I didn’t interpret the poem in that way. For me, it sounds like a bad trip. The music of Grateful Dead happens to be playing during said trip (of which he is trying to escape).
I meant it in this sense: peace and harmony and mutual respect, vs. what James Joyce referred to as "the nightmare of history", the psychodrama of inventing endless iterations of "us" vs. "them". Peace and love. Since you asked, and the question was implicitly addressed to me.
to return to the topic: very interesting SHMF page that I just ran across, that's been locked since 2016. 39 pages, beginning in 2009. Evidently a few of the regulars on this page are already familiar with it; the content is entirely new to me. I don't I had even joined the forum at the time it closed out. Grateful Dead album by album thread There's some great material archived in there.
To quote the lyrics: "We don't know what it means To take our place in one world" Sure that all sounds good, but I don't think the two of you are talking about the same thing.
Context is imperative, to be sure. Lurkers can read the conversation that prompted my recent comments for themselves, and make their own assessments. I'll be laying out for a while longer.
And Mascot will be napping for an even longer longer time, I assume. Unless a hairball needs to be coughed out.
12/10/71 Super hot performances of Me and My Uncle and El Paso. Assuming that you aren’t allergic to Cosmic Cowboy Bob tunes, a good time is guaranteed.
I will never tire of the performances of Truckin’ from the Dec. ‘71 - May ‘72 era that have both Keith’s piano and Pig’s Hammond. Such a great sound!
12/10/71 I love that they go into near silence during The Other One to explore the vast dimensions of inner and outer space.
12/10/71 is phenomenal. I can easily see why it was picked to be the stand-alone release from the box.
23 October 1972- Milwaukee Dark Star, et. al. Some years back a local taper contact Charlie with his masters of the two shows in Milwaukee, only a partial SBD existed for one of the shows. Very nice AUD recording, '72 GD on stage, good times for all.
That thread is new to me as well, looks like it had pretty much black-petered out after 2010, around the time I got on board the forum.
Dylan and GD show in Oregon, for a long time it circulated as a boot, now on YT Music Rolling Stone: A 1987 Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead Concert Has Surfaced for Fans to Fight Over. A 1987 Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead Concert Has Surfaced for Fans to Fight Over
Seconded. I was enjoying that during my listen to Aarhus yesterday afternoon. As a hot a version as any from that time period (although there are a ton of hot ones).
I don’t click on Rolling Stone or Daily Mail links, so can I ask, what is it fans are supposed to be fighting over here?
This showed up in one of the online poster auction sites this week. I've collected posters for many years, but this one was new to me. Nice.
@Archtop in particular may find this interesting: I’m pretty sure Phil plays the Footprints riff for a bit starting somewhere after 3:00 and ending around 3:30 during the 12/10/71 Good Lovin’ - this is the first time I’ve heard that before the Europe tour.
It's a rather oblique reference to the line, but I'd have to agree. Time stamp: 3:20-3:31. The earliest example yet.
Also, I’m not sure if I’ve heard Pig drop the “box back nitties”/“boar hog’s eye” lines into Good Lovin’ rather than Lovelight before.
