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Evergreen
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Evergreen
Yak Addict
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 Posted - 04/08/2003 : 12:44:22 PM
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Oh and,
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face.
But afraid, we may our home to waste.
There's a fear down here we can't forget hasn't got a name just yet
Always awake, always around singing ashes to ashes all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls
And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
By and by again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Stalking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me.
Click, flashblade in ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley roll them bones. Need that cash to feed that jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today.
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit's sleeping, then the flesh is ink.
History's page, it is thusly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.
If the game is lost then we're all the same
No one left to place or take the blame.
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or this shinning ball of bule we can call our home
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians are throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing "black goes south while white comes north"
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing "I got mine and you got yours."
And the current fashions set the pace.
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical he rant and rage, Singing "someone got to turn the page"
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing "Just leave well enough alone"
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians are throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause its all too clear we're on our own
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
Throwing Stones
written by Bob Weir
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therippa
Fluffy-Esque
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tim~and~dave
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therippa
Fluffy-Esque
Kazakhstan
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Posted - 04/08/2003 : 1:34:41 PM
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Originally posted by tim~and~dave
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Originally posted by therippa
Big - http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2003/images/jpg/zmachine.jpg (and I mean REALLY big)
Think how dead you'd be if you stuck your hand in that water.
It's actually oil. The electronics have to be kept submerged in it so they don't have a molecular breakdown when this process happens. |
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tim~and~dave
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Posted - 04/08/2003 : 2:14:05 PM
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In that case:
Think how dead you'd be if you stuck your hand in that oil.
Wait. Oil that clear? is it baby oil or something? |
I'm going to give this "punctuation" thing a chance. How am I doing?
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tericee
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 04/08/2003 : 2:24:17 PM
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| Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing Evergreen and therippa! |
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victorwootenfan
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 04/08/2003 : 9:51:51 PM
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| AH Matt, I just requested tickets for a DEAD concert but I haven't heard yet if I got them, I can hear up til midnight on the 10th! I have a feeling I won't because its at Camden NJ's Tweeter Center and that is a small venue. They are for reserved seating. I saw them in the fall and even though Jerry is no longer with them and it wasn't really a Grateful Dead Concert it was still fun! |
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Arthen
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Posted - 04/08/2003 : 10:52:04 PM
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| Great pic and great lyrics. |
Steve Hackett: "I'm my own opening act, you see."
Tim (before "Faceoff"): "Peace, love....and SEX!"
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victorwootenfan
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Posted - 04/15/2003 : 2:20:14 PM
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Originally posted by PJK
AH Matt, I just requested tickets for a DEAD concert but I haven't heard yet if I got them, I can hear up til midnight on the 10th! I have a feeling I won't because its at Camden NJ's Tweeter Center and that is a small venue. They are for reserved seating. I saw them in the fall and even though Jerry is no longer with them and it wasn't really a Grateful Dead Concert it was still fun!
they were in roanoke some time ago, but i had just started listenin' to the DEAD and wasn't as interested... It's def. not the same without jerry, but still a great band. |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 04/15/2003 : 4:00:03 PM
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Yeah I didn't get the tickets I requested thought the fan club, couldn't get any from the public sale either so there will be no Dead concert for me this summer I did see them in the fall when they were going by the name The Other Ones. They were great but definitely not the same as when Jerry was alive! |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Evergreen
Yak Addict
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Posted - 04/15/2003 : 4:24:47 PM
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Yup Jerry fan tried and true. I miss him and his guitar so much.
After 200 plus shows with him I'm convinced I'll feel sad seeing them without him. At any rate, the parking lot scene was so much fun I had to get several nights for this summers tour. I'll be down your way for a few PJK. I've heard the parking lot scene is similar to how it used to be. Quite the little sub-culture in which I felt so at home and comfy. I've heard raving great things about Steve Kimock and they are playing Dead setlists so thats great too! I also used to make loads of cash selling my tritik (like batik) t-shirts at shows and I'm planning to kick up the business again. Loads of fun while making money and hangin with sweet hippy boys. Sounds good to me. Might be the answer to me getting another job since the state of vermont is way out of money, broke and bankrupt and are going to lay people off because they can't pay us all. Who needs another gov't job!
HeeHee!
Sorry you didn't get your tickets Pam. The first onsale date was brutal. A friend tried that. I lucked out with pre-order. A few friends might have extras from pre-order if you need one, let me know which show you wanted to see. I have 2nd row tix for SPAC from a sound engineer friend. Thats going to be an awesome one. SPAC is having a great summer. Pearl jam, Neil and Crazy Horse, Other Ones, DMB, Ozzfest. God I've spent a lot of money just on SPAC shows. Lets hope the shirts sell like they used too! HAHA! I'm tentatively planning on moving to Saratoga Springs in a few months so I'll be right next door and will surely have a membership and access to the mineral spa baths.
Yum Yum.
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in the strangest of places
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PJK
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 04/15/2003 : 9:14:06 PM
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Evergreen, glad you are a fellow Jerry fan! Did you know Mike Sokolosky named a song of his after Jerry? He is a huge Dead fan!(Deadhead) I think that is one of the greatest honors someone can give to a person!
I was hoping to see them at Camden but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Let me know if you ever come down my way. You should go to the Blues Festival in MD! I will be there for sure! |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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