Author Topic: Grateful Dead Movie - again (Read 421 times)

lbpesq · « **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:46:31 PM »

Hmmmm ... minimal three-piece band - no bass - backing a poet who likes to get drunk and expose himself. Yea, that's the LSD experience just as I remember it! (NOT). Seriously though, I liked the Doors, but I NEVER thought of them as a psychedelic LSD band, and no one I knew did either.

Bill, tgo

jlpicard · « **Reply #16 on:** May 20, 2005, 12:00:25 AM »

Why do some people find it neccessary to put labels on everything? How do you define an Acid trip anyway? Wouldn't that experience be different for each individual? And so logicaly, wouldn't the music be different also? For example, maybey Farmer Brown hears Chet Atkins while trippin' out on the back porch of his farmhouse? LOL! Mike

kmh364 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 20, 2005, 04:32:25 AM »

Touche'! Good point, Mike, LOL! To each his own , I suppose.

As a teen, I knew of a group of jocks in town that hung out at one of their own's place dubbed the attic (i.e., an attic room in his Mom's house, what a surprise!). Despite them all being lettermen, they smoked a lot of rope, drank a lot and did other recreational substances. They were all Zeppellin heads and, therefore, when they tripped, they tripped to Led Zep. They thought that Zep knew the golden road to unlimited devotion (Cashmir? LOL!).

To my reckoning, I guess the Doors really ARE psychedelic compared to Zep, LOL!

jacko · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2005, 05:58:52 AM »

kevin.
ignorant english question.... what's a letterman?

graeme

paulman · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2005, 06:58:54 AM »

When is that quote from...the late 60's? I know the article is from 2002, but when did Robby actually make the quote.

I agree with The End being quite good. In the younger days we'd take one channel of the stereo and put it though a delay pedal set to 2 seconds. Then as Jim was ranting in the middle with the raga guitar, we'd sweep the delay time up and down. So, the one channel would be clean, and then a second or two later you'd get this weird closer/nearer doppler from the other side. With a wide stereo separation (and some drrruuugggzz oh no!) it felt like the room would twist and turn. Heh...sorry for the long rant!

David Houck · « **Reply #20 on:** May 20, 2005, 08:29:02 AM »

Graeme,

I think that, simply put, in high school (ages 15-18?), if you played on a sports team, they awarded you a piece of cloth that you could sew on your sweater of jacket. The cloth was in the shape of the initial or initials of the name of your school. For instance if you went to Newtown High School, you would get a big letter N to sew on your jacket. Thus, you were a letterman; and with such distinction were conferred some measure of status from some segments of high school society.

David Houck · « **Reply #21 on:** May 20, 2005, 08:31:43 AM »

I like the story about running one channel of The End through a delay!!

jagerphan84 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 20, 2005, 08:42:43 AM »

Re: the 'varsity letters' as I've heard them called-

Maybe my high school was weird (well, I know it was) but we received varsity letters after taking a somewhat ridiculous number of music classes. Myself and about 3 or 4 other musically-inclined students in my class worked up the 8 or 10 full-year courses needed for the letter. A skinny, long-haired letterman in Birkenstocks? Whodathunkit?

Adam

keith_h · « **Reply #23 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:06:03 AM »

Actually my high school had letters for sports and for the music folks that were in marching band. They then got bars (jocks) and I think musical notes (band) for each year they participated.

Keith