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Barack Obama Selects the Dead for Inaugural Ball
allaboutjazz.com ^
| January 15, 2009
Posted on 01/16/2009 10:05:18 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Just a week after confirming their first tour in five years, the reunited Greatfull Dead are booked to rock the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. on January 20th.
A DJ will open up its a long, strange trip! [Barack Obama] picked us specifically, so it was quite an honor. There was a short list and we made the cut. As for the most important question can the band jam at the ball? Its pretty tight, about an hour set. When you play these kinds of things you say, How can I be of service? The entertainment committee makes it so that it fits into their huge schedule.
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Please tell me this is a joke...”Ridin’ that train, high on cocaine, Barry Obama you better watch your speed...trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know socialism just crossed my mind...”
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:06:39 PM PST
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The Dead, whether Grateful or not, are a large and dependable voting bloc in Chicago, and it is nice to see Barack Obama keeping faith with the people who got him to where he is.
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:09:50 PM PST
by
Bernard
(If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
To: Free ThinkerNY; All
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:12:21 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
To: Free ThinkerNY
How apropos that the usurper Prez elect, who loves
aborting innocent babies, also loves a musical group
called “The Dead”
To: Free ThinkerNY
And no, they’re not Grateful!
To: Free ThinkerNY
"Duuuuude! Which way to the Inauguration, maaaaannn...?"
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:16:55 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
They can seranade Bernakieand Gaithner with a rendition of “Casey Jones”. Bawney Fwank can be the “doo dah man”
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:17:14 PM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
To: OCCASparky
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:17:25 PM PST
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Who are the Grateful Dead and why are they following me around?
To: Free ThinkerNY
Probably quite a lot of dead people voted for Obama, not to mention deadheads.
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:28:47 PM PST
by
dr_who
To: Free ThinkerNY
Seems like a genuinely odd pick to me. A little too long in the tooth for the young’n’hip crowd, a little too irreverent (I would think) for the Beltway types.
But what do I know? If it was my inaugural ball, the band list would be Alice in Chains, Deep Purple, and Ratt - in that order. :) (I’m hoping DeMartini would let me jam with him for the main set).
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:30:22 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Sarah Sarah Sarah!)
To: DemforBush
A little too long in the tooth for the young’n’hip crowdAll those 60something year old Vietnam War protesters are going to be in seventh heaven. Picture a geriatric love-in on The Mall.
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:34:02 PM PST
by
squidly
To: squidly
“Picture a geriatric love-in on The Mall.”
I’d rather not, LOL.
Point taken, though.
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:46:12 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Sarah Sarah Sarah!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This will be Woodstock on the Mall....only it won't be as pristine or innocent.
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posted on
01/16/2009 10:54:21 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The Grateful Dead doesn’t exist without Garcia, period.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:23:36 PM PST
by
eclecticEel
(In short, I want Obama given the same respect and deference that Democrats have given George Bush)
To: Free ThinkerNY
So appropriate. “Grateful Dead” and jackass democrat voters.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:30:31 PM PST
by
Force of Truth
(Sarah Palin in 2012!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)
To: cydcharisse
Who are the Grateful Dead and why are they following me around? I don't know, but a few of those fellers were standing around this past year when Obama was giving a memorial day speech.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:33:45 PM PST
by
Force of Truth
(Sarah Palin in 2012!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)
To: DemforBush
Surprisingly a few of the “celebrities” listed as deadheads on wiki include Bill Clinton, Al Franken,Nancy Pelosi, Tony Blair, Patrick Leahy and our beloved Ann Coulter!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadhead
Scroll to the Celebrities list at the bottom.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:37:42 PM PST
by
dianed
To: squidly
Anybody got a pic of Nancy Pelosi in tie dye?
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:38:54 PM PST
by
dianed
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