HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Rob Fish <rfish@verity.verity.com>
Subject: HUGS Back To Ya (Re: ODC: Just a comment)
Reply-To: rfish@verity.verity.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:12:33 GMT


<>snively.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
<>>I want to thank all you guys (and girls).  You've made a big diffrence
<>>me...I love you guys.  Thanks

Even when it's screaming rain, there's just a little enough light to
make a difference.  Without it, there wouldn't be the sharing of
love (new perceptions, a difference of perceptions, a new light...)
, and the thread which somehow binds even strangers to agrue, to learn,
to agrue some more, to listen, to share, to feel, and maybe even to teach would
fade away.

*hugs*

Rob <><
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From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Robert Williams Dobson)
Subject: Skins flame/ New Pot. Caboose
Keywords: im so f***ing tired of the skins i could vomit
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:57:33 GMT

bs801@cleveland.freenet.edu (D.Eric Nay) writes:

...there is nothing like a GRATEFUL SKINS fan *still* enjoying that
reinging Super Bowl champion feeling here in D.C.


AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHH. Is there no escape from the Foreskins (oops, I mean
redskins)??? Its bad enough in the fall, trying to read the Washington
Post, allegedly a serious newspaper, gush all over the front page a la
Weekly World News about the skins. But here it is April, and Im reading
a Grateful Dead net, and I still have to hear about them. OH PLEASE! This
is not rec.skins.cum.on.yourself. Of course, their name is a racist slur
(can you imagine if they called them the Washington Brownskins??) but I
dont want to start a thread here.........(btw, i am NOT a giants fan)

On a music related note, New Potatoe Caboose is playing for FREE here in the
UVA Amphitheater tonight at 8. Sorry I didnt post this earlier, but....
I dont know what these guys are like, havent seen 'em since their days of
being a mediocre dead cover band. SO if anyone wants to check 'em out (I
will-free music outdoors is a powerful temptation to me) and needs directions,
email me. Right now its a gorgeous day in C'ville, so it should be at least
nice to be outside hacking.....
rob
rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU
From: jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John J. Wood)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: SPAC - here we go again!
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:34:26 GMT
Organization: The Summer Tour Bus

Paul Orphanos writes...
>|> Again, people...*we* lost SPAC, and the reasons were more than
>|> justified.
>
>I agree completely John. It's just hard to deal with the fact that there
>are no good ampitheatre-type places to go see the boyz.

There are two this Summer:  Deer Creek and (Dark;-) Star Lake.  The
latter shouldn't be far from you, Paul.:-)  And Deer Creek is one of
my favorite places nowadays for Dead shows (especially since Alpine
is histoire).  Most surprising to me are the three arenas:  Richfield,
The Knick, and Charlotte. 

>I hate the stadiums
>to the point where I only go to the show, and don't stick around for the lot
>scene before and after anymore because it's hard to have a good time
>on blacktop watching out for broken bottles, and loud-obnoxious people
>having a good time for themselves at everybody else's expense.

I'm well burnt on stadiums myself, but I *am* glad that GDTS and the
RFK folks have returned to GA for the floor:  last year's reserved
seating fiasco was uncontrolled chaos.  Then again, RFK, Rich Stadium,
and Soldier Field *are* places of...HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE!!!;-);-)


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| "It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen." - Homer J. Simpson;-) |
*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
| "Down where the sun don't shine, lonely and I call your name, 	     |
|  No place left to go, ain't that a shame..."	 			     |
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R.I.P. - Sam Kinison
From: garry@alice.att.com (garry hodgson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: New dead head needs info....
Summary: there is now
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:52:52 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ

In article <1992Apr2.164041.202@winkle.bhpese.oz.au>, kingston@winkle.bhpese.oz.au writes:

> I am a newcomer to Grateful Dead and I love their stuff. 

...

> 2. Are there any dead heads in Australia. All the posings in this group
>    seem to be from the US.

It would appear that there is at least one.  Welcome aboard.

> Peter Kingston - avid dead head of 2 months

See?



-- 
Garry Hodgson			A slow winter day
AT&T Bell Labs			A night like forever
garry@alice.att.com		Sink like a stone
att!alice!garry			Float like a feather
From: br01@gte.com (Brian Raila)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: rubber stamps, postmark
Keywords: latex, gupta
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:22:23 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham MA

So today's mail order date found me at the local Post Office.
And it reminded me of a question I've had for some time.
I thought that with all the discussions this community has
had with postal supervisors, inspectors, etc., that the answer
may have been revealed.

How do they make all those thousands of rubber stamps for hand
cancellation of mail?  Each one contains the date - month, day,
and year.  If this is an integral rubber material, then it would
not seem to be reusable (unlike the old-fashioned grocer's price
stamp, or date stamp of my childhood - you know, the one with 
a stainless steel frame and narrow belts of numbers wrapped around 
small wheels).  This suggests that the rubber portion is
mass-produced, and distributed periodically (monthly?) to each
post office ('course they got it made - they just mail 'em out).

Anyone know?  Mike Walsh (who participates in this forum and
whose Dad was a postmaster)?

Regards,
Brian

-- 
br01@gte.com
GTE Laboratories  40 Sylvan Road     Waltham, MA  02254  617 466-2510
From: porphano@calvin.sfc.lehigh.edu (Paul A. Orphanos)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: SPAC - here we go again!
Date: 12 Apr 92 14:10:02 GMT
Organization: Microelectronics Lab, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.

In article <1992Apr10.194857.839@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John J. Wood) writes:
|>
|> I'll perish the thought, as I've seen enough Deadhead garbage at that
|> place.  What *is* a shame, IMHO, is that SPAC is one of upstate New
|> York's most beautiful outdoor venues - certainly preferable to the
|> Knick in my book.
|> 
|> Again, people...*we* lost SPAC, and the reasons were more than
|> justified.

I agree completely John. It's just hard to deal with the fact that there
are no good ampitheatre-type places to go see the boyz. I hate the stadiums
to the point where I only go to the show, and don't stick around for the lot
scene before and after anymore because it's hard to have a good time
on blacktop watching out for broken bottles, and loud-obnoxious people
having a good time for themselves at everybody else's expense.

-- 
Paul A. Orphanos                          pao0@lehigh.edu
Microelectronics Research Laboratory      porphano@calvin.sfc.lehigh.edu
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
From: darkmage@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Dark Mage)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: hey....
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:37:02 GMT
Organization: The Tower of Zot - (716)838-0220


Anthrax is another metal band with high social consciousness...
Nuclear Assault also...

why not sit there and complain about country songs or Hendrix's
"Hey Joe"

 /s

Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
DM
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: DARK FART <JYODER@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Personal to Greyson_Schwing(something like that)
Reply-To: JYODER@ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:25:48 GMT

Hey Greyson! where are you!
DId you ever get those tapes i sent you
and did you send out my tapes? just wondering
your mail has been bouncin for a while for no imparticular reason
COntact me!

(sorry for waste of bandwidth)



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Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: tomw@astro.umd.edu
Subject: Re: Ugly Rumor-mongerers
Reply-To: tomw@astro.umd.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 11:21:43 GMT


In article <1992Apr14.034137.25588@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bruce@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Krueger) writes:
|Kent Stewart <kstewart@td2cad.intel.com> writes:
|>*no* phucking right to smear his name publicly on a casual, careless
|   to mention over-ripe fruit), consider:  what do you do with a friend, 
|   or even a casual acquaintance (or, for that matter, a complete stranger)
|   who's doing something which you know/believe to be dangerous/likely to

i think you've hit the nail on the head, bruce: you do have a responsiblity
to help people you know personally, or even a stranger on a bridge, but
i think the key to involvement is physical, not vitual...can you physically
touch the person involved? 

what bongo objects to is this virtual touching: a rumor isn't going to
help jerry, only hurt him...

c u
tom wible, formerly the air drummer;-)

internet: tomw@astro.umd.edu
ip address: 128.8.251.57
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: Moses Fruchter <dmf@morgana.pubserv.com>
Subject: Re: SYF cursor
Reply-To: dmf@morgana.pubserv.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:26:44 GMT

|>From: Ride the Linos <ajs@morgana.pubserv.com>
|>Subject: SYF cursor
|>Reply-To: ajs@morgana.pubserv.com
|>Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 01:29:47 GMT
|>
|>I should've done this in the first place, but I was worried about wasting
|>band-width. To the many who have already recieved it...it was `interesting',
|>for those of you who were going to mail me and ask for it:
|>
|>Ok folks, here it is, as advetised! Your very own Steal Your Face cursor!
|>There are two files, syf.xbm and syfmask.xbm. use the following command
|>to set your cursor:
|>
|>xsetroot -cursor syf.xbm syfmask.xbm
|>
|>Here are the two files:
|> (xbitmaps in cursor format deleted)

One thing that Tony (oh, excuse me, SARGO) should have mentioned is that
this cursor is specifically and only for X11 running on Unix, and won't
work on other computer systems.  If you run X11, tho, it's a nifty lil'
thang.




Historical Note:

The only United States President who was
never President of the United States,
Benjamin Franklin invented electricity by
rubbing cats backwards and declared,
"A horse divided against itself cannot stand."
Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: Joel Schostok Dudas <dudasj@rpi.edu>
Subject: nice venues
Reply-To: dudasj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:03:24 GMT

Along with some of the comments on remaining nice places to
see the Dead, I thought that Pine Knob is a great place to
see them still.  Wonder why there isn't a show there this year...
Well, hopefully next year.
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: dresselh@rft30.nas.nasa.gov (Eliot Dresselhaus)
Subject: Re: Kodo drummers
Organization: Columbia U.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 16:46:20 GMT

Speaking of drummers.  Did anyone else catch Zakir Hussain
in Berkeley last weekend?  Amazing.  Check him out, ye deadheads!
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: mcs@ub.com (Mick Scully)
Subject: Re: Hornsby *RUMOR*
Organization: Ungermann-Bass, Inc
Distribution: The World
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:05:02 GMT

>RUMOR ALERT:
>
>My friend called me last night with the message that "Bruce Hornsby has
>officially left the Grateful Dead..."

This is interesting because i don't believe that he ever offically joined
the band. 

I have had a few opportunities to talk with Mssr. Hornsby over the past 
couple of years. In Berlin, I caught up with him outside the Hotel 
InterContinental (Quite by accident - I was on my way back from the last
vestiges of the Wall - heading toward the Zoo). He and I spoke for about
a half hour about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the 90's, 
as well as "Hey Bruce, ya going to join the Boyz?". 

His strong reply was "No, in fact, I don't think that I'll be touring with
them after the New Year. I'm going to be doing some work with Leon Russell,
the Range, etc, etc, etc..... I have my own career thats going well...."
You get the picture.

So, I was surprised to see him continue with the Boyz into 1991. I happened 
to be walking through the Boston Public Gardens in September of last year
on my way over to the Boston Garden for one of the shows, when lo and behold,
I ran into Bruce again. I said hello and he remembered our conversation in
Berlin (Bruce is a genuine Nice Guy). So, I asked "Hey Bruce, I thought
that you weren't going to continue." To which he said, "Well, I really
like playing with these guys, but I don't know how much longer I'll 
continue". ("Besides the money is pretty good too", I thought to myself).

The short take is, when Brent stupidly checked himself out, he left a huge
hole in the Boyz sound and style. Bruce is a natural showman, who can pickup a 
tune by osmosis and was needed to fill in until Vince plugged himself in.
Vince can now do that and Bruce is not so sorely needed. Also, given what I
know about Bruce, he is probably feeling like he is shadowing Vince (which
IMHO he is), and needs to bow out so that Vince can integrate into the Band.

I, for one, will miss Bruce's contribution, particularly his
challenges to Garcia, who as of late seems very bored with playing in the
band. In September, Bruce said, "Well, someone has to kick these guys in
the butt".

Mick
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: djdaneh@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Subject: Re: truckin'
Reply-To: djdaneh@PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:57:08 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.140936.6645@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> BRUGGINK@ccc.nersc.gov writes:
>|>Ppppps. In Truckin' Bobby sings "Dallas, got a soft machine".  What is a
>|>        "Soft Machine"?

>|    I always assumed that "Soft Machine" was a reference to William
>|Burroughs' experimental novel of the same name.  _Soft Machine_ is one
>|highly disturbing, not to say extremely twisted, read.

>i remember soft machine being a band; seems more logical to have a band
>come from a city than a book.

The band Soft Machine takes its name from Burrough's book.  (Odd trivium:
they also went under the name "Matching Mole," which is from the German
"Machin Moll," which means "Soft Machine.")

In Burroughs' novel, the "soft machine" is the human body.

Both band and novel are highly recommended if you like that sort of thing.

(What is "that sort of thing?"  In the case of the band, British egghead
art-rock.  In the case of the book, druggie art-fiction.)


		Can Jack and Jill
			terrified that each and the other are not terrified
		    become
			terrified that each and other are terrified, and
		    eventually,
			not terrified that each and other not be terrified?
				--R.D. Laing

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, Net.Roach
My opinions do NOT represent Pacific Bell,
Professional Development, or anyone else.
But I'm willing to share.
From: darkstar@toz.buffalo.ny.us (peter leone)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Spin Doctors
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:43:36 GMT
Organization: The Tower of Zot - (716)838-0220


        I know this isn't dead related but can someone E-mail me with 
some info on the Spin Doctors? They are going to be in town this week and 
I'd like to know if it's worth my time to go and see them.
                                Peace,
                                        Peter Leone

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From: DARK FART <JYODER@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: hey please?
Reply-To: JYODER@ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:03:53 GMT

could someone find it in their heart to e-mail me a copy of the 3-20 hamilton
tree? i am not in but mail files suddenly got deleted for some reason and i
dont have it now
thanx



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*              wont hide my liquor try to serve me tea *
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From: gt1054a@prism.gatech.EDU (JOHNSTON,JERRY WAYNE)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: mail order
Keywords: HELP
Date: 13 Apr 92 06:26:33 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology




	One more quick question.............

This will be my first time mail-ordering for multiple venues at one time and
I don't want to screw things up.  My friends and I are splitting the tix up
three ways and I'm responsible for Charlotte and Pitt shows.  Can someone
please send me a sample MO as if I was ordering 2 tix for both Charlotte
shows and 3 tix for each Pitt show with the xtra moneyorder for the difference
in reserved and lawn seats.  I'm pretty sure I have it right but I just want 
to be sure.  Thanks in advance.



								Jay





-- 
JOHNSTON,JERRY WAYNE
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:     ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1054a
Internet: gt1054a@prism.gatech.edu
From: sramirez@pima.intel.com (Steve Ramirez)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: Tubes questions
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:38:52 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ

In article <6134.29d87a73@dcatla.uucp> pibeb@dcatla.uucp writes:
>Also, I remember at one time in the 70's,there was a Playboy pictorial
>in which the Tubes cut up a bit. Anyone remember the issue. It might be
>fun to look up the back issue and purchase it.

Yeah, I remember that article. I saw it in ... err.. my friend's
PLAYBOY, yeah, that's it! ;-) Fee Waybill was dressed up in a
psuedo "Quay Lewd" costume, as a mad scientiest, performing
some "experiments" on a nude Re Styles ("schwing!..") I believe
it came out sometime in 1977 or so. I, .. I mean my friend...
has long since lost that issue of Playboy, but it was definitely
a hooter, .. I mean .. a hoot!


--
********** Steve Ramirez * sramirez@sedona.intel.com * 602-554-2405 ************
"If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,what Corn Flakes are to Post
Toasties, what the Clear Blue Sky is to the Deep Blue Sea, what Hank Williams
is to Neil Armstrong...can you doubt we were made for each other?" -Lyle Lovett
From: gaile@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com (Gail Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: Kesey Sez...
Keywords: Figaro figaro fi ga ro
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:38:15 GMT
Organization: The Internet

In article <1992Apr13.153935.5048@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> 7039P@navpgs.bitnet writes:
>
>books, and they went over real big.  Kesey was quoted as saying that the
>Dead are going to put together a rock opera base on a book of his
>entitled "The Sea Lion".  Not only that... he expects it to be completed
>by August!  Yeah, I know... never trust a prankster.  But still, it's

Hey, I understand it's rumored Bob's been chosen to play the Sea Lion, as
that part has no lyrics, just seal sounds, and Bob makes really good seal
sounds.  However, his contract contains a contingency clause stating he must
learn to balance a beach ball on his nose!  Allegedly, he's hired a trainer
and is working on this.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know...
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: booyacht@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ryan Lucas)
Subject: New Jerry band???
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:25:59 GMT

I remember reading a few months ago in Rolling Stone (the one with Jerry on
the cover) where Jerry said that at some point he'd like to start a band
consisting of him, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, and Rob Wasserman, the
idea being that they would have no "material" - they'd just go onstage and
improvise completely.  Has he mentioned this since then?  Has anything come of
it?

Josh
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: s3583045@titan.ucc.umass.edu (John Greene)
Subject: Re: New hotline message-summer tour
Keywords: hotline
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 23:58:39 GMT

In article <s6pg5INNk11@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> maginnis@math.ksu.edu (John Maginnis) writes:
>
>    A new message is on the hotline (as of April 10) and the rest
>of the summer tour is on it.
>
Awesome!  Thanks!


>	RFK, D.C.- June 20 (6 pm, Steve Miller opens)  $28.50,
>		res/ga   (TM May 16)
>                   ^^

Looks like they've finally wised-up and taken the seats off the floor
here!  :-)   We're in for a good show for sure!

-jg
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From: lorange@spot.Colorado.EDU (LORANGE HANS P)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: rumors, etc...
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:43:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsu.1992Apr16.144353.6264
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

Doug Griffiths <dougg@fnma.com> writes:

>The RUMOR  (Jerry is God! there, my disclaimer) I heard last year was that 
>Jerry couldn't do any high altitude shows anymore due to his smoking and 
>related lung problems.

Is this why we in the Rocky Mtn's seem to be shut out this year?  Red Rocks
used to be a standard on the summer tour and McNichols had its share of winter
shows also.
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: redfreak@softcopy.ecn.purdue.edu (Thomas Lobonc)
Subject: Re: sickness (was metal head behaviour)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:02:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.153731.19401@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jurista@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.jurista) writes:
>From article <1992Apr9.214924.2830@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, by Kent Stewart <kstewart@td2cad.intel.com>:
>Grouping bands like Whitesnake, Guns N Roses, Def Leppard, etc. together with
>Metallica or Megadeth is wrong, though.  Metallica has never recorded a song
>about a woman PERIOD, except Lady Justice as a metaphor, nor have they ever
>used images of women being degraded in any way in their merchandising.  In fact,
>they're one of the admittedly few metal bands I know with a social conscience.
>They have songs about the horrors of drug abuse, environmental destruction,
>war, and televangelism.  They don't glorify any of these topics, they use
>strong imagery to protest them.

There are a LOT of Metal/Thrash bands with a social conscience. (following
in Metallica's footsteps, of course).  Whitesnake, GnR, Def Leppard, 
Warrant, Poison, etc. are what true thrashers refer to as Poser Bands
(just watch them prance on MTV) or Glam Rockers (boy they look cute in makeup)
and it is a crime to put them in the same category as Metallica, Megadeth, etc.
For socially conscious metal/thrash try: Megadeth(rust in peace) any metallica
Testament(practice what you preach) Slayer(seasons in the abyss) Sacred Reich
(Surf Nicaragua.. great War Pigs cover here), etc.  
There are alot of Deadhead/Metalheads out there, because they appreciate good
music.

I must agree; I would rather listen to/see the Dead than anyone else!