Melody Monday

Trey Anastasio Band

Clint Eastwood

10-18-12 @ The Fillmore 

JGski

Melody Monday

Oysterhead 

10-27-2001 Partial Set

 Hollywood Palladium

01. Little Faces
02. Polka Dot Rose
03. Shadow Of A Man
04. Radon Balloon
05. Pseudo Suicide
06. Interviews

JG

Melody Monday

The Grateful Dead 

12/31/1978 

Closing of Winterland

JG

Forever Grateful

"I'll Get Up and Fly Away...Fly Away"

 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.

 

 "I'll get up and fly away"

Compare the folk song "I'll Fly Away." 

One bright morning, when this life is o'er
I'll fly away,
To that home on God's celestial shore
I'll fly away.
 

 I'll fly away (O glory)
I'll fly away (in the morning)
When I die, Hallelujah bye and bye,
I'll fly away, fly away.

When the shadows of this life have gone
Like a bird from prison bars has flown

Just a few more weary days and then
To a land where joys shall never end.

Melody Monday

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.

JG

Post Traumatic Life

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         

 

YEMSG 12-31-12

Phish 

12/31/12 

MSG NYE Show

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 

JG

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