Grateful Dead

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"When the primal scream entered the sound world of the universe it was the first man-made, artificial addendum.Music is the art of the intonated sense; the sound, the groan, the cry and the song where the aural quintessence of the spiritual world of human beings. The aura that personifies sound is transparent through timbre and tone, envelops and tightens the other side of sound, the space of meanings and feelings. Children's games, adult's games, god's games... You can be an idol or a god among the people, but how to makes sense of the Divine Game? Just remember that this knowledge or awareness is the Truth. Consonance or dissonance, free music, pop music, all is searching and hunting for the Great Harmony. As fullness is born into the emptiness of Universal Truth, Absolute Harmony is born into Silence. This three dimensional illusion we call Life will never be perfect because it is made to be imperfect. It is only a school for feelings and the fantasy, designed to improve the hidden chords of thought. Art exists in order to develop the capacity of human beings to imagine. A hidden knowledge of life exists to serve your capacity to develop. Develop your imagination. It's healthy." - Sainkho Namtchylak

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bullshit. - Lars-Erik Nelson

"Well, there are two ways to do what you want to do in music and performance. They both have to do with intention.One, you don't have anything to do with it. You're part of a whole you're a fluent vessel for all these things to come through you. And then there's the other one, when you go into meditation with Quest. As opposed to being just a blade of grass waving in the wind, you're a blade of grass looking in a particular focused direction in order for the wind to blow you that way! Or, blades of grass grow toward the sun. So how are we going to draw forward the best that we can, to become manifest? And that's a completely different way to perform. One of my newest references is thinking of current and voltage. Transmitting voltage, you want to understand what the reception level of the current is! Sometimes that happens with energy, people, sounds, references, cliches, bombastics... And sometimes it happens in acoustics. What does it remind you of if you keep letting your voice resonate? So there are all these ways of deciding what's important for the sound environment over time... Over time you feel like you can see into the 5th dimension... Did I say 5th? I meant the 4th... Maybe I meant 5th! Since I'm so used to the 4th. [laughs] That's one of my favorite things, just to be able to visualize the past (where we are) and take us to someplace that exists already and is full of glee." - Pheeroan akLaff

I heard that!

https://vimeo.com/178430751?from=outro-embed Basic Human Needs Wouldn't it be neat If the people you meet Had shoes upon their feet And something to eat? And wouldn't it be fine now, If all human kind had shelter? And wouldn't it be grand If we all lent a hand So each one could stand On a free piece of land. And wouldn't it be thrilling If folks stopped their killing And started in tilling the land. Basic human needs, Basic human deeds, Doing what comes naturally. Down in the garden, Where no one is apart, Deep down in the garden, The garden of your heart. And wouldn't it be daring If folks started sharing, Instead of comparing, What each other Was wearing? And wouldn't it be swell If people didn't sell they're mother... Earth. Basic human needs, Basic human deeds, Doing what comes naturally. Down in the garden, Where no one is apart Deep down in the garden The garden of your heart. Not just churches Not just steeples. Jive me peoples Helping peoples

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Pack another bowl.

"Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word'." - Stan Brakhage

"Ain't no time to hate".......lyrics by Robert Hunter

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." Leonard Bernstein