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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · Dec 4

Grateful Dead performing at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California, September 1981. Colorful tie-dye stage backdrop by Courtenay Pollack.

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 16h

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

Grateful Dead

Playin' In The Band > Crazy Fingers > Uncle John's Band
Enjoying the Ride: 10/27/89 Oakland Coliseum Arena - Oakland, Ca

(sequence begins at 1:12:00)

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Grateful Dead Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA on 12/27/89 Complete Show

YouTube video by Kevin Tobin

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 23h

Called for his whiskey and he called for his tea
Call all he want to but he can’t call on me, oh no

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 23h

The best music in 1989 was live music

Ticket and concert photo from the Grateful Dead at Hampton Coliseum 10/9/1989, billed as Formerly The Warlocks

Album cover for Crimson, White and Indigo, a live concert recorded in Philadelphia on July 7, 1989

Album cover for GarciaLive Volume 13, recorded at the Poplar Creek Music Theatre in Illinois on September 17, 1989

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe because the Avett Bros. make garbage pseudo-bluegrass/Americana pop crapola instead of good music ?

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

The Empire never ended

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

Also next generation. These are from your same Yamaha class (and sound suh-weet!):

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

Need that cash to feed that jones

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

Rain rain go away
Don’t need no more fucking rain today!

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

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Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For My Man - 9/25/1984 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

YouTube video by Lou Reed on MV

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

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AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll) (Official Video)

YouTube video by Official Lives & Music Videos - Official Channel

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

@mcuban.bsky.social

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 1d

I won't slave for beggar's pay
Likewise gold and jewels
But I would slave to learn the way
To sink your ship of fools

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 2d

The Fake Emperor is committing sex crimes in public

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 2d

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Smoke from a Distant Fire

YouTube video by Sanford-Townsend Band - Topic

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 3d

Now that they’re permanently untouchable they could give a fuck what the deplorables think

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 3d

Whip it good!

Cartoon of Indiana Jones punching a Nazi

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 7d

It will double as a cheerleader camp

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 7d

have you ever heard eddie vedder (not good)

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 7d

Hunter
Melton
Cipollina
Spencer Dryden
Peter Albin
Merl Saunders (after Hunter left)

no slouches but they didn’t try very hard, IMO

I saw Skip Spence flame out on stage with them in Palo Alto 10/15/83. He banged on Melton’s guitar so hard he broke a string, freaked out, lost it, left the stage

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GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 8d

Let It Rock - Chuck Berry, as covered by the Jerry Garcia Band, here featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano in 1975:

GratefulFred @willamettefred.bsky.social · 8d

Which ended well for him

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9d

Murderer AND thief. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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