A place to talk about the music of the Grateful Dead
RiverRat wrote:At least it wasn't a Bob Weir DONG!!!
Friesman wrote:I just received my Brent Mydland shoe horn, one of the best ebay purchases I've ever made except for maybe the brooklyn bridge I bought last year..I'd like to have shoe horns for hands.
Hello Jon - After going to an alternative school in NYC called Walden,This was the response from the seller of the gong. I am now left more confused than ever! He seems like a funny dude.. I guess you were right the thing looks like Bobs current mustash.
See here
http://www.gongs-unlimited.com/upbesigo.html
and then UC Santa Cruz for a couple of years in early 80s before dropping out, and having a comedy writing partner who was a Deadhead, I basically was surrounded by the culture for a chunk of years. While I enjoy their music, I was by no means that into it. I needed quiet dark places to hallucinate. (think john lilly.) However, going to a handful of concerts and watching the dynamics of the band and fans, I always found it tremendously amusing the respect for Mr. Garcia and the tolerance of Mr. Weir by most fans. So I thought I would honor Mr. Weir to some degree, and while I miss some elements of those slower stoned times, there is enough I don't miss. But how could one describe it really. Documentary films or similar can't. I thought despite the easy parody that the images provide, if you were a kid now, that time is as foreign as World War Two was to me in the 70s. So I thought why not describe it as if I was describing something really ancient, although it isn't. The gong itself has a splash and crash to it, and hangs around, which I thought was also a bit like the parking areas for the concerts as well. But other than that, nothing too deep. Just me having fun. Thanks for asking.
