Showing posts with label Garcia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garcia. Show all posts

One thing I really Liked about Jerry Garcia's Playing was the Use of an Envelope Filter Pedal. That's an Automatic Wah-Wah with the Center point of the Band Pass Filter set by the Volume. Louder=Higher. SO, it's like playing thru a Wah-Wah with Magic Feet...

I can't think of anyone else that uses an envelope filter on a Guitar. Many Bass Guitar Players use one for Funk Music. It makes the Bass Go Quack. 

I certainly did not use one with my own Electric Guitar. My Favorite was two Phase Shifters in Series followed by two Digital Echo Boxes in Series... This required that I sit down while playing because I had my feet on the two Morley Phase Shifters. Swinging the footpedals back and forth to give an unpredictable phase shift angle... Normally people use ONE Phase Shifter and it makes the sound go UP and then DOWN and then Back UP again and again and again... YES, it does make the guitar sound EPIC but TWO in series... was my thing... and all that echo allowed for dozens of repetitions on every note... and I often used my Pinkie to Rotate the Volume Knob on the Guitar to Swell the Sound... Like a Delayed Attack on a Synthesizer... 

A trick I invented was to drill a hole into the plastic time knob and insert a long screw... that way I was able to move the length of time in the echo box with my foot... One of the other guys in the band satirized me  about using two Phase Shifters saying: "What are You Doing, Playing Guitar or Driving a Truck?" Often in our Jam Sessions I would be playing One note at a time to DANCE BACKWARDS while the Main Guy played improvisational Synthesizer Jazz... He never told us what key he was paying in... but would just make interesting Noises and I would just do something that was appropriate... and if I played something that sounded horrible because it was in a different key, I would pretend that it was a GRACE NOTE and move my fingers to something More Consonant... Hey, that worked... and I usually did not play the discordant note again... Often I would use a Slide and Pluck a string and move the slide to a pretty sounding note... 


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I Like Watching Travel Shows on TV. That way, I get to see places without experiencing the Bugs or Heat or Dangerous Natives. For Example: I saw a Long Program about Visiting North Korea hosted by Michael Palen of Monty Python Fame. Never in a Million Years would I go to North Korea... or the Yucatan Peninsula or to the Bottom of the Ocean but... all of those places are available in the Comfort of my Air Conditioned Home... I often am on the Internet Writing Words or Drawing Pictures while looking at the Erupting Volcano or Whatever... 

It's especially fun to watch the NEWS while typing... One trick I have mastered is turning the volume OFF whenever Trump Speaks. Later on the Talking Heads will tell me what he said... and report LIES... There is NO NEED to Have Trump Actually Pour Poison Into My Ears... 


I always turn off the sound during Commercials. It's actually fun to try and guess what the product is or what it does... Obviously, they Cause Ecstatic Dancing but... I am often Uninformed as to the Disease the Drugs are Prescribed FOR. Take the Drug HUMIRA... That one Evidently Cures Nausea for the Lead Singer in a Grateful Dead Cover Band... I Guess... at least the Guitar Player is Playing a Jerry Type Guitar... and so we return to Jerry Garcia... 


Great TV Concert - Jerry Garcia Symphonic - Warren Haynes and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Red Rocks - PLUS - Original Psychedelic Artwork For Sale Painted onto COFFEE CUPS from my Zazzle Webstore...

AXSTV plays Three Dead Concerts but NEVER "The Grateful Dead Movie" (The one with the Animation at The Beginning) - They Play "Festival Express" and "Dear Jerry" (many Excellent People play Dead songs at Meriweather Post Pavilion) and Symphonic Red Rocks Only...

I guess they Have not Paid the Corporation for Broadcast Rights... I wish they Would...

I have a Fondness for "The Grateful Dead Movie" because I was there... On the night they Played Truckin'... They Did a Rousing Rendition... The played thru the Wall of Sound at Winterland in San Francisco and It Worked! Unlike the University of Reno Concert where the Tweeter Speakers in Wall Blew Up and they had to cut the Concert Short... But we all had a Great time in Reno after the Show... 


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Original ART for Sale!
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Rainbow Colored Peace Sign 15 OZ Coffee Cup for sale:

One Mile Recreation Area in Chico, CA Two-Tone Coffee Mug... For Sale... 

 I walked out to the center of the SYCAMORE POOL and took two photographs... one looking Upstream and another looking Downstream... These photographs were selected by UC Berkeley as and example of the WPA Construction during the 1930s...
One Mile Recreation Area in Chico CA Two-Tone Coffee Mug
One Mile Recreation Area in Chico CA Two-Tone Coffee Mug
by gregvan

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics 15 OZ Coffee Cup
Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics Two-Tone Coffee Mug
Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics Two-Tone Coffee Mug
by gregvan

American Indian Coloring Book Art 
Two-Tone 15 OZ Coffee Mug
Line drawing of a Man with Stars in his Eyes 
wearing a Headdress... on a swirly background...
American Indian Coloring Book Art Two-Tone Coffee Mug
American Indian Coloring Book Art Two-Tone Coffee Mug
by gregvan


Diamonds and Rainbows Two-Tone 15 OZ Coffee Mug.
The background was designed by a Javascript Program that Calculates the Color of squares in a HTML Table...and a Diamond made out of Circular Rainbows...
Diamonds and Rainbows Two-Tone Coffee Mug
Diamonds and Rainbows Two-Tone Coffee Mug
by gregvan


Rainbow Spiral Pyramid Two-Tone Coffee Mug
Both a Digital Tie Dye image- mirrored and Power Beams coming out of Magic Pyramids - the Mirrored script letters say: Rainbow Spiral
Rainbow Spiral Pyramid Two-Tone Coffee Mug
Rainbow Spiral Pyramid Two-Tone Coffee Mug
by gregvan

Flying Saucer over The Rugged North Coast Two-Tone 15 OZ Coffee Mug
Photo of Trinidad (near Eureka, California) and a Drawing of a Friendly Alien waving at YOU from inside his Flying Saucer... Silly Black and White Line Drawing...

Who Really Said: "I KNEW there was something they weren't teaching us in school" Supposedly a Jerry Garcia Quote about his first LSD Experience?

At the end of the movie "Orange Sunshine" there was a lot of interviews with the members of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love...

One man made that statement... I can't find any verification on the internet using Google Search... Maybe it was said by someone else... It's possible that the man interviewed was simply confused about history...

http://www.orangesunshinemovie.com/

https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/q-a-with-jerry-garcia-portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-tripper

For me it was a profoundly life changing experience. It has a lot to do with where I am now and why I’m here and why I do what I do and it all fits in and it was all happening as I was making the decisions to become who I am, you know what I mean? So it all steered me directly into this place. - Quote from Jerry Garcia


The last thing I want to ask you about, this is sort of an odd question but it’s a simple one: Why are you giving me this interview?
I want to be able to say to people in this time, with the big “Just Say No” where everybody is so roundly against drugs, that, hey, not all drug experiences are negative. I would like for that minority voice to be heard. Some drug experiences are quite positive and can be life-enhancing and can be pleasant and can be not dangerous and don’t necessarily promote criminal activity.
One of the quotes that I read was that you realized there was more than we’d been allowed to believe.
Yeah.
Who allows us?
That’s what I wonder. Who is the guy, where does it say, even in the ten commandments, “Thou shalt not get high. Thou shalt not change your consciousness” ? Who says? The way I understood it, it was helpful to change your consciousness sometimes.


Read more: https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/q-a-with-jerry-garcia-portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-tripper#ixzz58QzrA276

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"The Forest is For Rest" A jpg Vision of the Trinidad Rest Stop on Highway 101 in California

Rest Stop just north of Trinidad, California where the Ewoks Live...
Photo taken on the way to Brookings to buy the legal marijuana in Oregon...

Pen Drawing photographed and
twisted in Potatoshop

A Scarab-a Magic beetle from ancient Egypt

Mushroom Visions of the Pyramids

The Forest near my Home -
Done in Magic Vision



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