Mickey Hart : A drummer’s magic box | Droolin Dog dot Net

#MickeyHart was one half of the #TheGratefulDead rhythm section…the crazy, out-there, second set welcome-to-space from halfway around the world and back, half.
I should listen to more of his solo stuff…

“While Kreutzmann is also a superb drummer, Hart is the wilder experimenter, with a repertoire of instruments drawn from all over the world and sonic samples collected over the years that continue to astonish listeners half a century after he joined the band and almost simultaneously also launched, in parallel, a successful solo career.”

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Josh Ritter: ‘It’s more fun to write about questions. I don’t trust answers in songs’

Agreed. It’s so much more fun to ask questions and see what people think the answer is. Making people think is more effective if you ask questions and let the answers be found, rather than dolling out “advice”. People trust answers they discover more than answers that are given to them.
Good songs should make you think, not tell you how to live.

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Report: “One Fire Truck Guarded Every Three Houses” in Wealthy Los Angeles Neighborhood Last Night

Seems like a few of those trucks could’ve been used…more efficiently. Like…actually fighting the fire rather than protecting the rich and insured from a possible few weeks in a 5 star hotel or vacation home elsewhere.

Report: “One Fire Truck Guarded Every Three Houses” in Wealthy Los Angeles Neighborhood Last Night

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49 times we thought 2017 couldn’t get any worse, and then oh god

It just keeps getting worse. Now with less than a month to go, you’d think we’d be praying for the year to end, that 2018 would be a new start…but I fear that 2018 will bring only more of the same. More fear. More shame. Hopefully, no nuclear war.

As long as #Trump and the #GOP are steering our course, this ship is sure to run aground at best…at worst, to be lost with all hands, to the depths of the seas.

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