I guess I am though I only saw them live once. In Albuquerque in '75 or so. According to iTunes I have 27 of their albums. Maybe what I'm asking is are there any old hippies on board. I can't be the only one.

Does that count? He saw them in Las Vegas with his buddies many years ago when he was in the possession of a purple VW bus.

One of my favorite songs is Touch of Grey. I really like their music. I'm jealous you got to see them live.

I was too much of a Mormon during the hippie era. Now I feel like I didn't get to experience an important part of my generation. I did see Jimmie Hendrix though. Do I get points for that?

Hell yes! I'd have loved to have seen Jimi. I'm jealous.

this music sucks.

I love psychedelic music, but the Dead are by and large a tedious jam band. Though when they're playing Dark Star with Constantin, I'm listening. I probably saw them 20 times in the 80's. 1975 would have been a great era. Oh, I'm a nevermo.

21st Century psychedelic music is fabby. I also still love shoegazing. 21st Century jam bands suck.

Since you axed.

Anthem of the Sun era dead is my favorite too. Fillmore '69 kick ass too.

sorryfully, I remember having delivered meds to the Knoll Woods facility where he passed away, but nothing could have helped him at that point. Jerry was a brittle diabetic who savored his chocolate shakes and chili dogs...

I miss Jerry, and I discovered the Dead at the very end.. he'd already become an artist and I was pretty disgusted with Mountain Girl.

Anyway, we'll always have the music. Terrapin Station. The Waldorf.

True story:

It was new years eve, 1976. My best friend and I, two denizens of the Sacramento region, had tickets for the Dead concert at Cow Palace, San Francisco. We rolled about twenty joints in advance and put them in a little container. Once in the concert hall, we enjoyed a screening of Reefer Madness (the movie) on a big screen. Then there was a warm up band called Sound Hole. Then the second warm up band, Santana! Gosh it was going good with many joints smoked.

Then this guy approaches me and my buddy with shrooms. I ate more than a handful of the tasty, dried mushrooms and I died.
Or at least I thought I had died. I fell to the floor and hallucinated that I was lying in an open grave. Devil worshippers watched over me as my face tightened into a frightened rictus. My friend picked me up and shook me into a state of near-reality. He had to drag me out and throw me into the car.

I did hear "Sugar Magnolia" before I went down. It was awesome.

and now I'm hooked on Cherry Garcia ice-cream. I think there's a connection.

I'm a Deadhead and a Parrothead.

Ron

: ) My first two shows were Roanoke VA in 87...then immediately to Philly ...Several times in Pittsburgh...DC...Charlotte..Greensboro...And saw them here in Phx. several years ago.. Still awesome..but miss Jerry. Nothing like them!

My best friend was a major Deadhead. We would listen to them for hours. Oh also, I went through a Parrothead phase. I've been to a couple of Jimmy Buffett concerts in Vegas. Those were so damn fun too!

I saw them on New Year's Eve, 1971, at Winterland in San Francisco. What a show! I can still remember blowing off a joint just befor the show started. There were also some other chemicals flowing. It was actually the best show I've ever been to. We were up in the balcony on the right side. I saw them once in New York, earlier, at Fillmore East.

Started seeing them as a sophomore in High School (1987). The music, the scene, and the psychedelics were a big part of how I left TSCC. I still dig the occasional loud live shows or Phish and Widespread Panic.

Saw them in Teluride '87

Saw them in Denver in '92, and a handful of times between then and Jerry's death, including San Diego, Phoenix, Vegas. I still love to see live music, esp MMW, Phish, WSP. I don't consider myself a 'dead head', only a 'head'.



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Not a dead head but I am 420 friendly. However, I came to it late in life.