Anybody Got The Blues?
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Charles U Farley
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Charles U Farley
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It's posts like this that keep drawing me back to RIU, this is the best subsection on the forum! Never heard of Tommy Castro before but I certainly like what I've heard so far.
Down the rabbit hole I go to discover new music.
Charles U Farley
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Going to repost this, and least it's the whole album this time, because my original posting can't be displayed now on exterior websites via YouTube like it could be when I first posted it.
I'll do a cut and paste of what I posted back then about Owsley Stanley:
"...it's a sonic fucking masterpiece of live recording.
For more information, visit owsleystanleyfoundation period org. If you're a Deadhead, which I am not, it is your moral duty and solemn obligation to donate money. You would not be who you are today without this man.
I won't attempt to summarize the life of Owsley Stanley in some succinct, witty way because I can't. I don't think I could do it even if I spent the next year devoted only to this subject. I'll hit the high points most are familiar with: he and partner Melissa Cargill were the first human beings without corporate support to synthesize LSD and purify it via chromatography, which is a monumentally difficult process even with corporate financing; he financially supported and was essential to the creation and development of The Grateful Dead; along with friend Bob Thomas, he conceived, designed and created The Dead logo; he created their Wall of Sound and his pristine sonic journals recorded the history of rock and roll; he was instrumental in the foundation of Meyer Sound Labs and Alembic; a skilled artist and craftsman of enamel and bronze casting; and extremely knowledgeable and experienced cultivator of cannabis… I'll stop now but could obviously go on."
His expertise wasn't just limited to two five, it extended to cannabis:
"This plant has given itself to us in a very special way. Nothing about the plant is other than a good, gentle thing. Growers have found that the plant seems to sense the sort of effects, the "high", that the grower likes to experience, and will strive to produce that for him (or her). It is common in the areas where it is grown to be able to identify the person from his/her smoke, regardless of the genetics of the seed."
You Millennials and Gen X's no doubt think this is total, complete hippie/boomer bullshit and I _so_ understand that... take it from one who has lived the life, it's not.
Quit chasing the newest / latest fad and learn how to work the plant. It will communicate with you and if you don't abuse it / top it/ prune it / fuck it/poison it or do anything that brutilizes a vital living plant, it will reward you in ways that you would have never thought possible.
Or keep on purchasing overpriced, overrated cannabis seeds from corrupt profit-oriented Baby Boomers, add as much overrpriced organic fertilizer, blueberry bloom buster, langbeinite, mycorrhizae, or Is overpriced yet underperforming marketing hype/bullshit that you all want to buy...
As I tell my wife, why do I fucking bother, you all are going to do whatever the fuck ya want to anyway.
Going to be heading back into lurk mode soon, this should explain why, Impatient millennials should fast forward to around the 2:45 mark.:
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I'll do a cut and paste of what I posted back then about Owsley Stanley:
"...it's a sonic fucking masterpiece of live recording.
For more information, visit owsleystanleyfoundation period org. If you're a Deadhead, which I am not, it is your moral duty and solemn obligation to donate money. You would not be who you are today without this man.
I won't attempt to summarize the life of Owsley Stanley in some succinct, witty way because I can't. I don't think I could do it even if I spent the next year devoted only to this subject. I'll hit the high points most are familiar with: he and partner Melissa Cargill were the first human beings without corporate support to synthesize LSD and purify it via chromatography, which is a monumentally difficult process even with corporate financing; he financially supported and was essential to the creation and development of The Grateful Dead; along with friend Bob Thomas, he conceived, designed and created The Dead logo; he created their Wall of Sound and his pristine sonic journals recorded the history of rock and roll; he was instrumental in the foundation of Meyer Sound Labs and Alembic; a skilled artist and craftsman of enamel and bronze casting; and extremely knowledgeable and experienced cultivator of cannabis… I'll stop now but could obviously go on."
His expertise wasn't just limited to two five, it extended to cannabis:
"This plant has given itself to us in a very special way. Nothing about the plant is other than a good, gentle thing. Growers have found that the plant seems to sense the sort of effects, the "high", that the grower likes to experience, and will strive to produce that for him (or her). It is common in the areas where it is grown to be able to identify the person from his/her smoke, regardless of the genetics of the seed."
You Millennials and Gen X's no doubt think this is total, complete hippie/boomer bullshit and I _so_ understand that... take it from one who has lived the life, it's not.
Quit chasing the newest / latest fad and learn how to work the plant. It will communicate with you and if you don't abuse it / top it/ prune it / fuck it/poison it or do anything that brutilizes a vital living plant, it will reward you in ways that you would have never thought possible.
Or keep on purchasing overpriced, overrated cannabis seeds from corrupt profit-oriented Baby Boomers, add as much overrpriced organic fertilizer, blueberry bloom buster, langbeinite, mycorrhizae, or Is overpriced yet underperforming marketing hype/bullshit that you all want to buy...
As I tell my wife, why do I fucking bother, you all are going to do whatever the fuck ya want to anyway.
Going to be heading back into lurk mode soon, this should explain why, Impatient millennials should fast forward to around the 2:45 mark.:
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Charles U Farley
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I'm going to give a hint to the area where I live now, but in the current days of information overload, it really doesn't matter. 
This guy is a legend around here and I remember when he jammed with Malcolm Holcomb in 1986, because I took care of Malcombe's newborn son when he was in the special care unit of the hospital I worked at:
This guy is a legend around here and I remember when he jammed with Malcolm Holcomb in 1986, because I took care of Malcombe's newborn son when he was in the special care unit of the hospital I worked at:
