I’m really not sure I would actually trust Ben Carson to operate on my brain. I know he’s very good, but…
Maybe Trumpism isn’t such a bad thing after all.
The Bloomberg News editorial board has some pretty low standards for “knows how to govern.”
The Black Panthers were ahead of their time.
The following is a little silly, but for those of us who were there, it rings very true.
Eventually, after you have (hopefully) led a long and full life, and after your grieving relatives cluster around your bedside in a most gratifying display of grief at your passing on, your soul will leave your body and you will rise into the heavens towards a light more bright and beautiful than you have even seen. As you approach, a small wooden dais topped by a very large book will appear. Behind it will be standing a very impressive angel, patiently awaiting your arrival.
He will ask you a few, quick informational questions. There may be some additional queries posed of a more searching and personal nature. Eventually, he will ask if you either attended or have listened to the Grateful Dead 1984-10-12.
If you say yes, you will be promptly admitted into Paradise with no further delay. If you say no, or merely looked baffled, there will be a prolonged, awkward silence while St. Peter regards you with pity and exasperation over the top of his glasses.
After a few seconds, he will utter a sigh, shake his head sadly, the clouds will part beneath you until you fall all the way back to Earth, where you will be forced to relive your life until you finally listen to this show.
Yeah, it’s that important.
What’s on your mind, besides the pope, of course?
Since I generally consider the Grateful Dead one of the most boring, irrelevant, and (for all that) self-reverential bands ever, I guess I know where I’m not going. But that’s just me. And anyway, according to a band of that era I found far more interesting, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.
To each their own. π
Well, from 5:30-10:00 of the first song (Feel Like a Stranger), by brain was fundamentally reorganized for life.
Four and a half minutes.
Got that much time?
It just sounds like muzak/Mood media to me. Something I’d hear in a waiting room. To be fair, I am not a person who ‘gets’ music on that kind of level.
well, at least you gave it a shot.
Similar response. The sounds don’t appeal to me.
I don’t care much for a picking, plucking electric guitar sound, especially on the high notes, nor that sort of wa-wa guitar that became common in the 70s R&B music. Nausea-inducing.
Prefer a clanging electric guitar of the type the Byrds produced on the 12-string Rickenbacker in the mid-60s, or the guitar sounds heard during my early impressionable years like the middle eight in Nowhere Man.
I’d rather spend the time on Mark Knopfler, thanks. Especially post Dire Straits.
If you haven’t listened to his album “Get Lucky” yet, do yourself a favor and track it down. It’s the arc of a man’s life, and if the last two songs don’t move you, well, I just don’t know what to say.
A truly excellent comment.
Thanks for the great link, Booman. Lovin It.
Reminds me of my first show 1984-04-17 Niagara Falls. Good Times, Good Memories, and not the least bit irrelevant.
CNN: Ben Carson: Money pouring in after Muslim comments
How sad that people are so quick to hand over money to hate mongers.
(As Dr. Ben was a pediatric neurosurgeon, I’d probably look for a neurosurgeon that specialized in adults.)
The nutso stuff from nutter candidates is usually the only things that stick. Anything potentially helpful or positive from Trump will be flushed away about as fast as it is when decent, qualified, etc. candidates mention such things.
I was too young to see the Dead, unfortunately.
I’d recommend the youtube version for this concert if you’re interested in listening. It sounds clearer, at least on my end.
Thanks for setting me up with the Guy at the gate.
Jeesh…that is great. Superfine, skilled, spirited playing, with many surprises. I hope this interpretation of mine is understandable to you: this is like the most soulful interpretation of a complex mathematical equation being drawn out on the fly.
That idea of delightful surprises seeded within a song which has a basic construct within established popular music styles really appeals to me. Like this one you’re sharing with us: it has the funk and the blues within it, among other genres, but the playing has soooo many novel inventions which deviate from the traditional song arrangements of those genres.
I’ve shared my deep lurve of Wilco before. One of my favorite quotes is from their chief songwriter, Jeff Tweedy. Explaining his view on the band’s arrangements, he said something like “They’re our songs; we can fuck them up any way we want.” Sounds like an ethos Jerry might have expressed.
Another band that blows me away with the little surprises contained within their punk-pop gems:
The ‘Mats have a much different presentation from the Dead and their technical playing talents were at a lower level, but there’s a similarity in the way, even within a studio recording, they maintain a happy tension that comes with fresh invention.
I saw one of their live shows, during their 1989 tour. I’ve never had an experience like that, where at times I became a bit lost within the songs, with very loud volume and pedal-to-the-metal playing that at times felt like a single unit of sound coming at me. The melody and even the rhythm would get lost to me for many seconds, to the point where I really thought the musicians were lost as well and the song would just collapse, but then the melody of “Talent Show” or “Bastards of Young” would re-emerge, and the rhythm section became distinct again, and they would bring the songs home over and over again…very exciting!
And The Replacements’ chief songwriter’s main inspiration was a band that possessed that fantastic instinct for invention and discovery in spades:
It’s not on this greatest of Big Star’s albums, but “O My Soul” is one of my very favorite songs. Great melody, with a rhythm that manages to be very jaunty and slightly sluggish at the same time; it’s a fascinating experience.
I did neglect to thank Donald for going after Bruce Walker, but with Bruce’s Dead Shark Personality Deficit Disorder, he was never going far anyway. I just hope Donald can stick around long enough to continue sticking it to jeb?
I think the Dr Ben boomlet will soon be a semi-forgotten thing of the past — probably by Halloween. He’s a rather scary figure but appropriate to associate him with that holiday festival, as it seems a Dr Frankenstein has operated on his brain.
Still a bit annoyed the Dems won’t debate until Oct 13. Dems need to clean house of their so-called leaders. And I used to kinda like DWS …
MSNBC Trump speaks to half-empty room of white people at black business event
Oh well, the AA GOP vote is less than 10% anyway.
Why I think there may not be anything like going to one of these music events you speak of!
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July 4, 1984, opened with “Feel Like a Stranger”, and has a very good “He’s Gone”. Great live, good stream of recording here:
https://archive.org/details/gd84-07-04.senn421.braverman.14194.sbeok.shnf
I will remember to listen to your link when I get a chance. Thanks.
Bingo, with a rose.
ah yes, 84 augusta. i’ve had these tracks for a long time …
Don’t know anything about the GD concert (not a big fan), but I would rather have seen this one (Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore East on February 11, 1970):
https://archive.org/details/gd70-02-11.early-late.sbd.sacks.90.sbefail.shnf
Photograph of concert:
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showpost.php?p=191890&postcount=6
chiliD identifies the people on stage:
Fortunately, Duane and Gregg Allman sound great. Unfortunately, whoever mixed the tape cut Peter Green out of the mix so you can’t hear him. (For those of you too young to know who he is: guitarist who followed Clapton in John Mayall’s band, Fleetwood Mac was originally called Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac; he wrote “Black Magic Woman” that Santana so famously covered; the Beatles’ “Sun King” was supposedly inspired by his “Albatross”.)
Google 2015 Science Fair
Details of the other students and their projects
For fun, here’s the Pew Research science knowledge quiz. Wonder if Dr. Ben would ace this quiz.
Well I would have gotten 11 out of 12 but my Chinese housemate gave me the wrong answer on the light passing thru a magnifying glass. My instinct turned out correct. She’s only an IT expert anyway.
My other excuse is I only dimly recall two required science classes in school, 8th and 12th grades, and got the same boring teacher each time. Drone drone drone. Probably similar experience for millions of students.
And science news is barely mentioned in the media these days, and when it is, well, who cares about the topography of Pluto or the latest hominid fossil find. Too many urgent problems we’re facing right now on this planet for me to care.
That’s okay — only 46% of the poll respondents got the magnifying glass question right. Even with getting that one wrong (somewhat fitting because you were trying to cheat), you still did better than average.
How are most of the problems we face on earth today not related to science?
Hey, thought I’d be safe asking La Chinoise. They’re supposed to be better grounded in STEM matters than us stupid Americans. But she said her science teachers back in China were boring too, and in such small portions.
And no, I still don’t give a fig about whether Pluto has mountains. Or whether it’s a planet. If they find figs there, then I’m probably interested.
I don’t care about mountains or anything else on Pluto, but it’s important not to censor scientific investigations because so few are interested and/or see no relevance to current or future developments on earth. That’s what make science great — the next big steps are never known in advance.
Didn’t mean to mislead — I am very pro-science, pro-discovery, anti-censorship, including govt and establishment science types of censorship.
Just saying the problems we face on this planet are so severe, all these occasional discoveries that get mildly reported, which interest mostly experts in those narrow fields but few others, which might have revved my engines a few decades ago, no longer hold my attention.
Wake me up when they find clear signs of at least biological life on these planets. Call me immediately if they find signs of civilization. Of course, that won’t happen, the public will be kept in the dark.
As for Earthly discoveries, they’re nice I’m sure, add to our knowledge, but they’re happening as we are in the process of destroying our planet. That’s where my focus is, to the extent I’m not too depressed to consider the matter.
Ha! I was actually at that show. 14 years old, went with my dad… and had permission to skip school from my mom.
lol.
Was super fun.