Here is a shot of Tunch lying behind me bitching because he wants more food.
He was down to 16 lbs at the last vet visit the other day, and we have lowered his food intake from 1/2-2/3 a cup a day to no more than 1/2 cup, and he is pissy. I have been doing it slowly because I read you can blow out a cat’s liver by putting them on too much of a diet.
In other news, does anyone know of any way to add your own artwork to Itunes? I have several albums with no artwork, and that irritates me. Also, I am wondering if there is any way to find out what Dead show this set came from:
Jack Straw
Stagger Lee
Wang Dang Doodle
It Must Have Been The Roses
Memphis Blues
Tennessee Jed
Let It Grow
Here Comes Sunshine
Playing in the Band
Box of Rain
The name of the disc was “Here Comes Sunshine,” but it was an off label disc and I can not find it anymore. Likewise, I appear to have lost my copy of it (I bought my copy at a now out of business local store), and I know there was a second disc that had an amazing Drums/Space, and I would like to get it. If anyone can figure out what show that was, it would be much appreciated.
*** Update ***
Also, I saw this picture at TPM:
You know you have issues if your first response was “God, I hate the Browns.” Being a Steelers fan is a full time job.
Jason
Just highlight the songs you want to add the artwork for and click and drag an image into the little artwork window and iTunes does the rest. I usually find images on amazon and just drag them from my browser to iTunes. I have been really annoyed that iTunes has not retrieved much of the artwork in my library.
Jon
Get the info on the song, then drop the picture on top of the spot where the album art is supposed to go. Ta dah!
schrodinger's cat
Awww Tunch is cutie, he does look pissed though. What are you feeding him? I am asking because I am getting my 19 pound cat to eat less. She is orange and has a tail like Tunch and white paws and a white bib. I welcome suggestions from everyone about diet cat food.
Thanks!
fritz
Looks like Chapel Hill, ’93:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd93-03-24.sbd.keyser.25664.sbeok.flacf
Jason
Grateful Dead Live at Dean Smith Center on 1993-03-24
I googled the song list and this came up: http://www.archive.org/details/gd93-03-24.sbd.keyser.25664.sbeok.flacf
AnneLaurie
Try putting some shaved or finely-chopped carrots in Tunch’s food bowl. As holistic vets will tell you, they’re pet-safe, high fiber and low-cal! Of course, the odds are approximately 1,000 to 1 that he won’t *touch* the lousy veggies, but sometimes the threat value is enough to crank down the volume of whining.
(And, hey, maybe he’ll be the rare cat that actually eats them. Our rescue dog Zevon has decided that he loves orange segments, even though orange/lemon extract is the principle ingredient in most ‘pet repellant’ sprays, so ya nevah know.)
John Cole
@fritz: Yes. That is it! It had a sick Crazy Fingers in the second set.
Thank you.
Elvis Elvisberg
Huh, really? I never could get into any Dead after about 1980… Will have to give some of that later stuff another listen.
asiangrrlMN
Aw, Tunch is sooooo cute! If I were you, though, I would sleep with one eye open tonight.
Tithonia
Poor starving cat.
fritz
John- not a problem. BTW- don’t buy boots! Email if you want any shows– I’m part of the hopeless hardcore! ;-)
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Eeeee! Cute kitty with stretched out forelegs and extended claws THE BETTER TO SLASH JOHN WITH!
Ahem.
I’m sure you’ll be fine, John. You are ex-military, after all.
(So what was his starting weight?)
Zzyzx
If you go here, you can download the show directly:
http://ia310102.us.archive.org/2/items/gd93-03-24.sbd.keyser.25664.sbeok.flacf/
If you know how to handle SHN/FLAC files, grab those, otherwise go for the vbr mp3s
The secret archive.org doesn’t tell you is that changing "details" to "download" gives you the files.
icculus
Huh, really? I never could get into any Dead after about 1980… Will have to give some of that later stuff another listen.
Can’t go wrong with anything from ’89.
John Cole
@fritz: I’m looking for a really good version of Deal, hopefully from when he wasn’t scoring and his voice wasn’t shot to hell. Any suggestions?
Also, there was a Greek Theater boot I had in the late 80’s with Aiko/Aiko going into Women are Smarter with a sweet Stella. You know which show that was?
@Zzyzx: You might as well be speaking in Russian.
wrb
tricky
As it is a typical 73/ 74 set list except for Memphis Blues.
Looks like
UNC
3/24/93
Set 1 Jack Straw Stagger Lee Wang Dang Doodle It Must Have Been The Roses Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again Tennessee Jed Let It Grow Set 2 Here Comes Sunshine Playing In The Band -> Box Of Rain -> Crazy Fingers -> Drums -> Space -> Spanish Jam -> Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad -> Throwing Stones -> Not Fade Away Encore Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@Jason: I googled the song list and this came up:
Damn, that’s cool. I have a tape I got back in the early 90s which is mislabeled. It was a great set, though, and I tried asking on rec.gdead (or whatever the Usenet Dead froup was called) if anyone had a nicer copy, referring to it by the name given on the tape. IIRC, David Gans himself snootily pointed out that there was no such show.
I need to find that tape and try this google trick.
Linkmeister
If you can’t get the artwork thru the "Advanced" menu "get album artwork" option in the library, try this:
Find the album at Amazon, copy the large image at the product details page, highlight all the album’s songs in iTunes, right-click and select "get info", then paste the copied image into the artwork box. I have found that iTunes has most of them, but that for artists whose works are not sold thru iTunes (Beatles, for one) I have to do it this way.
If you go the first route I suggest, you’ll get an exception report telling you which albums iTunes couldn’t get artwork for; don’t click "OK" before looking at the results.
If the artwork isn’t available at Amazon, read my post here for other options to find the right image:
http://www.linkmeister.com/blog/archives/003309.html
wrb
There are a bunch of great Deals from the late 70s. Perhaps the best I witnessed was from the 90s, in the first set of of the Mardi Gras show that featured Ornette Coleman.
Harper’s Mag featured a short about how Garcia’s solo in that caused a lame guy to walk. I didn’t see that guy.
djork
Heh, I was at that show.
Screamin' Demon
If I have the CD, I scan the cover art and drag the JPEG to the artwork window. That’s how I added covers for my Beatles and AC/DC albums, among many others.
icculus
re: album artwork. I just right click any image, copy and paste it into artwork for each track i want. Nice and simple. For my live shows, I try to find images of the band from the night and use them.
I haate gaps in my coverflow.
DaveInOz
I don’t use iTunes but I have had the same issue with Album covers on my mp3 player. I use a free program called mp3tag which allows you to update the file information directly into the mp3. As above, I pick up the image from Amazon usually and resize it down so it doesn’t add much to the mp3 file size when imported.
It’s pretty simple to use and works for me.
r€nato
@Screamin’ Demon:
Dude. That’s mega-anal-retentive. You know you can just grab the JPGs of the CD covers from any number of sources on der interwebz, right? I promise you, your eyes cannot tell the difference between a JPG of dubious compression and your scanned-in CD artwork when it’s presented on a typical iPod screen.
Please tell me you are not saving those scanned JPGs at maximum image quality!!! Total waste of storage space.
icculus
@Screamin’ Demon:
And if you don’t have the CD, the internet does.
r€nato
You can multi-select tracks and add the CD artwork for all of them in one shot, you know… just click/drag to highlight all the track names for a given CD, right-click to get the menu, select "Info"… then drag and drop the image in the appropriate spot.
Presto, all the tracks have the image.
Rick Massimo
Your kid’s growth is stunted by having a jackass for a dad.
P.S.: Your taxes went down this year.
P.P.S.: You’re welcome.
r€nato
@icculus:
ssshhh. The RIAA is going to have your ass for breakfast for aiding piracy!
icculus
@r€nato:
Ummm of course I knew that, what do you think I do, scan hardcopy images for my itunes artwork? ;)
r€nato
iPod hacks
WARNING: only for true geeks and hardware nerds.
r€nato
@icculus:
was talkin’ to Demon, who sounds like he does do it that way…
icculus
The RIAA can kiss my pirate ass arrgghh. Seriously, you’re joking right? There’s no precedent for going after cover image pirates is there?
Just Some Fuckhead
Christ, you are one needy SOB, John. I mean that in the good way, if there’s one.
r€nato
I don’t know about you guys, but I just can’t wait until the ZunePhone and ZuneHD are available. Real iPod/iPhone killers.
…
…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
r€nato
@icculus:
I thought you were talking about getting the actual CD tracks off the internet.
icculus
@r€nato: Yeah, i know, I was basically telling Demon the same thing.
Tony Alva
John,
If Tunch is a 16 lbs. cat right now, 1/2 cup is soup line rations. I thought you found torture abhorrent. The boy needs to eat. Did a vet really recommend that qty? The poor guy…
bvac
I’m sure a lot of people at that protest were thinking "God, I hate teh browns"
omen
it’s no small trick to get people to champion their own demise.
Farley
I think that kid’s growth was stunted about 5 seconds after daddy got stimulated.
omen
I read you can blow out a cat’s liver by putting them on too much of a diet.
does that apply to dogs too?
flyingdonut
I was at that Dead show – was in grad school at Wake at the time. Was at the Dean Smith center at Chapel Hill, no booze of any kind. Was nice to see all the pretty Carolina coeds. Here you go:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1993-03-24.akg460.swayne.85794.flac16
The Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds encore was very interesting.
mr. whipple
dood, you oughta love the clowns. it’s two guaranteed wins every year.
freaking clowns.
John Cole
I need to start burning some of those shows. I had so many hundreds of hours of tapes and they are all gone now.
I would kill to hear a good franklins-slipknot-estimated-eyes.
Ug. Help on the way. Loved that too.
freelancer
I had a blowout like that happen once. The vet said the lugnuts were frozen, almost welded on, and she was a total bitch to repair…
kommrade reproductive vigor
At least he isn’t using a real child.
Or maybe he had to get the doll after The Unfortunate Incident at the last protest.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
John – There is a great version of Deal on Cornell ’77 I can send you…
A lot of people have this show. It was one of the first shows to get mass circulated long before the internet made things a whole lot easier. Great versions of Jack Straw, Scarlet Begonias as well.
Brick Oven Bill
The Tea Party event was very good. A leading State politician showed up to give a talk dressed in nice shoes and a jacket. He was heckled from the crowd.
‘You said no politicians.’ ‘Boo.’ ‘I can’t afford clothes like that.’
Others shouted ‘He had the guts to show up, let him speak.’ In the end, he spoke, and following the talk, a contractor who exercises at the gym every day after his work-day walked up to this politician, took him by the arm, faced him towards the Capitol, and pointed at the Capitol.
This very strong man asked the politician, will you support us there, where it counts? This was an ex-cop with a very powerful voice. And the politician, literally shaking, said yes. And then the very strong man said ‘thank you, you have our support.’ Or something to that effect. If this politician would have been a Democrat, I would probably not be at liberty to write this account for you tonight.
The good part was not about heckling at a politician. The good part was about networking with a very solid group of people.
The whole event was centered about the Constitution. It would be a mistake to underestimate the power of the Constitution, and what it means to learned people of conscience.
Kenneth Fair
To find album artwork, use SlothRadio’s album cover finder.
gnomedad
Rush: "three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama."
Tattoosydney
Oh. My. God.
Now the teabagging wingnuts are even invading the Open Threads! Don’t you people ever get sick of talking about the tea parties?
Wingnuts = Stoopid = Duh!
John – How can this site (which I love beyond measure, and in a slightly obsessive manner) devote so much space to fucking morons and their stupid tea parrties. There are nine (NINE!) posts on tea parties on the front page alone.
How about a post about North Korea?
How about a chance to discuss the fact that Catholic bishops in conservative Catholic countries like Portugal are openly defying the Pope on his condom stupidity?
How about the turmoil in Bangkok?
Isn’t any of that more interesting than another bloody post about what a dickhead Glenn Beck is?
Rant over.
(Apologies John – It’s your website, and you can do what you want, but if I have to read another endless thread about the teabag maroons I’m going to scream).
apistat
Anyone see TDS tonight? That is who we have in charge of oversight over TARP? Good god. I’ve never seen an interview someone so frightened, confused and clueless. And it seems like that’s after extensive editing
edit: Ok, the second half of the interview was much better.
Tax Analyst
Well, Tunch looks great, John. Svelte, healthy and capable of putting in a full day of lying around and glaring at you for so woefully underfeeding him.
But seriously, he does look healthier now that he’s carrying less excess baggage.
skippy
i will be honest, today’s los angeles tea bagging event looked to be about 500-600 people by my very rough estimate, which is not that bad, i suppose.
however, as i said on my blog, i once organized a "not my president’s day" protest in los angeles during the first february of awol’s term, and i, w/o any corporate help from any cable news network, was able to draw about the same numbers to my little soiree.
so color me not impressed.
freelancer
Last Week Rush: "Obama bowed to the Saudi royalty, is there anymore evidence you need that he’s a sleeper Muslim?"
This Week Rush: "Obama ordered the Murder of 3 Muslim kids who weren’t guilty of anything more than serving in Somalia’s Volunteer Coast Guard"
This week scheduled to be scrubbed next week. Probably by the same poor sap refilling his prescriptions.
Laura W
@Tattoosydney: Will you marry me?
Kim
@John Cole: John, If you are looking for smoking versions of Deal, don’t just look at GD versions. Especially in the later years, Jerry’s version with the Jerry Garcia Band was consistently great!
Also, if you just feel like geeking out on setlists, don’t forget DeadLists.
From what I can tell, there was never a Greek Theater show where Iko Iko>Man Smart Woman Smarter & Stella Blue were played on the same day.
However, the ’88 and ’89 Greek Theater runs are worth listening to just because!
Actually, the current iteration of the Dead isn’t that bad… this was last nights show.
Comrade Jake
@Brick Oven Bill:
If only there were some learned people at the tea parties. Turns out, not so much.
spot check billy
Another option for hard-to-find cover art is a Google image search on the name of the album. For old singles (Johnny B Goode and Jumpin’ Jack Flash were not album cuts), an image of the 45, 45 label or picture sleeve is often out there and cooler anyway.
I’ve got to make sure I understand how to preserve the relationships and library history in iTunes before I finally ditch this W2K box. I’ve spent way too much time tweaking the database to just reimport the sound files.
omen
@freelancer:
come on, that was a serious question. i’m starting to worry i restricted my dog’s diet too much.
Kim
@John Cole: Well damn, then you really just ought to stop what you are doing right now, go here, and listen to 5/9/77 the Help>Slip>Franklins.
Ninerdave
@John Cole:
Flac
Ninerdave
The Dead is about the only band I never got.
I can listen to folk, country, blues, rock, hip hop, most things. The Dead is nails on a chalk board to me.
omen
profile of a tea party protester:
The grievances against the government that [Joanne Wilder] and [Jim] Smith talk about sound identical to the complaints raised by their favorite conservative talk radio show hosts: wasteful bailout spending approved by Obama and the Congress; assistance to poorer homeowners with bad credit who are defaulting on subprime mortgages; Obama’s plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans; affirmative action; and entitlement programs that undercut capitalism….
After a lifetime of working, paying taxes and raising three children on her own, Wilder is struggling.
She said she retired on disability from M&T Bank three years ago after undergoing knee replacement and back surgeries. She lives on her Social Security and disability benefits. Last year, she petitioned the bankruptcy court for protection from creditors.
She said she did not have to pay federal income taxes last year because her income was too low.
"I don’t want to see this country turn into a welfare, nanny state, where we stand in line for groceries, and we’re in welfare lines, and in socialized medicine lines," Wilder said.
Tattoosydney
@Laura W:
Bradley might object.
Pedro would marry Leah though, as long as he gets to wear the lacy veil (and he might just be doing it for the green card).
forked tongue
You know, I don’t dislike The Dead. In fact I was in my own modest way a deadhead and saw them lots of times from about 1971 until the release of "Wake of the Flood," which convinced me they’d jumped the shark. Still can’t hate ’em though, and I do think their albums from the first up through the best, "Workingman’s Dead," are nothing to apologize for.
Nonetheless, I do find the idea of their doing a credible "Wang Dang Doodle" about as funny as the thought of Lloyd Marcus doing a good "Let’s Get It On."
AnneLaurie
Despite what your dog would like you to believe, NO. Basically, after cats & dogs split off from their common ancestor, cats pushed a whole lot further into Total Obligate Carnivore territory. If you want the gory details, look up ‘feline hepatic lipidosis’ on Wikipedia.
demimondian
@r€nato: Anything which suggests running Linux on an iPod is just..stupid.
I mean, the Apple BS is bad enough, but Linux? Seriously, dude — have the Linux droids ever heard of "power management"?
freelancer
@Omen
I was just going for the easy joke. Don’t worry too much. My parent’s Scottie was as spastic as little furry methhead when they got her, then she got as lethargic and needy as Peg Bundy. Now they have her on a restricted diet and she’s gaining that pep back, bit by bit. The key is, to not be afraid to ask your dog’s vet in depth questions. That’s what they’re there for.
Ninerdave
@demimondian:
Because I thought it was amusing, and I needed the built-in record capability it enabled, I installed it once. Battery lasted about 10 minutes.
demimondian
@Tattoosydney: Bangkok is very serious. I can’t tell from the news here whether the government is going down (obs. teabagging ref) or not.
You’re in Australia — what are you hearing?
Ninerdave
Oh and by the way, Obama murdered three teenagers.
LD50
That’s an insult to nails and chalkboards.
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Will you multiple-marry me? Wait, I don’t believe in marriage. Never mind.
P.S. Color me a non-Deadhead as well.
2th&nayle
John, Maybe Tunch has the "Empty Food Bowl Neurosis". I’ve had two rescue cats that suffered from this ailment. In these particular cases, I always kept their bowls with at least a little food in them because they were indoor/outdoor cats. When the food got down to where they could see the bottom of the bowl, they’d go haywire, and it had nothing to do with them being hungry. I could put in just enough food to cover the bottom of bowl and they would calm down. Most times they wouldn’t even eat food I put out. It was more of a ‘security’ issue than hunger. Of course I wasn’t worried about their weight too much because they spent about half their time outside trying to kill whatever they could manage to catch, so they could put it on display on the front porch. Just like nature intended.
Just Some Fuckhead
The coffee drinkers get coffee threads. The tea drinkers get teabagging threads.
Tattoosydney
@demimondian:
We get a lot of reports here (although the situation in Fiji is pushing it off the front pages at the moment, mainly because three of the judges who were sacked were Australians).
It seems to be insanely complicated – the yellow shirts are supporters of the current PM who is backed by the military, but who seems to be taking a relatively pacifist line (read: hasn’t ordered anyone shot yet).
The red shirts are mainly from the poorer parts of society, but they are supporting a populist ex-PM who is also a corrupt billionaire…
Meanwhile the King, who has enormous moral power but never uses it, is sitting on the sidelines doing nothing…
My impression is that none of them are particularly on the side of the angels.
Australia has a self appointed moral arbiter role in the APac region, but seems to be being told to butt out by the authorities in Bangkok (and Fiji)…
Bangkok is a very popular tourist destination for Australians, so there is a lot of discussion about cancelling holidays (which is just what the Thai economy needs right now).
iluvsummr
Right now, I can’t even look at a bag of tea without wincing … so, apropos of nothing, here’s: Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent 2009. I ended up ashamed of my initial reaction.
AkaDad
You’re not alone.
Brachiator
@freelancer:
Didn’t Dubya once teabag Saudi royalty and hold their hands afterward? Is there anymore evidence you need that he sleeps with Muslims?
The stuff that Rush comes up with is just amazing. I’m beginning to wonder whether his core listeners are even capable of saying, "Enough!"
Just Some Fuckhead
A primer on Bangkok.
HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker
I have to admit, I didn’t think it was possible to get a cat to lose weight like that. Perhaps I have to rethink my own 23 lb cat problem. The cat is big, not just fat, but I know she can lose a few pounds and be healthier. My problem is that I cave in to cats. Totally. They meow and I obey.
freelancer
@Ninerdave
We covered that.
Agreed though, if the juxtaposition of these two narratives BACK to BACK isn’t enough to expose the Party of Schaivo, Gitmo, Limbaugh, Patriots, Theocracy, Teabags, and Wetsuits, on a purely base level of having no inherent character or intellectual honesty, then I don’t think anything is.
Limbaugh’s phoning it in as he always has. But this time, in particular, the hypocrisy is comparable to Rush doing a PSA against the EIB network. The fat bastard is that fractious.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@Ninerdave: The Dead is nails on a chalk board to me.
It took me being in the right circumstances with the right people and so on to get listening to the Dead, and it took awhile before I could appreciate them. Of course, there’s a hint buried in this joke about the key to it all:
What do Deadheads say when they run out of pot?
"This band sucks!"
Tattoosydney
@iluvsummr:
You weren’t alone. I ended up with tears in my eyes the first few times I watched it, and I’ve watched it about ten times now…
Allowing for the shameless manipulation that shows like that indulge in, I have to feel though that they were setting us up to expect that she would be crap (see: William Hung), so I don’t think our initial reaction was entirely unjustified.
That said, she’s obviously a wonderful, lovely, funny woman and I hope she makes a mint.
eyeball
wrb – Cole’s set looks like on homage to Pigpen. Could easily have been a ’73 set. That’s a nice show to have heard in the 90s.
I feel bad for ninerdave, since the Dead carried many of the great folk, country and blues songs into the rock and psychedelic eras. The songs are virtually all replicas or riffs on major blues and folk numbers from the teens, 20s and 30s. Lots of Delta blues in there, Appalachain country, Piedmont bluegrass and so on.
Ex.: Viola Lee Blues — great old delta number — by way of Parchman Farm. Listen to a late 60s version with Jerry Garcia playing guitar or banjo, Pigpen on the harmonica and vocals, and Lesh laying bombs on the bass. you’d be amazed.
happy trails.
Tattoosydney
@asiangrrlMN:
Only if I can gay-multiple-polygamy-cats and dogs-marry you.
Tattoosydney
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Now it’s all so clear! Thanks.
JK
John,
It would be nice to see a post from you that lists your 10 favorite Grateful Dead songs.
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Ok. I’m down with that. I am sure my two cats will be, too. Then, when I run for POTUS, I can be the Asian-American bisexual tattooed agnostic-deist female who is multiple-married and interspecies-married. All the cool kids would vote for me!
You could still live in Australia (because I don’t want to live with anyone) and just come visit me at the White House with you hubby. How does that sound?
Hm. I seem to be getting my snark back. I think you have that effect on me.
P.S. I finally watched the Boyle video, and I didn’t understand why people were laughing. Looks don’t have anything to do with singing! Then again, in this country on shows like American Idol, it certainly is a prerequisite.
LD50
How do you clear 20 deadheads out of a house?
"Hey guys, the phone bill just came!"
AnneLaurie
The ‘exercise’ part of the diet-and-exercise mantra is important, too. Get your big-boned feline a wired-up needy little kitten to share quarters & meals with, and watch those extra pounds melt away! Between the stalking, and the screaming, and the posturing, and the yowling, and the indignant displays of outrage, and the more screaming, she’ll burn calories like there’s no tomorrow!
Tattoosydney
@asiangrrlMN:
It’s a deal. We can all show up for photo ops during the primaries and stand behind you smoking dope and holding up tea bags.
J. Michael Neal
The meowing I can handle. It’s the constant poking me with their paws and blocking the computer monitor I can’t handle. If I throw them in the closet, they wreck stuff. So I’ve had it. Big bowls of food are once again being served for all-you-can-eat dining.
asiangrrlMN
I leave dry food out for my boys, but they don’t eat much of it. They prefer the wet food and the treats (such as Feline Greenies). They are three years old and weigh 9.1 pounds and 10.7 pounds. I’m fortunate that they are not overweight because I don’t think I could say no to them.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@LD50: "Hey guys, the phone bill just came!"
LOL!
And I’d be laughing even harder if I knew how true this was without ever having been in that situation when the phone was in my name and nobody would own up to the charges.
Jennifer
Damn, y’all’s got some fat kitties! I don’t think any of mine have ever topped 12 pounds. But they’ve all been indoor/outdoor types, and that definitely makes a difference. Though we did have one cat when I was growing up that was indoor/outdoor and was just an eating machine. More than once, someone didn’t get the pantry door shut tight and she muscled her way in, got the food bag open, and just inserted the whole front part of her body, literally strapping on the food bag. We’d come in and find this huge badger-like body extending from the bag of food.
J. Michael Neal
Please tell me this is a hoax, or there’s some sort of context that would reduce the dissonance. This whole bit of the transcript was said in his Al Sharpton voice, right? Please tell me I’m right.
Jay
@John Cole:
I’ll send you a great Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin’s Tower if you can find me a clean Shining Star by JGB.
scarshapedstar
Only Dead song I like is Hell in a Bucket.
(2¢)
Common Sense
@J. Michael Neal:
From the transcript of the show:
—
Al Sharpton, the head honcho of the National Action Network, on his syndicated radio show yesterday.
SHARPTON: The so-called pirates, they call themselves voluntary Coast Guard in Somalia, which may be more apt.
RUSH: Well, there you have it, from one of America’s true leaders of the civil rights movement, the black community, they’re not even pirates. They are voluntary coast guards.
He’s confirming me, Mr. Snerdley. Don’t look so incredulous. They’re just community organizers and they have decided to organize out on the high seas as a means of protecting their beloved country, is all this is about.
—-
So yeah, this is Rush’s brilliant sarcasm at work again. See, he is an entertainer. He’s funny. Or something.
Oh btw I am a helluva lot more pissed at Rick Perry for this than I am for his asinine grandstanding the last few days.
Unfortunately you warmongers may have to nuke Austin too:
J. Michael Neal
I mean, Rush does realize that there’s no bag limit on brown people, and there will still be plenty left for Republicans to kill when Obama is done, right?
Kim
@Jay:
Jay: Its not quite an instant download, but this one ain’t bad for a YouTube fix (yes, this thread has inspired me to light one and dig through cartons of CDs of live GD/Jerry and listen while also searching YouTube).
Shining Star – 11/19/93 Hampton Coliseum
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Ninerdave
@Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist:
Last time I got high was about 10 years ago. My buddy collected quad vinyl. We listened to Dark Side of the Moon in Quad. It was religious.
Jay
@Kim:
Thanks, Kim. I’ve heard that one, but I’m hoping for one that’s a little cleaner.
My only JGB show was at the Cap Center in ’93, I think, and he fucking ROCKED! Very healthy. I was hooked.
I have standing orders that Jerry’s I Shall Be Released should be played at my funeral.
lovedog
hey, here’s an excellent widget which does exactly what you need:
http://www.widget-foundry.com/widgets/amazonart.htm
Runs a search for whatever album you need on amazon and then you can add to itunes with a single click. it’s flawless. And then those few times it can’t find the right one ou can have fun adding some random albanian folk singer’s cover instead (if you’re me)
freelancer
Funny,
Last night I lit one and climbed through Cole’s archives, circa March 2003. Scary stuff indeed. Apparently I hated the troops then, even the ones I’d befriended in high school who had joined cause of 9/11 and were being sent to war in the name of "God knows what?".
Fast Forward to March 2005, and Terri Schaivo rips the veil off of the fraud that the GOP had been wearing for years before, John slowly awakens, and its a beautiful thing to see happening.
To Cole, I’m not saying I was always on the side of righteousness. I was 18, a kid, on 9/11 and it took a long time to see the bullshit for what it is. For my entire adult life, GWB has been president, and now there’s an intelligent, professorial, empirical, well-spoken pragmatist sitting in his chair and I’m still having trouble wrapping my brain around it. A man I admire is the president, not the lesser of two evils, not the one who would prevail in a contest over a douche vs a turd, but someone who is as thoughtful and strategic as he is calculating.
The left still has a lot of things that piss me off, and since inauguration day, they have become even more clear, but the key lesson I have taken from this blog is something that I have held as a value for a long time.
Truth is more important than ideology, evidence is more important than intuition. Being able to admit one’s wrongness is a virture, not a weakness. Few things in this life are sacred, and in terms of free speech, Nothing’s Sacred.
passerby
@asiangrrlMN:
Same here asiangrrlMN. My kitty is 11 pounds and eats dry food at will and a little wet food in the afternoon. Tuna on fridays. I’m lucky. He just stays trim.
I could not say no to him. John, couldn’t Tunch have just a few more kibbles as a snack? I think I’m heartbroken for him having to be on that sucky diet. The look of betrayal on his face is almost more than I can bear.
purple_rider_lib
just "get info" on the album in question in itunes, then drag your artwork to the empty artwork square in the itunes info menu. What cover are you looking for?
MikeJ
I always liked the concept of the Dead, but not the actual band. I’ve always been a fan of straight ahead rock and roll, I love the blues, I love bluegrass, folk, and even old timey country. A band that combined those elements and at the same time gave a big "fuck you" to the majors should be my favorite in the world. I can’t explain it, but I just can’t stand them.
Common Sense
@MikeJ:
I liked the concept of the Dead too. Then I met some Deadheads.
freelancer
I think it was Mr. Show on HBO. They had an episode about Hippies and one gets all maudlin about the Dead breaking up. David Cross said something like "Yeah, you know, It was awesome how I used to follow my friends around the country in a van and pay them $20 bucks a night to dick around on guitar for an hour."
They may have made some awesome music (perhaps, I don’t listen to them), but your nebulous reaction may be to the actual context in which it was created. I think this explains why I don’t really like movies with Tom Cruise for the most
part.
Zuzu's Petals
My Flickr photostream of the Sacramento Teabagging is here.
(H/t to Rachel Maddow for the set title.)
I found a "Get a Brain Morans!" contender in my brief stroll around the perimeter (see Flickr pics). She was really pleased as punch with her sign and posed all sorts of which ways for me…sorry her sparkly flag hat doesn’t show up.
I felt sort of mean taking her picture, but at least I was polite and noncommittal.
fritz
Deal: 1-11-79, 6-24-84, 7-19-89
Don’t see that sequence for Greek shows of the era, but you can’t go wrong with most of them.
For H-S-F try the new Menke auds of 6-17-75 and 9-28-75.
Xenos
@Common Sense: I have always been unable to stand deadheads. This is probably because most of the deadheads I have known have been complete trustifarians. Snotty kids with $10 million or more in the bank who think pretending to be poor makes them cooler than everybody else? Retch.
This may be completely unfair to deadheads as a whole, but I classify them with parrot-heads and movement republicans as an unredeemable bunch of philistines.
But if there is a show online with Ornette Coleman, I would be willing to check that out…
Dennis-SGMM
@Common Sense:
Even a shred is too much self-respect for Governor Goodhair.
Next he’ll be offering to bear Glenn Beck’s baby.
djork
How do you hide pot from a Deadhead?
Put it in his workboots.
I’ll be here all week, veal, etc.
Dennis-SGMM
I was up at Berkeley in the 60’s when you could go to Fillmore or Winterland in S.F. and see the Dead, the Airplane, Doors, Quicksilver, etc. play for $2.25. I never thought that the Dead were worth the money.
eglenn
Amazon’s CD art is pretty hit and miss. Many are just glorified thumbnails and quite a few have white borders (there are some nice customer-submitted ones).
I keep Cover View up as my iTunes default which just magnifies the art problem.
Try these:
http://www.albumartexchange.com/
Best quality.
http://rateyourmusic.com/
Most obscure stuff.
or do a Google search on the album and press the Images filter at the top of the screen. Useful on those out-there titles.
Irrelevant,YetPoignant
Put it under the soap.
zzyzx
The Dead are one of those things that you love or hate. I’m someone who doesn’t use dr00gs at all but I still love them. Something about Jerry’s playing and singing just works very well for me. I still miss him 14 years later…
…14 years? Really? Wow.
Dan
Limbaugh will be glad to know that after Obama murdered 3 teenagers he broke into a house and killed 2 more people.
fritz
Stereotypes will only get you so far in life. I’ve had to work full-time since I graduated, and none of my Deadhead friends are independantly wealthy. I shower every day, pay my bills, and I’ve got thousands of hours of music that have nothing to do with the Dead.
Comrade Darkness
@omen: I don’t know for dogs, but I’ll confirm for cats. My Brimstone just keeps expanding, but the other cat looks like a half starved rat, so we have to leave food out all the time. I finally found a food that the skinny one liked and the fat one didn’t and thought I had the perfect solution to my problem. But the vet said, oh noes, you can’t do that, if a fat cat actually starves, they break down the fats stored in their liver fast enough to toxify their liver. I said, well, this cat will be fat forever then. So be it.
As to the Dead, I confess I often like the covers better. Like the Deadicated album. Loaded with stylistic goodness.
Comrade Kevin
@omen: That woman is dumb as a rock.
Jason
@eglenn:
Thanks for posting these links. I have just used amazon because it was easy, and I can be lazy.
Tax Analyst
"Workingman’s Dead" and "American Beauty", both from 1970 are excellent albums all the way through (Well, except for "Black Peter", which I found and still find just too long, slow and mournful for my tastes. In the vinyl era I recall being tempted to get up and move the turntable arm, in the CD era its just a "next song" click). The songs are superbly crafted and crisply executed. Great lyrics, great lead vocal and wonderful harmony. The instrumental breaks work because they actually go somewhere. My problem with later ‘Dead’ albums, with some single-song exceptions, is that they tended to devolve into shapeless, pointless bits of noodling, with Jerry and company grinning at each other. Cool for Jerry & the guys, maybe cool to a live audience, kinda boring to watch on DVD or listen to on a CD (you can only imagine the grinning part).
But hey, two great albums and some other very notable single selections ain’t all that bad in the long run.
kafkananda
@John Cole 15:
I think you are talking about the show at the Henry J Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland on 12-30-86. The DeadBase series of books have extensive information available about GD song lists and other stuff. In the "every time played" section they list the previous song and the following song. So a quick perusal finds only three instances of Aiko leading into Woman Smarter and only one show that also includes Stella. There were some really great Greek shows of that time. I had a friend on tour then who always gave the heads up on the hot shows.
Bubblegum Tate
@Irrelevant,YetPoignant:
What do you call a Deadhead who broke up with his girlfriend?
Homeless.
Gatsby
Tunch is such a sweetheart. He does not look pissy to me. He’s just doing the lying-on-the-side-flat-as-a-pancake thing. And his look is one of "Look at me, I’m so cute."
Gay Veteran
SIXTEEN POUNDS?!?!?!? good god, Tunch weighs almost as much as my Mom’s Maine Coon cat (and those cats are HUGE)
ellie
I love that cat!
estraven
My cat weighs 24 pounds … he came to us like that. A friend needed to find a home for his cat, who was 5 years old at the time. I have tried to put him on a diet, but he drives me crazy with the yowling, howling, whining, etc.
Sigh.