A sample of some obscure – and some maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today’s selection: Grateful Dead "China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider" 1982

Live at the Oregon Country Fair: "Springfield Creamery Presents The Second Decadenal Field Trip" in Veneta, just west of Eugene.

I liked Eugene back in those days. Crazy was fun then, not dangerous. Times change.

The concert took place on August 28 - I overlooked this fact when I went to post this.

I was at this concert. Drove up from Reno with my girlfriend of the time in a beater 1964 Chevy pickup.. Sat with friends in the booth next to Ken Kesey's. Wish I remembered more of the concert; there was no option for leaving off the "special sauce" at the food booths. Trouble is, those funny cigarettes have been known to cause this effect often known as "the munchies".

Brownies are good. The special sauce wasn't bad either.

Truck blew a rod on the way home; of course I was taking the road less travelled. Contacted our friends in Eugene and spent a few days with them while the truck was being repaired.

An adventure is something you don't want to be doing while you're doing it.

But a memorable time overall. Good and bad at the same time; one of the straws that broke apart my first not-marriage ... but that's a different tale for a different time.

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