The Grateful Dead Released: March, 1967 US: Gold Billboard peak: # 73 Tracks: 'The Golden Road (To The Unlimited Devotion. But the danger lies not so much within the population as a whole, where religious extremists are a small minority (more confessional votes are cast in Israel than Pakistan), as within the Army. Officers and other ranks who have worked with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Lashkar- i- Tayyaba in Kashmir have become infected with zealotry. At the same time native Islamists, aware of their weakness in the country, have focused their efforts on the Army. Estimates vary between 1. Afghanistan are attacked from bases inside Pakistan. In Kashmir there has already been open opposition to the last ceasefire. An Islamist Pakistani captain refused to vacate Indian- held territory. A colonel despatched by the Pakistani High Command to order an immediate withdrawal was shot dead as a traitor to Islam. Already a partial wreck, Pakistan could be destroyed by a civil war. The terrorists who carried out the killings in the US were not bearded illiterates from the mountain villages of Afghanistan. They were educated, middle- class professionals from Egypt and the Hijaz province of Saudi Arabia, two key US allies in the region. What made them propagandists of the deed? The bombing of Iraq, economic sanctions, the presence of American Forces on Saudi soil. Politicians in the West have turned a blind eye to this, as they have to the occupation of Palestine and the crimes of Israel. Without profound change in the Middle East, Osama bin Laden, dead or alive, is of little significance. In the West, Saudi Arabia is simply a source of oil. We prefer not to notice the scale of social and religious oppression, the widespread dejection and anxiety, the growing discontent among Saudis. The Wahabbi Islam practised there has been the inspiration of the Taliban. It was the Saudi monarchy that funded fanaticism in South Asia; it was they (and the CIA) who sent bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. Islam was seen by all the experts as the main bulwark against Communism. Denied any secular openings, dissenting graduates have turned to radical Islam, accusing the Saudi royal family of hypocrisy, corruption and subservience to America. These are clever tacticians, open in their admiration of bin Laden and the regime headed by his father- in- law, Mullah Omar, in Kabul. When they blow up bases or foreigners in the Kingdom, the security forces round up a few Pakistani or Filipino immigrants and execute them to show the US that justice has been done, but the real organisers are untouchable. The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War (Arabic: September 25-October 14, 1980: Grateful Dead (15 shows) For any Deadheads who hadn't attended the Dylan shows at the Fox-Warfield, or hadn't even been aware of it. Their tentacles reach into the heart of Saudi society, and it’s debatable whether they can now cut them off, even at the request of the United States. Tariq Ali. London. Manhattan that morning was a diagram, a blue bar- chart with columns which were tall or not so tall. A silver cursor passed across the screen and clicked silently on the tallest column, which turned red and black and presently vanished. This is how we delete you. The cursor returned and clicked on the second column. Presently a thing like a solid grey- white cauliflower rose until it was a mountain covering all south Manhattan. This is how we bury you. It was the most open atrocity of all time, a simple demonstration written on the sky which everyone in the world was invited to watch. This is how much we hate you. Six thousand lives: men and women and some children, Americans and foreigners, Christians and Jews and Taoists and Muslims and all those who asked a god to save them in the last minutes. Five thousand was a heavy task for the SS backshift at Auschwitz- Birkenau, in the summer of 1. Two or possibly three trainloads. But they could process that in an afternoon and evening, if they tried. The difference was that their killing was a secret.
People living a few miles away could see tall towers which every few hours gushed flame- red and black. But they were not meant to know why. Once there was a time when the most evil people on earth were ashamed to write their crime across the heavens. Now, too late, leaders are writing . Nothing good will come of that, and a choking fog of speeches and bulletins will fall between the dead and those who swear they will remember them. Auden wrote once of powers that direct us. He meant blind chance, but the poem also works for powers who wear suits and mount platforms: It is their tomorrow hangs over the earth of the living. And all that we wish for our friends; but existence is believing. We know for whom we mourn and who is grieving. Neal Ascherson. London. In a telephone poll last week, readers of the Cambridge Evening News voted decisively against any military action aimed at those responsible for the attacks on the USA. A readership better known for its implacable hatred of joyriders on the A1. This was just one of the domestic surprises that came in the wake of 1. September. Another was Peter Mandelson’s strangely off- key suggestion that the secret services should be recruiting in Bradford rather than St James’s (apparently on the grounds that immigrants would find it easier than Old Etonians to disguise themselves as Islamic extremists). But almost the oddest response has been our terrified certainty that there remains a plentiful supply of suicide pilots and bombers. Anyone who has scratched the surface of early Christianity will realise that full- blown martyrs are a rare commodity, much more numerous in the imagination than on the ground. The horror of the tragedy was enormously intensified by the ringside seats we were offered through telephone answering machines and text- messages. But when the shock had faded, more hard- headed reaction set in. This wasn’t just the feeling that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming. That is, of course, what many people openly or privately think. World bullies, even if their heart is in the right place, will in the end pay the price. But there is also the feeling that all the . There are very few people on the planet who devise carnage for the sheer hell of it. They do what they do for a cause; because they are at war. We might not like their cause; but using the word . The silliest description of the onslaught on the World Trade Center was the often repeated slogan that it was a . Yet the terrible events of 1. September have alarmed us into reflection. Terrorism, religious orthodoxy, and nationalism of all kinds (insurgent as well as established) have become in our time inseparable companions: those who apologise for one thereby take on their conscience the crimes of the rest. If the US should seek to avenge these thousands with new thousands of innocent dead, it will be the response of a nation merely. I fear that we may do that, but hope that we will not. By what we do now, and what we refrain from doing, we ought to wish to be seen to act on behalf of the human nature from which the agents of terror have cut themselves off. In the days after the planes hit, the US appeared to be governed from New York, where the leaders of the city and the state all spoke in voices of dignity, compassion and deliberation. Those should be the examples our lawmakers bear in mind when they frame a policy of response in the days to come. David Bromwich. New Haven. The news from the Middle East is not all bad. The savagery of the attacks on 1. September has, in at least one country, brought Muslim militancy into disrepute and swelled the ranks of the moderates. At the main public prayers in Tehran on 1. September, for the first time since the revolution in 1. Marg bar Amrika, . There have been candle- lit vigils for the American dead in Tehran squares and messages of sympathy from the Mayor of the city to the Mayor of New York. While Iran is not suddenly going to allow the US the use of airfields and harbours for missions against the suspects in Afghanistan, it is doing surprisingly little to hinder them. In the 2. 2 years since the US diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran the Iranians have had ample time to consider the virtues of Islamic government and international isolation. Looking beyond their borders, they contemplate . The Presidencies of Hashemi Rafsanjani were a slow- motion Thermidor. Since Muhammad Khatami was elected President in a landslide in 1. Iran has stumbled towards accommodation, first with the Arab countries, then with Western Europe and even its old bugbear, Britain. Out on the horizon is the US. The vast majority of Iranians have forgotten their grievance against the US, have shed many of their complexes about Western intrigue and want nothing more than to join the mainstream of world affairs. Religious conservatives have doctrinal differences with Sheikh Osama and dislike the Taliban as a thorough regional nuisance. Women and young people, with their vigils for the American dead, express both an ardent sympathy for a loss they comprehend and an intense frustration with the stale taboos of a superannuated revolutionary culture. A raw and rattled US has responded with warmth. Iran, the first country into Islamic millenarian government in modern times, looks set to be the first out. James Buchan. Norfolk. Last Tuesday morning, 1. September, I was planning on finishing up an LRB review I was writing – of a book called The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric, by the medievalist Michel Pastoureau. Now, as I stagger numbly round my house in San Francisco, hardly able to read or eat or think, I don’t know when I’ll get back to it. Too bad, because, in any normal time, the book would be one worth mulling over. Pastoureau argues that over the centuries stripes (and striped clothing) have gone from being . In the Middle Ages many Western Europeans considered striped fabrics to be diabolical – mainly because they were associated with the infidel Saracens and Turks. When the Carmelites came back from a Crusade in 1. Ottoman East – they were immediately made to renounce them by Papal edict. The Set. List Program - Grateful Dead Setlists, Listener Experiences, and Statistics. Barton Hall (Cornell University) - Ithaca, NYSet 1: New Minglewood Blues. Loser. El Paso. They Love Each Other. Jack Straw. Deal. Lazy Lightnin'Supplication. Brown- Eyed Women. Mama Tried. Row Jimmy. Dancin' In The Streets. Set 2: Scarlet Begonias. Fire On The Mountain. Estimated Prophet. St. Stephen. Not Fade Away. St. Stephen. Morning Dew. Encore: One More Saturday Night. Download/Listen to this Show at Archive. Comments: I read some stuff that Dick said he'd take the shows the night before and the night after over this one. Not that I don't love those shows, hey Boston Garden - Music Never Stopped? That one is a discussion ender. Favorite year, still a toss up bewteen 7. But this Scarlett> Fire and the Shakedown> Uncle Johns encore from 1. Dead ever did that I've heard so far.- Joe. Head- if you get confused listen to the music play- -It's nice to come back after all these years and hear it again.- comin back to the deadhttp: //www. I'll take the 0. 4/2. Scarlet> Fire over this one though. Greatest show? The Department of Defense and the CIA were very disappointed by the way the Vietnam War was progressing. Not only were we losing but, more importantly, the US public did not approve of the war and, worse yet, weren't believing everything the military said about what was happening. This was an unprecedented event. Every other recent war was viewed positively by the public .. Something had to be done. They decided to take a page from the Soviets and experiment with mind control. Together with Disney and a fledgling computer company called Microsoft, they set out to prove that brainwashing could really work on the very people who opposedthem: the hippies. It isn't widely known but Cornell was actually the second test of these mind control procedures. The first occurred in mid- 1. First, they picked the one time that the Dead were not touring. This created all sorts of problems with the subject audience. The more serious mistake was in not updating the criteria of the experiment. Due to typical government inefficiency, they used the 1. Dead that was playing when the program was conceived. The sudden appearance of Pigpen, who had died 2 years earlier, literally blew the minds of those in attendance. Thesubjects were eventually released and most of them became evangelists, their only lingering memory of the whole experiment being an unshakeable belief that they'd witnessed a true miracle. Unfortunately, no tapes have been found from this first experiment. That's a real shame because the version of Dark Star- > St Stephen- > Eleven- > Lovelight used was supposedly the best ever. After a few drinks, the original scientists still speak in awe about the music heard that day. By Nov 1. 97. 7, everyone was ready for the second test. This time, they learned from their mistakes. A small group of college students were hired to attend shows from 1. Our job was to collect tapes of the Dead's performances, select which tunes to use, and tohelp identify subjects for the upcoming experiment. The location and date were chosen with equal care. It was a off- day during the tour and the location close enough to the real concerts to be believed. Of moreimportance was the late snowfall that day. That unusual and easily confirmed event provided the glue that would hold the implanted memories together. Even now 2. 2 years later, people . Of course, some people were given slightly different memories. Some, like Teddy Goodbear, . Still others remember getting . None of this actually occurred. A week after the . In order to perfect this hoax, the town itself must also be convinced that the concert took place. Disney had acquired owner- ship of all the local TV and radio stations through dummy corporations. Using special chips developed by Microsoft, they played sublimbminal messages to every man, woman and child in a 1. Barton Hall. For the most part, this programming still holds today although some people did prove resistant to the message. As far as the source of the music, for the most part the list posted by . The only mystery remaining is the Scarlet- > Fire. That was actually performed by the Dead specifically for this experiment. Since Jerry worked for the CIA, it was easy to convince him and the rest of the band to go along. Plus he liked the idea of . I don't know if it was just a coincidence or not, but they were leaked at about the same time as the tapes recorded by Betty Cantor were found. In any event, they became part of the so- called . Leaking these tapes also provided the first cracks in the hoax to appear since the tapes were distributed to people who were not in the experiment and who knew that no show was performed that day. It was necessary to obtain their silence through blackmail, bribery and in extreme cases, mind control itself. That's also how this ? Microsoft has used this power to become one of the biggest, most influential companies in history. They sure didn't become that big by providing quality products. It was used to shape public reaction to the Gulf War. It's also clear that George Bush never understood the full power of these methods. There are also indications that this technology might explain the otherwise unbelievable popularity of rap music. That's the whole story. Paul 5/1. 1/7. 77. Lazy Lightnin' . Louis 5/1. Supplication . As to what was going on in Allen's mind atthis time I don't fully know. But then you get the MK- ULTRA operation. Greatest Conspiracies: The mind control operation? La. ROUCHE: That was an Allen Dulles period operation which was run togetherwith the occult types in British intelligence, such as Aldous Huxley. Andalso Gregory Bateson who created, for example, the Grateful Dead out of an. MK- ULTRA operation at the Palo Alto Veteran's Hospital where he wassupervising. The first United States- grown rock group of that type, the. Grateful Dead, was generated as a British intelligence operation by the. Occult Bureau of Huxley and bateson out of the Palo Alto Veteran's Hospitalwhere they were doing LSD and related experiments. Greatest Conspiracies: Why would British intelligence want to put out arock roup? La. ROUCHE: Well, this is part of the Satanism business. Call it thecounterculture. Call it the Dionysius model of the counterculture. Rock isessentially a revival of the ancient Dionysic, Bacchic rituals. Lots ofpeople or long periods of time in that kind of particular rhythmic ritualwhich was probably struck upon empirically many thousands of years ago forthis type of cult. It does have a relationship to the Alpha rhythms of thebrain. It does produce these sorts of states. If combined with a littlealcohol and more, shall we say, mood shaping substances, with youth, withfunny sex, this does produce a profound change of a countercultural type. Another word for it: New Age. People wereexperimenting with various utopian models, constructing small groupsexperimentally which were considered New Age types. How to createexperimental types that might survive the aftermath of a general nuclearwar. Greatest Conspiracies: Was this whole trend continued after Dulles'departure? La. ROUCHE: He was not the controlling factor. I wouldn't make him the evilblack widow spider. The operation goes way back. But inthe United States this particular operation goes to about 1. The Naziswere operating in the 1. Hollywood and elsewhere with an occultastrology racket kind of intelligence operation. At that point the Huxley operation out there which is already established,the marijuana operation and so forth in the 1. I would say was a watershed year for explosion of this thing, aroundthe LSD, Beatles proliferation. And then you have another one in recentyears where explicit Satanism has really exploded.- I wish I could send a bolt of lightning your way. Real (0. 9/1. 8/2. Just as Europe 7. China/Rider. Cornell 7. Scarlet/Fire. More importantly, this show has tone and space and room for the band and audience (I was there) to breathe. None of the coked up rush or the laziness of some show. The transition from Scarlet to Fire, when Phil and Bob and Jerry throw those phrases, when jerry's envelope hits, is some of the best dead music ever. THe room was electric that night and actually after Boston it makes sense that they would be so on. They hit arcs of shows, Why did we follow them so much? But you can hear the articulation in everyone's playing. All parts like threads in a tapestry. Lots and lots of great shows but Cornell, Like much of Europe in 7. Spring 7. 7 was an exemplary tour. THey had found a new sound and space and they had not really begun to get LOW with blow and smack (Jerry and Keith) that is. It is still very very contemporary- . But the Scarlet> Fire is not as good as the following S> F's: 4- 2. Fire alone. 12- 3. Perfectly orchestrated, the drummers /kill/. Know this!!- . (0. I also never realized this was a Mother's Day show until this year on the 3. I listened to it like 4 times in a row on a hiking trip to the Smokies.. I can only imagine what it would have been like to have been there.- . Ive had this show in various forms since the early 9. THE best Lazy lighning > Supplication ever. One of the best jack Straws, Brown eyed women is on fire, oh and then theres the second set. Did i mention the Dancing. Im sorry there is simply no way to say this show is overrated. Its hte fuckign motherlode.- . It was May 8, 1. 97. I drove down from my college in upstate New York to Ithaca, home of Cornell University, for a Grateful Dead concert. It was a cheerful, sunny day with the dandelions blooming in bright yellow ripples across the rural fields rolling town to the Finger Lakes. I was almost nineteen years old and trying to make sense of life. I was a thinker with a mystical bent, trying to find a way out of the soft, drifting sadness which colored my everyday life.
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