Them US Blues


Posted On: Thursday - July 4th 2024 4:51PM MST
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Wow! It's been just 2 years under a quarter of a Millennium since the Founders declared that the yoke of tyranny was too much to put up with. Now, a half century after the days when The Dead played this US Blues in San Francisco (The Winterland ballroom), the loss of freedom I've experienced in my life time has got to be many times what the American Colonists lost from 1725 to 1776. Yet, there they were, putting their lives on the line signing that Declaration. What'll happen here.

We've missed it a couple of years, but generally, featuring the Grateful Dead's US Blues* on Independence Day is a Peak Stupidity tradition.

It was Jerry, Bob, Phil, Mickey, Billy, Keith and Donna, a true All-American band, no matter what people think from the name and the acid-rock hippy stereotype.



I'm Uncle Sam. That's who I am.
Been hiding out in a rock and roll band.
Shake the hand that shook the hand
of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan.
Shine your shoes. Light your fuse,
Can you use them old U.S. Blues?


Yep, though not able to go to a show, I was aware of things when The Dead was playing this 50 years back. America then was the freest place you could imagine, or maybe couldn't anymore.

Oh well, we've got 35 bucks worth of fireworks to fire off. The Founders hoped their courageous move would be celebrated with fireworks in celebration for years afterwards .. if they were successful. They were ... till we blew it all to hell. There'll be fireworks all right though ...

Here's hoping Peak Stupidity, but more importantly, the U.S. of A. in some recognizable form, will still be here for them US Blues in '26!


PS: Oh, about those Tories going back to '76 - they had a good run, but they seem to be done.


* youtube goes "live version of ..." Well, duh!

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[UPDATED 04/05:]
Added line about "All-American band".
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Comments:
Ganderson
Thursday - July 11th 2024 5:18AM MST
PS. Sorry to be so late on this- been sitting by the shores of Lake Hubert, Nisswa, MN, enjoying the sounds of the loons barking at each other, reading my cheesy Billy Boyle novels, etc.

Nice version of US Blues, taken from a series of shows at Winterland, after which the band broke up for a bit more than a year. One kinda cool thing- the Dead started doing this song live in early โ€˜73, only it was slightly different- called โ€œWave That Flagโ€ on the Archive . Check some of those versions out!

Thanks for posts like this- between these and Sailerโ€™s golf and baseball posts it helps me forget that we are sliding into the toilet, with very little chance of a course correction.
Adam Smith
Friday - July 5th 2024 12:55PM MST
PS: Greetings, Mr. Alarmist!

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I agree with your assessment. I also think it is possible that they might replace pedojoe with kamala the street-shitter... and deliver 101 million votes for her just to rub our faces in the fact that they are running the show and that there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.

I guess time will tell.

Happy Friday evening! โ˜ฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Friday - July 5th 2024 12:54PM MST
PS: " Thereโ€™s no upside for the Deep State to allow Biden to be replaced." I am not sure, as an OTOH from what I wrote below, I just wrote something similar for the next post. (It's not the main point - the main point is humor.)

Their glee in rubbing it in our faces that they don't mind a senile, vegetable even, or dead man as President is not a problem for them is a good point. I also think they may not want to rock the boat now. Right now, they probably have calculated how many votes they need to cheat by. The accountants HATE HATE HATE it when you make them start all over with new numbers. "The spreadsheets can't handle it, Captain! They're gonna blow!!"

Apparently, Big Mike says no can do.
The Alarmist
Friday - July 5th 2024 12:30PM MST
PS

Iโ€™d like to think Joepedo is Joe-ver, but as I commented to an Anglin post at UR, Thereโ€™s no upside for the Deep State to allow Biden to be replaced. I wouldnโ€™t put it past them to run his dead corpse and deliver 91 million votes for it just to rub our faces in the fact that they are running the show.
Moderator
Friday - July 5th 2024 6:22AM MST
PS: OK, you mean George Stephanopoulos, O.S. I had to go look that up, as I thought that first but don't follow these journalist/politicos very closely. (I last remember his associated with BJ Clinton.)

Yeah, they can doctor it up very well, I'm sure. As much as I'd be entertained by more of the same of what people saw last week, I think it's better for us that JoeMentia is dragged through the campaign. One of these others will just give the ctrl-left someone new/younger to rally around.

Glad to have another Dead Head reader. Thanks.
Old Soldier
Thursday - July 4th 2024 8:58PM MST
PS
OT
What's coming...Friday's Georgie interview of Biden is not a live interview - the news release was written days ago. It'll be a carefully produced, carefully choreographed and severely edited softball "conversation" between a disabled candidate for office and a 'former' cutthroat political operative of the same persuasion. Anyone think they can't make Biden look sharp as a tack? Georgie's interview is going to be rigged to make Biden look like another Einstein. Will there be ANY honest observers present to ensure no teleprompters are involved in this interview/propaganda? NOPE!! And once they get it cut just right, it will be shown in snippets over several days to make it seem like it was 2 hours long. We've seen it all before, and the CNN crowd of 350 pound welfare couch potatoes will eat it up and vote for Biden, without question, come November. I've seen it umpteen times since LBJ.

"...what a long strange trip it's been..." it's nearly impossible to top the Grateful Dead.
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