Going away for awhile...the traffic that I received, thank you!A fresh breath of air and a different focus of mind is where we will meet again. I've become stale as a piece of cheese on the floor for too many days. The twinkle, oh the twinkle...where did you go? I love Ben Folds Five. Again folks, thank you for your time (~);}
It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home
I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown
nowhere to go
just to hang around
(~);}
JGski
First performance: February 18, 1971, at the Capitol Theater in
Port Chester, NY. "Wharf Rat" appeared in the first set, sandwiched
between two segments of "Dark Star."
Other firsts in the show included "Bertha," "Greatest Story Ever Told," "Johnny B.
Goode," "Loser," and "Playing in the Band." It remained in the repertoire thereafter.
My world in this moment for different reasons. If I could have any words to say, these would be it. A knot in my stomach that won't go away. Memories stuffed in a shoe box tucked away underneath my bed. Time heals all wounds and scars set in. I don't think the pain will ever relinquish completely. Just for today.
The background. A view from abroad but so close that you could give the details. Built in binoculars zoomed in on particular past events. Slow down. Speed up. Pull over and get out, only to get back in and run out of gas. I'm out of gas! It's the only thing apparent to my flooded perception of crowded highways. The gates to my soul have swung shut. Sorry, no admission until further notice. Sobriety is the only thing that I can cling to. It reassures me that tomorrow will be that less complicated and a path that the sun will shine in my backyard again someday. I wish I was a headlight on a westbound train lately. "There's someone who understands you more than I do. A sadness I can't erase. All alone on your face." Time is either on your side or not, and there is no happy medium. It stops for nobody. I can't figure out if it is the known or the unknown that bothers me the most. A flip of the coin for now I guess. Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of my friends' loss to his struggles. He was an amazingly great friend. I miss and love you Brian! You really don't know what you have until it's gone. That is a very hard reality folks. Don't fuck around and just look at things as a permanent piece of the puzzle, because it just doesn't work out that way sometimes. The known or unknown in different situations. Which would you choose? I would be willing to bet, according to the question, that if there was a whole group of people sampled that there would be a dichotomy. A fork in the road. One path known and another unknown. Winters are always the hardest for me. Everything dies off and in my opinion, turns to shit. I'm like that kid at the window who has the day off from school because of a storm, but can't go out and play. Well, I'm not admiring my storm and I'm suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency. Not that your skin would generate it from the sun through the glass, but I wouldn't be there in the first place. I keep saying year after year, this is my last NY winter. Last year wasn't so bad and I hoped for one like it this year. All bets are off moving forward. Forward. The F word. You will never have your cake and eat it too.
JG
"Think good thoughts and do good deeds." Brian J Slater
Set 1: Garden Party (1), Possum,
Roses are Free, Rift, Sample in a Jar, Alaska, Mike's Song > Walk
Away, Weekapaug Groove, Character Zero
Set 2: Birds of a Feather, Ghost > Piper > Light > 2001 > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself
Set 3: Party Time, Kung > Chalk
Dust Torture > Auld Lang Syne > Tweezer Reprise (2) > Sand
> The Wedge > Fly Like an Eagle (1), Wilson, Lawn Boy, E: Driver, Iron Man (1)
Comment: (1) First time played
(2) with backup singers
(3) sung a-capella
It takes as much effort to be miserable as it does to be happy. Life is not a bed of roses and nobody ever promised us that it would be. Choose love and a smile people. Even in the midst of a horrible day, I still have so much to be grateful phor.
"...till things we've never seen will seem familiar"
First performance: February 26, 1977, at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California.
"Terrapin" opened the show, which also included the first "Estimated Prophet." It has occupied a stable place in the repertoire ever since, though only on two
other occasions has it appeared in the first set.
There are some interesting aspects to this song. Most notably, the fact that the
Grateful Dead's realization of the piece is, in Hunter's view, lamentably incomplete,
leaving out as it does the lyric resolution. Garcia intentionally uses only a fragment
of Hunter's lyric. In Box of Rain,
Hunter writes more about "Terrapin" than about any other single piece, with the
exception of "Amagamalin Street." Hunter's own recording of "Terrapin," on Jack O' Roses
is complete, and attempts to incorporate a plethora of imagery and iconography from
all over the Grateful Dead map, especially in the "Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track" portion
of the song. Ultimately, Garcia's decision to treat the piece as a fragment is far
more satisfying.
Six of them are not mine (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13). The first picture was taken by Jackie Green from stage at the Roseland, Fall 2012. A picture narrates a thousand stories.
" The storyteller makes no choice
soon you will not hear his voice
his job is to shed light
and not to master..." "Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
Heard some say better run away
Others say you better stand still..."
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