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2015/04/18 01:14:55 (permalink)

Colorado or Bust

My mind's made up! I lost my gig to a 22 yr old that can't play his way out of a paper bag but he looks "Cool" trying to play. He want me to "teach him" how to play like I do but can't give me any money for that info.
I gave this alot of thought and considering I don't have much time left I have decided to do what I really want to do! 
 
I want to go to Colorado! if anyone can help in this endeavor please let me know. I figure I can rent a car. Get lodging for me and my dog all the way up and back. I just need to figure out when would be the best time. You know, best bang for my buck! I am serious about this!

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 01:34:11 (permalink)
I'm NOT asking for money! I'm asking for input on how to go about getting there and where to go when I do

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 03:07:28 (permalink)
Now THIS should make for an interesting thread!
 
Start:  Some stinkin' low-area swamp in a state you can't smoke weed in.
End:  Some beautiful high-area in a state where you're allowed to get even higher!
 
What happens in-between should be fun to follow. 
 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 05:12:16 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2015/04/18 22:39:10
Winterwise, your entering the off season.
Not sure what your plans are other than "Colorado" (which, by itself, is awesome if you're a pot smoker)
 
What are you planning to do when you get there?
 
Sidenote: If I were single I'd be in Steamboat in a heartbeat. 
 

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 10:30:40 (permalink)
Why not move to Ft. Worth and skip the middle man?

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 21:03:11 (permalink)
Las Vegas, man.
 
Now that we've started hanging out more and meeting people outside of our Cirque entourage, I'm stoke to realize that there are lots of guys my age and even older putting together rock and metal bands and all.
 
You know, not just guys who want to play Freebird for drunk people who don't care, but guys with a passion.
 
Before I moved here, I thought I was pretty much obsolete as a musician, except maybe for the stuff with my wife. Here there's a whole world of possibilities for us. 
 
Maybe it's the nature of life out here - a lot of people from everywhere who didn't come here to have kids and live the quiet life.

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 21:32:18 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2015/04/18 22:43:09
Report:
 
We have had some late season snow and A-Basin is open.
 
Mind the usage laws if you partake.
The only place it is legal is in your home (or hotel room but this has it's troubles).
 
Not in in your car, same as open container / dui.
Not on the street. same as alcohol laws.
NOT ON THE SLOPES.
 
Everyone can smell the pungent weed coming out of cars on the way to and from the slopes. That means the cops can too.
 
I was returning from a dog walk this morning along lake Dillon when I saw a highway patrol driving into Dillon away from A-Basin with a tow truck behind towing a red civic with the skis still in the roof rack. There was an unusual amount of late season skier traffic this morning following the snow. - Looks like they got one.
 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 22:49:55 (permalink)
Lots of very helpful info in this Fred!! I'm not planning to visit the tourist sites.  Too expensive and I Am, after all A Professional Wimp. The last time I skied I broke my arm. I would really like a quite hotel/motel near a coffee shop. From what I hear of the dispensaries I will have to be conservative with the money. Brownies are on my agenda and munchies beget munchies in this case  

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/18 23:12:29 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2015/04/19 01:28:36
Don't eat too many of the gummy bears. some tourist snowboard ate 5, wigged out and shot himself.
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 10:27:31 (permalink)
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NOT ON THE SLOPES.
 

In 1998 when Ross Rebagliati almost lost his medal for testing positive for cannabis
http://www.ndsn.org/feb98/mj1.html
Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado ran an add in the Onion that said 'It's not the Olympics, get as high as you want.' with a picture of a skier flying high.
 
Now, I left Colorado in 1999, so things may have changed, but when I was there, there was a lot of tolerance.

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 15:46:15 (permalink)
In Louisiana the prison system is an industry. It counts on those "Busts". The cops are directed to put in jail anyone trying to get in on the market and take away business from the local supported providers. Lots are getting a cut for maintaining the status quo. The politicians will never let a bill for pot to go through.  The "system" has been around here for centuries and not likely to ever change. I don't drink or smoke. I don't like alcohol. My only coarse of action is to sell everything and move! or rent a car and go for a visit. which ever comes first
 
P.S. What really gets me is the wealthy and privileged use pot freely here. They live in gated communities without fear of arrest.
 
   
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 16:35:15 (permalink)
bayoubill, if you ever venture farther north and west, I'll hook you up with a Washington gift pack.  This is one of the places I have shot:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s...Final_Youtube.mp4?dl=0
 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 16:47:35 (permalink)
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Now THIS should make for an interesting thread!
 
Start:  Some stinkin' low-area swamp in a state you can't smoke weed in.
End:  Some beautiful high-area in a state where you're allowed to get even higher!
... 



Yahhh forgot the line that says that he would hear John Denver in his dreams!

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 16:51:40 (permalink)
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Las Vegas, man.
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Of all the times I have been there with family, there is one thread that is interesting, and probably important ... I don't think I ever heard a single band, in the casinos (for example) that was not better than all the bands at the Red Lion circuit here in Portland, or in Santa Barbara, CA a few years back. The only place I heard a few things that might have sounded better and cleaner, was actually in the Sunset Strip a few years back, but even then, other than those trying to make a show of their new this or that, they were tighter and better than most lounge lizard bands!
 
Rain, probably can discuss that better than I.
 
Portland, I can not tell you how good they are ... though the Red Lion circuit for the longest time was a 50/50 thing with a band OK, and the next one ... you call that a band? But people danced! Maybe Craig has a different perspective, but I wanted to go out with a lady that played Bass on one of those bands, and she was very good, and sadly, the rest of the band did not measure up to her looks and ability. Lefty and redheaded, stubborn, but capable to stick with it and play, and also a mean left backhand in tennis! She also used to play here locally in the mixed doubles night (Sunday Nights) ... last I saw her was in Washougal, and the band was better, but I still did not think they were as good as she was ... it was obvious that she knew music too well, or was well versed and worked beyond the average levels. She used to love doing ZZ Top songs, but also said they were too simple, but the bar crowd sure loved it ... we're talking 30 years ago.
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 17:55:50 (permalink)
Yeah before it was legal you could actually get away with tokin on the slopes but now their lookin for it so......
 
Keystone ski resort has been affectionately called SkiStoned for as long as I've been here.
 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 19:10:06 (permalink)
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bayoubill, if you ever venture farther north and west, I'll hook you up with a Washington gift pack.  This is one of the places I have shot:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s...Final_Youtube.mp4?dl=0
 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 19:33:13 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2015/04/19 20:48:33
Have your trip diary narrated by your dog. "My Travels With Bill", Aminor...major tale of transcendence and transition.

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 19:47:10 (permalink)
I'm almost glad I don't live in a legal weed state. I agree 100% with legalization of course, but I can't help thinking that if it was easier for me to get my hands on, I'd be at the stuff day and night like I used to 
 
As it stands, I have to traipse across to NJ if I want some. So it's very much a "once in a blue moon" (i.e. maybe Christmas and New Year, if I can be bothered) kind of thing. I used to score in Manhattan from this great big hulking Jamaican guy who was as nice as pie and very much a family man, but I was very much aware that he had a gun in the glove box and probably wouldn't think twice about using it if the sh** went down. The trouble was, you had to get into his car and go for a "little drive" so as not to look too shady. But he was fond of rolling down his window and yelling innuendo at attractive ladies, regardless of whether or not they were with their gangster boyfriends. Given that I was usually already stoned and paranoid when I got into the car, I was usually a nervous wreck by the time I got out. 
 
This one time, he pulls up outside the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe on 3rd St. There was a rap freestyle night going on and outside was a line of burly, blinged-up hoodlum types with their sassy looking girlfriends. So he leans over to my side, winds down my window and yells "LADEEEEEZ! Who wants to get in the car and come for a ride with me! Party time!" as their boyfriends seethed and fumed next to them. 
 
And I'm sat there sinking into my seat, the blood running from my face, thinking "THIS is how it happens. THIS," expecting a bullet in the head at any second. 

So yeah, being able to skip merrily down to the cafe on the corner and purchase marijuana in gummy bear form from a 120lb hipster would probably make it just a little too easy for me 
 
 

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 20:49:52 (permalink)
Sharke - yeah mon ! 

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 20:58:37 (permalink)
Speaking of Jamaican dudes. 20 years ago I was lucky enough to play with a real Jamaican band. The lead singer was a 20 yrs old tall skinny guy that jumped to the beat as he sang. Straight up and down. Dreadlocks flying.  The band was great! We played an afternoon gig about 4-7pm Wed and Fri. at an outside patio in a restaurant. Great atmosphere very near the college. It was a big band. 8 to 12 members depending on who felt like playing. I went to their house one day and their dinner table was completely covered with pot. About 2 in thick. A big round coffee table.
To this day I don't know why they let me play with them but man did I love that band!
 
  

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 21:27:12 (permalink)
Music has always been a great unifying force. i would say sports and music are probably the things people find easiest to put their differences aside for, at least temporarily.
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 21:46:50 (permalink)
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Music has always been a great unifying force. i would say sports and music are probably the things people find easiest to put their differences aside for, at least temporarily.




Are you kidding???  Try putting a Liverpool fan next to a Man U fan, or a Michigan State fan next to an Ohio State fan, or...
 
As for music, I remember the fights between punks and rockers, rock and country, Disco and everyone else...

 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 21:51:13 (permalink)
Country?? or Western?? Blue?? Or Grass?? Rhythm?? Or Blues?? Don't get me started...

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 22:05:11 (permalink)
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Music has always been a great unifying force. i would say sports and music are probably the things people find easiest to put their differences aside for, at least temporarily.




Are you kidding???  Try putting a Liverpool fan next to a Man U fan, or a Michigan State fan next to an Ohio State fan, or...
 
As for music, I remember the fights between punks and rockers, rock and country, Disco and everyone else...


No, I'm not kidding.  yes, i know people fight over music and sports.  people have been stabbed over all manner of silly things.  just because 100% of the population will not unify over such things does no change the fact that each has a much better track record than such things as politics.  I bet you i have much better luck getting two random people to find some common ground on music than politics.  People do fight over music and sports, but white, gun toting, bible thumping republicans have no problem playing a blues jam session with a black, al sharpton loving democrats. yes, OSU and Michigan fans hate each other, but on the flipside, occupy wall street hippy types from michigan and Corporate Mitt Romney types will unify in cheering against OSU.  It's far from perfect and there is a completely ugly side to it, but i like ,my chances of pairing random people via music or sports over tossing out a subject like abortion.
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/19 22:37:42 (permalink)
I remember the Oasis/Blur massacre of 1995. RIP to all the victims. 

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/20 00:12:49 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2015/04/20 01:13:25
If you are on the way to CO from the bayou come by for a short rest stop.  Dallas is about 1/2 way.  Dog welcome too.  We could see what trouble we could not get into.
 
I've been to South Fork several times.  A nice part of the state but not too lively for jobs, from what I can tell.  But it is a great place to venture outward - and over the mountains.  Stop by Alford Packer's - oh, cannabis not cannibals.  Hell, we'd like to see you anyway.  Drop me a PM if you do come this way.
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/20 01:11:12 (permalink)
I've decided to grow a large mustache! 

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/20 03:49:16 (permalink)
Just to understand the choices here, what size bust are you talking about? 

 
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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/20 07:52:58 (permalink)
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Just to understand the choices here, what size bust are you talking about? 


I think he means Bapu...

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Re: Colorado or Bust 2015/04/20 11:33:53 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2015/04/20 13:28:01
go to south park.
 
 
 

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