NEMD The Grateful Thread

Classic Jerry, when he grinned like a Buddha while earning the "Captain Trips" moniker.


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Bruce Springsteen:

"In the 1970s I went to a Grateful Dead show at a community college. I watched the crowd swaying and doing its trance-dance thing, and I stood very outside of it. To me - sober, non mystical, only half hippie, if that, me - they sounded like a not very talented bar band. I went home greatly mystified. I don't know if the Grateful Dead were great but I know they did something great. Years later, when I came to appreciate their subtle musicality, Jerry Garcia's beautiful lyrical guitar playing and the folk purity of their voices, I understood that I'd missed it. They had a unique ability to build community and sometimes, it ain't what you're doing but what happens while you're doing it that counts."
 
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