I can admit when I’m wrong and I may have prejudged this Greek Theater show from ’82 recommended by Robin Russell. It is skittery and Bobby starts playing some truly weird nonsense during the transition. (Bobby is very loud in the mix and you can hear his spiky accents push the song forward.) This disappoints me slightly, as I had hoped to make fun of this S>F and, obviously, Robin. She lives someplace that I could make fun of for thousands and thousands of words, but: no. She had to pick a killer.
Animals This Scarlet>Fire Could Defeat In Unarmed Combat:
- Any domestic cat.
- Snake under ten feet, non-venomous.
- If on land, any fish.
- If in the water, some fish.
- This Scarlet>Fire could kill a penguin with its bare hands in seconds.
- The majority of dogs; obviously, it can’t defeat one of those SEAL Team Six dogs with the titanium teeth.
- Most dogs wouldn’t even need to be defeated: they would just submit to the S>F immediately, and then ask for belly rubs.
- A lady deer of any size.
- A turtle, I suppose.
- But what would “defeating” a turtle look like?
- Flipping it over on its back?
- This Scarlet>Fire is mighty, not a psychopath.
- Or a replicant.
- Do not flip turtles on their backs.
- If they try to fight you, you may then defeat them, but they will not try to fight you because they are turtles.
- This Scarlet>Fire could defeat (unarmed, I remind you) all normal-sized lizards.
- This Scarlet>Fire could not defeat a Komodo dragon.
- Komodo dragons will fuck your ass up.
- The least powerful weapon you should have when dealing with a Komodo dragon is a minigun.
- That’s the machine gun that goes BRAAAAAAAP that the Army straps to the side of helicopters and Jesse Ventura strapped to his side in Predator.
- If the Scarlet>Fire from 5/23/82 could catch a squirrel, then it could defeat that squirrel.
- Squirrels are tough as shit to catch.
Well, I just play tapes in my mind, which maybe doesn’t count. I recall the year before, September 12, 1981. Possibly because May 29 ’82 was Sunday afternoon, but Sep 12 ’81 was Saturday twilight, and Scarlet>Fire opened the second set just as it got dark. At the Greek, that was really something. Nonetheless, I assure you Jerry burned it up, my own feelings and the dramatic setting aside.
Pay old fogies no mind. Carry on.
I should add that on the CC Rider which inexplicably followed Scarlet>Fire, Jerry absolutely burned down the house on the solo.
CC Rider, burned down the house, what? Yes.
A little marred by Bobby’s slide.
No doubt, that is another ripper.
The May 29 1982 really highlights what a propulsive rhythm player Bobby was at his best.
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Clarification: she is a he.
There are other Greek Fires that give this one a run for its money. 12 Sept 1981, 16 June 1985 and 15 July 1988.
The Oracle Pythia, who worked for Apollo at Delphi, predicted a box set of Scarlet Fires, curated and annotated by ToTD.
Remember, 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the first Grateful Dead performance of Me And My Uncle, so I am anticipating a box set consisting of nothing but MAMU.
Me And All 616 Of My Uncles
What a nice idea, it could be the biggest box yet! We could track the evolution of MAMU through the ages, from its earliest days as a first set Bobby psychedelic cowboy tune, through its time as a two and a half chord warm-up vehicle to its final glorious manifestation as an opportunity for Bobby to recklessly toy with irony.
I love Me And 616 Of My Uncles, that’s the working title now.
One idea I had was that it could be a vinyl and cassette only, no cd. That would be about 72 lps, or 3 boxes of Maxell UDXLIIs.
The cassette version would come without j-cards, just a scribbly hand-written list, old school.
The lp version would be fully deluxe, but it would be a limited edition of one copy, just one. Then they would auction it off on eBay. Some guy with too much money would pay millions of dollars. Really, it’s the logical conclusion. Why fool around with finding 7000 people with $800 to spend on a box set, when you just need one?
Call it art and you can charge way more.
That is strategy I used to win a computerised business game on a marketing course many years ago. The program reduced sales as you increased price, but it didn’t reduce sales to zero.
Will it be called “Cracked Him in the Jaw” ?
yeah, if they get Mouse to hand-paint the cover or something they could cover all the bases, add a few hundred grand to the price.
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My favorite Komodo dragon incident: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93137
That guy: massively rich, successful, married Sharon Stone, and his obituary will still read “Almost eaten due to own stupidity.”
Ballsiest Me & My Uncle you’ll ever see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k6OYIvLLcA
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enslaving animals to do their bidding.
5/23/82 at the Greek … I don’t remember Scarlet/Fire from that show. I don’t remember anything they played. All I remember is this girl, all the way on the other side of the bowl. Short, cute, and topless with an incredible set of melons. Her dance moves mostly consisted of jumping and bouncing.
I saw her again at the Frost show a few months later. This time she was braless under a peasant blouse, but her moves were unmistakable. When she caught me looking at her, which happened a few times, she gave me a little smile as if to say, “Enjoying the show?” Yes, I was.
Did I speak to her? Did I introduce myself and ask her to dinner after the show? I did not. I was there with my wife.
I’d love to find some pics of her from that Berkeley show. I wonder where she is now. 33 years later, I have a pretty good idea where the melons are.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/–3RIdApGtnE/VMfbQjQ41fI/AAAAAAAAEnE/AfzCLuP7dCM/s1600/1982greek.jpg
She was over on the left, maybe 15 degrees around the semicircle from the front of the stage, fairly high up in the seats (high enough that you could see her from anywhere).
Your picture is taken from very close to where I was for that show. I’m not the guy with the beard, though. He seems to be looking at Topless Girl rather than the stage.
http://www.mediaspin.com/grateful_dead4.html
This site has some nice crowd shots
http://www.mediaspin.com/joel/grateful_dead230582_crowd3.jpg
Steve, go to the link and scroll down to the 4th or 5th shot. That might be who you were looking for.
8th pic
MY HEAVENS WHAT IS THAT?!
I remember that girl being rounder and fuller, and having darker hair. Of course, that was more than half my life ago, so my memory could be imperfect.