All about the Grateful Dead... and then some

Well I have to admit that I know nothing about The Dead. I’ve been saving myself in case it’s all too much. But I love the Allman Brothers in all of their wonderful glory. The highlight for me was finding the glorious Derek and The Dominoes Layla boxed set with the Allmans jams on it. I get a lump in my throat every time I play it.

So what’s a good place for a young lad such as mesself to start with The Grateful Dead without my losing interest. I need a quick fire fix of hippyesque extended jamming with some knock out guitar fireworks to get me started. Anybody? (AXE Victim)

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Posted on 27 Jun 2008 at 06:18 pm Under: Desert Island, Entertainment, Guitar, Hunh?, Icon?, Music, Pop Culture, Ramble

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Hippyesque extended jamming doesn’t come in quick fixes, axe. It comes in huge chunks. The cheap way to proceed is The GD Archive on Archive.org.

I’m told that, for live Dead stuff, the album to get is Europe ‘72. Also, Live Dead. My complete Dead collection is American Beauty, Reckoning and Hundred Year Hall. I used to have Workingman’s Dead and might get it again.

I like the American Beauty Dead a lot more than the deep improvisational Dead, but that’s me. (Sans Direction)

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Axe, I am being too aggressive this week… trying the impossible, which is to get the last word on these guys… I apologize to you.

I would say this in a psychological preamble — the Dead — I suggest one think of a group of children who have just learned how to dress themselves. They are only a group of scruffy young rascals, barely past playing mumbly peg… Then they have to learn how to go on stage even when they don’t want to. Their politics springs from rugged individualism.

Then they have to learn about girls and female needs to caboodle. But debts grow and your drummer’s dad runs off with all the money. Then become unready, unskilled fathers, the children they create are part of the back stage rabble, which I think might be the first ever Day Care for single parents fighting custody cases. So you must bear down, and work harder, make more tours.

As tension increases, some wealthy roadie on sabbatical shows you that to get the families and Band all moving to the next poorly rigged sound stage somewhere in Louisiana, that here is a cocktail of pharmaceuticals that one can use to be mellow. And here is another package that makes you a better than average lover… and here is the best cocktail to delay your stage fright, or reluctance.

For us hippie dippy types in attendance, we learned to rely on a new phenom — the contact high; it is a guarantee of going to Dead concerts.

Then when the band feels the rewards of a job well done, and look a little contented, disaster comes in threes. “Show me a contented man and I will show you a catastrophe in the making,” some one once said.

–As band member, your small cult following turns into millions who each feels entitled to a piece of you.

–Many of those are soldiers who are actually living your name, who end up memorialized as the Dead.

–Others who opted to not go to Vietnam begin copying the folklore of your work, adapt your ethics to their own path, and killing each other, and themselves over rhymes that you have made.

Pandemic of remorseful homeless Dead Heads walk around San Francisco humming your songs; by 1977 the whole thing has imploded. And China is still red, as is Vietnam, and Russia still thinks it can make more refrigerators than the USA. Gerald Ford falls down regularly as acting President, because Nixon is not a Crook.

If you are a fan who somehow wheedles through the drug misuse and standard packages of STD’s, and you have a rich old man, you finally get your accounting degree. You become a partner, and owner, and have a couple of above-average kids, with a spouse twelve years younger than you. You are a good husband because lord knows you sowed your wild oats long before settling down.

Funny thing is there is no plan in existence for any of this to have happened as it did. Every plan that was presented during ‘64 to ‘77 has failed. Presidents, Civil Rights Leaders, Ministers murdered, others disgraced, and the rest running for their lives after being elected… grief trickling all the way down to the lowest denominator the young Dead offspring growing up in the wake of this disaster of an era.

So the music is of course rich and fantastic. The songs written are real, and complex as well as efficient. Only the strongest survived, and well that’s my story for you Axe. It wasn’t a bloodless civil war, by any stretch. (Pat Darnell and Friends)

Today's QUIZ: Who said this...

"I grew up in Hawaii, and had two wonderful grandparents from Kansas who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me – who worked with her to teach us about love and respect and the obligations we have to one another. I screwed up more often than I should’ve, but I got plenty of second chances. And even though we didn’t have a lot of money, scholarships gave me the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in the country. A lot of kids don’t get these chances today. There is no margin for error in their lives. So my own story is different in that way.
Still, I know the toll that being a single parent took on my mother – how she struggled at times to the pay bills; to give us the things that other kids had; to play all the roles that both parents are supposed to play."
Where did this speech take place?

When did he/she say it?

Why did this make history?

Living Stone

"Come to Him, rejected by men but in God's sight Chosen and Precious; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a Holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." I Peter:2,4&5

We are challenged, men of God, to carry the Holy Spirit,our gift from Him, so all will know us by His grace. As we are also challenged to be the Spiritual, Material and Mental guardians of this World, through the birth, finality and then re-birth of all Believer's, in and through Jesus Christ. It's the flesh and blood of Jesus we strive to be worthy to accept. To be humble, knowing that acceptance means eternity and God is eternal.

He let's us be "Like newborn babes, longing for pure spiritual milk, that by it we may grow up to salvation". I Peter 2,2.

A teacher and friend, Dr. Doug Harper, said to us one day "You have it in you, you don't earn it. It's God's gift to you."

Be the faithful man God created, be the steadfast man God loves, be the Son God shared on earth to be our Salvation. Make God proud of you--His humble servant.

The water can be squeezed from the stones. It is a job to do. We are up to the task, God willing. He is our "Number 1" fan.

I am pleased to add this beauty to FAST. I'm also looking forward to many more challenges.

fret Logic

Seven Stages of Dementia: for Dummies [like me], by Pat Darnell

Stages Dementia can be divided into seven stages which are similar to those in Alzheimer’s disease. The seven stages of dementia are as follows: I. No impairment of normal function: No sign of memory loss are visible to a medical professional nor does the patient experience any symptoms. II. Very mild cognitive decline: People may experience some loss of memory such forgetting familiar words, names, or location of wristwatch, eyeglasses or any such objects of daily use. Family, friends or colleagues may observe these signs. III. Mild cognitive decline: Early stage dementia can be diagnosed only in some individuals with the following symptoms:
The patient has trouble remembering words or names. The patient loses the ability to remember names of individuals newly introduced to him or her. Difference in performance can be easily noticeable in work environment, social environment by family, friends or colleagues. Less retention from articles or stories read in a magazine or book. The patient misplaces or loses valuable objects. Decreased ability to plan or organize. IV. Moderate cognitive decline: It is a mild or early stage dementia with the following clear cut deficiencies being observed: The patient fails recollect recent incidents or current events. The patient cannot perform some challenging mental arithmetic such as counting backwards from say 100 by 7s. The patient is not able to plan or organize complex tasks such as arranging a party, planning a picnic etc., The patient would remain socially withdrawn and silent in challenging situations. V. Moderately severe cognitive decline: It is a moderate or mid-stage AD with major gaps in memory and deficits in cognitive function. Assistance with daily activities may be required and following deficiencies are observed: The patient fails to recall current address, telephone number and name of the college or school from which they graduated. The patient is in a confused state of mind with regards to their current location, date, day of the week, season etc., The patient fails to perform even lesser challenging mental arithmetic such as counting backwards from 40 by 4s. The patient requires help in choosing the appropriate clothing for a particular season or occasion. Generally, the patient retains substantial knowledge and can tell his/her own name, names of their spouse or children. The patients do not require any assistance for eating or using toilet. VI. Severe cognitive decline: It is the next to the last stage and is also called moderately severe or mid-stage of dementia with memory difficulties continuing to worsen, personality changes emerging substantially and the patients requiring a considerable amount of help for carrying out their day-to-day activities. The following symptoms are observed in the patients: The patient loses track of some of the most recent experiences, events and even their surroundings. The patient cannot recall personal history exactly, though she/he can recall her/his name perfectly. The patient can distinguish familiar faces from unfamiliar faces. The patient requires help to dress appropriately, since they tend to create errors such as wearing shoes on the wrong feet etc., The patient experiences a disturbance in normal sleep/waking cycle. The patient would require the help for handling details of toileting such as flushing toilet, wiping and proper disposal of tissue paper. There are increasing episodes of urinary or fecal incontinence. Changes in behavior including suspicion and delusions such as suspecting the care giver as an impostor, hallucinations, repetitive behavior such as hand wringing etc., The patient tends to wander and become lost. VII. Very severe cognitive decline: It is the ultimate stage and is called Severe or late-stage with the patient losing the ability to respond to the environment, unable to communicate orally and unable to control movements. Very often patients in this stage lose the ability to communicate in a recognizable speech though they utter phrases occasionally. Patients need assistance in eating and toileting with “general incontinence of urine” (9). Patients gradually lose the ability to walk without support, to sit, to smile and hold their head up. Muscles become rigid and reflexes abnormal with swallowing becoming impaired (9).

I love the search for good Water

Good Water

I was preparing to wrap it up with a smile but decided to tough it out just before I turned off the computer but a hiccup made me hit the button twice and it re-started. So yes, no, maybe, I don't know! But I love the search for good water.

June 18, 2008 5:25 PM Stephen Muttly the Funk Dood

if Christ ate the fruit he would be just the same as us. he starved and strifed himself dictionary words are brought about with thees and more so's. If we look behind the basic misconception. Jesus was the same disciple as Buddha and Mohammad. He applied different principles for each society. Nowadays people lose reality of the true intent of religion. Offer faith and hope ful ness. I spilt the split image of a flawed system. Writing is flawed in the sense of containment. Biohazard words on pages say the same thing. REalize the true definition of history past promises. Math an extended ham mockary. Science does not provide comfort to your dying world. Literature is initially flopped. REad Write and Rhythm it Right. Or get Left Behind. Let what happens be and search for the outer limits. Solar your polar cold and heat it up like global warming hit home. The ozone is hairsprayed to death. Take a shower and slick back your lick. This is something that I need to say to make a new slither into the mind and make the forward progressed. Thank You for reading this I hope it was blessed. No more tests unless I can figure them none the less. Stephen Muttly the Funk Dood. Peace one Bob Marley. Hit it up.

June 18, 2008 6:36 PM

June 11 -- A Hot day in the Old Towne...

On this day 11 June:

Barnabee's Day

FEAST OF ST. BARNABAS: Barnabas is the patron saint of farmers, and by English tradition (in which it is sometimes called Barnabee's Day) this is supposed to be the hottest day of the year.

It was usual in some churches to decorate the altars with garlands of flowers. In Hesket, an extensive parish of Cumberlandshire, England the Court of Inglewood Forest is held annually on June 11 in the open air. The suitors assemble by the highway-side at a place marked only by an ancient thorn, where the annual dues to the lord of the forest, compositions for improvements, etc., are paid; and a jury for the whole jurisdiction is chosen from among the inhabitants of twenty mesne manors who attend on this spot.
--William S. Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs, and of Rites, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities (1897)

http://www.rightreading.com/daybook_pages/june-2.htm#13

2 A&M officials leaving

2 A&M officials leaving