Posted on 02/07/2018 7:43:48 PM PST by MNDude
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the non-profit digital rights organization Barlow cofounded, said in a statement on its website that Barlow died in his sleep on Wednesday.
When Barlow was 15, he attended Fountain Valley School in Colorado where he met fellow student Bob Weir and they became friends. Barlow began co-writing songs in 1971 with Grateful Dead founding member Weir, a teaming that would last until the Dead disbanded in 1995. "Cassidy," "Mexicali Blues," Black-Throated Wind" and "Looks Like Rain" are among the dozens of songs Barlow helped pen. He contributed four songs to 1989's Built to Last. The 2004 reissue included additional contribution, "We Can Run."
Barlow was also an advocate for civil liberties. In 1990, he cofounded the Electronic Frontier Foundation with John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor. He published a number of essays, most notably 1996's A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, which advocated for an independent internet, void of government rule
Nobody is safe
Many from an entire generation or two wasted their lives “Tuning In, Turning On and Dropping Out” while following the Grateful Dead all over the country and sleeping on sidewalks. The Grateful Dead thought this was great. My pardons (not) to those who might harbor some wistful positive sentiment for the late Mr. Barlow.
Didn’t know this. I remember Jerry Garcia saying, “technology is the new drugs”.
My friend tells me, he was a big Dead Head, then, he found the Lord and gave all of that up. I wasn’t there, so I don’t know how he was, if he used drugs because he seems pretty straight though, he knows their music fairly well. Yes, he did follow them around some.
I enjoy some of their songs too and have a few CDs.
Having been a Deadhead since the late 60s in the SF Bay Area, and to even this day, I think I turned out just fine. Remember, us Hippies just wanted to be left alone by the government. No government intrusion into our lives. We just wanted to do our thing, whatever that “thing” might be. Some of course do not and did not value freedom and ended up where they are today.
I am just one of those pony tailed, tie dye wearing paleo-conservatives. Chew on that one for a while....oh and I am a vet to boot! A Tread-Head from the 3rd, AD Pearhead Division...
No More Truckin.
Wow, man. Sucks. I think.
The Doo-Dah man is sad.
I will miss him....his music and work live on
Faring thee well now.
Let your life proceed by its own design.
Nothing to tell now.
Let the words be yours, I’m done with mine.
RIP to one of the good guys.
Just went to RS to read the article and found an article about an interview with Quincy Jones, ( Not to hi-jack the thread ) man he pisses in everyones cornflakes, has he gotten nasty as he has gotten older, as bad as DeNiro...
It is ironic that the 60s generation would, in their old age, be the very antithesis of that. Who knew that the liberals of the 1960s would end up being all about big intrusive government, censoring free speech, controlling the media and hating everything about freedom.
I'm talking collectively of course, not about you individually.
An aside - I went with my daughter to a John Mayer concert last year to The Gorge in Washington state. I had never heard of him, but he was really good and it was a great concert.
Parts of it you could tell that they were just jamming up there - him and a bunch of other folks. REALLY good, just amazing how a bunch of folks can just jam - and the other people were just as good or better.
I mentioned to my daughter how good they were - and amazing that as good as they are - nobody knows who they are, just a bunch of “extras”.
I googled him later on after the concert to see who the other band mates were. Turns out it was “Dead & Company” - former members of the Grateful Dead! I was never into them, but obviously know what they were about. I mentioned this to my daughter - “I knew those guys were good!!”
The Grateful Dead were softpedaling Christianity their whole career.
And you don’t have to give up the Grateful Dead, because you found the Lord.
I graduated from one the better east coast prep schools and got a college degree while I was following the Grateful Dead all over the country and sleeping on sidewalks (or peoples yards - Thanks Buffalo!)
And used to date Ivnaka Trump, apparently.
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