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Earth_First

(14,910 posts) Wed Jul 9, 2014, 07:13 PM Jul 2014

To my Deadhead friends: 19 years ago tonight...

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To my Deadhead friends: 19 years ago tonight... (Original Post) Earth_First Jul 2014 OP

Last show. Saw them in Birmingham that year. Lochloosa Jul 2014 #1

Been listening to the Dead since my college days. In_The_Wind Jul 2014 #2

I went to the first Furthur Festival/ Other Ones a couple years later and it was not the same NightWatcher Jul 2014 #3

On that date I was staying at the Chicago Hilton vanlassie Jul 2014 #4

Lochloosa

(16,061 posts)

1. Last show. Saw them in Birmingham that year.

Reply to Earth_First (Original post)

Wed Jul 9, 2014, 07:32 PM

Jul 2014

Damn I miss Jerry.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

2. Been listening to the Dead since my college days.

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Wed Jul 9, 2014, 08:03 PM

Jul 2014

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

3. I went to the first Furthur Festival/ Other Ones a couple years later and it was not the same

Reply to Earth_First (Original post)

Wed Jul 9, 2014, 08:09 PM

Jul 2014

I've seen Bobby and Ratdog a few more times since and it's cool (you know, with Bobby morphing into Jerry and such) but I don't think I'll go much more.

You cannot recreate the magic. You can remember, but you can't recreate it. I'll scour the archives for more favorite shows and give those a listen instead.

vanlassie

(5,668 posts)

4. On that date I was staying at the Chicago Hilton

Reply to Earth_First (Original post)

Thu Jul 10, 2014, 01:22 AM

Jul 2014

on Michigan Ave. I kept noticing kids in tie dyed shirts, down in the streets. I said to a friend, "I think the Grateful Dead must be nearby." In the morning, we noticed many of these tie dyed barefooted Deadheads had infiltrated the hotel, sleeping on brocade sofas on every floor in the elevator lobbies! It was a sad event in retrospect.

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