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User talk:Alight

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Woa, great photo (Image:ChessSet.jpg) that you took. --Menchi 03:01, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images
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WP:FPC#Bee Wings
I still don't agree with you, but I'd still like to thank you for replying to my request. :) Mgm|(talk) 20:03, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

Commons?
Hello! Can we upload these (C) images to commons? --Sheynhertzגעשׁ״ך 14:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Notable Brandeisians
In your edit to the list of notable Brandeisians, you removed two people with the comment "... not notable, else would have own Wikipedia articles." I don't have an opinion about whether these two people are notable, but I did want to point out that many Wikipedia articles start as red links from elsewhere; in fact, many of the articles I've created started as this kind of link. In other words, your argument about notability doesn't follow how the Wikipedia works, and you ought to have other reasons for feeling that something is not notable before you remove it. --Zippy 04:00, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I just saw this happen again. It seems to me, on the face of it, ridiculous to remove people solely on the grounds that they don't have wikipedia articles. Wikipedia is a work in progress and many things are missing. People sometimes find out what's missing, and contribute, due to redlinks. What sense does it possibly make to circularly claim that because they're not in wikipedia already, they're not notable?Cos 05:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I want you to realize that when you remove notable people from the listing, and make statements like "cohen is not notable', you are both defaming an individual, and alienating that person as a donor to Brandeis University. Nathan Cohen is indeed listed in wikipedia, under 'fractal antennas'. If you use this false assertion again, it will likely create a formal dispute against you--formal as in legal. I urge you to correct your error less it be interpreted as being of 'intent'.

Note that one of the notables removed was quite notable (most economists would agree): http://www.iie.com/publications/author_bio.cfm?author_id=47

 * I would love to be able to "correct my error" however, you both seem to have done it for me and since you are editing anonymously, I can't contact you. Regards, Alan Alight 13:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Incongruous reference
The quotation from the reference, "Brandeis, a nonsectarian institution, was founded in 1948, by American Jews seeking to establish a university free from the quotas that Jews faced at elite colleges," is highly relevant and is needed to support the statement in the article. I agree that the article itself has a title that's irrelevant and might lead one to question my motives in citing it... but I couldn't figure out an appropriate or honest way to cite it without mentioning the title.

I'm going to try abbreviating the title to "Brandeis pulls artwork..."

I do plan to look for a less "incongruous" reference. But Brandeis' origins as a response to discrimination are important to mention, just as are Boston College's origins as a response to anti-Catholic discrimination, and the Brandeis website tap-dances around this and, it seems, a number of other circumstances connected with Brandeis' founding (its connection with Albert Einstein, for example).

I am not a pro-Palestinian NPOV warrior, if that's what you were thinking. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding edits made during October 30 2006 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 12:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * BattlestarWiki is a wiki and covers stull Wikipedia cannot, a.k.a relevance. Scifipedia is ran by the official Sci Fi channel and hence is official as official can be, a.k.a relevance. The commercial link I obviously missed, but of course im only human.. - Your link is just a non notable podcast that maybe gets 1 listner a week and hence does not meet wiki link gudielinks. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 15:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * If you can't contribute positively without trying to censor everything that you yourself did not originate, please mind your own business, Matthew. Thx. 24.242.148.169 03:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

BSG link

 * 1) Your neutrality is effected, and asking somebody to do it is just meat puppetry.
 * 2) Your link is non-notable and non relevant to the article, if it was official then maybeeeee it would have a tincy bit of relevance.
 * 3) Your link has been removed before.
 * 4) Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 15:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Be advised, Matthew Fenton apparently has delusions of ownership of several Wikipedia articles. For some reason, he thinks he is the Be All and End All of any dispute over articles and entry editing, and has no problem trying to force his views down everyone's throat. If anyone's guilty of disrupting actions, it's Matthew. Stick to your guns, reverse any unwarranted, wanton edits he makes at least once a day, and eventually he'll get it through his head that he doesn't own Wikipedia. Not by a long shot. 66.90.151.114 07:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: Matthew Fenton
Does Matthew have some sort of godhood delusion? 24.242.148.169 03:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Photo Matching Service
Thought you might want to know about this, it has the same goals as WikiProject Photography, but is better organized. -- Gphoto talk 19:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Brandeis gosman.jpg
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More replaceable fair use images

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— Chowbok  ☠  20:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Deleted Images
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Brandeis images
Hi, can you elaborate on the permission you received from Brandeis? Ideal would be if you could post the e-mail(s?) on the image talk pages. If they've released these images under a free license, I would be happy to remove the RFU notices and get these off the chopping block. — Chowbok  ☠  23:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I haven't heard back from you on this. I'm going to re-nominate these for deletion if you don't write me soon. — Chowbok  ☠  02:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm going to nominate these for deletion again. This is getting ridiculous. Anyone could just go to the same spot and take new pictures, there's no reason why we have to wait for weeks to get permission to use these. — Chowbok  ☠  01:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Brandeis shapiro.jpg
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Possibly unfree Image:Brandeis shapiro.jpg
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 * 1. I don't think you're being dishonest, but you may be mistaken. A lot of people get this stuff wrong. It's very confusing.
 * 2. If you're claiming an image that doesn't belong to you is GFDL, you have to present evidence it's so. That's not just to please me, it's standard practice.
 * 3. I don't. It only seems that way to you because you pay more attention to this image than to ones you didn't upload. Look at my history; I've nominated hundreds of photos for deletion.
 * 4. Well, yeah. If I (or anybody) disputes something, doesn't that automatically mean it's in dispute?

 * Why don't you just post the e-mail? If you have a note from the guy saying they release the image under the GFDL, I'll drop the whole thing. Wouldn't that be easier than spending all this time fighting with me?— Chowbok  ☠  03:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Please try to drop the hostility, it gets us nowhere. As I said before, I don't believe you're lying, but rather that you might be mistaken. When I post an image from Flickr to here or Commons, I have to point to its original source to show that it has truly been released under the license I said it was. I don't take having to do this as a personal affront or a reflection on my character; I simply understand that mistakes get made and its good to have more eyes on something. Please don't be offended that you're being held to the same standard that I or anyone else is. — Chowbok  ☠  17:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry you're not willing to discuss this in a civil manner. Speculating about my motives and character is quite unseemly and hardly productive to our goal here. Please let me know if you change your mind later and are willing to limit our conversation to the issues at hand. — Chowbok  ☠  18:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I haven't once called you a liar, in fact I've said the opposite repeatedly. I don't think your e-mail counts as a "private" correspondence when you made it clear that you were writing on behalf of Wikipedia. And there are other reasons why we'd want to have the e-mail. Suppose somebody else from Brandeis says "No, we own the copyright on this and it's not GFDL". If we have the correspondence available, we can point them to that.

 * Anyway, if you're still nervous about posting the e-mail publicly, how about this for a compromise: forward it to . That way, it won't be available to everybody, but Wikipedia administrators will still be able to refer to it in case of a dispute. How does that sound? — Chowbok  ☠  18:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Can you try to post to my talk page at least once without accusing me of something? You never told me you had forwarded the e-mail to permissions. That's fine then, I'll see if I can get somebody to follow up on that. — Chowbok  ☠  20:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Brandeis Student Life
I've seen you've edited the student life section on the main Brandeis page to remove reference to greek life on campus. Would it be more accurate to state that while the school doesn't recognize them, that certain organizations claim members there? Jihad cowboy 18:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Not really, otherwise it can get carried away. The article is about "Brandeis University" which operations as an institution. If a bunch of students (who just happen to attend Brandeis) are involved in some off-campus activity, it's not really about "Brandeis University" anymore. Where do you draw the line? If a bunch of kids get together in a restaurant each week, does that make them a "Brandeis Dining Club." Alight 20:08, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

There are numerous things on the page that do not have to do with University itself, but historical and communal aspects. The fact that for 2 years there were Greeks on campus prior to the University's removing them (1986-1988) would at least justify a mention in the historical section. Also, student life is not just a discussion of the school sponsored activities, but the lives of the students. If there was a dining club that attracted nearly 10% of the school, I do feel it should be listed. Jihad cowboy 22:30, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this is an article on Brandeis University, and this section is a description of student life on campus. While the school itself does not recognize the fraternities and sororities, when a sizable percentage of the student body participates in it, and a large portion of the social scene on campus is driven by it, I feel a mention IS deserved in a description of the Student Life. To return to your question of a dining club, if and when several hundred students come together to organize dining trips as a unit, then I would say they should be listed as a part of student life. Jihad cowboy 19:22, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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Connecticut county photo requests
I saw your name at Wikipedians/Photographers. FYI, the photo requests at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut have been sorted into Counties to make it easier to locate the place of the requested photo. GregManninLB (talk) 06:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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Brandeis greek life
I'm not going to revert your recent edit as the info you removed is unsourced but I disagree with your stated rationale for removing the information. It's short-sighted and narrow to think that only university-approved activities or groups are the proper subject for an article about the institution and its student life. I understand that we have to draw a line somewhere but I think you've drawn the line too close to the institution in this instance. --ElKevbo (talk) 16:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Please read the top line of the article List of Zeta Beta Tau chapters and colonies. It states: "The following is a list of campuses with chapters and colonies currently recognized by the Zeta Beta Tau national fraternity." The chapter at Brandeis is recognized by ZBT National and that is why it is on this list. Your football analogy is not relevant because a group of friends playing football would not be recognized by any significant national organization. -Drdisque (talk) 14:27, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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User talk:Jgamel

Greetings! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. You can sign your name with ~. If you have questions or doubts of any sort, do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump, somebody will respond ASAP. Other helpful pages include: Have fun! --Jiang 22:11, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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Lipoma

A lipoma is a benign tumor made of fat tissue. They are generally soft to the touch, movable, and painless. They usually occur just under the skin, but occasionally may be deeper. Most are less than 5 cm in size. Common locations include upper back, shoulders, and abdomen. It is possible to have several lipomas.

The cause is generally unclear. Risk factors include family history, obesity, and lack of exercise. Diagnosis is typically based on a physical exam. Occasionally medical imaging or tissue biopsy is used to confirm the diagnosis.

Treatment is typically by observation or surgical removal. Rarely, the condition may recur following removal, but this can generally be managed with repeat surgery. They are not generally associated with a future risk of cancer.

Lipomas have a prevalence of roughly 2 out of every 100 people. Lipomas typically occur in adults between 40 and 60 years of age. Males are more often affected than females. They are the most common noncancerous soft-tissue tumor. The first use of the term "lipoma" to describe these tumors was in 1709.

Etymology
"Fatty tumor" (plural lipomata), 1830, medical Latin, from Greek lipos "fat" (n.), from PIE root *leip- "to stick, adhere", also used to form words for "fat", + -oma.

Types
The many subtypes of lipomas include:
 * Adenolipomas are lipomas associated with eccrine sweat glands.
 * Angiolipoleiomyomas are acquired, solitary, asymptomatic acral nodules, characterized histologically by well-circumscribed subcutaneous tumors composed of smooth muscle cells, blood vessels, connective tissue, and fat.
 * Angiolipomas are painful subcutaneous nodules having all other features of a typical lipoma.
 * Cerebellar pontine angle and internal auditory canal lipomas
 * Chondroid lipomas are deep-seated, firm, yellow tumors that characteristically occur on the legs of women.
 * Corpus callosum lipoma is a rare congenital brain condition that may or may not present with symptoms. This occurs in the corpus callosum, also known as the calossal commissure, which is a wide, flat bundle of neural fibers beneath the cortex in the human brain.
 * Hibernomas are lipomas of brown fat.
 * Intradermal spindle cell lipomas are distinct in that they most commonly affect women and have a wide distribution, occurring with relatively equal frequency on the head and neck, trunk, and upper and lower extremities. Histopathology of a fibrolipoma.jpg
 * A fibrolipoma is a lipoma with focal areas of large amounts of fibrous tissue. A sclerotic lipoma is a predominantly fibrous lesion with focal areas of fat.
 * Neural fibrolipomas are overgrowths of fibro-fatty tissue along a nerve trunk, which often leads to nerve compression.
 * Pleomorphic lipomas, like spindle-cell lipomas, occur for the most part on the backs and necks of elderly men and are characterized by floret giant cells with overlapping nuclei.
 * Spindle-cell lipomas are asymptomatic, slow-growing, subcutaneous tumors that have a predilection for the posterior back, neck, and shoulders of older men.
 * Superficial subcutaneous lipomas, the most common type of lipoma, lie just below the surface of the skin. Most occur on the trunk, thigh, and forearm, although they may be found anywhere in the body where fat is located.

Causes
The tendency to develop a lipoma is not necessarily hereditary, although hereditary conditions such as familial multiple lipomatosis might include lipoma development. Genetic studies in mice have shown a correlation between the HMG I-C gene (previously identified as a gene related to obesity) and lipoma development. These studies support prior epidemiologic data in humans showing a correlation between HMG I-C and mesenchymal tumors.

Cases have been reported where minor injuries are alleged to have triggered the growth of a lipoma, called a "post-traumatic lipoma". However, the link between trauma and the development of lipomas is controversial.

Other conditions
Lipomatosis is believed to be a hereditary condition in which multiple lipomas are present on the body.

Adiposis dolorosa (Dercum disease) is a rare condition involving multiple painful lipomas, swelling, and fatigue. Early studies mentioned prevalence in obese postmenopausal women. However, current literature demonstrates that Dercum disease is present in more women than men of all body types; the average age for diagnosis is 35 years.

Benign symmetric lipomatosis (Madelung disease) is another condition involving lipomatosis. It nearly always appears in middle-aged males after many years of alcoholism, but nonalcoholic males and females can also be affected.

Diagnosis
A physical exam is typically the easiest way to diagnose it. Rarely, a tissue biopsy or imaging may be required. The imaging modality of choice is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because it has superior sensitivity of distinguishing it from liposarcoma as well as mapping the surrounding anatomy.

Treatment
Usually, treatment of lipomas is not necessary, unless they become painful or restrict movement. They are usually removed for cosmetic reasons if they grow very large or for histopathology to verify that they are not a more dangerous type of tumor such as a liposarcoma. This last point can be important, as the characteristics of a tumor are not known until after it is removed and medically examined.

Lipomas are normally removed by simple excision. The removal can often be done under local anesthetic and takes less than 30 minutes. This cures the great majority of cases, with about 1–2% of lipomas recurring after excision. Liposuction is another option if the lipoma is soft and has a small connective tissue component. Liposuction typically results in less scarring; however, with large lipomas, it may fail to remove the entire tumor, which can lead to regrowth.

New methods under development are supposed to remove the lipomas without scarring. One is removal by injecting compounds that trigger lipolysis, such as steroids or phosphatidylcholine. Other potential methods based on tissue-targeted heating include cauterization, electrosurgery, and harmonic scalpel.

Post surgery
Patients who have a lipoma removed are usually able to return home the same day, without any need for hospitalization. Some patients may have pain, swelling, or bruising where the lipoma was removed. These symptoms usually subside after a few days.

Prognosis
Lipomas are rarely life-threatening, and the common subcutaneous lipomas are not a serious condition. Lipomas growing in internal organs can be more dangerous; for example, lipomas in the gastrointestinal tract can cause bleeding, ulceration, and painful obstructions (so-called "malignant by location", despite being a benign growth histologically). Malignant transformation of lipomas into liposarcomas is very rare, and most liposarcomas are not produced from pre-existing benign lesions. A few cases of malignant transformation have been described for bone and kidney lipomas, but it is possible that these few reported cases were well-differentiated liposarcomas in which the subtle malignant characteristics were missed when the tumor was first examined. Deep lipomas have a greater tendency to recur than superficial lipomas because complete surgical removal of deep lipomas is not always possible.

The presence of multiple lipomas, lipomatosis, is more commonly encountered in men. Some superficial lipomas can extend into deep fascia and may complicate excision. Liposarcoma is found in 1% of lipomas and is more likely to occur in lesions of the lower extremities, shoulders, and retroperitoneal areas. Other risk factors for liposarcoma include large size (>5 cm), associated with calcification, rapid growth, and/or invasion into nearby structures or through fascia into muscle tissue.

Epidemiology
Around 2% of the general population has a lipoma. These tumors can occur at any age, but are most common in middle age, often appearing in people from 40 to 60 years old. Cutaneous lipomas are rare in children, but these tumors can occur as part of the inherited disease Bannayan-Zonana syndrome.

Lipomas are usually relatively small with diameters of about 1–3 cm, but in rare cases they can grow over several years into "giant lipomas" that are 10–20 cm across and weigh up to 4–5 kg.

Other animals
Lipomas occur in many animals, but are most common in older dogs, particularly older Labrador Retrievers, Doberman Pinschers, and Miniature Schnauzers. Overweight female dogs are especially prone to developing these tumors, and most older or overweight dogs have at least one lipoma. In dogs, lipomas usually occur in the trunk or upper limbs. They are also found less commonly in cattle and horses, and rarely in cats and pigs. However, a pedunculated lipoma can cause entrapment and torsion of the intestine in horses, causing necrosis, colic, and possibly death. The intestine becomes twisted around the stalk of the lipoma and loses blood supply.

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Victor Wooten

Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. From 2017 to 2019 he recorded as the bassist for the metal band Nitro.

He owns Vix Records, which releases his albums. He wrote the novel The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music. He later released the book's sequel, The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues, on February 2, 2021.

Wooten is the recipient of five Grammy Awards. He won the Bass Player of the Year award from Bass Player magazine three times and is the first person to win the award more than once. In 2011, he was ranked No. 10 in the Top 10 Bassists of All Time by readers of Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2018–2019 Wooten was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition called focal dystonia in his hands and upper body, which had been limiting his ability to play in previous years, but has since abated somewhat.

Early life and career
Born to Dorothy and Elijah Wooten, Victor is the youngest of the five Wooten brothers; Regi, Roy, Rudy, and Joseph Wooten are all musicians. Regi began to teach Victor to play bass when he was two, and by the age of six, he was performing with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Brothers Band. As a United States Air Force family, they moved often when Wooten was young. The family settled in Newport News, Virginia, in 1972. Wooten graduated from Denbigh High School in 1982. While in high school, he and his brothers played in the country music venue at Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1987, he traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to visit friends that he made at the theme park. One of them was a studio engineer who introduced him to Béla Fleck, with whom he has often collaborated.

In 2000, Wooten created a music program called Bass/Nature camp that was expanded into Victor Wooten's Center for Music and Nature and includes all instruments. His camps are at Wooten Woods, a 147-acre retreat in Only, Tennessee, near Nashville. Wooten co-leads the "Victor Wooten/Berklee Summer Bass Workshop" at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At Berklee and his own camps, he collaborates with Berklee Bass Department chair, Steve Bailey. The two bassists have been teaching together since the early 1990s.

He was featured on the May/June 2014 cover of Making Music Magazine to discuss the camps.

Instruments
Wooten is most often seen playing Fodera basses, of which he has a signature model. His most famous Fodera, a 1983 Monarch Deluxe he refers to as "number 1," sports a Kahler Tremolo System model 2400 bridge. Fodera's "Yin Yang" basses (co-designed by and created for Wooten) incorporates the Yin Yang symbol—which Wooten uses in various media—as a focal point of the top's design and construction. The symbol is created from two pieces of naturally finished wood (Ebony and Holly, for example), fitted together to create the Yin-Yang pattern.

As well as playing electric bass (both fretted and fretless) and the double bass, he played cello in high school. He still plays cello occasionally with the Flecktones as well as in the 2012 Sword and Stone/Words and Tones tour.

Solo albums

 * A Show of Hands (Compass, 1996)
 * What Did He Say? (Compass, 1997)
 * Yin-Yang (Compass, 1999)
 * Live in America (Compass, 2001)
 * Soul Circus (Vanguard, 2005)
 * Palmystery (Heads Up, 2008)
 * The Music Lesson (Vix, 2011)
 * Words & Tones (Vix, 2012)
 * Sword & Stone (Vix, 2012)
 * Trypnotyx (Vix, 2017)

As the Wootens

 * The Wootens with The Wootens (Arista, 1985)

As Bass Extremes – with Steve Bailey

 * Cookbook (Tone Center, 1998)
 * Just Add Water (Tone Center, 2001)
 * S'Low Down (Vix, 2022)

As Vital Tech Tones – with Scott Henderson and Steve Smith

 * Vital Tech Tones (Tone Center, 1998)
 * VTT2 (Tone Center, 2000)

As SMV – with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller

 * Thunder, as SMV (Heads Up, 2008)

With Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

 * Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (Warner Bros., 1990)
 * Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (Warner Bros., 1991)
 * UFO Tofu (Warner Bros., 1992)
 * Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Warner Bros., 1993)
 * Live Art (Warner Bros., 1996)
 * Left of Cool (Warner Bros., 1998)
 * Greatest Hits of the 20th Century (Warner Bros., 1999)
 * Outbound (Columbia, 2000)
 * Live at the Quick (Columbia, 2002)
 * Little Worlds (Columbia, 2003)
 * Ten From Little Worlds (Columbia, 2003)
 * The Hidden Land (Columbia, 2006)
 * Jingle All the Way (Rounder, 2008)
 * Rocket Science (eOne, 2011)

With others

 * Darol Anger, Heritage (Six Degrees, 1997)
 * Steve Bailey, Evolution (Victor, 1994)
 * Eric Bibb, Jericho Road (DixieFrog, 2013)
 * Paul Brady, Spirits Colliding (Fontana 1995)
 * Alex Bugnon, 107 degrees in the Shade (Orpheus/Epic, 1991)
 * Jeff Coffin, Mutopia (Compass, 2008)
 * Jeff Coffin, The Inside of the Outside (Ear Up, 2015)
 * Bootsy Collins, Tha Funk Capital of the World (Mascot, 2011)
 * Bootsy Collins, World Wide Funk (Mascot, 2017)
 * Larry Coryell, Cause and Effect (Tone Center, 1998)
 * John Cowan, Sixty (Compass, 2014)
 * The Duhks, The Duhks (Sugar Hill, 2005)
 * Stuart Duncan, Stuart Duncan (Rounder, 1992)
 * Tommy Emmanuel, Little by Little (Favored Nations, 2010)
 * Bill Evans, Soulgrass (BHM, 2005)
 * Bill Evans, The Other Side of Something (Intuition, 2007)
 * Béla Fleck, Tales from the Acoustic Planet (Warner Bros., 1995)
 * Gov't Mule, The Deepest End (Evangeline, 2003)
 * David Grier, Lone Soldier (Rounder, 1995)
 * David Grier, Evocative (Dreadnought, 2009)
 * Greg Howe and Dennis Chambers, Extraction (Tone Center, 2003)
 * India Arie, Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship (Motown, 2006)
 * Keb Mo, The Reflection (Yolabelle, 2011)
 * Buckshot LeFonque, Buckshot LeFonque (Columbia, 1994)
 * Natalie MacMaster, Blueprint (Rounder, 2003)
 * Dave Matthews Band, Live in Chicago at the United Center 12.19.98 (RCA, 2001)
 * Jaco Pastorius, Word of Mouth Revisited (Heads Up, 2003)
 * Mark O'Connor, The New Nashville Cats (Warner Bros., 1991)
 * Charlie Peacock, Love Press Ex-Curio (Runway Network, 2005)
 * Jonathan Scales, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (Ropeadope, 2013)
 * Shane Theriot, Highway 90 (Shose, 2000)
 * Steve Weingart, Dialogue (Skeewa Music, 2011)
 * Matt White, Worlds Wide (Ear Up, 2017)
 * Keller Williams, Dream (SCI Fidelity, 2007)
 * Octavision, Coexist (Independent, 2020)
 * Cory Wong, Direct Flyte (Roundwound, 2022)

As sideman – with Mike Stern

 * These Times (ESC, 2003)
 * Who Let the Cats Out? (Heads Up, 2006)
 * All Over the Place (Heads Up, 2012)
 * Trip (Heads Up, 2017)

title: Victor Wooten


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Great Hymn to the Aten

The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is varyingly attributed to the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers, depending on the version, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with Atenism. The hymn bears a notable resemblance to the biblical Psalm 104.

Background
The hymn-poem provides a glimpse of the religious artistry of the Amarna period expressed in multiple forms encompassing literature, new temples, and in the building of a whole new city at the site of present-day Amarna as the capital of Egypt. Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson said that "It has been called 'one of the most significant and splendid pieces of poetry to survive from the pre-Homeric world. Egyptologist John Darnell asserts that the hymn was sung.

Various courtiers' rock tombs at Amarna (ancient Akhet-Aten, the city Akhenaten founded) have similar prayers or hymns to the deity Aten or to the Aten and Akhenaten jointly. One of these, found in almost identical form in five tombs, is known as The Short Hymn to the Aten. The long version discussed in this article was found in the tomb of the courtier (and later Pharaoh) Ay.

The 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten forbade the worship of other gods, a radical departure from the centuries of Egyptian religious practice. Akhenaton's religious reforms (later regarded heretical and reversed under his successor Pharaoh Tutankhamun) have been described by some scholars as monotheistic, though others consider them to be henotheistic.

Excerpts of the hymn-poem to Aten
These particular excerpts are not attributed to Aten himself; this long version was found in the tomb of the courtier Ay.

From the middle of the text:

From the last part of the text, translated by Miriam Lichtheim:

Comparison to Psalm 104
In his 1958 book Reflections on the Psalms, C.S. Lewis compared Akhnaten's Hymn to the Psalms of the Judaeo-Christian canon. James Henry Breasted noted the similarity to Psalm 104, which he believed was inspired by the Hymn. Arthur Weigall compared the two texts side by side and commented that "In face of this remarkable similarity one can hardly doubt that there is a direct connection between the two compositions; and it becomes necessary to ask whether both Akhnaton's hymn and this Hebrew psalm were derived from a common Syrian source, or whether Psalm CIV. is derived from this Pharaoh's original poem. Both views are admissible." Lichtheim, however, said that the resemblances are "more likely to be the result of the generic similarity between Egyptian hymns and biblical psalms. A specific literary interdependence is not probable." Biblical scholar Mark S. Smith has commented that "Despite enduring support for the comparison of the two texts, enthusiasm for even indirect influence has been tempered in recent decades. In some quarters, the argument for any form of influence is simply rejected outright. Still some Egyptologists, such as Jan Assmann and Donald Redford, argue for Egyptian influence on both the Amarna correspondence (especially in EA 147) and on Psalm 104."

Analysis
Analyses of the poem are divided between those considering it as a work of literature, and those considering its political and socio-religious intentions.

James Henry Breasted considered Akhenaten to be the first monotheist and scientist in history. In 1899, Flinders Petrie wrote: "If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the energy of the solar system. How much Akhenaten understood, we cannot say, but he certainly bounded forward in his views and symbolism to a position which we cannot logically improve upon at the present day. Not a rag of superstition or of falsity can be found clinging to this new worship evolved out of the old Aton of Heliopolis, the sole Lord of the universe." Miriam Lichtheim describes the hymn as "a beautiful statement of the doctrine of the One God."

In 1913, Henry Hall contended that the pharaoh was the "first example of the scientific mind."

Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat discusses the terminology used to describe these texts, describing them as formal poems or royal eulogies. He views the word 'hymn' as suggesting "outpourings of emotion" while he sees them as "eulogies, formal and rhetorical statements of praise" honoring Aten and the royal couple. He credits James Henry Breasted with the popularisation of them as hymns saying that Breasted saw them as "a gospel of the beauty and beneficence of the natural order, a recognition of the message of nature to the soul of man" (quote from Breasted).

Montserrat argues that all the versions of the hymns focus on the king and suggests that the specific innovation is to redefine the relationship of god and king in a way that benefited Akhenaten, quoting the statement of Egyptologist John Baines that "Amarna religion was a religion of god and king, or even of king first and then god."

Donald B. Redford argued that while Akhenaten called himself the son of the Sun-Disc and acted as the chief mediator between god and creation, kings for thousands of years before Akhenaten's time had claimed the same relationship and priestly role. However Akhenaten's case may be different through the emphasis placed on the heavenly father and son relationship. Akhenaten described himself as "thy son who came forth from thy limbs", "thy child", "the eternal son that came forth from the Sun-Disc", and "thine only son that came forth from thy body". The close relationship between father and son is such that only the king truly knows the heart of "his father", and in return his father listens to his son's prayers. He is his father's image on earth and as Akhenaten is king on earth his father is king in heaven. As high priest, prophet, king and divine he claimed the central position in the new religious system. Since only he knew his father's mind and will, Akhenaten alone could interpret that will for all mankind with true teaching coming only from him.

Redford concluded: "Before much of the archaeological evidence from Thebes and from Tell el-Amarna became available, wishful thinking sometimes turned Akhenaten into a humane teacher of the true God, a mentor of Moses, a Christlike figure, a philosopher before his time. But these imaginary creatures are now fading away one by one as the historical reality gradually emerges. There is little or no evidence to support the notion that Akhenaten was a progenitor of the full-blown monotheism that we find in the Bible. The monotheism of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament had its own separate development—one that began more than half a millennium after the pharaoh's death."

Adaptations

 * The "Hymn to the Aten" was set to music by Philip Glass in his 1984 opera Akhnaten.

The lyrics and meter of Bob Dylan's 1964 song "When the Ship Comes In" are remarkably similar to the first six stanzas of the "Great Hymn to the Aten".

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The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other. King started writing the story in February 1975, seeking to create an epic in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. The book was difficult for him to write because of the large number of characters and storylines.

In 1990, The Stand was reprinted as The Complete & Uncut Edition. King restored over 400 pages of text that had been removed from his original manuscript, revised the order of the chapters, shifted the novel's setting 10 years forward from 1980 to 1990, and accordingly corrected a number of cultural references. The Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand is Stephen King's longest stand-alone work at 1,153 pages, surpassing It, a novel of 1,138 pages. The book became a #1 bestseller and sold 4.5 million copies.

The Stand was highly acclaimed by critics and is considered one of King's best novels. It has been included in lists of the best books of all time by Rolling Stone, Time, the Modern Library, Amazon and the BBC. A television miniseries of the same name based on the novel was broadcast on ABC in 1994. From 2008 to 2012, Marvel Comics published a series of comics written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Mike Perkins. Another miniseries debuted on CBS All Access in December 2020, and finished airing in February 2021.

Plot
An extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza, resistant to antibodies and vaccines, is developed as a biological weapon within a secret Department of Defense installation in the Mojave Desert, and is accidentally released. The book's extended edition includes a prologue detailing the development of the virus and the security breach that causes its release. The laboratory staff die, but security guard Charles Campion manages to escape and takes his family out of state. After a couple of days, his car crashes at a gas station in Arnette, Texas. The gas station employees and ambulance workers are infected when they take the dying Campion out of his car and to a hospital. The gas station owner infects his cousin, a traffic cop, and the virus rapidly spreads uncontrollably from there.

The United States Army attempts to isolate Arnette, going as far as to execute unarmed civilians, but the efforts are in vain – the virus, christened by journalists as the "superflu" or "Captain Trips", spreads across the country and travels beyond its borders, triggering a global pandemic of apocalyptic proportions. Approximately 99.4% of the world's population is infected and killed within a month. A prism of several personal tragedies describes the collapse of society, explosions of violence, the inability of the government and martial law to stop the pandemic, and the near-extinction of humanity. Many survivors of the virus also die, unable to accept the loss of their loved ones or survive in a world where they must fend for themselves.

Stuart Redman, one of the gas station employees, proves immune to the virus. He is forcibly held in a specialized center in Stovington, Vermont, in the hope that a treatment can be made. Redman escapes after the center's staff dies, and he is forced to kill one of the members in self-defense. He meets with sociology professor Glen Bateman and his Irish Setter Kojak, pregnant college student Frannie Goldsmith, and teenage outcast Harold Lauder. Larry Underwood, a disillusioned pop singer, joins the group in the wake of his mother's death. Stuart and Frannie are drawn to each other and become lovers, to Harold's disappointment and resentment.

The group share a common dream in which they see a centenarian woman living in Hemingford Home, Nebraska. The woman, Abagail Freemantle – better known as "Mother Abagail" – becomes the group's spiritual leader. She brings the group to Boulder, Colorado, to which other survivors are attracted by her telepathic appeals. New additions to the group include Nick Andros, a deaf-mute deputy from Shoyo, Arkansas; Tom Cullen, a kind-hearted, intellectually disabled man from May, Oklahoma; Nadine Cross, a teacher from New Hampshire; and Ralph Brentner, a good-natured farmer from Oklahoma. The group attempts to build a new society. They call their land the "Free Zone", organize funeral brigades and restore a supply of electricity.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, Randall Flagg, the dark man, possessing supernatural abilities, creates his own society from people called by his visions. The people worship Flagg as a messiah and joyfully submit to his fascist dictatorship, in which undesirables are crucified. Flagg rescues spree killer Lloyd Henreid from prison and makes him his lieutenant. A pyromaniac nicknamed "The Trashcan Man", after destroying oil tanks in Gary, Indiana and meeting a madman named "The Kid", joins Flagg's group and becomes a weapons specialist. Flagg prepares for war with Boulder.

Mother Abagail, believing she has been too prideful watching the Zone grow in size, goes into self-imposed exile. During her absence, the Free Zone's leadership committee decides to secretly send three people to Flagg's territory to act as spies. Harold and Nadine, tempted by Flagg through their dreams, stage an attack on the committee with a bomb. The explosion kills several people, including Nick, but most of the committee members avoid the explosion thanks to Mother Abagail's return. Before dying of exhaustion, Mother Abagail reports God's will – Stuart, Glen, Larry and Ralph must go to Las Vegas and destroy Flagg.

As Harold and Nadine flee, Flagg causes Harold's motorcycle to crash and he falls over the edge of a cliff, severely breaking his leg and being left to die by Nadine. As his leg turns gangrenous, he realizes the harm he has done, writes an apologetic note and commits suicide. Flagg meets Nadine in the desert, raping and impregnating her while revealing his true demonic form, an experience that leaves her semi-catatonic. The Trashcan Man has a psychotic episode and destroys Flagg's air force before Flagg can destroy Boulder. He then leaves Las Vegas to atone by finding a more powerful weapon for Flagg. When Tom's fleeting presence in Las Vegas as the sole surviving spy belatedly comes to light, Nadine takes advantage of Flagg's unsettled state to goad him into killing her and her unborn child.

Stuart breaks his leg en route and persuades the others to go on without him, telling them that God will provide for him if that is what is meant to happen. Leaving Kojak with Stu, the remaining three are soon taken prisoner by Flagg's army. When Glen refuses to grovel before Flagg, he is killed by Lloyd. Flagg gathers his entire collective to witness the execution of Ralph and Larry. Moments before they are to be killed, the Trashcan Man arrives with a retrieved nuclear warhead. Flagg conjures a magical ball of energy in an attempt to silence a dissenter, but it is transformed into a giant glowing hand — "the Hand of God" — which detonates the bomb, destroying Las Vegas and killing all of Flagg's followers, along with Larry and Ralph.

Tom finds Stu close to death, but a verbal apparition of Nick leading to a supply of antibiotics saves his life. After nursing him back to health and helping his leg heal, the two travel back to Boulder, where Frannie has given birth to her son after a caesarean section. The baby, named Peter after Frannie's late father, manages to fight off the superflu. Four months later, Stuart and Frannie decide to leave Boulder and move to Ogunquit as society is slowly reestablished. The extended edition includes an epilogue in which Flagg, having survived the nuclear explosion, wakes up somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. Regaining his former strength, he begins recruiting adherents among a preliterate, dark-skinned people.

Background
In Danse Macabre, King writes about the origins of The Stand at some length. One source was Patty Hearst's case. The original idea was to create a novel about the episode because "it seemed that only a novel might really succeed in explaining all the contradictions". The author also mentions George R. Stewart's novel Earth Abides, which describes the odyssey of one of the last human survivors after the population is nearly annihilated by a plague, as one of the main inspirations:

With my Patty Hearst book, I never found the right way in... and during that entire six-week period, something else was nagging very quietly at the back of my mind. It was a news story I had read about an accidental CBW spill in Utah. (...) This article called up memories of a novel called Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart.

(...) and one day while sitting at my typewriter, (...) I wrote—just to write something: The world comes to an end but everybody in the SLA is somehow immune. Snake bit them. I looked at that for a while and then typed: No more gas shortages. That was sort of cheerful, in a horrible sort of way.

The Stand was also planned by King as an epic story akin to The Lord of the Rings in a contemporary American setting:

"For a long time—ten years, at least—I had wanted to write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting. I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Then . . . after my wife and kids and I moved to Boulder, Colorado, I saw a 60 Minutes segment on CBW (chemical-biological warfare). I never forgot the gruesome footage of the test mice shuddering, convulsing, and dying, all in twenty seconds or less. That got me remembering a chemical spill in Utah, that killed a bunch of sheep (these were canisters on their way to some burial ground; they fell off the truck and ruptured). I remembered a news reporter saying, 'If the winds had been blowing the other way, there was Salt Lake City.' This incident later served as the basis of a movie called Rage, starring George C. Scott, but before it was released, I was deep into The Stand, finally writing my American fantasy epic, set in a plague-decimated USA. Only instead of a hobbit, my hero was a Texan named Stu Redman, and instead of a Dark Lord, my villain was a ruthless drifter and supernatural madman named Randall Flagg. The land of Mordor ('where the shadows lie,' according to Tolkien) was played by Las Vegas."

While writing The Stand, King nearly stopped because of writer's block. Eventually, he reached the conclusion that the heroes were becoming too complacent, and were beginning to repeat all the same mistakes of their old society. In an attempt to resolve this, he added the part of the storyline where Harold and Nadine construct a bomb, which explodes in a Free Zone committee meeting, killing Nick Andros, Chad Norris, and Susan Stern. Later, Mother Abagail explains on her deathbed that God permitted the bombing out of dissatisfaction with the heroes' focus on petty politics, and not on the ultimate quest of destroying Flagg. King sardonically observed that the bomb saved the book, and that he only had to kill half of the core cast to do this. According to King, Blue Öyster Cult's 1976 song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" also served as a source of inspiration for the novel.

Publication history
The novel was originally published in 1978 in hardcover, with a setting date of 1980, in abridged form. The first paperback release in 1980 changed the setting date to 1985. The novel marks the first appearance of Randall Flagg, King's recurring antagonist, whom King would bring back several times in his later writings.

In 1990, an unabridged edition of The Stand was published, billed as The Complete and Uncut Edition. Published in hardcover by Doubleday in May 1990, this became the longest book published by King at 1,152 pages. When the novel was originally published in 1978, Doubleday warned King that the book's size would make it too expensive for the market to bear.

As a result, he cut about 400 pages (around 150,000 words) from the original manuscript. This edition reinstates most of the deletions (as selected by King) and updates the setting from the 1980s to the 1990s. This new edition features a new preface by King and illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. Doubleday published a deluxe edition of The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition, limited to 1,250 numbered copies and 52 lettered copies. This edition, known as the "Coffin Box" edition due to the book being housed in a wooden case, was signed by King and Wrightson.

Reception
The Stand received critical acclaim; it was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1979, and was adapted into both a television miniseries for ABC and a graphic novel published by Marvel Comics. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 53 on the BBC's The Big Read poll.

Television
A film adaptation of The Stand was in development hell for over 10 years. During the 1980s, Stephen King had planned a theatrical film, with George A. Romero directing and himself writing, not trusting anybody else with the project. In the 1995 Complete and Uncut edition of the book, King admitted he had in mind a few fan castings for his characters, those being Robert Duvall as Randall Flagg and Marshall Crenshaw as Larry Underwood. Writing a workable screenplay proved difficult, due to the novel's length. King talked about adapting it for television, but was informed that the television networks did not "want to see the end of the world, particularly in prime time." Eventually King allowed screenwriter Rospo Pallenberg, who was a fan of The Stand, to write his own adaptation of the novel. Pallenberg's script was for an approximately three hour film which King felt was true to the novel. After the script was written, Warner Bros. backed out of the project. ABC eventually offered Stephen King the chance to make The Stand into an eight-hour miniseries. King wrote a new screenplay, omitting some parts for television broadcast. The miniseries, directed by Mick Garris, was broadcast in 1994.

Between 2011 and 2016, Warner Bros. Pictures and CBS Films were developing a feature-length film adaptation of The Stand. In August 2011, director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves, known for their collaboration on the Harry Potter films, were hired to write and direct a multi-movie version of The Stand, but left the project in October 2011, as Yates felt it would work better as a miniseries. Both Ben Affleck and Scott Cooper dropped out over creative differences with the studio. On February 25, 2014, Josh Boone was hired to write and direct the adaptation. He later revealed that he wanted Christian Bale to play Randall Flagg and Matthew McConaughey for the role of Stu Redman.

By September 10, 2014, the script had been completed and pre-production was underway. In November, Boone planned to split his adaptation into four full-length feature films in an effort to remain true to the breadth of King's sprawling novel. In June 2015, Warner Bros. proposed an eight-part Showtime miniseries to set up the story, which would culminate in Josh Boone's film. In February 2016, The Stand project was put on hold and the rights reverted to CBS Films.

In September 2017, King talked of doing an extended TV series on Showtime or CBS All Access. In January 2019, a 10-hour limited series was ordered by CBS Television Studios to be broadcast on CBS All Access. Alexander Skarsgard, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, and Henry Zaga were all in consideration for the roles of Randall Flagg, Stu Redman, Nadine Cross, Mother Abagail, Glen Bateman, Frannie Goldsmith, and Nick Andros, respectively. The production was filmed in and near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from September 2019 to March 2020; filming was completed a few days before it would have been shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The production features Stephen King's son Owen King as a producer and writer, and a new ending written by Stephen King. The miniseries was first broadcast in December 2020, to mixed reviews.

Comics
Marvel Comics adapted The Stand into a series of six five-issue comic book miniseries. The series was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Mike Perkins. Colorist Laura Martin, letterer Chris Eliopoulos, and cover artist Lee Bermejo were also on the staff. The first issue of The Stand: Captain Trips was released on September 10, 2008.

Music
Metallica derived the title for their album "Ride the Lightning" from a quote from The Stand. The Alarm had a song on the 1984 album Declaration entitled "The Stand (Prophecy)" as an homage to the book. The song contained some lyrics directly related to the book, such as "I met the walking dude, religious, with his worn out cowboy boots", and "Hey Trashcan, where you going boy?" The main chorus of the song was "Come on down and meet your maker, come on down and make the stand." The 1987 Anthrax song "Among the Living" is based on the novel.

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Deadhead

A Deadhead or Dead head is a fan of the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The Deadhead subculture originated in the 1970s, when a number of fans began traveling to see the Grateful Dead in as many shows or festival venues as they could. As more people began attending live performances and festivals, a community developed. The Deadhead community has since gone on to create slang and idioms unique to them.

Unlike other popular acts in music, the Grateful Dead are well known for the use of improvisation in their performances making each show unique. This, coupled with the band's permissive attitude on taping performances, has created a plethora of historical material. Such recordings of previous performances are shared widely among the Deadhead community.

Much Deadhead-related historical material received or collected by the band over the years is housed in the Grateful Dead Archive of University of California, Santa Cruz. Archive founding curator Nicholas Meriwether, who has also written extensively about the culture and its impact on society, predicted, "The Grateful Dead archive is going to end up being a critical way for us to approach and understand the 1960s and the counterculture of the era... It's also going to tell us a lot about the growth and development of modern rock theater, and it's helping us understand fan culture." Over the course of their thirty-year career, the Grateful Dead performed over 2,200 live shows.

Overview
The eclectic musical styling of the Grateful Dead was heavily inspired by the Beatnik movement of the 1950s and later the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960's. One group at the forefront of the psychedelic sound was the Merry Pranksters. On the first historic bus trip, on the bus Furthur, a pattern was set for the Deadhead touring lifestyle to come. By the late 1970s, some Deadheads began to sell tie-dye T-shirts, veggie burritos, or other items at Grateful Dead concerts. In the 1980s, the area where Grateful Dead merchandise was sold became popularly referred to as "Shakedown Street", named after the 1978 song. Income from these shops allowed Deadheads a way to follow the band on its tours. During the early 1980s, the number of Deadheads taping shows increased, and the band created a special section for fans who wished to record the show. These tapes are still shared and circulated today via websites such as the Live Music Archive and bt.etree.org. In the earlier days of the Grateful Dead, there were questions as to whether or not it was in the best interest of the band for fans to tape concerts. In 1982, Garcia himself was asked what he thought about it, and he replied, "When we are done with it [the concerts], they can have it." The practice of taping has evolved and expanded in the digital age. The rise of the Internet and peer to peer file sharing networks has made it extremely easy for Deadheads to share concerts through unofficial and official channels. Bob Dylan, who toured with the Grateful Dead during their 1987 summer tour, observed "With most bands the audience participates like in a spectator sport. They just stand there and watch. They keep a distance. With the Dead, the audience is part of the band-they might as well be on stage."

Origins
The term "Deadhead" first appeared in print at the suggestion of Hank Harrison, author of The Dead Trilogy, on the sleeve of Grateful Dead (also known as Skull & Roses), the band's second live album, released in 1971. It read: "DEAD FREAKS UNITE: Who are you? Where are you? How are you?

Send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed.

Dead Heads, P.O. Box 1065, San Rafael, California 94901."

This phenomenon was first touched on in print by Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau at a Felt Forum show in 1971, noting "how many 'regulars' seemed to be in attendance, and how, from the way they compared notes, they'd obviously made a determined effort to see as many shows as possible."

Eileen Law, a long time friend of the band, was put in charge of the mailing list and maintained the Dead Heads newsletter. It is estimated that by the end of 1971, the band had received about 350 letters, but this number swelled greatly over the next few years to as many as 40,000. In total, 25 mailings/newsletters reached Deadheads between October 1971 and February 1980. After this time, the Grateful Dead Almanac would succeed it, with this eventually being abandoned for Dead.net. Those who did receive the newsletter in the 1970s often found pleasant surprises sent along. One example is from May 1974 when Heads received a sample EP of Robert Hunter's upcoming album Tales of the Great Rum Runners as well as selections from Jerry Garcia's second album, Compliments of Garcia, and some cuts that were from bandmembers Keith and Donna Godchaux's eponymous solo album, Keith & Donna, both on Round Records. This sample was titled Anton Round, which was an alias used by Ron Rakow.

Impact on shows
The Grateful Dead's appeal to fans was supported by the way the band structured their concerts and the use of the jam band format.
 * From the early 1970s on, the Grateful Dead performed few shows with a predetermined setlist.
 * At the behest of the band, a section of the audience was walled off to be used exclusively by fans recording the concert.
 * From the 1980s on, the second set usually contained a prolonged percussion interlude, called "Drumz" (and eventually incorporating electronic elements), by Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann (also known as the "Rhythm Devils") followed by an extended improvisational "space" jam played by the rest of the band (as featured on the album Infrared Roses).

The band's extensive song catalog enabled them to create a varied "rotation" of setlists, which were never exactly the same for each performance ("show") throughout a tour. The use of these unique set rotations created two phenomena: The first had to do with Deadheads wanting to go to more shows in order to get a chance to hear their favorite song(s) – the same song was rarely played the same way twice during any given tour. Also, a great show often inspired many fans to begin following the band for the rest of the tour, as well subsequent tours. The second was that having a large number of traveling fans had empowered the band to perform multiple shows at each venue, since they were assured that their performances would mostly sell out (almost all shows sold out from the mid-1980s and on). At this point, it became apparent that Deadheads were a major driving force that encouraged the band to keep going. Along with the large number of people attending several shows, a traveling community developed amongst fans in response to the familiarity of seeing the same people from previous strings of shows. As generations turned from the Acid Tests to the 1970s (and onward), tours became a time to revel with friends at concerts, old and new, who never knew the psychedelic age that spawned the band they loved. As with any large community, Deadheads developed their own idioms and slang which is amply illustrated in books about the Grateful Dead such as the Skeleton Key.

"The Vibe"
Some Deadheads use the term "X Factor" to describe the intangible element that elevates mere performance into something higher. Publicist and Jerry Garcia biographer Blair Jackson stated that "shows were the sacrament ... rich and full of blissful, transcendent musical moments that moved the body and enriched the soul." Phil Lesh himself comments on this phenomenon in his autobiography by saying, "The unique organicity of our music reflects the fact that each of us consciously personalized his playing: to fit with what others were playing and to fit with who each man was as an individual, allowing us to meld our consciousnesses together in the unity of a group mind."

Jackson takes this further, citing drummer Mickey Hart as saying, "The Grateful Dead weren't in the music business, they were in the transportation business." Jackson relates this to the Deadhead phenomenon directly by saying, "for many Deadheads, the band was a medium that facilitated experiencing other planes of consciousness and tapping into deep, spiritual wells that were usually the province of organized religion ... [they] got people high whether those people were on drugs or not."

Rock producer Bill Graham summarized much of the band's effect when he created a sign for the Grateful Dead when the group played the closing of the Winterland Ballroom on December 31, 1978. The sign read: "They're not the best at what they do,

They're the only ones that do what they do. Cheers!"

Through the years

 * 1960s – Before the term was invented, The Grateful Dead became one of the first cult acts in music. Although not as mainstream as other psychedelic bands, they were the leaders of the Haight-Ashbury music scene and had an intense following that started in San Francisco and eventually spread. Fans gathered at their jam concerts throughout the sixties.
 * 1970s – essentially known as the "second generation of Deadheads", the new Deadheads of this time can either be traced to "an older sibling who had turned them on by spinning Workingman's Dead or Europe '72" or through college and university dorm rooms.
 * 1980s – The early 1980s brought about what would later become known as "Shakedown Street" (in reference to the Grateful Dead album of the same name). Starting during the New Year's Eve shows at the Oakland Auditorium in California from 1979 to 1982, Deadheads began to realize they could sell their wares (anything from tie-dye T-shirts to veggie burritos) in order to follow the band around more. Also during the early 1980s, Deadhead tapers grew exponentially, resulting in the band designating a taping section in October 1984. With the success of their album In the Dark (and the single "Touch of Grey"), 1988 started the "Mega-Dead" period.
 * In the Darkers – also known as "Touchheads" (a reference of the album for the former and the single for the latter), these fans "dissed the fragile ecosystem" of a Grateful Dead show, in the words of Jackson. This led to "wiser" Deadheads, with the backing of the band, to mail SOSs and hand out show flyers telling people to "cool out".
 * Minglewood Town Council – this group was a direct result of the Touchheads and were a "tribal council" consisting of Deadheads and the Hog Farmers Calico and Goose. They handed out garbage bags at shows for people to pick up trash afterwards and tried to keep the masses mellow. The iconic lot leader, "Trash Captain" aka Douglas Seaton, was a well known member of this group.
 * 1990s – The Deadheads of this time "tended to be young, white, male, and from middle-class backgrounds – in short, they were drawn from much the same demographic base as most rock fans." The band also tended to attract a large percentage of fans from high-income families. The main draw for these Deadheads to travel to shows seemed to be the sense of community and adventure. During the mid-1990s there were a series of small "Deadhead Riots" peaking with a large scale riot at the Deer Creek Music Center near Indianapolis in July 1995. The riot was triggered by several gate crashing incidents, and resulted in the fence at the venue being torn down by rioting Deadheads and the subsequent cancellation of the next day's show. The riot received national attention and is immortalized by Keller Williams in his song "Gatecrashers Suck", in which he calls the rioters "cock-sucking motherfuckers". Concert promoter Peter Shapiro filmed the iconic and influential Deadhead documentary, "Tie-Died, Rock and Roll's Most Deadicated Fans" about life on Grateful Dead Tour 1994. The film was released through Sony Tri Star in September 1995 in major motion picture theaters across America, shortly after Jerry Garcia's death. At the premiere party of the film's release, Deadheads at the after-party at the Fillmore West met with Jerry Garcia's close friend and musician, David Nelson, to formulate a strategy for continuing Deadhead culture. Thus, the David Nelson Band was formed. Other Dead related jam bands also did their part to continue the culture.
 * 21st century – Many Deadheads of all ages, including fans who were generally too young to have seen the Grateful Dead, continue to passionately follow the many current Grateful Dead cover bands and spin-off bands such as Dead & Company, The David Nelson Band, the Donna Jean Godchaux Band, RatDog, Phil Lesh and Friends, 7 Walkers, The Rhythm Devils, The Dead, Furthur, Dark Star Orchestra, and Joe Russo's Almost Dead.
 * The Spinners – also known as "The Family" or Church of Unlimited Devotion. These people "used the band's music in worship services and were a constant presence at shows". They were called "spinners" because of their twirling dance style. John Perry Barlow stated at the 'So Many Roads Conference' that the Dead family hadn't realized at the time that the Spinners were a cult. Observers have reported seeing them spinning only to Jerry songs and sitting down at the songs Bobby performed. Allegations of abuse have circulated widely in Deadhead groups.
 * Wharf Rats – Deadheads who helped each other remain drug and alcohol free while staying in the Dead scene. The Wharf Rats were named from the song of same title. They were allowed to set up a table at every concert to support Deadheads who believed in enjoying the Grateful Dead sober or needed more efforts to remain straight.

Recordings of shows
At almost every Grateful Dead show, it was common to see fans openly recording the music for later enjoyment. The tradition can be traced to 1966 with the number of tapers increasing yearly. In 1971, Les Kippel, from Brooklyn, New York, started the First Free Underground Grateful Dead Tape Exchange with the purpose of preserving the heritage of the Grateful Dead's concert history by exchanging copies of recorded tapes made from audience members. This started a new era in recording, collecting, and trading Grateful Dead tapes.

The "Tape Exchange" evolved into Dead Relix magazine, co-founded by Kippel and its first editor, Jerry Moore (1953–2009), a native of The Bronx, New York. First fliers were handed out at concerts in 1973, followed by a first issue in 1974. In 1974, Dead Relix evolved into Relix magazine and kept the Grateful Dead in the news while they took a year off in 1975. In 1980, Toni Brown became owner and publisher of Relix. In 2000, it was sold to Steve Bernstein. In 2009, Peter Shapiro bought Relix and still maintains ownership.

There were other Deadhead magazines that came about in the 1970s, notably, Dead in Words and In Concert. The 1980s saw the production of Terrapin Flyer, Dupree's Diamond News, Golden Road, and Acid. Dupree's Diamond News was distributed as an in-concert newsletter at several hundred Grateful Dead concerts, where it averaged 10,000 copies per run. Dupree's Diamond News was also distributed on a quarterly basis as a full-color, 72-page magazine to approximately 35,000 international subscriptions.

In 1998, Grateful Dead scholar Johnny Dwork, the founder of Terrapin Flyer and Dupree's Diamond News, published the award-winning, three-volume The Deadhead's Taping Compendium: A Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape.

Fans were also known to record the many FM radio broadcast shows. Garcia looked kindly on tapers (he himself had been on several cross-country treks to record bluegrass music prior to the Grateful Dead), stating: "There's something to be said for being able to record an experience you've liked, or being to obtain a recording of it ... my responsibility to the notes is over after I've played them." In this respect, the Dead are considered by many to be the first "taper-friendly" band.

It is a matter of strict custom among Deadheads that these recordings are freely shared and circulated, with no money ever changing hands. Some bootleg recordings from unscrupulous bootleggers have turned up on the black market, but a general "code of honor specifically prohibited the buying and selling of Dead tapes". These recordings, sometimes called "liberated bootlegs", are still frowned upon by the community and that feeling "has spread into non–Grateful Dead taping circles".

Many Deadheads now freely distribute digital recordings of the band's live shows through the Internet Archive.

Archives
Much Deadhead-related historical material received or collected by the band over the years is housed in the Grateful Dead Archive of UC-Santa Cruz. Archive curator Nicholas Meriwether, who has also written extensively about the culture and its impact on society, states "The Grateful Dead archive is going to end up being a critical way for us to approach and understand the 1960s and the counterculture of the era... It's also going to tell us a lot about the growth and development of modern rock theater, and it's helping us understand fan culture."

In addition to the band's collection, many longtime fans have also accrued a large collection of Grateful Dead memorabilia and recorded live performances.

Famous Deadheads
The following celebrities have claimed to be Deadheads or have had media reported on them saying they are Deadheads:

 * Trey Anastasio – rock musician, member of jam band Phish; saw his first Grateful Dead concert in 1980, and the band is a significant influence on him and his group Phish.
 * Will Arnett, actor
 * Steve Bannon, investor and political influencer
 * John Belushi, actor; like many of the original Saturday Night Live cast, Belushi went from fan to friend of the band. Belushi's blues band, The Blues Brothers, even opened for the Dead, and Belushi joined the group in singing "U.S. Blues".
 * Tony Blair, politician – played in "Mars Hotel"-inspired student band
 * Jimmy Buffett, rock musician – recorded a version of "Scarlet Begonias" on the 2004 album "License to Chill"
 * Joseph Campbell – proclaimed Deadheads as "the world's newest tribe"
 * Tucker Carlson, television personality
 * Pete Carroll
 * Owen Chamberlain – claimed the Rhythm Devils gave him "interesting ideas"
 * Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
 * Andy Cohen, television personality
 * Ann Coulter, journalist
 * Elvis Costello, rock musician – a fan throughout the 1970s (including seeing them on the Europe '72 tour), Elvis later interviewed Jerry Garcia for the magazine Musician in which he effusively professed his admiration for the band. Costello contributed "Ship of Fools" to the Deadicated tribute album.
 * Walter Cronkite, journalist – attended two Grateful Dead concerts and was a personal friend of Mickey Hart.
 * Lila Downs, Mexican/American singer – dropped out of university in the late 1980s and lived about two years on the road following Grateful Dead tours.
 * Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and other members of the rock band Jane's Addiction have spoken to their affection for the Dead in multiple interviews around the time of the Deadicated tribute album (to which they contributed a version of "Ripple" that incorporated parts of "Bird Song" and "The Other One") Farrell has spoken of admiring how they constructed their sets, stringing songs together.
 * Al Franken, actor, commentator and politician
 * Whoopi Goldberg, actress, television personality – a fan of Grateful Dead music and personal friend of Mickey Hart.
 * Mike Gordon
 * Al Gore, politician
 * Tipper Gore, activist
 * Fred Goss – actor, director, writer, and editor, who created the TV show Sons & Daughters in 2006. The theme song to the show is the annotated "Althea".
 * Jerry Greenfield, co-creator of ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's
 * Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons
 * Keith Haring, artist
 * Phil Jackson, basketball coach
 * Malcolm Jenkins, professional American football player
 * Steve Jobs, co-creator of Apple Inc.
 * Christopher Kimball, TV cooking show host – has a cover band Shady Grove
 * Stephen King, author
 * Ezra Koenig and Chris Tomson of Vampire Weekend
 * Patrick Leahy, politician
 * Steve Liesman, journalist – hosted 2015 pay-per-view of last shows from Chicago
 * Mike Lookinland, actor (played Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch)
 * Frank Marino, Canadian rock guitarist – has in interviews talked about his interest in classic San Francisco rock. He has referred to the music he and Mahogany Rush play as Grateful Dead jazz.
 * George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire
 * John Mayer, musician – discovered the Grateful Dead's music by accident while listening to Pandora Radio. Co-founded and is currently touring as Dead & Company with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti
 * Laraine Newman, actress – along with many others from the original Saturday Night Live cast; has spoken about attending the closing of Winterland
 * Adam Nimoy, documentarian and the son of actor Leonard Nimoy; stated he spent the early 1970s as a Deadhead
 * Larry Page, co-founder of Google
 * Nancy Pelosi, politician
 * Bob Pisani, journalist
 * Lee Ranaldo, rock musician, Sonic Youth –  has spoken of the Dead's influence (the Dead's "Feedback" jams of 1968 and 1969 being obvious precursors to Sonic Youth's own feedback forays). He appears in the documentary "The Other One" singing the band's praises.
 * Harry Reid, politician
 * Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn, rock musicians of Black Flag –  In a BAM review of a Dead show in Irvine, California, on April 13, 1985, the author wrote: "So-called adventuresome people who dig Black Flag probably wouldn't be caught alive at a Grateful Dead show". Ginn subsequently wrote to BAM to explain that he and other members of Black Flag had attended the concert being reviewed, that he had attended many Dead shows and that the Grateful Dead was his favorite band.
 * Adam Scott, actor and comedian
 * Chloë Sevigny, actress
 * Steve Silberman
 * Mark Talbott, former professional squash player
 * Patrick Volkerding, founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
 * Bill Walton, professional basketball player – known as "Grateful Red", he frequently included Dead references in interviews. Walton was a fan of the Dead since 1967, when he was a teenager, and he subsequently attended over 800 of their concerts during their career.
 * Bill Weld, politician

Deadhead Day
Deadhead Day is a globally celebrated holiday in honor of the Grateful Dead, the music they created and the culture of Deadhead fandom. Deadhead Day is celebrated each July 9th to commemorate the Grateful Dead's final concert performed at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois in 1995.

The holiday is an opportunity reach out to old friends, curate playlists to share and organize local meet-ups where fans can socialize with other Deadheads.

2023 was the inaugural year of the holiday.

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List of forms of alternative medicine

This is a list of articles covering alternative medicine topics.

A

 * Activated charcoal cleanse
 * Acupressure
 * Acupuncture
 * Affirmative prayer
 * Alexander technique
 * Alternative cancer treatments
 * Animal-assisted therapy
 * Anthroposophical medicine
 * Apitherapy
 * Applied kinesiology
 * Aquatherapy
 * Aromatherapy
 * Art therapy
 * Asahi Health
 * Astrology
 * Attachment therapy
 * Auriculotherapy
 * Autogenic training
 * Autosuggestion
 * Ayurveda

B

 * Bach flower therapy
 * Balneotherapy
 * Bates method
 * Bibliotherapy
 * Biodanza
 * Bioresonance therapy
 * Blood irradiation therapies
 * Body-based manipulative therapies
 * Body work (alternative medicine) or Massage therapy

C

 * Chelation therapy
 * Chinese food therapy
 * Chinese herbology
 * Chinese martial arts
 * Chinese medicine
 * Chinese pulse diagnosis
 * Chakra
 * Chiropractic
 * Chromotherapy (color therapy, colorpuncture)
 * Cinema therapy
 * Coding (therapy)
 * Coin rubbing
 * Colloidal silver therapy
 * Colon cleansing
 * Colon hydrotherapy (Enema)
 * Craniosacral therapy
 * Creative visualization
 * Crystal healing
 * Cupping

D

 * Dance therapy
 * Detoxification
 * Detoxification foot baths
 * Dietary supplements
 * Dowsing

E

 * Ear candling
 * Eclectic medicine
 * Electromagnetic therapy
 * Electrohomeopathy
 * Equine-assisted therapy
 * Energy medicine
 * Earthing
 * Magnet therapy
 * Reiki
 * Qigong
 * Shiatsu
 * Therapeutic touch
 * Energy psychology

F

 * Faith healing
 * Fasting
 * Feldenkrais Method
 * Feng shui
 * Five elements
 * Flower essence therapy
 * Functional medicine

G

 * German New Medicine
 * Grahamism
 * Grinberg Method
 * Gua sha
 * Graphology

H

 * Hair analysis (alternative medicine)
 * Hatha yoga
 * Havening
 * Hawaiian massage
 * Herbalism
 * Herbal therapy
 * Herbology
 * Hijama
 * Holistic living
 * Holistic medicine
 * Homeopathy
 * Home remedies
 * Hydrotherapy
 * Hypnosis
 * Hypnotherapy

I

 * Introspection rundown
 * Iridology
 * Isolation tank
 * Isopathy

J

 * Jilly Juice

L

 * Laughter therapy
 * Light therapy

M

 * Macrobiotic lifestyle
 * Magnetic healing
 * Manipulative therapy
 * Manual lymphatic drainage
 * Martial arts
 * Massage therapy
 * Massage
 * Medical intuition
 * Meditation
 * Mindfulness meditation
 * Transcendental meditation
 * Vipassana
 * Meridian (Chinese medicine)
 * Mega-vitamin therapy
 * Mind–body intervention
 * Alexander technique
 * Aromatherapy
 * Autogenic training
 * Autosuggestion
 * Bach flower therapy
 * Feldenkrais method
 * Hatha yoga
 * Hypnotherapy
 * Moxibustion
 * Myofascial release

N

 * Naprapathy
 * Natural Health
 * Natural therapies
 * Nature therapy
 * Naturopathic medicine
 * New thought
 * Neuro-linguistic programming
 * Nutritional healing
 * Nutritional supplements
 * Numerology

O

 * Orthopathy
 * Osteopathy

P

 * Pilates
 * Postural Integration
 * Pranic healing
 * Prayer
 * Psychic surgery
 * Prokarin

Q

 * Qi
 * Qigong
 * Quantum healing

R

 * Radionics
 * Rebirthing
 * Recreational Therapy
 * Reflexology
 * Reiki
 * Rolfing Structural Integration
 * Rosen Method

S

 * Salt Therapy
 * Self-hypnosis
 * Shiatsu
 * Siddha medicine
 * Sonopuncture
 * Sophrology
 * Sound therapy
 * Spiritual mind treatment
 * Structural Integration
 * Support groups

T

 * Tai chi
 * Tantra massage
 * Daoyin
 * Thai massage
 * Thalassotherapy
 * Therapeutic horseback riding
 * Therapeutic touch
 * Tibetan eye chart
 * Traditional Chinese medicine
 * History of traditional Chinese medicine
 * Traditional Korean medicine
 * Traditional Japanese medicine
 * Traditional Mongolian medicine
 * Traditional Tibetan medicine
 * Trager approach
 * Transcendental meditation
 * Trigger point
 * Tui na

U

 * Unani medicine
 * Urine therapy
 * Uropathy

V

 * Vaginal steaming
 * Vegetotherapy
 * Visualization (cam)
 * Visualization

W

 * Water cure (therapy)
 * Wellness (alternative medicine)
 * Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)

Y

 * Yoga
 * Ashtanga yoga
 * Ashtanga vinyasa yoga
 * Bikram yoga
 * Hatha yoga
 * Iyengar yoga
 * Kundalini yoga
 * Siddha yoga
 * Sivananda yoga
 * Tantric yoga
 * Viniyoga
 * Vinyasa yoga
 * Yoga Therapy
 * Daoyin Taoist Yoga

Z

 * Zang fu

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