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What Do These People Have In Common? The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, The Doors, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Queen, Sting, Bono, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, The Turtles, The Animals, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Herman's Hermits, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkle, Elvis Presley, Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, King Crimson, Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees...

Can You Spot the Trend? The Pattern? Similarity? The Who, The Moody Blues, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Canned Heat, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Procol Harum, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Cream, George Thorogood, The Tubes, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buddy Holly, Frank Zappa, The Band, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Hot Tuna, The Allman Brothers, Steve Miller, Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, ACDC, Aerosmith, Metallica, Alice Cooper, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Sopwith Camel, MC5, David Peel and the Lower East Side, Lou Reed, Todd Rungren, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynn, Alan Parsons, Tangerine Dream, Mark Knopfler,  Gregory Vanderlaan ...and the List Goes On and On and On... 

Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Greig, Mendelsohn, Handel, Wagner...

Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Mitch Miller, Lawrence Welk, Leonard Bernstein, John Philips Sousa... 

It's a Mysterious PUZZLE! Especially When You Stop to Consider Who is NOT on this List...

Chuck Berry, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dianna Ross, Stevie Nicks, Christie McVee, Ann & Nancy Wilson, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana...  


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They Are All White Men! 

Except for the Grateful Dead... Jerry Garcia is Half White/Half Hispanic but the Other Six People are White Men... WHITE MEN ROCK!

and The Jefferson Airplane was All White TOO... One White Woman and Many White Men... and Janis Joplin Fronted an All White Man Band Too... Heart Had Two Women and an All White Man Backup Band... Dang! Is There a Pattern?

new-pride-flag - European Americans Included


All of the People That Walked on the Moon Were White Men... Why Can't Minorities or Women Walk on the Moon? 

45 1/2 Presidents of the United States were White Men... Obama was Half White and Half Black... and as soon as His Father Donated Sperm He Ran Away to Africa... None of that Raising a Child for Him! And Obama was Raised by His White Mother and White Grandparents... All of That "Black Culture" was Totally Ignored... Obama was Raised in a Culture that Had a Lot of White People, Hawaiians, Japanese and Indonesians...

I Have Noticed that Racism Is Accurate... 

Not Polite, But Factual.

For Example: Ever Heard of These People? 

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniac, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, William Hewlett, David Packard, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Thomas Watson, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, William Shockley, Herman Hollerith, Alan Turing, John Von Neuman, Charles Babbage, Fibonacci, Nikola Tesla, Tim Burners Lee, Thomas Edison ...All White Men... and Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper ...White Women... 

If You Don't Recognize any of These Names... Just Google Them! and be Thankful that Great White Men Created Electricity, Computers and the Internet!

Top Ten Song List and a Quiz... My Favorites... Answers TOO!

1. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane... This is a hard choice because "Volunteers" is a fine song too, but I'll have to give that Wascally Wabbit her due... It was used in the book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson... The Lawyer, a Brain Full of LSD, a full bathtub and an AC electric appliance... were to 'become one' at the end of the song when Grace sings the words: "remember, what the dormouse said, _______ _______ ________."
QUIZ: what DID the dormouse say? We were supposed to remember... (answer at bottom of page).

2. "Climb every Mountain" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. sung by the nun in The Sound of Music... Inspirational, and she just NAILED that last note... I read that there are showings of an "audience participation" movie (like Rocky Horror) using the movie "Sound of Music".  People wear lederhosen, nun's habits and sing along with all the songs and make jokes about the dialog... I'd like to go to that!
QUIZ: What's her name?

3. "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin... a Tale of Vikings and Valhalla... Plus, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it... and the lyrics... Robert Plant sings "aaaaooooh"... I also like all those OTHER Led Zep songs... "Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir" it's hard to find a Zep song I don't like... A satire is on the internet called Viking Kittens.
QUIZ: what other Led Zep song uses this same exact lyric... "aaaaooooh"

4. "Ain't no 'cane in the Brazos, they turned it all into molasses"  written by Leadbelly, sung by Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Dawson (NRPS) and Bob Weir in the Festival Express Train movie... A true gem... relaxing on the Trans Canadian Railroad and singing to amuse themselves... I just put this on the list because of the casual, behind the scenes appeal of friends having fun together... the whole film is priceless...
QUIZ: The Festival Express Train went along the Trans Canadian Railway line. This Railroad was immortalized in what song by whom?

5. "Pocket Calculator" by KRAFTWERK... THE original techno beat song... imitated thousands of times by new wave bands, rap music artists, hip-hop, trance... rave... SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINES... changed the face of music forever.
QUIZ: What does the word KRAFTWERK mean in the German language ?

6. "Fixin’ to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish... In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is the best anti-war sing along song... call and response... "Gimme an 'F', Gimme a 'U', Gimme a 'C', Gimme a 'K'...
QUIZ: what's that spell?  Two versions... in the studio and live at Woodstock. Really!

7. Whatever BEATLE song is playing right now... When they are singing a song on the radio, that song becomes "the best Beatle song ever'... until they play another Beatle song and then THAT one is "the best Beatle song ever". If I was forced to choose... I'd have to say "Yellow Submarine" because I have played it in public and been surrounded by people singing the chorus... in Chico, CA...
QUIZ: Has there been a band that has had MORE biography and documentation than The Beatles ? It seems like everyone that ever met them wrote a book, made a movie (Bee-Gees), formed a tribute band (The Monkees, Rain, The Rutles), used their name as a theme for a circus act (Cirque de Soleil) or built a website...

8. "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie... Do you remember the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes... well, Arlo says that they were listening to Alice's Restaurant at the White House and Nixon got embarrassed about having a tape recording of them laughing and singing along with the chorus... so he had Rosemary Woods erase that part of the tape... Imagine Nixon, Liddy and Haldeman in three part harmony...
QUIZ: What can't you get at Alice's Restaurant ? What other song... uses the exact same chord progression ?

9. "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie... I've got to put him on the list because... a LOT of other people really learned from him... Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, me... His wife tells a story of a trip she took to China... The school children were taught ONLY ONE American song to perform for her organization. There are many verses that are not in the official version.  Here is a Secret Verse:
"As I went Walking, I saw a sign,
and on that sign said NO TRESPASSING
on the other side it said NOTHING AT ALL
this side was made for you and me"
QUIZ: "Bound for Glory" movie... No Quiz... Just Remember all those Great Songs... Including... The Grand Coulee Dam!

10. "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead... Winterland, 1974 during the filming of  "The Grateful Dead Movie"... I sure lucked out, they had a camera crew there to film my LSD trip...
QUIZ: How did Spinal Tap pay tribute to the Dead ?
 END OF TOP TEN LIST
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answers to quiz:
1. The dormouse said "feed your head" in the song... In the book by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" at the Mad Hatters Tea Party: `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'  This was part of a conversation about riddles. I have no idea WHY we are supposed to remember this... 

2. The Mother Abbess was played by Peggy Wood in the movie with Julie Andrews.

3. All Led Zeppelin songs contain the lyric "aaaaooooh" somewhere in them... Even the instrumentals... Sorry, trick question...

4. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as theme music for a CBC television show commemorating the l00th anniversary of the railroad...
The 'cain song is about Sugarcane farming in Texas. Prisoners were forced to work harvesting 'cane under slave like conditions. An astonishingly abusive system... The same county in Texas was the birthplace of Tom Delay, the disgraced House of Representatives leader... forced to resign due to being caught taking bribes.
LYRICS to the Leadbelly song...Ain't No More Cane
Ain’ no mo' cane on de Brazis
Oh...
Done groun' it all in molazzis,
Better git yo' overcoat ready,
Well, it's comin' up a norther.
Well, de captain standin' an' lookin' an' cryin',
Well, it's gittin' so col', my row's behin'.
Oh...
Cap'n doncha do me like you did po' Shine,
Drive dat bully till he went stone-blin'.
Oh...

5. KRAFTWERK means Electric power plant. The Simpsons Cartoon show had an episode (entitled KRAFTWERK) about a German corporation that wanted to buy the atomic power plant that Homer works at. When I watched the show, I was disappointed to find no techno-pop music... Just jokes about German Power Plants...
6. Gimme an 'F', Gimme an 'I', gimme an 'S', gimme an 'H'... what's that spell? FISH, what's that spell? FISH...of course, they spelled out the word "FISH" on the studio version... "FUCK" at Woodstock...

7. No... They still have the biggest fan club... however,
The Grateful Dead has had a huge quantity of biographies, documentaries, "from the Vault" record releases, wine label artwork by Garcia, neckties with artwork by Garcia and other "cash in on their fame" items. To top it all off... the court TV channel carried the proceedings from the trial contesting Jerry's WILL by most of his wives and a daughter... squabbling over the money... the only thing that has not been done is a Disney animatronics robot playing MIDI recordings of solos called "The amazing Mr. Jerry"... Like the Country Bear Jamboree...
ELVIS PRESLEY has also had a ridiculous amount of documentation and EBAY sales.

8.Alice. "You can get everything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, 'cepting Alice". The chord progression used in Alice's Restaurant also fits perfectly the Hot Tuna song "Keep on Truckin' MAMA, truck my blues away"... Maybe ALL blues songs use the same chords... These two sure do... I'm sure that musicians might disagree because they are in a different Key but they ARE very close.

9. No quiz. Just enjoy his legacy... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3Ekn_QO6o 

"Grand Coulee Dam" 1949 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Woody Guthrie


l0:  In the Movie Spinal Tap they had many exploding drummers... The Grateful Dead had many keyboard players. Ron McKernan (pigpen), Tom Constanten, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Wellnic and Bruce Hornsby... Ron, Keith, Vince and Brendt died young... RIP... Tom excused himself because the Dead were not weird enough for him... He is still alive and looks great with white hair... Vince Welnic came to the Dead from The Tubes and was the last of The Grateful Dead keyboard players... They still tour as "Dead & Company" and there are a random assortment of players including Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann... Phil Lesh Has His Own Band... 

Photo of The Grateful Dead in South San Francisco - In Front of Little Boxes Homes...
Five people held mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the faces of The Grateful Dead... Note the Shadows at their Feet... 
by Bob Seidemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seidemann 




Video: "The Other One" by The Grateful Dead. Cover singing and strumming my guitar : Gregory Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/xoczdLGqNwU

Classic rock song... frequently an 18 minute jam when played live... "the Bus Came by and I got on, that's when it all began. There was Cowboy Neil at the Wheel of a Bus to Never never Land..." a mention of Cassady the driver in "On the Road" a beatnik book and Kesey's Magic Bus, Furthur...


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During the Second Set It get's really interesting when they go into drums/space... I always felt that all performances of drums/space are interconnected thru an inter-dimensional time warp... that they were simply dipping a ladle into a larger than reality pool of rhythm...

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My Story: Art and Tales... original poetry inspired by shows at the Spectrum Arena and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

ceremony and ritual: a story...
OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING
COLONIAL ANIMAL...
FLOWING IN THE
CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC...
adrenaline, serotonin,synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.
THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,
FEEL THE HEAT...
adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL
REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION
AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND
I RICOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM
ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.
A CROWD OF DEADHEADS
SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES...
THEY JUST...know... THAT I WILL LAUGH...
adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

At the JFK Show I was sitting up high in the bleachers and noticed that the dancing people looked very similar to Sea Anemones. When the music got very exciting, they would throw their arms up in the air... I could see the music as it  flowed from the front to the back as people raised their arms when they heard it. Very similar to a Sea Anemone flowing in the currents of the ocean... We were flowing in the currents of the music... Read more at: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Trump cancels pay raises for federal employees. Republicans #Runaway... Candidates try to distance themselves from Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-cancels-federal-employee-pay-raises/index.html
President Donald Trump told lawmakers on Thursday he wants to scrap a pay raise for civilian federal workers, saying the nation's budget couldn't support it.

Since We Gave Away a Trillion Dollars a Year in The Tax Cut for the Rich Law, we can't afford to pay American Workers a Raise.  


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Great Book: "The Boy Who Cried FREEBIRD" by Mitch Myers. Science fiction tales based on classic rock.

Many very short tales... like: "Back to the Fillmore" in which a boy receives a time travel ticket as a birthday present and returns to a Grateful Dead concert only to be abducted by the leader of the Hell's Angels, Sonny Barger and taken to a party at a commune... and many many others...
http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061632747

http://www.amazon.com/The-Boy-Who-Cried-Freebird/dp/0061139025 

Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Song: Free bird

G    D             Em       
If I leave here tomorrow 
F         C              D     
Would you still remember me? 
G          D               Em       
For I must be travelling on, now, 
F                       C                  D         
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see. 
G         D                Em           
But, if I stayed here with you, girl, 
F           C               D       
Things just couldn't be the same. 
G             D            Em         
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now, 
F        C                D       
And this bird you can not change. 
F        C                D         
And this bird you can not change 
F        C                D         
And this bird you can not change 
F    C              D             
Lord knows, I can't change. 
 
G D Em F C D (2x)   
 
G    D                 Em                 
Bye, bye, its been a sweet love. 
F           C               D         
though this feeling I can't change. 
G                D            Em               
But please don't take it so badly, 
F           C            D        G   
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame. 
G         D                   Em           
But, if I stayed here with you girl, 
F           C               D           
Things just couldn't be the same. 
G            D              Em         
Cause I'm as free as a bird now, 
F        C                 D         
And this bird you can not change. 
F        C                D         
And this bird you can not change. 
F        C                 D         
And this bird you'll never change 
F    C              D         
Lord knows, I can't change. 
F    C                D           
Lord help me, I can't change. 
Bb           C           
Lord I can't change 
          G   Bb   C             
Won't you fly high free bird 
 

Top 10 Grateful Dead songs. My Opinion... What are YOUR favorites? - Enter Comments Below...

1. Sugar Magnolia
2. Truckin
3. Terrapin Station
4. The Other One/Cryptical Envelopment
5. Throwing Stones
6. Ripple
7. "Drums/Space"
8. One More Saturday Night
9. US Blues
10. Casey Jones
11. I Need a Miracle.

"These amps go up to 11." - Nigel Tufnel

This list was written in response to a list I found online at: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/grateful-dead-songs/

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