All posts tagged: grateful

There Is Power in Being Grateful

There Is Power in Being Grateful

Published by Jenni Sidey

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The 10 Things the Bezoses Are Almost Certainly Grateful for Each Morning

The 10 Things the Bezoses Are Almost Certainly Grateful for Each Morning

Published by José Betancourt

“On a typical day, the newlyweds wake up around 6 in their new, roughly $230 million compound on Indian Creek, an exclusive private island in Miami often called ‘Billionaire Bunker.’ They don’t touch their phones. Instead, they begin each day by listing 10 things they’re grateful for—and they can’t repeat what they named the day before.”  — The New York Times Monday, 6 a.m. 1. Money. 2. Our new, roughly $230 million compound on Indian Creek, an exclusive private island in Miami often called “Billionaire Bunker.” 3. Our stunning physical appearance, both natural and man-made. 4. Our close, continuing friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, someone with whom we are able to discuss the travails of yacht ownership. A subject not everyone understands! 5. Jared Kushner. A friend close enough that he’s invited to our wedding! 6. How much less bad news there is to read anymore! Especially in that one paper—what’s it called? 7. The great view we had of Donald Trump’s inauguration, right on the stage and everything! Everyone should see J. D. Vance up …

Bob Weir Made the Grateful Dead

Bob Weir Made the Grateful Dead

Published by Daniella Wilson

In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Jerry Garcia, the band’s other guitarist and its reluctant leader, and bassist Phil Lesh had decided that Weir and keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan were dragging the band down musically. Weir was just 20 years old, the youngest member of the group and the least technically accomplished. But Garcia didn’t have the heart to pull the trigger himself, and he made the band’s manager do the deed. Or at least he tried to. “It didn’t take. We fired them, all right, but they just kept coming back,” Garcia remembered later. The failure was auspicious. A few months later, the band performed the shows that would be released as Live/Dead, one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever. The first sound heard on the record is Weir’s guitar, which methodically builds “Dark Star” up, sewing together Garcia and Lesh’s riffing. Weir’s place in the Dead was never again in doubt. When the group disbanded after Garcia’s death …

Truckin’ on: Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead’s 10 best recordings

Truckin’ on: Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead’s 10 best recordings

Published by Sam Flores

The Grateful Dead – The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get / The Other One (1968) The Dead’s love for the road is in evidence on this segment from That’s It for the Other One, the four-part opening track of their second LP, Anthem of the Sun. A rare Bob Weir-penned lyric details the Dead’s youngest member being busted by the cops “for smiling on a cloudy day” – referencing a real-life incident when Weir pelted police with water balloons as they conducted what he took to be illegal searches outside the group’s Haight-Ashbury hangout. It then connects with the band’s spiritual forebears the Merry Pranksters by referencing Neal Cassady, driver of “a bus to never-ever land”. The song later evolved into The Other One, one of the Dead’s most played tunes and a launchpad for their exploratory jams – as in this languid, brilliant version at San Francisco’s Winterland in 1974. The Grateful Dead – Truckin’ (1970) “What a long, strange trip it’s been,” reflected Weir on what is arguably the Grateful Dead’s …