Re: Black Walnut + Iodine - NOT -- p.s.

I got really in to Neil Young around then. As an antidote to Heart, et. al. And I am glad because I still love Neil Young, more, and more deeply. I say this because I listened to a bunch of Neil Young on radio station here yesterday and I am still glad about it.

I do think that Jello Biafra was more aware of what he wanted out of his experience than Steve Perry (? the Journey guy) regarding political and social action. And fans are alike in a lot of ways despite the differences of their objects of adulation.

My theory about Grateful Dead fans, a.k.a. Deadheads, is that the real ones are men, and that there is something about collecting the tapes of every show and trading them and accumulating vast amounts of knowledge about the band and different players, etc. that isn't as much about the music but about the part of the male brain that collects, sorts, and keeps/stores. Men do the same thing with baseball cards, for instance, as they do with GD bootlegs. And the women were around for the men and the experience. I have never believed it was about the music, although I have been told you haven't listened to Jerry Garcia until you have done it while using psychedelics, which I never did.

Also I get the feeling that the parking lot scene at a Dead show and the parking lot scene at a Journey show would feel and look a little different. Not to mention that neither the Journey nor the GD fan would understand, let alone appreciate, if you pointed out that they were pretty similar.

But don't get me started on the fundamental hypocrisy of hippiedom...the amazing self-centeredness! I digress.





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