How many Deadheads does it take to change a light bulb?
 
Just one, but they wait for it to burn out and then follow it around for 10 years first.  
 
--From the Grateful Dead East Coast Hotline circa 1991.

Words from the wise:
 
'I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.' ? Jerry Garcia

One of the 23% has custody of Anna Nicholes baby.

that baby's worth a half billion dollars

I'd say that makes him doing quite well indeed.  
 
But only a crazy man would think that people can't see through his devious plan.

I got introduced to Alembics by...
 
John Panozzo of STYX!
 
His ebony-faced Scorpion is still my dream bass.

OK.  Perhaps I was misunderstood.  I did not say that any of this was bad.  I only said that I find it interesting.  Perhaps there is some re-training camp for people that don't think nice things about deadheads. Or are percieved to be knocking deadheads.

Doc:
 
As a matter of fact there is.  Camp is this Saturday in Northern California.  Your place is being held.  Prepare for a Dead jam!  (among other things).  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

Bill:  That is assuming I have the right directions of course.
 
Ok.  To tell the truth, I love dead type jam sessions.  I really get into a groove.  I even like listenng to a lot of them too.  As evidenced by the fact that I really dig Phish.  All I'm saying is that I am not a Dead Head, and I was never really heard a recording (bootleg or otherwise)that I liked.  My favorite Jam Bands are Phish, Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule.  Rare Earth had some really good jams on their live stuff too.  Same with Johnny & Edgar Winter.  Anyone have the White Trash Roadwork Album.  Smokin Jams on that.

Doc:
 
Try Live Dead (recorded by Ron W. hisself)
 
'nuff said.
 
Bill, tgo

I really like the sound of the Blues For Allah studio album.  And the first song on the album, Help on the Way / Slipknot, is just a great tune.  I think it's a very nice studio recording of a very nice tune; an enjoyable listening experience!

Oww! Roadwork, what a smokin' album. Randy Jo Hobbs was the man! He was one of my favorite bass players when I first started playing. My folks had one of those mid-sixties Zenith stereo cabinet piece of furniture jobs that was about five feet long. I used to lay under it to get better bass. One day my mom, who was a piano teacher / church music director, heard me listening to that album and asked who it was. Edger Winter's White Trash! I replied. Certainly sounds like it, she snorted.  
 
Reid

Yes indeedy deedy doo! Through the Dead I found you! My bands are Juba Juba, Colorado Rain, and occasionally Shakin' Bones. Those names don't give it away do they?
 
Gil

Wish I could've made camp this year Bill. Looks like you guys are going to have a great time. Maybe next year.

rraymond:  My dad actually turned me on to that album.  We used to (ahem) skip Church once in awhile and go to record shows in Houston.  We'd go in while the guys were still loading in their wares(befare the admission booth was set up thereby getting in for free) and pick through their stuff.  I think we were usually done shopping by the time the show would open up.  We'd take home our treasures. Fire up the BBQ.  Throw some vinyl on the spinning platter and basque in the sounds of our new found treasures.  Anyway, he picked up the Roadwork album one day and popped it on the table.  I was a budding trombone player at the time and he was raving about the horn section on the album.  The sax player was hitting some notes I never knew a sax could do.  And he had some serious sustain to boot.  Dad this guy was particularly awesome because he played a really hard reed.  Maybe a 4 or 5 or something like that.  
 
aaahhh.  good times.  Sunday afternoon listening to vinyl.  
 
Doc the thread hijacker