Tonight's program honors Day(s) of the Dead, and includes a reading of the astrology of Mars opposite Pluto, a Phil Lesh tribute, Peter Shipley tribute, new music by Kristen Williams and Shri Yantra.
I forgot the funniest of the Pete Shipley stories. I am tempted to edit the program and add it but I'll start here. We invited Peter and his wife Marianne (one of the top librarians at the college) to hang out one Friday night. This was in my little house at 20 Center St, in New Paltz, which served as the Student Leader office with its five phone lines, a fax machine, a living room full of computers and a lot of cats esp William Pen and Ling Ling. Maybe there were 15 people.
We all started to get tipsy. I had been drunk about five times in my life at that point, so it was still like wow! for me...and the party got a little loud. Not a rave; not a keg party; but a little loud.
I was in the kitchen getting something and heard a police call come over the scanner: noise complaint for 20 Center St.
Knowing we had about 2 minutes to get ready, I quickly went back into the living room, I turned down the music and told everyone to pull the chairs into a circle and put a book in their laps...the books came flying off the shelves and everyone took one. There was a knock on the door. Feeling a little wobbly, I opened it and a New Paltz cop was standing there.
"Can I help you?"
"Yes we have a noise complaint for this location."
I opened the door all the way and said, "Officer, we're having a study session. See?" He looked around. It was a bunch of kids with two very grownup looking middle-aged adults, all sitting on folding chairs in a circle with books in their laps. In what for all purposes was an office.
He looked at me. I looked at him. He knew he had been punked...he had no way to know how...and there was nothing he could do. I thanked him and he left.
I love telling this story to cops. They all think it's funny. I still listen to the scanner. It's the only interesting thing on the radio, and there are no ads.
They stopped playing it because they increasingly found the time signature too confining, at least that's what Jerry said. I think it was partly just wanting to simplify things. Spun some GREAT jams out of it!!!
Follow the kicks, they usually fall on a "1", the snare hits on three. I seems to me like 8 measures of four tagged with a turnaround of a measure of 5 and one measure of 3 across what seems like a phrase to me.
I agree there was great personal growth on offer through those very strange times. My comment concerns people not thinking about others and the impact of mandatory lockdowns on their lives.
I've finished listening through Box of Rain. What a neat performance. I was lucky enough to hear the very first, 10/9/72, some two years after the album got released, Donna Jean sang backups, just like with the studio version of Unbroken Chain. That tune did not get performed live till March '95, it was performed at the last show i saw, 6/4/95, and at the very last Dead show, 7/9/95. The lyrics were by Bobby Peterson, who also wrote Pride of Cucamonga (also on the "Mars Hotel" album, never performed live by the Dead) and New Potato Caboose, on Anthem of the Sun, performed a bunch of times between '67 and '69, sang by Bob. Phil wrote several tunes which were performed which he did not sing lead on, including Clementine (a rare Jerry-sang tune), The Eleven (he sang backup) and Passenger (on Terrapin Station, sang by Bob). He also wrote and sang lead on a couple of tunes introduced in '94, If the Shoe Fits and Childhood's End, and a '92 tune Wave to the Wind. All throwaways, he was to say later on.
In a case of either serendipity or synchonicity (or both?), i wrote a segment in my Newsletter of today about the election, coming to the same conclusions as you, but before i heard anhy of this program! We must be feeling/sensing the same thing.
"Department of Defense directive from late September should be highly concerning. I see a distinct possibility that the post-election situation will bring massive civil unrest by the reaction of the supporters of the defeated candidate, and this could be used to legitimate a military takeover and the imposition of a “coalition government” which will be tasked with tackling mounting problems such as a possible regional war in SW Asia, economic collapse and a feigned health crisis via public-private partnerships, digital IDs and massive social coercion.
Note page three, subsection (2) which enables military forces to act in concert with civiilan law enforcement, and subsection 3, 3, (2.c) which includes the use of lethal force within our national borders if deemed necessary by the Secretary of Defense.
In its entirely this document authorizes the Military to use lethal force against civilians.
DOD INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COMPONENT ASSISTANCE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CIVIL AUTHORITIES
And thanks a LOT for the Peter SHipley tribute. Hope he's sleeping in the stars.
Are we to believe that LGBTQish, feministicish, CRTish do-gooders are plausibly going to be accused of "civil unrest"? If they want anyone to believe it, they have to put in Harris and blame the riot on another guy in a Viking hat.
Pete was great. Master media tactician who taught me a lot of the basic rules of the game and how to work the press ecosystem. I could go on and on with the projects we did, some of which now need to be classified due to the prevailing political climate but let's just say we went after Pubs and Dems with equal disregard for the party line.
One that I can talk about is that he was the numbers guy on the Jean LaMarre story that hit big in the NY papers — CUNY's High Roller, the $400+G student budget that went to limos and banquets.
I would not have been nearly as confident going to press with that one had he not dug through a mountain of invoices and requisition forms etc splayed out on the table with his calculator...and said yep this is really happening...and we trusted our source down in the city...two sources really (CCNY Day Student Government, and Meridian at Lehman, which was our city desk and tried to do the story months earlier but it got no traction).
But internally we had the paperwork and confirmed the numbers and the without that there would not have been a story. He pretty much lived at the SLNS house with us that week.
It was really a musical collaboration where we were pretty much always in tune. And before I got up here, the ONE thing Peter was missing was someone who could actually get his stories into the press, someone who took him totally seriously and would help him develop them into coherent writing — so it was great fun to have that role in his life. Then once the ball was in play, he was brilliant at keeping the story going.
Some of his tactics and strategies still work in the Substack environment — the Poornima Wagh story is a good example of that. I wish he could have read that one, he would have laughed his ass off and taken me out to dinner.
Regarding your first para. Many people will believe anything, especially if they get texted it. They can always claim "Stonewall Riot" or "Dan White Night Riot" precedents.
hahaha Stonewall! I tell the LGBTQs in my neighborhood I am glad they were not in charge of the movement that night. We needed some real men in dresses to throw chairs. And you're right — whenever my SMS goes off I say, wow that must be true! ugh
Listened to the rest (post Box of Rain). Yes, amazing interplay on Dark Star>... between Jerry's high leads and Phil's low counterpoints, but also amazing how Bob keeps finding the right chord which connects the two strands at each point.
One does NOT choose who they are *physically* attracted to. You certainly can choose whether to act on that attraction, whether you even want to (based upon further knowledge of the person), but your receptors don't choose, they respond.
The very fact that the political lesbian ideologues insisted that women should *choose* to eschew physical (and of course emotional) contact with men should make one who is an antagonist of those ideologues highly suspicious of any notion that sexual orientation is a choice. So i'm quite surprised you seem to say otherwise.
Bisexuals? They too have receptors which react the way they react, with no conscious thought involved in the least. They just happen to have a hypothalamus and attendant equipment which is to one extent or another open to unconscious physical signals from either sex. This is what the likes of Simon LeVey have decided via their research. Physically speaking, a smaller percent of women are exclusively same sex, but a larger percentage are bisexual. No one chooses to be bi, people just choose to act upon their already felt sensations and emotions.
And yes, there are political bisexuals, i.e. like political lesbians. I've been told in several political (anarchist and the like) groups i hung out with, first in the mid '70s and then in the early '90s, that being bi was the politically correct orientation. I gave them the finger, had to stand up for myself quite forcefully.
No one chooses to be heterosexual either, i certainly didn't at age 9, had no idea what i was suddenly feeling that was different from what i felt before. Being hetero has actually been a problem over the 33 years since my divorce, it's not very popular in the political realms i inhabited, at least till the "COVID" PsyOp started.
My New York experiences were all with streets-working professionals, they were all woman AFAIK or could determine. And i had several experiences while doing my own version of Kerouac/Cassady's On the Road in Summer '71, all were women, one guy in Chicago tried hard to hit on me. Otherwise, West Coast, all Bay Area, just a few flirtations in Seattle during a Dead 3 days stand in May '95. But the bisexual PC rap also came at me from the Fifth Estate, an anarchist paper then ('93-4) based in Detroit.
That is some experience...though all of it is conventionally social. People reveal different facets of themselves in different environments. Set and setting and what is socially acceptable are essential to understand. Also experiencing people not as a direct participant but as witness and facilitator matter.
I like Orwell's NAZI definition from his 1943 essay, Looking Back on the Spanish War.
"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past, people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously colored what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that “the facts” existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost anyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be a body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as “the truth” exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as “Science”. There is only “German Science,” “Jewish Science,” etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, “It never happened” — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs — and after our experiences of the last few years that is not such a frivolous statement."
I forgot the funniest of the Pete Shipley stories. I am tempted to edit the program and add it but I'll start here. We invited Peter and his wife Marianne (one of the top librarians at the college) to hang out one Friday night. This was in my little house at 20 Center St, in New Paltz, which served as the Student Leader office with its five phone lines, a fax machine, a living room full of computers and a lot of cats esp William Pen and Ling Ling. Maybe there were 15 people.
We all started to get tipsy. I had been drunk about five times in my life at that point, so it was still like wow! for me...and the party got a little loud. Not a rave; not a keg party; but a little loud.
I was in the kitchen getting something and heard a police call come over the scanner: noise complaint for 20 Center St.
Knowing we had about 2 minutes to get ready, I quickly went back into the living room, I turned down the music and told everyone to pull the chairs into a circle and put a book in their laps...the books came flying off the shelves and everyone took one. There was a knock on the door. Feeling a little wobbly, I opened it and a New Paltz cop was standing there.
"Can I help you?"
"Yes we have a noise complaint for this location."
I opened the door all the way and said, "Officer, we're having a study session. See?" He looked around. It was a bunch of kids with two very grownup looking middle-aged adults, all sitting on folding chairs in a circle with books in their laps. In what for all purposes was an office.
He looked at me. I looked at him. He knew he had been punked...he had no way to know how...and there was nothing he could do. I thanked him and he left.
I love telling this story to cops. They all think it's funny. I still listen to the scanner. It's the only interesting thing on the radio, and there are no ads.
Eleven would be counted 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2-3
The tune? It's 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2, fits with the chords A, D, E and back to A for 1-2.
ah no wonder I could not get it to add up...so it's in three, skipping a beat every fourth measure...
They stopped playing it because they increasingly found the time signature too confining, at least that's what Jerry said. I think it was partly just wanting to simplify things. Spun some GREAT jams out of it!!!
Follow the kicks, they usually fall on a "1", the snare hits on three. I seems to me like 8 measures of four tagged with a turnaround of a measure of 5 and one measure of 3 across what seems like a phrase to me.
Yeah, 11. I forgot four beats.
what ever happened to the cha-cha?
The needle jumped.
Re lockdowns, I still hear people telling me how much they liked lockdowns. Totally careless of the effects it had on other peoples lives.
Penelope
Here try this one on --
https://planetwaves.net/covid-silver-lining-experiences/
I agree there was great personal growth on offer through those very strange times. My comment concerns people not thinking about others and the impact of mandatory lockdowns on their lives.
Oh I get it. And especially the lives of kids...
And people telling me how Zoom shows were much better than live ones, didn't have to deal with rowdy fans and chance exposure.
I've finished listening through Box of Rain. What a neat performance. I was lucky enough to hear the very first, 10/9/72, some two years after the album got released, Donna Jean sang backups, just like with the studio version of Unbroken Chain. That tune did not get performed live till March '95, it was performed at the last show i saw, 6/4/95, and at the very last Dead show, 7/9/95. The lyrics were by Bobby Peterson, who also wrote Pride of Cucamonga (also on the "Mars Hotel" album, never performed live by the Dead) and New Potato Caboose, on Anthem of the Sun, performed a bunch of times between '67 and '69, sang by Bob. Phil wrote several tunes which were performed which he did not sing lead on, including Clementine (a rare Jerry-sang tune), The Eleven (he sang backup) and Passenger (on Terrapin Station, sang by Bob). He also wrote and sang lead on a couple of tunes introduced in '94, If the Shoe Fits and Childhood's End, and a '92 tune Wave to the Wind. All throwaways, he was to say later on.
In a case of either serendipity or synchonicity (or both?), i wrote a segment in my Newsletter of today about the election, coming to the same conclusions as you, but before i heard anhy of this program! We must be feeling/sensing the same thing.
"Department of Defense directive from late September should be highly concerning. I see a distinct possibility that the post-election situation will bring massive civil unrest by the reaction of the supporters of the defeated candidate, and this could be used to legitimate a military takeover and the imposition of a “coalition government” which will be tasked with tackling mounting problems such as a possible regional war in SW Asia, economic collapse and a feigned health crisis via public-private partnerships, digital IDs and massive social coercion.
Note page three, subsection (2) which enables military forces to act in concert with civiilan law enforcement, and subsection 3, 3, (2.c) which includes the use of lethal force within our national borders if deemed necessary by the Secretary of Defense.
In its entirely this document authorizes the Military to use lethal force against civilians.
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/524001p.pdf?ver=2019-03-22-081833-130
DOD DIRECTIVE 5240.01
DOD INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COMPONENT ASSISTANCE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CIVIL AUTHORITIES
And thanks a LOT for the Peter SHipley tribute. Hope he's sleeping in the stars.
Are we to believe that LGBTQish, feministicish, CRTish do-gooders are plausibly going to be accused of "civil unrest"? If they want anyone to believe it, they have to put in Harris and blame the riot on another guy in a Viking hat.
Pete was great. Master media tactician who taught me a lot of the basic rules of the game and how to work the press ecosystem. I could go on and on with the projects we did, some of which now need to be classified due to the prevailing political climate but let's just say we went after Pubs and Dems with equal disregard for the party line.
One that I can talk about is that he was the numbers guy on the Jean LaMarre story that hit big in the NY papers — CUNY's High Roller, the $400+G student budget that went to limos and banquets.
I would not have been nearly as confident going to press with that one had he not dug through a mountain of invoices and requisition forms etc splayed out on the table with his calculator...and said yep this is really happening...and we trusted our source down in the city...two sources really (CCNY Day Student Government, and Meridian at Lehman, which was our city desk and tried to do the story months earlier but it got no traction).
But internally we had the paperwork and confirmed the numbers and the without that there would not have been a story. He pretty much lived at the SLNS house with us that week.
It was really a musical collaboration where we were pretty much always in tune. And before I got up here, the ONE thing Peter was missing was someone who could actually get his stories into the press, someone who took him totally seriously and would help him develop them into coherent writing — so it was great fun to have that role in his life. Then once the ball was in play, he was brilliant at keeping the story going.
Some of his tactics and strategies still work in the Substack environment — the Poornima Wagh story is a good example of that. I wish he could have read that one, he would have laughed his ass off and taken me out to dinner.
Regarding your first para. Many people will believe anything, especially if they get texted it. They can always claim "Stonewall Riot" or "Dan White Night Riot" precedents.
hahaha Stonewall! I tell the LGBTQs in my neighborhood I am glad they were not in charge of the movement that night. We needed some real men in dresses to throw chairs. And you're right — whenever my SMS goes off I say, wow that must be true! ugh
And there's also BLM, available 24/7 to start something once the text gets sent.
Eric, I’m only 20 minutes in and have laughed out loud several times already!
Listened to the rest (post Box of Rain). Yes, amazing interplay on Dark Star>... between Jerry's high leads and Phil's low counterpoints, but also amazing how Bob keeps finding the right chord which connects the two strands at each point.
One does NOT choose who they are *physically* attracted to. You certainly can choose whether to act on that attraction, whether you even want to (based upon further knowledge of the person), but your receptors don't choose, they respond.
The very fact that the political lesbian ideologues insisted that women should *choose* to eschew physical (and of course emotional) contact with men should make one who is an antagonist of those ideologues highly suspicious of any notion that sexual orientation is a choice. So i'm quite surprised you seem to say otherwise.
Bisexuals? They too have receptors which react the way they react, with no conscious thought involved in the least. They just happen to have a hypothalamus and attendant equipment which is to one extent or another open to unconscious physical signals from either sex. This is what the likes of Simon LeVey have decided via their research. Physically speaking, a smaller percent of women are exclusively same sex, but a larger percentage are bisexual. No one chooses to be bi, people just choose to act upon their already felt sensations and emotions.
And yes, there are political bisexuals, i.e. like political lesbians. I've been told in several political (anarchist and the like) groups i hung out with, first in the mid '70s and then in the early '90s, that being bi was the politically correct orientation. I gave them the finger, had to stand up for myself quite forcefully.
No one chooses to be heterosexual either, i certainly didn't at age 9, had no idea what i was suddenly feeling that was different from what i felt before. Being hetero has actually been a problem over the 33 years since my divorce, it's not very popular in the political realms i inhabited, at least till the "COVID" PsyOp started.
re sexuality, you're speaking from West Coast / Bay Area experience, correct?
My New York experiences were all with streets-working professionals, they were all woman AFAIK or could determine. And i had several experiences while doing my own version of Kerouac/Cassady's On the Road in Summer '71, all were women, one guy in Chicago tried hard to hit on me. Otherwise, West Coast, all Bay Area, just a few flirtations in Seattle during a Dead 3 days stand in May '95. But the bisexual PC rap also came at me from the Fifth Estate, an anarchist paper then ('93-4) based in Detroit.
That is some experience...though all of it is conventionally social. People reveal different facets of themselves in different environments. Set and setting and what is socially acceptable are essential to understand. Also experiencing people not as a direct participant but as witness and facilitator matter.
In my Bay Area experiences, anything was socially acceptable :-) Well, maybe not bestiality.
I like Orwell's NAZI definition from his 1943 essay, Looking Back on the Spanish War.
"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past, people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously colored what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that “the facts” existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost anyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be a body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as “the truth” exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as “Science”. There is only “German Science,” “Jewish Science,” etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, “It never happened” — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs — and after our experiences of the last few years that is not such a frivolous statement."
you could have put all 23 of those jurors together and they would have not come up with one sentence from that.
To the victor and their bias...
Nazis...the perfect blend of nationalism (print) and tribalism (radio).
So what do you call it when you add the moving synchronized images?
television...and the first big brodacast was the '36 olympics.
Quite the instant speed of light transmission these days coupled with super efficient networks.