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A good friend of mine, the enviably named Dr. Tom Vennum, was an ethnomusicologist at the Smithsonian for many years. Among the books he published was one on Indian drum making. I doubt a dozen people read that book, but one of them was Mickey Hart. Based on that, he also became good friends...

This is mainly my experience with Phish now. I'll never like their music as much as the Dead's but they are playing at a very high level and, as you said, it's an opportunity to commune with far-flung friends and enjoy really good music in great "large format" settings. I went to a couple of...

No doubt. I have to admit, though, that my favorite era of Dead is when Keith joined the band (Oct 71) thru the beginning of the hiatus (Oct 74), i.e., the years Mickey wasn't in the band. Still, he was without a doubt a core member...

I think I've mentioned this before, but there's a great Weir doc on Netflix called The Other One. It really covers the whole history of the band and beyond (film was released circa 2015), but from Bob's perspective and there's plenty of other stuff just about him. Highly recommended, for the...

Mickey wasn't an orignal member, he joined in 67, dropped out in Feb 71 and rejoined when the band came back from a nearly two year hiatus in 76, but of course he was without a doubt a full-fledged band member. From the little bit I've read, Kreutzman isn't in the best of health either. Love...

Little bit longer version of this classic clip to get Jerry’s instant reply…

Started the holidays off strong with back to back 2's on Christmas and Boxing Day but it's been mostly 5's ever since with a smattering of everything else, including a bad omen fail on New Year's Day (a bad fail at that, only had 2 greens and no yellows on line 6) and a 6 today. Did have a...

Purple/blue/green/yellow.. Connections Puzzle #943 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Sadly it's not just pudgy MAGA's who rely on Dollar General for their food, it's basically poor rural and small town folks everywhere...

Well, Trump did tell them to stand by...

"You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." - Thucydides

Upvote for the Beatles reference...

This is a good point. I don't really follow Duke message board chatter, but it sure doesn't seem like Duke fans are bad-mouthing and second-guessing everything about the coaching staff and the direction of the program like so many UNC "fans" seem to do. And if you don't think that has an...

I wouldn't beat myself up to hard on that one if I were you...

Worst Wordle fail ever to end 2025, had the two vowels yellow on line 1 and didn't get them both green until line 5. That remained the state of play on line 6: Two green vowels and nothing else. Ouch. Got some redemption today with a 3..