Grateful Dead fans??? Wow!

[pepperbear]

Just goes to prove that music is one of the great equalizers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750946/posts

FR post about Jerry Garcia art exhibit.

[Earth_First]

1. Never could understand RW deadheads...

however, we were all in it together.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. ...

[JackORoses]

3. quite a rare breed, the neo-con deadhead

I guess even W could come to the party, blow down, and shake his bones to a rockin' US Blues.

But would he really get IT?

[shadowknows69]

4. Nope

Reason I stopped going to shows was the emergence of the "Evil Dead Heads" Most were clueless about the music, they just wanted their hippie fantasy camp, do a lot of cheap drugs and hit on hippie chicks.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. I did see some really good shows after Jerry came back in 86. 87, 89 were good years.

But around '93 the vibe got really fucked up and I stopped going for the most part.

[Rockstone]

6. I thought it was just Phish fans who didn't "get it"

[Earth_First]

11. I was waiting for a Phish jab...

It certianly goes both ways. I've seen quite a few deadhead types at Phish in the early days who were too cool for school.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. I never got the same, for lack of a better word, spiritual unification out of Phish shows

that I felt the Dead, on good nights at least, would provide. Doesn't mean it wasn't there.

That said, I know cool Phish heads and ones that are doofuses. Same with Deadheads. Main difference seems to be age, although I'm old and I saw Phish play at a bar in Chicago in 1990 with about 200 other people. They kicked some serious ass.

(Yes, you may now commence bein' jealous. :hippie:)

[shadowknows69]

24. Ok, reality check here

if it weren't for deadhead types. PHISH would never have existed.

[ComerPerro]

22. completely different bands

[Kingshakabobo]

7. Maybe I sat next to these people.............

.........when my buddy hooked me up with some decent seats once. It turned out his dad was a big-shot at the Chicago Board of Trade so we got stuck sitting among a bunch of traders and their trophy girlfriends. I must admit, it was kinda funny watching these idiots trying to survive a hot outdoor show while hopped up on cocaine. At least they left early so we had plenty of room to dance.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. "And it's one in ten thousand that come for the show"

So much was dependent upon the audience, that's for sure.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Thanks. This helps me understand why I never got it.

The Deadheads I've encountered over the years were some of the meanest, elitist, vindictive and self-righteous people you'd ever not want to meet.

To see that there are Freeper deadheads comes as no surprise.

[EstimatedProphet]

8. You've met some bad ones then

I, and the other heads on the board, will assure you we're not all like that.

[stevedeshazer]

12. Well, I've used a pretty broad brush in painting deadheads as elitist

It's not fair to folks like you who care.

I've known some deadheads who were very cool, but overall I had a shitty experience with most.

Wrong place, wrong time I suppose.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Both my kids are fans and they asked me once if their dad and I were

deadheads when we were younger. I said no. They asked why not and I said "We bathed". LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Yeah, well, %&^%( you too, buddy.

Oh, and Peace! :hippie:

[stevedeshazer]

19. And peace to you as well!

[EstimatedProphet]

10. I went to grad school with a freeper Deadhead

He was 2nd generation KKK, no shit. Had a very cruel sense of humor. I think ultimately it was all about the drugs for him.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Ann Coulter is supposedly a Deadhead. I don't get it.

Maybe she missed the part about "Aint no time to hate"

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. They're the ones

that took the brown acid.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I've serioiusly thought that her whole thing might be some giant Andy Kaufman-esque

performance art bit.

But the scary thing is, I think she's sincere.

[martymar64]

21. I never got the RW Deadheads myself

Part of the fun was the camraderie I felt with the others based on the music and the gypsy lifestyle of the deadheads. I would usually just go if they were within a four hour drive, but the roadtrip to the show was a big part of the fun.


I miss Jerry.

[Pastiche423]

23. Although I never went to a Deadhard concert

they would set up in the green beside Ft Mason in SF. Many of my neighbors and I would set up picnics on our roofs, a few blocks from where they were playing.

We could listen to them in comfort and it was free. In addition, we could take showers in between sets.