I'm sure I will be cheery later. And thanks to you and Anne. I'll listen to your first show tonight; I can probably listen on archive.org if I don't already have the tape in B's collection. Here's what being a deadhead is like. this was posted on the ratdog.org board today: quote: i've ready many elegies to Senor Garcia, but none has rang truer to me than this one that was posted to another group back on 8.9.2001 by my good friend, Don Gregory. I read it every year on this date, and always brings tears to my eyes.
"Garcia's music gave my soul wings. No matter what was going on in my life, no matter how hard the weight of the world bore down on me, I used to be able to go see the Boyz do their thing, and I'd come out of the experience feeling renewed, reborn. All the cares of the world would be washed away by the raging river of bliss that was Garcia's music. I saw Ken Kesey speak at Uconn once, and when asked about Jerry and the Dead, he said, "Seeing the Dead is like watching a magician do a magic trick. He'll do his trick, and when he does, and you see the coin is no longer under the cup, there's a split second where you're just amazed. For that one split second, a crack opens up in our mind, the light shines through, and you truly believe that perhaps magic does exist in the universe. That's what the Dead do. They open up a crack in your mind, and let the light shine through." Amen to that, Ken.
Rest in peace, gentle Captain. You will always be missed.
And thanks to you and Anne. I'll listen to your first show tonight; I can probably listen on archive.org if I don't already have the tape in B's collection.
Here's what being a deadhead is like. this was posted on the ratdog.org board today:
quote:
i've ready many elegies to Senor Garcia, but none has
rang truer to me than this one that was posted to
another group back on 8.9.2001 by my good friend, Don
Gregory. I read it every year on this date, and
always brings tears to my eyes.
"Garcia's music gave my soul wings. No matter what
was going on in my
life,
no matter how hard the weight of the world bore down
on me, I used to
be
able to go see the Boyz do their thing, and I'd come
out of the
experience
feeling renewed, reborn. All the cares of the world
would be washed
away by
the raging river of bliss that was Garcia's music. I
saw Ken Kesey
speak at
Uconn once, and when asked about Jerry and the Dead,
he said, "Seeing
the
Dead is like watching a magician do a magic trick.
He'll do his trick,
and
when he does, and you see the coin is no longer under
the cup, there's
a
split second where you're just amazed. For that one
split second, a
crack
opens up in our mind, the light shines through, and
you truly believe
that
perhaps magic does exist in the universe. That's what
the Dead do.
They
open up a crack in your mind, and let the light shine
through." Amen
to
that, Ken.
Rest in peace, gentle Captain. You will always be
missed.
Don"unquote
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