NEMD Grateful Dead Appreciation Thread

badfish45 said:
So.....

Im 17. I have always loved The Dead and bands alike. I basically grew up listening to this music. Its not a culture Ive immersed myself in, I have really only been to a String Cheese concert.

So since I will be on my own next year, and I want to explore a lot of jam shows and festivals. Does anyone have some advice for me? I know that is so vague, but it is honestly a very intimidating thing for me to experience, but at String Cheese it was so much fun just feeling the family like atmosphere. Is the same fun and excitement still alive at these shows?
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Pick a band you like, keep an eye out for dates, pick a 10 show run, convince one of your buddies to do it with you and hit the fucking road. I'd say do anything other than summer cuz it's smaller and you'll get to know some folks on tour better. Be safe, have fun, take chances. I wish I was 17 again.
 
And stash your shit, wear a collard shirt while driving, take all the stickers off your car and don't look like a dirtbag hippie. I got popped a couple of times on tour, and one time was definitely because I looked like I had drugs in the car, and I absolutely did. Missed a few really good phish shows due to being in the fucking LA county clink.
 
Sorry for all the posts...I'm just laughing at myself now, and how different my life is than when I was 17. I don't tour anymore, but I definitely travel a few hours every so often for shows. I bring golf clubs with me, and dress the part, just in case I get yanked on the road, I'll tell the fuzz I'm going on a golf trip. I even research golf courses in the area I'm going so I can have a story to tell. Shit, I'm such an old asshole now that I actually do play golf sometimes when I'm out of town seeing shows.
 
^Good advice.. and never tell them your on tour if you get waylaid by the POPO... so it would be a good idea to have two different reasons for going where you are going. Also the big drug interdiction places around the nation are pretty well published so I would consider making yourself familiar with their location and taking a different route if your in their areas.
 
Just amazing how different things are now. I didn't even have a cell phone or GPS or any of that shit. Just a map, tent and cases of beer to drink and sell and food. Slept in some pretty crazy places. Would just roll into town with absolutely no clue where the venue was and have to ask directions or see other heads getting into town and follow them. Wreck less as fuck, too. Smoking weed the entire time, blowing rails off cd cases while driving and leaving into the unknown after shows tripping my face off. Best times ever, but fuck, that shit gives me anxiety even thinking about now.

Either way, I would definitely suggest doing the same to a 17 year old with the itch, cuz it fucking ruled. Just be safer than I was.
 
^ yeah=D

@CS

yeah I had a cell phone for some of the time, but it only worked in like the city I got it in so the rest of the country it was useless or billions of dollars in roaming.. We used to just get to the city and kinda close to the venue and then just follow all the other heads on the road.. but yeah shit we got lost all the time.. it was part of the fun.. remember trying to read a damn paper map trippin?
 
Haha, I sure do, friend. It typically ended in, "fuck it man, there's a truck stop, pull over and get me a fucking beer"
 
ROFL.. walking into those bright ass lights with all the straits checking ya out.. uhhh.. but the beer was always worth it.

I think tour people have proven without a doubt that High driving isn't nearly as dangerous as drunk driving.

If you all havn't taken a look at this its pretty damn sweet Grateful Dead Archive Online:D

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Oakland 12/28/88-31 what makes me sad is that the cd is all scratched up and skips in some places luckily I burned it to a hard drive when computers were big lol and actually just got it back no skips!!
 
I just bought the 1995 puzzle with that exact Eyes of the World image. Wasted 2 hours before realizing it was missing an edge piece. Damn you eBay!

9/7/85 Red Rocks saved me though, the first half hour is great. Frozen Logger, Mississippi Half-Step, Brown Eyed Woman, Deal...
 
ChickenScratch said:
And stash your shit, wear a collard shirt while driving, take all the stickers off your car and don't look like a dirtbag hippie. I got popped a couple of times on tour, and one time was definitely because I looked like I had drugs in the car, and I absolutely did. Missed a few really good phish shows due to being in the fucking LA county clink.
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yup. this.^
wooks are lame. Plainclothes.
dress pants ftw yo.

mildly irrelevant to festies but this reminded me of this kind of for some reason just for shits and giggles :)

 


Grateful Dead Full Audio - 11/11/1973 - Winterland Arena

Promised Land
Bertha 0:03:00
Greatest Story Ever Told 0:09:11
Sugaree 0:15:08
Black-Throated Wind 0:22:38
To Lay Me Down 0:30:00
El Paso 0:38:20
Ramble on Rose 0:42:37
Me and Bobby McGee 0:49:51
China Cat Sunflower 0:56:00
I Know You Rider 1:00:00
Me and My Uncle 1:10:59
Loose Lucy 1:14:00
Weather Report Suite: Prelude 1:20:00
Weather Report Suite: Part One
Let it Grow 1:27:29

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 1:36:30
Big River 1:44:40
Dark Star 1:50:33
Eyes Of The World 2:25:49
China Doll 2:39:24
Sugar Magnolia 2:45:00
ENCORE
Uncle John's Band 2:55:00
Johnny B. Goode 3:02:25
And We Bid You Goodnight 3:06:55

 
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Anyone check out Bobby in the current Ratdog tour? Saw them this week, very good. I used to follow Ratdog around the northeast during my college, post college early worker bee years. So so good. I'll take this band over Further any day.
 
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