Lammycat

It's today my eyes are open, it's today the time to turn around.....

What other songs are you referring to? I think "Victim or the Crime" is the only tune the guy co-wrote the lyrics too that made it into GD repertoire. He also wrote/co-wrote lyrics to some Rat Dog tunes too ("Even So," I think and 1-2 others).

The Gerrit Graham thing made me go back to find this cool article by him on the birth of the tune. Pretty cool read if you're into this kind of thing: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/votc.html

Yeah, I believe this is correct. The tune ("Victim") was, supposedly, inspired (by Weir, at least) by a Bela Bartok piece....

Well now geez I REALLY think "Victim" took off and became a very solid exploratory tune through its growth! Plus, it usually paired with "Foolish" which I loved from the get-go, studio album version aside.

Ha. I've had no shame in ever uttering similar words. I love the beat, the harmonies, and Garcia's guitar work can get downright nasty on it.Never understood the general distaste for the tune. It's pretty funky, imo.

Yeah, and then Weir did NOT take lead vocals on Playin' or the Quinn encore. Pretty good stuff right there!

"Mountain Song"? "Been Caught Stealing"?

Pretty sweet last night with Weir sitting in most of the 2nd set : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDN_6_sLAc&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, I'm confused about the "eminent decay," as well. Everything I've read points to very little increase in crime rates in neighborhoods with legal shops. the real issue is that shops are set up in zones (much like liquor stores) and these zones are almost always in already low-income neighborhoods, where crime rates are always higher than in medium/high-income neighborhoods. How come?

Yes. Still more prolific than one song....

It's already taxed pretty hard....Englewood?

Let's be honest on the tunes, though: most people know "La Bamba" and that's it. And yes about the plane wreck. Point on both being: the R&R HOF has an incredibly broad view of what merits acceptance. Jane's Addiction, just because they don't have a ton of material, are just as worthy of acceptance (or "deseve it"-ness) as a Richie Valens or an Abba or a Bobby Darin.

Richie Valens got in because of one tune.......

A short list of who shouldn't/won't eventually be in may be more pertinent. I say Limp Bizkit and WHAM! don't "deserve" to be in....

That was the first time I had seen a Colbert show (due to Weir). Both were very good. Everybody got a blue cowboy hat at his Cap bday show Sunday night, too.

Nobody's even ever heard a Kraftwerk song before.....

How about Elmore James or Bessie Smith or Billie Holiday or ABBA ot John Lee Hooker? The R&R hall of Fame is anything but.....

It's not true.

Schilling is an insufferable bag of hot douche.

I remember being at a birthday show of his in St. Pete '88. there was a massive card for him in the lot. Brent's (36th) birthday was a few nights later in Dallas with a Happy Birthday from the crowd and a Wang Dang Doodle 2nd set opener. That was a phone show.

Bob's 69th bday....

They had this out here last week and I wanted to go but blew it off as it was a school night and it was Game 1 of the ALDS. I'd go if it was Steve Earle alone (not sure who The Milk Carton Kids or Ruby Amanfu are) but Emmylou and Rober Plant, too....

I woke up with that Gary Johnson fella's blank stare and "Aleppo? What is Aleppo?" on a loop in my head....

He had been seeing a shrink for his anger issues, too, and even told the shrink he wanted to go up to the observatory to kill people. Whitman also stabbed his mother and wife to death the night before the rampage on campus.