All Purpose Coronavirus Discussion Part XVIV: We're Goin Off The Rail On A Crazy Monorail

[deadhead]

To mellow things a bit, I'm driving from Harrisburg to the high peaks region of the Adirondacks tomorrow for a few days of hiking. It will be great to get away from everything for a few days.

I know many dislike the Grateful Dead, and I did too when I was a metalhead teenager, but I came to appreciate them as I aged. When I leave the driveway tomorrow, I'm putting on the RFK Stadium show from 1973. I did it once before and it took me past Albany before it was over. I don't know the official stats, but I think it might have been their longest show ever....like 4.5 - 5 hours long. I don't care who you are, that's a LONG time to be playing!

The "Here Comes Sunshine" from that show was sublime, IMO. (For the uninitiated, yes, the song is long, but it does pick up as it goes along.) Good music for cruising endless miles on interstates. My favorite part is coming out of the little breakdown that starts at 5:48.

That was a great show, I was there both days/nights, jumping through the Doors of Perception.
A great time was had by all.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Waiting to see if I actually have work tomorrow. I was off today because of all this. I work what’s considered an essential but it’s not that essential to put people at risk as we have delivery drivers in the building too.

 

[Yukon Cornelius]

That was a great show, I was there both days/nights, jumping through the Doors of Perception.
A great time was had by all.

Good stuff, DH! To me, it's good stuff in an unaltered state as well, lol.

 

[Rebels57]

I’m watching CNN and what the security forces are doing to these peaceful protesters by the White House is absolutely disgusting.

I was watching that too. Wild.

Looks like Jabba just slithered out of his bunker to spew some word salad with spittle dressing on the white house lawn

 

[BigToe]

I’m watching CNN and what the security forces are doing to these peaceful protesters by the White House is absolutely disgusting.

Yet so many are focusing frustration on looters. It blows my mind.

 

[Rebels57]

Yet so many are focusing on looters. It blows my mind.

Theres so much happening its hard to even keep up with and im sure whatever is being said right now by Jabba is going to make it worse.

 

[Cody Webster]

He had the protesters cleared out so he could go to St John's Church and pray

 

[Jack Straw]

I was watching that too. Wild.

Looks like Jabba just slithered out of his bunker to spew some word salad with spittle dressing on the white house lawn

His speech sounded like something Putin or some other autocrat would say.

 

[deadhead]

Not every place has burned.

How a City Once Consumed by Civil Unrest Has Kept Protests Peaceful

 

[Jack Straw]

He had the protesters cleared out so he could go to St John's Church and pray

They literally gassed and sprayed people with rubber bullets so he could walk across the street for a photo op.

 

[Tripod]

He had the protesters cleared out so he could go to St John's Church and pray

He is just looking to dominate

 

[Embiid]

I was watching that too. Wild.

Looks like Jabba just slithered out of his bunker to spew some word salad with spittle dressing on the white house lawn

Interesting how much urgency there is to mobilize a response to the protests while COVID was downplayed and the response an utter mess.

 

[Cody Webster]

So the law of 1807 he enacted, where he said he'll deploy the military in states where the governor's don't get the protesters under control, only allows the military to be enacted at the governor's request. The president can't send them

Or so it's been said

 

[Jack Straw]

The church is all boarded up, he couldn’t go in to pray if he wanted to. This is pure theatrics.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I’m watching CNN and what the security forces are doing to these peaceful protesters by the White House is absolutely disgusting.

All orchestrated for a photo op with a book he's never read.

 

[Starat327]

@Hollywood Couturier 7am or 630 tomorrow?

 

[Jack Straw]

All orchestrated for a photo op with a book he's never read.

What are the odds that we see some of those photos in his campaign ads?

 

[Embiid]

Grab em by the posse...

Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia

 

[DancingPanther]

@Hollywood Couturier 7am or 630 tomorrow?

Can I come too

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Hollywood Couturier 7am or 630 tomorrow?

What are you asking?

 

[Starat327]

Can I come too

Doggos or booze. Or other...'stuff'.

 

[Starat327]

What are you asking?

What time are we starting to drink?

 

[deadhead]

Good stuff, DH! To me, it's good stuff in an unaltered state as well, lol.

You had to be there, the Dead concerts of the late 1960s/early 1970s were totally mellow, you'd have a lot of freaks running around, but I don't remember a fight or any kind of incident - of course, there was Altamont, but that wasn't a "Dead" crowd.

It wasn't until the late 1970s/1980s when crowds shifted from the Dead Heads who went for the music to the ones who went for the "experience" and the frat boys who went to drink and party ("one in ten thousand that come for the show").

The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed

That was the source for "New Speedway Boogie"



1969-1974 to me are the peak years, by 1969 they had played enough to be polished (see Live/Dead) and in 1970-1972 their writing took off.
Losing Pigpen took some of the soul out of the band but Keith Godchaux was a much better musician.

When they came back after their hiatus, something was lost, but they were still a fine band through the 1970s, but Lesh's alcoholism and Jerry's heroin addiction gradually wore the band down before they rebounded in the 1989-1991 period.

Europe 1972 and the 2nd Live/Dead albums weren't optimal, the Dick Picks and the other "official bootlegs" from that period are better.

 

[DancingPanther]

Doggos or booze. Or other...'stuff'.

I'll be there

 

[DancingPanther]

What time are we starting to drink?

I haven't stopped....is that bad