Calamity Jane

OOPS, I'M DRINKING RED WINE, AND HIT THE WRONG BUTTON THERE

To finish, the album puts me right back in Egypt, and more precisely at the pyramids, because after the pyramids were officially closed, our Egyption friends took us there, approaching, not from the town/road, but from the desert side in a big old hummer. We had the site to ourselves!!! We wandered at our leisure without any other tourists or hawkers. It was awesome and creepy and post-apocalyptic all at the same time. 2 days later we caught the very last plane out of the country before they shut the airport down!

I really concur with Ripple being a song to bring forth a sense of 'honest emotions'. it's slways been a high-ranked fav Dead tune for sure.

But in terms of music that really takes me out of my current palce in the physical world and deposits me elsewhere has to be Roger Waters' album Radio Koas. dave and I were in Cairo, Egypt during the eruption of the first gulf war (good god that's so vile to even consider --'first' gulf war!!) Anyway, we were looking to settle there for a few months and were apartment hunting, riding around on public transit, listening to the album, overly-frequently perhaps b/c all our tapes had been stolen earlier in Portugal. Anyway, as the war escalated, the city began to clear out of tourists and tensions rose. We were hanging out with some local freaks we'd met [who, incidentally, had seen the Dead (or more accurately the spectacle of the Dead and their fans) at the pyramids when they were children -- a side tangent there] who were keeping us well-spliffed and convinced, that in Cairo, we were not in harm's way. Within a few days, all toursit sites had been closed down though and tensions kept rising. Radio Kaos, for those who don't know is (partly) about the dropping of the big bomb.

Well PP, take care of yourself and get well. I'm already hearing rumours of another Chatam Schoolhouse tear-it-up, so I'll see you then if not before!

well...for a pornstar name...

should it be Rod Scotch, or Rod Cromwell?

I'd respectfully submit that "Rod Stretch" and "Rod Cramwell" are much better options.

Hey Palace Princess -- if a ride is all that's holding you back, I think Mark Tonin is trying to organize something for KW folk interested in making the trip ....

Now, more pressure on the Paan photo end -- (and I don't mean the 'ends' you've already shown us ::)it's not like you can convince us you're shy -- so dig up those bon jovi photos (tight pants to boot, I'm assuming)and post 'em!

Man-oh-man, you're so harsh on me......[note to self: I better not let it slip that I also had 80s hair.]

(oops!) (Damn!)

including all the backstage perks!

my mom used to be a go-go dancer, her mom's a biker. we're a lot of fun.

invite me to the next family reunion!

"Does anyone else notice what seems like the end of an era? With nero's demise (on the heels of Phish) it really feels like this community is more fractured and diffuse then ever. Personally it's just time to 'grow old and do some sh!t"

this is a common feeling when what you know & love begins to change. In my case, when Jerry died, I figured the scene did too. So, like you, I also decided to "grow up" (heavens, not old yet, I hope) and "do some sh!t." I left that music scene completely. I was even too hurt and jaded by the loss of the Dead and all that community, that I never even went to a Phish show (I can hear the audible gasps) because I never figured anything could live up to the experience of the Dead. But now here I am 10 years later discovering that people have kept the music/spirit/community alive --- it has changed, sure, but for the better I think, because now SO many bands are playing awesome jammy-music. Freaks are EVERYWHERE!

"maybe thats an answer.. regional scenes taking over from what was once a larger scale national scene..."

I say, right on!!

the ONCE-preppie Deb, thank you very much.

(sniff, sniff, I thought this was a safe place to bare my soul!) ::

By the way Deb - welcome to the board ::

thanks, Megs. Looking forward to meeeting you in Ottawer in 2 weeks (and countin'!)

Bokonon, thanks for the learnin'. You're an awesome storyteller -- I can 'hear' y'all across the fields at Frontier town.

"I tend to get a little mouthy when i drink two bottles of wine." Right on! Are we ever gonna get along!

...and some might say that a person's name has a lot to do with their personality.

I totally agree. When I was in grade nine, I wanted my name to match my "bubbly" personality, so I changed it to "Debbi" and drew a heart over the "i". ("ugh!") I went so far as to have it officially changed on the school computer system, if you can believe it. It long out-lived my "bubbly" phase. Numerous people also helped hasten the demise of "Debbi" by always quoting to me the title of the popular 80s porn movie, "Debbie does Dallas" (which, come to think of it, I've never actually sat down to watch all these years later). So that, and the fact that I turned bitter & cycnical has led to me going by Deb. But the whole "lesson" here I think is to name your kids with transmutable names so that they can pick their own variation.

Why some people feel that it is necessary to produce demeaning pictures of women has a lot to do with relations of power.

And more than power, fear. I think some guys demean women as "groupies" because the idea of a gal totally grooving/getting off on the music (not the musicians) is somehow scary to them, cause they think (or want to think) we're there to get laid. Which, I believe is the reason alot of guys go to these shows -- so who's 'calling the kettle black'?

But it is depressing to think that some guys out there are thinking this way, because I do agree that "groupie" has a demeaning '70s backstage dick-sucking connotation.

Now what about the term 'band-slut' or 'band-whore' and 'skank'. I've heard/read these numerous times in posts/at shows and am wondering if I'm missing something or if these are actually intended to be as degrading as I take them to be. I'm all for 'reclaimimg language' but is this really what's going on with these terms?

I've been waiting to see the dogs and mice together again since Chatam...how many more sleeps/get-ups left now? I'm excited to meet some Ottawa folk (you all come HIGHLY recommended) I grew up outside of Ottawa and need some new memories to replace those of drunken nights dancing to Depeche Mode in the Hull dance clubs. I'm looking forward to the same debauchery, but to better music. And for those who haven't experienced the Organic Groove, you're in for a treat. I'm so glad they're making the trip.