Simon

If you need any advice on hangover cures, let us know.....

Only heard about 4-5 minutes in the truck and thought it was so bad that I turned it off.

That actually sounds sort of fun. Though I think I'd have waited until the end of the flight and then given the pilot a heads up I was taking an alternate route.

Yeah, there's something really compelling about them; some kind of irresistible draw. On the rare occasions we get one nearby up here, I'll still to this day grab the scanner, hop in the truck and go see if I can find it. Every time I do it, I feel like Roy Neary.....

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No Jerry, no Dead. Almost Dead

When I've been asked what kind of music the Dead plays, my answer has always been "Americana"

I think your'e talking to a guy who views giant power chords and staccato solos as the highest form of guitar. Not casting aspersions Chef, just suggesting there's more than one way to be great. I don't care if Garcia was playing a guitar, a mandolin, a banjo or a tennis racket, that beautiful flowing deft style makes him one of the most accomplished pickers I've ever heard.

Tell him Keith!

One guy's opinion isn't going to necessarily be representative of how everybody sees it but here's sort of a GD primer from my own perspective: A lot of the stuff before 1970 has a plinky/annoying psychedelic sound that I don't care for but if you find some live stuff from that early with Pigpen involved you can still find a good blues sound. They really hit their stride around '70 and up until about 77/78 were very good before the hard drugs and the accompanying turmoil really hurt them. They eventually got it cleaned up (relatively speaking) in the mid-late 80's and were very sharp into the early/mid 90's. Garcia died in the mid 90's and as far as I am concerned nothing after that is the Grateful Dead so I know little about it. Studio albums and live shows between 1970 - 1977 are good. Shows from about 1987 - 1994 are also good. Here's some of my favorite songs if you want to check any out: Shakedown St China Cat / I Know you Rider New Speedway Boogie El Paso Me and My Uncle Eyes of the World (find a version w/ Branford Marsalis) Help on the Way / Slipknot / Franklin's Tower Jackstraw Estimated Prophet Scarlet Begonias / Fire on the Mountain The Music Never Stopped Stagger Lee Aiko-Aiko / Women are Smarter Sugar Magnolia Brokedown Palace Deal Alabama Getaway Cumberland Blues

I guess that begs the question "What exactly have you tried listening to?" There's years where Jerry is strung out and the band is not engaged. There's stuff where the goal was experimentation as opposed to keeping it tight. There's times when the drugs have overwhelmed the quality of the music. The very earliest stuff can fall on the wrong side of psychedelic. But both of the guitar players are among the best ever at what they do as individuals. Garcia's interpretation of Hunter's lyrics is usually spot on; maybe you mistakenly listened to them letting Phil sing. Tell us what you've heard that you don't like and folks can probably suggest some stuff that you would.

And I wish the PPP stupid didn't regularly deface TSW. So it goes......

I'll take the under

Took me awhile to figure it out but did you know the guy that played Dauber on that show also does the voice of Patrick on Spongebob? Is Patrick to popular to be underrated? That ***** cracks me up....

Dee from "What's Happenin" Ron Swanson from "Parks and Rec" Pam from "Archer" And it's not a comedy, but the guy who played "Q" on that Star Trek series was really funny All the McPoyles

It would be if it wasn't bullspit. I'll actually do about 80% of the driving because I want to get there before our sun becomes a red giant.

Well my wife will drive while I drink beer and talk to the dog.... But yeah, I am not monkeying around with any air travel right now.

Gov Wolf just declared a statewide shutdown on non-essential business for two weeks. Nothing about people staying at home. In a few hours I'm leaving for a spontaneous vacation in Bama, Fla and Georgia; this could get interesting.

The first thing a school does is to create a current and comprehensive list of students who either a) do not have internet access in the home or b) do not have a device to utilize that internet access. Then every teacher who has any of those students in one of their classes is working on an alternative method to sustain the educational process while the shutdown is in effect, this typically being some sort of educational packet which students will work through at home. And I don't know if this will be the case for all districts, but I know in our local district (Western PA) that even if the kids are not there, it has already been planned that all staff will continue to be at the school all day on every weekday to maintain continuity and be available for any unforeseen circumstances that may pop up.

Are we still doing phrasing?