When my uncle passed away my father and I along with the rest of my family gathered up a lot of his music. See my uncle Bruce was a huge music buff, my whole father's side of the family was, and still is for some of them. They would attend concerts after concerts, buy up all the albums they could, so for my father to get some of the music from my uncles collection really meant a lot to him.
When they returned from his funeral, (my mother and father) we slipped in a CD my uncle had burnt for listening in the car while he drove around.
The first song to play was that song. Needless to say there was a lot of crying.
This was more then three years ago and I still listen to that song at least once a week, if not once a month.
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«dOntEAtpOOp : I've always preferred Sublime's version of that one, Moe. Both great, but the cover seems to hit me a little deeper (in a non-gay way)
Hmm interesting version, but it just didn't hit me in the happy place. Maybe it's because I cannot imagine gorgeous hippie girls all around me spinning in a circle making their skirts fly out around them while listening to this version, whereas the Dead's version, that's pretty much standard fare.
«muppetmaker : When my uncle passed away my father and I along with the rest of my family gathered up a lot of his music. See my uncle Bruce was a huge music buff, my whole father's side of the family was, and still is for some of them. They would attend concerts after concerts, buy up all the albums they could, so for my father to get some of the music from my uncles collection really meant a lot to him.
When they returned from his funeral, (my mother and father) we slipped in a CD my uncle had burnt for listening in the car while he drove around.
The first song to play was that song. Needless to say there was a lot of crying.
This was more then three years ago and I still listen to that song at least once a week, if not once a month.
"They went on forever – They - When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and, uh... they were long... and clear and... there were lots of stars at night. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn - it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see them in the desert."
One of the formative records of my youth and oft associated with happy times.