Why Does Trump Look Like He's Playing an Invisible Accordion? He's a Big Al Yankovic Fan!

"Weird Al" Yankovic

 Another One Rides the Bus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZkouut-9RQ

Kiss My Rump, Donald Tr*mp 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2VBBJLhRz0

Postcards Mocking Trump! for sale!

Grateful Dead Forever

Dan Griffin 

On July 19, 1974, I got a call at Altec Lansing from Dan Healy of the Grateful Dead. Dan explained that they were going to be playing at the Hollywood Bowl 2 days later and they were having problems with their Altec/Hewlett Packard 8050A real time spectrum analyzer. Dan invited me to come up and tour the new “Wall of Sound” and also bring a replacement analyzer. I took Dan up on the offer and brought along my new Minolta 35mm camera. Dan, along with “Bear”Stanley, and Ron Wickersham, were the key designers of the ”Wall of Sound”. I was given free reign to wander the stage and take whatever pics I wanted. What a great sale for JBL. The Dead did not use Altec speakers, but they did use our 1/3 octave equalizers and analyzers. So how did the system really sound in the great big Hollywood Bowl? Onstage, the overhead vocal cluster was a tremendous stage monitor system. The guitar systems, and especially the bass guitar were magnificent. But the vocal cluster suffered in that big outdoor amphitheater. The Hollywood Bowl has almost 18,000 seats and very good natural acoustics, but those little 2105 5” paper cone midrange drivers just had a very short coherent throw. The EVT350 tweeters sounded very nice up close, but were pretty much lost at 80 feet. I’m sure the system worked much better indoors where reflections benefited. It’s just hard to replace compression drivers (that make 109 db with 1 watt), with a cone driver that’s 15dB less sensitive……and no horn to guide the airwaves. It certainly was an early use of line array technology. The out of polarity, noise cancelling mics were an interesting experience…but one that didn’t work well. It was certainly a clean sounding system and nothing beats those McIntosh 2300 amps. All pics are scanned from the original negatives at 4800 dpi. Enjoy, but please note that all pics are copyrighted... 

I never saw the white rectangles at the top before... 

is that the "House" PA?

Music Video: "Playing in the Band" by the Grateful Dead. Cover by Greg Vanderlaan Guitar, Vocals.

https://youtu.be/XNfDQn-fkyQ  
"Standing on a Tower... with the world at my command..." That's about the Tower of Light Show equipment at the acid tests. 

Music Video: "Saint Steven" by the Grateful Dead. Covered by Gregory Vanderlaan Guitar, Vocals.

https://youtu.be/JEEw3VFNtP4

Plus an instrumental break of "Till the morning comes"

Lyrics...
" Lady Finger, drenched in Moonlight...
Writing What For? across the morning sky... "

The lyrics make you think... especially if you are witnessing the Sunrise after staying up all night on LSD...

Keyword Dada: Surrealistic as a pillow, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, music, video, Grateful Dead, cover, Gregory, Greg, Vanderlaan, singing, playing, guitar, strobe light, dawn of the dead, Los Muertos, Zorro, gvan42, gregvan, vandergreg, purple64ets, original, art, rainbow spiral

Digital Rainbow Spiral 

Mastodon

Painting of Dogs Playing Cards... Echelon Keywords: art, satire, dogs, playing, cards, joke, Reagan, Nixon, Drumpf, go fish, you, crook,

Reagan says GO FISH, YOU CROOK... Nixon Responds: I Am Not A Crook.

Steve Tyler and Aerosmith tell Trump "Cease and Desist". Stop playing our songs at campaign events... We don't like you.

Republicans have great difficulty getting singers to play for them. Basically, If you are smart enough to write songs you are smart enough to be opposed to Republicans...

Notice who played at Trump's Inauguration: The Piano Guys... and other unknowns...

Who Played at Obama's? Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renée Fleming, Caleb Green, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, Bettye Lavette, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Jennifer Nettles, Pete Seeger, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, U2, Usher, will.i.am and Stevie Wonder.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/22/steven-tyler-sends-trump-cease-and-desist-letter-over-playing-aerosmith-songs-at-rallies.html
Steven Tyler is taking legal action to stop President Trump from playing Aerosmith songs at his events. The move comes a day after the commander in chief played “Livin’ on the Edge” at his rally in West Virginia on Tuesday.

Make Earth Cool Again protest sign at National Climate March

My Best Videos: Singing and Playing the Guitar. "Fixing to Die Rag", "Woodstock", "Time Warp", "Hotel California", "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" and Others...

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos 
Click on this link to see them all... 

Drumming at the Rainbow Gathering in California
at the Marimba Tent...