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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe can run, but we can't hide from it (Grateful Dead)
Never meant more than it does today. From the Dead's later years.
We don't own this place, though we act as if we did,
It's a loan from the children of our children's kids.
The actual owners haven't even been born yet.
Bur we never tend the garden and rarely we pay the rent,
Some of it is broken and the rest of it is bent
Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we'll be when the bills hit.
We can run,
But we can't hide from it.
Of all possible worlds,
We only got one:
We gotta ride on it.
Whatever we've done,
We'll never get far from what we leave behind,
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.
Oh no, we can't hide.
I'm dumpin' my trash in your back yard
Makin' certain you don't notice really isn't so hard
You're so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them.
Well, it's oil for the rich and babies for the poor,
We got everyone believin' that more is more,
If a reckoning comes, maybe we will know what to do then.
All these complications seem to leave no choice,
I heard the tongues of billion speak with just one voice,
Saying, "just leave all the rest to me,
I need it worse than you, you see."
And then I heard,
The sound of one child crying.
Today I went walking in the amber wind,
There's a hole in the sky where the light pours in
I remembered the days when I wasn't afraid of the sunshine.
But now it beats down on the asphalt land
Like a hammering blow from god's left hand
What little still grows cringes in the shade like a bad vine.
Lochloosa
(16,061 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)I just had an esophogetoctomy two weeks ago, so both days would be hard, so only one night this time around. So cannot wait. I'd love to meet a fellow DUer, PM me and we can share phone numbers. I'll be on the lawn I'm sure.
Lochloosa
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ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Bring the heat. You should YouTube the Gorge show from last summer where Oteil admits he took some Owsley prior to the show. You can feel it coming on.
I've seen em all, and loved every version. It's THAT MUSIC,and it is all good. You are right about the drums, they have been highlights since The Dead tour of 2010.
I saw the Santa Clara shows and I swear the band dosed the first night. Set list was so weird and the rainbow? Hand of Allan Ginsburg and Kate Wolf? (It was days after the Supreme Court decision, and the day of the Gay Pride parade and the Kate Wolf festival). I'm still freaked by that.
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ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Loved the guy. Just a Little Light was a great song as is this one.
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ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)I don't agree, the looseness was gone and prefer the epic jams of the early 70's. I tend to play shows from every era however. I saw them 500 or so times,and toured for years. Was in construction, so whenever a Republican ruined my personal economy, I'd hop on tour. Never sold anything illegal but made good money selling Guatemalan clothing, photos of musicians, trinkets etc.
After Brent died, the band had their moments but it was like Jerry was without his musical foil. Hornsby brought that but he wasn't there every show and after a while, not at all. Vince I liked, I was a huge Tubes fan anyway, so I had no problem with him. He brought some different sounds and textures which was nice. Jerry got into the MIDI bag too, so the music changed. I even dug Vince's songs, which most did not like. (yes even Samba In the Rain). By the time it was all over, it was big business for everyone. Tens of thousands a weekend. Huge money was made. But you would see people there who didn't belong there, and never would. People there for the party and never went inside. Some shows, I was so paranoid, I'd stay outside, making sure nobody broke into the vehicles of friends and myself. Skin heads going down Shakedown Street punching random people. DEA agents, with the wrong shoes, busting people and the gas passers who sucked money out of the lot like a Hoover, without putting anything back.
My last show was Shoreline 95 and saw a bunch of shows that summer, Oregon, Vegas, Shoreline etc.....
IMO, the last truly epic show was 10-31-91. Right Bill Graham died. The Dark Star, with Ken Kesey narration, is among the best all time. The had some great shows in every period, and later they were far more consistent, but that also meant that the loose goosey was put on the back burner.
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