Random thoughts and randomness in general

[Rude]

13 hours ago, Hoosh said:

There is. The VIP there is the front part of the balcony that is - according to the good folks at the National - 50 feet from the stage. I sat there last November (great story on how I got that ticket swap) and the seated view is spectacular.

 

It’s not just the seats though. I’ve sat in the balcony for many shows there. The seats and the view just aren’t as good. Rather, it’s the private entrance, the private bathrooms, the private bar, and the general “uncrowdedness” that is well worth the price of admission that I desire. 

 

The National, however, doesn’t sell individual show VIP passes; one purchases a VIP pass for a year at $5000 that gets you two tickets to every show for that calander year from purchase. 9/10ths of the shows there interest me not one bit, but for the others, based of of my one singular lucky experience, it is worth finding someone not going to the show.

 

You would have to have very diverse musical tastes to make use of that. Would only take 65 shows or so to break even. Plus you get primo tix for 

 

Lil Baby and posse

NBA Youngboy

rupaul’s drag race(boing)

and rainbow kitten surprise. 

 

Where can I sign up. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

So, I’m working for an older couple today who are from England originally. When I finished, stepped inside to get paid. The husband comes in to the kitchen and says, ‘today is the fiftieth anniversary of ‘Hey Jude’. The English are proud of their Beatles. She has told me about how she saw them perform in England when she was a young lady. She said she was a little older than most of the girls in the crowd.  (Funny, she never said anything about male fans) but you couldn’t hear them playing for all the screaming. I told them how the Grateful Dead would intertwine that song with Dear Mister Fantasy, literally play two songs at once. They weren’t impressed. Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Hey Jude.

[chuckvegas]

The fiftieth anniversary of the release of Dear Mr Fantasy was last year. Perhaps they were also big fans of Traffic and, in their reserved British manner, simply too polite to overtly express their disgust at what they regard as the Yank way of desecrating such masterpieces.

[Taper Ron]

32 minutes ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

She said she was a little older than most of the girls in the crowd.  (Funny, she never said anything about male fans) but you couldn’t hear them playing for all the screaming.

 

Might be because there weren't many male fans in the early years.  I remember when they released their first songs the girls loved the Beatles ("Oh, he's so cute"), and the boys hated them (" funny lookin' long haired weirdos"). 

 

Considering the Amps they used (on the American tour anyway) you' be lucky to hear them at all.

[Tom Banjo]

That’s okay. I don’t think much of their Beatles.

[PoetryGirl]

Organic gardening is intensive and a labor of love. Just count on losing 2 out of 10  veggies. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

Frank and I planted 110 acres of soybeans on his organic farm early summer. A flush of weeds took over after the last cultivating, choked out the soybeans, no light getting through. It will be unharvestable. Long story, but problems with the organic alfalfa also. He’s gonna lose about a hundred grand but still bought the seed and did all the work. Humbling.

[Greg from Chestertown]

When I got to the farm this morning, I saw that he had tilled the field under, soybeans and weeds. Gonna plant wheat and try to salvage the year. Nothing’s for certain, it can always go wrong....

[PoetryGirl]

Wow. 

 

Have you ever tried growing quinoa? Just curious. I heard it is very drought tolerant. Quinoa could one day help solve the world hunger problem. Read an article about San Fran company that looks at weather trends and predicts with amazing accuracy the best time to plant. The guy used to be a stock broker and used same modalities to help farmers. . Familiar with milpa? The three sisters? Corn beans squash. Symbiotic plants. There are tracks of land in Mexico that have been repetitively farmed for 4,000 years without depletion of the soil. 

 

Captain Jim’s Dead bug did the trick for my tomatoes. Very cool as it is made from a bacteria found only in some abandoned Caribbean warehouse. Weird science, for sure. I had these cute little orange nymphs on my zinnias that jumped to lunch on my tomatoes. I captured and drowned them in soapy water. Catching the mature Stinkbugs was a trick though. The compost we used yielded great results- 6 1/2 ft tall tomato plants!!!  A company picks up our food scraps and we can request at no charge compost whenever for $22/ mth. 

 

I know now that is nothing compared to what you do - just my journey.

[Greg from Chestertown]

Wow! Nice! Yea, what we grow goes to feed cows that produce organic milk.

[Rude]

On 8/30/2018 at 7:26 PM, Greg from Chestertown said:

Frank and I planted 110 acres of soybeans on his organic farm early summer. A flush of weeds took over after the last cultivating, choked out the soybeans, no light getting through. It will be unharvestable. Long story, but problems with the organic alfalfa also. He’s gonna lose about a hundred grand but still bought the seed and did all the work. Humbling.

 

Wheres the bailout. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

He has crop insurance. He grew up farming, had great success in the medical profession. Now, he’s doing it more or less for the challenge. Some people call people like him gentlemen farmers. Some call them hobby farmers.

[Greg from Chestertown]

Ship of fools, war frat music festival September 8th, Egg Harbor City, N.J. Camping, Grateful Dead cover bands, warf rat sober music festival. Pretty cool. 

[Rude]

1st jubilee was going on 6yrs ago. How time flies. 

[Dead duck]

48 minutes ago, Rude said:

1st jubilee was going on 6yrs ago. How time flies. 

All the cornmeal talk had me reminiscing about jubilee 1. Great music, shit weather, but good vibes prevailed and great times were had. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

Isn’t today Mickey Hart’s birthday?

[topher44]

2 hours ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

Isn’t today Mickey Hart’s birthday?

Yes, it most certainly is. His 74th. Happy Birthday Mickey !!!!! 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Do you think if Jerry had lived to be 75 we would have all these GD cover bands? Was his passing a good thing to keep the music and all that goes with parking lot dwellers alive and thriving?

[Greg from Chestertown]

Great question. Hard to say. Things would have been different but I think the cover bands would still be around. Some were there when Jer Bear was alive. Local bar bands. Would they thrive like nowadays? Probably not. Heck, if you ask me, Dead and company is a dead cover band. Dark Star Orchestra has captured that intangible that the he Dead had. Experimental group music moving forward into uncharted waters. That’s what separates them from all of the others. What was your original question?

[Island Bro]

Well there were lots of GD cover bands around even when the GD were still touring hard....

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Yes, lots of good bands then and now, especially dark star orchestra, it's all happening just as it's supposed to 

[Island Bro]

Indeed.

The term I return to over and over during this ongoing kickass DSO era is "Renaissance "

[Tea]

Awesome Sauce

 

thanks for the upload to the photo gallery!

 

Siren Song ❤️

[Greg from Chestertown]

I love that pic. Lisa rocks !

[Rude]

I’d say if Jerry was still touring there wouldn’t be National dead acts like Dso and JRAD. You would have lots of local bands but I don’t see with dead touring 70 shows a year if people would follow another one.