The Grateful Dead 1985 Summer Tour was called "Twenty Years So Far." The art for the tour was by Rick Griffin and features a American flag waving and a skeleton soldier holding a guitar instead of a gun.
I can put it no better than internet music reviewer "fuzzyjenkins" -
Subject: Unbelievable Shakedown!
A lot of Deadhead rag on 85 more than any other year. Especially the 70's Head's. Well those guys have never heard this show. This show is absolutely incredible. The second set smokes from cover to cover. Just unbelievable. And though the Shakedown is no doubt the best version ever, the rest of the set is just a reflection of how the boys felt this night. They played Gimme som Lovin in the middle of the second set for crying out loud. He's Gone into Cryptical. All very focused and smoking hot. I lover this show. Not too mention any show that opens with 1/2 Step, you'd better look out.
This song encapsulates the spirit of Skippy Haha Vintage.
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A little song history from songfacts.com, including lesbian drug scandal:
The singing Nun was Sister
Luc-Gabrielle (born Jeanine Deckers), from a Fichermont, Belgium
convent. Not to be confused with The Flying Nun. That was Sally Field.
The
nun wrote several tunes that won prizes at religious youth retreats.
One of the order's elders asked her to record an LP, of which the
convent could make a few hundred copies to distribute as gifts.
Luc-Gabrielle and a chorus of 4 recorded her songs at the Phillips
studios in Brussels, but when the executives of the record company heard
the songs, the LP was commercially released (with the credit to "Soeur
Sourire" - Sister Smile) in Europe to great success.
The
LP was released in the US as "The Singing Nun," but there was no
American reaction until this was released as a single, then both the LP
and the single worked their way up to the top of the albums and singles
charts. It was the first time that a single topped the Hot 100 as the
same time that its LP topped the Billboard album chart.
"Dominique"
eulogizes the founder of the Dominican order. It had the stamp of
approval from Luc-Gabrielle's mother superior, stating that the song
treated St. Dominic "with familiarity and a touch of impertinence."
In 1966, a movie about the nun's life starring Debbie Reynolds was made. It bombed.
After
the release of the movie, Sister Luc-Gabrielle left the convent and
tried to maintain her recording career, this time under her real name -
Jeanine Decker. She became a bit of a rebel, with singles like "Glory Be
to God for the Golden Pill," a hymn to birth control. She embraced her
lesbian sexuality and was pursued by the Belgian government over unpaid
taxes relating to this song. Drug problems complicated matters even
more.
In
1985, Jeanine Decker and her partner of 10 years, Annie Pecher,
committed suicide. Their center for autistic children had closed its
doors, and they "lost all courage in the face of a losing battle with
the tax people."
