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John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation/Berkman Center for Internet and Society; PC Forum, 1991, Tucson, Arizona

Your mind was like a channel that was tuned to things we needed
You gave us all the words to use if we failed or we succeeded
A lyric comes from somewhere else where streams of letters flow
The answers to life’s questions live where few are born to go
A stream of thought that passes somewhere way up in the sky
Many have tried to catch the magic as it passed them by
Your mind attracted all the words that framed the mystic mission
History reserved a place for it all and gave you that position
It seems today the Lightning has become a little Lazy
Decades of Supplication that are now a little hazy
I’m not sure if you were Lost, a Sailor or a Saint
The canvas was the life you were given and you supplied the paint
Who am I to honor you or write a poem for the poet?
Just another life you touched and might not even know it
There are men who craft the axes, some that cut down trees
Boats that carry lumber to some markets overseas
There are folks who buy the lumber, men who drive in nails
Folks that craft the mighty mast and folks that sew the sails
When the ship is finally done, there are folks that get it sold
The trail of labor often lost when the ship turns into gold
You provided axes and you provided trees
Your words provided lumber that would take us over seas
Your hand held the hammer that would drive so many nails
Your words were the mighty gusts that filled the mighty sails
Your mind was a mighty mast that moved upon the wind
Your messages came from outlaws mixed with some who never sinned
As the story often goes, we see it once again
The treasure falls on the microphone but rarely on the pen
The Music Never Stops because you wrote it into being
I bet right now you’re in a place where what you wrote, you’re seeing
I bet you’re with the wolf that’s sleeping by the silver stream
Living all your lyrics in a neverending dream
No more heartless powers that would tell you what to think
The Spirit wide awake now so the flesh is no longer ink
An Estimated Prophet walks upon the burning shore
You see the Sailor drifting but you know he’s Lost no more
No longer do you Need A Miracle every single day
The inheritance of Brother Essau has finally come your way
I’m sure you’re free as you could be and living out your jam
Listening to the thunder shout, “I AM! I AM!”
I write to you with heartfelt lines yet I Feel Like A Stranger
While going to Hell In A Bucket we avoided most of the danger
If Heaven Helped a Fool like me, I’m sure there’s grace for you
Black Throated wind comes pouring in as this life passes like dew
I know the landscape will be empty now that you have gone
We Can Run but we can’t hide, by faith, we’ll carry on
My love goes to your family and your very best of friends
Because of you we have the gift of song that never ends

Love you forever… See ya on the other side…

Dead To The Core,
Dean Sottile (pronounced So Tilly)

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Breaking From Official Home Of Unofficial Grateful Dead and Music News!

Posted by Dean Sottile on Thursday, February 1, 2018

In news that spread through the festival crowd like poison ivy and body odor, Lockn made the news official today that our favorite musicians would be headling the festival this Summer. Anybody that follows the blog realized that the picture that was posted for last Fall's Dallas Review wasn't a picture of Dallas at all. In fact, it was a picture of The Skull hovering over Lockn. For the first time in the history of the event, Early Bird tickets sold out shortly before their deadline. The rumors that preceded the announcement sent early ticket sales over the top. Dead & Co will be playing 4 sets over 2 days in what can best be described as Jamband Disney World for people too full of hallucinogens to consider sleeping.

Peter Shapiro watched from his Throne in Manhattan as servants brought him gourmet gummy worms and energy enhancing elixirs on silver platters. With a band like Dead & Company headlining Lockn, the event is projected to make well over $1,300 this year. In previous years, Shapiro's obsession with having too many bands play for too many hours over too many days has ensured the event to barely break even, if that. Anybody that has attended Lockn is well aware that its founders and creators have always provided an experience that goes WAY over the top for its attendees. Shap puts up multiple complete stages equipped with full sound and lighting, spread out across acres of farmland, all in the middle of nowhere. Anybody that has a concept of putting on shows is well aware of the staff and expenses required to pull that off. The event is like running multiple venues with multiple events all at the same time and it somehow runs like a Swiss watch. Lockn provides more music than most people could possibly handle during the course of a 4 day weekend. Music starts early in the afternoon and continues without interruption until well into the morning. As an old fucker, by festival definition, I couldn't take it all in if I tried. I wish there was a Lockn when I was in my 20s.

I talked to Peter once about making the Festival profitable by cutting down on all the bands, all the stages and all the hours of continuous music that requires all the staff and expenses to make it happen. That brother wasn't even a little interested in my opinion because his goal and vision is to put on an event that exceeds all expectations. I don't know of any other individual as consumed with providing as much as possible for the people that show up than the folks that run Lockn. I mean, Lockn is an insomniac's dream come true. This year is sure to be the best one yet and with Dead & Company leading the pack, I'll see ya there!

Talk to ya soon!

Dead To The Core,
Dean Sottile (pronounced So Tilly)

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