who never saw The Greateful Dead with Jerry. Just like when I'm at -an actual show, the only thing that bugged me, was a couple of folks in the back, that were talking, loud- all through drums and space. The camera work and photography is fantastic, feels like you are onstage with them. The audio is good too, though we did yell " Turn it up" at the start.. ( but ... we always do that up here ) and they turned it up for us ! I highly reccomend going to see this at a theater, if you are able. A few of the cities that are doing screenings have added extra shows, because of the great response/ attendance. There will be another viewing Monday night, at ' The Little ', here in Rochester. The setlist is so meaty ! This was truly a flowing show. One aspect of the fim, that is just a treat- is being able to really experience the spontaneous interaction between Jerry, Phil and Bobby and Brent as they go through the song transitions. Mickey and Billy too. My favorites were the closeups and seeing so much of the intimate shots of Brent and Jerry playing. "Liz Kemp Rock Reports" gives this film a 9+ play on see you at Furthur DC for Earth Day -next

Back on the summer`94 eastcoast opener,at Highgate,VT,Jerry,methodically played,a beautiful SOTM.It definetly wasn`t the best rendition I had heard,but there was a moment,at which Jerry lifted his head from the stage floor,where he had been focused on for much of that evening.He peered from over his wire rimmed glasses out into the vast crowd,who was staring back with great intensity.As he sung,"..a lovely view heaven,but I`d rather be with you!"At that same time,his eyes seemed to encompass the world around me and he was,at that time,looking right at me!!!He was grinning from ear to ear and an overwhelming feeling of absolute happiness and satisfaction entranced my body and tears of joy flooded my cheeks.....So for me,"Standing On The Moon,"will always take me back to much happier times, when things were much less stressed,as they are now!It will always remind me of the time when Jerry and The Grateful Dead fully took over my emotional self and made me who I am today.

Sitting around my buddy's dorm room in the middle of the afternoon, door sealed against smoke leakage, shades drawn, lights out, blacklight on. My friend cranked the Who, and we were all having a fine time, or so I thought. Just as "Teenage wasteland/They're all WASTED!" blew through the speakers, my buddy's girlfriend jumped from her seat and kind of whipped her gaze around the room at all of us and yelled, "Isn't it the TRUTH!" And ran out of the room. She broke the door seal in the process, and briefly flooded us with light from the hall. We first recoiled from the light like vampires caught by sunshine, then rushed to reseal the door. My friend got up and moved the tone arm back to the beginning of the song...and gave the volume knob an additional twist to the right. I've thought of Baba O'Riley as a breakup song ever since.

though this didn't happen by flashback, i will always look back on this moment.. i was driving down the interstate, on my way to work... it was fall time.. and i was listening to the GD play 'Doing that Rag' ... and as i was driving...at the very moment Jerry was singing the verse, 'All the Winter Birds are Winging home now' - there was a long line of birds, flocked together, migrating south for the winter. Once in awhile you get shown the light!

one of my favorites

...but you can't take New Jersey out of the boy

That string section was quite spectacular....

Teenage coming of age...Like a Rolling Stone (B Dylan), Purple Haze (J Hendrix), Eight Miles High (Byrds), Shapes of Things (Yardbirds),Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane), Light My Fire (Doors) On the Bus...Uncle John's Band, Me & Bobby McGee Jerry...Like A Rolling Stone (Keystone Berkeley/Stellar Blue (Oakland Auditorium) Getting through deaths, etc Alfie (Dionne Warwick), Let It Be (Beatles), Jersey Girl (T Waits & B Springsteen), Words (Missing Persons), Man of the Hour (Pearl Jam), That's Life (F Sinatra), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (G Harrison), I'll Take A Melody (J Garcia), Black Throated Wind (B Weir), any Krishna Das chant (always has world class musicians).

You're with me tonight on this dark highway We've run it together so many times We've run it for money We've run it for music We've run it to pay for our innocent crimes I took on my father and I'm still standing Took on all comers in some shape or form And I see with the eyes of something wounded Somethin'still standing after the storm Here's one to glory and survival And stayin alive It's the running man's bible I been next in line I been next to nothin' Been next to bystanders that should have said somethin' It was not in my vision It was not in my mind To return from a mission A man left behind Here's one to glory and survival And stayin alive It's the runnin' mans bible I don't speak of the times I've nearly died I don't speak of out lastin' those who are gone Or the things I've done I care not to remember Or the desperate measures That might have been wrong Here's one to glory Here's to bad weather And all the hard things We've been through together Here's to the golden rule and survival And to stayin alive

I hadn't heard that song before this morning, but Sirius played FOTD so I went looking around on other stations and that song was playing, and it spoke to "me". Peace

I've stopped thinking of this as "one" of Petty's best albums....started thinkin' it's his best album, period.

Petty has always been one of my favorites since high school.