Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

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Where The Meet Hits The Street

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“Bob?”

“Sure, Bruce?”

“Did you invite all these people to join the Dead?”

“Sure did, Bruce.”

“And did you bring Vince here with the Time Sheath technology?”

“Uh-huh.”

“And Phil is where?”

“It’s raining, and he didn’t want to get the Ferrari wet. I’m sure one of these folks plays bass.”

“Bruce?”

“Yeah, Bob?”

“Um…you know about Time Sheath technology?”

“Dude, the first week I was in the band, you shanghaied me back to the 20’s to double-team Amelia Earhart.”

“Now I remember. She was a fun gal.”

“Yeah.”

“Does Billy look like a founding father?”

“Yes, he does.”

Meet You At The Jubilee

The rumor going around is that there’s a Big Ticket item coming for the 50th, and as always, TotD brings you EXCLUSIVE previews of some of the things being considered:

  • Billy comes and lives with you for a while! Just what it sounds like: Billy moves in and (in descending order of probability) punches some local dick, accidentally cripples your dog, accidentally sleeps with your wife, accidentally sleeps with your crippled dog, and turns your basement into a Pai-Gow poker game that starts a gang war in Chinatown.
  • Too Much Access Pass! This pass is not merely laminated, it’s encased in 16 pounds of gallery-quality acrylic and enables you true all-access. More access that that. Even more. Like, you can follow people into the bathroom, or home, or into their home bathrooms. You can tag along on the 50th anniversary tour if you want. Hell, you can drive the bus. Sit in on business meetings and listen to men argue about things that happened 30 years and five keyboardists ago. Waltz into The Vault at 3 AM, drunk, to play paintball with homeless people: no one can stop you from doing these things.
  • Spiders! You send Rhino Records $800 and they send an intern to your house to throw spiders–a big box of them–at you. It’s an awful product, honestly.
  • Vince! Every single note from the Vince years, with extras including rehearsals, jams sessions, secretly-recorded bitch sessions, Vince’s solo album, extensive interviews with Vince, and a full and thorough explanation of his actions by Bob Bralove.

Driving That Train


What other website brings you–you, the discerning Enthusiast–exclusive news of how the Grateful Dead responded to the news of the Hyperloop? None!

Y’think there’s a reason for that?

Big Dead?

Really?

No, not this time. This shit’s getting arcane.

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Phil half-read the article, then demanded that “this hyperlooper the boffins have invented” be worked into his amplifier rig.

All day, Bobby had been giggling, hard. He was doing that thing where you’re at a funeral or church or an orgy–somewhere you’re not allowed to laugh–and now YOU CAN’T STOP LAUGHING. Every once in a while, Bobby would try to catch his breath: he would double over, hands on knees, shaking his head. “Hyper poop,” he would whisper, and again start quivering with laughter. It continued for hours; Garcia had to sing most of the songs that night.

Billy invented a hyperloop, as well: it was sexual in nature, and I’d thank you not to ask me any more about it.

Vince was heartbroken over the rumor that the emergency brake was to be named the Vince Song, because it brought things to a dead stop.

Garcia would check into hotels under the name “Hy Perloupe”. He thought is was clever, and it actually wasn’t such a bad little joke. Then he would accidentally burn down half the building.

 

Ebony And Ivory

The Dead had so many options after Brent’s all-bullshit-aside tragic death and they went with the worst. They apparently had this weird did-you-call-me/should-we-call thing with Merl that is far too Mean Girls to relate in good conscience and more’s the pity because maybe Merl would’ve kicked Garcia’s ass just a little, being a straight-laced man and proud deacon of the Mt. Holy Oak of Zion First Macadamia Church of the Redeemer in Christ. Plus, the Dead would have had a black guy in it. And as commercials have taught us, people hang out exclusively in carefully diverse groups.

There were others they could have at least auditioned. Elton John was hitting a rough patch at the time, perhaps he could have helped out. Something tells me Bobby would love to play Crocodile Rock. The flaw in the plan is that the first time Sir Elton threw one of his legendary tantrums, Billy would punch him in the dick, because this time I’ve gotta stand up for Billy: grown men throwing tantrums deserve a thorough dickpunching.

Rick Wakeman was also in a bit of a fallow period since wasting all of the money in Britain on an ice show to play arpeggios to. I have a feeling that the first time Rick opened his spangly cape to play two of his army of keyboards at the same time, Garcia would freak out and think he was a dragon and set him on fire. So, that’s a no for Rick Wakeman.

Stevie Wonder wouldn’t have worked because Phil still owes him $60 from a poker game and is ducking him.

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