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    So, we've all had some great conversations interrupted by that misbehaving chatroom lately. Mr. Pid wrote a great song on the subject...

    Feel free to pick them up again here. Or report your more surreal episodes of being booted for misbehaving. 

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  • marye
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    all the excitement last night
    seems to have been too much for the chat room, which is currently MIA. I've got a note in to the tech folks. Thank you!
  • GratefulJewels
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    Where are the Florida DeahHeads? :) You know the saying "Maybe it was the roses"?
  • geomeister
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    Beta be betta
    yabba dabba dooo
  • marye
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    now in progress!
    the shakedown cruise/beta test of our new improved chat room. We're hoping it proves a bit more stable than the old one. Check it out and let us know how it's working for you. Thanks!
  • geomeister
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    Chilly Willy wasn't chilly, rilly
    Hey oh fine Ant- I take your chat and comment shenanigans with all good grace, well-being and twinkle of spirit, as I'm sure that's how you mean it. Perhaps I can match my mundane-ness and willy-nilly-but-never-chilly posting with yours...we will see, as we continue "...going down the road feeling baaaaddddd" (which is good). Tis a grateful day...be well...till later...gotta mine salt all day. G
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    How can i chill with these awesome stories! I am sorry. I type a character that is more colorful then he actually is) I love your stories, they are appreciated, as is your advice, tempo and beat. I promise I am calm/chill and relaxed as can be. I like to create an air of situation in words to break some of the mundane minutes of my day tis all. I take advantage of this internet and sometimes fill it with challenging/immature material, on purpose, but not with the intent to elicit anything negative. Though I could see how that could be. Chill I shall, as i patiently await the next chapter with baited text)
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    The Story continues, as chapter 1, etc...
    First off, Deadant, take a chill-pill, as I've got a few months to hammer away and tell you the story you so eloquently requested a few days ago(before the Seahawks crashed and burned in that wee little football game on Sunday); And Marye, thanks for putting up this pseudo-use-when-necessary-because-the-chat-line-crashes area...cause I think it might be a politically correct place to tell this story; I was bonafidely (new word, Deadant) starting to tell this story when the chat crashed twice...so if the story police are monitoring this bit of cyberspace, it is legal, necessary, and altogether appropriate to continue it here. DeadGeek said the chat crashes if you type too fast, or walk and chew gum at the same time, or whistle Dixie in Boston... PS, Any of you other Deadheads reading this story, start at the bottom where Deadant whines and work yourself up, or go take out the recycling or build a house of cards, cause this old deadhead might ramble on, just like the rose Jerry sang about. ....our story continues...25,000 deadheads roll into town, and where can they stay on this dusty mountainside...onsite, of course, but where does the band stay? In the Motel 6 at the corner? No, I think not...for they are Rock Stars! They gotta be cooler than that. How about a wilderness resort, run by hippies who stepped back in time back in the early early 70's and bought a bunch of land way out in the middle of no-where...Sure, that's the ticket. And the roads are winding dirt bumpy narrow and almost non-existent, so you can kiss the limousines goodby, as a long bed pick-up couldn't traverse those roads. I know, Jim said, let's helicopter them in and have them land over there, next to our tomato garden and corn-field. It'll be cool! And that, my friends is the beginning of how the Grateful Dead hooked up with some long time, laid back hippies, not ne'er-do-wells, but certainly some were nefarious but still kind folks, and started a catering company out of a couple of pot and pans with two or three world-class chefs who had found out about the mountain hide-away, took said catering company on the road with a bunch of dead-heads and hangers-on, and built a small but casual and friendly empire, called Avery Ranch catering, and catered to the good old Grateful Ded as their personal chefs for the next five plus years... Who is Jim you might ask, and what was Avery Ranch, and did they/we/I have fun, did the bus run well? Did Bobby really want 6 bottles of Montrachet' Chardonnay,1989, no other year, no other brand, did Jerry like hot-dogs, who wanted the Apple Pie the most? What about the mountain of M & Ms? And Nilla-Vanilla wafer at 2 AM, are you kidding me? Those stories may or not be told as others remember them, but for me, I gladly hopped on that bus and rode, drove, pushed, sang and danced my way along that ride for a good five years, and I'll share some of those with you if that's alright, just to pass some time while we wait for tickets....more later, ok? Peace...G
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    *pets his three-legged frog* more story more story waaaaa
  • geomeister
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    The Story, call it Chapter 1, or whatever...
    So Bill Graham booked the fairgrounds to have a massive Grateful Dead concert, right in my backyard...as I lived in Columbia, which was right across the Stansilaus River (which is now a reservoir-waahhh), a stones throw from Angels Camp. We all used to raft that river back in the day, and it was majestic. Friends of the River was founded to save that river, btw, which ultimately failed, not for lack of trying tho. FOTR did end up saving the Tuolumne River and making it wild and scenic, and that's a good thing. The GD may have thrown some money at FOTR through their Rex Foundation...but this story is not about the river, or our environmental fight in the 70's to save it... So roll back the clock to 1987, summer, August, about a hundred degrees in the shade, with 25,000 hippies rolling in to this paranoid town (Angels Camp) to celebrate the last blast of partying before school started, etc...August 22, 23, the end of the west coast summer tour, but the start of our journey... Deadant, you still with us?
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    okay, where were we...oh yes, in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, in the County of Calaveras, a quaint small town called Angels Camp, population around 5000 or so, at at the Frogtown Fairground that Mark Twain wrote about in his book, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" By the way, the Hells Angels, long before Altamont, way back in 1957, roared in to that small town and took it over, and scared the bejeebus out of everyone, and effectively shut down the downtown for around 20 years every year,the weekend the Frog Jump took place...but I digress, because this story is not about Frogs, or Hells Angels, it's about the Grateful Dead and a small but pretty cool chapter in their touring lives...one which I was so very fortunate to be a part of...
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So, we've all had some great conversations interrupted by that misbehaving chatroom lately. Mr. Pid wrote a great song on the subject...

Feel free to pick them up again here. Or report your more surreal episodes of being booted for misbehaving. 

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We have a chat room? It seems to be down for maintenance every time I go there. Oh well I'll chat here. Looks like Gigi had a grate day selling her old wares. I'm never that lucky. My junk usually is junk. Have a grate day everyone gotta go, my boy is waking up!!!
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was the creation of a Grateful Dead ARchive based on all the stuff Eileen Law saved over the years, at UC Santa Cruz. With regard to the chat room on the test site, I can't even get into the test site at the moment, so I suspect people are working on stuff behind the scenes, but I've emailed Jonathan to see what's up. I am hoping we'll have it up and running (properly!) over here real soon now.
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I can't get in the test chatroom either....I can't wait until the new and improved chatroom is up and working!!
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for the update Mary. take care, Ami
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How was the show??
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beautiful warm(but not too warm)day, got in about 3:30, tye-dye and stealie shirts everywhere, found spot close to stage to call home. ran into old friend who had actually turned me on to the mule years ago, this was gonna be fun, in time for set chage to "grace potter and the nocturnals",ate some cheerios, That girl can sing and jam, drummer was actually jumping off his seat, good set,stomach growls,ate some morecheerios next up "robert randolth and the family band" sunset was glorious, mountains awash inwaves of purple and grays,finishedcheerios, people cani hear usay yeah! YEAH! like a revival so good,can't wipesmileoffn'feetandarmswon'tstopmoving, now the mule, just WOW! those boys were smokin, half wat thru set grace came out and sang "take me to the river" oh wash me down inlightcolorsandsound, ahhh gettin chilly in desert nite air, closed show with "soulshine"and robert randolth joined in on that, hell everyone joined in on that, good time was had by all. so yea IKUR the show was ok:)))
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Wasn't there a chat room at one time? Must be having a flashback, er flashbulb...that's it, flashbulb! I didn't say that, honest :)
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i also remember something like that, but that could just be the price we pay, volunteering for unknown substancial conversations that took place in an empty space of time filled with thoughts seeking fingers to speak words so eyes can hear.ow that hurt!:)
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I haven't been able to get on the test site for two days. I suspect others are having a similar experience. I don't know what's up but I've reported this to Jonathan.
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I have been able to get on the test site ,, however just momentarally..and with great time lags .. so i did`nt stay ,,... : ( nice to know it`s being worked on though,,.... sometimes internet will not rvrn open it ,,.. it`s all good ,,..someones working on it ,,.
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i cannot even get to the test-chat,and if after eternal waiting it open up its doors,than it works veery sloooow:-)(-:
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is the test over? will we be graded? if so, will it be on a curve?all seriousness aside,is the ahhh reverse that,is the test phase over?? my grade for the test site; seems to play well with others, no signs of misbehavior, no noticeable lag time except thought2keystroke, participation while sparse at times(mr. pid is away),was great fun once 4-5 others got on, it will be crazy with more folks post rerelease. shhh,wait, did u haer what i just heard, there seems 2b a beat now
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is the test over? will we be graded? if so, will it be on a curve?all seriousness aside,is the ahhh reverse that,is the test phase over?? my grade for the test site; seems to play well with others, no signs of misbehavior, no noticeable lag time except thought2keystroke, participation while sparse at times(mr. pid is away),was great fun once 4-5 others got on, it will be crazy with more folks post rerelease. shhh,wait, did u haer what i just heard, there seems 2b a beat now
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One of the things I was testing by being perpetually logged in, even though I was often away, was to insure that I was advised if the boot monster came swarming out of the jungle. Booting always affected all users, so if it happened, it would happen to me too. The good news, of course, is that it didn't happen the entire time the site was up. Obviously there were some changes applied to that environment recently that have caused some other issues, but those issues appear to be affecting that entire site, not just the chat implementation. By and large, I think that most of the chat issues have been remedied, and I'm looking forward to seeing it redeployed here. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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as of about five minutes ago, 5:05pm et 4/29, the chat room was working, so if you feel brave...
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the chat room on the test site. The one here is still on hiatus.

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... in this topic! Thank you dead.net, I'm honored, and I will keep on working to maintain this level of "Deadication"
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and in your honor i will follow suit! thx 4 being so diligent.
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just testing to see if this now works Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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It appears we have a ghost (ghosts) back in the "ex"perimental prototype new, improved chat room. Folks who are in the chat room see their names appearing more than once. It's no big deal to me...in real life I find I'm beside myself often too. Just thought I'd bring it to the attention of whomever this may concern (or not concern, as the case may be).
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I'll pass this along. Lemme know if this persists or it seems to be a temporary glitch.
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heavens to mergatrode(?ask snaggle tooth), whats become of the chat, heck it's been 3 days since the last post here(still celebrating hittin' the 420 post:), and no one home back in test site??? Did the release hit a snag, i thought i heard (read) the chatroom was going to open back up to the masses last week?
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over the past couple of days I have logged on to chat, but no one's home. I think a lot of folks are ready for it to come back to dead.net.
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Heading out tonight to see Splintered Sunlight,an excellent GD cover band , never been to this venue and I'm looking forward to checking it out! Should be sweet!
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that rain shouldn't bother a lucky duck, but i hope it clears up for your show, sounds like a good time, i see the girls had fun on prom nite, cool. sounds like they too should have a blast this weekend, tellem that the cops don't need them and they xpect the same. maybe u can use this; (trouble u got in@18yrs x.33 - 2.5yrs = what your kids are doing now) this is my formula i came up with comparing me to me jr.. scary, huh! and how about that vp of yours, bad person talk about higher education! i just got news WSP will be in Flagstaff @end of june:) 2hrs north in the cool pines, must start finagling now:) have a GRATE nite, gratefulmom. peace tc
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I asume no start yet? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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I asume no start yet M? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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u mised an "s", but looks to be a good assumption
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I like your new avatar sweet :) It's your kind coffee table You are listening to some grate jams today I love Rickie Lee Jones too!
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this is a great show - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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still not running then looking forward to it coming back i promise not to misbehave much Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Sometimes I feel so uninspiredSometimes I feel like giving up Sometimes I feel so very tired Sometimes I feel like I've had enough tire tracks all across my back looks like u had your fun
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Darlin Can't you see My signals turned From green to red ? And with you I Can see a Traffice Jam Straight up ahead.....
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but more the way i'm feeling,wish i had some trafficn'jimi here @ work, i cleared my drive for more dead:) ain't got half of what i thought i had peace
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Crosstown Traffic So hard to get through to You - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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so they sayIs the root of all evil today But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise That they're Giving none away today Roger Waters 73 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Money, it's a crime Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie..... I know there are those who don't care for Floyd with Waters, too bad ~ your missing out. He He PEACE RIP Syd
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Get a good job with good pay and youre okay.
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would trouble me less if he hadn't so obviously become everything he once lampooned. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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> Bob joined Phil and his band last night to play the Dead's first two> albums in full. This was the first of a multi-night run at the > Warfield. Is the discography performance going to continue??? Gotta > get a listen to this show quick. > > "http://www.ibabuzz.com/concerts/2008/05/14/phil-lesh-setlist-and-review/" > > Warfield Theatre, Tuesday, May 12, 2008: > > Wow, what a treat for Deadheads. If you missed the first night of Phil > and Friends' five-night stand at the Warfield, then you really missed > something special. I highly recommend that you try to catch one of the > four remaining shows. Visit www.livenation.com for more details. > > OK, here's the deal. The bassist's band (featuring lead guitarist > Larry Campbell, drummer John Molo, > guitarist-vocalist-multi-instrumentalist Jackie Greene and keyboardist > Steve Molitz - plus special guest, vocalist-guitarist Bob Weir) > performed the Dead's first album (1967's "The Grateful Dead"), from > start to finish, during the first set. Here's the setlist for that set: > > "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" > "Beat It on Down the Line" > "Good Morning Little School Girl" > "Cold Rain and Snow" > "Sitting on Top of the World" > "Cream Puff War" > "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" > "New, New Minglewood Blues" > "Viola Lee Blues" > > Then the group returned and performed the Dead's second album (1968's > "Anthem of the Sun") for the second set. That means these songs: > > That's It for the Other One" > "Cryptical Envelopment" > "Quodlibet for Tenderfeet" > "The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get" > "We Leave the Castle" > "New Potato Caboose" > "Born Cross-Eyed" > "Alligator" > "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > > (The encore, by the way, was "Not Fade Away.") > > So, if Phil stays the course, this could mean that the band will be > performing one Dead album per set for the rest of the run (with the > third album, "Aoxomoxoa," coming in the first set of Wednesday's show > and so forth). That also means that an already hot ticket will get > even hotter. Is there a Deadhead in NorCal who wants to miss a > complete performance of "Workingman's Dead" or "American Beauty"? And > what if Phil decides to include the live albums into the mix? Wouldn't > that be rad to hear "Live/Dead" at the Warfield? > > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll be back to the Warfield for > any of the rest of Phil's run. Thus, I'd really appreciate if someone > would post the setlists of the shows on this blog. Thanks in advance. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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watching archive.org patiently, it will come soon, meanwhile i'll download the filmore shows, ahh 5-8 just finished and down comes 5-9. hmmm no post from bob 5-11or5-12, were you there,bob? thats a spanish jam!
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They didn't play 11th and unfortunately i wasn't there i have the Fillmore shows, and they are on there way to St louis with the winwood vine Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam