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Yeah - I read it on the Hoffman board earlier this morning and was waiting to get confirmation. Hopefully it's not true. Doing a quick search this morning to find out anything on his death, I came across the below interview. Didn't realize he had a place in France. http://www.cltampa.com/music/interviews/article/20847834/qa-butch-trucks-talks-trump-gaga-and-paris-before-nye-show-in-clearwater

KIDZ Bop has ruined my kids... My two kids went - their best part of the day was the train ride and playing at Maggie Daley Park. The 7 year had a basic understanding why we marched and understood it. The 5 year old not so much. They both got a kick out of the signs that people had.

Yeah - Phil looked like he as battling a cold of Friday.

Below is a link to last night's Phil/CRB sets --- Neal Casal sang lead on some the American Beauty tunes, which kinda of surprised me. Realy liked his take on Sugar Magnolia. Kinda wish the other guitarist wan't there - he was kinda of a one trick pony - guess he is Phil's tour manager. http://www.jambands.com/news/2017/01/21/phil-lesh-kicks-off-brooklyn-bowl-las-vegas-run-with-complete-performances-of-workingman-s-dead-and-american-beauty

Not to mention the whole speech at the CIA, where he said the press created the whole Trump bashing the US intelligence community. Of course he brought up the inauguration attendance there, too. But the below was the most chilling spot of the whole CIA speech. Are we going to war with Iraq next week? His supporters will still continue to believe what he says and think that the media is 'out to get him; - but with the shear numbers out today - it won't last. Of course the opposition has to keep up the momentum that was started today. I think we will.

We were there - got down there around 9am --- kid's got restless and we caught the 1:30 train back home. Great, friendly crowd. It was rather amazing that the march was actually called off during the rally, due to the amount of people. There were so many people - we filled the entire intended route, so we had no where to march to - which was rather amazing. Props to the city to reroute the parade mid-stream and marched we did. Chicago PD definitely has their issues -- but they know how to throw down a protest/rally/march as peacefully as possible. They definitely were observers today - all

Don't forget Satisfaction and It's all Over Now (yeah, it's a Womack tune).

I finally gotten around to listen the entire Trigger Hippy record, via Spotify -- a real solid record. Never been a huge fan of Jackie Greene.

Probably.

https://www.womensmarch.com/mission/

Obviously, when the Dead's involvement with Altamont is discussed - only stipulation/point of direction that Scorsese probably gave to Amir Bar-Lev.

Chicago - will be taking our two kids, too. Due to the amount of people that they are now expecting - the march route has considerably shorten. Some are complaining about the shorten route, which seems strange to me. There is still going to be a rally and a march.

Politico did a good job of tallying all the Trump's 'untruths' since he won the election. Nice touch adding the cut off deadline: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trumps-transition-of-untruths-exaggerations-and-flat-out-falsehoods-214664?lo=ap_b1

"Can you at least stop playing Rolling Stones music at any of your functions?" and "Please don't get us all killed" Ugh. (Sorry that's two -- so I will go with the 1st one)

Happy that Raines made it in. Always enjoyed watching him play.

Kicking around the idea of buying the Friday webstream -- figure it might be nice way to end a horrible day.

Man, never realized the Beck sampled that rift.

^ Awesome news.

More than likely we will be up there, too. We will train in and probably just watch, not sure I want to march with 5 and 7 yr. old, in case there are some issues. But I would like them to see the process. Never had a White Russian, but Friday sounds like a great time to try one...

Agreed - horrible mix. Great tunes, though.

here's a shot where Weir and Lesh are both behind the drummers.

Since Trump wants to drain the swamp, I am sure he'll push for campaign finance and lobbying reform.

Maybe it's because I am reading through a Bear bio - but I guessing he probably told him to stand behind them for sound purposes.

I never gotten into the extended live version of Running Free - but the studio cut is great. I would replace The Trooper with Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

I recently checked out the 1st two deluxe cd's, via the library - the DVD's that were part of them were pretty great.