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

Old Master

43 years ago today was Veneta. I’ve written about it before: you can bathe in my glory and insight and dong observations here.

After you’ve read about it, you may watch it here:

Following which, you should do your best artistic interpretation of Veneta. You may use any medium you choose. Here’s mine:

veneta art jerry dong paint

27 Comments

  1. mrcompletely

    BCT run is better musically. They’re actually in tune for most of it. That’s my interpretation. Great DS and a few other things though.

  2. Dawn

    the link doesn’t work

  3. Dawn

    for me it just goes to today’s post on wordpress. i do love your picture of jerry.

    • thoughtsonthedead

      Thank you. Scroll down and there’s the other stuff, no?

    • maggiemay

      Mom, scroll down a little bit more and you’ll see other posts tagged with Veneta. (Right, TotD?)

      • FreedomHaul

        Wait, is she really your mother?

        • maggiemay

          She is not actually my mother. I would NOT be commenting on this blog if my parents read it. My (real) mom’s name is Dawn and she also likes the Grateful Dead, so I call our Dawn here in the comments section mom. 🙂 Comments section parents ftw lol

  4. Sir Luther Von Baconson

    so good. very generous with Pole Buddy too. if i had the canvas, no freckles stringwarts low level autoimmune disorder, i’d get this as a tat.

  5. tor_haxson

    I see Veneta, I see your picture of Jerry, I see 3 short paragraphs of instruction.

    You just gave us an assignment that involves watching 2 hours of youtube and then making a picture.

    I suspect Spencer will be ready in 5 minutes, but he is a neural network in Google’s datacenter, so he is really not cheating.

    The rest of us will be tempted to cheat and read the cliff notes and then post.

    • tor_haxson

      Oh I also see the usual end of post stuff like
      Similar Posts, Like this on FB, Twitter, etc.

  6. tor_haxson

    For me, and my browser and my world..

    Yes it is fixed. Mac, Chrome.

    I never noticed it broken and I got here pretty early.

  7. joni begonias

    sorry but i had to change my seat, i.e. leave the theater bc of that guy

  8. Bonnie Lass of Fenario

    “I would make fun of how Keith looked had he appeared in the movie. I definitely heard him, so I think he was there, but…”

    As I recall you can actually see him once or twice from the back, for a total of about 5 seconds.

  9. Bonnie Lass of Fenario

    As if we don’t all already have enough to read:
    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/08/grateful-dead-sunshine-daydream-veneta-oregon
    says they dosed the camerapeople. That would definitely explain the inability to hold the camera steady.

    • Dawn

      so many reading/watching/listening/creating assignments! how will i finish?

    • Robin Russell

      Whether the Pranksters dosed the camerapeople or the camerapeople dosed themselves is not perfectly clear. What is clear is which version makes the better story.

      Everybody in the film except the children and dogs is dosed to the eyeballs. The movie is a propaganda film on the benign nature of Dr Hofmann’s invention.

      Could Grateful Dead play Birdsong that well unenhanced? I have been unable to find any evidence that they could.

  10. Mike

    I spit up my drink when I opened your art!!

  11. August West

    Behind every great man… there is something really freakin wonderful and scary. hahahahha
    http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kf-nX4G5ny0/hqdefault.jpg

    • August West

      Also I can’t wait til Mr ToD puts his artwork on mens ties. This artwork is a must have.

  12. Badumbadum

    “I am a bird. Be the bird, me. Be the bird.”

  13. SpamJam

    That drawing gave me the lulz, as the youngins say. You capture the essence of naked pole guy and his undoubtedly splintered wang incredibly well.

    • SpamJam

      Although it does almost look like Pole Humper is actually a sockpuppet on Jerry’s hand, except that the pole outline is brown and Jerry’s shirt is orange

    • maggiemay

      lulz

  14. Dawn

    will you sue me if i put that picture of jerry on tshirts and sell them at the red rocks show in november? because that is my current plan.

  15. tor_haxson

    Here is my art..

    You are wrathful and spiteful Blogger..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGp1fgcvV4Q

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