Meeting the Beatles in India - EPIC MOVIE - 1968 "Home Movies" Filmed at the Maharishi's Ashram - by a Canadian on a Spiritual Journey

https://youtu.be/2he26OhhJYw Trailer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7999072/

Documentary: Director Paul Saltzman returns to India as he reminiscences his time with the Beatles while they were on a spiritual retreat under the mentorship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968.

He brought his own Camera and too Many Candid Portraits... and Ringo taught him how to Make Home Movies with Ringo's Movie Camera. 

Includes interviews made recently... Most interesting was Pattie Boyd... Who said she had a lot of Fun in the Sixties... Being the Subject of Love songs written by Both George Harrison and Eric Clapton... 

also David Lynch: Singer in the Talking Heads Band. Who Studied TM... 

Behind the Music Reveals that one of the other people at the ashram was Prudence... who was "stuck" in her room... so they Sang "Dear Prudence: Won't You Come Out To Play..." 

also we see an interview with Bungalo Bill... who shot a Tiger... but Later Bill decided to Do Wildlife Photography for National Geographic Magazine...

Pattie Boyd was delighted when she Learned That Bungalo Bill traded in His Gun for a Camera...  

The White Album was Written at That Ashram.

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an alternative is... Frank Zappa's 

COSMIK DEBRIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6LT2MdaPI

and the Mockery of the Firesign Theater...

WC Fields Forever... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_l25G33Co

The Death of Commercial Rock Radio is an Example of what happens when Corporations let computers select the top 200 songs and then play them again and again and again... because that's the way to capture the ears of the largest audience... and sell advertising at the highest price... This is a taste of the world AI will create..

VKK SAID: I wish the Bay had a decent rock station, I remember being big mad how they seemed to get rid of it when we lived there lol

SE REPLIED: You're probably thinking of Live 105, which plays alternative rock and 90's rock. Live 105 went away for a while, but now it's back, and it was very much needed. But I do wish they were more like they were when they first started in the 80's. In the 80's, "alternative rock" meant an "alternative" to regular rock, which was stuff like Led Zeppelin and the Who and Pink Floyd, and also Motley Crue and Def Leppard and stuff like that. Live 105 played new wave and industrial and goth and punk. Their format changed in the 90's when grunge mostly killed all of those other genres, and "alternative rock" was no longer an alternative to regular rock, it was just the mainstream rock: Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and stuff like that. And I guess they still played some punk, but mostly newer punk like Green Day and the Offspring. So I wish they'd go back to the new wave, industrial, and goth music they played in the 80's. But there doesn't seem to be as much demand for that now, for some reason.

SLJ SAID: I'm really NOT a fan of jazz. But I actually have one of my car radio presets to KCSM, College of San Mateo. 80% of the time they're playing music classified as jazz but it's too chaotic for the meter in my head. I can't seem to find the "pulse" of many songs so I bail and go to one of my other stations. BUT, then again, sometimes they play some really cool and interesting songs that I simply love! The same is true with a lot of classical music so again I have a preset to a classical station. Some of that music I absolutely can't stand but every once in a while they play some really cool songs. I wonder if part of my diverse listening (rock, country, punk, electronic, folk, etc.) habits come from being a musician because I find myself figuring out what they're doing rather that just enjoying it. One thing for sure though, I don't listen to a CD collection. I'm a random radio listener.

SE REPLIED: I never used to like jazz either, with the exception of big band/swing. But I didn't think I liked other types of jazz...but then in 2016, I went to the San Jose Jazz Festival for the first time, and I realized that there are a lot of different styles of jazz, and I actually like a lot of it! But big band/swing is still my favorite. I spend most of my time at the big band stage when I go to the jazz festival.

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What does it take to convince Google News that I don't want to read ANY STORIES EVER about the Kardashians? I click on fewer stories and that makes my google news KK free for a WEEK... or maybe TWO and then the INFESTATION RETURNS!

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LONG STRANGE TRIP is an Excellent Movie about the Grateful Dead. Four Hours Long, it Traces their History from the Very Beginning thru Jerry Garcia's Death.

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Trip-Season-1/dp/B086HXZFL2

Made with the help of Tricia Garcia and Justin Kreutzman, it shows Many Films that I Have Not Seen Before... Being Family, They Had Access to Everything in the Vault. 

Interviews with Musicians, Roadies, Sound Techs, Girlfriends, Children, Deadheads, Record Company Executive, etc etc etc... This is a Insightful Film... I was especially Moved by the Filmed Interview With Barbara Meier... A Girlfriend of Jerry Garcia's from the Bluegrass Banjo Years of his Youth and then Again During his Scuba Diving Era in Late Life... 

The Movie Does Not Document the Post Garcia Years... My Last Concert was the "Fare Ye Well" Shows in Santa Clara, CA - and it was a Truly Epic Event! 

Long Strange Trip is a 2017 American documentary film about the Grateful Dead. 

Long Strange Trip was directed by Amir Bar-Lev, and has a running time of almost four hours. Martin Scorsese was one of the executive producers. Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, was one of the producers.

The film features newly conducted interviews with living band members and friends including Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and his wife Natascha, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, John Perry Barlow, Robert Hunter, Donna Godchaux, Dennis McNally, Barbara "Brigid" Meier, Nick Paumgarten, Steve Silberman, and Alan Trist. 

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

Personnel

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, percussion, vocals
• Tom Constanten – keyboards
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards
• Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
• Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals

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Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment That Escaped The Laboratory and Got Out Onto The Dance Floor! Was "The Sixties" Really a Test to Just Find Out What Would Happen IF A Million People Took LSD?

READ MORE: 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-cia

-project-mkultra-was-wildly.html

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Grateful Dead Tech History - Podcast Interviews with the Electronics Engineers that Built Their Amazing Sound... Ned Lagin: Seastones - 
John Perry Barlow: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Long Strange Tech:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/01/
grateful-dead-tech-history.html

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American History: "The Thunder Machine" 

made by Ron Boise was used by Ken Kesey at 

the Acid Tests. It was a Giant Sheet Metal 

Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like 

a Drum.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-

thunder-machine-made.html

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"A Spiral of Deadheads" Science Fiction Story 

by gvan42 - and - "Ceremony and Ritual" 

- Psychedelic Poetry

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/flying

-heart-art-mkultra-cia-mind.html

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Grateful Dead... My Story... American History... 
and Original Deadhead ART... 

My Sugar Cube Painting...

like the cover of 

"The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" 

by Tom Wolfe.

I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in 

English class at junior high school. Our teacher 

had put up posters on the wall of the classroom

and we wrote essays about them. He was 

attempting to stimulate creative WRITING 

but more importantly, creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of 

swastikas and another was a solarized/

negative photo of 5 hairy men 

standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type 

suburban tract homes... I Did Not Recognize 

them...

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-

deadhead-art-and-mystory.html

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Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. 

Pictures and Tall Tales. Many thanks to all that 

made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... 

Just remember, if our lives together were 

written as a fiction story, everyone would 

dismiss it as being unbelievable... 

Yet it all really happened! ART, Poetry and 

MyStory... I'm Gr8ful 

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-

deadhead-tribute-webpage.html

Grateful Dead psychedelic art files for your 

viewing pleasure...

The wonderful Winterland Arena in San 

Francisco was the home to many Grateful 

Dead Concerts... It was the ONE PLACE where 

the Wall of Sound really worked! 

They had days to set up the equipment and 

tweak it to perfection... 

The Movie with the cartoon at the 

beginning was filmed there... 

and it was a fine show! They included fire on 

stage and ladies dancing with silk scarves...

and I Went to That Concert... I Remember Many

People With Movie Cameras... 

and I Went to 39 Concerts Total... 

Oh, Now I Get It... FREAKONOMICS: An Insightful Movie About How the World Really Works...

Watch the Movie for Free... https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/movies/freakonomics-1-1 

A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrceH3952Hg Trailer!

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. 

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

Buy the Book: https://freakonomics.com/books/

https://freakonomics.com/

For Example: 

The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals... SEE? Choice Turned Out To Be A Great Idea!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-passage-of-roe-v-wade-led-to-fewer.html

Pro Choice Button
by gregvan

Lets Make Birth Control and Abortion Free and Legal Worldwide... We Have too Many People On Planet Earth Already... Forcing Women Give Birth to Unwanted Babies is INSANE.

Earth First! Movie: "Who Bombed Judi Beri?" In 1990 the FBI Bombed Activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Beri. The FBI was Fined $400,000 but Did Not ADMIT Guilt.

 Official Website: https://whobombedjudibari.com/

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990 via a pipe bomb in her car.^[1][2] It was directed by Mary Liz Thomson and produced by Darryl Cherney. He is also an environmental activist and was traveling with Bari that day, but was not as severely wounded.

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

While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of Bari's car.^[3] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured.

Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, and arrested Bari and Cherney. In their investigation, they tried to prove that the activists were transporting an explosive device that accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime

They filed a civil rights lawsuit in 1991 against these law enforcement organizations for violation of their constitutional rights. In 2002 they won the lawsuit (Bari had died of breast cancer in 1997). Cherney and the late Bari's estate were awarded $4.4 million, to be paid by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.^[4] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects. Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.^[1]

https://www.northcoastjournal.com/Blogthing/archives/2015/05/19/who-bombed-judi-bari-25-years-later-we-may-find-an-answer Sorry, No Answers Found...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

http://www.judibari.org/

Jury's message to feds in $4.4 million verdict for Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney
(revised 6/19/02)

On June 11, 2002, a federal jury returned a stunning verdict in favor of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney in their landmark civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers. 

The jury unanimously found that six of the seven FBI and OPD defendants tried to frame Judi and Darryl in an effort to crush Earth First! and chill participation in Redwood Summer. That was evident in the fact that 80% of the $4.4 million total damage award was for violation of their First Amendment rights to speak out and organize politically in defense of the forests. 

"The jury exonerated us," said Darryl Cherney. "They found the FBI to be the ones in violation of the law. The American public needs to understand that the FBI can't be trusted. Ten jurors got a good, hard look at the FBI and they didn't like what they saw." 

"It's really beyond our wildest dreams," said Darlene Comingore, Judi Bari's friend and executor of her estate who stood in for her as co-plaintiff in this suit. "We hope the FBI and Oakland and all the police forces out there that think they can violate people's rights and get away with it are listening because the people of the state of California and Oakland today said, 'No, you can't. You can't get away with it.' "

Lead attorney Dennis Cunningham said the message he hopes the verdict sends is that: "Ashcroft is doing precisely the wrong thing to abandon the (Levi) guidelines and let the FBI go after dissent with a free hand. It's clear that their intention is not about fighting terrorism, it's about suppressing dissent. That's what the FBI has always been about. Hopefully it will make Congress think twice about giving them a free hand." 

Please click here to continue reading this article, with more interpretation of the meaning and importance of the verdict by the media as well as by individual participants and observers, including one of the jurors.