Unbroken Chain

I know because people tell me stories about when That being said, Bolo's story sounds really special and I don't doubt it for a second.

Had it just been you and the kid, it'd be different, but the whole crowd erupting shows how GD were really and still are connected to something that just can't be explained. Now Im going to tell a story that might sound ridiculous compaired to bolo's and others stories but I feel it has some connection. I've said this before and I'll say it again but every time Im on a long road trip and if Im listening to a live album that happens to have Dark Star on it Yes, I know this is dumb compared to other stories, but if you were talking to my ex about how I used to say this all the time and she'd think I was joking but saw what I was talking about when we were driving through the mountains of Tennessee and no one would be around Sorry for this ridiculous story but I cant tell you how many times this has happened on a road trip.

I was just referencing that quote from Repo Man about the "plate o' shrimp" somewhere else.

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I think I am warming up to your somewhat stream-of-consciousness prose, David! Heard about it though. Unbroken Chain is a special song. The studio version was always a favorite. My personal story is just that I stopped seeing the band after Brent died, other than a JGB show, partly because of sadness and the loss of 'that' band, and partly because of geography. I was living in Oregon, Alaska, and Germany at times they weren't in those places. But after 5 years I ended up seeing the boys on that final summer tour of ' And they played it Psyched for Capitol Theatre Furthur shows!

I've told this story before, but it bears repeating here as we have drifted into a conversation about weird GD coincidences. I attended a Garcia solo acoustic show in Boston 82? Great experience all around except one bonehead who kept yelling, "Gaaaarcia! I love it in the context of the studio album, and it still makes me smile during a Furthur show these days. I think I'll crank it up on the way to work this morning. Synchronicity, Part 2 I found the Stanford show on archive.

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I suggest you download it! Loving this conversation Hello everyone. I think my favorite comment, speaking purely egotistically, is Old School Chuck saying that he may be warming up to my writing style.

I know I am kind of stream of consciousness-- that is, I am not particularly oriented towards picking a thesis, explaining the arguments, and wrapping everything up with a bow. But hey, the world never works that way in my experience.

And my brain is basically the attic of my life--I rummage around and find all kinds of cloudy dreams unreal all the time. Which makes me think that all the other comments about synchronicity have to be my favorite kind of Grateful Dead experience to read or hear about. Driving to Dark Star! Sun breaking through during Althea!

I think I was at that one and I remember the roar of acknowledgement! Serendipity, coincidence, luck, or their opposites, are things we pay more attention to when we are fined-tuned to our environment. I think these things are there all the time, and in fact, maybe there's nothing particularly "special" about them.

But finding those things in life, and in art, makes life worth living to me. I'm glad Unbroken Chain is in the Furthur repertoire these days, along with all the other stuff the Dead never seemed to do. Picture Spring Tour '88, VW pop-up rollin' to.

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Atlanta - Hampton and I can't get enough Peggy-O. I've got the same three tapes with it playin' over and over my guy thinks I'm nuts, but I don't care. We arrive at the Hampton Coliseum- someone starts a kerfuffle at the gate. We're still outside as the Music starts!! Finally we make it in the last strains of NMB fade and I walk right though the parting sea of bodies and stand front row before Jerry.

He paused looked directly at me gave a wink and a nod and broke into Peggy-O. I must confess that I'm crying as I write this,I miss him everyday. Needless to say my boyfriend nearly s.. Another story that stands out in my mind. The last shows I attended before we lost Jerry, I was 3mons.

Memphis 95 after the show, I'm not sure which night,i'm talking to my friend Paul relating that I always think that one day I'll run into our old friend Marta in the lot. Back at the hotel someone turns on the TV , I hear a familiar voice and turn to see Marta on the screen.

A documentary about the Rainbow Family was playing and there she was! We're all connected ALL the time.. We all miss Jerry every day: Synchronicity OK, we all know that our experience with this band is just loaded with synchronicity, but here's one of the more epic ones I experienced. It was after night two at Oxford Plains, and I was hanging around a campfire with a group of people who were all in a pretty psychedelicized stated.

One of them, we'll call her Jane, was missing her supposed boyfriend, let's call him John Doe, who I knew quite well. I knew he was at the shows, but none of us had seen him all weekend, and most of us knew he was with another girl, so we expected him to lay low. She was really pissed that he had blown her off and was basically venting to all who listened about what a horrible person he was was and what she was going to do when she finally saw him again assuming all the while that he was not at the show. I also knew that he was essentially a good guy, but had little self-control when it came to matters of the heart and that he really did love every woman that he was with, but he also found something compelling to love in every woman he met.

So, yeah, he was a dog, but these guys are out there, along with women like that, too. It's part of who some people are. So, you just have love them for who they are, enjoy your time with them, but it's asking for trouble to fall in love with them and expect them to change. It was also the first time I'd heard Foolish Heart, so it was right on topic. So, I'm listening to Jane go on and on and there is a girl right by her side who's obviously in the 15th dimension, listening intently to every word that Jane said.

Finally, I was feeling so much compassion for Jane, knowing that she might go through this again, and so much compassion for all the people who had given their love to someone who is essentially good but unreliable that I said to her "Jane, I'd like to apologize for all the John Doe's in the world. The girl who had been listening to every word turned to him and said "Oh, you're John Doe!

Someone was just talking about you and they said! Of course, Jane went off with John for rest of the night and all was forgiven, but the idea that out of , people hanging outside in the dark, scattered everywhere, John could have found us and stepped up at that very moment and right into the conversation was staggering.

Earlier that night, I was also caught by a moment of synchronicity that was elegant and awesome in how prosaic it was. The sun was going down, it was getting a little bit chillier and darker. I was watching one of the spotlight operators during a jam. He let go of his spotlight, leisurely took off his jacket, picked up a sweater, put it on, picked up his jacket it, put it on, zipped it up and then grabbed his spotlight and swung it around to catch Bobby as he stepped up to sing the final verse.

He did everything with absolutely deliberateness, no hurry, and yet it was done at just the perfect moment to swing into action. These are the moments of synchronicity that happened all the time but that no one really noticed. It wasn't just Jerry that was channeling this stuff, it was all of us. This stuff happens all around us every day, we just need to pay attention.

Perhaps that's the real legacy of the Grateful Dead. Greatest stories ever told David, I get Owsley rushes reading your blogs. Is this my flashback? Unbroken Chain - amazing and uniquely beautiful So much to say about this song!! I can't believe I was lucky to be there the first time they played it in Philly and have enjoyed the beautiful extended jamming that's become the even more wonderful part of the song over the years.

Saw a great version when sax player Greg Osby was sitting in with one of the bands post-Dead, b4 Furthur, in Camden NJ, that was amazing. This was always one of my very favorite GD songs from first listening on Mars Hotel in the fall of I just was getting into meditating and the unique whirry sound during the break was something that some of the meditation gurus would talk about when describing "the inner sound" I went to tons of shows in and would always scream for Unbroken Chain but to no avail-- there were rumors that they sound checked it Am I right that Phil has moved the lyrics around, during the last verse??

David, while I am very sensitive about gay issues my son came out last year The lyrics are very much about religion I came upon The broken bike chain story and was compelled to tell my own. I left my bike by accident at "The Domes" community before returning home.

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I went back up to Davis two years later to find my bike with the same tie-dyed stealie sticker in the exact spot I left it. I get a miracle every day! My synch story I was at an Oakland show where was down In front like 20 feet from the Band and standing next to a guy who was a song expert. He was calling the songs before they played a note of them because he had been studying set lists fro the current tour. I remember specifically he said ok it's Cowboy Bob time so it's gonna be me and my uncle or maybe Mexicali now but prolly Me and My Uncle and he was batting This was Mardi Gras 93 I think.

I had a recording where in between songs you could hear a fan say "Hey Jerry Jerry Alligator man" in between the songs. Unbroken Chain was a favorite and I had no idea it had never been played live. I saw my first dead show at In concert against Aids in Since I was so close to the stage I waited until there was a relatively quiet spot in between songs where the crowd had quieted to hear the next song but the band hadn't started playing yet and then I screamed "Hey Phil play Unbroken Chain".

The expert and several others around me scoffed and laughed, one comenting yeah right you might as well have asked for St Stephen. Well when I heard they brought it out in I wondered if Phil had heard me and thought yeah we should rehearse that after this tour.

Now I am wondering if anyone has a tape where I can be heard. It would have to have been picked up by the bands mic because the tapers were on the back wall at those shows I think.

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Does anyone have access to those recordings from the board? I am pretty sure it was Feb 93 but it could be 92 Dec or feb. I usually didn't want to fight my way to the front and I think my reason for doing it this one time was Just to ask for unbroken chain. Has Phil ever said what inspired him to do it live for the first time so many years after Mars Hotel? I would not think I was the only one that ever screamed it out but these were the hard core heads that got that close and they all looked at me like only an idiot would say what you just said. Except for that one recording I have I don't remember anyone ever yelling out a request but as I said before I liked to dance so I had only got this close to the band once.

If anyone has a tape with me on it or a Phil interview where he says why 95 please message me. People won't believe I had anything to do with it unless I have proof. Keyboardist Keith Godchaux bears a halo of lightning bolts and backing vocalist Donna Godchaux , who had recently become a mother, is depicted as a madonna.

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The image was created from a group photograph taken in the lounge of a hotel in the Tenderloin district. An edit of "U. Four of the songs from the album remained in live rotation throughout the band's existence. Blues" was a preferred encore. For many years, Deadhead lore maintained that "Unbroken Chain" would only be performed at the band's final concert; it was finally broken out on the band's penultimate tour in March and performed at their final concert on July 9, Only "Pride of Cucamonga" was never played live.

With the collapse of the band's label and the move to Arista Records , the album was out of print for many years. In an audiophile-quality pressing was released by Mobile Fidelity Records , using half-speed mastering. This version was released separately by Rhino Records , in The group was named for the mirror writing on the cover of From the Mars Hotel.

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