AutoDonk5000
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Does anyone have any albums, artists, songs to add to this playlist?
Any playlists you like you'd be willing to share?
Any playlists you like you'd be willing to share?
Swanky Cool Poker Game Playlist (1 Viewer)
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Moxie Mike
Full House
I just use Pandora radio... usually the Foo Fighters channel since it is palatable to most people.
Country music is absolutely banned.
Country music is absolutely banned.
merkong
Full House
My Apple Library is 2000 songs deep. I used to have playlists but realized my library is so deep it touches everyone. With 7-9 hour sessions even the longest playlist gets tired. Now I just roll the entire library. A little something for everyone. I have Sirius but it’s too genre specific. Roll your entire library. If it’s broad enough everyone will love you.
Ken (merkong) 500+ Sessions Spread
Owner/Operator/Founder:
*The Godfather Club MN (The Venue)
*The Executive Game, (The Current Game)
*Frogtown Card Club, St. Paul (Retired Venue)
*The Poker Family (Our Philosophy)
Ken (merkong) 500+ Sessions Spread
Owner/Operator/Founder:
*The Godfather Club MN (The Venue)
*The Executive Game, (The Current Game)
*Frogtown Card Club, St. Paul (Retired Venue)
*The Poker Family (Our Philosophy)
DeadheadDave
Pair
OK, so my name already tells you where I am headed with this:
The Good Old Grateful Dead has a bunch of songs with cards references in them. One could argue that they use the risk of poker as a metaphor for a bunch of stuff that non Grateful Dead fans wouldn't approach understanding of (perhaps...), but the references are loud and clear.
Some of the songs I would recommend, I have saved my personal favorite GD gambling song, for last:
Ramble on Rose (A GD standard in their lineup from the 70's on. "Sitting plush with a royal flush... aces back to back")
Deal (A Garcia solo original that quickly ended up in the GD rotation, again, until the end. "Goes to show you dont ever know, so watch each card you play and play it slow" "I've been gambling here abouts, for 10 good solid years. If I told you bout all that went down, it would burn off both your little ears" )
Scarlet Begonias (Since SUBLIME covered this song, many non-heads know it. "In the heat of the evening when the dealing got rough. She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff")
Stella Blue (A very slow impactful song where Garcia seemingly is telling you about his life on the road. "When all the cards are down... theres nothing left to see")
Doin That Rag (A song from their early days... vanished before 1970 in the live rotation. “One-eyed jacks and the deuces are wild, the aces are crawling up and down your sleeve”)
Dire Wolf (Another one that stuck around for more than 20 years. “The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game. I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same.”)
Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodelo (A poker and dice shout out in this one “They say that Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice, ace of spades behind his ear and him not thinking twice.”)
And... my favorite:
Loser (This one has a bunch of references to poker. In fact, the whole damn song is about a guys journey in our game. While he touts himself as quite the player with the ability to get his money back... the title of the song certainly tells us all the true score. Since this song has such HUGE poker content, I will put all the words here... since they are all relevant. Do yourself a favor, listen to this song. Its pretty powerful!)
Loser
Jerry Garcia: Music/ Robert Hunter: Lyrics
If I had a gun for every ace I've drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me, baby, because I'm moanin' low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold
All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
And you'll never find another honest man
Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down
Go down
Don't you push me, baby, 'cause I'm moanin' low
And I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up in the morning and go
Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down
Go down
Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on the inside straight
Well, I got no chance of losing this time
Well, I got no chance of losing this time
Well, I no chance of losing this time
A side note, at one of my home games, while this song was playing, my buddy Gabe drew to an inside straight... and the Queen of Diamonds was what made his hand. I immediately checked the card to see if there was a "Shine"
...I know EVERYBODY hates the GD. But since ya'll like cards you might just find that my boys from the Bay are deeply rooted in our favorite game.
The Good Old Grateful Dead has a bunch of songs with cards references in them. One could argue that they use the risk of poker as a metaphor for a bunch of stuff that non Grateful Dead fans wouldn't approach understanding of (perhaps...), but the references are loud and clear.
Some of the songs I would recommend, I have saved my personal favorite GD gambling song, for last:
Ramble on Rose (A GD standard in their lineup from the 70's on. "Sitting plush with a royal flush... aces back to back")
Deal (A Garcia solo original that quickly ended up in the GD rotation, again, until the end. "Goes to show you dont ever know, so watch each card you play and play it slow" "I've been gambling here abouts, for 10 good solid years. If I told you bout all that went down, it would burn off both your little ears" )
Scarlet Begonias (Since SUBLIME covered this song, many non-heads know it. "In the heat of the evening when the dealing got rough. She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff")
Stella Blue (A very slow impactful song where Garcia seemingly is telling you about his life on the road. "When all the cards are down... theres nothing left to see")
Doin That Rag (A song from their early days... vanished before 1970 in the live rotation. “One-eyed jacks and the deuces are wild, the aces are crawling up and down your sleeve”)
Dire Wolf (Another one that stuck around for more than 20 years. “The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game. I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same.”)
Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodelo (A poker and dice shout out in this one “They say that Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice, ace of spades behind his ear and him not thinking twice.”)
And... my favorite:
Loser (This one has a bunch of references to poker. In fact, the whole damn song is about a guys journey in our game. While he touts himself as quite the player with the ability to get his money back... the title of the song certainly tells us all the true score. Since this song has such HUGE poker content, I will put all the words here... since they are all relevant. Do yourself a favor, listen to this song. Its pretty powerful!)
Loser
Jerry Garcia: Music/ Robert Hunter: Lyrics
If I had a gun for every ace I've drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me, baby, because I'm moanin' low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold
All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
And you'll never find another honest man
Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down
Go down
Don't you push me, baby, 'cause I'm moanin' low
And I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up in the morning and go
Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down
Go down
Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on the inside straight
Well, I got no chance of losing this time
Well, I got no chance of losing this time
Well, I no chance of losing this time
A side note, at one of my home games, while this song was playing, my buddy Gabe drew to an inside straight... and the Queen of Diamonds was what made his hand. I immediately checked the card to see if there was a "Shine"
...I know EVERYBODY hates the GD. But since ya'll like cards you might just find that my boys from the Bay are deeply rooted in our favorite game.
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AutoDonk5000
Pair
Nice dude, thank you! I have at least one deadhead in the group and I met my wife working a dead festival in CT!
Made me think, Old and in the Way- Hobo Song!
Thanks dude! I'm gonna add all those songs
DeadheadDave
Pair
Nice dude, thank you! I have at least one deadhead in the group and I met my wife at a dead festival in CT!
Made me think, Old and in the Way- Hobo Song!
Thanks dude! I'm gonna add all those songs
Yeah... I probably could have found more. And yes, the Hobo is asleep in the hall. But hes a war hero (after all)... I mean, "Thats how he hurt his leg"
Glad to know I am not totally alone in my... ummm, Deadication. We are, after all, everywhere!
Just gonna say it again... LOSER. The version from 12/29/77 (Its available on one of the Dicks Picks on Spotify etc.) is super steller.
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AutoDonk5000
Pair
Oh and I agree, Grateful Dead did an excellent cover of that Sublime song
DeadheadDave
Pair
LOL. I dated a woman once who I would say was "Ripe" for the Dead bug to bite her. Loved Pink Floyd, Janis.. etc, but never really heard the GD. So on a drive up to my cabin in the mountains, I threw on a show and it started with Scarlet Begonias. Before the lyrics even started she recognized it, since she was of the generation that Sublime hit hard in. "I didn't know the GD played this song..." Yeah toots, they WROTE this song!!! As it segued into the pre-determined Fire on the Mountain, she fell head over heels for the Grateful Dead and the rest was history. Many, many cosmic journeys around the universe with her in my living room... all was well, until she wanted to get married.
...now, hell... now I gotta go find another person that can be converted who isn't hearing wedding bells while Garcia is "noodling".
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AutoDonk5000
Pair
Haha I feel like Scarlet begonias was also my gateway song. Same generation, Sublime was everything as a teen. Shakedown street sealed the deal.
DeadheadDave
Pair
I hated the Grateful Dead with a passion. We would drive around, a long haired pack of stoners in my VW Bug, listening to Classic Rock radio and whenever the Dead came on (rarely) I would turn the station. Casey Jones and Truckin sucked, as far as I could tell... and that's all the FM radio would play.
Then, in 1990, a buddy called me and told me he had bought 10 tickets to the GD show so we could all go together. I laughed at him and told him, proudly, that "The Grateful Dead sucks!!!" A week later he was pretty much begging me to buy one of his tickets so he didn't get hosed on the deal no one asked for. He lassoed me in by saying it would be "A lot of partying and people watching to the tenth power" At 16, I liked both of those things.
And boy oh boy, he was not joking. That was one hell of a party. After we were pretty thoroughly partied out, I was reminded that there was a concert we would be seeing after 3 more hours of frisbee and beer drinking and whatnot-ing.
Once in the show. I had an epiphany (or ten). But the main one was this: I have always, ALWAYS, felt like an outsider to any group of any size my whole life. I am not shy.. at all. I had lots of friends, but I always felt a little "off" from what everyone else was into, wearing, thinking and drinking. What I came to realize was that the Grateful Dead was, essentially, a convention of people that were a little "off". It didn't matter what I was wearing... or, if I was even wearing anything at all. It didn't matter. Nothing really mattered anymore unless I wanted it to matter. I COULD march to the beat of my own drum if I wanted to... I could play the drum too, if desired. I know that makes me sound incredibly shallow, but "fitting in" is everything to teenagers. In fact, I learned that I was capable of just about anything that I wanted to do. And what I wanted to do was to stop trying to "fit in" and just be myself. It was really a very liberating afternoon under the sun. Whatever glue the Grateful Dead (or... its 'community') used on me that day was really strong. It formed a true bond that has lasted since that day. May 6, 1990.
I am a white, half jewish man to you. But to me, I am more comfortable identifying as a "deadhead" I do realize that makes people think some not so good things quite often (You must be an acid head, that music sucks, Jerry Garcia is nothing but a junkie), but as I already said: I am comfortable with who I am... and its not really all that important if someone isn't comfortable with who I am. "Maybe I AM an acid head!", perhaps the Grateful Deads music does indeed suck... Jerry WAS clearly a junkie. And? So. Fu**ing. What. Right? Right!
The Grateful Dead have changed my life... in more ways than one. And I, for one, am extremely proud to be part of that scene... and have been since 5/6/90.
Then, in 1990, a buddy called me and told me he had bought 10 tickets to the GD show so we could all go together. I laughed at him and told him, proudly, that "The Grateful Dead sucks!!!" A week later he was pretty much begging me to buy one of his tickets so he didn't get hosed on the deal no one asked for. He lassoed me in by saying it would be "A lot of partying and people watching to the tenth power" At 16, I liked both of those things.
And boy oh boy, he was not joking. That was one hell of a party. After we were pretty thoroughly partied out, I was reminded that there was a concert we would be seeing after 3 more hours of frisbee and beer drinking and whatnot-ing.
Once in the show. I had an epiphany (or ten). But the main one was this: I have always, ALWAYS, felt like an outsider to any group of any size my whole life. I am not shy.. at all. I had lots of friends, but I always felt a little "off" from what everyone else was into, wearing, thinking and drinking. What I came to realize was that the Grateful Dead was, essentially, a convention of people that were a little "off". It didn't matter what I was wearing... or, if I was even wearing anything at all. It didn't matter. Nothing really mattered anymore unless I wanted it to matter. I COULD march to the beat of my own drum if I wanted to... I could play the drum too, if desired. I know that makes me sound incredibly shallow, but "fitting in" is everything to teenagers. In fact, I learned that I was capable of just about anything that I wanted to do. And what I wanted to do was to stop trying to "fit in" and just be myself. It was really a very liberating afternoon under the sun. Whatever glue the Grateful Dead (or... its 'community') used on me that day was really strong. It formed a true bond that has lasted since that day. May 6, 1990.
I am a white, half jewish man to you. But to me, I am more comfortable identifying as a "deadhead" I do realize that makes people think some not so good things quite often (You must be an acid head, that music sucks, Jerry Garcia is nothing but a junkie), but as I already said: I am comfortable with who I am... and its not really all that important if someone isn't comfortable with who I am. "Maybe I AM an acid head!", perhaps the Grateful Deads music does indeed suck... Jerry WAS clearly a junkie. And? So. Fu**ing. What. Right? Right!
The Grateful Dead have changed my life... in more ways than one. And I, for one, am extremely proud to be part of that scene... and have been since 5/6/90.
DeadheadDave
Pair
Sparkynutz
Flush
Here's a couple, but this is with other songs added.
Thanks for the compliment! For those interested, it’s “Poker Music” on Spotify, and I’m always open to suggestions. I’ve been curating this list for many years. If you don’t like a song or genre, something different is coming….
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DeadheadDave
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I caught a show there…. 8/9/24. Was pretty blown away by that place. Didn’t catch a poster though.
I did triple up in 76 minutes at a 1/3 table at the Venetian on my way back to the room though. Cashed out and went to bed… not to sleep, no, that wasn’t happening. Just bed and TV and a bunch of new Benjamin’s to take home.
I caught a show there…. 8/9/24. Was pretty blown away by that place. Didn’t catch a poster though.
I did triple up in 76 minutes at a 1/3 table at the Venetian on my way back to the room though. Cashed out and went to bed… not to sleep, no, that wasn’t happening. Just bed and TV and a bunch of new Benjamin’s to take home.
DeadheadDave
Pair
I will put it on tomm nite
The show was intense and extremely simulating lol. Partied all day and by the end the show…we went back to the room for a few drinks and to stare at the ceiling/sphere.
DeadheadDave
Pair
While I was at the table afterwards it was a titanic “worlds colliding” moment that I generally make tremendous efforts to avoid. It was quite stimulating. Not sure what the other players were making of this long haired sweaty Wookiee knocking their socks off. I began to think that I had an ability to read these guys really well. Became really really intense and I realized that I must have been staring too much. I began to quietly freak. I called the floor over, requested he turn up the dead tunes they had playing (very nice touch). He declined. I attempted compromise at just turning up a little more. He declined. I smiled and thanked him. A minute later, it got turned up. I was again able to astral plane the majestic galaxies of the… whatever, and almost,relax? I won some huge hands off these drunk guys. Felt like I had a relationship with the gold deck that was ESP in nature. Green deck not so much. Green deck bad. Gold deck good. Green deck bad. Gold deck good. 3 hands in a row, I wish I were lying, I got my cards and perfectly predicted what was under my fingers. Yes, even with the green deck. The intensity became too much. I couldn’t see through the tops of the cards. I had to leave. It was becoming too much. I began to fantasize about, you know, possibly beginning to… see through the tops of the cards. I called the floor over, asked him to turn down the tunes, and to send the girl with some water. He looks at me, leans in close and whispers “sir, are you freaking out.” He backs away, I look at him. I grin. I slowly nod my head. Just once. He smiles. “Let’s get you cashed out and somewhere more comfortable then”. It was the nicest way I have ever been 86’d in my life. He was sweet the whole way through the cash out process. I tipped him. He asked if I knew where I was going. A little grin. One slow head shake from center to the left. Then right. “We have a lounge in back, a comfy couch, good music… would that suit your needs”. It was nice. I’m assuming a lounge for high rollers. Empty. Just me. Very comfortable. He gave an hour. Came back. Asked me if I had recalled where I needed to go. This time I did. And off I went.
I’ll be exploring this “Furthur”, the whole seeing through the tops of the cards thing.
My ticket was free. As was my lodging. Having good friends is nice. I took him to lunch and beers pre show. 1.25 tanks of gas to and from that wretched oven of a city. I was halfway home and started laughing hysterically of that whole poker room thing and what my table guys were thinking.
Pandora: Rock Hits Radio has a really good mix.
Dann1215
Sitting Out
Mixalot
Pair
I was at this show. Brings back cool memories.
Mixalot
Pair
ItsAlwaysLupus
Sitting Out
It's all over the place but it harnesses the vibes:
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