Can it be true?
The Grateful Dead predict Burning Shorts in 1972?
Introducing the Dead, May 7, 1972, The Bickershaw
Festival, UK:
" 'For all our muddy friends
THE GRATEFUL DEAD.'
Thus spake the announcer as the Dead launched into
"Truckin'" - the start of a mammoth 245 minute show . .
." during which, this:
"After RAMBLE ON ROSE, the band comment on the
stink from the dozens of fires.
Unknown band member: "What's on fire"
Weir: "I don't know what you're burning
out there , but it smells rotten."
Phil? "It must be my shorts
... "
Below mid-page and just following "After RAMBLE
ON ROSE ..." http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/dead.html
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So, we embrace this opportunity to honor hippie
heroes and true creative visionaries: Timothy Leary, Hunter S.
Thompson, Ken Kesey, and Jerry Garcia with Kesey, all as today's
internet can only make possible.
Indeed, there is such a wealth of content that what
follows is a mere taste. Humble thanks to Web2.0 for providing us with
such wealth.
In a recent Flaming Arrow, we mentioned our
encounters personally with Leary, as he was an early, passionate,
digital media evangelist: "Turn on, tune in, boot up ..." as
he said.
The recipients wanted more: You got
it! We spent a weekend with Hunter S. Thompson; we interviewed Kesey;
and we had a most memorable conversation with Garcia. That was a while
ago.
Yet, time only illuminates more brightly just how
swashbuckling these creative visionaries were and, as inspirational
figures, important to our current mission: to commit heart and soul to
advance the Human Adventure unfolding in digital media.
It is therefore a personal pleasure to bring you the
following homage:
Timothy Leary: Psychedelics as sacraments;
coat and tie era for Tim; black and white television clip; 42 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HclVTYUQV-M
. Then, Tim circa 1980 and ambushed by television interviewer. Behold
Tim's commitment to gentleness and remaining open and non-defensive.
10 minutes 18 seconds and worth it. And he tells the interviewer to go
"back to Iran"! Close to a hundred K views on this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT31oB2vspw&feature=related
Nearing death in 1995, Tim provides advice for all of us:
""You have to go out of your mind to use your head."
Part of a series of length, captivating interviews by Paul Krassner.
E.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-KAmpXsdUE
Hunter S. Thompson: Hunter was surely big fun
back in the day. Here we have Hunter struggling with intimations of
mortality and just perhaps hatching a plan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31hV_BPFf0&feature=related
... For an accurate tribute to Dr. Gonzo, it would require the unique
verbal intensity and apparent psychic chaos of another we met ... Gary
Busey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rE0dNV5Bo&feature=related
Ken Kesey [and the Merry Pranksters]: Seeking
to visit Leary (they were all connected with each other ... just not
on this day, but see Garcia and Kesey below). Look for the
"Further" sign on the front of Kesey's bus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcstOdT1Pe0
Jerry Garcia with Ken Kesey: Interviewed by
the strangest of all, the late Tom Snyder ... captured herein (Live,
NBC Studios, New York City, May 7th, 1981) is a trace of the
infectious joy and silliness that fueled the era: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ilnADvT2s
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