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Alright, let's try this from memory: Shakedown, Dancing, Hurts me too, If I had the world to give, Corinna, They Love Each Other, Throwing Stone <break> Lost>Circumstance, He's gone, Help>slip>Franklin... drumzspace... Wharf, Not Fade Away E: Touch.
Yeah, it got busy for 2nd set. I have no love for Mayer but the band did sound good, better than I've ever heard Dead & Co. Rumor is that it's about to split, that Billy is done, so on to another transformation. Huge Shakedown street, very robust and a delight to be there. Going to try to cut out even earlier today to get there earlier.
First two songs were pretty jammin, then to blues, then back to soft jazz. Drumz sounded really good, super intense the way I luv it, but I was stuck talking a patient through it. We pulled him out of the 'pen' - a cyclone-fenced enclosure that security uses - he was allegedly trying to climb up tower 4. Been there, done that.
My last patient was someone I've known from high school and been crossing paths with in the Dead scene and at comic-cons ever since. Kind of a lonely sloppy drunk, way too huggy. His health has been declining and he was strung on new pain meds for his sciatica. That plus booze. Took a lot of sorting to reunite him with his squad.
All in all, another flashback, but a positive one - not fade away.
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- Set 1:
- Feel Like a Stranger
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Dancing in the Street
(Martha Reeves and The Vandellas cover)
Play Video
- It Hurts Me Too
(Tampa Red cover)
Play Video
- If I Had the World to Give
(Grateful Dead cover) (Oteil Burbridge on lead vocals)
Play Video
- Corrina
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- They Love Each Other
(Jerry Garcia cover)
Play Video
- Throwing Stones
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Set 2:
- Lost Sailor
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Saint of Circumstance
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- He's Gone
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Help on the Way
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Slipknot!
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Franklin's Tower
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Drums
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Space
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- The Other One
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Wharf Rat
(Grateful Dead cover)
Play Video
- Not Fade Away
(The Crickets cover)
Play Video
- Encore:
- Touch of Grey
(Grateful Dead cover)
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yeah, i'm useless today at work. trying to write but can't focus past social media posts.
thankfully today, i got free tamales! Our prez Jonny bet the warehouse staff on Brazil v Mexico, loser buys tamales for the whole office. The warehouse lost but we all won. Excellent tamales - muy deliciouso.
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Aren't you happy they played 'Touch of Grey' for the encore, though?
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
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(07-03-2018, 01:54 PM)Greg Wrote: Aren't you happy they played 'Touch of Grey' for the encore, though?
I did think of you, both when they played it and when I posted this.
Another thought - my first clients were two young men from Texas. They were in their early twenties and jumped on tour in Texas, followed them until the WA & OR shows a few days ago, saving up for their pilgrimage to CA. It truly warmed the rockles of my heart to see young people on tour again. Jerry's been gone 23 years now but you know our love won't fade away.
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Ah, rockles. You know, you can take a pill to alleviate the suffering of heart rockles.
It's hard focusing here as well.
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Happy Independence Day!
Don’t disturb me until the fireworks.
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From talking down deadheads on acid to talking down T’s cat from Independence Day.
Who talks down DM?
I bailed out of work early to get to that mad shakedown street. So worth it. Got myself some nice tiny metal stealie stickers at a discount because I had RM colors on. One will go on the CRV. Spent way too much time out there and was late for the meeting.
Joel gave the in-service on night 1 and he's a hard act to follow, so I turned my in-service into a clown show. I got a nooB to back me, someone that came all the way down from OR, following me from SNWMF, nice gal, a scuba enthusiast, with good JNK potential. There's this young RMer Khai that aspires to cross over to psych from responder, good kid, strong, and so I set him up as the fall guy for the break holds, and then tossed it to Dirty Ho. That worked out well because DH needs more seasoning to do inservices and they were both radio people.
Ran into an insane amount of old friends and acquaintances, too many of them were drunk and talking to me for way too long with laborious stories about themselves that I couldn't really track or just didn't care to listen. As an aside to Maestro Yeti, I ran into Tristram who is now living in the Cruz - we exchanged contacts and hope to get together for lunch or something to catch up. He wasn't drunk or boring - it was really delightful to reconnect.
1st set was mellow work wise. I stayed close to the annex - my post - which was well positioned for crowd watching and talking to old friends. 2nd set had more activity, but on the whole, lighter than the night before. There was a case of an alleged dog that got into some shrooms but the tour rats that came to us with the problem didn't want us to see the dog, so we just gave them some french fries and activated charcoal. A friend's brother got busted. Another old friend from tour, who is now MVPD, gave me the down low on who they were busting and why (basically felony dealing - pot was overlooked). They had a booth right next to the fire station and the bustee didn't notice the camera pointed right at him. I heard later that he's free now and no harm done, which is good enough for me. My 2nd to last patient was a trippin midget. He had shut down, refusing to engage. Midgets are already kind of trippy to me, so that was challenging, but we reconnected him to friends and it was all good. The final patient was too late to save and had to be rolled.
The band sounded okay overall. Still can't quite hang with Mayer. Chimenti (keys) sounded really off to me too. Many of the jams felt too labored or slow, but there were a few moments where the sound was almost there, and that was satisfying. I got access to some seats in the center via a pair of tickets that were being passed around and saw all of drumzspace>other one. I grabbed another late add from SNWMF to accompany me and we enjoyed the view thoroughly. Oteil joined the rhythm devils and it was okay, had some moments, but the journey to the other one was a bit belabored and overdone. When Days Between came on, Bobby sounded awful on it. This was Jerry's final power ballad and no one can really touch that. Made it out for the encore - Ripple - with another old deadhead RMer. A fine finish for the evening because everyone sang and the band themselves were superfluous.
It was really a joy to return to the Dead scene. It's such a part of me and I'm such a part of it. I'm inspired to see it continues to thrive, even in its diminished state. Love is real, not fade away.
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Truth be told, it was a trippin dwarf, not a trippin midget. It's just trippin midget sounds better. Like a band name.
I've given Mayer plenty of nights now, plenty more than one, and there's been moonlight, but I still don't see him in a new light. He still hasn't broken through.
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One last observation. On the side of stage left, there was a huge banner that said FUCK CHARUCKI. You couldn't see it unless you were fairly close. Chris Charucki was a longtime roadie of the Dead. I knew him in passing. He died last April.
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I'm just gonna leave this right here...
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WHY, IN 2018, IS HIGH FASHION FIXATED ON THE GRATEFUL DEAD AESTHETIC?
ALEXANDRA MONDALEKSEP 27, 2018
From tie-dye to lightning skulls, the iconic imagery represents a collective sense of nostalgia, as well as the yearning for a more carefree and optimistic time.
From a distance, most vintage rock band T-shirts look about the same: An interchangeable name printed on faded black cotton, bannered over a skull or a rose reminding an onlooker of a foregone era of badassery, where music, the great unifier, reigned supreme.
There are bands whose emblems, however, are recognizable from the stratosphere. The Grateful Dead is one of them, as their iconic 13-point lightning bolt, which, among other band imagery, has found itself recently co-opted by the fashion set. It's gained momentum over the last year and more so this past summer, coinciding with the "sleazecore" aesthetic — greasy hair and a patchy mustache, goofy bowling and Hawaiian shirts, baggy pants — that has found its way into mainstream fashion (much to this writer's dejection), pioneered by Justin Bieber, Pete Davidson and the like.
There wasn't necessarily any news about the band itself (the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 after lead singer Jerry Garcia died) that precipitated the onslaught of capsule collections featuring licensed Grateful Dead imagery released since the end of summer. Dead & Company — a band made up of former Grateful Dead members plus noted hypebeast John Mayer — have been touring since 2015. Meanwhile, Amazon Studios released a nearly four-hour long documentary about the band in 2017.
Nearly a year later, several high-end brands including Del Toro shoes, Proenza Schouler, James Perse and R13 (among countless other designers leaning into tie-dye, including luxury houses like Prada) have found a way to capitalize on an undying market, with Grateful Dead skull-stamped shoes, lightning bolt T-shirts and more.
Chris Leba, founder of R13 denim, says his brand’s Spring 2019 Grateful Dead merchandise reminds him of summers spent in the Hamptons in the late '80s with his Deadhead friends. "In a way, [the collection] is a reaction to this modern world of social media," Leba tells Fashionista. "It made me yearn for a different time; something authentic, pure, spontaneous and unproduced. A return to a simpler time." (Lest anyone doubt Leba's actual interest in the band, his favorite tunes include "Scarlet Begonias" and "Fire on the Mountain.")
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Del Toro x Grateful Dead slippers. Photo: Del Toro
While Leba's fandom manifested itself now, Jessica Pigza, librarian at the University of California Santa Cruz Outreach and Exhibits, says there's virtually never a downturn in interest. "The joke is, 'Deadheads are everywhere, you just don't know it,' but it's true," Pigza, who helped curate a permanent Grateful Dead exhibit and archive that serves as a pseudo-pilgrimage for Deadheads the world over, says.
Perhaps it's parents of the Dead generation passing on their fond memories of acid tripping and communal bonding to their children. Millennials, many of whom only know a world without Garcia, would be discovering the band for the first time — and with it, the marching bears, the Steal Your Face skull. The imagery represents a collective sense of nostalgia, a "laid back, hippie feel," one that seems contemporaneously vintage and new, says Jemma Shin, associate editor of consumer insight at WGSN, a trend forecasting agency. "Picking up a [Grateful Dead] piece has an iconic appeal — you're not just buying the T-shirt, you're buying into the free-minded lifestyle that comes with it," Shin tells Fashionista. "It gives instant access to a more carefree and optimistic time."
One can't help but wonder whether fashion's Grateful Dead collaborations are a reaction against the merch craze dominated primarily by hip-hop and pop musicians (Kanye West, Ariana Grande, Drake and Travis Scott come to mind first), or a complement to it. Shin believes it's the latter. "While streetwear is losing its authenticity by being played out or appropriated by luxury brands, this hippie-sleezecore culture seems to merge into something different,” Shin says. “We used to mock this sort of laid-back, sloppy look, but things have changed.
Shin's not the only one who recognizes the fluidity between the musical genres. "There's as much Migos in there as there is Jerry Garcia," John Mayer told The New Yorker in early September, while discussing Online Ceramics's best-selling Dead-inspired T-shirts. "There's Post Malone and Houston trap. They're building Online Ceramics iconography rather than Dead iconography."
In any case, fashion doesn't exist in a vacuum (despite what a $3,000 blanketsays), which, according to Shin is "why so many designers and brands are now tapping into this cool sense of liberation that the [Grateful Dead] offers," as "anxiety is growing from digital overload and political and economic uncertainty."
Or maybe the Dead trend has caught on because menswear's favorite celebrities are now in on the secret. Jonah Hill, Mayer ("I don't know how hip John Mayer is, but Jonah Hill is definitely hip," Pigza says), Virgil Abloh and Bieber have all, at some point, dressed themselves in a look no less likely to be spotted at a John Elliott show than at Summer Jam 1973.
If the Spring 2019 runways are any indication, streetwear is perhaps becoming passé; the sneakerhead has evolved into a sleazecore bro, Shin says, swapping his Supreme shirt for an Online Ceramics tie-dye piece. Then again, how many consumers in the larger menswear market are religiously following what Jonah Hill wears and what Proenza Schouler offers on the seasonal runways as though it were gospel?
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Proenza Schouler x Grateful Dead handbags. Photo: Proenza Schouler
"We've seen before the sense of something that's seemingly a niche cultural thing co-opted by a brand attempting to reach a mass audience," says Jacob Gallagher, men's fashion editor at The Wall Street Journal, who reported on fashion's obsession with the Dead in April. "People who are buying James Perse or Proenza are not necessarily aware of the current moment in fashion, which is that it's super cool among menswear fashion editors and reporters in Brooklyn and Manhattan to be wearing Dead bootlegged T-shirts."
To boot, the price tags assigned to the new crop of Grateful Dead licensed products serve as the antithesis, or evolution, of Deadhead culture, depending on your perspective. Philip Scher, anthropology professor at the University of Oregon who specializes in popular culture, notes that the Grateful Dead was widely known outside of its music for its democratic approach to consumerism.
"Tapers," or folks who smuggled tape recorders into live concerts in order to later flip bootlegged audio on the street, were previously banned from concerts during the 1960s and '70s. But the Grateful Dead were the first band to publicly allow them access to record the shows if they kept a promise to share the music and not sell it for profit. A $385 pair of shoes seems to buck that ideology, especially when compared to a $45 Online Ceramics, Grateful Dead-inspired T-shirt (note: OC's merchandise isn't officially licensed). R13's Leba admits the price point of his brand's Grateful Dead merch "would be out of reach for most Deadheads." Then again, Boomers who listened to the Dead in their first incarnation now have greater spending power than they did back then, when they were taking their first ride through "Anthem of the Sun."
"Every generation of kids has some subset that goes hippie, and those kids aren't generally the ones buying [the luxury Grateful Dead products], since they can get used clothing and tie-dye for way cheaper," says Scher, who, as it so happens, is a casual Grateful Dead fan. "Anyway, it's kind of antithetical to the general ethos to spend a lot of money on the Grateful Dead, no?"
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And to think. I used to dis Keanu...
Quote:Keanu Reeves Discusses the Time His Band Trolled a Metal Fest With a Grateful Dead Cover
Maggie Serota // April 15, 2019
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Keanu Reeves took us all on a ’90s nostalgia trip during a recent interview with GQ when he mentioned his old band Dogstar.
The group began in 1991 when Reeves complimented drummer Robert Mailhouse’s Detroit Red Wings hockey sweater and stayed together, on and off, until 2001. They were largely dismissed as another pointless vanity project of a Hollywood actor despite putting out adequate, if not particularly interesting alt-rock. Reeves admits to feeling bad about the undue scrutiny his celebrity placed on the band before adding: “I guess it would have helped if our band was better.”
Reeves also shared a fond memory from when Dogstar was inexplicably booked at the 1992 Milwaukee Metal Fest, alongside acts like Agnostic Front, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, and Deicide.
“We played Milwaukee Metal Fest. Got killed. I think we played close to [belligerent New York hardcore-punk legends] Murphy’s Law. Imagine,” Reeves told GQ. “So we played a Grateful Dead cover, at Milwaukee Metal Fest.”
“We were like, ‘They hate us. What are we doing here? What can we do? Let’s do the Grateful Dead cover…They were just like, Fuck you, you suck. I had the biggest grin on my face, man.”
Reeves didn’t remember which song they played, but the band’s setlists seem to point to it being “New Minglewood Blues.”
Of course, when you have a movie career to fall back on, it’s probably easier to take eating shit in front of thousands of aggressive metal fans in stride. Despite touring with Bon Jovi and opening a show for David Bowie (and making music history by having a little unknown band named Weezer open for them in 1992), Dogstar never really broke through, but at least they got to troll a football field full of Cannibal Corpse fans with a Dead cover.
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So this weekend is Dead&Co at Shoreline on Friday & Saturday. RM asked me to put together a psych squad. Unfortunately, I am truly the last Jedi now. RM has abandoned psych and psych has abandoned RM. Most of my psych peeps have either been blackballed out, haven't kept up their certs (gotta renew at health care provider level cpr, which is a little more rigorous than common cpr but not that much more) or haven't gone to the orientation (they had a 2-year warning that they would be cut off). Clowns... all of them.
So while juggling TCEC & Cali Roots, I've also been juggling this. And I've failed. The psych crew is minimal. Friday I have two gal friends, the response coordinator from jMED and a psych nursing student who I've been counseling on the side (she underwent some horrible trauma recently). Both are friends and neither have ever been to a Dead show in their life. I gotz nooBs. Cute nooBs, but nooBs nonetheless. There's a few old fart psych vols on the list but they'll mostly be in the Space Tent because they are old farts. We'll be the rovers.
If DM can secure a 3rd gal, he's dubbing them DM's angels.
Okay, that sounded funnier in my head but looks dumb in print. On Saturday I swap my psynursingstud for a licensed psych nurse who also made it to TCEC and Cali Roots, the lone survivor of this May 2019 triple-header. He's a little under the weather after CR but feels he can rally by this weekend. His first show for RM was Fare The Well, and I poached him to JM for CR. He fit right in like all of my poaches, including my slave chick.
Sunday I should rest but G2 is throwing a tcec 'thank you' pool party at their home in 'toga. I have to show face. I'm not going to swim though because most of the attendees are buff masters and I'm very out-of-shape now, plus my body is horribly scarred from that vermin bite barrage I suffered earlier this year. I look like I have the pox. I'm actually excited tho because the Os wound up with Baihu, our old office cat, who I haven't seen since he was adopted by a warehouse worker a few years ago. No one told me. The cat was just gone. That warehouse dude had to give the cat back though because he had to move, and Jr. Claw lost their cat when moving back into G2s home (for the better school district for his kids) so Baihu was the perfect replacement.
I'll be in svale all this weekend.
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Friday night was busy. Lots of shrooms and minimal staff. I got there early and dove into Shakedown street (which was also the soundcheck btw) with my nooB DMs angels in tow (sorry, like with my CR dancehall onesie divas, I just wasn't that into taking pix). It was fun being tour guide, but it got a bit cumbersome because few can really keep up with dm in the dead scene, even an older slower dm.
Saw the trippin midget from last year. Trippin midget would make a good band name, yes?
Got the 1st shroom IPR with the 1st song. That lasted all night. So many shrooms. Got out for a second during drumz and then not again until the final song & encore. That sucked. Not enough psych for breaks.
1: Stranger, Brown-eyed, Mama tried, Peggy O, Hurts me too, Black throated, Casey
2: Scarlet>Fire, Estimated, Eyes, DrumzSpace, Wheel, Wharf Rat, SSDD
E: The Weight
The sound in RM is super mushy so I couldn't really judge. I caught the end of Rat and they were really off key. SSDD was okay and The Weight almost worked, not bad but not really that moving.
There was a lot of RM politrix. Those in and those out, bending my ear over all the changes. I get it - RM is being forced in certain directions largely due to legal issues. The active shooter/terrorist scenario has made certain procedures and uniforms mandatory. I'm disappointed that a lot of psych couldn't keep up. Again, it was listening to a lot of boorish stories that I could not escape. Such a buzzkill. Dm remained sober which was unusual because he was gifted some discreet canna lozenges at the start from someone who used to gift these to dm for many years - they were a fav med. Maybe tonight.
The best part was that Trejo's Tacos has opened in the Stage Right Cafe so I finally got some. Mushroom of course. I'll have that for dinner tonight.
I'm going to get my mom lunch and then head back over.
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