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(see Newsletter 10)
Moliére, "Man needs nothing so much as the dance ..... All human unhappiness, all blows of fortune which history reports to us, all mistakes of politics..result from..that the dance is misunderstood."
IS IT SAD TO be one's own enemy?..all that super-star
hype.
Don't get lost in the shuffle. It sounded like a stock report. If I don't
hear the Grateful Dead at least once a day I go into withdrawals. Will
you come play our softball team? Have you sold out? Whoever wants to be
born must first destroy a world. The egg is the world. Is it a non-profit
organization? Concerts are way too big. Their music is hair. We know each
other. Remember, the truth hurts.' if you got any feelings to begin with.
Music to remember innumerable lifetimes. The showboat lifted into a brightening
atmosphere - orange sun across numerous heads regathering from muddy drizzle
fallen for 2-3 days. In case you are planning to rip-off a starship, I
do simple veterinary medicine. What is hypnocracy? Who is St. Dilbert?
Cut albums on astrologically auspicious days. Run twice as fast as you
can run. I'm doing my best not to be a fan. Am 1 writing to a computer
or real people? Record lots more studio material, and undersell; the more
you play the better you'll get. Develop wrap-around concert sound. Get
a banjo or fiddle player. Form a symphony orchestra from Dead Heads to
do to classical what the Dead do to rock and roll. Make coke commericials
or an underarm thing. Gibran, "Yet unless the exchange be in love
and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger."
The physical newcomers can go - cool, cool - but they don't dig the head.
Is this bad? I don't know, do you think so? It's impossible to ask any
more of any musicians than what you've given us. Release more singles.
1 love you.
Spiritual forces control events today; the state of conflict in the spirit world parallels conflict on earth. Satan is a liar. You are the only band who still plays for the people, not money. Whatever happened to the music for the common people? Don't call it a revolution, we still have birth and death; keep it clean and honest, we have to try just a little bit more. Annual Dead Heads reunion. The whole must shift. 1 want to know what's going on. Coupons in albums for concert ticket discount or annual freebie tour. You still do parties or small clubs? I dig chamber music. If the AM and FM D,Js won't promote you, whom can you turn to? The police band? Astral. project yourselves to everywhere at once. Call it all an Opportunity to Experiment With On-Stage Sound. TV should display Dead form and style so people won't fear what it really represents. Simulcast. Do a screenplay for Dead music. Cuckoo's nest. Play a small hall five days running. Play two small halls a day or two apart. I've some ideas about concert sound. Concert sound has a long way to go. Low-budget 16mm, 35mn feature film; videotape; independent distribution channels, campus screenings, network TV, film-to-cassette. Mobile TV w/ XCU individuals, concerts, lots of tight short tunes; blow-up to 35mm for theatres..tight pilot for TV variety series, group talk, films you already have..syndicated prime-access markets.. cinema-verit(e concert/ studio/ Dead lifestyle footage for art houses, campus..Define yourselves to yourselves. Jam baroque works from Bach, Handel energetic dazzling to mellow moods of Mozart and Ludwig van, new experience in as yet nonsyncretist forms w/ symphonic format and much practice, as country-classical/spaccyacid-jazz-classical/bluos-jazz-pop etc. w/ref a multitude's lifestyle. Literally five minutes before you came onstage the sun broke through the clouds, remained the entire show.
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