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What does the SG stand for in the Gibson guitar?

The SG in Gibson SG stands for "solid guitar". The Gibson SG is a solid-body electric guitar that was first released in 1961. It was designed in response to the success of the Fender Stratocaster. The SG is still in production today and is considered one of the most enduring guitar designs. 

What is the meaning of the song Quinn the Eskimo by Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan's song "Quinn the Eskimo" is about an Eskimo named Quinn who prefers a relaxed lifestyle and brings joy to people. The song's narrator describes everyday life as pointless and unnecessary, and says that Quinn is different.

What is the main advantage to the Grateful Dead's wall of sound public address system?
The main advantage of the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" public address system was that it allowed the band to hear exactly what the audience was hearing because the speaker arrays were placed behind them, eliminating the need for separate stage monitors and providing a clear, distortion-free sound with each instrument having its own dedicated speaker set, preventing audio interference between instruments; essentially acting as its own monitoring system.

Why are there two microphones used in the Grateful Dead wall of sound?
The Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" utilized two microphones for each vocalist to effectively cancel out feedback by using a technique called "differential microphone" where one microphone is wired in reverse polarity to the other, meaning when combined, the sound coming from the speakers (which could potentially cause feedback) is cancelled out while only the vocalist's signal remains amplified; essentially, the second mic acts as a noise cancellation mechanism.

What caused Tommy to become deaf, dumb and blind in the who's rock opera?

In The Who's rock opera Tommy, Tommy becomes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing the murder of his father by his stepfather:

The murder
Tommy's father, Captain Walker, goes missing and is presumed dead. Years later, he returns home to find his wife with a new lover, and kills the lover in front of Tommy.

The aftermath
Tommy's parents try to convince him he didn't see or hear anything. Tommy begins to disassociate and becomes deaf, dumb, and blind.

Tommy's development
Tommy relies on his sense of touch and imagination, and develops an inner psyche. He becomes a pinball champion and a rock star-like deity. He eventually regains his senses and starts his own religion, but is later discarded by his disciples.

Tommy was written by Pete Townshend and explores themes such as the cult of personality, celebrity culture, sexual abuse, bullying, family trauma, and autism.

What's the meaning of the song with the lyric too many hungry people losing weight?

The lyric “Too many hungry people losing weight” appears in the song “Too Many People” by Paul McCartney from his solo album RAM. The song has multiple interpretations, including:

Social commentary
The song may be a social commentary on taking life too seriously.

Resolution of problems
The song may be about resolving problems in a self-centered world, possibly a reference to McCartney's experience with the Beatles' breakup.

Criticism of John Lennon
The song may be a criticism of John Lennon for leaving the Beatles and sharing his "lucky break" with Yoko Ono. This was something that deeply irked the rest of the Beatles, especially Paul.

Musical extension of Thomas Malthus
Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn described the song as a "musical extension of Thomas Malthus".

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First and foremost I am proud to be an American and that the grateful dead originated in the United States of America. I have a college degree in psychology and sociology.in doing so over the years I have learned much about myself as well as the people that surround me. I am tired of making comments of the ken ,Barbies and biffs who choose to attend the sphere shows ...though I may post a humorous pics or two. In reality America is the melting pot of the world. The introduction of the Internet and social media has changed everyones life. As is known change is a constant in this world and we all have to adapt at at one time or another. Yes, I am of the elder generation now but I was young once as were you. I chose to be with the best and wisest people I could meet at dead shows and learned to appreciate the music that feeds us all. As a whole looking at the big picture alot of people still want to experience a dead show because it is a special thing. I respect that. I was blessed to see the band many times front row. I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. I am thankful to feel part of the family. Things have changed. God bless the original members of the band for keeping the fire going. All I ask is that for those newbies to respect the elders who are there truly for the music. It's like a religion. It's not all about the drugs. All comments welcome.

Religion is an existential threat to humanity... because it has been weaponized by those who believe in it. Simply, supporting and believing in it does us no justice in the bigger picture of stewardship of our planet. In fact it holds us back.
Look, the only way out of this is to make it cease to exist. And learn from it. Realize as a populace that it is a form of indoctrination (and therefore brainwashing).
Actually, to me it seems as if religion is already imploding, perhaps with the spread of the abundance of information being passed via the internet. For sure, information is power.
Sometimes I wonder if we will see the discovery of intelligent alien life during our lifetimes. Like out in the open info where no one can deny their existence. Certainly that would be the final nail in the coffin of organized religions, would it not?
'Certainly' may be a reach. Admittedly.
In my mind, the Conservative Movement remains the foremost threat to our democracy and likely our entire future. The climate isn't waiting for us to take ourselves out... it is actively changing before our eyes and we are doing little to change ourselves. It makes us wonder why they would call them Conservatives. They ain't conserving anything other than their dying ideology stemming from systemic racism and religious bigotry. And what we need instead is to move forward and learn how to adapt to what is coming.
There's some certainty in if they win the day though. Because certainly we will never make it if the conservative movement moves takes full control of our government which moves us backwards. We will eventually cease to exist due to our own accord. No, the only way to get through this is to bring truth to the table and vote out those who would have us thrown in prison (just because we vote differently). Vote those out who hide behind the bully (pulpits)... for they are the weak ones.
The most important election of our lifetimes is right around the corner. Definitely resembles good vs. evil in my book (i'm an ex-catholic, recovering).
Bu if we elect rational human beings capable of empathy and critical thinking... who is critical of faith-based philosophies (the cause of so many wars and hardships) - but which can work with the other side a bit - then we stand a chance to see our way through this dark era of the MAGA movement in our country. And perhaps then the world... would follow and revert to more liberal policies which provide safety nets and more thoughtfulness to the climate. And we could tax the churches and use that money to help the local communities and provide shelters to the homeless, with prospects as incentives.
But the ...as evidenced by... examples continue to pop up all around us - on the dailey. And what it really comes down to is we simply need to do more to stop and even reverse the damages we've done to our planet and the species on it.
Enter Science. Because we don't figure shit out by praying.

Pilliard Dickle Said:

The sensory input devices on the front and sides of your head are scooping up data from the roil of energy all around you and streaming it to your onboard biocomputer, which uses these vibrations to construct a concept of what the world must be like beyond the confines of its bony encasement. This you call "reality."
The known universe lies behind your nose and between your ears. And the only one who can know it is YOU.

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Does this make any sense? JFK: "Ask not what your Country can do for You. Ask what You can do for your Country." ----> I want my country to stop doing EVIL things and making me pay for them...

There are many things that I truly appreciate... I like roads and the interstate highway system... I'm glad that we have the Fire Department... Since I was a criminal for the vast majority of my life I'm not too appreciative of the Police Department... 

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I bet we could cut the Pentagon budget in half and make massive refunds to the taxpayers... Without any change in National Safety... 

Let's defund the Space Force entirely... 

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I'm glad that we have electricity and clean running water... I like flush toilets too... And I like the fact that I can just type on my computer and people will bring me food... Recently I've been ordering flour tortillas and sliced ham. I roll them up and it's a lovely snack... Top it off with chocolate candy... And maybe some potato chips... Bagels...

I believe that the war in Iran is idiotic. Just like the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea... "The Country" spends a lot of money and a lot of lives doing insane things... Like blowing up foreign countries... And just last week we harmed the country of Cuba by preventing any oil shipments... The electricity in that country is generated by burning oil... The cars run on gasoline...  How could wrecking Cuba possibly benefit me in any way???

And now the leader of the CIA is visiting Cuba??? Why???

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If an Apple Tree makes Apples, and a Pear Tree makes Pears, What does a Country Make?

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I repaired my old Toshiba laptop by downloading Linux onto a thumb drive and making that the boot disc... Then I activated email and an art program called Pinta... it is very similar to the ancient art program called Paint by Microsoft... So now... I drew a squiggly drawing in Pinta and emailed it to myself and then transmogrified it using the Google Chromebook running a program called Photopea... And this is the result... 

I refuse to accept the trend of laptops being disposable... Use them until they break down then throw them away and get a new one... Since the Google Chromebook is available for $50 online... There is an obvious movement by corporations to make these things disposables... And I don't care for that... So I repaired the old Toshiba that had been sitting in a drawer for 2 years... And now I have a 32 GB thumb drive that I'm not using because I already downloaded Linux and I don't need the source code anymore... So I wonder what I'll do with that!

The one mistake I made when going to college was to challenge the computer science course that taught Microsoft Word and Excel. If you could pass the final exam you didn't have to take the class. So the teacher had one week training that covered the basics and I took that and I passed the exam and... I really wish that I had learned everything possible about those two programs... Because at work the only computer program that I ever used was Microsoft Word and Excel... And having knowledge would have been super handy... For example: one day my boss said: "Damn it! I've erased this long letter that I just wrote... Can you find it in the computer and bring it back?" And I did not know how... So she had to rewrite the letter again... If I just taken that class I would have learned that all former versions of any word processing document are saved... And I could have been the hero... But I ended up being the zero... 4 years of college turned out to be pretty much useless... At work... So the lesson learned was... If you're paying big bucks to go to college... Get every Penny's worth... I was employing those guys too put knowledge into my brain and I just said: "No Thanks!" Because it was exhausting to be a full-time college student and it seemed like a good idea at the time to just challenge that class... 

However I did learn how to find instructions on the internet in order to do what I want to do... The training and step by step instructions on how to download Linux and use it to boot my windows based Toshiba laptop was essential... I tried to download Windows... And it failed... I Tried to download Google's Chrome OS... And it failed... But Linux worked! Excellent!

Phil Valenti 
Why does everyone keep calling Iran our enemy? What exactly did they do to the United States?

And I replied:

Not everyone is calling Iran our enemy... I for one do not call them that... Nor do any of the people I know! And that guy that does the travel shows on PBS, Rick Steves did a tourist visit to Iran and the people seemed quite friendly and interested to see an American TV show being filmed... I think the only people call Iran are enemy are Trump and his evil Munchkins... One thing about Iran is that the guy that started the religion BAHAI was an Iranian... Also the organization called the assassins were Iranians...

And then some guy on Faceborg asked:

Did the dead play live shows while under the influence of acid?

And I replied:

Yes... But they didn't like to... because... When you're scheduled to play a concert, you're forced to go play and hopefully do a good job... And when under the influence of LSD... Sometimes you want the freedom to do something completely different... Go take a hike in the woods... Or dump a bucket out of water on your head... But performing in public is work... Remembering all those words and chord changes and all that... 

Watch the performance of the song "Ain't no Cane in the Brazos" from the movie Festival Express... Bob is obviously High...

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The First Amendment to the Constitution Guarantees the Right to Assemble Peacefully... On Public Land... And that's why the Rainbow Gathering never needs a permit to go camping.... With the exception of California last year or the year before when we had to move to a different location... But the Gathering still happened...

The locals were concerned about fire danger and so the police or the fire department shut down the original location... And fire danger in the woods of California in the summer is a very real problem... 

Your national parks and state parks and local parks all can charge admission... And they can require a permit for Gatherings that have more than 75 people... The number of people is variable depending on the state... And that's why the rainbow gathering always chooses a location in a national forest... The people's land... 

And the national laws about use of marijuana say it's a federal crime... Now here in California it's legal according to state law... But not federal law... So if you see a law enforcement officer approaching shout out 7 Up! Or if there are armed shout out six up! That way fellow campers have warning that danger is approaching... 

I did find that the Rangers that I met at the Gathering have all been really nice people and very useful in emergency medical situations... Sometimes you just got to call for a helicopter to rescue somebody... and they can do it...

One of my pals on Faceborg was complaining about how the only contact he has with other humans is online... 

And I replied:

I'm sorry to read that you're only contact with humans is online... Did you ever think about moving into a group home? I lived in one in San Jose where it was a standard four bedroom subdivision house and the owner's son lived in one room with his girlfriend and rented out the other rooms to random people... We all did our own cooking, cleaning, laundry, reefer smoking, alcohol drinking but we did watch TV together... It had a garage and you could smoke tobacco in the garage but not in the house... Because it would be air pollution for the child... They also cooked meth in the garage...

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2016 was the presidential election that I did not vote in. I was having medical problems and my own health was the focus of my attention... And it turned out... My lack of participation made absolutely no difference at all... Hillary won California and if I had voted she would have won California... So it was a total "so what" thing!

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Thank you for another insightful video... The thing that I remember is that I had the opportunity to work at DARPA as a designer/draftsman and I never did it... Truly a missed opportunity... I had the secret clearance and the technical knowledge but I never applied... Dang!

I must disagree with part of your video... Life was really good when Obama was President and also Bill Clinton... Bill had the internet built... All that dotcom money was used to lay thousands of miles of fiber optic cable... And that was a good thing...

It's really sad that Trump failed to eat LSD in the sixties. One trip would have prevented all this trouble. Jerry Garcia said Trump went to an early Grateful Dead concert but did not eat the LSD... Big mistake for the whole world...

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Alice in Wonderland
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Whole Earth Catalog
Treasure Island
The Old Man and the Sea
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Steal this Book
Revolution for the Hell of It
I, Robot
Foundation
Caves of Steel
Grapes of Wrath
Tortilla Flat
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Man in the High Castle
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Still Here
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The War of the Worlds
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Stranger in a Strange Land
Slaughterhouse Five
Cat's Cradle
Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge
America's Bogus Wars
The Violet Overgrow (an Eco-Warriors's Journey)

The Great Gadsby
The Armies of the Night
Trout Fishing in America
Island
The Psychedelic Experience
Fahrenheit 451
The Doors of Perception
Ender's Game
The Cult of Cthulhu
Dune
Chariots of the Gods?
Autobiography of a Yogi
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
All Quiet on the Western Front
Catch 22

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and then on FaceBorg SC Posted:

Can you remember the time when you were lying on the floor, cushy earphones against your ears, listening to The Who's keyboard solo fly through your brain from your right ear to the left and back again? Your consciousness standing stock still, with its mouth ajar, just being present with the music?

Can you remember summer nights, running with bare feet, clutching a glass jar and trying to catch fireflies as the adults pack up the floats and picnic debris into the station wagon? And, if you were lucky, riding home in that station wagon sitting in the rear, back-facing seat with a sweet exhaustion taking away everything but being right here, right now?

Do you remember going under that scraggly crabapple, grabbing that stringent fruit and chomping on it as you ran through the wood?. Galloping on the path that you, along with the boys next door, created with your pounding feet? The sure sensation that your stride keeps getting longer, and longer, until you are literally flying ten, fifteen, twenty feet between footfalls?

Can you remember the feeling you had in these moments? Can you re-live it? The awe of discovery? The state of satisfaction? The inner peace?

My childhood was wonderful! I wish I would have known it wasn't going to last. I wouldn't have been in such a hurry growing up.

and then I read on Rhoney Stanley's Faceborg Page: 

"RIP Robert Hunter Robert C. Christie Hunter born Robert Burns June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019 Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78 One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation Robert Hunter, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78. No cause of death was provided. “It is with great sadness we confirm our beloved Robert passed away yesterday night,” Hunter’s family announced in a statement. “He died peacefully at home in his bed, surrounded by love. His wife Maureen was by his side holding his hand. For his fans that have loved and supported him all these years, take comfort in knowing that his words are all around us, and in that way his is never truly gone. In this time of grief please celebrate him the way you all know how, by being together and listening to the music. Let there be songs to fill the air.” Considered one of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists, Hunter was the literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation. His lyrics — heard in everything from early Dead classics like “Dark Star” and “China Cat Sunflower” and proceeding through “Uncle John’s Band,” “Box of Rain,” “Scarlet Begonias,” and “Touch of Gray”— were as much a part of the band as Jerry Garcia’s singing and guitar. 

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https://doubleblindmag.com/meet-rhoney-stanley-underground-lsd-chemist-behind-the-60s-psychedelic-revolution/

Rhoney Stanley, underground chemist of the 1960s, cultural icon, and psychedelic pioneer, shares stories from the early days with her partner, mentor, and LSD chemist Owsley "Bear" Stanley, The Grateful Dead, and their heartfelt mission behind promoting psychedelics for transcendence and universal consciousness.