ADD Round 2: Teh REAL ADD (376 hits)
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Submitted by X54 (View user info) at 2009-09-23 11:18:20 EDT
Back before Jerry Garcia was truly grateful, we saw The Dead at Laguna Seca Raceway. I'd just been to the California Superbike School there and got to race a Ninja around the track all morning. We almost bought shrooms from some hippy who had them stashed inside his underpants, but they looked too ball-sweaty. I raced motorcycles for years after that until I totaled my bike.
I also saw (almost) The Dead at Shoreline Amphitheater. We did do shrooms that time. Some yuppie lady sitting next to me boasted how she and her husband had smuggled a joint and a bota bag of wine inside. She asked if I had any partiables. I told her I'd eaten three and a half grams of shrooms in the parking lot. She got all scared and asked if I was going to freak out. ("Honey, we should move.") Which I didn't think I was, but then I started thinking maybe I would because of her being so concerned over it. I left and got in a beer line behind a drunken jarhead who struck up a conversation with me because my hair was short like his.
One of the main reasons I got out of the Army was so I could grow my hair long again. But once I did, it sucked and I cut it off. The jarhead was very drunk and he started telling me in a loud voice how much he hated the women at Dead shows because they're all dirty, smelly hippies. Which is basically true, except for the yuppies, and they're worse, but I started getting bad vibes from everyone within earshot. Being high on shrooms apparently makes me susceptible to other people's reproach.
I had to get out of there. I left without seeing the show. Outside, police were everywhere. One of them yelled through a megaphone in a very sarcastic voice at all the hippies milling about to go home because there were NO MORE TICKETS! I went back to the old Buick Electra I'd just inherited from my grandfather and puked. He died after being diagnosed with a recurrence of stomach cancer, but ironically the autopsy proved he didn't have it after all. Later, we were driving the Buick up to Vancouver, but we had to abandon her in Oregon after she threw a rod.
After dark we drove around the racetrack until a security guard stopped us. He said some hippies blew themselves up the night before wandering around the Fort Ord impact area next to Laguna Seca. Stepped on a dud or something. I heard that in India poor people wait outside the Naval gunfire range during live firing. In between shots they race into the impact area to grab the shrapnel. Sometimes the gunners fire a quick second shot to fuck with them. It's funny because I've never been a Grateful Dead fan. I'm not sure how I ended up at two of their shows.
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-09-25 03:47:06 EDT (#)
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I luffed and luffed.
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2009-09-24 09:29:51 EDT (#)
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I love how your grandpa thinking he was dying was enough to make him die. I don't love that your grandpa is dead though, don't get me wrong.
Submitted by Poots (user info) at 2009-09-24 09:20:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-09-23 11:32:03 EDT (#)
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"Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense." -Han Solo a long time ago in a galaxy far far away....
/shrug
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2009-09-24 06:48:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-09-23 22:02:17 EDT (#)
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oml the other add was fake?
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-09-23 21:19:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2009-09-23 17:11:01 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2009-09-23 16:03:23 EDT (#)
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we cant stop here this is bat country
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-09-23 15:56:25 EDT (#)
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atta boy
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2009-09-23 12:37:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2009-09-23 11:44:11 EDT (#)
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I can't think of the dead without remembering that video for touch of grey that fucked me up for life. Skeletons on strings playing instruments. Nice symbolism or whatever that was cause you're the dead and you have skulls and pelvic bones filled to the brim with acid. I'll take some phil collins over that shit anyday.
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Beware, the power of Phil Collins:
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Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2009-09-23 11:44:11 EDT (#)
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I can't think of the dead without remembering that video for touch of grey that fucked me up for life. Skeletons on strings playing instruments. Nice symbolism or whatever that was cause you're the dead and you have skulls and pelvic bones filled to the brim with acid. I'll take some phil collins over that shit anyday.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2009-09-23 11:36:36 EDT (#)
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ADD in DD'ed
Submitted by willartstorg (user info) at 2009-09-23 11:33:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-09-23 11:32:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
"I been all kids of places and seen all kinds of things, and I'll tell you that there is nothing like a Grateful Dead show." - CatMan, traveling audience organopharmacology consultant and Miracle seeker, Cincinnati 1989.