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All in on the sub for 2020, My years just seem to rip by waiting for those four picks each year!

you saw a ghost... or at least a creature with similar skin tone...

Never seen a ghost but I think I saw an alien. I was camping near Pueblo, CO in the very early 1990s and I'm sure I was wasted although I don't remember exactly on what... I walked away from my girlfriend at the time, and the fire, to take a leak. Walked over behind a ridgeline/pile of rocks, and just as I was finished I saw a figure, silhouetted against the night sky, about 30' away from me. It was too thin, too angular and oddly shaped to be a person but it was humanoid shaped. For a split second I contemplated contact, and then a massive wave of fright hit me and I turned and ran back to the fire like a terrified child. I still don't know what that was, but that's as close as I want to get.

Another time, my 1979 Ford Mustang basically blew up. As I was walking down the highway, a car stopped and picked me up. I wasn't hitchhiking, just walking, but the couple and the car looked normal enough so I got in. My exit was only a few miles up the highway. The last thing I remember is, the woman turning her head around to look at me, alone in the back seat.

I remember nothing, nothing after that. No conversation; not being dropped off, not walking home, though I woke there the next day. I have absolutely no idea what happened. Weird.

Very true! It's just that they are all so good, I want more! :)

Got my shipping notice, but the tracking number doesn't seem to work. My guess is a Monday or Tuesday delivery. Happy almost Friday, everyone!

Peace

In 1978, when I was a moon eyed 21 year old, I went the Glastonbury Festival-that year completely free and visited by about 500 people. I was sleeping in a child's tent with one of my friends, in clear sight of Glastonbury Tor. Sometime in the early hours of the morning I woke up to discover that I was no longer in the tent I had gone to sleep in. I seemed to be in the centre of a much larger tent, and I was surrounded by what looked like medieval warriors who had large dogs with them. Both dogs and men had glittering, spectral eyes. There was a leader of this group, and he also had spectral eyes. I can't remember what happened next.

About 12 years later, I was reading a book on Glastonbury myths, and came across this:

"The Fairy King, Gwynn ap Nudd, Lord of Annwn and sometime leader of the Wild Hunt, a cosmic manifestation that is universal throughout European mythology was a localised Tor spirit. He was said to have a palace on the summit from where he rode out with magic dogs and spectral warriors on his regular collection of souls."

I didn't know this story in 1978, when I was in Glastonbury.

I always used to roll my eyes at ghost stories, that is, until it happened to me….. My wife and I were hiking the Great Smoky Mountains on a steep trail in muggy, 80 degree weather and after being easily a long ways from any parking lot, we came to a split atop an upper level ridge and decided to take a breather. Three older men then came around on the opposite trail. They appeared to be in their late 50s, with longish white hair and beards, wearing well-worn overalls, faded flannels, thick leather boots, and not one single bead of sweat on any of them. If anything, their complexions looked slightly frigerated. They also happened to be without backpacks, maps, water bottles…. no hiking gear of any kind, or any sign of 21st century life. Two held back as one approached, inquiring in a methodical, low volume manner as to where the nearest trailhead could be found. It was completely nonthreatening though-- his mannerisms and pallid visage were more from a tone of being lost and slightly confused, and as if they had gotten used to walking for a very, very, long, long, long time. We explained the route we took, to which he responded only with a slow up-n-down nod and while maintaining the same eternal stare he had when we first saw him (the two in the back continued to do nothing but stand around in some sort of unguided patience). Off they then went and it took us both a few minutes to finally open up about what we had just witnessed. We were tempted to start walking after them, but were too afraid of what we might see, or not see……

while driving from work in Deland Fla I was passing thru Cassadaga, which is known in Florida as a hang out for psychics and believers in the other world. As I was passing thru at just about dusk a typical Florida shower started up, so I turned on my wipers to see. As I was driving up and down the hilly townscape, my wipers all of a sudden stopped working, it was raining pretty hard by now and I was freaking, thinking that they had broke or came unhinged. I rolled down my window to see and just then they suddenly came back on, then went off, then back on, This happened about a half a dozen times. I was thinking by now, must be a short or something. I was leaving Cassadaga and as I drove out of town just past the town marker, my wipers again malfunctioned in the same manner, but this time much faster, like full speed, then off, then back on. As soon as I was out of town, all was normal. Never before or since had the wipers done such a thing. The last house in town was a well know psychic and on her marquee outside it said "have you checked your wipers lately?" Believe it or not.

Hi,

I would like to request that the Dave's Picks series (and every other GD release) incorporate Jamie Howarth's Plangent Process. It is sonic magic, and the music deserves this extra investment. I'd gladly pay a higher subscription fee knowing that the tapes will be restored to their peak levels. Lots of folks have access to virtually the entire collection of lovingly recorded shows, many already of a really high sound quality. Rhino has the ability to put out a superior product, please honor the music by spending the extra money to Plangent Process the tapes.

Just in case anyone else missed it, (maybe I'm just an idiot), but pre order for the 45 series has started for 2020. I like these stupid things, worth the 45 bucks a year for them in my book. Yes 10 bucks is a lot for a 45, but hell my wife is rich!

Also too, there is a book/album coming out in April you can preorder now. The LP is part of a 68 fillmore show. The book is some coffee table book. It's a comic book,,, sorry graphic novel. I got just because! This will add to the comic book collection and as stated my wife is rich.

Latest Dylan should be here tomorrow (cd and vinyl),,,, looks like Dap won't make the box until Monday. My Nat King Cole collection has shipped and is on the way. (looking forward to the nat collection)

AND.... 30 days of dead start tomorrow!!