Sessions may be a reminder of what things were like in the self-righteous 1950’s, but maryjane on every corner might not be his worst nightmare these days.
@mike808 I went to a show at Tipitina’s while attending Jazz Fest some years ago (it was around the turn of the century, and I love that I get to say that ).
Before the show started, people sat on the floor in front of the stage, gathered in circles and lit up.
A couple of people even pulled bongs out of their backpacks and lit those up.
Being from Boston, where I’ve seen people get roughed up and tossed out by bouncers for sparking a one-hitter, this was surreal (as was buying mixed drinks from a drive-thru window - gotta love New Orleans).
All the shows I went to, at all the clubs, people smoked out in the open and no one cared.
It was a wonderful thing.
All of which is to say, it’s very appropriate that this song was recorded live at Tipitina’s.
@DennisG2014@f00l
Jazz Fest is next weekend and the next.
It’s also NO’s tri-centennial. That’s 300 years for those that are math-impaired for 4/20.
I heard them play this @ Jazz Fest (2011?) at the (outdoor) backatown stage. Just passin through, and smelled somethin funky just as the lyrics wafted around. Apparently fans were in the crowd and came prepared.
And it’s Tip’s to us locals. Rockin’ Bowl during JF was a fave. Also Howlin’ Wolf, Saturn, Funky Butt, Bon Temps, Warehouse, HoB, Miss Mae’s, F&M, too many to mention.
And never miss a George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic concert during JF. Plan to stay 'til dawn.
And the JF softshell crab po-boys, Boudin balls, crawfish bread, and Monica.
@f00l@mike808 I went to the Fest in '99, '00, and '01, I think - I know it was 3 in a row, but the details are fuzzy.
Been hoping to make it back ever since.
3am show at the Funky Butt one year was definitely one of the highlights.
One of many, many, many.
Top of the list, I think, has to be the Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe house party we went to.
I have to go check out this year’s schedule, so I can feel bad about what I’ll be missing…
AXS tv (cool cable channel w/ lots of live music, if you’re not familiar) used to broadcast highlights of Jazz Fest for a few years, but no longer does, as of last year, unfortunately.
It was edited sets (like 20 minutes of what probably were 45 min sets), which was a bit annoying, but better than nothing, which is what I’ve got now.
Interviews, other recordings of JF artists with the occasional live broadcast. Most artists aren’t allowed due to label contract restrictions or prior rights sold to other, more profitable ventures, like AXS or Munck Music (they have some artists JF performances on CD and download).
I like Ray Charles’ original better than the Joe Cocker version in the OP.
(btw - Ray was singing about getting stoned drunk, but I like it better with today’s sense of the word)
edit: just listened to the Joe Cocker version to check, and sure enough, where Ray sings “gonna buy myself a bottle of gin”, Joe sings “gonna buy myself a lid”. lol
@DennisG2014 I agree. I actually originally went to get the Ray version, and only then came to see the Joe Cocker version. I modified my choice, given the nature of this particular day…
I saw someone trying to pay for food with scratch off tickets and someone else complaining over a blocked diesel pump (after they got the same gas on the other side).
@DennisG2014@mike808@shahnm Interestingly, Golden Goat was hybridized In Topeka KS about 40 miles from my house (smack in the middle of the bible belt), by accident. A male Hawaiian-Romulan pollinated Mr. Dank’s Island Sweet Skunk mother. It is an extremely fortunate accident, and on a short list of good things from Topeka.
@f00l Coincidentally, I was speaking about just that with a good friend of mine today. The issue, we have agreed, is that no one would believe it to be anything other than a complete fiction.
You might be that weird. I don’t think your much weirder tho. Not much weirder than the entire 'nam experience 65-75.
(Are You Experienced?. Heh.
Hey, Jimi. )
And you prob read Keef’s evocative and sweetly sanitized, but still lovely, memoir.
(You ain’t gonna get any weirder than full body transfusions of the blood of undrugged innocents, just so that the Stones could tour.)
[Maybe KR left that out of his book. Can’t remember. It’s in all the other Stones books, ain’t no secret, and Keith had outlived all his shame over all that shit by 1980 anyway.]
Quit using “no one would believe” as a totally lame excuse for not writing. And write something.
Before what’s left of your and your co-conspirators’ memory capacities decide to melt away for good.
See what you can get on paper. Or on electrons. Show it around to a select few.
Then decide.
For some reason I envision you typing away on a reporter’s portable machine circa 1940-1970. All Hemingway-esque.)
/youtube “don’t let me down” beatles
This will likely being up a fake since the Beatles intellectual property people pull their stuff from YouTube every day.
@f00l I prefer word processing and printers over typewriters (it wasn’t always that way and I was resistant to the change) . . . Maybe I’ll write it all down someday when the myriad statute of limitations has expired.
Pull the “celebrity” shit. You can do that, right?
Re “law enforcement and celebrity status”, if the alleged or possible criminal activity makes it into the memoir or into someone else’s memoir or into legend, you’re prob in the clear.
With egregious Weinstein-level #meetoo type incidents (esp those involving intimidation, physical force, drugging, threats, and blackmail) being possibly [I hope] exceptions to Get Out Of Jail Free And Get A Fat New Book Contract norms.
You could (I strongly assume) write your own goddam book.
You might need help with the “memory” parts here and there, depending on the intoxication levels at the time whatever happened.
But I doubt you would need to call a ghost-writer.
Ok…first google image search came up with definitely not meh approved images.
@mfladd
I liked that news story video.
@PlacidPenguin I agree. It is quite funny, and a great way to leave a job.
@mfladd @PlacidPenguin Especially if you don’t want another one.
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/catnip-dreamin
/youtube don’t bogart that joint
Wait!
Before you light up that evil weed…
You’d better watch this informational video.
@daveinwarsh
Before???
Huh.
I got something that will calm you down a little.
@daveinwarsh why? It’s much funnier if you wait until after.
uhhh… Dave’s not here, man…
/youtube inna gadda
/youtube Casey Jones
Happy Piss Off Jeff Sessions Day.
@JT954
Sessions may be a reminder of what things were like in the self-righteous 1950’s, but maryjane on every corner might not be his worst nightmare these days.
@mike808 I went to a show at Tipitina’s while attending Jazz Fest some years ago (it was around the turn of the century, and I love that I get to say that
).
Before the show started, people sat on the floor in front of the stage, gathered in circles and lit up.
A couple of people even pulled bongs out of their backpacks and lit those up.
Being from Boston, where I’ve seen people get roughed up and tossed out by bouncers for sparking a one-hitter, this was surreal (as was buying mixed drinks from a drive-thru window - gotta love New Orleans).
All the shows I went to, at all the clubs, people smoked out in the open and no one cared.
It was a wonderful thing.
All of which is to say, it’s very appropriate that this song was recorded live at Tipitina’s.
@DennisG2014 @mike808
@DennisG2014 @f00l
Jazz Fest is next weekend and the next.
It’s also NO’s tri-centennial. That’s 300 years for those that are math-impaired for 4/20.
I heard them play this @ Jazz Fest (2011?) at the (outdoor) backatown stage. Just passin through, and smelled somethin funky just as the lyrics wafted around. Apparently fans were in the crowd and came prepared.
And it’s Tip’s to us locals. Rockin’ Bowl during JF was a fave. Also Howlin’ Wolf, Saturn, Funky Butt, Bon Temps, Warehouse, HoB, Miss Mae’s, F&M, too many to mention.
And never miss a George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic concert during JF. Plan to stay 'til dawn.
And the JF softshell crab po-boys, Boudin balls, crawfish bread, and Monica.
Y’all have fun, now, ya hear?
@f00l @mike808 I went to the Fest in '99, '00, and '01, I think - I know it was 3 in a row, but the details are fuzzy.
Been hoping to make it back ever since.
3am show at the Funky Butt one year was definitely one of the highlights.
One of many, many, many.
Top of the list, I think, has to be the Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe house party we went to.
I have to go check out this year’s schedule, so I can feel bad about what I’ll be missing…
AXS tv (cool cable channel w/ lots of live music, if you’re not familiar) used to broadcast highlights of Jazz Fest for a few years, but no longer does, as of last year, unfortunately.
It was edited sets (like 20 minutes of what probably were 45 min sets), which was a bit annoying, but better than nothing, which is what I’ve got now.
@DennisG2014 @mike808
/youtube Wild Tchoupitoulas
@DennisG2014 @f00l
Psst. WWOZ streaming.
https://www.wwoz.org
Or WTUL (Tulane’s student-run station).
Interviews, other recordings of JF artists with the occasional live broadcast. Most artists aren’t allowed due to label contract restrictions or prior rights sold to other, more profitable ventures, like AXS or Munck Music (they have some artists JF performances on CD and download).
https://www.munck-music.com/collections/compilations
Time to pick up the pace…
And continuing with the anime theme:
Can’t have a pot-songs thread without this one:
And here’s an original song by a friend’s band about the hypocrisy of the way our society treats tobacco vs. marijuana:
Hey man. Something going on here?
Open the damned door already.
Tough day. And no smoking everywhere
Damn
@f00l Get wiff zhe 80’s, mon frere!
(Best read aloud in a French accent).
The State-by-State Guide to Weed in America
Are there dispensaries on every block – or could smoking a joint land you in jail?
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/rolling-stone-state-guide-weed-pot-america-w519347
I like Ray Charles’ original better than the Joe Cocker version in the OP.
(btw - Ray was singing about getting stoned drunk, but I like it better with today’s sense of the word)
edit: just listened to the Joe Cocker version to check, and sure enough, where Ray sings “gonna buy myself a bottle of gin”, Joe sings “gonna buy myself a lid”. lol
@DennisG2014 I agree. I actually originally went to get the Ray version, and only then came to see the Joe Cocker version. I modified my choice, given the nature of this particular day…
Maybe 2000+ acid trips were terrible for him, as a reasonable person might surmise. Or maybe they weren’t.
(Don’t try that at home. Ok now.)
@f00l
WTF.
/youtube Purple Haze
I saw someone trying to pay for food with scratch off tickets and someone else complaining over a blocked diesel pump (after they got the same gas on the other side).
Was I high or were they high?
@JT954
@shahnm To finish off the day.
@mike808
@mike808 @shahnm Ok, searching for “goat marijuana” images yields some pretty amusing results…
https://notallowedto.com/teen-turned-goat-girl-after-smoking-genetically-modified-weed/
@DennisG2014 @mike808 @shahnm Interestingly, Golden Goat was hybridized In Topeka KS about 40 miles from my house (smack in the middle of the bible belt), by accident. A male Hawaiian-Romulan pollinated Mr. Dank’s Island Sweet Skunk mother. It is an extremely fortunate accident, and on a short list of good things from Topeka.
@DennisG2014 @mike808 @Pavlov @shahnm
This^ sentence made my day.
/giphy toke
Ya know, @Pavlov: I would bet that you have a pretty decent memoir inside of you, it’s just hoping to escape.
I would even bet that there’s some variety of helper weed, especially bred for that purpose.
/giphy scribble scribble scribble
@f00l Coincidentally, I was speaking about just that with a good friend of mine today. The issue, we have agreed, is that no one would believe it to be anything other than a complete fiction.
@Pavlov
My answer to your quibble:
Either bullshit or so fucking what.
You read, breathed, and lived Dispatches.
You might be that weird. I don’t think your much weirder tho. Not much weirder than the entire 'nam experience 65-75.
(Are You Experienced?. Heh.
)
Hey, Jimi.
And you prob read Keef’s evocative and sweetly sanitized, but still lovely, memoir.
(You ain’t gonna get any weirder than full body transfusions of the blood of undrugged innocents, just so that the Stones could tour.)
[Maybe KR left that out of his book. Can’t remember. It’s in all the other Stones books, ain’t no secret, and Keith had outlived all his shame over all that shit by 1980 anyway.]
Quit using “no one would believe” as a totally lame excuse for not writing. And write something.
Before what’s left of your and your co-conspirators’ memory capacities decide to melt away for good.
See what you can get on paper. Or on electrons. Show it around to a select few.
Then decide.
For some reason I envision you typing away on a reporter’s portable machine circa 1940-1970. All Hemingway-esque.)
/youtube “don’t let me down” beatles
This will likely being up a fake since the Beatles intellectual property people pull their stuff from YouTube every day.
It’s real. The roof concert. Happy : ).
@f00l I prefer word processing and printers over typewriters (it wasn’t always that way and I was resistant to the change) . . . Maybe I’ll write it all down someday when the myriad statute of limitations has expired.
@Pavlov
Pull the “celebrity” shit. You can do that, right?
Re “law enforcement and celebrity status”, if the alleged or possible criminal activity makes it into the memoir or into someone else’s memoir or into legend, you’re prob in the clear.
With egregious Weinstein-level #meetoo type incidents (esp those involving intimidation, physical force, drugging, threats, and blackmail) being possibly [I hope] exceptions to Get Out Of Jail Free And Get A Fat New Book Contract norms.
@Pavlov
One more thing.
You could (I strongly assume) write your own goddam book.
You might need help with the “memory” parts here and there, depending on the intoxication levels at the time whatever happened.
But I doubt you would need to call a ghost-writer.
Almost the end of the day;.
@f00l
Trump’s favorite day
Two weeks later … https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-man-arrested-flying-florida-084305170.html