Posted on 02/07/2018 7:43:48 PM PST by MNDude
The Music Never Stopped
HA! That is hilarious! The Mayer controversy is burning on! JM has been such a breath of fresh air - and gave new life to a group that never could find it’s way after Jerry Garica died in 1995. I never cared for any of the otherwise awesome players who tried to fill the Jerry role over the years. I love Warren Haynes - just not in that band! Once Mayer came along - he was a little different. Younger - he moved around more than Jerry Garcia. But his guitar playing was just incredible...and he’s getting better. The big difference - John makes the band play! He has lit a spark under these old farts asses that has given this group a new blast of energy that I don’t think anyone saw coming.
By the way - if you have any doubts about the Grateful Dead - here’s Donald Trump introducing Bob Weir’s band, “RatDog” in 2006 at the Beacon Theater NYC.
https://www.jambase.com/article/donald-trump-introduces-bob-weir-ratdog
That's #MeToo! When Jesus rescued us in 1973 we were in the midst of all that. Never was a "travelling" Dead Head but saw them multiple times in Philly along with all the other bands that defined our lives at that time.
GOD is so good! Life in Christ, so eternally better!
Jan 27 2018 12:09:33
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@Snowden.
The clock is ticking.
How’s Russia?
[Mr. Contractor]
Freedom of the Press.
John Perry Barlow.
https://freedom.press
SecureDrop [Whistleblowers]?
SecureDrop>Clowns In America.
NOBODY IS SAFE.
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“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.”
As their parents’ generation died off, these liberals/leftists came into their inheritances - received from family and in moving up the corporate and governmental positions of power. For reasons related to their moral decay (including the rejection of Judeo-Christian beliefs and ethics), having been placed in positions of trust, they tasted the power...the power to “change the world” in ways they only talked about in college, some while puffing on, or dropping, or injecting their recreational mind-altering substances. Later in life, with the power to rewrite public morality and laws to their own, it was necessary that the ends justify the means to do it, corruption of our institutions was inevitable. Mine is a high level generalization. When large numbers of people reject the principles of morality and law upon which the country was founded, and are in positions to replace it with something that is the antithesis - it is not surprising to see the 60s generation to be the antithesis. They after all have succumbed to a base human nature unconstrained by sound moral principles.
Snowden next?
> RIP to one of the good guys.
Wow... That was exactly the lyric that popped into my head when I read the obit a few minutes ago. Cassidy is one of my favorite Bobby tunes, to listen to, and also to play (played in Dead tribute bands for over 25 years).
I think a lot of that 60s generation got it into their head that no harm should ever come to anyone, that everyone’s opinion was just as valid as the next person’s, that everyone no matter how lazy or drug-addicted should be taken care of, and nobody should ever be offended. And they now see the government as the only way to fulfill their ridiculous manifesto.
My first Dead concert in San Diego in 1968 was in a smaller indoor arena, not the Sports Arena, closer to downtown. It held maybe 5,000 and more than half of us were active duty sailors and Marines.
I’m talking collectively of course, not about you individually.
Of course....The problem is that Liberalism with a big L no longer exists. It was replaced with Post Modernism Marxism. Look, Trump could be considered a JFK Democrat....good, bad, we’ll see. But for today’s modern “left” it is aoubt power and not what is good for the country...
RIP.
He was also a prominent supporter of Dick Cheney, and a lifelong Republican. He and Cheney had a falling out later.
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