Random thoughts and randomness in general

[Greg from Chestertown]

Jack Black cracks me the fuck up. If you grew up in the seventies, he lived in your neighborhood, went to your school. I watch School of Rock every time it comes around on my television. 

[PoetryGirl]

Tea-

 

Millennials need constant praise and reassurance.  It is what drives them. Period ( exhausting- right? True happiness and self esteem comes from within. Nope not for them) They are also the most loyal of all the labeled generations, if you can capture it.

 

Incidentally they are also on a whole the most philanthropic. It is the sum of their age group’s combined efforts that earns them this distinction. 

[Tea]

1 hour ago, PoetryGirl said:

Tea-

Millennials need constant praise and reassurance. 

Uh-Oh.  Does this mean I'm a hybrid Gen X'er or am I just immature?  Be gentle.

[PoetryGirl]

3 hours ago, Tea said:

Uh-Oh.  Does this mean I'm a hybrid Gen X'er or am I just immature?  Be gentle.

i think you already know the answer. You are smart. 

[BillK522]

3 hours ago, PoetryGirl said:

i think you already know the answer. You are smart. 

 

I think you are both smart.

 

Praise DSO.

[Ammagamalin Crew]

I think everyone here is smart, and maybe the women are more so

[Island Bro]

12 hours ago, Ammagamalin Crew said:

I think everyone here is smart, and maybe the women are more so

 

That's Right

[Mango]

True intelligence is not arrived at purely through the intellect. True intelligence is attained through a balance of the left and right, male and female, hemispheres of the brain. Neither pole of the duality is smarter but there is certainly a long standing male imbalance going on in the world. I hope we can find the middle, the ying-yang. 

 

Does anyone care? Some do.

[PoetryGirl]

Hearts aglow. 
 

So thankful to be a part of this tribe. You are my people. Gratitude earthbrothers and sisters- blessed rising! Happy Thanksgiving 

 

 

enjoy this Dear Mr Fantasy. Atlanta  4/1/1990 

https://archive.org/details/gd1990-04-01.sbd.miller.87809.sbeok.flac16/gd90-04-01d2t05.flac

 

and donate today. 

 

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Gotta be the prettiest Stella Blue., all space is great. Thanks PG!

[PoetryGirl]

Glad you saw it through ... great show that year

[Tea]

6 hours ago, PoetryGirl said:

Hearts aglow. 
and donate today. 

 

http://dsoforums.net/donate/donations.html

 

Thanks Ron ❤️

[Tom Banjo]

On 11/27/2019 at 8:46 AM, Mango said:

True intelligence is not arrived at purely through the intellect. True intelligence is attained through a balance of the left and right, male and female, hemispheres of the brain. Neither pole of the duality is smarter but there is certainly a long standing male imbalance going on in the world. I hope we can find the middle, the ying-yang. 

 

Does anyone care? Some do.

I don’t know man. I love your emphasis and belief in duality but our world currently suffers from the lack of true men. I dance the yin and the yang but at the heart of it, I’m full of testosterone. I think there is too much of an attempt for both male and female at least amongst the intellectuals to become one and the same. Our world needs men. Our world needs women. 

[Mango]

38 minutes ago, Mason's Child said:

I don’t know man. I love your emphasis and belief in duality but our world currently suffers from the lack of true men. I dance the yin and the yang but at the heart of it, I’m full of testosterone. I think there is too much of an attempt for both male and female at least amongst the intellectuals to become one and the same. Our world needs men. Our world needs women. 

 

IMO a true man is balanced. No one is purely yin or yang. But as i said, "intellectual" doesn't imply intelligence. So i agree that our world suffers from a lack of quality men but dont agree that men need to be devoid of feminine qualities to be "true men". 

[Tea]

 

[Tea]

Infuse it now so it has some time to steep

 

 

[Dead duck]

Show me some kids playin/singing Jerry and I’ll 😢 every time. Love it

[PoetryGirl]

Charlie Miller’s go fund me 

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/6l033hs

[Tea]

Barraco is wise.

 

"Has playing this music so much and with everyone you have played with given you a larger picture of what IT is? Along with most deadheads, I would venture to guess that it is more than just music, or maybe it is just music at its finest. It's fun to speculate, only fifty or so years from its inception here, what the Grateful Dead is."

 

"The beauty and mystery of chemistry. Why do we fall in love with just certain people? When the chemistry is working, you feel like a flock of geese or birds or fish. All flying in the same direction yet like a double helix with all sorts of twists and turns.
The Dead has become a cultural phenomena above and beyond the music."

[Tea]

Written by John Mayer

"I’m a good enough guitar player to know a great guitarist when I hear one, but I had to become an even better one to begin to understand the depth and complexity of Jerry Garcia’s playing. 

 

I’ve always said that musicians play like they are, and in the case of Garcia, his performances serve as a detailed map of a man, his intentions, his desires, and his impressions of the world around him. And going by that map, Garcia was a lovely, mighty soul. I never met him, and will never understand the loss of those who did, but the vast archive of his music amounts to the makings of a starry night sky that turns listeners into explorers.  Several years ago I set out not just to learn Garcia’s approach to the guitar and the songs he played, but to learn what about it has allowed millions of people who don’t play the guitar to key into it for hours on end. Soloing has been known since its inception as a kind of self-indulgent expression. Why, then, could so many listeners, myself included, listen to him do it endlessly without fatigue?

 

To best understand what makes Garcia’s guitar playing so unique, it helps to start with what it sidesteps: though it drew from blues and R&B, his guitar approach left a few traditional elements out of the equation, he didn’t play from that well-worn feral, sexual place that traditional blues music traded in, nor did he really touch the sinister aspects that were born into the idiom. Garcia didn’t sing about wanting to rock a young woman all night long, and any of his deals with the devil existed metaphorically as mere setbacks. (What’s 20 bucks, anyway?) These changes affect the fundamental color palette of the storytelling. I’m not sure the sun ever rises in Chicago blues music, but in the musical storytelling of Garcia and the Grateful Dead, it shines so bright it hurts.

On a more technical note, he played most often in a major blues scale, which added to this mix of innocence, and even joy. Minor blues notes lend themselves to the exquisiteness of pain, while major blues scales kind of explore the relief from it. Garcia played to relieve people of pain. That melodic innocence must have something to do with bringing so many people to their “happy place.” He wasn’t pulling notes from an anguished place within, he was catching them with a butterfly net as they went flitting by overhead. On a tactile level, he held the guitar with grace. It wasn’t a weapon, it was a vehicle. He took it easy. He may have played fast, but he was thinking slow. And that makes us listen with a smile. 

I put Jerry Garcia on the same level as Miles Davis and Bill Evans because of the intention in his performing; once you’ve learned all the notes, and the chords, and the bends and the runs, you come to the final frontier of playing which is the why of it all, and that’s where the power was and still is in his playing. He played from a real place, a place that faced out to the world, not for his own reception or gratification. He played for the joy of interacting with the band and with the music he loved. If you listen close enough to a musician, you can tell what they’re looking to get out of each and every note they make. Garcia, to me, was looking to bring music to life out of the tacit, sacred duty to use his gift.Even after learning these things, they offer very little help in sounding anything like the man. That’s because he didn’t play anything stock or repetitive. There are no “signature Jerry Garcia solo riffs” as exist with so many revered guitarists. To “sound like Jerry,” you have to make people feel like he did, and well—good luck with that.

The real magic—the kind that will make the Grateful Dead music live forever—that’s in the way we carry it on in our hearts and minds. I don’t listen to Garcia and the band play—I watch it. I believe we all do, and that what we see is a blend of the music, the year in which it was played, the season and location of the show so as to understand the state of mind the band was in that night, that week, that presidency. We see it differently from one another the way we do our own dreams, but we all agree that our dreams contain these songs, and this band, those places and names. And that’s how the Grateful Dead managed to freeze time. We discuss our favorite years in present tense; we say we just heard the best version of something last night as if that was the moment it first took place. Your favorite year of their music "wasn’t", it "is." And in that way, inside that beautiful dreamscape the band created, the Grateful Dead is still up there, still playing. And Jerry is right there in front of them, and time is held in place by those who refuse to let it fade, and even as we sleep, as long as one of us is listening, the band is still playing.  We lose the ones we love, we pine for those who have left, and we lament the changes of modern times. But the makers of this music dug a tunnel, and it runs beneath time and space, and we, the ones who love it like family, crawl through to visit 1974, and 1969, and 1987 and 1990. If we were alive at the time the show took place, we see ourselves as the people we were in the lives we had, and if we weren’t born yet, we get to wistfully dream what it must have been like.

We only get a few minutes on earth, and Jerry Garcia gave all his minutes so that we could forever visit his life and times through his playing, and let it unravel into a new kind of now."❤

[chuckvegas]

Well thought, well stated, deeply impressive. I am moved. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

Right!? That piece gives me new found respect for Mayer. He gets it. A pretty good attempt at describing the indescribable. 

[John A]

Yeah, that was good.

[BillK522]

Well done, sir.

[Tom Banjo]

I want to know who really wrote that