Typing on the Fringes

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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97508 time=1656338760 user_id=68]On the same day that the Mets won the last game of the 1969 World Series.

[RealityChuck]

Edgy MD wrote: I would have no way of knowing. My experience is that friends of mine who were followers would return from the show and tell me it was great. I'd name a song or two I knew (and maybe even kind of liked) and ask if it was part of the set list. They never seemed to know.

There are playlists of most every Grateful Dead concert at https://www.setlists.net/https://www.setlists.net/ and elsewhere.



You can also find audio of most of their concerts at https://archive.org/details/GratefulDeadhttps://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

[kcmets]

They were always big on that, right? Set-lists, bootlegs and such. My

friend mentioned above has like 200 cassettes of concerts he collected

from the pre-internet daze...

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: I would have no way of knowing. My experience is that friends of mine who were followers would return from the show and tell me it was great. I'd name a song or two I knew (and maybe even kind of liked) and ask if it was part of the set list. They never seemed to know. There are playlists of most every Grateful Dead concert at https://www.setlists.net/https://www.setlists.net/ and elsewhere. You can also find audio of most of their concerts at https://archive.org/details/GratefulDeadhttps://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

I understand that the setlists are available online, but these conversations typically occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s, and I really was just making polite conversation.

[roger_that]

I lived with a bunch of Deadheads in college--a more obsessive, trivia-driven bunch of guys I have never met, and never want to meet, and I say that as an umpteen-time winner of baseball trivia contests in bars all across this country. Jesus, give it a rest, man--no one gives a damn about whether they played "St. Stephen" before or after "Uncle John's Band" on Tuesday night. Once in the early 70s, one of them dragged me to a Dead show at the Felt Forum where I got to understand what the term "Grateful Dead" really meant. I wished I'd died--that thing went on and on, everyone standing up and clapping for hours, high as the moon, taping and trading tapes and nodding wisely to each other throughout the interminable set.

[whippoorwill]

Lol

The band or the audience?

Or both?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I love this Typewriter Chewing Gum Rock n Roll set and would literally buy the entire set for real money and frame it and hang it my office, for real. It's the best thing since sliced (Wonder) bread, and a pity we had to wait 12 years to see it. Signed, Roger Kaputnik

Dear Roger:



The 2022 TCG set is finally under development. It will be code named Rock and Roll, Part 2. Because you have been such a loyal fan of our trading cards over the years, we are sending you some advance cards for your pleasure and to show off to your friends. These cards will not be available to the general public for a few months. So go ahead and brag about that.



Yours truly,

TCG



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Edited July 4, 2022 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wow!! (I mean, Hey!) being it's Rock nRoll Part 2

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Typewriter Chewing Gum 2022 total Mets set is now available at a store near you. And what a set it is. We anticipate that with future updates, it might turn out to be the largest TCG Mets set ever. The set will include base cards for every player, even the fringiest Mets:



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...base card variations:



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...teammate cards:



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...MTV cards, an exciting subset that will take collectors back to the glorious days of pop music video (look for the MTV logo on these cards):



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...Brogna Boys cards (dead Brogna Boys, too):



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...old friends:



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...and a chance to acquire a unique one of a kind trading card (POP. - 1). But you'll need to score our Willy Wonka style golden ticket first, for a chance to claim this unique card, featuring Led Zeppelin. We've sprinkled several golden tickets in our card packs. (Odds: 1 in every 15,000 packs). The first collector to mail a golden ticket to our offices will win the unique trading card:



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And many other surprises and features. Like digging into our fascination with Chicago's corporate logo style album covers. And the Brandon Nimmo walls of 45RPM history. Plus Max Scherzer gets assigned to the Andy Warhol rock and roll desk.



It's all happening. Now!

[batmagadanleadoff]

We're busy bees over here at TCG what with the flurry of new Mets arriving at the trading deadline. We like trades. Because more trades means more cards. And more cards means more money for us and our overlords over at Plasticine Industries. We've started our update set for the new 2022 Mets. And we'll have alternate cards for some of the other Mets who appeared in the base set. Plus extras. And surprises. So go out and buy those packs of cards. You might even get a golden ticket and win a one-of-a-kind trading card featuring Led Zeppelin's private reunion concert held at our offices earlier this year. Here's a sneak peek at some of our updates.



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Edited August 6, 2022 by Guest

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Some would call this an Easter egg. I think of it as a Wester egg.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Good one. Touche. (It's supposed to rhyme with "To Shea". It'd be obvious if I could put an accent mark over the e but I've already spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to type the e with the accent mark. The unicode is U00E9 but I can't get it to go. So I owe you an accent mark. I can type a section mark --§ -- or a paragraph mark --¶ . But that e with the accent has me stumped.)

[Edgy MD]

If you have an Apple keyboard, typing OPT-e gets you the accent mark, and then the next letter you type will appear under the accent mark.



It may work on PCs, too. I'm not sure.

[batmagadanleadoff]

[FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52267085987_63794b02d6_h.jpg[/FIMG] Some would call this an Easter egg. I think of it as a Wester egg.

But I could, just the same, take it in a somewhat more easterly direction.



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[G-Fafif]

But I could, just the same, take it in a somewhat more easterly direction.

Hard to pass over that kind of Egg.

[batmagadanleadoff]

But I could, just the same, take it in a somewhat more easterly direction. Hard to pass over that kind of Egg.

He should be holding a copy of "The Great Gatsby" with all of this west and east eggs talk.

[batmagadanleadoff]

We're updating our Rock and Roll Part 2 total Mets set. Ol' Jake wasn't eligible for inclusion in the base set, having not pitched a single inning by the time that set went to press. You gots to play you're way into the sets. Which Jake definitely did, this week. NL PLayer of the Week, maybe? The Sky's the limit with Jake.









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Edited August 8, 2022 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

Updates for a rain delay:



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[batmagadanleadoff]

With more free time than he anticipated these past few weeks, we here at TCG asked Starling Marte to host our newest and most exciting subset of our Rock and Roll Part 2 2022 total Mets team set -- The History of Pop Music (1950-1985). It's a bold set of cards, and there are more than 100 cards in the subset alone. Marte was truly honored to be asked to participate in the creation of this subset. We're proud to offer youse a random sampling of just some of the cards in the set. Go out and buy the rest of them. Collect them all!



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[batmagadanleadoff]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

The 2022 Rock and Roll Part 2 set is officially in the books. Here's a random sampling of some of our Update set cards.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Youse seem to be in the mood for some more cards of Sterling Marte against a backdrop of hit pop music singles covering the years 1950-1991.



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1974.1

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1960.3

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1987.3

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1965.3

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[batmagadanleadoff]

I wasn't planning on posting any more of these Starling Marte History of Pop Music cards. But when I didn't post any more of these yesterday, look what happened to Scherzer and the Mets. Causal? Coincidence? I ain't superstitious. But why take a chance again?



1978.4

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1992.2

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1981.1

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1956.1

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1967.2

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1962.2

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1987.2

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1973.1

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[whippoorwill]

Some interesting matchups there

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Some interesting matchups there

[whippoorwill]

Well Doris Day and little Richard come to mind.

Love her; can't stand him.



But I guess that makes it a weird twosome in just my eyes.



Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me.



Maybe it really is a perfect matchup

[batmagadanleadoff]

Well Doris Day and little Richard come to mind. Love her; can't stand him. But I guess that makes it a weird twosome in just my eyes. Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me. Maybe it really is a perfect matchup

Yeah. This is totally understandable and expected. Everyone has different musical tastes. I myself don't necessarily like all of the songs I included in these cards. I'm simply going for a sampling of the given year's hits. Little Richard and Doris Day had huge top of the chart hits in 1956. I'll say this much: both of those songs still hold up some 60-65 years later. Can't say that for a lot of the "alternative" artsy rock and roll that became popular in the very late 70s and picked up steam throughout the 80s and early 90s.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me.

[whippoorwill]

I have known many woman older than I who truly were nuts about him.

I was just 18 when he died and though I didn't dislike him, I wasn't thrilled.



I'm surprised by the later rockers that said he influenced them

I think you're right; it was a matter of time before a white boy (read ‘safe') emulated the music of the black man.



Although hilariously, he proved to be anything but innocent

[whippoorwill]

Well Doris Day and little Richard come to mind. Love her; can't stand him. But I guess that makes it a weird twosome in just my eyes. Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me. Maybe it really is a perfect matchup Yeah. This is totally understandable and expected. Everyone has different musical tastes. I myself don't necessarily like all of the songs I included in these cards. I'm simply going for a sampling of the given year's hits. Little Richard and Doris Day had huge top of the chart hits in 1956. I'll say this much: both of those songs still hold up some 60-65 years later. Can't say that for a lot of the "alternative" artsy rock and roll that became popular in the very late 70s and picked up steam throughout the 80s and early 90s.

Both of those Doris Day songs are great