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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,534
    dankind said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    I have questions. 

    For starters, whats’a a Wook? And what’s Shakedown Street?
    A wook, or wookie is usually, but not limited too, a person whom has dreads, a beard and dresses crusty, wears at least one or more of the following, tye-dye, hemp, sandals, whom often engages in shady activities and indulges a wee bit on the heavy side. I actually how close I am to a Urban dictionary definition?

    Shakedown Street is a song by the Grateful Dead and a place where people following the band set up tents and have their own community and sell their wares be it food, clothing, drugs, booze or Nitros balloons, lol.  It is quite the spectacle.
    This sounds like where I wound up at the only GD show I attempted to attend. I had to flee. The sounds they were making were just way too sloppy.

    Anyway, I always just called that area the parking lot. I didn't know that it had a special name.

    My Deadhead friends always give me grief because the show I left was apparently a legendary one. I simply couldn't take it. The parking lot, er, Shakedown Street, was an absolute blast, though.
    https://youtu.be/VBwz4trY16M
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    I have questions. 

    For starters, whats’a a Wook? And what’s Shakedown Street?
    A wook, or wookie is usually, but not limited too, a person whom has dreads, a beard and dresses crusty, wears at least one or more of the following, tye-dye, hemp, sandals, whom often engages in shady activities and indulges a wee bit on the heavy side. I actually how close I am to a Urban dictionary definition?

    Shakedown Street is a song by the Grateful Dead and a place where people following the band set up tents and have their own community and sell their wares be it food, clothing, drugs, booze or Nitros balloons, lol.  It is quite the spectacle.
    This sounds like where I wound up at the only GD show I attempted to attend. I had to flee. The sounds they were making were just way too sloppy.

    Anyway, I always just called that area the parking lot. I didn't know that it had a special name.

    My Deadhead friends always give me grief because the show I left was apparently a legendary one. I simply couldn't take it. The parking lot, er, Shakedown Street, was an absolute blast, though.
    https://youtu.be/VBwz4trY16M
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,596
    edited July 2022
    what in god's name was that. and does he have some sort of alien variation of the stickman tattoo?
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    I have questions. 

    For starters, whats’a a Wook? And what’s Shakedown Street?
    A wook, or wookie is usually, but not limited too, a person whom has dreads, a beard and dresses crusty, wears at least one or more of the following, tye-dye, hemp, sandals, whom often engages in shady activities and indulges a wee bit on the heavy side. I actually how close I am to a Urban dictionary definition?

    Shakedown Street is a song by the Grateful Dead and a place where people following the band set up tents and have their own community and sell their wares be it food, clothing, drugs, booze or Nitros balloons, lol.  It is quite the spectacle.
    This sounds like where I wound up at the only GD show I attempted to attend. I had to flee. The sounds they were making were just way too sloppy.

    Anyway, I always just called that area the parking lot. I didn't know that it had a special name.

    My Deadhead friends always give me grief because the show I left was apparently a legendary one. I simply couldn't take it. The parking lot, er, Shakedown Street, was an absolute blast, though.
    https://youtu.be/VBwz4trY16M
    No idea how any woman could resist those charms
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,534

    1st pic is of a wook pulling a full bar around. 
    2nd pic a person was tired and decided to hit his bowl right by the cops, lol. 
    3&4 are of Shakedown st. Wooks a plenty. They should call it the Cantina… 
  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,031
    While most likely illegal, you gotta give it to the guy....the portable bar is pretty clever. 

    People watching on Shakedown Street/The Cantina is always a good time.

    Who's the long-haired Wook in the bottom left corner of the last picture? ;)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I hope there aren't any of these "wooks" (aka dirty rotten hippies) at The Dream Syndicate show we're going to tonight, haha! Probably doesn't matter though because with my trashed ears, I may not last more than 5 minutes anyway.  Which is OK because I wanted to support one of my favorite bands and at least get a taste of their live sound.  And there are few bands for me that would serve as well as TDS for being my last live show.  I am very determined to never go see live music again.  I just don't have enough hearing left to be able to do it any longer. 
    There's no crying in baseball!  It's been a long and wonderful trip!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,827
    brianlux said:
    I hope there aren't any of these "wooks" (aka dirty rotten hippies) at The Dream Syndicate show we're going to tonight, haha! Probably doesn't matter though because with my trashed ears, I may not last more than 5 minutes anyway.  Which is OK because I wanted to support one of my favorite bands and at least get a taste of their live sound.  And there are few bands for me that would serve as well as TDS for being my last live show.  I am very determined to never go see live music again.  I just don't have enough hearing left to be able to do it any longer. 
    There's no crying in baseball!  It's been a long and wonderful trip!
    Enjoy the show.....they played in L.A. this week but the venue was a bit far away, and as I get older, it is more and more difficult to go to gigs during the week.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,596
    added Teenage Head (80's canadian punk rock act) Aug 18 (and Trent Carr from Headstones is touring with them!). 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    brianlux said:
    I hope there aren't any of these "wooks" (aka dirty rotten hippies) at The Dream Syndicate show we're going to tonight, haha! Probably doesn't matter though because with my trashed ears, I may not last more than 5 minutes anyway.  Which is OK because I wanted to support one of my favorite bands and at least get a taste of their live sound.  And there are few bands for me that would serve as well as TDS for being my last live show.  I am very determined to never go see live music again.  I just don't have enough hearing left to be able to do it any longer. 
    There's no crying in baseball!  It's been a long and wonderful trip!
    Enjoy the show.....they played in L.A. this week but the venue was a bit far away, and as I get older, it is more and more difficult to go to gigs during the week.

    Thanks, Joe.  Will let you know how it goes!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,827
    brianlux said:
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    brianlux said:
    I hope there aren't any of these "wooks" (aka dirty rotten hippies) at The Dream Syndicate show we're going to tonight, haha! Probably doesn't matter though because with my trashed ears, I may not last more than 5 minutes anyway.  Which is OK because I wanted to support one of my favorite bands and at least get a taste of their live sound.  And there are few bands for me that would serve as well as TDS for being my last live show.  I am very determined to never go see live music again.  I just don't have enough hearing left to be able to do it any longer. 
    There's no crying in baseball!  It's been a long and wonderful trip!
    Enjoy the show.....they played in L.A. this week but the venue was a bit far away, and as I get older, it is more and more difficult to go to gigs during the week.

    Thanks, Joe.  Will let you know how it goes!
    We are seeing John Fogerty tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl.....always amazing to see CCR songs performed live!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    brianlux said:
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    brianlux said:
    I hope there aren't any of these "wooks" (aka dirty rotten hippies) at The Dream Syndicate show we're going to tonight, haha! Probably doesn't matter though because with my trashed ears, I may not last more than 5 minutes anyway.  Which is OK because I wanted to support one of my favorite bands and at least get a taste of their live sound.  And there are few bands for me that would serve as well as TDS for being my last live show.  I am very determined to never go see live music again.  I just don't have enough hearing left to be able to do it any longer. 
    There's no crying in baseball!  It's been a long and wonderful trip!
    Enjoy the show.....they played in L.A. this week but the venue was a bit far away, and as I get older, it is more and more difficult to go to gigs during the week.

    Thanks, Joe.  Will let you know how it goes!
    We are seeing John Fogerty tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl.....always amazing to see CCR songs performed live!

    Very cool!  Great to hear he is still out there doing it!  And what a great venue at which to see the man!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Waiting waiting waiting haha, forgot about that aspect of club shows!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,336
    brianlux said:
    Waiting waiting waiting haha, forgot about that aspect of club shows!
    How was the show?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    JeBurkhardt said:
    brianlux said:
    Waiting waiting waiting haha, forgot about that aspect of club shows!
    How was the show?

    Great, but LOUD!!!  I had to wear ear plugs AND headphones, but stayed for the whole first set.  The evening was a real mixed bag.  I loved seeing this, one of my most favorite bands, but like most rock music today, it was too loud and I couldn't sleep much last night with my tinnitus bumped up to extreme.  The songs were great and right before the break (at which point I had to leave), they played my favorite Dream Syndicate song, "Glide".  That was amazing! 
    One sad, sad note about the show, there were probably only 3 dozen people in attendance.  I can't understand how the turn out could be so low.  I felt so bad for this great band who have been doing it for 40 years to only have 36 or so people show up.  A major WTF. 
    I'm waiting for my wife to send some pictures she took on her phone.  Also a 45 second clip of "Glide", but for some reason she is having trouble sending them.
    Thus ends my 57 years of seeing great live music.  After the show we went to a quiet place with outdoor seating for a late desert and my wife expressed sadness when I told here I won't be doing any more live music shows.  I told her, "There's not need to feel sorry for me!  I am so luck to see so much great music all these years.  And what a great way to cap it all off!" 
    Truly, it's been terrific!
    Here's the one pre-show photo she has been able to send to my email:
    IMG

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    Just two shows at the moment

    Kiss - August 20 here in Melbourne 
    RHCP - Feb 2023 also here in Melb. 
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    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,534
    jjflash said:
    While most likely illegal, you gotta give it to the guy....the portable bar is pretty clever. 

    People watching on Shakedown Street/The Cantina is always a good time.

    Who's the long-haired Wook in the bottom left corner of the last picture? ;)
    Lol. You know that’s me Dave!
  • lmckenney24
    lmckenney24 Posts: 2,101
    May have an extra 9/6 for Nothing More in ATL
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434

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    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,336
    brianlux said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    brianlux said:
    Waiting waiting waiting haha, forgot about that aspect of club shows!
    How was the show?

    Great, but LOUD!!!  I had to wear ear plugs AND headphones, but stayed for the whole first set.  The evening was a real mixed bag.  I loved seeing this, one of my most favorite bands, but like most rock music today, it was too loud and I couldn't sleep much last night with my tinnitus bumped up to extreme.  The songs were great and right before the break (at which point I had to leave), they played my favorite Dream Syndicate song, "Glide".  That was amazing! 
    One sad, sad note about the show, there were probably only 3 dozen people in attendance.  I can't understand how the turn out could be so low.  I felt so bad for this great band who have been doing it for 40 years to only have 36 or so people show up.  A major WTF. 
    I'm waiting for my wife to send some pictures she took on her phone.  Also a 45 second clip of "Glide", but for some reason she is having trouble sending them.
    Thus ends my 57 years of seeing great live music.  After the show we went to a quiet place with outdoor seating for a late desert and my wife expressed sadness when I told here I won't be doing any more live music shows.  I told her, "There's not need to feel sorry for me!  I am so luck to see so much great music all these years.  And what a great way to cap it all off!" 
    Truly, it's been terrific!
    Here's the one pre-show photo she has been able to send to my email:
    IMG

    I am glad you enjoyed the show, but I am sorry about the hearing situation you are going through. When I was younger, it was a badge of courage to go to a show and have the ringing and muffled hearing for days after a loud show. The only thing that probably saved my hearing from becoming really bad was that when I joined the Navy and started having kids, I stopped going to  a lot of shows because of not having the funds to go and the hassle of finding someone to watch the kids. We have started to go back to shows in the last few years, but we wear ear plugs. It might not be very rock and roll, but my over 50 year old ears certainly appreciate it. 

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