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  • When I moved here I think the Eagle, the Maverick, and the Ramrod were all still on Queensberry.

    ceciliatan: My bar is closing!! ceciliatan 2010

  • The SFGate has an obituary about the interesting life of a Grateful Dead roadie named Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff.

    Boing Boing: May 14, 2006 - May 20, 2006 Archives 2006

  • The SFGate has an obituary about the interesting life of a Grateful Dead roadie named Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff.

    Obit for "Ramrod," Grateful Dead roadie - Boing Boing 2006

  • The SFGate has an obituary about the interesting life of a Grateful Dead roadie named Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff.

    Boing Boing: Obit for "Ramrod," Grateful Dead roadie 2006

  • The loot belonged to the band's long-time road manager, Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff.

    CNN Transcript May 9, 2007 2007

  • I'll just say: thumbs up to the banjo, the fiddle, the raggedy rocking horns, the politics, the acoustic versions of "Cadillac Ranch," "Ramrod," and "You Can Look But You Better Not Touch," and, of course, all my favorite folk songs.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Becca 2006

  • I'll just say: thumbs up to the banjo, the fiddle, the raggedy rocking horns, the politics, the acoustic versions of "Cadillac Ranch," "Ramrod," and "You Can Look But You Better Not Touch," and, of course, all my favorite folk songs.

    I Have Seen Rock and Roll's Past, and Its Name Is Bruce Springsteen Becca 2006

  • "The Promised Land" was redone as a folk dirge, "Ramrod" was a bluesy-folksy number, and "Reason to Believe" became a Tom Waits song distorted microphone making vocals incredibly scratchy, bluesy harmonica, and thumping percussion.

    Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! kradical 2005

  • As his real name is no concern of ours I will here give him his popular nickname of "Ramrod," a name by which he was well known not only in our village but for a considerable distance around.

    The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

  • Filmed entirely on location in the Utah ghost town of Grafton and in Zion National Park, "Ramrod" is one of the most electrifying westerns of the 1940s.

    BYU News 2010

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