Pipe Dream
Fractals are sometimes perceived as trippy, halucinogenic things. Which probably says more about the viewers than the artists. Pipe Dream was the name of a Hendrix boot. Speaking of boots, some Grateful Dead boots had fractal album covers. Hard to think of GD stuff being boots when they'd let you plug into the sound board at their shows. Boots are usually not encouraged, but since the GD never had a top 40 anyway, what the hey. Hippy days, tie-dye shirts, pipe dreams, incense and peppermints.
posted by Philip at 8:21 AM
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Dick's Picks aren't boots are they?
Anyway, I have several GD DVDs. I think that a color cycling Julia occasionally appears in the background in the movie.
FWIW, lately I am getting my GD fix on the radioio.com dead channel.
I have only seen them live once and at the time I had no idea what I was seeing - I walked out. I regret that now.
8/17/2006 3:07 PM
Hi Keith, I believe Dick's Picks are distributed by Grateful Dead Merchandising and are not boots. Dick was the custodian of their tapes vault. I guess those would be the official master recordings of the shows. As I understand it, there were so many shows that not all have been released and so the boots are in effect what Dick didn't Pick, or hasn't Picked Yet. :-)
I'm hardly an expert though. My info is mostly from a deadhead I know. I did briefly look at Garcia as a guitar player. He was missing half of his right middle finger, as you may have known.
8/17/2006 5:38 PM
Check out the covers that Dick picked. That's probably why the boots have fractals too
http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?band_id=171&sfid=7&dept_id=1541&page=2
http://stores.musictoday.com/store/product.asp?band_id=171&dept_id=1541&pf_id=DECD043&sfid=7
8/17/2006 9:42 PM
You want to know something funny? I thought "boots" meant boots, things on your foot. I had this picture of an audio jack plugged into someone's leather cowboy boot and fed into a mixing board...
I've heard reference to fractals being associated with "hippie" stuff. Is this because of a Grateful Dead connection? I've rarely seen fractals anywhere besides the internet, but maybe they've found a niche in some subculture I don't know of?
I've only seen the Grateful Dead once or twice and they didn't seem like the cowboy boot types to me. Jimi Hendrix maybe.
Boots... am I clued out, or what?
8/17/2006 10:20 PM
Yep Keith, sure looks fractal to me!
@Tim, There were a few deadheads on alt.binaries.pictures.fractals. They may have learned of fractals through these boot covers. Boots may refer to the fans smuggling in the tape recorders in their boots, or perhaps to bootlegging activity a la prohibition times.
@Susan, heh I used to have a black light and a strobe way back when. Kinda fun to wheel out at parties!
@John, hehe I had an early Amiga. It came with a colour-progression program that was dazzling compared to the IBM PC's handful of colours. I had to let it go when I just didn't have time for it. I did subscribe to AmigaDisk, and once they included a good version of Space Invaders. More time down the drain! :-)
8/18/2006 9:23 AM
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