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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,637 posts)
1. Sheesh. I've been to The Mosque.
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:34 PM
Tuesday

Don’t ask me who it was. This was years ago.

Wait — it was Wilson Pickett, I think.

underpants

(190,608 posts)
6. Good venue.
Tue May 13, 2025, 09:37 PM
Tuesday

Saw Dylan there 2 years ago. Not a good show. The band was good but I couldn’t understand anything. He played “Watching the River Flow” which I picked up from the lyrics but it didn’t sound anything like the song I knew. Oh well I saw Dylan.

Kid Berwyn

(20,344 posts)
2. South Side
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:35 PM
Tuesday

El Papa knows how to live. I grew up with friends from the South Side of Chicago. Pope Leo grew up one of us -- a human being who loves life and art and all the stuff that makes us human.

ETA: Spaced out that I've been to four Grateful Dead concerts -- three in Chicago. They know how to live.

underpants

(190,608 posts)
5. 5 here
Tue May 13, 2025, 09:27 PM
Tuesday

Seeing as how I lived 20 minutes from the Mothership in Hampton you’d think it’d be more. We always hang out in the parking lot though. My brother saw about 300 shows.

Shambala

(173 posts)
7. Reminds me of a guy who said he couldn't consider himself a deadhead because he never actually saw them.
Tue May 13, 2025, 09:45 PM
Tuesday

He told me he went to three concerts but could never make it out of the parking lot each time. I’d give him credit.

flashman13

(1,183 posts)
11. I don't want to be too philosophical here, but being a deadhead is a state of mind.
Tue May 13, 2025, 11:15 PM
Tuesday

States may vary.

Submariner

(12,987 posts)
10. Is the new Pope a practicing Exorcist by any chance?
Tue May 13, 2025, 11:07 PM
Tuesday

If he could send our blond Damien to the depths of HELL right now, it would be greatly appreciated.

When Orrex posts his daily "Is He Dead Yet" thread, I would like to be able to say "Orrex, you can stop now, because the Pope sent that fetid meat bag to the eternal burn pit where Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden newsreel loops will be played on an eternal MSDNC Rachel Maddow Show news feed."

GReedDiamond

(5,440 posts)
12. Just yesterday I saw a YouTube video about...
Tue May 13, 2025, 11:27 PM
Tuesday

...people you would have never suspected were Deadheads.

The one that surprised me the most was Walter Cronkite...!

If I can find it, I will edit this post with the link to the video.

fishwax

(29,335 posts)
14. Cronkite became friends with one of the Dead drummers, Mickey Hart
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:46 AM
Yesterday

Mickey told part of the story of their friendship at a tribute to Cronkite not long after Cronkite passed:

Jack Valentino

(1,991 posts)
13. Never cared much for The Grateful Dead, but that's just me.... if the new Pope does or did,
Tue May 13, 2025, 11:42 PM
Tuesday

more power to him !!!!


If he wants to broaden his horizons, I'd suggest The Doors first album,
along with Bruce Springsteen's "Born to run",
Jackson Browne's "The Pretender",
and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers---
hard to choose there, so "Long After Dark", "into the great wide open" and "hard promises" !!!

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