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Co-founding Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Bobby Weir is celebrating his 76th birthday today!
Here are 10 interesting facts you might not know about him:
1 - Bob Weir was only 16 years old when he joined The Grateful Dead.
2 - He spent more time on stage than any other musician. It's believed that he's one of the most recorded guitarists in history, including live performances.
3 - Bobby is known for his unique rhythm guitar playing style.
4 - He is a committed environmental and social activist.
5 - He co-wrote many of The Grateful Dead’s most famous songs, including 'Truckin'.
6 - He was adopted and didn't meet his biological parents until much later in life.
7 - He used multiple types of guitars and have experimented with a lot of gear over the years.
8 - He is one of the most interesting and influential musicians and American cultural figures of the last several decades.
9 - He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
10 - He has collaborated with numerous acclaimed musicians throughout his career, including Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana, and Joan Baez.
Bobby has continued to perform and tour extensively as a solo artist to this day. 'Retirement Is Not an Option' he said in 2022.
Happy 76th birthday and thanks for your incredible music, unwavering inspiration, and the endless joy you've brought to us all. Here's to many more years of sharing your incredible talent with the world.
#bobweir #thegratefuldead #gratefuldead #deadheads
1 - Bob Weir was only 16 years old when he joined The Grateful Dead.
2 - He spent more time on stage than any other musician. It's believed that he's one of the most recorded guitarists in history, including live performances.
3 - Bobby is known for his unique rhythm guitar playing style.
4 - He is a committed environmental and social activist.
5 - He co-wrote many of The Grateful Dead’s most famous songs, including 'Truckin'.
6 - He was adopted and didn't meet his biological parents until much later in life.
7 - He used multiple types of guitars and have experimented with a lot of gear over the years.
8 - He is one of the most interesting and influential musicians and American cultural figures of the last several decades.
9 - He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
10 - He has collaborated with numerous acclaimed musicians throughout his career, including Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana, and Joan Baez.
Bobby has continued to perform and tour extensively as a solo artist to this day. 'Retirement Is Not an Option' he said in 2022.
Happy 76th birthday and thanks for your incredible music, unwavering inspiration, and the endless joy you've brought to us all. Here's to many more years of sharing your incredible talent with the world.
#bobweir #thegratefuldead #gratefuldead #deadheads
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| If Chris Squire was still with us, he would be celebrating his 76th birthday today. While he was alive, he was the only member of the band YES to appear on every album. Chris was widely regarded as the dominant bass guitarist among the early seventies British progressive rock bands, influencing peers and later generations of bassists with his incisive sound and elaborately contoured, melodic bass lines. His name was also associated with his trademark instrument, the Rickenbacker 4001 electric bass, which was introduced in England in 1964. Chris was fond of using LSD in the 1960s, until an incident where he had a bad acid trip. He recalled that "it was the last time I ever took it, having ended up in St Stephen's Hospital in Fulham for a couple of days not knowing who I was, or what I was, or who anybody else was." He also recalled that he spent months inside his girlfriend's apartment, afraid to leave, and it was during this time that he developed his style on the bass. He recovered and never used LSD again. Squire claimed Yes was formed with Jon Anderson, drummer Bill Bruford and keyboardist Tony Kaye partly out of necessity. "I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style. They wanted me to play something a lot more basic. We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles." Happy Birthday Chris and what a style it was! How many of you would rate him as one of the best bassists ever? Chris passed away on June 27, 2015. RIP Mr. Squire. Thank you for the inspiration, the music and for just being Chris Squire 
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Kad, I called an old friend to ask her about something I remembered from long ago, maybe around 1996 when we were very young, but I didn't remember exactly what it was. She was worried at that time because she had partial retinal detachment in one eye. She never knew why or how, didn't think it was from any sort of trauma. It just was, but she worried it would detach more and she would lose her sight. But she kept going to the ophthalmologist every year, and it never got any worse, never became any more detached, never affected her eyesight.
I know, I know, know, this isn't the same thing as you have. It's just a recounting of non-intervention without becoming worse. But I feel sure you must have some fear of non-intervention being something you could regret.
I hate the medical industry, and I know in my heart of hearts there are natural things you can do while you wait for the results of the genetic testing, so I looked on my favorite natural health site.
Natural Remedies for Macular Degeneration: Top Research-Based Suppleme
Find out which natural remedies and supplements are backed by research to help prevent or slow down macular degeneration and improve eye health.
Jimi has said he eats apricot seeds every day. I tried them. They didn't taste bad, didn't taste great. DMSO is believed to be the magic ingredient in those. Only get organic ones. I really don't suggest putting DMSO drops in your eyes. The closer to the natural whole state of a medicine, the better.
Natural Remedies for Macular Degeneration: Top Research-Based Suppleme
Find out which natural remedies and supplements are backed by research to help prevent or slow down macular degeneration and improve eye health.
Natural Remedies for Macular Degeneration: Top Research-Based Suppleme
Find out which natural remedies and supplements are backed by research to help prevent or slow down macular degeneration and improve eye health.
Natural Remedies for Macular Degeneration: Top Research-Based Suppleme
Find out which natural remedies and supplements are backed by research to help prevent or slow down macular degeneration and improve eye health.
I'll conclude by saying that if anything I ever say results in someone getting more sick, or losing their sight, or any other adverse outcome, I'll just hate myself. I only suggest reading on these links and doing your own thinking.
Wishing you good health and lifelong crystal clear vision.
I stayed at the Chelsea on one of my trips to NYC for the College Music Journal (radio industry rag) music festival. It was a ton of fun, and especially the Chelsea was a great old hotel, cheap but well maintained, clean, with huge rooms, in an interesting, vibrant neighborhood. They'd already started condo-izing it at the time. I'm pretty sure it's all privately owned apartments now. You can't book a room there anymore. Those were the days.
Considering that at 53 I already have noticeable vision loss in my left eye, at least in certain situations, I'm kind of torn. The form of macular degeneration I have has been untreatable until recently other than through supplements. They are supposed to slow the progression but that's all. What I've been taking, incidentally is the AREDS 2 supplements mentioned in your first link.
They have been using injections of some sort to treat other forms for quite some time. This injection that's available now is new. But in all cases all they do is slow the progression. If it means I can still read a book for a few extra years, I might do it, but I'm definitely not going to allow someone to stick a needle in my eye every month without being sure it truly benefits me. So at this point I'm investigating it but on the fence about going through with it.
DMSO sounds intriguing and worth looking into a bit more.
Well, unless I find something that actually regenerates the macula it's too late for the crystal clear vision. At this point I'm just trying to keep it from getting too much worse too quickly. But thank you, and I wish you the same.
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Well, I certainly wish I had looked at that earthclinic site prior to now. Some very interesting information and links. Of course one of the most intriguing I've looked at so far happens to be an Australian study involving saffron - the spice, not my cat. 
It had to be the most expensive spice in the world, didn't it? Still probably cheaper than whatever those injections will cost though.
It had to be the most expensive spice in the world, didn't it? Still probably cheaper than whatever those injections will cost though.
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Well, I certainly wish I had looked at that earthclinic site prior to now. Some very interesting information and links. Of course one of the most intriguing I've looked at so far happens to be an Australian involving saffron - the spice, not my cat.
Earthclinic was how I found my way when I had the horrible disfiguring eruption of eczema in 2018. I had to either figure it out, or put on a burka and change cultures. I knew steroids did more harm than good. There have been documentaries made about how topical steroids cause permanent inflamed dark red skin. I won't go into it. It was also fairly well known the pharmaceuticals did nothing.
On Earthclinic the articles led me to where I was going, but it was reading the forum user comments below those articles that gave me more info than anything, and I found the answers that started to work immediately, within 24 hours, though the complete remission, and the complete healing of my damaged skin, did take some time. As long as the itchy inflamed blistered patches were shrinking, I had the patience to take time to heal.
So yeah, one person's cure may not be the next person's cure, but it's in peoples' comments that you find, here and there, a consensus, maybe only two or three people who tried the same thing and it worked.
I feel there's love in that forum.
Well, I certainly wish I had looked at that earthclinic site prior to now. Some very interesting information and links. Of course one of the most intriguing I've looked at so far happens to be an Australian involving saffron - the spice, not my cat.
Beware of counterfeit saffron in the market. But you can get the real thing, definitely.
Well, I certainly wish I had looked at that earthclinic site prior to now. Some very interesting information and links. Of course one of the most intriguing I've looked at so far happens to be an Australian study involving saffron - the spice, not my cat.
Wow!
Short-term Outcomes of Saffron Supplementation in Patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration: A Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Randomized Trial
In modern pharmacological medicine, saffron is used for various purposes due to its antioxidant effect. This study evaluated retinal function after treatment with saffron supplementation during a follow-up period of 6 months to provide further insight ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Assuming Mehr is reliable, I can buy it from Amazon, and based on current cost (and assuming my calculations are correct), I would get 160 doses for around $30, once I figure out how to weigh out 30mg. I don't think I would trust taking it as a supplement, I'd rather have pure saffron and use a small amount each day in cooking if I try it.
The study you linked doesn't look quite as promising as the one I initially looked at but it can't hurt.
I think though that is enough sidetracking of the thread. I'm going to do some more research and post about my findings later in either Jimi's thread or possibly even start a new thread since smokers and former smokers have an increased risk for AMD.
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You're right about sidetracking the music thread. I'll reply to you in a PM.