It’s brother to brother and it’s man to man
And it’s face to face and it’s hand to hand
We shadowdance the silent war within
The shadowdance, it never ends ….
Never ends. never ends
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse, yet again ….
Yet again.
My Brother Esau lyrics
The Martin Scorsese produced, Amir Bar-Lev directed, Grateful Dead documentary “Long Strange Trip” has been picked up by Amazon video for a May Release according to the Hollywood Reporter: www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/sundance-grateful-dead-doc-long-strange-trip-goes-amazon-964890
The film will be debuted later this month at the Sundance Film Festival. Deadheadland has a reporter going to Sundance and we will bring you news and updates, and an early review of the film.
from John Perry Barlow
(the following was copied from JPB on Facebook and Twitter)
I realized at about 6:00 Tuesday afternoon that the unthinkable was becoming real and started tweeting about it. But Twitter releases everything “upside-down” and requires severe brevity.
So I’ve decided to reassemble them into something like prose, yielding this micromanifesto:
For the first time ever,I am truly ashamed of my country. I thought of Americans as kind, decent, generous, fair, rational… Guess not. This is a terrible time for me to consider exile. But I don’t want to share the American Dream with those who are tone-deaf to its melody.
My family has been in America for 400 years on each side. But now it feels as if I’m being chased out newcomers who think they own the place. My first reaction has been to haul out my list of escape hatches from previous near lunges (Viet Nam, Reagan, both Bushes, etc.): Vancouver, Rio, Michoacán, St. Barthe’s, Provence, Laos, Belize, Hong Kong, but…
I find people turning to me for reassurance and advice. And hell, I’m American as it gets, and I realize this may actually provide an opportunity to restore America to greatness in *my* sense of the term: to show the world that we *are* as generally decent as we’re thought to be, that America *is* as dedicated to its founding principles as ever, perhaps more so.
Despite our elevation of a thorough creep to *lead* us, we can be guided by our “better angels.” We can isolate this toxic asshole and prevent his hatreds, arrogance, bigotry, fear, and ignorance from defining our National Character in the eyes of the world.
No! Now is the time to dig in, stand tall, and be *real* American patriots.
from John Perry Barlow
https://twitter.com/JPBarlow
8 Rare Fan Snap!
Grateful Dead
7.27.1973 Watkins Glen
soundcheck, from the pit!
Grateful Dead soundcheck Watkins Glen 7.27.1973
Photo by Mike Baxter, used by @deadheadland w permission.
‘The Grateful Dead’s legendary soundcheck turned into a two set marathon, featuring their familiar tunes such as “Sugaree”, “Tennessee Jed” and “Wharf Rat”.’
Info from:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen
Sound check “official version”
Watkins Glen Festival, NY, July 28, 1973, playlist:
Another GRATE mash-up from siliconmountaintop!
Happy Spring!
A mash up of Eyes of the World from the Grateful Dead and the Disney cartoon “The Goddess of Spring”. From Disney Wiki – The cartoon begins with Persephone, goddess of Spring, seated on a throne while animals and flowers dance happily around her and birds place a floral coronet on her head. At this point Pluto, God of the Underworld (not to be confused with Pluto, Mickey’s dog, or Hades, God of the Underworld in Hercules) ascends from beneath the earth on a rotating platform and, as his demons chase away Persephone’s friends, declares that he will make her his wife. He takes her to the Underworld, where the demons celebrate; some dance around fires while another plays a hellish organ. Though she is given gold and jewels, Persephone is (understandably) deppressed, causing the world above to become an icy wasteland. This upsets Pluto for being unable to make her happy and he asks her what he can do. She pleads to return to the earth, and is allowed to do so, provided she returns for six months. This differentiates the seasons, spring and summer taking place while Persephone is on the surface.
