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Grateful Dead to reunite for Obama concert
Reuters ^
| 2/2/08
| Adam Tanner
Posted on 02/02/2008 6:11:36 PM PST by LibWhacker
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday.
Band leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Surviving members have played together occasionally since then, most recently in 2004. On Monday, original members Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will play at a San Francisco theater a day before California's primary.
"They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial 'Super-Tuesday' series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th," the band said in a statement.
The band gained fame with its free-form psychedelic music when the counterculture movement flourished in San Francisco in the 1960s, and they attracted many loyal fans who came to be known as "Deadheads."
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ca2008; concert; deadheads; gratefuldead; heroin; heroinaddicts; obama; potheads; reunite; sf; thedead
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What did people ever see in these losers?
To: LibWhacker
What did people ever see in these losers? Beats me. I guess you had to be there...and bombed out of your skull.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:14:04 PM PST
by
Digital Sniper
(Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
To: LibWhacker
The dead vote for Democrats, the Dead play concerts for Democrats.....
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:14:10 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: LibWhacker
whoa...dude...Jerry Garcia died ?
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:15:08 PM PST
by
stylin19a
To: scott says
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:15:35 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
To: LibWhacker
Obama needs a miracle every day.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:16:00 PM PST
by
Hoodat
(The whole point of the Conservative Movement is to gain converts, not demonize them.)
To: LibWhacker
A good excuse to get stoned.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:16:00 PM PST
by
Always Right
(Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
To: LibWhacker
If Obama can raise Jerry from the dead, I’ll vote for him ...
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:17:17 PM PST
by
11th_VA
(McCain would be the worst president - except for all the rest ...)
To: LibWhacker
Well, that’s it for Hillary, if the Dead are gonna play for Obama.
Even though his papa was a rolling stone.....
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:17:26 PM PST
by
exit82
(How do you handle Hillary? You Huma her.)
To: LibWhacker
The dope ~ just the dope.
Jerry's dead now.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:17:34 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: LibWhacker
What did people ever see in these losers? We *heard* good music.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:17:54 PM PST
by
bvw
To: nuconvert
Bill lives in Hawaii and probably is not motivated to jump on a plane for the gig.
To: Digital Sniper
I hear ‘ya... If I stood on a corner and sang for 40 years, I’d come up with precisely zero good songs. As far as I can tell they sang for 40 years and only came up with one. Put another way, they are only slightly better than me. Sheesh!... Life isn’t fair.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:18:38 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
("I don't like prison. They have the wrong types of bars in there." Charles Bukowski)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:18:59 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:19:21 PM PST
by
RDTF
To: 11th_VA
LOL! I was thinking the same thing...You know with all the hype around Oprahbama and all.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:19:43 PM PST
by
hope
(Isaiah 53 nothing redacted)
To: scott says
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:20:01 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
To: LibWhacker
Thank You Jerry!
For finally dying!
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:20:34 PM PST
by
Hacksaw
(I support the tiger.)
To: Digital Sniper
What does a Grateful Dead fan say when the heroin wears off?
Man, those guys suck.
Actually, I liked some of their music, but there was too much of the dark side involved for me ever to be a "Deadhead." OTOH, I'm a big Parrot Head.
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posted on
02/02/2008 6:20:39 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: LibWhacker
Jerry was a fantastic guitar and banjo player. He had a distinct tonality on electric that no one could copy, and he was a splendid improviser within the genre he chose.
He had many personal problems, but this is pretty common among musicians with more money than sense.
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