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And on topic --Aerosmith's album "Rocks" puts me back at the beach for a whole summer when I was 16.

though this didn't happen by flashback, i will always look back on this moment.. i was driving down the interstate, on my way to work... it was fall time.. and i was listening to the GD play 'Doing that Rag' ... and as i was driving...at the very moment Jerry was singing the verse, 'All the Winter Birds are Winging home now' - there was a long line of birds, flocked together, migrating south for the winter. Once in awhile you get shown the light!

classic! I've always kinda scratched my head at "Baba" being coopted as a TV crime drama theme song. Teenage wasteland?

Sitting around my buddy's dorm room in the middle of the afternoon, door sealed against smoke leakage, shades drawn, lights out, blacklight on. My friend cranked the Who, and we were all having a fine time, or so I thought. Just as "Teenage wasteland/They're all WASTED!" blew through the speakers, my buddy's girlfriend jumped from her seat and kind of whipped her gaze around the room at all of us and yelled, "Isn't it the TRUTH!" And ran out of the room. She broke the door seal in the process, and briefly flooded us with light from the hall. We first recoiled from the light like vampires caught by sunshine, then rushed to reseal the door. My friend got up and moved the tone arm back to the beginning of the song...and gave the volume knob an additional twist to the right. I've thought of Baba O'Riley as a breakup song ever since.

...later in 94-95 became Jerry's good-bys to us all. I'm glad I wasn't there to see it even if every junkie's lie a setting sun -- beautiful before it fades to darkness.

Back on the summer`94 eastcoast opener,at Highgate,VT,Jerry,methodically played,a beautiful SOTM.It definetly wasn`t the best rendition I had heard,but there was a moment,at which Jerry lifted his head from the stage floor,where he had been focused on for much of that evening.He peered from over his wire rimmed glasses out into the vast crowd,who was staring back with great intensity.As he sung,"..a lovely view heaven,but I`d rather be with you!"At that same time,his eyes seemed to encompass the world around me and he was,at that time,looking right at me!!!He was grinning from ear to ear and an overwhelming feeling of absolute happiness and satisfaction entranced my body and tears of joy flooded my cheeks.....So for me,"Standing On The Moon,"will always take me back to much happier times, when things were much less stressed,as they are now!It will always remind me of the time when Jerry and The Grateful Dead fully took over my emotional self and made me who I am today.