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Poster: user unknown Date: Dec 19, 2022 9:23am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: you know what is funny

OK! you got me there.

There are a few more individuals that may, or may not fit the category as well. Some that suck all the time, others sporadically.

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Poster: RBNW....new and improved! Date: Dec 20, 2022 5:00am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: you know what is funny

you might like this tune !!!

http://archive.org/download/mc1990-02-10.flac16/mc1990-02-10d2t06_vbr.mp3

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Poster: William Tell Date: Dec 19, 2022 10:17am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: death of the Forum

Hey B, yeah, for my two cents worth, I think the Forum began its decline almost ten yrs ago. By 2016, it was for all intents and purposes, DEAD.

I think there are two simple explanations: first, we all said just about all we could say, and second, poor recruitment (who knows why, but we just didn't add enough regularly active forumites after about 2012 or so).

For a few yrs folks did use it as a nostaligic, social media exchange of sorts (a number of us became close, internet friends so it was a draw to come back), but the DEAD were largely left out of the conversation. The last yr or so only 5-10 posters have posted regularly, and a few of those account for the majority of posts for weeks at a time. I can check in once a month and see all there is to see; in 2006 if you missed a day you were too far behind to catch up.

I do agree that the recent upheaval in our nation reinforced my view that what it meant to be a DEADHEAD had changed quite abit from my days of indoctrination (1967-1973). The world that Monte, GoP and I were a part of was music + social ethos (as flawed and naive as it was). We really bought into all that crap--and every head I knew in my youth was relatively homogeneous in buying into that worldview too. Now, I don't know what I have in common w folks that aren't a part of that original paradigm--the music isn't enough, because to me, the context of Hunter's writing and the DEAD's approach to the music world really mattered. BD, Reade, and I discussed this at length some few yrs past--I really did think their music mattered more because of the context of its generation (as "new age" as that blather sounds!).

Have a great Christmas, Bill!

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Poster: sailortried Date: Dec 19, 2022 12:37pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: death of the Forum

Mr. T

It sounds like you've got Molly Tuttle's San Francisco Blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyR4uMhUKkg

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Poster: RBNW....new and improved! Date: Dec 19, 2022 2:50pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: i vote for Wiliam Tell

if there is anyone that can it is he !!!!

Make this forum grateful again !!


take us to the "bridge" !

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Poster: SomeDarkHollow Date: Dec 20, 2022 8:17am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: death of the Forum

"...began its decline 10 yrs ago..."

Is it too late to apologize?

Wouldn't be the first punchbowl I've crapped in.

And as we gather around the non-denominational holiday shrub, I will continue to think warm thoughts about all of you...even the assholes.

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Poster: RBNW....new and improved! Date: Dec 20, 2022 11:12am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: death of the Forum

Let's go Bruins !!

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Poster: user unknown Date: Dec 21, 2022 8:39am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: death of the Forum

Damn! But I don't think you can take full blame. Seems it was about 10 years ago that a bunch of Deadhookers(myself included) showed up at the "Llama Farm". Cross pollination may not be a good thing.