{"id":1895,"date":"2011-02-27T02:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2013-07-04T02:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T06:10:39","slug":"and-you-know-that-notion-just-crossed-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/and-you-know-that-notion-just-crossed-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"And you know that notion just crossed my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, when I reviewed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mmc_kmc.php\">Knight Morpher Commander<\/a>, a few of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AltText\" target=tvt>alt tag jokes<\/a> referenced the song \"Casey Jones\" by the Grateful Dead. One confused reader thought we were trying to refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TEH_LIXIUkg\" target=youtube>Casey Jr.<\/a>, which was kind of sad, really - not the confusion (because that would have made a good joke too), the fact that someone out there didn't know the Grateful Dead song!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fK82fcqu5hw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You can learn all about the song and the man who inspired it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.live-grateful-dead-music.com\/casey-jones-lyrics.html\" target=_blank>here<\/a>. Yes, Casey Jones was a real person, and yes, the song is about him. It took some liberties (he almost certainly wasn't on cocaine, for instance), but he actually did die a hero in a train crash. That link will provide you with lyrics and history, so go check it out.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mQF8CILMt8c&rel=0&color1=0x003366&color2=0x0099cc&border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mQF8CILMt8c&rel=0&color1=0x003366&color2=0x0099cc&border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, the reason we mention all that today is a little bit roundabout. If you've read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/articulation\/1102.php\">my new PoA<\/a>, you know that my favorite childhood toy was a Knickerbocker Casey Jones (he's dressed like an engineer - <b>of course<\/b> he's named after the guy). Well, one of the things I discovered when I was doing my research was that the last time the Grateful Dead ever played \"Casey Jones\" was on March 27, 1993, at Albany's Knickerbocker Arena. Casey Jones? Knickerbocker? Parallel structure!<\/p>\n<p>The Grateful Dead are one of my favorite bands. \"Casey Jones\" is one of my favorite songs. So now I learn that there's a connection - no matter how tangential - between that and my favorite toy. That's just a nice little coda to this whole endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Internet Wayback Machine archives all the Grateful Dead concerts, you can listen to the entire Knickerbocker show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/gd93-03-27.sbd.nawrocki.31956.sbeok.shnf\" target=_blank>right here<\/a>. Or if you just want to hear their final performance of \"Casey Jones,\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Casey-Jones-Last-Time-Ever-Played.mp3\" target=_blank>we've got that for you<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, when I reviewed the Knight Morpher Commander, a few of the alt tag jokes referenced the song \"Casey Jones\" by the Grateful Dead. One confused reader thought we were trying to refer to Casey Jr., which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/and-you-know-that-notion-just-crossed-my-mind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12747,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/12747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}