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Full Metal Rando

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“RAAAAAAAAAAAAA–”

Stop this.

“–NDOOOOOOOOO.”

Why are you so into this?

“This is personal. I don’t wanna get into it.”

Okay.

“Fine, I’ll tell you.”

Fuck.

“My father died in the Second World Rando War.”

That is neither true, nor a thing.

“Very true. Just like Bob Geldof in The Wall. I wrote a song about it. It’s called When The Randos Ran Free.”

Stop talking.

“I am the King of Randopolis.”

You okay?

“I’ve never been in a band before. I mean, in high school. After that, it was guys I hired. This is different.”

How so?

“I can’t tell them what to do.”

Oh, shouldn’t do that. You didn’t try, did you?

“Once.”

What happened?

“You know the part of the contract that forbids Billy from me in the dick?”

Yeah.

“We had to amend it to cover Billy paying someone else to do it.”

Billy will find a loophole.

“Right. So, you know: we’re equals.”

Okay.

“Except for Jeff and Oteil.”

Obviously.

“But here’s the thing: I don’t want to be equals. And since I can’t achieve that contractually, I will destroy their spirits with the strategic use of randos.”

This will not end well.

“Someday, this Rando War is gonna end.”

Please don’t say I love–

“I love the smell of randos in the morning.”

–the smell of…yeah, that.”

“I’m gonna win this.”

THERE’S NO WINNING A RANDO WAR, DAMN YOU!

“Was that your Oscar moment?”

Did I nail it?

“No.”

I didn’t think so.

All Quiet On The Rando Front

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Hey, Joh–

“It’s on. They want a Rando War, they got one.”

I hate all of you.

“Look at ’em! Hipster randos in their summer uniforms!”

I see. Please don’t escalate this.

“Bobby brings one rando, I bring two. Billy finds a pack of randos, I get a brigade of ’em. That’s the Connecticut way.”

John, please–

“SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE RANDOS!”

–don’t…I need to write a book and get away from you people.

“You need to write a book, I need to pay too much for ugly bullshit and solo: we all got needs, man. And right now? I need to win this Rando War.”

It isn’t even a thing!

“John Mayer being in the Grateful Dead isn’t a thing, either, but here we are. RANDO WAR!”

What are you wearing on your lower limbs?

“Pants.”

You sure?

“I bought them at–”

We all know where you bought them, and we all know what happened to you while you were there. Move on and answer the question.

“They’re just pants, man.”

If those are pants, then where the hell’s your potato salad? I see a plate you could put the potato salad on, but no salad.

“Please stop thinking about my crotch so much.”

If it were where a crotch should be, then I would.

“Can I go? I have to look at these pins. Did you know I collect vintage Dead pins?”

Since when?

“Since these guys showed them to me.”

Sure.

“Already bought about three million worth.”

Sounds right.

“Almost all of them turned out to be fake.”

That also sounds right.

“RANDO WAR!”

God, I wish Garcia were alive.

The Simpsons Are Going To Camden, New Jersey!

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Are you presenting me with randos?

“Look at this one’s haircut.”

Is his name Rocka Billy?

“I got no idea. Naming randos gives them power.”

Good point.

“These new randos are a different breed, though. I was used to teenage girls and frat boys.”

And now?

“Dead randos come bearing gifts, man.”

Oh, yeah. Brass ring for a Dead rando is to give a Grateful Dead something.  They been giving you weed?

“Do you know what a Dragon Ball is?”

Z?

“No. It’s six pounds of 99% pure cannabis extract the size and shape of a small cannonball.”

I would like one of those.

“I have, like, nine.”

I could give you my address, and pay for the shipping.

“Pulled into a gas station in the Earthroamer in between Cincinnati and Camden, and two randos got in a fistfight over which one was going to pay for me.”

These are terrible problems, and I feel for you.

“Yeah, right: it’s not the worst.”

What kind of app is it?

“How do you know about the app? You shouldn’t know about that.”

Is it like the Kardashian apps, where you guide virtual John Meyer through his rocking day, accumulating points for soloing and wearing clothes, while enjoying a full array of in-game purchase opportunities?

“Seriously, how do you–”

Is it like Snapchat, but food-based? Is it Snackchat, John?

“I need to make some calls.”

Okee dokee, artichokee.

We’re Having A Party

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Hey, John Mayer. Whatcha doing?

“Oh, I’m worthy of a ‘Whatcha doing?’ now?’ You’re coming around on me.”

I’ve grown accustomed to the situation.

“Six of one.”

Got yourself a rando?

“Dude, you know that I was, like, famous as shit long before I even heard of the Dead, right? I’ve had more randos than a Japanese Star Wars cosplay convention.”

Nice one.

“Had it in my pocket.”

Still.

“I’m used to randos.”

“Okay, there’s a shit-ton more lately.”

Like moths to a flame, so is the rando to a Grateful Dead.

“They’re everywhere. Don’t get me wrong: they’re all pretty chill. But you can’t turn around.”

Occupational hazard.

“I keep finding them in the Earthroamer.”

That might be Soup.

“Dude, if it were Soup, I would have said I found Soup in the Earthroamer. I know Soup, man.”

Have you found Soup in the Earthroamer?

“Multiple times.”

Yeah.

“I don’t even know how he’s doing it. Guy’s the opposite of an escape artist.”

I think of him more as a vehicular hermit crab.

“Bobby’s thinking about putting a sniper on the roof of his tour bus.”

He should call Phil and have him send out a busboy.

“What?”

Storyline you weren’t part of.

“Gotcha.”

When’s your app coming out?

“What?”

Nothing.

The Cut-Off Man

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Joooooohhhn. Ohhh, JoooooooOOOOOOOOOHHHhhhnn.

“Who the fuck is that?”

Your future.

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“No.”

Search your heart, John. You know it to be true.

“No. NO! I’ll never wear you!”

It’s going to be a hot summer, John.

“STAY AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEE!”

A WELL-APPOINTED HOTEL BEDROOM

“OH MY GOD! Jesus! What a terrible dream! Katy, wake up and listen to my dream and tell me if I should Snapchat it.”

I’m not Katy.

“NOOOOOOOOOO!”

It Was Just A Disguise

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Here’s the irony of being in the Grateful Dead: you never got to go to a Grateful Dead show. There were 20,000 people in the arena dancing, but there were five or six guys (and Mrs. Donna Jean) who were at their jobs. For us to play, they had to work. Think about it: the Dead were the only people in the building that had to be doing a specific thing. You could dance, or lie down, or get tackled by Parish; hell, you could walk out and go get ice cream if you wanted to. Our temporary autonomy was a direct result of their contractual obligation.

It’s the gilded cage scenario, sure, but a locked door is a floater in your eye: once you know it’s there, you’re always going to notice it. There’s backstage, but that’s friends and hangers-on and drug dealers and record company assholes and stone-cold teen foxes; sometime you just have to dive into a crowd of strangers and wade around, maybe buy a t-shirt or a corn dog.

But how? A Grateful Dead would draw a crowd, especially in a Grateful Dead crowd, and that’s not the point of the parking lot: you want to see and be seen, not be gawked at. The Deadheads would mean well, and they would say lovely things and offer lovely drugs, but on a clear and hot summer day, you just want to glide down Shakedown, nice and smooth, and leave no wake.

Trickery was to be employed.

That photo is from the parking lot of Ventura in ’87; look at the skeleton’s eyes: that’s our Bobber. He thought the best way to remain inconspicuous was dressing up in a skeleton costume while standing next to a man dressed like a riverboat gambler. I’d like to think that everyone knew it was Bobby and was just polite about it, and pretended that they were fooled.

Bobby has picked his band members well, because several years ago Young John Mayer did this exact routine, except he filmed it and put it on his MTV show. (You forgot he had an MTV show, didn’t you?)

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That’s John in the grizzly bear suit. Later on, he made love to that woman and recorded it. You must never, ever listen to that recording.

On the other hand:

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“Hey, fuckers! It’s me! Who wants to tell me how great I am!?”

“I do!”

“Me, too!”

“All right, you’ll all get a chance. Line up, line up.”

“Billy, I love you. You’re the best.”

“I am! Here’s some rolling papers. Next!”

“I named my dog after you, Billy.”

“That’s great, kid. Here’s some rolling papers. Next!”

And so on.

(Photo stolen from a Reddit–and that place has become an unwashed asshole except for some of the smaller and more specific subs–user named Sirsnackpack, who I don’t believe is actually a knight. I think he’s just Mistersnackpack, and he’s trying to sound fancy.)

Guitarist Is Now Pantless; I Repeat: Pantless

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Shorts?

“They were sold to me as a scanty pant.”

You guys gotta find a different store to buy clothes at.

“Dude, Ernie’s the best. He gave me these! Free!”

Uh-huh. Check the crotch.

CROTCHCROTCHCROTCH

“There’s a hidden camera in here.”

He is not called Creepy Ernie ironically.

“There’s another in in the back.”

Ernie’s into buttholes.

Oh, Sweet Mama

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It’s a Father’s Day theme going on. Why are you here?

“She calls me Daddy.”

Get out.

“Me, too?”

You can stay, Katydoodle.

“Don’t call me that.”

How’s Dr. Gary?

“The disgraced Nobel laureate chemist who can best be described as ‘What if Bear were Chaotic Evil?'”

You’re so great at exposition.

“I know, thanks. Dr. Gary is fine. Or dead. Or he might be buying Gawker.”

He still making weird-ass drugs for you?

“Not drugs. Never drugs. Drugs are for junkies. Dr. Gary creates entheogenichodelics, and these are our sacraments.”

What happens when you take them?

“Soooo fucking high.”

Right.

“But you also meet God. Or sometimes gods. Once we met Gods. That was not great.”

Never a good idea to bother a pantheon. What’s the newest concoction?

“2-Isopropyl-5-methyl-1-(2,6-dihydroxy-4-nonylphenyl)cyclohex-1-ene.”

Could you repeat that?

“No.”

You can’t actually call it that.

“Oh, of course not. The name was came up with is Euphoria.”

That’s an awful name. It sounds like a fake drug from Law & Order. What does it do?

“Makes you think you’re in an episode of Law & Order.”

Then it’s a good name.

“It’s been a very fertile period for Dr. Gary. He’s made a real breakthrough on a synthetic opioid.”

Ooh, careful with that stuff.

“No! The whole point of alphabetagammahydroxytetragrammamorphonate–”

What?

“–is that it’s non-addictive. You can take it every day!”

You can take anything every day. It’s the stopping that makes something addictive.

“We haven’t gotten to that point in the trials yet. We’re still firmly in the ‘doing it’ phase. Next is ‘not doing it anymore.'”

And when will that phase be?

“It could be anytime, man! I could stop whenever I want!”

This is not good, Katy.

“I’m messing with you. I wouldn’t take that stuff.”

Good.

“I made my assistant test it.”

Not as good.

“Yeah, I think she’s a junkie now.”

Dr. Gary is no good for you to be around, Katy. You’re America’s number one pop star and teen queen. You have a wholesome image, even though much of your success is built around your ample bosom.

“Hey, I’m not just a pair of boobs. I write my own songs.”

Doc Pomus wrote songs, too but he was a fat, crippled Jew and therefore didn’t sell out stadiums. You write pop hits, but are also hot with luscious melons. This was an excellent decision on your part.

“We work with what the Lord gave us.”

Amen, sister. Katy?

“Yeah?”

Your boyfriend is wearing more jewelry than you are.

“Yeah.”

 

Ginger, Ruby

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Happy Father’s Day, Trump.

“Wow, that one’s not funny any more.”

Yeah, I apologize.

“It’s just–”

I totally get it. Wrong of me.

“Cool. One other thing.”

Sure. Cute kids, by the way.

“Thanks. Um…why am I included in this?”

Because at 41% of the Dead shows I attended, you were the Garcia. So, you know: you’re in.

“Forever?”

I gotta say that John Mayer is a lot easier to work with.

“So go bother him.”

Actually: you wanna see something funny?

“Quickly, but yeah.”

Okay. Trey, have you heard about the new Greubel Forsey Double Tourbillon 30° Technique?

The Double Tourbillon 30°

It’s cut from a single sapphire crystal and contains no metal except for the winding pin, and retails for $1.3 million.

“Why would I care about that ridiculous piece of sh–”

“GIVE IT TO ME.”

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See?

“John?”

“Oh, hey, Trey.  Cute kids. Tell me more about the watch.”

“Does he always do this?”

Yeah. It’s like saying “Beetlejuice” three times.

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