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Thanks BK... thats what I was thinking "you have to see it to believe it"

Would accidentally leaving the changer full of dead shows and then trying to point out certain spots, as well as leaving shows lying around everywhere count as forcing the issue?

But yeah, new game plan is to give her American Beauty, and keep the rest of it to myself...

What are people's thoughts on Anthem? Or Blues for Allah? Haven't listened to either in a while myself, but they seem to be sufficiently "weird" to attract Radiohead audiences no?

ps. you guys are great

One more thing.. Radiohead seems okay to me... (although the fans sat down the whole show)

I understand that music shouldn't be a breaking point, and she doesn't hate them, and respects me listening to them. I could handle someone hating everything I like EXCEPT that one. Its just way to central to who I am (dead I mean). Its not about being on the bus, or being a Wook or anything. (on an aside, she espouses all of the virtues I associate with "the scene") its about the impact Jerry has had on who I am, and the fact that the happiest I could ever be and have ever been is at a dead show.

Can you really understand someone if you can't access their inner most happiness?

I'm just thinking out loud here... I definately wouldn't lose her for that... (and another aside, she has/like phish discs, and Gomez etc. which may be another reason I can't understand the Dead not hitting home, phish w/out dead???)

Chewie.. I"m in Sydney Australia right now! Home the end of June, moving to T.O. to start work... I'll be hitting Darien for sure, and trying to do some more, but this whole work thing may be a problem. Haven't really studies the list yet... but we'll hook up for sure.

Okay, need some help. Got some replies about Radiohead... here's the thing. Girlfriend loves them. BUT I haven't been able to convince her to love the finer things in life (ie the Dead). I'm not too up on Radiohead, but what studio stuff would you start a Radiohead fan with? Or even specific songs. She seems to think its all a little country/folkie (which sure lots is, but not all). She like's Jerry's guitar, but not his voice. This could be a breaking point in our relationship. Advice appreciated. (normally music isn't that key, as in I can accept some differences of opinion, with Jerry being the exception of course.

Peace

Just saw Radiohead in Sydney last week.. curious about everyone else's thoughts?

My impression is that they were good, but tried to be a lot better then they are, and a lot more rock starish then I expected. The dude that plays with all the weird electronic stuff sort of brought it down for me. When I concentrated on ignoring that it was awesome... very Nirvana-esque to my ears. Supposedly is was an "old-school" radio head show. I've never listened to them til that night.

The crowd was absolutely lame. Seated the whole time. The floor standing politely and mostly quietly. It seemed to be upsetting the lead singer, Tom York.

Also very ryhthem driven music... not much soloing, and no, showcasing of the base or other guitarist or drummer really.

I enjoyed it, but wouldn't do it again unless it was very different circumstances. ie. not in Sydney. Good music, but maybe a better CD then concert?

Any thoughts? Fans? hatemail for me?

4. The Grateful Dead

Out on the road today/I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac/A little voice inside my head/Said ‘don’t look back, you can never look back.’ — Don Henley, “Boys of Summer”

When Henley wrote “The Boys of Summer’ in 1984, he saw the sticker on luxurious Detroit steel as a contradiction of values: a symbolic matter/antimatter collision that obliterated the meaning of both. But Henley didn’t realize that his symbol of a Dead past was in reality a very powerful symbol of the present and future.

The Vietnam War was the perfect polarizer between youth and adult culture: it had no clear objective, it was far away, it cost many lives, and it was involuntary — the old made the decisions, the young died. After the war was mercifully killed in the mid-'70s, the nation came to realize that it had hated the internal confusion more than it had hated the external enemy — blood is thicker than ideology.

Toby Talbot / AP

The Grateful Deal, featuring the late Jerry Garcia on guitar, carries on its musical and cultural lineage to this day.

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As a result, both sides of the internal conflict embraced the perceived highlights of the other’s culture: adults lightened up — Johnny Carson grew his hair long and joked with the band about smoking pot — and the youth embraced the acquisitive materialism of their parents with the shamelessness of Midas.

The Dead became the symbol of this blending of ideologies until Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995: a well-oiled money making machine ($50 million a year in concert revenue) that sold peace, love and understanding to a legion of internally divided admirers. The Dead sold out every show because a Dead show was a socially acceptable place to temporarily take a break from the rat race and try on '60s hippie values without having to live them. People who didn’t do drugs any other time indulged and danced around like pixies to the Dead and their light, rhythmic, pleasant, sometimes inspired, extended musical journeys.

On that musical front, Rhino’s “Very Best of the Grateful Dead” is an excellent representation of the band’s eclectic blending of country, folk, psychedelic rock, R&B, jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms on classics like “Friend of the Devil,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Ripple,” “Truckin’,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones,” “Franklin’s Tower,” and their lone hit single “Touch of Grey.”

“Grateful Dead” (1971) is my favorite live set by the band — it rolls along with “Bertha,” “Mama Tried,” “Playing in the Band,” “Johnny B. Goode,” “Not Fade Away” and “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad,” showing great energy and versatility.

The Dead’s success inspired the entire jam band movement, which carries on its musical and cultural lineage to this day.

Its all about the roadrunner!!! yeehaw!!!

Mark: High school law eh? What kind of stuff do you teach? Mainly constitutional? Or do you get into basic contracs/torts/criminal stuff?

I'm studying Law at Queen's, and the idea of teaching it has always been somewhat intriguing (do you have to be able to spell to be a teacher?).

Any idea if highschool law teachers can teach with an LLB instead of a B.ed?

And tour doesn't espouse that, well actually Phish tour is all about keeping up with the jones' when you think about it, but dead tour never really was. So the idea is that you break that mold, and live a conscious life where you're allowed to be you. Setting an example to others of how to live the kind-vegan-brotherbear tour style life. Its not to escape tour and be a corporate whore. If thats what you do then like I said before, in my not so humble opinion you "missed it" and aren't making the person a better place, you're making yourself and your boss richer. In a way you can roughly equate tour with socialism (not communism). The classic "one man gathers what another man spills" and the general comradarie and sharing and looking after one another that goes on, at least at some level, is what has to be taken from mystical tour land and brought into the community that one lives in. Eventually making everything a little better?

Its kind of weird.. I have to agree largely with what was said in the article. Not necessarily a cult. But what the one lady said about it running your life, and looking within. Notice that she's still going to go to the NYC show. I was definately addicted for many moons. And then you kind of wake up and realize that going to every show kind of misses the point. The point, for me anyways, is to enlighten yourself, to inspire yourself and then to take that inspiration to the rest of your life and make this world a better place. If you just go to show after show, you never get to the "make this world a better place" part. And then you've missed it. Its the curse of the deadheads.

At the same time, I do have to admit that tour was a very important part of my life, but I look back at all the kids that I did tour with 4,5,6,7 years ago, and half of them are still on tour! It takes all kinds I guess, but eventually there has to be more, doesn't there? A little sacrifice?

just my .02 cents

I need to get 1 or 2 saturdays!

somanyroads7@hotmail.com

Where did you stay in a box? I've done it at the Marine Midland, and a handful of other places, and its always been great.

As for this place, the sound should be good... there are speakers right in the box and more importantly, the front of the box opens right up so that you are part of the audience.

As for the view. "he likes to paint pictures on his radio, he says it makes the music look better" (WSP -Old Joe)

But the view is fine, I talked to the lady and she said that you are practically looking right down on them, I got the very same box that she had for Bruce Springsteen a little while back, and she said it was all good...

I got myself tickets anyways... but I really think the box will sound and look good... I just didn't want to have to sign my name to it on behalf of a big group of people...

ps. its 1200 for 18 people... and the reservation is good til monday if anyone wants to take it over...

(or 1650 for 30 people.)

Once again (not sure why since no one replies) I just want to tell you all that I have luxury boxes for both nights cincinnati. Enough space for 48 people, need 18 minimum. I'm going to go ahead and cancel since I got my order, unless some people show some interest before sunday...

Cheers...

You can still get down without hearing...

Anybody else see the bearded woman and the troll man doing sign at terrapin last summer? What a trip. Anytime you had any weirdness enter your head, whish sometimes happens at those shows for one reason or another, you could just look over at the bearded woman doing sign and just laugh it up.

The two of them would take turns, with there back to the band up on a pedestal for all the deaf people. The troll dude would be all serious trying to get every lyric signed in and shit. Then the bearded woman (who you probably have all seen, she's worked for GDP forever) would get up there and do the "look at how much fun I"m having, you're all having just as much fun" sign language dance.

Remember, it ain't over til the fat lady signs.

The big question is what happens the next time you're at the border after one of these citations. They say specifically "we are not chaning the law, just the penalty", which would make me guess it'd still show up in the border computer, and people still wouldn't be told that they aren't allowed to see the show in the states...

Very valid point Booche. Let's hope that it is one that holds true....

One step at a time I guess..

Not entirely my place to say... but amidst the "vote for the red guys" stuff... just remember that maybe just maybe, there are more important issues to be considered then legalization of pot. Maybe, not bowing down to American pressures to fight in stupid wars, or implementing pharmacare or day care, or protecting our health care system, or increasing transfer payments to provinces for education should come into play when deciding who to vote for. Pot is pot.

I posted this somewhere else.. but if I can get a group of 18 or 30 together, I have a line on a private box for cinci. I got my friday tickets, but I'm sure I could put them to good use if I got a box....

email me at somanyroads7@hotmail.com if you're interested.

I could use hotel info too.... walking distance...

I have a line on some private boxes for cinci.... the price is umm well lets not worry about the price, but I need either a group of 18 or a group of 30. So email me at somanyroads7@hotmail.com if you're interested. It ends up being about $100 Canadian.

ps. any hotel info would be great too.

DC is probably the cheaper...

No matter where you fly to you'll have to find some transportation...