Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Cleaning Out My Closet

I have around 45 open tabs on my desktop, all relating to the Dead and the nonsense they’ve been up to, so let’s just link to all of them so I can go back to streaming karate movies.

Would you like to win a guitar? It’s an expensive one, but it has been pawed at by the drummers.

Perhaps you’d rather buy a ’56 Chevy that Garcia may or may not have gotten tuggers in?

Maybe you want capitalism and its inherent flaws pointed out to you by Time magazine, which apparently still exists even though Joel Stein works there?

There’s more–oh, God, there’s more–but begin there and we’ll have a quiz after lunch.

22 Comments

  1. FreedomHaul

    For those of you looking for a musical interlude before tonight’s festivities/your early bed time: Coltrane’s “Africa” seems to fit the day’s moods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3WwoBOR_s

    • maggiemay

      Fuckin love me some Coltrane. He’s tough to play (jazz band was a fun middle school experience) and even tougher to listen to sometimes. But this is nice, thanks!

      • thoughtsonthedead

        WHY AREN’T YOU IN SCHOOL YOUNG LADY?

      • maggiemay

        IT’S SATURDAY

        IM AT A SWIM MEET

        SCHOOL GOT OUT 2 WEEKS AGO SHEESH DAD

      • maggiemay

        THAT DOESNT EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE

        ILL DO WHAT I WANT

  2. FreedomHaul

    Please and thank you.

  3. spencer

    Who owned the Chevy Tugger? It just says “roadie?

    • thoughtsonthedead

      Dunno

      • corry342

        Sad to say, I have generally looked into this subject, but I don’t have a line on the ’56 Chevy BelAir. Since Bob Matthews owned a 55 Plymouth Wagon, he seems like a likely candidate, but that’s all I got. If this isn’t enough, you may assess matters yourselves, unless you are busy today doing something else.

        http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcias-automobiles-1960-1970.html

        • thoughtsonthedead

          I’ve read this particular post of yours numerous times, too.

          Any chance we get a Phil’s Sports Cars rundown?

      • spencer

        Thanks, I’ve also sadly spent time trying to figure it out. Not sure which crew member had a stepson. Great link also.

  4. cgrand

    worried sick about mrs donna jean

    • thoughtsonthedead

      What? is she ill?

      • cgrand

        not ill but certainly forlorn and in need of comfort

        • thoughtsonthedead

          Are these things you’re saying true in the sense that I use the word, or in the sense that a reporter or judge would use the word?

  5. August West

    Would rather have these.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIhUQC2UYAAB5Lo.jpg

    • spencer

      Trade?

    • August West

      Yes, let’s trade. They won’t let me in with my fanny pack, which I wore to Watkins Glen. So screw em.

  6. Estimated_0 (@Estimated_0)

    What the hell does this Brad Tuttle guy know from his own backside. Why do people find it so difficult to appreciate a group of truly dysfunctional men (and woman), even more dysfunctional individually, making a killing for producing a great (well, very entertaining) product. Where in the world could THIS bunch of miscreants be relaxing in their Marin County mansions on account of a body of work dedicated to the plight of the working man? AMERICA BABY. AMERICA.

    • FreedomHaul

      Serious comment: one of the things this blog has made me think long and hard about is the *ridiculous* number of things this band would not be able to get away with nowadays.

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