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It’s not widely known, but they started as a jug band, then LSD came along and morphed them into the Grateful Dead.
Well, actually, it morphed them into The Warlocks, until they discovered the name was taken by another band, so they changed it to The Grateful Dead.
The original Warlocks eventually ended up changing their name to the Velvet Underground.
I've always loved how Jerry Garcia explains that playing at acid test parties allowed them a freedom that helped them develop their music. Paraphrasing here... "we weren't expected to perform well or at any level really, or at all."
On the Acid Tests, Garcia says, “Mostly it was completely free, there was no real performance of any kind involved. Everybody there was as much performer as audience.”
Garcia says that the band fell in with the Acid Tests for about six months, but recalls that it was the most important time for the band in terms of finding a direction.
Well.....myself and friends WOULD travel as far as 2 hours from home to go to a Trump rally about the same distance as a concert. But more like a country concert or a Christian concert, more about God and country.
Reminds me of a something I heard not too long ago...
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Well if you consider the Grateful Dead "too commercial," maybe there's a comparison to Trump that fits, but really? First time I've ever heard of this band that probably performed live more than any other as "too commercial." Usually "counter-culture" is more what comes to mind with most people who know anything about the Grateful Dead going back to the beginning.
I only listened to classical and gospel & bluegrass growing up. I listened to the forbidden stations while my parents were working. Nice girls did not listen to THAT kind of music.
My husband and I both have full time jobs. We also own a business together. Beside those two things plus family commitments and other things going on in our lives, we don't really have time to attend any political rally.
Look, we loved Obama. It is my opinion that Obama is one of the greatest presidents this country ever had. And yet not once did we attend his rallies.
I loved Hillary. I still hold the opinion that she would have made a great president. Never attended her rallies, though.
Don't know how Trump supporters could have the time to attend his rallies like that.
Same...
I've always been very interested in politics, and I strongly believe that politics is very important, but I've also never been one to attend rallies or even march for this cause or that. Just not how I engage politically. I think this is true for most Americans, but to hear Trump and his followers talk about attendance at these rallies, you'd think it was the Second Coming.
Of course crowds that have filled the seats to hear people like JFK, MLK and Obama speak has meaning. What concerns me is the meaning of so many people filling seats to hear someone like Trump instead...
You beat me to it. When I read the sentence you quoted in the post you were replying to above, the bolded was the first thing I thought about.
Beat me too, but I'm only now catching up with the comments posted in this thread after I started it yesterday morning. This also came to mind when I read the one about how "classy" Trump's followers are...
Donald Trump Cracked a 'Joke' After His Supporter Yelled About Shooting Immigrants at the Border. This Isn't a Joke.
It isn't the size of the crowd that matters most. It's the people in the crowd and what draws them. No "classy" candidate is going to draw the kinds of crowds that Trump does. That's a fact...
well at least when trump has a rally he doesnt have to invite music and movie stars to that rally to get fans to show up, like hillary did.
Or pass out free Obama phones and EBT cards.
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