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Post by thisonehurts on Nov 16, 2017 16:31:41 GMT
If Jerry Garcia actually ever met "Jerry", Garcia would probably punch the guy right in the kisser on general principles. Gort Jerry seems to represent everything that Deadheads didn't stand for. I really am not much for hero worship, and Garcia was nothing if not a very flawed man. However, power tripping was one thing he simply didn't do. He also had a very ingrained belief in not telling other people what to do. Even when the scene got swamped by interlopers and was crashing and burning amid gate-crashings, arrests, and deaths in the 1990's, Garcia refused to do the PSAs and sign the letters the band kept putting out asking the Deadheads to chill out. He called the idea that he should tell anyone what to do "repellent". Even as Phil Lesh recorded messages saying don't bring drugs and don't act like assholes, Garcia kept urging the Deadheads to "keep having fun"... The last fucking thing he would have ever been in this life or any other is a fucking Gort. Repellent. For a reactionary, quasi-fascist, anonymous Gort to steal his name and image in the interest of bossing people around and deleting their poats is beyond annoying for me. I admit that I'm stupid to care, but Garcia -for all his faults and inconsistencies- always represented a kind of honest integrity, while Gorts and people who actively want to be mods in general usually display complete lack of same. In the great scheme of things, all of this means nothing. But in the microworld of Hoofer's, this was just one more constant thing that bugged me. As Jerry sees it, his hero took some wrong turns in life. He failed to invest wisely. He did not make use of a sensible pension scheme. He was a smoker. He made no known public statements in favour of compulsory firearm tuition for the under-8's. He was opposed to Ronald Reagan when he was Governor of California. He hung around with liberal writers and law-breakers and did not report them to the police. But these flaws can be overlooked with one listen to the segue from The Other One > Comes A Time on the Frankfurt 4/26/72 live album Hundred Year Hall, which is the finest piece of alt-right guitar noodling that Jerry has ever heard.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 17, 2017 6:39:34 GMT
That discussion should stand as long as nobody starts talking about where to find said bootleg. Like I said I always thought their policy on not being able to talk about bootlegs was bullshit anyway.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Nov 17, 2017 7:21:33 GMT
That discussion should stand as long as nobody starts talking about where to find said bootleg. Like I said I always thought their policy on not being able to talk about bootlegs was bullshit anyway. I seem to recall this policy being followed pretty strictly when I first joined.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 17, 2017 9:44:55 GMT
That discussion should stand as long as nobody starts talking about where to find said bootleg. Like I said I always thought their policy on not being able to talk about bootlegs was bullshit anyway. I seem to recall this policy being followed pretty strictly when I first joined. They're pretty lax about it now, as long as yer not discussing where to find bootlegs. The contents are okay to discuss, as long as yer a bit discreet about it. I think the Gorts know now that they can't stop people talking about bootlegs altogether.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 17, 2017 12:53:12 GMT
Guess what? In addition to being a repugnant, bullying asshole, Jerry is also a two-faced c***: Is anyone familiar with the bootleg "Relics" that came out about 10 years ago? The tracks are sourced from tape, supposedly, and the bonus cuts (Candy, Scarecrow, Apples, It Would Be Nice, Point Me) are transfers from "The Early Singles" while the last 3 cuts come from "Zabriskie Point". I always held off buying the legit "Relics" because this sounded so good, but I hear different things about it now. In reply to someone who mentioned "The Beatles – The Complete BBC Sessions": Agreed! The best collected/packaged set in the history of bootlegging, IMO. Apple/EMI even borrowed some of the cuts for their release, which was "forced" by the release of this set! The Ed Sullivan Show also. I was 8½ . I would ride my bike 2 miles downtown and buy the singles as they came out. I still have them. My first LP purchase was Beatles '65. I remember at one point my mother asking me "Don't you have enough records?" Well, I still don't have the courage to show her my collection now. Anyways, I bought bootlegs like Kum Back in 1969, BEFORE Let It Be was released. I bought the MOFI box when it came out in '83, even though it cost more than I spent for a car back then. In the late 80's, early-mid 90's I bought a lot of the boots that cost $20-$25 at the time, including the $275 BBC box. I'll keep buyin' Beatles music, videos and books until "The End."
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Post by thisonehurts on Nov 17, 2017 16:59:56 GMT
The Ed Sullivan Show also. I was 8½ . I would ride my bike 2 miles downtown and buy the singles as they came out. I still have them. My first LP purchase was Beatles '65. I remember at one point my mother asking me "Don't you have enough records?" Well, I still don't have the courage to show her my collection now. Anyways, I bought bootlegs like Kum Back in 1969, BEFORE Let It Be was released. I bought the MOFI box when it came out in '83, even though it cost more than I spent for a car back then. In the late 80's, early-mid 90's I bought a lot of the boots that cost $20-$25 at the time, including the $275 BBC box. I'll keep buyin' Beatles music, videos and books until "The End." Jerry remembers it well. It was the next big event in his childhood after celebrating the Kennedy assassination.
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UDII
Cynthia
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Post by UDII on Nov 17, 2017 20:46:01 GMT
"There are degrees" of assholes, Gort Jerry is clASS A.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Nov 17, 2017 21:55:19 GMT
One of these Jerry's did not do LSD.
Guess which is which.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 18, 2017 6:21:29 GMT
One of these Jerry's did not do LSD.
Guess which is which.
Maybe Gort Jerry shoulda dropped some acid back in the day- might have done him some good, turned him into more of a goddamn human being and less of a shithead...
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Post by audiopro on Nov 18, 2017 14:44:49 GMT
Talk about bootlegs leads to talk about how bootlegs originated, which will inevitably lead to how a large number of Buddy Holly out-takes are now available on the European Public Domain market in master-tape sound quality. I wouldn't care to speculate on how they got out.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 22, 2017 12:30:00 GMT
Perhaps, to prevent thread closure and other bad things from happening, we could all get back on topic? Thank you. Yes, 27 posts deleted. No joke! That's right! 27 poats! Not "about 30" or "a lot". No way! Jerry counts each and every offending poat as he removes them – while putting the name of each one's author into his database of undesirables. And once Jerry's task is over, he removes his MAGA cap to wipe his sweaty brow, expresses his displeasure to the SHites with the above poat, and takes a well-deserved nap.
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daved
Better than Steve
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Post by daved on Mar 8, 2018 16:27:26 GMT
An asshole and knows nothing. Even a mild rock fan knows the Harrison/The Band connection. Not this fuckwad.
Why wasn't George at The Last Waltz?
Gort asshole:
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Post by audiopro on Mar 9, 2018 17:16:07 GMT
I thought the official story was that Harrison was invited, but declined because he had heptatits.
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Post by gobshite on Mar 9, 2018 17:33:22 GMT
I thought the official story was that nobody ever gave half a second's thought to a has-been who was never much of a player compared to that scene anyway.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Mar 9, 2018 18:00:43 GMT
Harrison did this disastrous tour of the US in 1974, and may have not been very fond of the idea of playing there again in 1976.
Besides, people like Ringo Starr and Ron Wood were guests in the finale and the jam session that followed.
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