Missed opportunity not starting with something like a PRS, Harley Benton, or some other FSO.
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Getting ready to record a new cover when I decided to check out the lyrics. Any guesses who this is?
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Gibbering nonsense language? Cocteaus, obviously 
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Joe Cocker?
(or the opening lyrics of ZZ Top’s song “Ten Foot Pole.”
Liz Fraser is so awesome. I was learning Pandora with the intention of doing the bass vi part too, but I’m not close enough to be able to play those barre arpeggios on bass strings to pull it off, so I just recorded the bass line. I’ll have to figure out something to record the vi on (thinking something off of Disintegration).
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Something interesting for Ken Kesey or Dead fans:
It’s funny, I don’t associate that bus with the Dead at all. Or at least primarily. For me, it’s more of Oregon and Bay Area history, as was Kesey, a great author.
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The Dead were the band. They were integral to the whole shmear.
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The Dead didn’t exist until a year after Kesey drove the bus to New York.
Talking about San Francisco time.
Well, I was not expecting that @howard would turn out to be our resident historian of the Grateful Dead and the Acid Test scene. 
But I concur with his assessment.
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Like I said, I’'m not
It’s more from the Oregon/Cali history aspect there. Ken Kesey was a pretty well known and popular author with Oregon teens and college kids in the '80s, especially in Portland (like me and my friends) and Eugene (lots of other friends). Kind of a zeitgeist. And yeah, the Pranksters had a following
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Punksters and Pranksters. That checks out.
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