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    Enjoyed the meeting & can't wait for the bush bash next time,a pity that more people don't get on board & stay on! as this ship has a lot of sail in her yet.Over to you guys.Cheers Chas
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    Monthy meeting is on again....same place as last time...45/91 Moreland st Footscray. Date is 16th of March - Sunday from 2pm onwards. Bring drinks and perhaps a snack if you like....all welcome!!! phone contact for details is 0411 030 952 Cheers The Estimated Prophet
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    I contacted Customer Service. Then, a couple of days ago, possibly in response to my post above, CS contacted me by email and the same day RT V1 No1 arrrived, bonus disc and all. I am totally delighted by this release, and recommend the Good Lovin on disc one to anyone who wants to know how well GD could rock. It is an absolute ripper! The sequence leading up to it is pretty good too. Happy Trails
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    ironman88
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    Road Trips take time
    rrussell8 - I recommend that you contact the Dead Store and ask for a replacement to be sent. None of us got these discs from the pre-order "shipment". While we have never received an explanation I suspect the blame lies with some "fowl up in shipping" which is what I was told last time I had a problem. If only they would stop employing poultry!
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    Stop whingeing, Kenny, at least you have yours. I'm still waiting. Happy Trails
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    Gots that wrong!
    For some reason, I've had in my mind that last night's game was at the MCG. What the hey - it was still bloody fantastic. We're on our way - 3-0 and cooking. ************* OK so I got my replacement copy of Road Trips Vol1 No1, including bonus disc. You all got yours by now? Sounds pretty mushy to me. And now there's another one out already, 1977 so much more to my taste. But $12 for shipping still frigging irks me. What do you reckon? ************* See y'all on Sunday.
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    Oooohhhh ... I'm excited!
    OK, so I wimped it as far as getting a ticket goes, figuring there's LONG way to go until a World Cup berth is in the bag. A lot of games to come. Still, I'm really looking forward to tonight's opener with Qatar, even if I will be watching irt at home with Bennie. It's staggering that even after the Asian Cup debacle and lousy season for Melbourne Victory, the MCG is still gonna jammed to the rafters. So many intriguing, unknown aspects. Go Socceroos!
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    Heck, bring the missus - what could be better than following up a wedding anniversary with the chance to hang out with a bunch Melbourne Dead Heads? :) I hope Burt does Sugar Magnolia for ya. ********* I just posted this at Jazz Corner: About fucking time ... When I went to see the Hitmen just between NYE and Xmas, I opined to a friend that the most anxiously awaited - a wait strateching into decades - reissue in my life was the mid-'80s classic Pilgrim's Progess by Melbourne outfit Harem Scarem. At last. It's here. Back in my life - and making my hair stand on end, sending chills up my spine and giving me multiple cases of goose bumps as I write. Put out in a masterful reissue by Aztec. Oddly enough, the balls to the wall, Stonesy guitar riffing sounds perfectly obvious; at the time it sounded like rock 'n' roll cataclysm to me, such an invigorating blast was it. Still sounds awesome, though - simply a brilliant rock 'n' roll album. Chris Marshall's singing bears comparison with the likes of Tim/Jeff Buckley - any tendancy to the pretentious is swept aside by sheer bravado and passion. The arrival of harp man Chris Wilson, drummer Peter Jones and guitarist Barry Palmer - all future fixtures, along with the other guitar man, Charlie Marshall, on the Australian scene in years to come - lifted a workmanlike Melbourne blues/rock outfit into the stratosphere.
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    It's my wedding anniversary on February 9th: Dinner at "Silks" followed by "An Evening With Burt Bacharach" at the Melbourne Concert Hall. So....I should be good for a leave pass on Sunday. See you all then!
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    I got me three new Sun Ra CDs ...
    ... during my lunch break. Which all reminded me of another Melbourne gig/band/aggregation that I was very Grateful to catch - at the 2000 Melbourne Jazz Festival: SPACE IS THE PLACE (A Tribute To Sun Ra) Successfully paying tribute to an enigmatic cult figure such as Sun Ra was seemingly littered with obstacles that could have produced a display of pretentiousness. Such fears were spectacularly, explosively rendered an instant non-issue by an expanded version of local outfit Bucketrider, performing as the Molecular Omniverse Chaos Myth Arkestra. The more exotic and ritual trappings of Sun Ra's art -- the costumes, the chanting -- seemed perfect foils for the music, which was was performed at suitably intoxicating high volume and with mind-shredding goosebump intensity. Six horns, including a rare stanza of duelling bass saxophones, two drummers, funky acoustic bass, jagged guitar, keyboards, percussion and vocals rocked the house. This was jazz that simultaneously evoked the ensemble cacophony of the music's earliest days and the electronica of the present and the future. This show, the festival high point, deserves much wider exposure.
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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 06:23

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I hit 99.9 bay fm and the end of Lovelight 8/4/71 comes on. My mind is blown. I love simpleradio. Wow, the ice creme kid. Kick ass!!
10pm - Midnight there in Australia; 0600 - 0800 Mountain Standard Time here. As an early Byrd I can handle it.

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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 07:34

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99.9 The Bay fm in Australia rocks out! Contemporary and Aboriginal music, plus a kick ass Grateful Dead show. What’s not to love.
“Listen to the River” looks great. 1971 is possibly my favorite year . Will have to wait for my old fart social security check in a couple weeks to order. Beans & rice , rice & beans, and a victory garden. Apricot trees (in town) , pick, dry and store.
Several weeks w/o ganga. I think the THC is still kicking in from what little fatty tissue i have on me and from all the smoked phatties from all the years combined.
Phatty Patrol wasn’t just the destination, it was the journey & adventure.

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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Thu, 07/29/2021 - 06:55

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Champagne lifestyle on a near beer budget. Mesquite beans are almost ready also. Wild fruit trees. Bulk food order. Walk as much as I can. Keep from driving as many days in a row as possible.
Baby boomer retirement.
Enjoying the Australian based Grateful Dead radio show, Long Strange Trip. (Bay FM 99.9 Byron Bay) Contrary to some folks notions, radio is not dead. Streaming stations from around the world is an amazing way to get a glimpse, feeling, idea of what’s goin’ on. I really dig stations from Peru,Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Jamaica, Canada (Nunavut) and down under. Add in Tribal radio stations from around the U.S. As i live off the grid in the “outback” of the great Southwest this keeps me tuned in.

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Submitted by Ice Creme Kid on Fri, 06/02/2023 - 19:04

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Hey now everyone
A Long Strange Trip is going strong Thursday Nights at 10pm 99.9 BayFM or anytime online, just Search Bay FM Byron and click on the program guide.

2 FB groups I admin are
Deadheads Down Under & A Long Strange Trip
Please sign up to them.

Here is a list of recent interviews & guests we've shared with over the airwaves

Previous Guests Include:
Harry Angus (The Encyclopedia Of Jerry Garcia Music Venues)
David Frieberg
Dogs In A Pile
Liz Field ( Cornell Chimes)
Nathaniel Rateliffe
LPGiobbi
Pete Pen (Alligators)
Toni Brown
Dennis McNally
Jay Blakesberg
Lonnie Frazier (Box Of Rain Film)
Dean Budnick
Strider Brown
Denise Parent (Brown Eyed Women)
Gil Man (Might As Well Archive)
Sandy Troy
Catherine Hayes (Publisher of "The Untold Story Of Christine Bott")
Ross James
Mark A Rodriguez (Author of "After All Is Said & Done")
Ben Chakravorty (Jerry Day Australia/Shakedown Prophets Australia GD Cover Band)
Blake Savannah (Deadnecks Melb. Australia GD Cover Band)
Annabelle & Adam deadheaddressarchive
Peter Connors
Jesse Jarnow
Sam Cutler
Tony Masiello (Creator of MAJESTIC STAR)
Brenden (Latin Dead)
J.J. Grey