paden cash, post: 325898, member: 20 wrote:
I read yesterday that the "perennial" Grateful Dead played their last concert at Soldier Field. The four surviving members will apparently hang up their Fenders and drumsticks. Finally. Jesus fellas, took you long enough. Now, I'm not against anybody making a living. We all need to pay the light bill. But these guys were a cliché thirty years ago...and I'm glad they've decided to put it down.
I can remember the sixties, sort of...There were lots of musical groups that purported to epitomize or signify the "movement". The movement being that rebellion from cookie-cutter-neat-line-predictable-regimentation that seemed to squash the creative hearts and souls of all us young born-after-WWII-baby-boomers. The "Establishment" licked its chops as we all came to our majority, awaiting our peasant contribution to the corporate-retail-social-machine. It seemed as if we had just been born, and now we had to get a number and stand in line to help out the horrible monster that was gobbling us up...making us cut our hair and get real jobs.
"No way, man!" was our cry. And young folks that have a cause need a rebel cry. And the music of the day was our anthem.
I never cared much for the "Dead". The entire side of an LP filled with a senseless jam could only be understood by someone that had their mind somewhere else..if you know what I mean. Out of all the good damned music that was cranked out back then, the world choses to remember those years with the "Dead Heads". It's kind of repulsive to someone like me that actually survived those years.
I don't know what the draw was that kept their fans so loyal. And when Jerry Garcia passed away I was pretty sure they were finally going to "sit down and shut up". Boy was I wrong. They got worse. The original fans had kids and grandkids....VW Microbuses were being handed down from generation to generation. I can only hope that this time they really mean it. We'll see.
I did have a "Dead Skull" painted on a motorcycle tank back in the early seventies. That's about as far as I ever got being for the "Dead".
If I remember right, that bike was stolen and I never saw it again. Fitting. I was standing in line at the store the other day and a young girl in front of me had this skull tattooed on the small of back. I'm thinking to myself that Garcia was really dead before she was born. Sheeesh.
No, this old hippie hated the "Dead". And as courteous as the world was for all that music and hub-bub back then; I feel we need to pay it back by letting the young folks nowadays have their time and their music in the limelight. Let them stand up for what they feel is their cause. Let's let them create their own rebellion, whatever it may be...
...and it might happen, if one or two of them will ever look up from their damned phone.
I hear ya, buddy. I never saw (or heard) a great deal of talent in them. Nothing like the Santana bands, Allman Bros., CCR or CSN and many of the other outstanding musicians of the time. Some of their stuff is good for just layin' back and passing out, but it never evokes much emotion in me. Had a coworker who was a Deadhead - he couldn't explain his interest in them. Maybe it's something you're born with (or without)...
I had some of their (the Dead) albums. I didn't particularly hate them at the time, there was just a lot better stuff to listen to in my opinion. I just couldn't understand the attraction in their "after-life"; there were so many groups making good music. Like one guy said, some get it, some don't. I mean, Pigpen died of biliary cirrhosis in '74. That was the beginning of the end for the band in my mind...but they survived.
Another group I find that leaves me cold is Billy Gibbons and his boyZZ. I think they're a unique brand of music. I can't think of a better group to listen to on the juke box in some dive for the first three tequilas....after that it starts droning and sounding like the record's stuck. Last time I saw them was '72 or so...and I don't think they've come up with much new stuff since then.
It's all personal taste, apparently. 😉
D. J. Fenton, post: 325959, member: 22 wrote:
There is the thumbs down button I have been looking for!
The Dead was more of an event than a concert. They had their moments. More before than after I quit smoking ...... (did I say that out loud?)
One thing that is really kind of funny, Deadheads don't take it personally that you might not like the Dead, but so many non-deadheads take it so personally that we do enjoy the Dead, and then feel the need to ridicule, offer derogatory comments, and basically deride the whole experience. As if they have a clue 🙂
Trust me, we're fine.......
PS I was more a 'freak' than a hippy. If you know the difference then you understand, if you don't understand then you don't need to 🙂
"P.S. I'm reading a book by Ivan Doig called The Whistling Season that so far seems like it was written about the Cash boys"
Is this the part?
"When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher,...."
😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 326352, member: 379 wrote: "P.S. I'm reading a book by Ivan Doig called The Whistling Season that so far seems like it was written about the Cash boys"
Is this the part?
"When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher,...."
😉
Not that part, as far as I know.
It's the part about racing horses while sitting backwards in the saddle that reminded me of Paden.:-)
foggyidea, post: 326290, member: 155 wrote: One thing that is really kind of funny, Deadheads don't take it personally that you might not like the Dead, but so many non-deadheads take it so personally that we do enjoy the Dead, and then feel the need to ridicule, offer derogatory comments, and basically deride the whole experience. As if they have a clue 🙂
Trust me, we're fine.......
PS I was more a 'freak' than a hippy. If you know the difference then you understand, if you don't understand then you don't need to 🙂
Don, We've met and hung out in your house and kicked up clams together in the "bay" in Brewster. Trust me, you have just nailed it. If you don't get it, then you make fun of it. They call me a hippy because I have long hair, so OK, i'll take that, but I've never met a guy like you that I would call a "freak". weird, but not a freak. Just kidding.
Hippies had long hair and flowers, freaks had long hair and shot guns 🙂 (More of the Merry Prankster types)
Aren't you supposed to be on the Cape any day now?
Don Blameuser, post: 326355, member: 30 wrote: ...It's the part about racing horses while sitting backwards in the saddle that reminded me of Paden.:-)
I guess I'm happy to be on someone's mind.
Don, if your avatar pic is a mug shot, you are the spitting image of a buddy of mine named James. I tried to find a pic of him smiling because that's what looks just like your avatar. Being of the 1% it's difficult to get a pic of him smiling in public, though.
The resemblance is eerie.
I assume that you're referring to the other Don?
Me, in 1974
Yeah, that's me, Paden.
I never rode with those boys though:-)
Don
Don Blameuser, post: 326355, member: 30 wrote: Not that part, as far as I know.
It's the part about racing horses while sitting backwards in the saddle that reminded me of Paden.:-)
Hey Don. I like your new avatar. That is a real nice looking gentleman.
foggyidea, post: 326365, member: 155 wrote: I assume that you're referring to the other Don?
Me, in 1974
Whoowee, you lucky you never went to jail.
Don
Don Blameuser, post: 326619, member: 30 wrote: Whoowee, you lucky you never went to jail.
Don
Yeah, no comment.....
foggyidea, post: 326365, member: 155 wrote: I assume that you're referring to the other Don?
Me, in 1974
and I thought I had long hair.......
my hair was that long when I came out of college and started as party chief on June 1. The first week was getting used to the situation and visiting the ongoing projects. The next week was laying out roads and monuments with no shade. By June 10th my hair was sheared down to 1/4in and the critters had plenty of nesting material....
Hey ya 'ol fart check out the "rides" in this vid. B-)
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