Oh yeah - just to be clear - you are NOT the wind beneath my wings - nor will I ever be yours - unless you like trying to winglessly soar on somebody's mindless farts. Good luck with that.....
Hope that wasn't too sweet for you Mick.
Lee.
Re: Phish/Greatful Dead Question....
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Well - let's see - in many ways I'm the least qualified to answer this thing about the Phish - right off - I'm not a fan. The only time I saw them was in a place called the 'Outback' which was another bar run by the same owner in the same building - he owned the 'Front'. Nowadays it's a business called the Ski-Rack. I liked this bar. I was still in college - but I liked the fact that there was this bar within a bar. A friend of mine (he got a degree in Forestry - which means he's a greenskeeper in Florida now) talked me into seeing them. The song was 'Chalkdust' with a refrain of 'Can I Live While I'm Young?' The scene involved a lot of potheads and psylocibin - even though it was before Jerry died. The band had little trampolines. They bounced in time. They did 'pretend' jazz - (I know that makes me sound presumptuous, but you guys must surely know that I'm not even the channel 15 expert on crap no one cares about - butt IMHO - they suct) - the gobsmacker for me was when they did an a capella version of 'Free Bird' complete with the 'guitar' solo. Instead of being funny - which was how the crowd interpreted it - I thought so what? I'm certain I can find a friend who has the bootleg of that night, even though it's without my unnecessary vocal stylings (cheers). Tix are a $150 for two days up in Coventry. Needless to say you won't see me there - although I'm tempted to park on the outskirts and sell grilled cheese sandwiches and bottled water for $10 a pop. Actually, that might be a fun way to hang out with Peter T., Dale, and Reg....anyway the band's popularity escapes me - I also thought the Dead were a bad folk/jazz band. My greenskeeper buddy 'turned me onto' a live version of 'fire mountain' by the dead that was actually fairly badass - but it was the exception and not the rule in my experience. Speaking of which - here's an out of context quote I sent to a friend of mine -
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Well - let's see - in many ways I'm the least qualified to answer this thing about the Phish - right off - I'm not a fan. The only time I saw them was in a place called the 'Outback' which was another bar run by the same owner in the same building - he owned the 'Front'. Nowadays it's a business called the Ski-Rack. I liked this bar. I was still in college - but I liked the fact that there was this bar within a bar. A friend of mine (he got a degree in Forestry - which means he's a greenskeeper in Florida now) talked me into seeing them. The song was 'Chalkdust' with a refrain of 'Can I Live While I'm Young?' The scene involved a lot of potheads and psylocibin - even though it was before Jerry died. The band had little trampolines. They bounced in time. They did 'pretend' jazz - (I know that makes me sound presumptuous, but you guys must surely know that I'm not even the channel 15 expert on crap no one cares about - butt IMHO - they suct) - the gobsmacker for me was when they did an a capella version of 'Free Bird' complete with the 'guitar' solo. Instead of being funny - which was how the crowd interpreted it - I thought so what? I'm certain I can find a friend who has the bootleg of that night, even though it's without my unnecessary vocal stylings (cheers). Tix are a $150 for two days up in Coventry. Needless to say you won't see me there - although I'm tempted to park on the outskirts and sell grilled cheese sandwiches and bottled water for $10 a pop. Actually, that might be a fun way to hang out with Peter T., Dale, and Reg....anyway the band's popularity escapes me - I also thought the Dead were a bad folk/jazz band. My greenskeeper buddy 'turned me onto' a live version of 'fire mountain' by the dead that was actually fairly badass - but it was the exception and not the rule in my experience. Speaking of which - here's an out of context quote I sent to a friend of mine -
Oh yeah - just to be clear - you are NOT the wind beneath my wings - nor will I ever be yours - unless you like trying to winglessly soar on somebody's mindless farts. Good luck with that.....
Hope that wasn't too sweet for you Mick.
Lee.
