#not the greatest year but i keep on truckin

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Today's compilation:

25 #1 Hits From 25 Years 1983 R&B / Soul / Girl Groups / Pop-Soul / Disco

Seriously, it's so wild to me that just three years before Motown put out this double-LP that took 25 of their #1 hits from a 25-year period, they released another compilation with the same concept that took 20 #1 hits from a 20-year period; and almost half the tunes between these two releases don't actually overlap at all! To put this in perspective, I don't think there's another record company in America, outside of enormous major labels that have been around for many more decades and have released music across a much broader spectrum of genres, that could put together even one volume of US chart-toppers. But if a single volume consists of roughly 20 to 25 songs, then Motown would need to put out a total of two volumes and change in order to cover every #1 hit that they've ever had! They're just so head-and-shoulders above everyone else.

And while the 20-songs-in-20-years comp put a lot of its focus on the 70s, this one operates chronologically, and starts in 1961 with Motown's first ever #1, the super catchy girl group classic, "Please Mr. Postman," by The Marvelettes. It doesn't then go on to provide every single #1 from the 60s from there, but the album still spends a little less than a third of its tracklist within that decade, which was a critically important part of Motown's history that the prior compilation really seemed to gloss over.

So, again, no obscurities here whatsoever on this thing, but I think this is the most definitive document of Motown's greatest hits that I've ever come across. And if you want even more #1s, you can take this one in tandem with 20/20: Twenty #1 Hits From Twenty Years at Motown too 😊.

Highlights:

The Marvelettes - "Please Mr. Postman" The Supremes - "Baby Love" The Temptations - "My Girl" The Four Tops - "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" Diana Ross & The Supremes - "You Can't Hurry Love" The Four Tops - "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" The Jackson 5 - "I Want You Back" The Jackson 5 - "ABC" Diana Ross - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" The Jackson 5 - "I'll Be There" Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - "Tears of a Clown" The Temptations - "Just My Imagination" Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way" Marvin Gaye - "Got to Give It Up (Part 1)" The Temptations - "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin'" Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" Rick James - "Give It To Me Baby" Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"

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Apparently it's been 4 years since I made this account due to my old one being caught in the crossfire of the old Tumblr bot fiasco (seriously, a simple Fable screenshot...) I never really posted much here so uhhh, let's try again by plugging bestie @raynawolfen with this lovely art piece she drew for my birthday a couple months back! If you see this Rayna, you always make my days that much brighter and help me through a ton of rough patches in my life, including with discovering myself. Let's keep on truckin' through life for our greatest dreams!

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I posted 175 times in 2022

32 posts created (18%)

143 posts reblogged (82%)

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@astfut

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I tagged 97 of my posts in 2022

Only 45% of my posts had no tags

#vtm - 52 posts

#vampire the masquerade - 26 posts

#vtmb - 16 posts

#my art - 15 posts

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#not being exposed to people and getting all of your information through toxic third party sources can lead to misunderstanding and hate

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

My Brujah OC Leonard, having a smoke and somber moment 🥺

19 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

#4

My half of an art trade with @astfut! Thanks again for doing the trade with me <3

21 notes - Posted October 14, 2022

#3

Wooooo! This is my first year of doing art consistently! It’s been a long and bumpy ride but I think I’m learning a lot. Here’s to 2022 and getting to improve even more!

22 notes - Posted January 1, 2022

#2

I’m running a VTM V5 campaign called Boston by Night! Here’s a portrait of @lost-toreador-in-la ‘s player character Joanna Davidson, a Lasombra hacker. 🖤🖤🖤

24 notes - Posted July 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

to all the monsterfuckers out there i think i get it now i get it

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Grateful Dead Monthly: Manhattan Center – New York, NY 4/4-6/71

On Sunday through Tuesday, April 4-6, 1971, the Grateful Dead played a three-show run at Manhattan Center in New York City.

The Manhattan Opera House opened in 1906, as Oscar Hammerstein’s cut-rate competitor for the hallowed Metropolitan Opera. The Met lost business, freaked out, and paid Hammerstein to stop for ten years. (I’m cribbing the Wiki.) The payout was $1.2M back then, which would be $31.8M now. Hammerstein pocketed the cash and sold the building to Scottish Freemasons, who held it until 1939 when it changed hands and names to the Manhattan Center.

The Center has since served as a multipurpose venue. Still from the Wiki, it has hosted “radio broadcasts, recordings, and performances by such acts as Bunny Berigan, Paul Robeson, Judy Garland, Harry Belafonte, Perry Como, Leonard Bernstein, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Evanescence, Tool, and Alison Moyet,” as well as WWF events and America’s Got Talent. Diverse bunch. Oh, and the Good Ol’ Grateful Dead visited for the first and only time in 1971 for a dance marathon in that ballroom.

Four songs (Big Railroad Blues, Playing in the Band, NFA > GDTRFB) from the three-night run appeared on live album Grateful Dead (a.k.a. “Skull & Roses” and “Skull Fuck”), which turns 50 this year.

Wiki explains the album’s title:

When the band submitted “Skull Fuck” (a contemporary euphemism for “blow your mind”) as the album title, it was rejected by the record label. Ultimately the agreement was made that the album would be published without the title appearing anywhere on the record labels or cover artwork. Though the band refers to the album by this title, and it has long been known to fans (through interviews with band members, the Deadhead network and other outlets), the alternate, descriptive title “Skull & Roses” developed among distributors, music buyers and reviewers as a graphic incipit from the cover artwork.

Drummer Bill Kreutzmann explained the lack of a title on the artwork and labels, “…the original name was going to be “Skull Fuck”. This was a time long before rap artists like Eminem numbed concerned citizens to the idea of offensive language in music. Warner Brothers [the band’s label] freaked out on us. They said stores would boycott it and we wouldn’t be able to get it on shelves.”

Inside the gatefold of the original LP, the band reached out directly to its burgeoning fan base, which had begun to attend multiple concerts in a row and collect live audio tapes of each concert, with a message reading:

DEAD FREAKS UNITE: Who are you? Where are you? How are you? Send us your name and address and we’ll keep you informed.

Dead Heads, P.O. Box 1065, San Rafael, California 94901.

The mailing address is no longer extant.

ECM loves an anniversary, so he suggested this album as our focus. Here are his brief listening notes…

4/4/71:

Final “Easy Wind” has a nice jam. Not sure why it was dropped from the repertoire. A rare, mid-first set Morning Dew is every bit as good as we would expect it to be.  St. Stephen was starting to become rare in 1971 but the ending jam in this one packs a big punch. There is some squealing feedback at the end of NFA that leads into a lovely show-closing Uncle John’s Band. However, overall, the band sounds a little tentative. Maybe it’s a case of the first night jitters or maybe it’s just that the soundboard is too clean(?)

4/5/71:

Big Railroad Blues and GDTRFB. Both appear on the Skull & Roses album and are extremely hot. If you listen to the version on LMA you’ll notice some differences in the vocals compared with what we are familiar with on the album version which is due to overdubs. Also, I was always curious why the NFA reprise was left off the album. Well, the reason is because the band broke tradition and didn’t play it that evening. If you listen to the recording on LMA, the band teases the NFA reprise but just as they are about to play it they surprise us by charging into Lovelight. This is a monster version with wild, electric, unhinged jamming and a drunken-sounding Pig screaming and shouting at the audience like a maniac. A person who attended the show described it in a review he wrote on LMA: “Lovelight – it was only a red spotlight on Pig and I swear it was like Dante’s Inferno.” The jamming about halfway through the song is especially fierce as the boys land on a unique theme. Towards the end Phil brings the house down with some thunderous bass playing that is just unbelievable. An all time, 5-star version of this song, possibly the best of 1971. Other highlights include the debut of “Sing Me Back Home, China > Rider, a solid Truckin’ > Other One, Garcia’s solos in this early version of Deal and his yodeling in Bobby McGee (check it out!).

4/6/71:

The rare songs in the first set…Oh Boy (Debut. Played only one other time – 12/12/81), I’m a Hog For You, Baby (Bust-out; last played 3/25/66. Played only 4 times ever. This was the last) and Dire Wolf, which was only played 3 times in 1971. A mid-first set appearance of Midnight Hour was also a pretty rare occurrence. Playing In The Band is the version used on the album Skull & Roses. The second set is highlighted by a chunky Greatest Story > Johnny B. Goode (a pairing that occurred 14 times and only in 1971), a raucous Good Lovin’ where Pigpen tells the audience to turn to the person next to them and say “Howdy” and then to take off their clothes and have a good ol’ time. The show closes with a rocking NFA>GDTRFB sandwich (played every night of this run) and then the band pulls out a show-stopping version of Truckin’ that is more reminiscent of 1977 than 1971.

Transport to the Charlie Miller remaster of the 4/4 soundboard HERE.

Transport to the Charlie Miller remaster of the 4/5 soundboard HERE.

And transport to the Charlie Miller remaster of the 4/6 soundboard HERE.

And if you want to check out Skull & Roses before it gets the deluxe reissue treatment, here’s the widget…

The Playing in the Band is the 4/6 version with studio organ overdubs by Garcia pal Merl Saunders.

More soon.

JF

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Best of 2019-Best Male

Jim Hopper- Stranger Things

My best male goes to Jim Hopper from Stranger Things. Hopper is the Chief of Police in the small town of Hawkins. He’s a little rough around the edges and suffers from some troubled past but he keeps on truckin’. He was a bit laid back about his job, not taking to seriously at first still managed to be Chief so there was some Gordon has to be commissioner because he’s the only smart one here syndrome going on, haha. But, when the main mystery of Stranger Things starts he’s in there fully committed since it involved the missing son of his friend Joyce. (she was my best female like 3 years ago, I think) He eventually ends up finding Eleven, a girl with powers that was experimented on quickly becomes her guardian. They develop a father/daughter relationship even though there are some bumps in the road. He’s a wee bit over protective of her because he had lost his daughter years before from a critical illness. He’s my pick because despite appearing to be a gruff cynical guy he is actually a caring papa bear even though he did threatened Mike that one time. (Eleven’s boyfriend). He is one of the lead investigators with the Strange Things happening, always there to fight off the bad guys and monsters. He’s always there for all the kids and Joyce. He created a home in a cabin in the woods to keep Eleven safe and adopts her officially. He is always willing to put everything on the line to make sure everyone is safe. He will fight the monsters and Russians, run into gross tunnels and into fair ground while being shot at by…Russians. Then, when it went down to it he was willing to put in the greatest sacrifice. At the end of the season 3, Hopper had to fight off Grigori one of main bad guys in order for Joyce to be able to close the gate to the upside down. This left him stuck and unable to get out. He is assumed dead. We will find out his true fate in season 4.

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Air Guitar and 85 MPH!

I was going to spend my second “blog” discussing pretentiousness in Santa Fe or New Mexican food and green chile in general.  But since I came up with something a little more fun, I guess I’ll save the talk about ordering water in a bowl and drinking it with a spoon for a different time.  On my drive back to Oklahoma I thought of a topic that always shows its face when I’m on a road trip.   I often forget about it until the next time I’m in the car or just don’t put much thought into it once I’ve opened the car doors and let the dog out to deal with his pent up energy as I unload the car.  Not to mention the obligatory hour I have to spend re-aquainting myself to the cat, who is certain that I have disappeared forever this time.

The topic that came to me is road trip songs.  

I love road trips.  You may think I’m crazy but settling into the driver seat, snacks on the passenger seat,  the basset hound panting in my face, his front feet on the console, anticipating our newest adventure, is the best.  Within a pretty short time, he tends to realize that this is just another day-long roady and roughs up his blanket in the backseat and settles in for the ride. Giving me weird basset hound glances in the mirror.  Not sure if it’s the music or he just wants some pork rinds.

Now these road trips of mine usually arent extravagant or exotic.  Unless you consider driving state highways through Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming or any other of the fly-over states I tend to travel as being exotic. (Personally I’d choose these drives over just about any other you could propose to me).  The great thing about these road trips, aside from seeing so many wonderful historically relevant places (as well as plenty of non-relevant places), and feeling a oneness with wide open spaces, is the time you get to yourself to hone your listening skills.  

Those of you that know me, know that I have many preferences when it comes to music.  As Cheech says in Up In Smoke, “we play everything from El Chicano to Santana”.  I love it all.  Some more than others, but I probably have a song or two from every type of playlist or genre that you can think of.  Add to that the fact that if there is a specific location I’m aiming my car to (often there is not), I will jam songs from or about that location.  For instance, while driving the empty roads of New Mexico it will be Ennio Morricone and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly soundtrack.  Wyoming is of course Chris LeDoux country.  On my way to Kansas City to eat BBQ, it’s Joe Williams singing “Kansas City” or Charlie Parker and K.C. Blues.  Memphis is Sister Rosetta Tharpe (you can keep Elvis, I am not a fan.  Yeah, I said it).  West Texas?  Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads, of course!  Down south, it’s Big Maybelle, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters.  You get the idea.  It may seem strange but there is something that touches my soul in listening to those songs that are native to an area.  Whether or not I actually do learn anything, it feels as though I have.

With that weird little eccentricity out of the way, let me add that of course there are some staples of any road trip, for me at least.  These are songs, albums and artists that I listen to, to fill in all the  empty spaces of those relatively uneventful miles, musically or otherwise.  Maybe it’s Def Leppard or ACDC or Beyonce or Ariana Grande for you.  For me these are easy.  I can not even begin to guess how many miles have been eaten up by Merle Haggard, or The Count Basie Orchestra.  I am not scared of extreme opposites.  Hundreds upon thousands upon tens of thousands of miles have been chewed up by these two musical groups, and yes, I’m aware that I am probably the only person living who can claim that.

The millennials reading this will have no idea about this next category.  There use to be these things called albums.  Albums were a group of songs, recorded (usually around the same time), and released as a unit to the masses.  These units were sold as vinyl records, cassette tapes, 8-tracks, or CDs.  Those of us a little older can attest that 90 percent of these albums had 2-4 songs that we liked and a bunch of other average or barely tolerable songs that you listened to whether you liked them or not (if you didn’t have control of the radio in the car).  Sometimes, you even grew to enjoy a few of those songs.  On rare occasions though, you found an entire album, yes the whole thing! that you enjoyed.   For all of us oldies, these albums are near and dear to our hearts.  They vary from person to person, but these are a few I can put on and just let them play, enjoying almost every song:  Van Halen-1984, Blood Sweat and Tears-Greatest hits, Nirvana-Nevermind, George Strait-Strait From The Heart, Muddy “Mississippi” Waters-Live, Art Blakey-Moanin’, ��U2-Joshua Tree, Miles Davis-Kind of Blue, Steve Miller Band-Greatest Hits 74-78, IceT-Greatest Hits to name a few of my favorites.

All of these categories are important to a good road trip.  You must have a combination of all of them.  Yeah, I know, all of you XM/Sirius users are claiming that you don’t need any of them.  You got genres on every channel, and all you ever need with all those fancy channels.  To those of you in that camp, I say “HOGWASH!”  Why Hogwash?  Well no matter how specific these channels are, or how much you enjoy the carefree toggling between your favorite genres, no road trip is complete without those irreplaceable, epic, nostalgic songs that nearly blow out your speakers and get your ears ringing whenever you choose to rock them.  And how the hell are you supposed to play these favorites 2, 3, 10 times in a row with your XM radio?!  You can’t. So without further palaver, I’m gonna lay my favorites out and would love to hear some of yours.  

Rich’s top 20 Road Trip Jams (if you have any sense, you will build this playlist!-yeah I know it’s not gonna float everyone’s boat but if nothing else, listen to it, you might find some music that you don’t normally dig.)  And for the record, none of these songs ever get bumped off the list, new ones just get added to it occasionally.  As weird as it may be, here is my list:

Honorable Mentions.  These songs get me thinking about all the great road trip songs and my musical wheels start turning.  It’s on when I hear any of these songs.

Runnin on Empty-Jackson Browne, Hello Walls-Faron Young, Blues in Hoss Flat-Count Basie, Night In Tunisia-Ella Fitzgerald, Gimme All Your Love-Alabama Shakes, Miles and Miles of Texas-Asleep at the Wheel, China Grove-Doobie Brothers, Come Down-Anderson Paak, Crosstown Traffic-Jimi Hendrix, El Paso-Marty Robbins, Ida Red-Bob Wills and Sunshine of Your Love-Cream.  Those get me started but here is when it gets real.

20-16  These are like the kindling for me.  Getting the fire lit, and starting my descent into the next hour of driving, without really remembering the road I’ve just driven or the scenes outside the window.  

20)  Suavecito-Malo   Ok, Ok, it wouldn’t seem like a fire starter, but...

19)  Magic Man-Heart This one should get your blood flowing

18)  Keep on Rockin’ Me-Steve Miller The best roady to choose from SMB

17)  Watermelon Man-Herbie Hancock You might not have soul if you don’t love this

16)  When My Train Pulls In- Gary Clark JR Great Long Jam.  incredible guitar riffs

11-15  These are a small step up, adding logs to my fire

15)  Me and Mrs. Jones-Billy Paul So there’s always a song that you love to sing while you are alone in your car, and you think you sing it just as well as the artist

14)  Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin Ok so of course I have it, but this is a really, really great song no matter how many times it is played.

13)  Ev’ryday I have the Blues-Count Basie and Joe Williams The definition of a foot stomper.

12)  Luckenbach, TX-Waylon and Willie One of the best country songs translates to a great road song.

11)  The Story- Brandi Carlisle Not a song liable to be on many lists, road trip or not.  My sister introduced me to this years and years ago and it barely misses the top 10

6-10  Ok, we are really cookin with gas now.  These are legendary roadies in my book.  The dog gives me a look, here we go again.

10)  Rooster-Alice In Chains Gets my grunge on.  I love everything about this song.  Probably one of the biggest contributors to hearing loss in my right ear.

9)   Six Days on the Road-Dave Duncan All those over-the-road truckers can’t be wrong, this is the best of all truckin’ songs.

8)   Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down-Merle Haggard   My favorite country singer and a whole lot of my favorite country music instrument, the steel guitar.  Damn I love this song

7)   Ticket To Ride-Beatles There are tons of Beatles songs to choose from and this isn’t my favorite, but it is my favorite on the road

6)   867-5309-Tommy Tutone This is my favorite 80s song.  And when I hear that guitar riff at the beginning...Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to?

2-5  These are huge, the fire is roaring and I have no concerns as to what is going on at this point.  I’ll be singing, playing drums, air guitar.  The dog has now tried to cover his ears due to the volume.

5)   Jamie’s Cryin-Van Halen Im not sure why, because there are tons of Van Halen songs to choose from, but for whatever reason, this one is my favorite while on the road

4)   North To Alaska-Johnny Horton   Ok, another one you may not expect at all but damn this is a fun song.  I physically can’t help whaling “big nuggets they’re finding” every time!

3)   Pink Houses-John Cougar Mellencamp    Im not a globalist. ‘Murica!!

2)   Sweet Child of Mine-Guns and Roses    This should be on everyones list. Road songs or any other.  Simply one of the best songs ever.  

Number 1!!!

So all the previous songs are great.  I love them all, and many, many more.  This is an elaborate list for me.  If you know me, you know I love lists, and don’t make them without deep thought.  But Ironically, the battle for the top spot isn’t even close.  I LOVE Sweet Child of Mine, and Pink Houses.  I might play them 2 or 3 times in a row, but the battle for number one isn’t much of a battle.  Not because these others arent great but because number one is so unbelievably spectacular in the car.  I can’t help singing to it, playing air guitar, drum solo in my car, volume literally turned up 3 or 4 times during the song, ears ringing and can’t even hear myself singing, and just when you don’t think it could be any better, it gets better!!!  There are times I may play this song 5, 6 times in a row if things are cookin.  I can barely keep the needle under 85 mph! The number one song for the road is:

1)  More Than A Feeling- Boston  I really built it up, and with good reason. Rock ballad, guitar anthem, unbelievable vocals, harmony soft, loud, louder, high, higher, drums...what else can I say?  This is simply the best road trip song ever!!

Ok, that’s it.  Maybe it was anti-climatic for you, but I got jazzed just listing the songs.  I may go take a drive just to hear the playlist!  I’d love to hear everyone else’s playlist that they take on every trip.  Maybe I’m missing some good road trip songs!  

I hope the dog never figures out how to jump out of the car while it’s moving.

[mrjasontom]

I am inspired by success stories and I wanted to share one... 16 years ago, I retired as a judo champion following my collision with a minivan that knocked me unconscious. That incident caused me long term memory loss, a concussion, and head trauma. Then I entered the music business and entertainment industry as a professional beatboxer. It was one of the greatest career decisions of my life. Little did I know that traumatic collision would catch up to me. I've since learned and discovered that our bodies keep a count even when our minds are not consciously aware of it. Career wise, I was productive in the music business and entertainment industry. Traveled the world, won accolades and awards, released artist merchandise, started a beatbox school, presented at TEDx Talk conferences, school tours, colleges, and universities. Then that all came crashing down when my trauma from that collision got triggered and I had a major set back. It was then that my faith in God was all I had left that I could hold onto. My memory was so impacted that I struggled to recall the day of the week. However, I could still recall how much God loved me as people in my life prayed for me during this most challenging ordeal of my life. Being reminded of God's love kept me alive. At age 29, I didn't think I would live to see my 30th birthday. Since that time, I slowly and gradually placed a priority of my health over my career. I had it the other way around, prior. Then I did this live performance pictured here, at age 30, and it was when I reunited with Michael Winslow, the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects. Though I experienced my roughest of seasons prior and after this show, I kept on truckin' on even when it felt unbearable. Michael Winslow is someone who has greatly influenced my beatbox music career, voice over work, and commercial work. As mentioned earlier, I didn't think I would live to see my 30th birthday. Since I've prioritized my health over my career, my health has paid dividends as well as my career. I am now pushing into near my 40s and I continue to map out projects within the music business and entertainment industry. https://www.instagram.com/p/CInEyj4DVTq/?igshid=18qxr1c252k4j

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⚈ What sweet things tend to happen to you from time to time RP wise? ☐ What trends are you currently into?

I think the sweetest thing that’s ever happened to me rp-wise was meeting some very damned good people in the fandoms I have rped in. The first forum that stands out to me was a SE one where I met three of the greatest people I could ever have the pleasure of knowing. They’ve really been there for me through a lot of really tough times in my life and I couldn’t ask for a better group of people to call friends. Sabrina I met four or five years ago in the ROTG fandom and honestly bless her because she has gone through so much shit and still keeps truckin along and manages to create the most beautiful muses I have ever seen (and boy let me tell you about her work of art cosplays GODDAMN). I’m so glad she got me into RWBY and taught me how to play Grimm Eclipse. And bOY LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT @rulebound BECAUSE I WILL FOLLOW ASHES TO THE GRAVE WHEN IT COMES TO RP ACCOUNTS. AER SO GOOD. So nice to me and so willing to put up with my dumb angst and long threads and aer so damn good at whatever muse ae choose to pick up. Best Ennoshita, a great Ciel, and I really look forward to seeing where Love and Nadir end up. The HQ fandom where I met Ashes, I also met my boyfriend and just ??? Vinnie is???? Too good for this world???? Holy shit???? And boy I can’t believe I’ve met so many amazing people in the RWBY fandom???? @kauzika @lilsatchmo @oceanpanic @larcenciel @veratro @croawe @bellvdonna @blackbcwkitty @scareqrowbranwen @koeniginschnee and so, so many more people that have made hanging out on Sun’s blog so much fun and rping him such an adventure.

I don’t know if I can say I’m into any trends??? Icons are a thing that didn’t really happen much when I first started rping, so going to using an icon for majority of my threads is something I’d say??? Otherwise I have a very love/hate relationship with container themes in that my resolution on my laptop is so large that they’re usually very small and impossible to read, or refuse to line up correctly on my screen. Otherwise y’all are so top notch with your graphics holy shit everything is so on point how do you do that

[ramrodd]

Listening to Elizabeth Warren reminds me of Adlai Stevenson. Are some people just too smart to be president?

Philosophically, that is to say, in terms of Democratic Socialism, Bernie Sanders and AOC are virtual clones, but all things Sanders are in the rearview mirror of AOC and her Green New Deal. Among other things, AOC is the future of the ERA.

COMMENTARY:

This is an excellent question. It’s exactly why I will never run for President.

My cousin Woody ran and won and his legacy is a very mixed bag. I went to Vietnam on the basis that I was the leading edge of the League of Nations, but I live in DC to try to stay as far away from white Southern Scots Presbyterians, who represent the absolute existential core of America whte supremacy, as possible. And, as a Christian, I prefer to avoid the economics of the Anti-Christ distilled in the Pro-Live Evangelical business model they generally embrace. It’s why so many of them send their children to DC with MAGA hats instead of tin foil.

Woody was smart as hell. My dad aspired to emulate him in the way Robert E. Lee attempted to emulate George Washington. I’m pretty smart, myself, but dad is really in a different league, number one, and, number two, he was probably an NT and I’m an SP and, in many was, he was from Mars and I was from Uranus. I have learned to consciously think like the way my did did like fielding a ground ball and my odd manner of acquiring knowledge has begun to pay off in my eight decade, but it’s been a long, strange trip.

Sometimes all you can do is to be willin’ to keep on truckin’.

Any of these people running could be a potent President of the United States. The Oval Office expands the capacities of the individual by literally channeling George Washington, spiritually, as an inheritance. It just does. Lincoln may be the only individual who came to office fully formed, but even he had to complete the 2 year learning curve compelled by the US Constitution.

It takes some people longer than others. JFK was as about on track, primarily because he was a very smart person in a Adlai Stevenson as PT Boat action figure kind of way. Once upon a time, Harvard produced scholars but, since the take-over of Columbia by the SDS in 1968, it’s become more of a vocational degree, like auto mechanics and HVAC engineers, than Oxford or Cambridge. There are still very smart people going through Harvard Yard, as a proxy for the American academe, but, when it comes to grand strategy, the post-modern dialectical deconstruction of the SDS forces a choice between the two wings of the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam, John Lewis Gaddis’s Kennon Long Telegram orientation on the one hand and Victor Davis Hanson’s relentless Churchhill oriented Fascist sophistry and you end up doing stupid things like the Obama Russian sanctions. Obama is a very smart man but he let himself be misled by the advice Hillary Clinton was being fed by Robert Kagan, the co-author of the Project for the New American Century that informed the invason of Iraq.

Obama likewise came to the Oval Office fully formed, but he was prevented from fully realizing his potential by a number of things, one being Mitch McConnell’s obstructionism, as a proxy for what has become the MAGA hat coalition of white Southern Scots Presbyterians who are pulling Duck Ass Don around by his dick in the way he learned to expect from Roy Cohn. Obama had absolutely no room to manuever after Rahm Emanuel squandered Speaker Pelosi’s gavel and the majority in the Senate, legislatively. Until AOC came along, the Democrats didn’t exhibit much spine and a great deal of appeasement if not out-right ideological collaboration with Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. That was the biggest problem he faced and he got about as much out of it as possible,

But a more significant obstacle to his personal growth was Valerie Jarrett, who shaped and maintained the cacoon in which she ensconsed him. People who think like her in the Democrat conference are the biggest danger to the Green New Deal. As a business person, she is perfectly content with the Tory Socialism and class warfare of Reaganomics. The only difference between Valerie Jarrett and Condoleezza Rice, in terms of Russia, are their political patrons. Hillary Clinton and Laura D’Angelo Tyson fall into this catagory. As the leading edge of the ERA generation, they all played the hand they were dealt and represent the rising value added of the 19th Amendment and Title IX. They are the base line from which AOC has been launched, but they have become reactionary. And that’s what may have been the most profound inhibition on Obama in becoming POTUS. I’d vote for him and Hillary again because, unlike virtually any white Southern Scots Presbyterian male with an (R) behind his name, they can learn. And will learn. It just hasn’t started yet.

Elizabeth Warren falls into this generation on some issues, but, in terms of banking and securities, she represents important, if not necessary, financial structures of the Green New Deal. Finance is probably the greatest single fallacy of Marxism and the singular seat of the essential criminal intent of the Tory Socalism and class warfare of Reganomics and the macroeconomic populism of Donald Duck Ass. A HUGE difference between America in 1981, before Reagan, and the Soviet Union in 1981 was our banking system and securities milieu, both of which have been systematically corrupted by people in the GOP Deep State I associate with Donald T. Regan, Phil and Wendy Gramm, and Newt Gingrich. There are other Republican villians in the mix, but that’s a good place to start, especially when you toss in Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Mick Mulvaney, the sort of creme de la creme of crypto-Fascist cesspool scum. If Elizabeth Warren could pass all the banking and securites legislation she desires by 2020, she would be able to hit the ground running to implement the Green New Deal without having to thing about it all that much,

In terms of learning curve, 43 didn’t really become his own president until he fired Rumsfeld and installed Bob Gates at DoD. In that respect, he had a 6 year learning curve. Until then, Cheney had basically dictatated national policy, especially in terms of Iraq’s oil. This fig leaf of spreading democracy is just that. At best, the invasion of iraq was a blunder of cosmic proportions but my personal opinion is that it was a war crime, pure and simple. The lesson Bush should have learned from Vietnam that his daddy did was to not invade Iraq.

Clinton’s Dayton Accords is the reason why the invasion of Iraq hasn’t been a bigger disaster for America and why I say Obama fucked up the US-Russian relations on the advice of Robert Kagan. Clinton should have been given a Nobel Prize for that project because it is exactly what the Marshall Plan was all about, especially as it pertains to George Kennan’s Long Telegram.

As I say, I went to Vietnam as the leading edge of the League of Nations, keeping a family heritage alive, and as part of the triangulation of the United Nations Blue Helmet Peace Keepers, the Peace Corps and the Greet Berets. We were in Vietnam to give those collateral agendas the space and time they needed to get traction, globally. Circumstances forced America to sacrifice the Republic of Vietnam towards that end, but the result, the collapse of the Soviet Union, has worked out well for us.

And the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995 was the fruits of that grand strategy, in that the Treaty ending the Bosnian War was the first time an active conflict was put tamped down by the tactical peace keeping of the UN Blue Helments and then smothered by the combined UN Blue Helmets/NATO intervention made possible by the Dayton Accords AND the active acquiesence, if not enthusiastic participation, by Putin’s Russia. This project occurred in the TRADITIONAL Russian sphere of influence and it couldn’t have happened if they didn’t want it to, but it seems the Russians realized they didn’t have any solutions and they were willing to try something new. And when they handed over the keys to Prestinka Airport to the NATO column being led by Wesley Clark, it represented a brand new era in international cooperation. We couldn’t have conducted our operations against Terroism in that region without the strategic easement Russia continues to provide.

And this is what Obama fucked up. And he’s a very smart guy.

In regards to Donald Duck Ass, there doesn’t seem to be any constructive learning curve operating. He’s like the entire Roger Stone wing of the GOP, who are like bank robbers who get caught and go to prison but, instead of changing their ways, learn how to become better bank robbers. For example, these sanctions against South Korea, China, India, Turkey and Japan have nothing to do with any grand strategy beyond Duck Ass Don’s need to keep the Bull Market going and high prices for gas at the pump here, in the states. provides the liquidity that’s being sucked out by the 2017 Tax Reforms the markets need to keep the party going. Duck Ass Don is still running the lie, cheat and steal “Art of the Deal” pyramid scheme he has run his entire life. He has a certain genius in a Rainman kind of way but I think he understood, intuitively, at a very early age he isn’t smart at all beyond a certain animal cunning of the Brooklyn street thug with aspirations of being an uptown made man. And probably the real problem is that he has managed to surround himself with people who are even more stupid than he is, or willng to suppress their smarts for a paycheck and the future rewards that the GOP Deep State will provided once they are out of public service in the manner of John Kasich, David Stockman, Brett Kavanaug and Bob Barr before he blundered back onto the federal payroll.

By and large, Republicans have never produced an Adlai Stevenson: it’s a Democrat thing. Bernie Sanders is an example, the difference being that Sanders helped Democrats shake off the intellectual topor that had set in after the moral impotence of the McGovern campaign: McGovern was what Bernie Sanders would have been in 2016, but that’s changed. In terms of coalition building, Sanders ishe light years ahead of where he was in 2016 and in a different universe from where McGovern or Adlai Stevenson ever became.

Philosophically, that is to say, in terms of Democratic Socialism, Bernie Sanders and AOC are virtual clones, but all things Sanders are in the rearview mirror of AOC and her Green New Deal. The trade off is that, as President, Sanders and/or Warren are smart enough to implement the Green New Deal as it emerges while AOC, if she’s smart, will inherit the Speaker’s gavel and retire after a career of providing the constancy of purpose as the Green New Deal evolves as we advance past the dawning of the Age of the 19th Amendment.

And Adlai Stevenson could never have accomplished that. He wasted a great deal of energy spinning his wheels as an intellectual. Bernie was like that until 2016 BUT AOC came out of the chute with her big wheels posi-traction digging into with big chucks of dirt and the only thing really slowing her down is the ERA generation. She is the future of the ERA.

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CKUA - The Midway: 2017

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The Midway was a special program which typically aired from 9:00am-12:00pm (or sometimes 10:00am-2:00) on CKUA from 2016-2019 during statutory holidays.

Click “keep reading” below for my surviving 2017 Midway playlists.

Explore my playlist history for other dates and programs.

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AIRTIME // PERFORMING ARTIST // ALBUM

2017-10-09

^^ listener recommendation

10:00; Monday Morning; Pulp; Different Class

10:04; Hippy Hippy Shake; Chan Romero; Original Hits

10:06; Digital Witnesses; St. Vincent; St. Vincent

10:10; Love is the Drug; Roxy Music; The Collection

10:14; Sledgehammer; Peter Gabriel; Hit

10:20; Chicken; Bert Convy; Shut Down - Hot Rod Hits

10:22; Road Runner; The Gants; Shut Down - Hot Rod Hits

10:25; Little Deuce Coupe; The Beach Boys; Greatest Hits

10:29; Clocks; Coldplay; A Rush of Blood To the Head

10:36; Memories; The Burning Hell w/ Katie Baggs; The Bard of Montreal

10:40; Leaving the Table; Leonard Cohen; You Want It Darker

10:45; Message in a Bottle; The Police; Complete Recordings ^^

10:51; How To Forget; Jason Isbell; EFMF Sampler

10:55; Kodachrome; Paul Simon; Essential

11:01; So Sad About Us; The Who; Maximum R&B

11:05; Somewhere My Love; Frank Sinatra; My Way

11:07; Laisser Tomber Les Filles; France Gall; Greatest Hits

11:10; Running on Empty; Jackson Browne; Next Voice You Hear

11:16; Space Truckin’; Deep Purple; Machine Head

11:22; Piggies; Theodore Bikel; Piggies 45

11:25; Animals; The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger; Midnight Sun

11:32; Crippled Inside; John Lennon; Imagine

11:37; Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance; Frank Zappa; The Lost Episodes

11:40; I’m So Happy I Could Cry; The Soul Giants (Zappa); Joe’s Corsage

11:45; Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance; The Mothers of Invention; We’re Only In It For the Money

11:47; Tide is High; Blondie; Best of

11:51; What a Girl’s Gotta Do; Lindi Ortega; ‘Til the Goin’ Gets Gone

11:55; Give Me a Sign; Edward Sharpe & the Mag Zeroes; Give Me a Sign 45

12:02; Chain Gang; Sam Cooke; The Man Who Invented Soul

12:04; Flowers; Leon Bridges; Coming Home

12:08; Let the Good Times Roll; JD McPherson; Let the Good Times Roll

12:11; Gemini; Alabama Shakes; Sound & Colour

12:17; Libra; Harvey Sid Fisher; Harvey Sid FIsher’s Astrology

12:19; Fake Empire; The National; Boxer

12:22; Archie, Marry Me; Alvvays; Alvvays

12:26; Puppet on a String; Sandie Shaw; Sixties Hits

12:31; Less Than Zero; Elvis Costello; My Aim is True

12:35; Baby Workout; Jackie Wilson; Best of

12:38; Heart of Gold; Charles Bradley & Menahan St. Orch; No Time For Dreaming ++

12:41; Going Down Slow; Dee Dee Bridgewater; Memphis… Yes, I’m Ready ++

12:46; Shake; Gary Clark Jr.; Story of Sonny Boy Slim

12:50; Be Alright; Bend Sinister; The Other Way ++

12:56; Monster Mash; Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett; Monster Hits

13:01; Let Them Knock; Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings; Miss Sharon Jones

13:07; Through Blue Light; The Wilderness of Manitoba; Live at CKUA ^^

13:12; Oh, the Wind Will Blow; Doug Hoyer; Walks With the Tender & Growing Night

13:17; He’ll Have To Go; Jim Reeves; Anthology ^^

13:19; Wicked Game; The Give ‘Em Hell Boys; Barn Burner

13:23; I’ll Never Fall in Love Again; Tom Jones; Anthology

13:29; Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut; Almond Joy; Vintage Commercials

13:31; In Spite of Ourselves; John Prine & Iris Dement; In Spite of Ourselves ^^

13:37; Thank You; Led Zeppelin; Led Zeppelin II ^^

13:41; Make It Better (Forget About Me); Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Southern Accents ^^

13:47; You Got It; Roy Orbison; Mystery Girl ^^

13:50; Perdono; Caterina Caselli; Italian Rock & Roll Classics ^^

13:55; Dishes; Pulp; This is Hardcore ^^

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2017-10-28

^^ listener recommendation

21:06; Saturday Night; The Bay City Rollers; Greatest Hits

21:10; Ain’t That a Shame; Cheap Trick; Live at the Budokan

21:17; Radio, Radio; Elvis Costello; This Year’s Model

21:20; Once in a Lifetime; Talking Heads; Popular Favourites

21:28; Plimsoll Punks; Alvvays; Antisocialites

21:32; Hanging on the Telephone; Blondie; Greatest Hits

21:39; Rescue Me; Fontella Bass; Beg Scream & Shout

21:41; Breaking Down; Florence & the Machine; Ceremonials

21:50; Beehive; Chicago Afrobeat Project; What Goes Up

21:54; Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood; The Animals; Greatest Hits

21:59; Duncan; Sarah Slean; Night Bugs

22:04; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; Elton John; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

22:10; Game of Love; Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders; Best of

22:13; Apache; The Shadows; The Shadows

22:17; How Does the Grass Grow; David Bowie; The Next Day

22:21; I Feel Free; Cream; Complete Clapton

22:28; Yakety Yak (re-recording); The Coasters; 20 Best of the ‘50s

22:30; Superstition; Beck Bogart & Appice; Beckology

22:39; Dazed and Confused; Led Zeppelin; Mothership ^^

22:46; Cosmik Debris; Frank Zappa; Apostrophe ^^

22:53; In the Midnight Hour; Wilson Pickett; Atlantic Gold

23:00; Midnight Caller; Badfinger; Best of

23:04; Neptune City; Nicole Atkins; Neptune City

23:08; What the World Needs Now; Jackie de Shannon; Best of Bacharach

23:12; Wicked Game; The Give ‘Em Hell Boys; Barn Burner

23:19; Who’ll Be the Next in Line; The Kinks; Kinda Kinks ^^

23:21; Mercury Blues; David Lindley; El Rayo-X ^^

23:25; All the Young Dudes; Mott the Hoople; Mott the Hoople ^^

23:30; Call Me; Blondie; American Gigolo ^^

23:36; Someday Someway; Marshall Crenshaw; New Wave Hits

23:37; Sorry; The Easybeats; Best of

23:41; Hey St. Peter; Flash and the Pan; New Wave Hits

23:45; The Moment; Tame Impala; Currents

23:50; The One For Me; Doug Hoyer; To Be a River

23:55; Memories; Leonard Cohen; Death of a Ladies’ Man

[au-universes]

Convoy Pt 2 (Convoy AU)

Hours later, the truckers pulled up to a run-down hut in the middle of nowhere. Behind the hut, a rusting truck was parked.  It looked like it hadn’t been driven in a decade.  The rain was falling steadily now, and the three truckers and Charlie stood near Sam’s truck.  He was trying to cover the broken window before the storm began.

               Cas walked up behind Dean and put his hand around his waist.  Dean let himself fall into the embrace of his love machine, feeling relaxed for the first time since meeting Saruman in the diner.

               “Dean?” Cas asked, hesitantly.

               “Mhmm?” Dean responded.

               “Where are we?”

               “We are at the home of one of the greatest truckers to ever cruise down the highway.”

               Cas removed his arm from Dean’s waist and turned to look at him properly.  “Dean, this is just a hovel in the middle of the desert.  No one lives here.”

               “He’s here Cas.  No trucker would ever leave their truck behind.”

               “Dean-“

               “He’s here Cas.  Sam, you done with that window yet?”

               “Just about,” Sam responded, duct taping the last corner of a garbage bag to the window.  “There.”

               Dean stared at him.

               “It’ll do for now,” Sam said with a shrug.

               The three truckers and Charlie made their way across the sandy desert floor to the hut, if you could ever call it that.  It was no bigger than a large shed, the wood was rotting and the hinges on the door had nearly disintegrated.  Dean raised a shaking fist to the door, afraid of what he would find inside.  He knocked gently, afraid the wood of the door would break beneath his hand.

               A quiet voice from within the shed called out. “Yes?”

               Dean silently gasped and called out, “Prophet, is that you?”

               Shuffling noises were heard from within the shack. Then, slowly, the door creaked open. An elderly man stood in front of Dean. He couldn’t have been more than five foot five, but it was hard to tell.  His spine was bent and he was leaning heavily on a cane.  He had a long, white beard and rapidly blinking eyes. He reminded Dean a bit of an old mole.

               “No one has called me Prophet in years,” he croaked out.  “I’ll be damned, if it isn’t the great Rubber Duck.”

               “Hello Kevin.  It’s been awhile.”

               The old man cracked a smile.  “Come in, come in!”

               Kevin stepped aside and allowed Dean, Sam, Cas, and Charlie to enter the shack.  There was one lantern lit which illuminated the room.  There was a small bed, a bucket, a chair, and a bit of garbage. Dean assumed most of his supplies were still in the truck.  The bucket was being used to catch water which was dripping from a large hole in the ceiling.  Dean, Cas, and Charlie sat down on the bed, and Sam stood, leaning awkwardly against the door.

               Kevin rushed over to Dean, enveloping him into a tight hug.  “It’s so good to see you, my boy!”

               “You too, Kevin.”  Dean helped Kevin take a seat in the chair, Kevin’s joints complaining loudly.

               “Sorry about the state of this place, and of me. It’s been a long time since I’ve had visitors.”

               “I always meant to visit, but I never got the time.  I’m so sorry for that.”

               “It’s alright Dean.  You’re still truckin’ and that’s all that matters.”

               Cas suddenly elbowed Dean in the ribs. “Right,” Dean said.  “Kevin, this is Cas, and Charlie.  And that’s my brother, Sam.  Guys, this is Kevin.  He taught me all I know about truckin’.”

               “So you’re the Prophet,” Sam said in awe.  “I’ve heard all about you.”

               “Then you know my story is not a happy one,” Kevin said, looking down at his hands.

               “What happened?” Charlie asked in a whisper.

               Kevin sighed, and looked up at Charlie.  “You are the first to ask in a very long time. I will tell you, if only to have someone to share in my sorrow.  I used to be one of the greatest truckers to ever drive across the United States.  I led the largest convoy to date.  We covered three quarters of a mile down the highway.  Unstoppable, that’s what we were.  I met my husband, Harry, during that convoy.  He was called the Wizard.  The Prophet and the Wizard, ruling the highway.  We never got into much trouble.  We had some run ins with the cops, but what good trucker doesn’t?  For a long time, we were unstoppable.  For a long time, I was happy.  Harry and I were even guardians to a wonderful little boy, James.  He was Harry’s nephew.  He was like a son to me.  You see, family don’t end with blood.  We took him in when his parents were killed.  It was crazy, how alike Harry and James looked.  We were the perfect family, traveling around the country in our trucks, seeing the sights, that is, until the law had finally caught up with us. Sauron, father of the current sheriff, Saruman, had found us.  We were wanted in three states for various crimes.  We were chased across the highway, Harry in his truck, me in mine. I still thank whatever entity is out there that James was at his grandmothers that day.  Harry’s truck was running low on gas, and he was panicking. We had always outrun the cops before, but it seemed like we were out of luck.  I told him over the CB to stay strong, to keep moving, when he lost control of his truck.  I had never seen him lose control like that.  It flipped off the highway, and I wanted to stop and find him.  I needed to know if he was okay.  But I couldn’t stop moving.  My foot wouldn’t release the gas.  So I kept driving, away from Harry, away from James, and away from the cops. I got off the highway as soon as I could, stopping only once to gather supplies.  Then I came here.  I knew I could never face what I had done.  It was my fault Harry was on the road that day.  All of it was my fault, and I have never forgiven myself for allowing someone so beautiful, to die in such a horrific way.”  He paused.  “That’s enough about that.  It has been a long time since I have had visitors.  Only a few trusted people know about my location.  So Dean, what is it I can help you with?”

               Dean was swimming in his thoughts.  He had heard the story before from others, but he had never heard Kevin’s version.  Dean hand was in Cas’s, and, for the first time in a long time, Dean realized how lucky he was to have him.

               “We’re trying to get to Texas,” Dean said, looking up at Kevin.  “Sam’s wife, Ezri, is about to have a baby, and she’s due any week now.”

               Kevin knitted his eyebrows together.  “What brings you here then?”

               “Saruman caught up to us.”

               Kevin nodded, deep in thought.  “Who’s she?” he asked, gesturing to Charlie.

               “Name’s Charlie Bradbury,” she said, holding out her hand to Kevin.  Kevin took it and shook it tenderly.

               “We’re giving her a ride to Texas,” Dean said.

               “Why do you need a ride, Miss Bradbury?” Kevin questioned.

               Charlie scratched the back of her hand.  “Well, my car broke down and-“

               “No.  You misunderstood me.  Where is your truck, Widow Woman?”

               The hut stood in shocked silence.  Charlie’s eyes were wide and she had stopped scratching her hand.  Dean’s mouth dropped open, and Cas and Sam exchanged confused looks.

               It was Dean who broke the silence.  “You don’t mean, the Widow Woman?”

               “Widow Woman?” Sam asked.

               “Come on, Sammy, you know.  She’s a legend.  Her pregnant wife was killed by a rogue cop-“

               “So I took to the road, killing as many cops who abused their power as I could find, and bringing justice to those who were unfairly killed,” Charlie finished.  “Yes, well it’s no use hiding it now.  Hello, Prophet, it’s been awhile.”

               “Nice to see you again, Charlie,” he answered, smiling wide.  “It took me awhile to recognize you.  You’ve really changed.”

               “Constant make overs are part of hiding, Kev.”

               “Wait, wait, hold on,” Dean cut in, still shocked from the new information.  “I had the Widow Woman in my truck?”

               “Yes, you did.  And in all honesty, I was not impressed.  You could keep your truck cleaner, treat her with more respect.”

               “Yes, ma’am,” Dean said, looking away from her eyes and blushing furiously.

               “Wait, if you’re the Widow, who’s supposed to be tough as nails and a total badass, why were you crying in the diner?” Sam asked.

               Charlie shrugged.  “I needed a ride.  Usually looking pathetic and weak gets you rides.  Plus, if you idiots decided to try anything,” she pulled a switch blade out of her pocket, “it’s far easier to catch you unprepared.”

               Now it was Sam’s turn to be embarrassed.

               “So, you boys need to get to Texas,” Kevin asked, quickly changing the subject.

               “Yes, sir.  And as fast as possible,” Dean said.

               Kevin nodded.  “You’ll most likely want to take I-four-oh through New Mexico.  But it’ll be dangerous.  They’ve probably already warned the New Mexican police about you guys. You’ll need backup.”

               “You’re coming with us?” Dean asked, shocked and confused.

               Kevin laughed.  “No, I can’t.  It’s been too long since these tired eyes have seen the road.  And I doubt they ever will again.  Charlie, if you could hand me what’s under that pillow.”

               Charlie nodded, pulling out a wireless radio and handing it to Kevin.

               “I’m going to call backup for you.  There’s two truckers in the next town over who owe me a favor.  They go by the names Captain and Plaid Pants.  They’ll help you reach Texas.”

               Kevin turned on the radio and began to talk. It took him awhile to reach one of the truckers, and when he did they happily agreed to help Sam reach Texas. They agreed to meet in the next town over at sun up.

               “I’d get on the road now,” Kevin said once he turned off the radio.  “It’ll take you that long to get there with the cops on your tail.”

               “Thank you Kevin, for everything,” Dean said, standing up and shaking Kevin’s hand.

               “It’s been a pleasure.  Come and visit whenever you need.”

               The four truckers said their thank yous and goodbyes and made their way back to the trucks, setting out for a night of driving.

By: Luci

[mrjasontom]

16 years ago, I retired as a judo champion following my collision with a minivan that knocked me unconscious. That incident caused me long term memory loss, a concussion, and head trauma. Then I entered the music business and entertainment industry as a professional beatboxer. It was one of the greatest career decisions of my life. Little did I know that traumatic collision would catch up to me. I've since learned and discovered that our bodies keep a count even when our minds are not consciously aware of it. Career wise, I was productive in the music business and entertainment industry. Traveled the world, won accolades and awards, released artist merchandise, presented at TEDx Talk conferences, school tours, colleges, and universities. Then that all came crashing down when my trauma from that collision got triggered and I had a major set back. It was then that my faith in God was all I had left that I could hold onto. My memory was so impacted that I struggled to recall the day of the week. However, I could still recall how much God loved me as people in my life prayed for me during this most challenging ordeal of my life. Being reminded of God's love kept me alive. At age 29, I didn't think I would live to see my 30th birthday. Since that time, I slowly and gradually placed a priority of my health over my career. I had it the other way around, prior. Then I did this live performance pictured here, at age 30, and it was when I reunited with Michael Winslow, the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects. Though I experience my roughest of seasons prior and after this show, I kept on truckin' on even when it felt unbearable. Michael Winslow is someone who has greatly influenced my beatbox music career, voice over work, and commercial work. As mentioned earlier, I didn't think I would live to see my 30th birthday. Since I've prioritized my health over my career, my health has paid dividends as well as my career. I am now pushing my 40s and I continue to map out projects within the music business and entertainment industry. https://www.instagram.com/p/CInEyj4DVTq/?igshid=tvdtm0s4gdzy

[jafreitag]

31 Days of Dead 2019: Project Wrap-Up

Hey Now Kids!

I have emerged after a much needed rest. I want to take the opportunity to personally express my thanks to all of you for following this year’s edition of the Unofficial 31 Days of Dead and for all of the messages and kind words that you have sent me. This was a pretty ambitious project that kept me busy right up until the final day, so I apologize for the delay or lack of response to some of your emails. It was a fun ride, and we covered a lot of ground. Here are some quick stats:

31 Days 86 Songs 23 Different years represented 12 hours, 6 minutes of music

1.79 GB of music

…and of course, 10 Years doing these projects

As in past years, I have provided a full track listing and zipped and uploaded all of the mp3 files so that you can download for your future listening pleasure.

WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITE TRACKS???? I would love to hear what your favorites were this year. Some of you have reached out already and I truly appreciate it. I’m always curious what you liked and what you didn’t like so that I can make improvements in the future.

THANK YOU!! These projects are a big undertaking and there is no way I could do it all on my own. I want to take this opportunity to recognize two key people who helped out. First, a big thank you to Brian Levine who has been providing the artwork since I started doing these projects in 2010. Each year his artwork gets better. He obviously takes our tagline very seriously – “When they go high, we go higher.”

I also owe a huge debt of gratitude to my long-time friend, Jason Freitag, who hosts these projects on his blog, Liner Notes Music Blog. The blog provides an online home where you can reference these projects anytime you want. Also, if you like the 31 Days of Dead then you should be sure to check out “Grateful Dead Monthly” which is a fun side project that Jason and I collaborate on each month that features a GD show on the anniversary of that particular show. So, if you are not already following Liner Notes Music Blog, then I urge you to do so. Not only can you get your Grateful Dead fix but there are articles and playlists that cover the musical spectrum from jazz to Indie.

If you are having 31 Days withdrawal then you get can you get your fix by following me on Instagram @31daysofdead

Wishing you all the best in the New Year!

Ed

2019 Track Listing

Day 1 – One Afternoon Long Ago: The Magical Three

Ripple (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY; acoustic set)

Brokedown Palace (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY; acoustic set)

To Lay Me Down (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY; acoustic set)

Day 2 – Early Songs & 50th Anniversary of Live Dead

St. Stephen > Alligator > China Cat Sunflower > The Eleven > China Cat Sunflower (Robert Hunter; solo Acoustic; 3.18.03 – Town Hall • New York, NY)

Dark Star > St. Stephen (9.19.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY)

Day 3 – SkullFuck Classics

Playin’ In The Band > Wharf Rat > Playin’ In The Band (6.8.74 – Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Stadium • Oakland, CA)

Bertha (2.15.73 – Dane County Coliseum • Madison, WI)

Day 4 – Lyrical Influences & Collaborations – Part I

Greatest Story Ever Told (8.21.72 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA)

Friend of the Devil (8.21.72 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA)

Stella Blue (8.21.72 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA)

Day 5 – Collaborations – Part II

Jack Straw – Weir (3.23.72 – Academy of Music • New York, NY)

Box of Rain – Lesh (3.24.73 – The Spectrum • Philadelphia, PA)

Mr. Charlie – Pigpen (8.14.71 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA)

Alligator – Pigpen (5.5.67 – Fillmore Auditorium • San Francisco, CA)

Day 6 – Aoxomoxoa – 40-Year Anniversary

Radio Promo – Dupree’s Diamond Blues

The Eleven – Aoxomoxoa Outtake

Doin’ That Rag (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA)

Cosmic Charlie (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA)

Dupree’s Diamond Blues (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA)

Mountains of the Moon (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA)

Radio Promo – What’s Become Of The Baby?

Day 7 – Songs That Have Taken on Different or Renewed Meaning – Part I

Death Don’t Have No Mercy (Soundcheck; 7.2.95 – Deer Creek Music Center • Noblesville, IN)

Dire Wolf (7.2.95 – Deer Creek Music Center • Noblesville, IN)

New Speedway Boogie (2.19.91 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA)

Day 8 – Songs That Have Taken on Different or Renewed Meaning – Part II

He’s Gone (3.26.73 – Baltimore Civic Center • Baltimore, MD)

Truckin’ (2.19.85 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center • Oakland, CA)

Day 9 – Songs That Have Taken on Different or Renewed Meaning – Part III

Black Peter (12.28.86 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center • Oakland, CA)

Touch of Grey (12.15.86 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA)

Candyman (12.15.86 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA)

Day 10 – Garcia: The Solo Album

Deal (10.17.83 – Olympic Center • Lake Placid, NY)

Bird Song (10.17.83 – Olympic Center • Lake Placid, NY)

Sugaree (10.17.83 – Olympic Center • Lake Placid, NY)

Loser (12.30.78 – Pauley Pavilion, UCLA • Los Angeles, CA

Day 11 – On The Day That I Was Born

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (12.11.72 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 12 – Songs That Underwent Lyric Changes

Comes A Time (10.19.71 – Northrop Auditorium, Univ. of Minnesota • Minneapolis, MN)

They Love Each Other (2.9.73 – Roscoe Maples Pavilion, Stanford Univ. • Palo Alto, CA)

Wave That Flag (2.9.73 – Roscoe Maples Pavilion, Stanford Univ. • Palo Alto, CA)

Day 13 – Friday The 13th Edition: The Bermuda Triangle, Seastones, Hunter’s Birthday and Watergate

Seastones > Jam > Ship of Fools (6.23.74 – Jai-Alai Fronton • Miami, FL)

Day 14 – The Europe ’72 Cousins

Tennessee Jed (6.4.78 – Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara  • Goleta, CA)

Brown-Eyed Women (6.4.78 – Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara  • Goleta, CA)

Ramble On Rose (12.30.77 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 15 – Acoustic Sunday

It Must Have Been The Roses (10.31.80 – Radio City Music Hall • New York, NY)

Attics of My Life (9.24.94 – Phil Lesh and Friends; Berkeley Community Theatre • Berkeley, CA)

Day 16 – Keep Your Workingman’s Job: Monday Morning Edition

Cumberland Blues (8.3.82 – Starlight Theater • Kansas City, MO)

(Keep Your) Day Job (8.28.82 – Oregon County Fair • Veneta, OR)

Easy Wind (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY)

Day 17 – Lyrics About Specific Events

Casey Jones (10.28.77 – Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall • Kansas City, KS)

Might As Well (10.29.77 – Evan Field House, Northern Illinois University • Dekalb, IL)

Here Comes Sunshine (2.23.74 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 18 – Another Musical Renaissance: 1973

Eyes of the World > China Doll (10.29.73 – Kiel Auditorium • St. Louis, MO)

Day 19 – First Set Delights

Row Jimmy (6.21.89 – Shoreline Amphitheatre • Mountain View, CA)

Althea (7.19.89 – Alpine Valley Music Theatre • East Troy, WI)

West L.A. Fadeaway (7.19.89 – Alpine Valley Music Theatre • East Troy, WI)

High Time (6.19.76 – Capitol Theater • Passaic, NJ)

Stagger Lee (10.18.78 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 20 – JGB Songs Covered by the Grateful Dead

Reuben And Cerise (6.9.91 – Buckeye Lake Music Center • Hebron, OH)

Mission in the Rain (6.10.76 – Boston Music Hall • Boston, MA)

Day 21 – The Three-Part Suite: A Spiritual Journey Towards Enlightenment

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (4.23.77 – Springfield Civic Center • Springfield, MA)

Day 22 – The Last Hunter-Weir Collaboration(?)

Sugar Magnolia (2.18.71 – Capitol Theater • Port Chester, NY)

Day 23 – A Marriage Made In Heaven

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (4.23.77 – Springfield Civic Center • Springfield, MA)

Fire on the Mountain – proto-rap version (Unreleased Mickey Hart solo album – 1973)

Day 24 – Something New Is Waiting To Be Born

Crazy Fingers (9.30.76 – Auditorium, Ohio State University • Columbus, OH)

Day 25 – “The Song” – Come Hear Uncle John’s Band

Uncle John’s Band (3.19.77 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 26 – Disco Dead

Shakedown Street (3.28.81 – Gruga Halle • Essen, West Germany)

Day 27 – 30-Year Anniversary of Built To Last: The Final Studio Album

Standing On The Moon (6.7.91 – Deer Creek Music Center • Noblesville, IN)

Built To Last (5.7.89 – Frost Amphitheater, Stanford University • Palo Alto, CA)

Foolish Heart (8.13.91 – Cal Expo Amphitheatre • Sacramento, CA)

Day 28 – 1979 Flashback: Farewell to the Godchaux’s & Wolf / Welcome Brent & Tiger

The Wheel (2.17.79 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum  • Oakland, CA)

…Shakedown Street>Jam (Soundcheck – 4.21.79 – Spartan Stadium – San Jose, CA)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (10.28.79 – Cape Cod Coliseum • South Yarmouth, MA)

Day 29 – Rare & Different Tunes

Mason’s Children (12.28.69 – Miami Pop Festival, International Speedway – Hollywood, FL)

Till The Morning Comes (10.31.70 – SUNY-Stony Brook – Stony Brook, NY)

Clementine (1.23.68 – Eagles Auditorium – Seattle, WA)

Rosemary (12.7.68 – Bellarmine College – Louisville, KY)

What’s Become Of The Baby? (1969 – Aoxomoxoa Outtakes)

Hunter’s Stage Banter about The Barbed Wire Whipping Party (Robert Hunter Solo Acoustic – 6.11.03 – Museum of History & Industry)

The Barbed Wire Whipping Party (1969 – Aoxomoxoa Outtakes)

Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (9.11.73 – William & Mary College Hall – Williamsburg, VA)

France (1.8.78 – Shakedown Street Rehearsal)

If I Had The World To Give (8.30.78 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO)

Believe It Or Not (7.17.88 – Greek Theatre, University of California – Berkeley, CA)

Day 30 – Let My Inspiration Flow…Again

Terrapin Station (3.18.77 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 31 – Gave The Best We Had To Give: The Last Masterpieces

So Many Roads (9.18.94 – Shoreline Amphitheater • Mountain View, CA)

The Days Between (12.11.94 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA)

Black Muddy River (7.9.95 – Soldier Field • Chicago, IL)

And We Bid You Goodnight (9.20.70 – Fillmore East – New York, NY)

Zipped File Links:

Tracks 1-21:  http://www.mediafire.com/file/7qpx85c0jtmc4hp/1-21.zip/file

Tracks 22-43:  http://www.mediafire.com/file/g3d7hdgu3fci7xs/22-43.zip/file

Tracks 44-63:  http://www.mediafire.com/file/rysfp119hvhhig0/44-63.zip/file

Tracks 64-86:  http://www.mediafire.com/file/fwkd20088ohu5sr/64-86.zip/file

Phantasy Tour Link: https://www.phantasytour.com/bands/phish/threads/4580717/gd-2019-unofficial-31-days-of-dead#page/1

Link to “Official 30 Days of Dead” with track listing 2010 – present: https://www.whitegum.com/livedate/30days.htm

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The History of 31 Days of Dead: Tracklists and Download Links

Hey, guys. Here’s are the tracklists and download links for the eight previous years of ECM’s 31 Days of Dead project. Enjoy.

2010 Tracklist:

Big Railroad Blues (4/17/72)

West L.A. Fadeaway (7/19/89)

High Time (6/19/76)

Let It Grow (3/25/85)

Jam (Close Encounters) > Saint Stephen (1/22/78)

Tennessee Jed (7/2/89)

Morning Dew (4/27/77)

Feel Like a Stranger (10/3/81)

Feel Like a Stranger (3/2/87)

Peggy-O (6/17/75)

S. Blues, Me and My Uncle (6/26/74)

Crazy Fingers (6/9/91)

Wharf Rat (10/27/80)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (3/9/81)

Doin’ That Rag (2/21/69)

Sugar Magnolia (10/15/77)

I Just Want to Make Love to You (10/8/84)

Dire Wolf (3/30/90)

Here Comes Sunshine (6/10/73)

Stella Blue (8/21/72)

So Many Roads (6/23/92)

Casey Jones (10/28/77)

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (9/1/79)

Comes a Time > Jam (7/17/76)

Estimated Prophet > Terrapin Station (3/31/87)

Candyman (10/28/90)

Little Red Rooster (9/24/88)

He Was a Friend of Mine > Viola Lee Blues > The Seven > Cumberland Blues (3/21/70)

China Doll (4/28/85)

Not Fade Away > Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away (12/1/71)

Playing in the Band (11/18/72)

Brokedown Palace (5/16/80)

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (11/30/80)

2010 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/?33jxo7r9z7wn1lg

http://www.mediafire.com/?end4tcbxgd6yr32

http://www.mediafire.com/?qnzfwwm2r6v445a

2011 Tracklist:

Samson and Delilah (4/10/83)

It Must Have Been The Roses (5/18/77)

Space > Not Fade Away > Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad > Around & Around (6/25/78)

Feel Like a Stranger (11/10/85)

They Love Each Other (10/21/73)

Mason’s Children (12/28/69)

Space > Playing in the Band > Comes a Time > Playing in the Band (8/19/80)

Greatest Story Ever Told (8/21/72

Iko Iko (11/8/87)

Might As Well (10/29/77)

Friend of the Devil, Big Railroad Blues (9/20/70)

To Lay Me Down (5/4/81)

Cassidy (11/7/87)

Dark Star > Philo Stomp > Feelin’ Groovy Jam > Morning Dew (11/13/72)

Row Jimmy (4/12/78)

Passenger (8/12/79)

Looks Like Rain (3/30/88)

Crazy Fingers (6/14/76)

Here Comes Sunshine (12/6/73)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (5/10/80)

Althea (12/30/86)

Cumberland Blues (10/24/71)

Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > JAM > Drums > That’s It for the Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Dire Wolf (4/15/70)

The Music Never Stopped (5/7/78)

If I Had the World to Give (8/30/78)

Uncle John’s Band > Playing in the Band > China Doll > Uncle John’s Band > Playing in the Band (7/10/81)

Cold Rain and Snow (12/27/77)

Where’s Phil? > I Need a Miracle > Shakedown Street (1/15/79)

Hell in a Bucket (6/27/85)

Stella Blue (9/19/90)

Intro > Dancing in the Street (12/31/71)

2011 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/30wts0fdnji4v08/31+Days+%282011%29+-+1.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/pje7zja1dig10xx/31+Days+%282011%29+-+2.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/oi9ps2kyt40g64t/31+Days+%282011%29+-+3.zip

2012 Tracklist:

Intro > He Was a Friend of Mine (4/23/69)

Jack Straw (1/11/79)

Deal (5/1/81)

Bird Song (3/26/87)

Terrapin > Jam (4/29/80)

Space > Estimated Prophet > The Other One (7/1/78)

Box of Rain (9/19/87)

Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (11/26/72)

Me and My Uncle (2/22/74)

Here Comes Sunshine > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (2/17/73)

Playing in the Band > Stronger Than Dirt (7/16/76)

Cosmic Charlie (1/2/70)

Cold Rain and Snow (10/12/83)

Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance > Touch of Grey (10/10/82)

The Wheel > Wharf Rat (5/7/77)

El Paso (2/9/73)

Viola Lee Blues > Feedback (4/12/70)

Dark Star > Comes a Time (7/18/72)

Jam > Jack-A-Roe (11/20/78)

Black-Throated Wind (2/21/95)

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (5/9/77)

Weather Report Suite > Let It Grow > Spanish Jam (7/19/74)

Eyes of the World (6/10/73)

Crazy Fingers > Stella Blue (6/26/76)

Lazy Lightning > Supplication (11/9/79)

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (4/24/78)

The Eleven (10/12/68)

It Hurts Me Too, Beat It On Down the Line (4/26/71)

Alligator Jam (6/6/70)

Not Fade Away > Darkness Jam > China Cat Jam > Not Fade Away > Turn On Your Lovelight, Phil and Pigpen Banter (9/19/70)

Truckin’ > The Other One > Morning Dew (12/31/72)

Thanks Bill Graham > Sugar Magnolia (12/31/72)

2012 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/k9aoyderg88r8im/31+Days+%282012%29+-+1.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/edvcjhiob73vn78/31+Days+%282012%29+-+2.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/dq2uo7wzmcpfzac/31+Days+%282012%29+-+3.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/8a5gopise6j2yri/31+Days+%282012%29+-+4.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/bc2idcb7pdrgiq2/31+Days+%282012%29+-+5.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/h31ljc1mcguzmn8/31+Days+%282012%29+-+6.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/odb5t36i7aclrfk/31+Days+%282012%29+-+7.ziphttp://www.mediafire.com/download/ukhb5v3dg2btfw1/31+Days+%282011%29+-+4.zip

2013 Tracklist:

Uncle John’s Band (9/18/74)

Let It Grow (10/29/77)

Terrapin Station (1/22/78)

Morning Dew (2/24/74)

Playing in the Band (10/26/72)

Bird Song (6/22/73)

Feel Like a Stranger (8/10/82)

Althea (7/19/90)

Dupree’s Diamond Blues (9/20/82)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (5/19/74)

Shakedown Street (6/30/85)

Bertha (10/23/89)

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (5/4/80)

Sugar Magnolia (6/20/83)

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (2/3/79)

Estimated Prophet (12/12/80)

He’s Gone > Gloria Jam > CC Rider (12/1/79)

Stronger Than Dirt (9/28/75)

Black Peter (12/14/71)

Greatest Story Ever Told (9/28/72)

Row Jimmy (3/20/77)

Weather Report Suite Prelude > Jam (3/26/73)

Jam > Dark Star > Sing Me Back Home (3/24/73)

Wharf Rat (7/8/78)

Dancing in the Streets (2/26/77)

Franklin’s Tower (3/13/82)

Clementine > New Potato Caboose > Born Cross-Eyed (1/23/68)

The Wheel (12/5/81)

Space > Eyes of the World > Slipknot! > China Doll (6/20/74)

Truckin’ > The Other One > Brokedown Palace (11/17/72)

Johnny B. Goode (8/14/71) 

2013 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/f22gnc2w3ny40z6/31-1.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/ljc0znjd5nvbqjd/31-2.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/40d4t59d5sp5rv4/31-3.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/vfscpw9y9ujct1s/31-4.zip http://www.mediafire.com/download/hv4um7cz4v9mu1t/31-5.zip 

2014 Tracklist:

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (9/6/83)

Let It Grow (1/11/78)

Ramble On Rose (9/12/91)

Playing in the Band (7/1/73)

Ship of Fools (12/5/79)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Big River (5/25/74)

Sugaree (9/6/80)

Jack Straw (4/6/87)

Bird Song (3/7/81)

Looks Like Rain > Eyes Of The World > China Doll (10/29/73)

Sugar Magnolia (8/26/71)

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (9/2/78)

Easy Wind (5/7/70)

Saint Stephen (6/24/70)

Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Not Fade Away > Around & Around (10/6/77)

Banter > Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion > New Potato Caboose (5/5/67)

The Wheel > Jam (10/3/76)

Comes a Time (5/1/77)

Playing in the Band Reprise > Uncle John’s Band Reprise > Morning Dew (10/12/84)

Iko Iko (11/2/85)

Estimated Prophet (10/26/89)

Standing on the Moon (8/21/93)

Here Comes Sunshine (2/23/74)

Stagger Lee (12/16/78)

Lazy Lightnin’ > Supplication (2/17/79)

Deal (10/17/83)

Dark Star (2/15/73)

The Other One > Me and Bobby McGee > The Other One (9/28/72)

Cryptical Envelopment > Death Don’t Have No Mercy (2/22/69)

The Eleven > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > Feedback (10/20/68)

Ripple (9/20/70)

Dark Star > The Main Ten > Jam > Dancing in the Streets > Not Fade Away > Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > Good Lovin’ (11/8/70)

2014 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/?gs8fxbtqaxr5t

http://www.mediafire.com/download/2gnsm5353mzddz8/32+Dark+Star+_+The+Main+Ten+_+Dancin.mp3

2015 Tracklist:

Intro > Not Fade Away > Easy Wind (6/24/70)

Friend of the Devil (8/21/72)

Jack Straw (6/16/91)

So Many Roads (9/18/94)

Playing in the Band (2/24/73)

Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night (12/2/71)

Hugh Hefner interviews Jerry > Mountains of the Moon (1/18/69)

Scarlet Begonias (7/19/74)

Dark Star (12/11/72)

Crazy Fingers > Truckin’ > Comes a Time (7/8/87)

Eyes of the World > Happiness Is Drumming > Wharf Rat > Drums (6/28/76)

Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Feedback > And We Bid You Goodnight (12/29/68)

Iko Iko (11/2/84)

Estimated Prophet (5/7/78)

Stella Blue (6/28/88)

Cassidy (10/12/83)

Shakedown Street (10/31/79)

New Minglewood Blues > Big Railroad Blues (9/2/83)

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Big River (5/7/77)

Here Comes Sunshine > Space > Me and Bobby McGee (4/2/73)

Bird Song (10/18/89)

Hell in a Bucket (9/24/87)

Sugaree (3/28/81)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (8/16/80)

Tennessee Jed (12/30/78)

The Music Never Stopped (10/1/77)

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (10/1/76)

Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow (12/18/73)

Saint Stephen > The Eleven (2/12/69)

Not Fade Away > Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away (11/7/71)

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction > It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (10/10/82)

2015 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/vo4he04nd5cc0yj/1.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/w5npwrr28nukg3g/2.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/nno959x91t839zo/3.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ls7yue8kknk1www/4.zip

2016 Tracklist:

U.S. Blues (6/4/78)

Alabama Getaway > The Promised Land (5/6/80)

Sugaree > The Music Never Stopped (10/9/77)

My Brother Esau (9/7/85)

Bird Song, Black-Throated Wind, Don’t Ease Me In (11/19/72)

Jack Straw, Shakedown Street > Samson & Delilah (10/20/84)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (8/28/82)

Hey Pocky Way > Iko Iko (6/18/89)

Terrapin Station (3/24/87)

Playing in the Band (7/31/73, 2/22/73)

It Must Have Been the Roses (5/12/81)

Big Railroad Blues, Let It Grow, (Keep Your) Day Job (10/15/83)

Stella Blue (3/21/94)

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (4/20/84)

Estimated Prophet > Eyes of the World > Drums (12/28/78)

The Other One > Wharf Rat (9/23/72)

Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away (12/30/86)

Dark Star > Feelin’ Groovy Jam > Tighten Up Jam > Dark Star (11/2/69)

Cumberland Blues (10/17/72)

New Speedway Boogie (7/14/70)

Seastones > Jam > Ship of Fools (6/23/74)

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (2/26/77)

Uncle John’s Band (8/26/71)

Run, Run Rudolph (12/14/71)

I Need a Miracle (12/28/88)

Might As Well > Jam (8/2/76)

China Doll (5/8/79)

The Wheel > Playing in the Band Reprise > Morning Dew (6/18/83)

Gloria > Turn On Your Lovelight (10/16/81)

Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Band > One More Saturday Night (6/19/76)

The Last Time (5/6/90)

He’s Gone > Truckin’ > The Other One > Eyes of the World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia (2/19/73)

2016 Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/caps94bg4naf2u2/2016_31_DOD.rar

2017 Tracklist:

Terrapin Station (2/26/77)

Playing in the Band (8/21/72)

Scarlet Begonias (8/4/74)

Dupree’s Diamond Blues (10/9/82)

It’s All Over Now, Ramble On Rose (9/20/90)

Cassidy, Might As Well (6/17/91)

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (10/12/83)

It Must Have Been the Roses, Dancing in the Streets (1/12/79)

Samson and Delilah (11/7/85)

Candyman (3/24/88)

Lazy Lightnin’ > Supplication > Let It Grow > Wharf Rat (7/18/76)

The Other One > Me and My Uncle > The Other One (12/31/71)

Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (8/22/72)

Cold Rain and Snow > Fire on the Mountain (7/4/86)

Althea, Jack Straw (8/30/80)

Doin’ That Rag (4/23/69)

Dark Star > El Paso (8/1/73)

The Days Between (12/11/94)

Estimated Prophet > Shakedown Street (11/24/78)

Space > Saint Stephen (10/29/77)

The Eleven (12/29/68)

Turn On Your Lovelight (2/11/70)

Brokedown Palace, Uncle John’s Band (8/30/70)

Stagger Lee (10/18/78)

She Belongs to Me (6/15/85) / Crazy Fingers (6/17/75)

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, The Promised Land (9/6/80)

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (11/6/77)

Eyes of the World (5/26/73)

China Doll > High Time (4/27/84)

Sugar Magnolia (10/19/81)

Touch of Grey (3/27/87)

Iko Iko > Day-O > Women Are Smarter, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (7/6/87)

2017 Download Links:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cw54ss5ct2wd3p9/Archive.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/hex35noycyhudx2/Archive_2.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ioqb85aldy5i88u/Archive_3.zip

More soon.

JF

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