It’s not until next weekend, I’m defiantly gonna report back with how it went, what went down unexpectedly well, and if I can a recording.
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It was an interesting event. It was on a legit farm. There were donkeys, sheep, chickens, etc. The crowd was into rock music even more than I expected.
Some highlights of the event included:
Stevie Wonder - “As”
Santana - “Soul Sacrifice” (thank you @JonathanE ! )
Babe Ruth - “The Mexican”
Cymande - “Brothers On The Slide” - The best received song that most people didn’t know.
Antibalas - “Che Che Cole Makossa” (thank you @MusicForHangovers !) - unfortunately this one got cut off when transitioning to another part of the weddingbut the vibes were great.
Richie Havens - “Freedom” (thank you @JonathanE ! )
Steve Miller Band - “Fly Like an Eagle”
The Rolling Stones - “Miss You” - The peak of the night and the best dance floor track.
Foghat - “Gotta Get To Know You”
Funkadelic - “Can you get to that”
Ram Jam - “Black Betty”
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One thing to note is how much more open minded people are during the cocktail hour and dinner. They let me do my thing and play music they didn’t nessacarily know to create the vibes. I got endless compliments, everyone loved it. Dancing even started, despite that not being the part of the night designated for it.
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Dancing at the undesignated time! Doesn’t get much better than that. Rock on!
Does “legit farm” mean that cannabis isn’t the crop? I heard a funny story a few days ago about “goat shit” herb from Jamaica, supposedly very powerful, possibly even more than lambsbread, that was the result of goats eating the herb, shitting out the seeds which germinated and grew up again. The cycle was repeated a few times and then you had this amazing herb, which didn’t look like much but was “Wow!” I have no idea how true this story is, but it was an old DJ friend who told me. We all believe old DJs around this forum, right?
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haha. By legit farm I mean there are some rural venues that are primarily event hosting focussed, whereas this place was centred around the animals and crops. I actually think having so many animals around affected the atmosphere and my set.
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LOL- As a legit goat farmer and an, um, illegit farmer, I reckon that story is more bull than goat. I’d try some though 
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I have a story to tell about some particularly bad shit.
I’ll spare everyone the full details. Suffice to say that it involved a small rave in a local wood, a lack of toilet facilities, human ‘waste’, and a local dog walker out for an early morning walk with his hound who (as some dogs do) had…ahem… ‘coprophile tendencies’. Shortly after the early morning walk the dog became very unwell - panting heavily, glassy-eyed and unable to stand. They rushed him to the vet who, after examining him said that the ‘human waste’ probably still contained some traces of whatever the raver had been taking, and the poor dog was having a bad trip as a result.
Truly bad shit 
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Very delicately put. Poor dog. One of the worst things I have ever done when somewhat younger and unknowing was to give my dog, Wally, a beer. Just one, but the poor boy had a terrible time raising his leg to pee without failing over. Very undignified. Never again. I have also noticed in my experiences that one should not undertake an acid trip when dogs are around. They may not ingest, but they’re psychically attuned and sensitive.
It’s all kind of freaky when you think about how we humans so often like to change our sense of reality, while for the most part animals are content with how they perceive the world. There are some examples of elephants and various birds using berries and such to get drunk with, but mostly an animal has the senses it needs to survive - and that’s what’s important. If you’re interested in an astonishing book on the world of animal perceptions, you’d probably find An Immense World by Ed Yong utterly fascinating. I could only read it in small doses ‘cos it was so mind-blowing.
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At the risk of sounding like a metropolitan new-age navel-gazer, while you were typing that message I was actually taking part in a discussion about philosophy and psychology and meditation, which included some discussion of the perceptual ‘filters’ that we (as a species) have accrued, and how they can tend to get in the way of our appreciation of ‘reality’…! So that book does sound very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!
Those filters are good to be aware of. Nothing new-age, metropolitan navel-gazing about it. In fact, frankly, I think metro navel-gazing new agers have some excessively rigid filters in play. But then I’m rural and old age even if I have some affection for my navel. Our species have so many filters especially on a cultural spectrum. Ed Yong concentrates on the physical abilities different species possess.
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