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except he's a carbon copy of jacques martin.....
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yeah, wilco got a prime slot, but i'm "pissed off" (in a good way) about the rest of that afternoon:
Bobbie vs. Gillian Welch vs. M Doughty vs. Yo La Tengo vs. Chris Robinson... I'll have to wear running shoes I guess.
This is what I love about Bonnaroo though. Their cup runneth over with talent
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A related story, I guess...
I'm not defending the prison guards in Iraq, but... Has anyone seen or heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment that was done in 1971? Supposed to be a 6 week experiment with normal people assigned as guards or prisoners. After 6 days it had to be shut down due to fears that a prisoner would be seriously hurt. There was a riot on day 2. Prisoners were abused etc etc...
There's more to a prison than walls and bars... Psychology plays a big part of it as well.
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the main thing with bonnaroo (what you're comparing it to) is that it's drivable from 80% of the US in a day... The Farm is not even remotely central to anyone west of central Ontario.... What about Thunder Bay or somewhere around there? Canada is a huge linear country (as far as transportation goes) so it's almost impossible to find a site that will be accessible to all.
And Neil Young would come play a 3000 capacity farm in rural NB? Please...
Don't want to rain on the parade, but I think being realistic is kinda important...
I'd love to see it happen ::
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saw the show in wakefield a few weeks back and it was great. someone's gotta give rick white some meat and potatos though... he's skinnier now than he was back in the eric's trip days.... my guess is 100 pounds soaking wet. and he's like 6 foot 2...
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Saturday the 10th will be a bitch...
the overlap is the Hip, Taj, and Manitoba.... All acts that I like seeing when I can..... Creative crowd walking will be my mission that day...
Nice to see Jim Bryson get 2 slots this year.
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I'm in, got a crew of 10 from Ottawa / Toronto coming with me... Good times...
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summertime - will smith
dancing in the streets - martha and the vandellas
punk rock girl - dead milkmen
summertime blues - who
outkast
i just made a sumer mix, trying to think who's on it besides the above.......
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I work at a mapping and survey company called Mosaic Mapping where I process airborne GPS, analyse and interpret LiDAR data (laser stuff) and create 3D visualisations... I like it. It's cool.
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Los Angeles — It's been more than 40 years since a fateful New Year's Eve encounter connected Bob Weir with Jerry Garcia and started a rock band, the Grateful Dead, that would become the eternal poster child for 1960s psychedelic music.
Now, nine years after Garcia died of a heart attack, the Grateful Dead remains about as busy as ever — on numerous fronts.
Band members, who now call themselves The Dead, are digitizing the group's entire library of some 2,500 concert recordings and plan to eventually make them all available online. They also continue to record and tour, with Weir on the road this spring with his spin-off group, RatDog, and then this summer with The Dead.
The band's core fan base also remains avid — so much so that Weir, in Los Angeles to promote the release of a double-CD retrospective called Weir Here, must resort to wearing disguises in public or holing up in hotel rooms under false names. One of his pseudonyms phonetically results in an obscenity.
Addressed by it when he opens the door to his hotel room, Weir laughs and suggests he prefers to be called Bobby.
The the 56-year-old musician answered the following questions in a recent interview:
AP: What do you think has given the Grateful Dead's music such an enduring quality with so many people?
Weir: We keep ourselves into it by approaching every tune every night as a whole new deal and trying to find new ways to interpret older material and trying to find new places to go. And I think that's what keeps it enduring for the audience. We're the kind of people who require a little adventure in our lives, and so the music we make is going to reflect that. And I think the people who come to hear us and keep coming back are also the kind of people who require that.
AP: You must have fans at this point who never saw the original Grateful Dead.
Weir: At this point there are tried and true RatDog fans, a number of whom have seen upwards of a hundred shows and have never seen the Dead. It's safe to say that they probably would have been Dead fans back in the day. ... I was talking to a girl who is a fan the other day and this kind of blew me away. She was telling me that her parents were big fans and that she remembered hearing me sing and hearing us play from in the womb and that she was singing those songs before she learned to talk. I think I believe her (laughing). But still, that's something to think about.
AP: You called yourselves The Other Ones for a time after Jerry's death and now The Dead. Has Grateful Dead been retired as a touring name?
Weir: Yeah. I mean at this point I think there may be more of us dead than alive. So let's have a little truth in advertising.
AP: You also have your own children now who are very young (daughters two and six). Has fatherhood changed you?
Weir. Oh hell yeah (laughing). We don't have broadband at this hotel, but most of the hotels on this tour it seems, just this year, are starting to offer broadband. I've got this Apple iChat audiovisual that I use to have breakfast with my kids and stuff like that. The other day I spent most of an hour breaking up fights over the Internet. "Put that down. Don't grab, don't grab. Be nice to your sister." All that kind of stuff. And then my girls will draw something real quick and show me. It's a lot of fun.
AP: Are there any younger music groups you pay particular attention to?
Weir: I don't pay attention to any current popular music. If I have time to listen to music, I want to go as far from where I live as I can. I want it to be a real vacation. ... what grabs me is modern classical and mainstream jazz. And I've been trying to crack the code of Indian classical music.
AP: Any thoughts on still going out on the road with The Dead after all these years and all the changes you've been through?
Weir: You know, I'll offer this: That I don't miss Jerry (Garcia) because he's very much alive for me. I can feel him every moment when I'm on stage, to the point where I can very nearly hear him. It's pretty real for me.-.-. It's pretty much the same as it's ever been. I can tell when we're headed for something he's either pleased with or not pleased with, and I can go ahead and be headstrong like I always was, always have been, and things will work out or they won't. Just like they always did. What I miss about him is the yucks we had backstage (long pause). But I've got plenty of yucks with the guys I travel with these days, so it's not that big a deal.
AP: So, is it safe to say retirement is not on your horizon?
Weir: What great musician ever retired? I don't put myself in that category, but that's what I aspire to.
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CHeers
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Elaine's bf from Seinfeld.
PUTTY!!!
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That's a great read... Thanks for that!
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mind numbing harmonies
wow, sounds, well, mind-numbing... poor choice of words there, but looks like a great trible bill... never heard of samsara.... any good?
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Watch out on that ebaumsworld website, I've gotten a few trojan viruses from there... Make sure you've got a pop-up blocker running and a virus scanner before you go poking around there...
James Brown in his PCP finest...
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Head over to Google, type in 'miserable failure' (in lower case) and hit the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button... Good stuff
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hey Willy, I play one of those... It's the Epiphone Biscuit... Really nice, crisp sounding, not as muddy as the Fender resonators... I couldn't compare it to a National or anything, but I think it sounds great. Perfect for slide and picking...
I'd recommend it, but you'd have to try it for yourself to really know if it's right for you (obviously).
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Shit those are nice glasses... Should I bring them again tonight? DOes the event call for neon Bollés?
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I'm pretty sure the band does, but you'll have a hell of a time convincing the meatheads at Capital that what you propose to do is even legal, let alone permitable...
Good luck, if I were you I'd go early, find out the name of Tortoise's manager, talk to him if possible, then try to bring in your equipment...
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Yup let's do that. I've seen you countless times at shows but I'm not really prone to introducing myself... I will do my darndest tonight... I know Eric, so I'll find you pretty easily if you're gonna be with him...
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You'd better believe I'll be there... Saw Tortoise for the first time at the Embassy in London maybe 7 years ago... Saw them last at BOnnaroo last year... Tonight's gonna be so sweet... Four Tet is pretty good as well....
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Not really too much of a suprise visit, but I'll be there tomorrow for sure
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Happy Birthday Eric...
I'll see you tonight at Tortoise for sure... I'll either be drunk and happy or really drunk and surly, depending on the hockey game...
Cheers
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Fucking landlord bullshit
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If I lived in a place where someone did that I'd be really put in a bad spot. I have severe allergies to cats, and while I'd hate to try and have someone's pet removed from the building, I would have to do it. I like to breathe and see.
I'm all for staying with your pets, but if you're sharing a building with other people, keep the neighbours' rights in mind so you're not putting anyone in a tricky spot.
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