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Nomad_Andrew
Trad climber
West Coast (usually)
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Nov 20, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
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I can only stream, can't download. Has it been this way for a while?
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Nomad_Andrew
Trad climber
West Coast (usually)
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Nov 20, 2009 - 02:20pm PT
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Righteous! I really appreciate it.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 20, 2009 - 03:32pm PT
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What's the point in callin' shots
this cue ain't straight in line.
Cue ball's made of styrofoam
and no one's got the time ...
What's your favorite lyric?
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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Nov 20, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
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Lyrics for all sorts of days... I've liked this one recently:
Flight of the sea birds,
scattered like lost words;
wield to the storm and fly.
Sleep
in the stars
Don't you cry
Dry your eyes
on the wind
And, of course:
While the firelight's aglow
strange shadows in the flames will grow
till things we've never seen
will seem familiar
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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Nov 20, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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I'm gonna go all hippie on you, sorry. Are there any older children of Dead Heads out there?
I was struck at the Dead show this past May when I saw all these young 20-something-year-olds, and felt like I had been reunited with a certain part of my family that had disappeared from my life. I'd imagine that some of those 20-something-year-olds were kids at shows in the 80's/90's and I felt like there was a real possibility that I had run around with some of them as a little kid.
Running around on a lawn in the dusk of a show seems like it would be idyllic for little kids (if you forget all the inappropriate things that go on at shows, which I know a lot of people who don't get the scene can't do, and that's ok).
I know for me, as a little kid at music festivals (not just Dead shows), it was so fun to jump around to music and find other little kids. My parents were pretty responsible once they had kids. I'm sure at least a few people here would question bringing a toddler to a Dead show, but I don't think it was inappropriate. For better or for worse, it controlled a really large part of my development in that the folklore perpetuated in many Grateful Dead songs (biblical allusions, rose and goddess imagery) became the foundation of a great part of my spirituality. (I almost feel like an experiment, actually.) I'd guess it would be hard not to incorporate those things into adult life if the music was the background of a lot of childhood.
I think somehow it's connected to having started climbing, too...since I see some similarities in the communities.
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Rudyj2
Trad climber
UT
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Nov 20, 2009 - 04:32pm PT
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Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day
Whichever way your pleasure tends
If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind
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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Nov 20, 2009 - 05:19pm PT
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Delilah Jones was the mother of twins,
Two times over and the rest were sins.
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad,
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had.
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.
one more
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin,
Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in".
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 20, 2009 - 05:32pm PT
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I can show you
a High Time!
Garcia aiding some bad-boy (from the old J-Tree guide)
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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Nov 20, 2009 - 05:41pm PT
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Pate--
Mostly Northeast shows, and by the time I was around they had "real" jobs, so weren't touring. Parents are from upstate New York and I grew up in CT. I know I had never been to a show on the West Coast before this past May. But, if you were at shows on the East Coast '80-'85, your paths probably crossed. :)
Cheers,
Allyson
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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Nov 20, 2009 - 06:14pm PT
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 20, 2009 - 07:58pm PT
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7 Dead shows including Watkins Glen, 600,000 people (including the skydiver that biffed).
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 20, 2009 - 08:35pm PT
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I used to go on long backpacking trips and schedule things so we'd come out on the day of a Dead show.
Talk about weird culture shock!
Miss those guys...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 21, 2009 - 06:09pm PT
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Even the comparatively mediocre Dead albums like Wake of the Flood have some really fantastic Hunter/ Garcia songs like Eyes of the World.
Right outside this lazy summer home
you ain't got time to call your soul a critic no.
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home,
wond'rin' where the nuthatch winters,
wings a mile long just carried the bird away.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.
There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away,
And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay.
And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,
and night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own,
And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home,
sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone,
sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 21, 2009 - 06:16pm PT
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I think that's the point. there's something to be taken from each and every one, of those.
From time to time I hear clips in my head from some of those songs that I used to think I didn't even like.
Sort of inevitable that 'Touch of Gray' keeps growing on me...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 21, 2009 - 07:42pm PT
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Kinda' suits you, anyway.....
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socalbolter
Sport climber
Silverado, CA
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Nov 21, 2009 - 11:30pm PT
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As someone who appreciates the Dead's music and has several friends who followed the band whenever possible, I'm curious as to how you all feel about PHISH?
Are they continuing what the Dead started, or doing their own thing?
Do you consider yourselves fans of them also, or are the fan bases of the two bands more segregated?
Just curious...
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 22, 2009 - 12:01am PT
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Saw them in '74 at the old Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. It was a great show, part of the Wake of the Flood Tour. They did a great job on Tennessee Jed that night.
They lost a lot when Pigpen died, though. They were never the same.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 22, 2009 - 03:13am PT
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He made the cover of the Laramie Boomerang, tragically.......
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 22, 2009 - 01:55pm PT
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I used to deny this, since I only went to maybe 30 shows, even though I pretty much know which lyric follows nother, or what song is coming up, from the intro.....
My name is Jay, I AM a Deadhead.....
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