Video of The Grateful Dead New Years Eve 1978 - This is a TRULY EPIC Concert... Filmed by KQED TV for Broadcast to The People of The Bay Area... High Fidelity...

The Closing of Winterland (12/31/78)  It Started at Midnight With a New years Eve Celebration and Ends at 4 AM... Includes a Dark Star/The Other One/Dark Star... GEE, That’s Something You Don’t See Everyday... 

It’s Wonderful to see so many people that Have Passed On... Alive and Healthy... Bill Graham, Ken Kesey, John Belushi, Jerry Garcia, Keith the Piano Player... 

Jerry actually Jumps Up and Down during the Song Johnny B. Goode... 

For Some Unknown Reason The Video of New Years Eve 1978 is NO LONGER Available... It's Marked Private...

As An Alternative... Try This One...
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8rVM8GlD4c&t=220s 
During the Brent Era... Truckin' Up To Buffalo... 

This was During the Keith/Donna Era... So It Has Some Great Singing By Donna and Bob - Like Samson and Delilah... and The Rascals Song Good Lovin'  

The Drums/Space Section Has a Harmonica Player and Three Drummers... and Ken Babbs on Penny Whistle... Ken Kesey inside a Sculpture That Looks Like a Seashell Playing Bells... 

The Concert Starts With Balloons Dropping from the Ceiling Bouncing on the Dancers and the Song Sugar Magnolia... then they Play Scarlet Begonias, Fire on the Mountain, Me and My Uncle, Johnny Cash's Big River, Friend of the Devil, It's All Over Now, Stagger Lee and Then They Finish Sugar Magnolia by Playing the Sunshine Daydream CODA... 

The OTHER Bands on the Show Were The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Blues Brothers... They are not Included in this Video... But Dan Ackroyd Does Do the New Years Eve Countdown and The Announcement of the Giant Flying Joint Float that travels over the Crowd... 

I remember FM Radio Quadraphonic Broadcasts of the Grateful Dead New Years Eve Concert in 1976... I was lucky enough to Get in to the Cow Palace Show in 1975... Carlos Santana played Up Until Midnight... then Festivities/Celebration... The Dead Started Playing After Midnight...

They Broadcast the stereo Front-Left and Front-Right sound on ONE Radio Station... and they Broadcast the Rear Left and Right on a Different station... If you owned Two Stereo Radios you could listen to True Quadraphonic Sound at your Home... The Reason they did this was that Tickets for New Years Eve were very difficult to get and Many people could not get in... BUT... We had a wonderful time at Home with all our Friends...

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I'm a big fan of Lyricist John Perry Barlow... He wrote "Estimated Prophet", "Throwing Stones" and "I Need a Miracle" and others... Great Meaningful Songs that Make you Think...

He also helped found the EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation... an Internet Freedom of the Press Organization...

Here is a Newspaper Article about Him and Julian Assange... Founder of Wikileaks...
Julian Assange and John Perry Barlow in joint interview on NSA Prism leaks: "Snowden is a hero" https://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/julian-assange-and-john-perry.html

An Obituary...
Tech Utopianism And Our Walled Gardens: Is It Time For A Jailbreak? 

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/12/585110447/tech-utopianism-and-our-walled-gardens-is-it-time-for-a-jailbreak 

John Perry Barlow, who died last Wednesday at 70, was one of those unusual figures whose obituaries find no point of common agreement. An Internet evangelist who once wrote song lyrics for the Grateful Dead, Barlow was also a poet, activist, cattle rancher and corporate consultant, whose peripatetic career defied easy summarization. Billboard wrote about his music career; Wired about his Internet activism; Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune about his boyhood on the Bar Cross Ranch. Barlow, louche and charismatic, had an astonishing number of friends, and their testimonials suggest a man with a taste for the good life and a certain facility for bulls***. No one seemed certain of Barlow's place in history, or how to answer the tougher questions: Is Barlow's utopian futurism still relevant? Was his work as an activist defensible? Was his music any good? But as writers struggled with the complicated legacy of John Perry Barlow, most readers, I suspect, had a different question: Who? Don't worry: Unless you enjoy suing the government, or were in the tapers' pit at Fillmore in 1976, you are forgiven for not knowing who Barlow was. Born in Wyoming to a family of cattle ranchers, Barlow showed early promise as a writer, garnering a significant advance for his first novel shortly after graduating college. He never finished it, instead discovering LSD and living for a time on an Ashram. Although he retained, throughout his life, the laconic drawl of a cattle hand, Barlow's intellect and charisma permitted him access to an extraordinary range of acquaintances, including Bob Weir, the rhythm guitarist for the Grateful Dead. In the early '70s, when Weir was feuding with the Dead's primary lyricist Robert Hunter, Barlow was temporarily brought in to replace him.

A Review of his Top Ten Songs... 
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/08/john-perry-barlow-remembering-his-10-greatest-songs/ 

“Cassidy”: The Weir-Barlow duo was never better than on this memorable tune originally released on Weir’s first solo album, 1972’s “Ace,” and then on 1981’s “Reckoning,” 1990’s “Without a Net” and other Grateful Dead live efforts. The song was reportedly named after Cassidy Law, who was the daughter of legendary Grateful crew member Rex Jackson and Weir’s close friend Eileen Law. Also check out the great version Suzanne Vega does on the Dead tribute album “Deadicated.” 

 “Mexicali Blues”: It’s believed to be the first Weir-Barlow collaboration and it’s definitely a keeper — a rambling cowboy tune that owes a debt to Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (which the Dead often covered). 

 “Throwing Stones”: One of the standout tracks from 1987’s “In the Dark,” “Throwing Stones” is a definite nominee for the best song the Dead created during the later part of its career — a powerful rocker addressing social concerns. 

 “Estimated Prophet”: The song provides a mesmerizing start to 1977’s “Terrapin Station,” kicking up a dust of psychedelia that still sounds satisfying to this day. 

 “Hell in a Bucket”: It’s another great rocker from “In the Dark,” which formed a great one-two punch with “Touch of Grey.” 

 “We Can Run”: Barlow collaborated with Grateful Dead vocalist-keyboardist Brent Mydland on a number of songs for the band’s last studio effort, 1989’s “Built to Last.” This passionate number addressing environment concerns might be the best of the bunch. 

“Black-Throated Wind”: Another keeper from Weir’s “Ace” album, which is thought of as de-facto Dead album since the rest of the band backed Weir on it. 

 “The Music Never Stopped”: This song from the Dead’s eighth studio album, 1975’s “Blues for Allah,” became an anthem for the band and, especially, its fabled fans – the Deadheads. 

 “I Need a Miracle”: Speaking of Deadheads, the title of this song became the ultimate catchphrase for anyone needing a ticket to a show (sold out or otherwise). 

 “Weather Report Suite”: Barlow contributed to this magical musical epic that brings the Dead’s sixth album, 1973’s “Wake of the Flood,” to a satisfying conclusion. 

 “Looks Like Rain”: Our final pick from “Ace,” which was a highlight of Grateful Dead shows for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

 

EPA head Wheeler spreads misinformation on fuel efficiency standards in ‘must run’ Sinclair TV segment...

https://spectrumreport.com/acting-epa-head-spreads-misinformation-on-fuel-efficiency-standards-in-must-run-sinclair-segment/

In an interview with the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Wheeler said the EPA believes that freezing auto standards for five years “will save over 1,000 lives a year.” The acting administrator also claimed the American consumer will save $500 billion over the course of the regulation.

Both claims are false. 

1. Requiring Auto Makers to improve fuel efficiency will have no effect on safety. None at all. He just made that claim up... 

2. Getting more miles per gallon will save people money as they will pay less for gasoline. 

Wheeler’s interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group chief political analyst Boris Epshteyn is a “must-run” segment. All of the conservative media company’s 178 local TV news stations are required to broadcast the interview with Wheeler.

The Plan: Lie on Television and Keep on repeating those lies again and again and again... many people will eventually BELIEVE the lies just because they have heard them so often...