Conference rdvax::grateful

	thanks to the Ragette(tm) for some grate floors seats Friday!
	
	rage.

    
    Yes, I second that!

	another thank you to da ve for hosting the phishfry last
	Thursday night.  and thanks to Cath (who is sunning in Mexico
	now, probably) for the tickets.  didn't go Friday, can't compare,
	don't know the songs anyways, but all I know is I loved the spacey
	show they played Thursday night - it was just what I needed...

	Debess

    thanks to the person (who only identified themselves as "another
    bearded one") who left me the nice present in my desk drawer!!!!
    
    i came in today to find a neatly wrapped Garcia and Grisman CD! :^)
    
    
    					da ve

                                             
    Adam S., being the cool dude that he is, unselfishly spent many o' lunch
    hours helping me over the past few months with my calc class.  It paid
    off, I got my "B" in the mail last night.   I'm psyched!!!

    What of those of us who suffered thru the same lunches?  ;-) ;-)

    Seriously, congrats Deano.  You never need hoist another integral
    again.

re:      <<< Note 52.822 by DELNI::DSMITH "Answers aplenty in the by & by" >>>

>    Adam S., being the cool dude that he is, unselfishly spent many o' lunch
>    hours helping me over the past few months with my calc class.  It paid
>    off, I got my "B" in the mail last night.   I'm psyched!!!

Alright!  I've been anxiously awaiting that grade (as if it was me taking
the class!  Then again, after helping you with those take-home tests, maybe
it *was* me taking the class! :-))

adam

	conratulations on your B, adam!!   ;-)     :-):-)

    
    Thanks to jc (I'm sure he'll read this note sometime in August) for an
    excellent stomp in the snow last night! Deano & JC got 3 runs in some
    serious virgin powder. It was up to my crotch at times as we stomped up
    the hill.
    
    Good beer, too!
    

not quite august, but, not too far off mon!
just hit next unseen to see what would come up, and, boom!
this one came up....


twas an excellent night... and fond memories or huge
amounts of snow...  not much snow left :-( :-( .. 
my driveway is a skating rink with all the run off (1/2"-2" of ice!)

**************

           <<< Note 52.826 by SPSEG::COVINGTON "serpent deflector" >>>

    
    Thanks to jc (I'm sure he'll read this note sometime in August) for an
    excellent stomp in the snow last night! Deano & JC got 3 runs in some
    serious virgin powder. It was up to my crotch at times as we stomped up
    the hill.
    
    Good beer, too!
    

    thanks to Divide Dave for the late b-day present, a t-shirt with the
    fukengroovin dude on the front, holding two beers and above him it
    says:
                                      ..
                               FARFROMPUKEN   
    
    
    %^)
    rfb

    
    thank you! thank you! thank you! to rfb and patty for the
    Jerry-T's!
    
    /mj

    Have to mention my thanks also - friends of mine are happy campers
    today due to the shirts!
    
    rfb -  you and Patty are the best for doing this!
    
    Fredda

    
    Those shirts are rage'n rfb!!!!
    
    Gonna to wear it to the office tomorrow!

    you are all very welcome....i have one on today at work.
    
    we got some stickers and some nice notes with the last batch of checks
    ya'll sent, want to thank U for those.
    
    AND! we have extra larges, both long and short sleeved! so anyone that
    still needs to take care of a small(er) friend or even a second for
    yerself.....
    
    rfb

    Just got my shirts also!  rfb, they're beauuuutiful!
    
    Thanks!  I'm sending one to my ultra~cool mom for her birthday...
    
    /d

    jeez, Dan-yell, doesn't yer mom live in Boulder?? I could have given her one
    at a local Shakedown Street gig!  %^)
    
    yer welcome!
    
    BTW, I believe U know Bourdess? did ya know he busted his leg in two
    places on New Years Eve playin Big Time Wrasslin with his roommates?  
    
    rfb

    DOOOHHHH!!!! 
    
    I said:
    
      ***  AND! we have extra larges, both long and short sleeved! so anyone
    that
        still needs to take care of a small(er) friend or even a second for
        yerself.***
    
    and meant to say:
    
    ***we have extra shirts, long and short sleeved, IN SIZE LARGE!*****
    
    sorry
    rfb

    My mom moved back to NY in September...but supposedly she's moving back
    to Boulder in June.
    
    Bourdess....hmmm, yeah I think I remember him ;') hehehe...I haven't
    talked to him in a while, I didn't know he broke his leg...youch!
    
    thx rfb-
    /d

    Thanks to Jeff Ceparski for the 94 Nassua tapes! GOOD STUFF!!!!
    Standing on the Moon's jam is probably the second best I've heard
    andthe JGB fillers are killer!! Yer shirts go in the mail today at lunch.
    
    and thanks to Meagan Sampson for the Dancin Bear picture..%^)
    her shirts go in the mail today at lunch also. 
    
    
    rfb

    Thanks Jeff Maggard for the Picture of Nectar poster w/ autographs! 
    Wow!  I can't believe this is your last day already... we will all miss
    you here.
    
    Have a wild trip, mon!!!   Watch that ebola ;^)  zoinks!
    
    'noky

So Long Jimm and Jeff!!!

bobo

    
    Thanks to Deano for use of his pad for a post-rage RAGE last night!
    
    How was the hike? Next time (maybe after great scott's?) I'll be up for
    it - really!
    
    And, if I do come back to DEC in a few weeks, I'm buying all de beers..
    
    :)

    
    No sweat Jim...anytime!
    
    Best of luck in your ventures.  Hopefully see ya back here soon.
    
    Last nights hike was sweet.  I got to JC's at about 10:30....the air
    was clear and cold and moon was relatively bright.  Didn't get 
    home til real late though. :-/  

Thanks to everyone in ::Grateful for bein' ... well ... you.


- jeff

    thanks to Tom Westervelt for the tape, came in the mail yesterday. 
    haven't seen it yet, but will check it out tonite.
    rfb

thanks to mother nature for that excellent helping of
snow late last week.

here's to more snow!
rage!
z

    
    thanks to JJolly for magically transforming my text file of over 1300
    names into a mailing list - in about 5 minutes!  
    
    Carol

    what a guy that peter kibling is...he took the time out of his busy
    schedule to, once again, send me a huge listing of lyrics....thanks
    
    rfb

a quick, belated, thanks to Jay Jols for the FINE tapes. The sound would be 
great if it weren't for ME singing along :-)

jeff

    Thanks to Dan Harrington!  I least I guess it was Dan who dropped off
    the book "Three Days On a River In A Red Canoe" in my cube, as there
    is a 'Harrington' name written inside.  I'm not sure it will help
    Hannah, but I'll see if she's interested in reading it tonight.
    Well, I'll be reading it to her, as she's a bit young for that.
    But she is starting to read and spell, so it won't be too long.
    
    And Jay, thanks for your advice too.  It seems to just be a somewhat
    irrational fear at the moment.  She was about to step out of the 
    canoe at some points in our little outing, and we were not at
    all near the shore!  We'll just let her take it at her own pace,
    and hopefully she'll outgrow it at some point.
    
    Thanks again,
    PeterT
    

>    I least I guess it was Dan who dropped off the book...

And apologies to you, Peter, for not even leaving a note or anything...I
was up in ZKO last week for a meeting, and having read your note about
Hannah's fear-of-canoes I thought the Three Days book might help...my
kids love it!  Anyhow, after stopping by a couple of times I recalled
that you work at home some days, and I meant to drop an e-mail, and
and and and...oh well.  Hope it helps!

Dan

P.S. You might also let her play in the canoe sitting in the back
yard...just fantasy play, or perhaps doing some casting (right, rfb? :-).

Well, I read her the book last week.  She seemed to enjoy it, so I asked
her at the end,

"So, do you think you'd like to do that some day?"
The look on her face!!  I had to keep myself from laughing out loud.

I don't think she'll be venturing forth anytime soon.  She went on
a trip with her Brownie troop to Plimouth Plantation this past
weekend, including a tour around the Mayflower 2.  She was a bit
afraid to get on the ship, but once on, found it didn't
rock, so she was ok.  I'll just have to give it some time.

I'll try the playing in the backyard type thing, though I 
tried a bit of it last year with no success.  Frankly, I wish
she would take up swimming lessons again too.  Maybe this summer.

PeterT

i'd like to post a note of thanks to Ms Sloan,
who proved herself once again to be the hostess
with the mostess...  :^)

had a grate time at the el cinco de mayo fiesta!
even managed to wake up without much hangover... :^)

thanks Cath!!!!

			da ve

    
    Excellent Cinc bash there Sloanie.
    
    Cutting edge vittles and booze!
    
    RAGE!

	Si! Si!  muchas gracias senorita!!!

    that soup stuff was pisser sloan......
    
    and the margaritas were high octane!

yes, thanks Cathy!!

    re: soup stuff 
    
    minudo???
    %^)
    rfb

    
    
      Very high octane Margs...specially for those who rarely drink.
    
      (like me)
    
    
      I was well done.   But as I recall, I had a pleasant time.
      Nice to meet and greet those I haven't in the past.
    
    
    
      El Steve-O

    
    Cathysloan, that was one helluva party.  very interesting mix of
    people - even including (rumor has it) Chris0.   
    
    thank yewwwwwwwww for a real good time
    
     

Yeah, definitely a fun time!
awesome display of food and drinx!!



ok, so, we're on a role.
we had a pahty in april @ tim's
may's pahty was hosted by cathy.
where's june's pahty?


No! not at the JC residence!!!

    isn't there a leblanc fool moon event?

    While folding laundry last night, I realized I still hadn't
    thanked JayJ, rfb, and the universe for a sequence of events
    that left me wearing one of those beautiful *fare thee well*
    t-shirts.
    
    thank you, thank you, thank you!
    
    /bruce

    it's a cryin shame they had to made at all, but yer welcome.
    
    rfb_who got drunk last nite and blasted everyone out of the house with
    some 77 era tapes. 

	thanks to Jeff for the "mixed up tree"...a very nice 
	assortment of music!

	the 1st one I listened to was the Valentines in Japan...
	after all the ugly rumors last fall that Henry Kaiser was
	under consideration to take over lead guitar for the Dead,
	and having never heard him, I was anxious to hear this band.
	
	my opinions:
	good move to end the Dead, I think, no way could anyone ever,
	ever, -ever- replace Jerry...brought home all the more hearing
	Kaiser playing his parts on these familiar songs...good job but...
	it ain't the Dead
	however, I would like to hear Weir play with this electric
	band sometime - nice to hear him do these tunes, and it would
	be a damn shame if we didn't hear him do these songs anymore...
	along with some others...like Estimated, Other One, Cassidy,
	Jack Straw, and and...
	nice job on Playin'!

	2nd tape from this assortment I listened to was the Dylan show
	in Worcester - brought back some great memories of being 10 feet
	away from him as I heard him do those last half dozen songs :-)

	listened to the Jerry/Grisman/Tony Rice tape last...some fine
	music, indeed, just guess I was oriented towards the future and
	future possibilities...left the past for last :-(

	thanks again Jeff,
	Debess

    You're welcome Debess!

Big big thanks to Josh Belkin for the hot,hot,hot,hot
JGB and Dead tapes he's made for me in the last few weeks.
Thanks mon!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I NEED MORE TAPES!!! and i need to send off all the tapes I owe,,,both
    BLANK and filled! I'm just too busy to get my sh*t together right now. 
    Graduation, relatives, Pattys' store, yardwork, cars, trucks,
    ARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!
    
    but, given time,  i will come thru 
    rfb

	 a note of thanks from all the bands at Slip Into Summer
	this year, to everyone who came out on saturday...

	a beautiful and fun day for all...  and a new attendance record
	for Slip Into Summer!!!!   over 850 folks!!!!!!!!

				da ve

    along the SIS lines...
    I was fortunate enough to be educated in the ways of moshing to the
    grateful dead by the many young hipsters there at the show...
    I didn't think such an expression or form of dance was possible
    
    if the fat man was still here, maybe twirling would be repalced by
    crowd surfing?

    re;
        if the fat man was still here, maybe twirling would be repalced by
        crowd surfing?
    
    no!!!! emphatically NO! when in doubt...TWIRL!!!!! The only time i ever
    saw Vegas security get nasty was with a rather large guy right up
    front by the stage who insisted on moshing. after the 3rd time,
    security told him "one more time and you WILL BE THROWN OUT!" I agreed. 
    that f*cker with his flailing elbows was dangerous to the littler 
    girls and guys around him...
    
    and now for my note of thanks.....
    last year I kept saying the Vegas shows were some of the best I'd seen
    or heard tapes of for 95....a young head in a restaraunt begged to
    differ, saying Birmingham Ala was *THE* show of the run. Thanks to Jeff
    Strobel for finally supplying me with these tapes...all i've had a
    chance to listen to is the first set...but WHAT A FIRST SET!!!!!!
    If that's any indication of the second set...YOWZA!!!!!! Thanks again,
    my friend.......
    
    and thanks to da ve for putting life into perspective for me once
    again...
    
    rfb

    
    alright Strobel...what's the story with these Birmingham tapes??
    
    Do tell, Do tell!
    
    Deane_intersted_in_a_copy
    

A big thank you to my wife and kids (who don't read this notesfile, but...)

They got me A Box of Rain, the book of Robert Hunter's lyrics, for
Father's Day...I guess Linda must have noticed me sticking my head
into my sister-in-law's copy everytime we went to visit!

Dan

P.S. I miss checking in here...I'm working up at UNH this week, will
be in Montreal next week, and on vacation (in Quebec) the week after.
So while I'm here, have a great July 4th everybody!

Montreal ?!?!?!?   DAn, I'm jealous...say hi to all my cousins for me...you
may wanna visit a place on St. Catherine's St.....OH, never mind  :)))

Wes_jonesin_for_Montreal_trip_since_it's_already_been_3.5_months_since_I've_
been_there

    Dan
    whatchoo doing at the state U?

    
    Have a good 4th Dan!

>   whatchoo doing at the state U?

They have an Interoperability Lab here...we're testing our
IPv6 prototype against the nefarious UNH test suite, as well
as the other implemenations (from HP, IBM, FTP, Sun, et al).
Good clean fun... :-)

Time to get back to the bit twiddling...

Dan

    the tipping cows part sounds better
    :^)

A big, Big, BIG, ***BIG*** thank you to Dave Levy for bailing my &ss out
on the Jerry tree.  Thanks, man... I owe you one.

	while i'm here ...
	
	i'll throw in a 'thanks' to dave also, for scanning a couple of
	my boston gahdin pictures, from '94.
	
	there's a link of my page ...
	
http://www.zipnet.net/~jols/
	

	A Big note of THANKS to everyone involved on the BOJ tree.
	These tapes are AWESOME!!!!   Thanks everyone for the music.


	Toby

    I second that!  This BOJ just brings tears to my eyes!
    
    Muchas Graisas!
    
    Fredda

	got mine yesterday.
	excellent!
	thanks chuck!! and a "grate job" to Monsieur Belkin.  :-)

	what *is* that jam outta terrapin? it sounds so familiar.
	

You're all very welcome - 'twas a labor of love.... but its Jerry & the boys
who made the music.... I'm just a keeper of the audio relics....

 - Josh

>... I'm just a keeper of the audio relics....

	;-)
	
	speaking of which, I'd like the venues for all the <72 stuff you
	added, if that's possible. I can send you a list.
	
	

THANX to MNelson for catching and J Jolls for preparing some tasty smoked trout,
a nice pre-Slipknot rage snack on Friday...Quite Tasty, as was Slipknot...the
2nd set Terrapin opener>jam>jam>jam was Wild !!!

Wes

    Thanks to Ken Symonds for Allman Bros. tickets on short notice!
    For those who missed the friday night show at GW, it was 
    (as the Telegram put it) staggering. An amazing Saint Steven
    jam and a great Franklins -> Blue sky. During Nobody LEft to
    Run With they were flashing pictures of Duane and Berry Oakley
    then they started flashing pictures of Jerry, then Hendrix
    and John Jennon. It was really touching. If you get a chance
    to see them when they come back in 3 weeks, don't miss it!

    Powerful stuff.

    i concur                                                          
    
    pisser show
    
    there was a fire on the mountain jam too, earlier on in the show..
    somewheres after ain't my cross to bear ?   hootchie cootchie man?
    
    and they showed van zandt and morrison as well on the screens
    
    at least i thougth it was them from my position at the top of the lawn
    :^)

    
    A big thanks to Cap'n Jollimore for the fine fishin expedition.  He's
    got that fishin thang worked out to a science.  He beats everyone on
    fish landed.   Easy fishin cruising around the lake and enjoying nature
    and the refreshments!
    
    	

	btw, mark, you're welcome. glad to have ya.
	
	next time, will you show me how to catch the big ones??
	
	;-)
	
	

    thank yewwww Debess for a really nice chick nite and warmup for 
    Cathylsloan's b'day. 
    
    

    
    Thanks to Debess too. So glad you invited me and that Crystal and Erin got 
    to experience chick nite (tm) too while they are here.
    
    Food was great and the company was excellent!! I'm a lucky person to
    have friends like you and Carol.  Sweet of you to do the birthday thing
    too.
    
    Got home to Margaret on the answering machine saying she tried to
    come but could not find my house ;-)  Little does she know that
    if she did she would of been at the wrong house anyway.
                                   

I have to extend a grateful Thank You to Wes Ostiguy for assiting
me in getting our boat off the water. The hurricane probably wont
hit us directly, but there should be enough stormage to make having
the boat out of the water worthwhile. It was an interesting venture
and took longer than I had hoped, but I get better at this each
time and hopefully I won't forget the same things next time. 

	We also got to listen to our Favorite Disco hits from the
seventies which increased the entertainment significantly. 

Thank you kindly Wes, I owe you one
	Geoff

    
    Thanks to Ken Hannan for the RFK 91 copies!  
    
    (and the excuse to go to the Prospector at lunch!) :-)

    A (virtual) laurel, & hardy handshake to TimGrady who recommended
    Steve King's tires in Nashwa (how does he find the time between
    books??) seriously tho, great service, great prices, fine folks.

    Tom

    Thanks to JJols for providing me with sufficiently ambiguous
    weather reports on Friday to convince me to go to GW for ABB!
    (I really wanted to go, but would have blown it off because of
    threatening weather).
    
    Grate time, grate music, grate companions!!
    
    /b

    thanks to Bobby, Mickey, Hornsby, Tuna, Los Lobos, and everyone else
    that made Furthur possible....and thanks once again, Jerry........
    
    rfb

Thanks to branchmeister Tom for the 10/30/71 tapes...sounds super!

Dan

    
    thanks to Alicia Lee and Mark NElson for hotline and beeper info for a
    study I'm doing.  thanks to Dave Levy for the MSCE info.  it's grate 
    to be able to deal with decheads in the course of business.
    
    c

    
    Thanks to all who attended one or all of Elastic Waste Band's
    three night run. Hope you had fun!
     
    Special thanks to Crazy DaveB for introducing the band Graham-style.
    
    JEERS on ex-DEChead DC for knocking over a glass and slicing 
    Linda Monpl&#$&@r's hand open. She had to leave. :-(
    That DC is sooo mean! :-}
    
    Sat night was rough cuz of the air conditioning breakdown, but we
    survived.
    
    We broke the attendance record at SHARKY'S on thursday (Jerry's B-Day)
    with 471 people!
    
    Thanks again,
    EWB
    
    (and I suppose I must thank LeBlanc just cuz he's so cute and he 
     still showed up for the 3rd night even though we played a PHISH tune)
     
                                                                          

    thanks allenhead for the GD sticker for my new car.  that's what it
    says : GD in plain black letters on a white background. very tasteful.
    
    also thanks to allenhead for the Jerry Garcia memory plate : jerry
    bathed in red.  he got it at the further festival .... almost as good
    as being there.
      

    
    Thanks to Wes Ostiguy for the pissah Acoustic Junction tape!
    
    Eyes of the World sounds excellent with violin.

You betcha Deano...Acoustic Junction...Riverfest...this Saturday Aug 10, wayyyy
out in Clarksburg, MA.

yer last chance to experience Riverfest...Be There

WO

a big THANK YOU!!!!  to the folks who came out and supported
Rockin' for Christina : A Celebration of Life at the shrewsbury 
sportsman's club saturday!!!!!  

Christina's Mom and Step-Dad have asked me to convey their
thanks and appreciation... Chriso commented to me afterward
that it was probably the first time everyone came together around
Christina and her illness in an event that was all smiles, hugs and
good feelings...  "this was a really cool thing...  everybody got it right...
she would have appreciated that..."  :^)

the people to thank are Bruce Mandaro for coming out and doing
a monster solo set with a couple of jams with Mark Robichaud on
bass...  

also Paul Della Valle, columnist for Worcester Magazine who did a 
set of mostly original material which was pretty cool stuff...

the other members of CtW...

Mark Robichaud for filling in on bass guitar while Steve, our normal
bass man, is out sick... (some of you may know Mark as the former bassist 
for "She's Busy")...

Worcester Magazine for their support...  including Peter Stanton, publisher;
Walter Crockett and Charlene Arsenault; columnists...

the Shrewsbury Sportsman's Club for letting us use thier space for free...

Steve Davis of Performance Audio of New England for doing sound...

and last, but certainly not least, to all of you folks who came out or sent in
donations!!!!

and for all of you who think Chris LeBlanc to be just another mouthy, self-centered
gen Xer, i just cashed the papers that prove otherwise!  :^)    and rfb and Patty win
the long-distance donation contest!  first prize, many thanks... :^)  Josh Belkin wins
the "i packed the most into my day" award for going hiking in the whites and driving
all the way back for the party that evening!!!  i dunno how you did it dude...  i would
have been napping instead of bopping if i were in your berks...  :^)

for anyone else out there who may still want to donate, you can send donations to
The Christina Richmond Fund
c/o the Fleet Bank
Goldstar Bvd
Worcester Massachusetts


				da ve

�  and for all of you who think Chris LeBlanc to be just another mouthy,
�  self-centered, gen Xer,
    
    I  would  never think  of  LeBlanc as "just another" anything...
    
    ;-)
    

    so you owe Patty and I a beer, eh???  %^)
    
    rfb<

    I've been really busy lately... family health thang, getting Tiffany 
    ready and dropping her off at CSU, ensuring Lindsey's car 
    (and every other car I own) keeps running safely, etc, etc etc...
    
    BUT...i have finally gotten around to checking out my last series of
    tapes I recieved in the mail lately...lotsa thanks to JC INC. for
    everything from the Japan Ratdog show (with Dylan live encore fillers)
    to the Jerry show and dead show most recently recieved, and all
    inbetween.
    
    Also THANKS again to WOKO Records for the Acoustic Junction tapes, just
    checked them out again a little more closely and really like what I
    hear. I'm in the process of makin yer Jerry tapes (ya I know, heard
    that before!)
    
    rfb
    

Thanks going out to Old Man Grady (just kidding, Tim! :-)
for his loan of both Planet Drum and On the Edge...can't
wait to crank these up at home!

Dan

many thanks to Cathy for inviting us over to celebrate
with many new friends ... cool to finally meet so many
DECheads all at once ... i was pretty beat by the time
we got there, so i didn't get a chance to chat with too
many folks, but i'm sure we'll get another chance to
gather for a DECfest real soon ... looking forward to it !

thanks again, Cath ... you're the queen of rock n roll

	yes yes!  thanks Cath - a very fine celebration of the new year!
	all the liquid refreshments were yummy and the food was great
	as usual and a fun crowd and even a fresh cup o' capaccino for
	the road!  Great start to a great weekend for me...

	Debess

    And here's another.......
    				Thanks Cath, a real smoker!8^o
    
    					(Party that is)
    
    	Very cool to meet all of those I hadn't prior......hmmmm..all of
    								    you?
    
    	Great eats, drinks, and tunes.......and speaking of those...
    	
    		We'll be hosting a party at our place in celebration 
    	of our forefathers birthday, George himself.  Well, that's not
    	really what it's for, but the holiday fits our party schedule.
    
    	Ask any of those who've been to our last....it's a blast.
    	If you enjoy darts or foozball, ours is the place to be.  Perhaps 
    	we'll even have the pool table by then, but it's not the first time 
    	I've said that!!!		
    	
    	We'll be getting it on on the 21st of February.  I know my place
    	in Framingham is little way to go for the majority of you, but
    	we're inviting everyone to stay the night!
    
    	So if this sparks your interest, email me for directions
    			fabsix::d_todd will do the trick.
    
    
        				later...........davet.
    	

re:                       <<< Note 52.964 by STRATA::TODD >>>
    	
>    	We'll be getting it on on the 21st of February.  I know my place
>    	in Framingham is little way to go for the majority of you, but
>    	we're inviting everyone to stay the night!

Not me! (Ashland)

Middlesex County is the place to be!

adam

    Thanks to Cath Sloan for rescuing me from the cold Nashua winter
    last evening...
    My car crapped out and she answered my call for a ride back to wait for
    the tow truck...
    Thanks big time, Cath, you save me a lot of grief!
    
    /bruce

Ok folks,
	 For those who were askin', 
		here's the direx to the pahty on Feb. 21st.

	gentle reminder,  bring pillows & sleeping bags if staying,
		probably won't have enough to support otherwise.

	

	Directions to Dave Todd's place, Framingham MA;

   The address:      360 Bishop St.
		     Framingham, MA 01702

   The phone  :      508-875-7494
  
   The house  :      Red cape with American Flag
		     and couple o' large shrubberies.

   How to     :

		local direx:

	  Mass. Pike exit 13 (Natick/Framingham)
	after booth stay right onto Rt. 30 west Framingham.
	Follow 30W for one mile to the 5th light (after Chi-Chi's on left).
	The 5th light is 126, take a left onto 126 south.  

	Follow 126S over Rt. 9...then 1 mile to the 2nd stop light.  (Exxon on 
	left) This is Hartford street, make left onto Hartford St.  Take 
  	Hartford to the 3rd street on the right "C" street. (church on corner)
        Make right onto C st.  Straight thru 1st stop sign, left at 2nd
	stop sign (This is Bishop st., but no street sign).  #360 is 3rd
	house on left, see above description.

		From Nashuer Arear:

	  3S for about 20-25 miles to exit 25S (128/95)
	10 miles to Pike.  Take 90W then follow above.

		From da West:

	  495S to Rt.9.  Stay on 9 for about 8 miles? to 126 junction,
	follow from space in local direx above.
	  

    Thanks to leblanc for chauffeur service last night!
    
    Thanks to TDavis for the Pizza!!
    
    Thanks to Cath for finding the volume control!!!
    
    /bruce

    that VH1 special was pisser

    A good time in Nashua.... see you all on the next New England
    run.. However, I will split before your next N'oreaster....

	thanks for the good vibes.
	life nibbles right now.
	every silver linings got a touch of grey.
	i will survive.
		

thanks so much to /bruce for making a copy of the VH1 American Beauty 
special - that show was a treat!

I -loved- all the old home movies that were sprinkled throughout - 
the guys at motels fooling around, the Columbia student strike,
riding on buses between gigs, Haight/Ashbury scenes.  Totally cool
little glimpses of those daze.

Those scenes in the studio where they were listening to the cuts
off the albums - commenting, or visibly moved by what they were
hearing - priceless!  Phil especially, during _Box of Rain_.
Hunter wrote the lyrics for Phil, while Phil was dealing with
his father dying, and you could see that he is still moved by
the memory.

their decision to focus on the vocals, cutting back on emphasis on
the instruments, coinciding with Hunter writing these classics, 
seemingly to get out something without taking so long as their
last few albums (just loved hearing Garcia chuckle over this -
man, how I would have loved to have had a giggly conversation
with him!).  

did anyone mention here yet how Hunter, inspired by at last being in
the city of his dreams (London), he sat down in an afternoon and
wrote _Ripple_, _To Lay Me Down_ AND _Brokedown Palace_ ...IN ONE
AFTERNOON!

good show!

    ya, I screwed up 3 different times this weekend trying to tape
    this...fortunately Hoot was successful....but did manage to catch the
    same parts over and over again. What I did catch was priceless. Hard to
    imagine Phil as being the difficult one in those days (well, I guess if
    you read what Cutler and Dick L. have to say about Phil, maybe it isn't)  
    
    but Phil's statement "COntrary to popular belief, I learned manners
    from my Gradmother and my Mom, I just didn't show them to Warner Bros."
    (or something like that) was a classic.
    
    rfb
    

    
    I caught some of this on Saturday afternoon but didn't get to tape it!
    Does anyone know if/when it will air again?

	I don't know MJ, cause I myself am VH1-challenged (as someone said
	to me!)  What is VH1 - is it a cable station?  I naively thought
	that if you subscribed to these cable things - do you? I don't know -
	but I thought if you paid for that, then there would be no commercials.
	Hah!  There were so many commercials on this thing I bet they took
	up a quarter of the hour, at least.  Hunter said it was produced by
	the BBC, not VH1, so didn't someone here last week say that the
	show might actually be a full hour?  I'd like to see more!!!


	

    I caught some of the Hendrix one Friday night, the total clock time
    was about one hour, 20 minutes...   the reruns all seemed to be one
    hour, so they must have two versions available for broadcasting...
    just gotta watch the schedules, I guess... might also help to hammer
    them with mail, both e- and otherwise.
    
    check  VH1 schedules at http//www.vh1.com/
    
    last time I  checked,  they were  still updating the new schedule...
    
    
    /b

    
    Debess.. I have no clue about vh1 either - I assume it is a cable thing
    because it's channel 19 at my house...  If it's not 4,5,or7 I assume
    it's cable!  ;-)
    
    I really loved the show though and NEED to tape it!
    
    MJ

    
    oh, and thanks /bruce - I'll check the website.  MJ
    
    

a note of thanks to the zko_dechead welcome wagon for the grate b-day lunch.

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