Punch Buggy Blue!

one of the commercials during the New Orleans Saints win in Super Bowl XLMIVSKH(?) (Seems I've lost count.)

featuring 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan and Stevie Wonder

no tofu dogs!

For several weeks now, Friday has meant a soundboard from The Dead's '09 tour... but not this Friday. Have no fear, instead of waiting until next Friday, to make up for not posting one today, I'll try to post up 2 sbds next week.

And there are always more cool tunes on the horizon
so Stay Tuned!

Have a Groovy, Happy & Safe 4th Of July!

Totally Random VW Time

Fahrvergnügen Volume 15

hippie Grateful Dead Volkswagen bus

found at out there

Bears Bus

Seems there are so many times when I want to post a show but I just can't find the time to. Dang it. I had 2 from the GD lined up for today but they're gonna have to wait a little while. Ah well, no worries, I'll get them up eventually.

And there'll be something from Sugarmag, too. She's gotta once again dedicate a lot of her time to grad school, which means she doesn't have a lot of time to Deadicate to Dead and Jerry shows, but hopefully she'll have a show up on Sunday! Always more great music that will get posted so Thanks for Stoppin' By and Stay Tuned!!

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Fahrvergnügen Volume 14

hippie Grateful Dead Volkswagen bus

the dancing bears aren't expertly painted but a nice try...
sorta strange, too, that the front is painted like it's a pre-68.

posted by Flickr member wesh. in the Flickr group VW Buses

Love Bus

Tunes tomorrow (hopefully.) Today this...

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Fahrvergnügen Volume 13

hippie Grateful Dead Volkswagen bus

same bus, different day



posted by Flickr member MR38. in the Flickr group VW Buses

Make Love

Tunes tomorrow (hopefully.) Today this...

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Fahrvergnügen Volume 12

posted by Flickr member difridi in the Flickr group VW Bus Lover

Extended

Tunes tomorrow (hopefully) but nothing for this Sunday except this...

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Fahrvergnügen Volume 11

found at: www.speedace.info

Crazy Hippies

Fahrvergnügen posts have been gone way too long.....

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Fahrvergnügen Volume 10

(click for bigger, if you wish.)

Ain't no way this bus owner ain't into the Dead.
No way!
Almost looks like Jerry on the driver's side door
and it looks like a Skull & Roses on one of the windows.

found at lagunahuna's flickr site

Imagine seein' this on the Champs-Élysées

Random VW Bus Time

Fahrvergnügen Volume 9

(click to see bigger, if ya want.)

l'autobus est la France but found at: GranolaBox

SnoopyBus

Random VW Bus Time

Fahrvergnügen Volume 8

1973, found at: RoadHaus

Let's Get Back To Normal 'Round Here

While the cold of winter grips most of America, the thoughts of many drift to warmth and relaxation in the good old summertime. Maybe the picture below will warm a few souls. It warms mine.

Random VW Bus Time
Fahrvergnügen Volume 7

'67 to early '70s are my favorite buses. I had a '67 and now I have a '73,
but I must say I love this '89 Synchro. What a beautiful Volkswagen!!

State parks were a huge part of my life,
especially when traveling in my bus around this great country,
and I look forward to many more campsites just like this one.

Had enough of the cold? About ready for this?



Green Lakes State Park, Fayetteville, New York (near Syracuse)

found at: RoadHaus

Watch Out, Bugs!

Random VW Bus Time
Fahrvergnügen -- Volume 6

Not exactly a hippie bus and this customization job ain't my cup o' tea,
but bein' a Looney Tunes fan...



(click each to see bigger, if you wish)



found at: Serious Wheels

Homer lived with hippies once, didn't he?

Random VW Bus Time
Fahrvergnügen -- Volume 5

I wish there were more pics of this bus and with better detail.
D'OH!

found at: The Simpsons Folder

So Tired Saturday

Zoooma needs a nap.

So badly I wanted to run today. I had a Running Play List ready but I can barely keep my eyes open. Being up all night then getting only about 5 hours sleep can do that. On the trail, all I'd want to do is quit my run and lay down. It would've been a colossal failure. My needed exercise will have to wait until tomorrow.

No tunes today. Well, I am gonna listen to what I'm gonna post up tomorrow and the next day but no download on this last Saturday of the year / Day 96 of 100 Days of the Dead. Hopefully Sugarmag and I will finish off the last 4 days strongly with something to please everyone.

Got any requests for 2009??? Yeah, yeah, more '77, I know. Besides that. If anyone's lookin' for a specific show or somethin' or whatever, anything within the Dead Family (all side projects included including after '95) don't be afraid to ask! Always happy to help!!

In the meantime -- have a lookie at this stuff...

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Fahrvergnügen -- Volume 4

more prints like this (and for sale) at Cruiser Art

"Porky's Pooch"

directed by: Bob Clampett

Release Date: December 27, 1941

Day 78 = Fahrvergnügen - Volume 003

100 Days of the Grateful Dead, Day 78: canceled

HEY -- Have you ever downloaded here before but NEVER left a comment? If this describes you -- why've you never commented? You are hereby ordered to leave one now for a show you've downloaded here. Alright, well, it's not really an order but I could just make this blog private, only for people who express their thanks for the show downloads that are here... so it would be really cool if you started to, once in awhile, at least say "Thanks." You might be in or around Andover, Minnesota or Tacoma, Washington maybe? Hackensack, New Jersey?? Deutschland??? España????

You're out there, you download -- so leave a comment now and then

Anyway, Day 78's been canceled but it wasn't going to be. I was so stoked, yes, stoked to put a show up today. I had listened to the opening Half Step (which was soooooooooo good) and then Sugarmag alerted me to the fact that the whole 2nd Set is messed up. Dang it!

Therefore we shall resume on the morrow.

In the meantime, have yeself a gander at:

Random VW Bus o' the Day -- Volume 3

click all images to see bigger if ye wish

Found at Valley Motors of Winona.
Man... that's one gorgeous looking bus...
looks like it just rolled off the factory floor in 1965!

Now that's what I call a mini-van!

Fahrvergnügen - Volume 002

Random VW Bus o' the Day

While a little day-glo, it's not bad but I'd get rid of the words Groovy and Love. I'm not sure I'd drive it but I can dig it and I can easily envision it in a parking lot at a Grateful Dead show

found at juggalokilla99

This is today's post, not yesterday's, not tomorrow's, just today's

100 Days of the Dead: Day 67 -- no show today.

Actually, there's a show for me as I'm listening to what I'll post tomorrow afternoon. All along it's been about me listening everyday for 100 days and posting as often as possible... but no show to download every single day.

But because I want to put up a meaningless post, here's:

Random VW Bus - Volume 001

borrowed from mattroyal

Ridin' AZ shotgun...

I don't like grapefruit. Or peaches. But I pop into my mouth a few Vitamin C drops everyday and sometimes one of 'em is grapefruit... and I like it. Never would I eat a grapefruit, though or drink grapefruit juice... well, I suppose if I was starving but I just don't like it.

Similar thing with peach flavor and peaches. I used to like just fine peach Jolly Ranchers and then Peach Snapple Iced Tea... but never an actual peach. No, thanks.

Apples and oranges and kiwis and bananas and mangos and watermelon and cantaloupe and honeydew and grapes... sure. No peaches. No grapefruits. Sue me.

I don't know why I thought of that, it hasn't nothing to do with this...

some (other) randomness...

from my massive ginormous collection (numbering well into the dozens!) of personal photographs from through the years, here's a couple for maybe no other reason except to put something else up before I motivate this afternoon...

In my '67 VW bus, cruising westbound on I-40, I think this is west of Winslow, Arizona on the way into Flagstaff for the night.

A day or two after the Super Bowl in 1995, my friend Summer and I started the journey in the rural Virginia countryside, in the town of Sperryville, far from almost anywhere... heading down through Columbia, South Carolina & New Orleans, Louisiana, taking the southern route on the way to Fair Oaks, California which is right next to Sacramento. (She was moving there from VA

Shortly after that it was back to Salt Lake City for the first Grateful Dead shows of 1995 (and first in Utah since 1987) then back to Northern Cali for Mardi Gras shows in Oakland and then back to Salt Lake City for me. Whew. Somewhere in there there was supposed to be 3 Jerry shows at the Warfield which got canceled. Oh well... still a great trip... not including the fact that my bus had a cracked head requiring a 98 mile tow through the Mojave Desert at 2 in the morning which stranded me in Bakersfield for 3 days while Summer went on to Sacto via Greyhound. And also somewhere in there, after one of those runs of shows, I drove from Sacramento to Los Angeles and back, doing a favor for a friend driving him home and while down there I spent a couple days soakin' up the sun in LaLaLand. Man... I'm sure glad gas only coast like a buck and a quarter then!

(as usual, click to see bigger, if ya want)



Other pics from this journey: Texas - Earth - New Mexico

plus here's a GD shot from 1969 by Rosie McGee...

Earthly Arrival by '67 VW

This is a pretty good excuse to put up a post that's not about running or music ... but actually this is related to music, at least the images below are, kinda, sorta, because the ultimate destination was Oakland and Salt Lake to see the Grateful Dead in early 1995.

the PhotoHunt theme for this week: metal

Photography is not a passion of mine but taking pictures is something that I used to casually enjoy ... these days I do not have a digital camera (yes, I'm behind the times ... sue me) and not having that many photographs from through the years, pickins are slim ... but for this week's Photo Hunt, my second, I was able to come up something.

Mayhaps one of these days I'll git me one of dem fancy electronic picture takin' machines and I'll be able to post some better shots. But for now, for this week's theme, here's what I've got...

(click to see bigger, if you wish)

On a roadtrip from rural Virginia to New Orleans, Louisiana and then up to Sacramento, California and onward to Salt Lake City, Utah, my friend Summer and I swung up through west Texas making a stop in a little place called Earth. Located not in the Milky Way galaxy but almost in the Texas panhandle, Earth, Texas (population only about 1,100) is a few miles off the main road from Lubbock to Clovis, New Mexico. This metal sign can be seen (or at least it was there over a decade ago) on Route 70 westbound between Springlake and Muleshoe.

This same roadtrip we made a stop in Fort Sumner, New Mexico where I took a few pics of Billy The Kid's gravesite.

All the way from the Virginia countryside, this was quite a journey, especially breaking down in the tiny Mojave Desert town of Four Corners. Luckily my AAA at the time had free 100 mile maximum limit tows. To get to the nearest VW repair shop, my bus, at like 2 in the morning, rode on a AAA flatbed from Four Corners across the desert 98 miles to Bakersfield. There I was stranded for three days getting a new head put in. Summer took a bus onward to Sacto and I finally made my way there a few days later.

It's almost always an adventure when crossing the country by old VW. Not having some sort of breakdown was usually an uneventful and boring trip!

(again: click to see bigger, if you wish)