My grandfather is in this at 1:03:33, he's the one in the middle. He passed away this morning. He was my best friend and more of a dad to me than my own was. I wouldn't still be alive without him. I always come back to see how different he looked, I love you papa ♡
As an African American I was invited to there final show in Irvine, California in 1989, I personally had never been treated any better, that would include church.
Oh yeah, I guess you just hadn’t heard that everyone in the entire world is racist against black people except for attendants of Grateful Dead shows, I mean duh everyone knows that 🙄
From the time I was born in 1980 till 94 I was raised on Dead Tour. My mom home schooled me during this time. We went from coast to coast so many times that I can't count. I am really not sure how many shows I have been to... Maybe 300 before Jerry Passed, maybe more. All I know is that if I had the choice I would have chosen the same path. My mother passed about a month ago. Thanks to her and my GDF I've had more love and life experiences then most. GDF for life!!
Ahh the early 90’s. Very good times. Rock counterculture was thriving. Grunge, alternative, retro rock, jam bands, classic rockers. It was a great time.
So cool to see my old friends. Alot no longer around. Thank god I hopped on the bus. Some things worked out,some didnt. Im just so grateful to have lived during the Dead era.
I am here looking for My mom all the time... She’s passed on, but she followed the dead all through her preteen-teen and early adulthood. She passed away when I was 18 after being sick for many years. She was the biggest deadhead I’ve ever known. I watch these videos for hours on end, month after month in hopes to find even a glimpse of her.. Dawn Renee Balbach, Long Beach, CA - Fare thee well, NFA Mama Bear.
You honor your beautiful Mama and this community. Thank you for expressing yourself so authentically. I live in Long Beach and wanted to send you some Love&Light
I am the girl playing harmonica while they show jerry Garcia's art exhibition in Seattle and in front of the blue wall...I was 16 yrs old. What a blast! At 8:30 with Sundance on guitar. And I am at 1:08:24 too with my long lost friend Sundance...where are you?😊ps are music is also playing in the background at 1:10:49 guitar and harmonica........PS ...I am looking for my friend SUNDANCE!!! He was playing guitar with me. Has anyone seen him or know where SUNDANCE is! Hi Sundance luv and miss you!❤😂😊 You can see him real good at 1:08:24🎉❤
It's my birthday on june 30th...it is the 30th anniversary of this time and movie I lived at age 16...wow what and adventure! I do miss everyone and this freedom which is not lost or forgotten!
That's me tripping balls @1:15:26. Wow! I've been looking for this video forever, but didn't know the name of it. It was on HBO one night, but I missed getting the name of it. One of the best times I've ever had. Thanks for uploading!
Big shout out to Rock-Med, who bailed me out of a big jam 1st night of CalExpo on this tour. I spilled a vial on myself and went DEEP space. They took me in and kept ground control for me all night until I came to enough to find my way back to the Freebird Express. Instead of broke and in jail for maybe 5-10, I had every dollar I started out with and got to finish the west coast leg of the tour. I'll never forget that shit. Forever grateful.
Dude what how many people have gotten placebo highs from acid I've met a lot of people that have gotten acid spilled on them and gotten high asf but I've spilled a ten strip on my arm and didn't feel shit because I looked it up and found out acid doesn't absorb in skin
Oh my god! Funny story, I had bought a sheet years back, and as I was telling my friend the game plan in case we got pulled over, he held up his hand and said "dude, if that happens, just hand me the whole sheet and Ill see you in a month!" haha.
I learned with Deadheads that I was not a piece of shit that instead I was loved dearly by my creator and I learned it was safe to fall in love with myself because loving myself and loving creator is special and sacred..after living many years in traumatic suffering and even hating my name it all ended and my journey of love truth compassion and ever evolving forward has continued since those experiences and I'm truly grateful for all of it 🌞
Getting into the Grateful Dead and the whole scene around them was the greatest thing that could've happened to me and I'm beyond thankful for the wonderful experiences,the music and for the people. Changed my life for the better. : )
Some of the greatest memories of my youth seeing the Dead and the parking lot scene-cannot be duplicated-I mean where else can you buy a t-shirt a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of milk a bag of kush and join in on a bongo session with Deadheads and hot girls plus seeing lots of cool dogs and awesome people and art and trinkets and guys selling anything and everything-man I miss those days they will never happen again a stitch in time!!A totally unique experience every time-Shakedown Street all the way!!
Wow this is a journey back in time, I was at Watkins Glen in 1973. It was was a 3 day outdoor Concert. There was around 600,000 people of all ages. The Concert had 3 Performers, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Band. 6 of us from HS hitched hike up to this Outdoor Concert. I still meet that went to this Concert, that’s 50 years ago. I love live Music, but the shame is that kids today have to pay a small fortune for tickets. Seeing The Rolling Stones in 1975 at MSG, it was a 6 night Tour in NYC. But the best part was was that tickets were $12.50 for a seat in the Red Section of the Garden. Anyone who knows the Garden, those are great seats. NYC back then had some many Amazing Venues. To just name a few, The Fillmore East, Academy of Music, The Beacon Theater, Avery Fisher Hall, Felt Forum, Radio City had David Bowie for 6 nights. Personally I like the smaller Venues, the Felt Forum was great, all the seats were great. I never followed The Dead, I guess life just got in the way …lol But yeah everyone needs to try something new especially when they’re young. Because later on the job, mortgage, family, schools etc etc just happens. Life is often too short and people need to enjoy as much as possible, otherwise I personally believe that people are just passing through life without taking a risk and going for it. But hey that’s just my 2 cents. Thanks for sharing some good memories ☮️
I was lucky enough to experience this. I went to my only Dead show in Birmingham,AL about a month before Jerry passed. I consider myself grateful to have gone to the show, I remember the somber moment when people found out Jerry had passed and seeing my friends cry. The whole experience blew my mind. One of my earliest memories with my dad was riding down the road and asking him who was it I was listening to on the radio and him telling me it was The Grateful Dead. I think it may have been Ripple on the radio that day. He told me it was bluegrass music. If I could go back to one time in my life and experience it again it would be that time precisely.
This was the summer of 94. I hitchhiked from Denver to Breckenridge to hook up with my boys. We loaded up a blue 1973 VW Bus with a tank of N20 and headed for Seattle. Camping in Eugene was like a dream. The Disco Bus late night was surreal. Driving down the 101 camping on the beach, Walking through the Redwoods on acid, Rolling into Las Vegas at 2 am in the 120 degree heat and Winning 1800$ at the blackjack table when we were down to almost nothing was a miracle. I was 21 at the time and it was the best summer of my life. I have seen the vid so many times just so I can go back there. Oh how I wish I could go back there. Im 50 now... I still travel to see music when I can, because seeing music in a different city than where you live just sounds better. Hearing it out of someone else's car sounds even better. This is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago. Keep on Keepin on Freaks! #NFA
Vegas in '94 were my last shows. I flew over from Hawaii for them. I went up to the top of the stadium at one point when the show was going and looked over and saw that there were as many people still outside as there were inside....unsustainable was my first thought.....I will always treasure the years I went out on multi state tours selling tie dyes to get tickets and hotel rooms and to keep it going. The Grateful Dead were special and they changed my life for the better.
Vermont 95' was my last show. Jerry wasn't feeling well. Very confusing..? Jerry had a teleprompter and couldn't get the lyrics, just playing the very minimum, if that..? Really struggling. Many didn't notice, but anyone who had been to many shows, knew it was bad. I was still shocked when Jerry passed away after the tour. It made sense, health wise, but what was everyone going to do who lived for/on tour..?! When this was made (after the 94' tour..?!) you can see how many were considering what they'd do if there was no more touring, when they themselves were going to stop touring, and all the other possibilities. In 95', not too long after this, that's exactly what most Deadheads were thinking. Great film documenting when everyone started being kicked out of the parking areas by 11pm, instead of camping in the lot for the show (sometimes 3-4 days in the same spot. That was great!). Everyone tripping balls still! Just follow the car ahead of you, they're Deadheads so they're going in the right direction (hopefully, lol, and it usually worked out much better than expected!). Great times, still. What a long, strange trip it's been. Indeed!👍💯⚡🎶⚡💜✌️
Too many folk to thank for the last 50 years of the Dead but to Ken Kesey, Bill Graham & most of all Robert Hunter, we owe an enormous sense of gratitude. Let's all meet again in Terrapin - somewhere along the Time Coast...LOVE
Jerry Garcia's guitar speaks to the very depths of my soul. Those opening notes hit my heart like nothing else can. He sends me to places only his music can send me. It is quite remarkable the impact his music has on me. His music, for sure, is Home. Love you Jerry! 💖
I moved to Boulder Colorado a few years before COVID and that area feels like the most dense area of dead heads still around today with the Dead and Co., Phish and Umpreys McGee coming through regularly and seeing tattoos and bumper stickers of the Steal your face logo. Thanks for sharing this great documentary! This was such a pivotal movement in American and world history right here.
Didnt really need cops at dead shows , everybody was into family like atmosphere, was more like peace and love and ppl were always ready to help each other, j/s
I was born in san francisco and in 1968 I first saw part of the band at golden gate park. along with about 100 other bongo and drum playing long haired freaky girls and guys.. i was 13 years old. i was instantly hooked on the whole haight ashbury hippie culture.. It was starting to die off by then, but I lived it, for 4 years and I wouldnt have changed anything if I could.. I saw bands like the dead, the stones , hendrix, the list goes on and on.. today, when I talk to people abouth my experiences, they think I'm lying, but i'm not.. I truly miss those days.. doing the purest mind expanding lsd in the world.. It didnt ruin me, Today, I own my own business, my own home and now I live 3 min, from the beach in florida.. The last time I saw the dead was in washington dc in the mid 1980s.. couldnt find any decent herb, so I went to the concert and visited the deadfollowers in there portable citiy outside the gates.. Got some fantastic herb, a dose and a cute little dead head girl .. Oh those memories.. oh yeah also saw jerry and his merry bunch of players.. wow.. wow wow
Very cool. I wish I got to see all those bands in their prime. The golden age of rock and roll. The best time to be alive and going to concerts 1965 - 1985.
SpacedTime Hope you have lots of money. San Fran is one of the most expensive cities on the planet to live in now. The scene, lol, that ended over 40yrs. ago. Now you will meet people that "act" like your their best friend so they can use you to get high or rip you off. Just a heads up, a lot of junkies and STD's. Watch your back.
i made some stickers. sold em at Further and Friends. made over 600 in a weekend. fryed my balls off. the epiphany I had was "you should be thankful for being able to be thankful"
I saw a couple of Parking Lot Scenes in Foxboro Mass. 88-89. What an experience. I loved meeting people from all over the Country. Especially the Vets. Made sure to buy some things from them. I still have and cherish some cassette case sleeves I bought from a disabled Vet. I look at them and I think of the Guy sitting on a Blue Tarp with all his stuff around Him. I talked with Him for about a half hour. God Bless Him. I hope He turned out ok. 🙏
"It" wasn't the band.. "It" was us.. all of us, in concert in and out of the venue. We were all so beautiful, together. How I loved it all, and still do.
Interesting documentary. Covered quite a few aspects of the scene and others it left out. The wonders of traveling, seeing places you've never been before. The serendipitous things that happened that really made one feel like everything was truly connected. All the folks there that were crazy. I'm talkin' bum on the sidewalk talkin' to himself crazy. Peaking on acid in the middle of the 2nd set listening to Stella Blue in some weird dream like trance. Taking a hit from a balloon and suddenly feeling on the same wave length as everybody in the lot. Living life without any concept of time other then don't miss the show. Sharing a doobie together with the poor and rich and nobody feeling out of place. Playing drums and dancing at a fevered tempo for hours and hours. Meeting people you would never get the chance to meet otherwise. Having a very spiritual or religious type of experience, a lot of that due to the Grateful Dead being the perfect music to listen to stoned on LSD. I don't think anybody mentioned Phil Lesh either in this doc, who is pretty much the coolest bass player ever. I thank my lucky stars those kids from Downey turned me on to the Grateful Dead. Biggest life changing moment I've ever had. Oh, and that punker that said if you didn't look the part you were exposed to being shunned. He was right on the money. How you looked and behaved on the scene was very important. Not to everybody, but to the majority. Which is why wearing a tie dye was an easy way of being more accepted in the community. People that think there is no ego in the counter culture are fooling themselves.
Dude, I really enjoyed reading your true rant. Awesome, hope you found your China Doll, believing you have always obtained a miracle wherever and whenever, it's warranted.
@@mikeyj.3605 We can save the world and become one. Iodine calcifies the pineal gland. So iodized salt, seaweed/kelp, egg yolk, seafood and dairy should definitely be avoided. Coke and meat/vienna sausages work great to decalcify the pineal, also lead lol spread it to the good people. ☮☯️💓
People dress/wear their hair to conform to the society that they wish to fit into. And talk. This doesn't have to be superficial - but it can be. But it's really down to the kindnesses they do, and that's the only real proof that they are genuine.
Young enough to not see Jerry, but I love the man. Been to a bunch of Dead and Co shows and it legit changed my life for the better. Will forever cherish these shows.
Honestly seeing these kinds of videos just breaks my heart knowing that I as a 26 year old will never be able to experience this. I can't begin to stress enough that the people in this video are MY KIND OF PEOPLE. And I can't seem to find too many people of this nature these days
Condescending scamming pricks? Honestly maybe 1 in 10 are the type you are talking about. There is a lot of hierarchal bullshit in that scene. Hippies are some of the snobbiest people I've ever met.
Its not Grateful Dead but I’m following Dead & Co on tour around the country right now, a lot of people are and they still have a lot scene. I’m 23 and I’ve seen them 25 times across the whole country. If you’re on the east coast they still got some more shows until July 16th
@@anthonytruman how are their shows? Obviously pretty good if you've seen them that much. But I'm midwest, hopefully they'll be playing at least within a state away soon
So gr8ful my mom took me to my first show in 93, the summer I turned 13! Buckeye Lake Ohio, such a wonderful experience. We went to every show we could until Jerry passed away. The lot scene blew my mind!
I miss these days, so very much. My first show was Buffalo, NY at 14, a kid from the mountains of Vermont…I and my friends stepped into the phenomenon, and I never left. Even when I was in the service, I never lost my love for the Grateful Dead & the people I met. Even if you drove days with no ticket, there was hope. “I need a miracle” and If no ticket, drop, wait & look for an entrance, often a weak security point, bad fence, etc if plan A & B didn’t work, plan C! Enjoy the show in the parking lot. An amazing time. The drive from show to show was apart of this entire journey too. A different time. One that I regularly look back on…Anyone remember when they’d do the fly over for the parking lot after the show? Truly amazing. I regret nothing, only that this just doesn’t exist anymore and that I couldn’t attend more shows than I had…but to be apart of this history, this experience…never to be replicated, I’m so very grateful! Musta been the roses… If we could just do this again, everyday…together, away from all the BS of today. Unfortunately the powers to be wouldn’t allow this ever again. Not that The Dead could ever be replicated but man…I’d be willing to try! Now it’s “Burning Man” and EDM…smh. I never remember any “real” fights, skirmishes, sure but not life threatening events. Yes, there were some, a very few that exploited the scene…but Cmon. The dude the sleeps with a weapon?! Dudes strung way to tight. Drugs? Absolutely. But we all watched out for each other, not just our personal friends but everyone. With some common sense, speaking for myself & those that I traveled with, we knew enough to stay away from the hard stuff, no judgement just knew to know. Many of us were from families who were of the hippie culture, we had witnessed the effects of the “hard stuff”, so you dropped the bad and kept the overwhelming good stuff. Honestly, we usually had no issues with finding & bringing our own “stuff”…and most of anything I ever did get at a show was given. It was the nitrous dealers that made bank at shows. $3-5 a balloon as I remember, lol. Feeding & being fed by strangers, sharing, even picking up after the show…because it was the right thing to do, that’s what I remember, and the music. One story I remember to this day. On tour, many of us grew to know each other not by our birth names but by our given tour names. So you’d inevitably keep running into the many of the same folks. This one young couple had been pulled over on the way to a show in Ontario. During the stop, the officer apparently found a bottle full of an odorless, clear liquid, to which they informed the officer it was homeopathic water. The officer being a good company man turned the bottle upside down to place a little of the “water” on his finger to ensure it was not any type of “contraband”. Oops. According to the story…things took a “slight turn” for that officer. That water wasn’t water. Welcome to the show! And the couple were nearly 100 miles away by the time his ticket was punched…welcome to the show officer. It is true, shows changed as we hit the 90’s…again, you hold onto all the good memories and leave the bad. The reason many I knew went to shows was for the brother & sisterhood and of course the music, not the drugs. Awesome to see this, thank you for sharing this! Truly amazing to see this, a reminder of my own past, from so long ago.
Travis Martin Protesting at Trump rallys in their wheelchairs living off my dime holding their hands out. The true DEPLORABLES! TRUMP baby.....WOO HOOOOOOOOO!
Travis -- I wasn't in this video but I started touring about a year after this was made, and I know some of the people in the video are still alive and doing very well!! I don't think people who weren't there - know what they missed out on :) This really can't relay how phenomenal the experience was... :)
Man, I felt this whole documentary. It's so true that long about 91 or a little earlier, things just went way downhill. I don't regret the years being on tour. Best years of my life.
Was done with touring and the whole scene by summer '91. Kept going to see the boys 10-15 times a year but I just came for the show and left. Was not interested in hanging out on lot. I met a lot of amazing people but some of them presenting as "kind brothers and sisters" or "family" were wolves in sheeps clothing. One of many life lessons I learned in my time on tour.
I went to my first Grateful Dead show when I was only 14 years old. Loved it! The parking lot scene is like a big party. I remember they had naked bungee jumping. The true Dead Heads are very inspirational and so cool. This experience changed my perception on life for the better. I've been a fan of the Dead ever since. I will be forever grateful for the music and how it has given so much joy.
So many comments asking what happened to these people. I was going to dead shows during this time period. I went home, went to school, worked, got married had a family, bought a house. I am in my 40's now. I am sure most of these people did the same. We all have to grow up sometime! The lot scene was getting bad towards the end which they hint at in here. I know some tried to tour with other bands for awhile but it wasn't sustainable.
One of the greatest days of my life was getting to experience a Grateful Dead show in 94 at the Shoreline. For that experience has forever been inbedid in my life.
The kids in this video say "9 to 5 sucks" yet they eat food provided by 9 to 5ers, they travel in cars made by 9 to 5ers on roads provided by 9 to 5ers, they wear clothes made by 9 to 5ers. Young people can say yeah do drugs, love and peace because they haven't grown up yet. Eventually they will grow wise to the lies and excuses and lack of taking responsibility for ones own actions and move on. They will get a job, raise a family and become contributors of society rather than users of society. To them I say enjoy your youth it only comes once!
@@BillBondsHasAPosse I wish I'd seen this sooner. At least they weren't trying to evade a rampaging dinosaur, alien abduction saucer, or the Vortex from Sigma 17
I’m really glad I got to see the grateful dead two or three times, and saw the Jerry Garcia Band play a half dozen times as well. Great music, not crazy about their long space jams, I understood the parking lot scene, the one I remember most was in the parking lot when the Grateful Dead did the show Summer of 95 at an open air amphitheater in Reno. The nearby hotel casino was packed with deadheads for the whole weekend, and people kept doing the practical joke by going to the front desk and having Jerry Garcia paged on the intercom. That was a good laugh it’s so typical of dead head to humor
What an experience, LOVE, music, grilled cheeses, granola, patchouli and spinning Dead Heads. What’s amazing about these hippies, today many are just right off center.
Yeah this happened on tour this summer too…. This kid lost his dog at the last show but just kept going to shows instead of looking for his dog. I don’t get it man
Thats me on the train and art gallery talking about Jerry's artwork. We dosed so hard. Everyone in those scenes were high as a Kiiiite.. 😆 That is my homie who the crew followed all around. Been way too long.. lost touch.. This was a fabulous summmer.
The Dead changed my life. I never saw a bad show, but I saw some incredible shows. Most Dead Heads, like myself, were seasoned veterans of all different concerts and performers. However, I never saw people talking about an inexplicable type of magic they all experienced in a performance, unless they were talking about a Dead Show. Tripping or sober I was always swept up and taken on a surreal journey when I was in a Dead show.
"However, I never saw people talking about an inexplicable type of magic they all experienced in a performance, unless they were talking about a Dead Show." Jeff Beck Santana Eric Clapton 21st Century Doors (I'm sure if I'd ever heard them with Jim Morrison, that would've been a lot more magical, but alas, I never did.) Neil Young B.B. King Jefferson Airplane Bob Dylan Simon and Garfunkel ... Those are just a few of the OTHER producers of "an inexplicable type of magic" I've experienced. ESPECIALLY Jeff Beck and Santana. The magic is where you find it. ... Hell, even the friggin' Eagles managed to crank out a little inexplicable magic when I heard them live.
I've seen most of that list. I have to agree about the Door of the 21st century. I'm a big fan of The Cult, and I thought Ian Astbury did a fantastic job. You could tell he had a lot of respect for the music. Saw them at the LA county fair. What a night!
yes, with gov't issue cheese. Resourcefulness was a way of life for the DH's. But just as I thought that they were really special I watched a couple of Dh's rob a gas station by distracting the attendant with there little hippie chick and robbing the store of booze and some food. I wanted to kick their asses right there but what a waste of time that would have been.
A great description of the magic of Dead shows from Kesey near the end. Watching hours of mediocre music for those few moments of magic because those moments open up a crack in the reality and let all the possibilities in. You were always guaranteed a few of those moments in every Dead show. Jerrys spirit was so compelling the whole band and the whole scene just blossomed from it. Perhaps the seed was the acid and the cultural revolution but Jerry was the one who cultivated it better than anyone else. Ironically he didn't really relate to the scene or identify with it after the early 70's but knew enough to keep watering it. I was lucky enough to get to know the man in the late 80's and I miss him still. RIP Jerry.
You know Jerry did have (like all us ) a real personality. Seen him an the boys many a day. First show in 86 Dylan an the Dead , Anaheim. On till his passing into the spirit world. I would always keep him entertained .We. All had our spot in the crowd .mine was center stage left Ten or so yards out. So my gig was would be too stay kicking back sitting on the ground for the warm up an openers .An just take in all the energy an depending on the energy I'd slowly come growing an weaving hide an seeking. Growing to the best but real slow. It got to be a thing between us , Man He really got a kick out it . An it cheered him up good. Couple times. It always a good feeling be able to give back to what we receive. even if it's just a smile ,a nod of just being there.
@@doctorpatrickryann836 Well said friend. Saw that same show, best backup band Dylan ever had, imo. I've got many Jerry stories, perhaps someday I will share with enlightened souls like yourself. Peace
Interesting but nice philosophy of mediocre here: - an analogy could be like panning for gold - you gotta sift though some much 'stuff' before you get those nuggets. But WOW are they worth it.
I can't agree so much with hours of mediocre. I get the concept, but mediocre sells the rest of it short and the rest was mostly well above mediocre most of the time and were what led to the cracks in reality.
The lot scene got real old real for me real quick. The community and brother/sisterhood was all in the show. Here was my recipe for a happy show: Show up about an hour before the boys went on with tickets and all your own goodies(never cop in the lot!) Have a couple beers and then get your ass in the show Dance your ass off,sing your heart out ,share the love and try to have the time of your life After the show grab a burrito or grilled cheese,stroll shakedown a little while for something cool to buy and then go home Rinse and repeat!
I agree. too many people started going for the party. I stopped going to the shows in '93 cause it just got outta control. If you don't have a ticket, stay the fuck home
Not to be negative or anything, but you may have a plan in mind at a dead and company show, but your mind will be lost and now the plan is trying to find you ⚡️⚡️🤪
It was all full of love and peace because all the people were the SAME. SAME hardcore love of the Dead and their music, lifestyle, etc. But it was its own microcosm. And no one forced you to love and embrace the Dead lifestyle. You either “got it” or you didn’t. They didn’t petition anyone to make them specially protected, they didn’t parade through your town taunting others if they didn’t embrace it they were awful people. They didn’t set up offices on campus to recruit more Dead Heads. They just peacefully vibed to their own. What a concept!
17:00 My first experience exactly. It was on after that first show (Sandstone Bonner Springs Kansas 90'). That night (and Soldier Field 92') changed my life forever. My crew was in for the music more than the lot in the beginning. Things changed around 94' and hopped on Phish tour. That was the begging of the end for me. The lot, the road, tours, and most of all, the drugs set in. After many years of hell I am back on top. Found recovery and skydiving and haven't looked back. This brought back some amazing feelings and memory. If I could go back I would not change a thing. The GD and the family showed me love and life. I unfortunately fell into the dark side of the lot but that is on me and I would not be this me today without it. BLUE SKY'S Family
I'm a young Gen X, so I only got to 2 shows when I was 18. One in fall 94 and one in summer 95 before Jerry passed. So I got to experience it firsthand luckily, but not to the extent I would have liked, although I have made it to about 60 Phish shows. They were kinda my generation's Dead replacement. In some ways they didn't quite live up, like the parking lot scene, and in some ways they surpassed the Dead too. At least in my opinion. Such as their ability to intertwine songs in a set, or even over the course of many shows. They sorta took that to the next level. (I mean, starting a song at a show, and then finishing it a year later is pretty unique) But you definitely didn't get that same level of overwhelming kindness you saw at Dead shows. It was there in a Phish crowd, but not as pure. I guess because my generation didn't live through the 60s.
i was told to come and watch this as i just did a video discussing my journey with summers and going to GD concerts. nice to have this videoed during the time period. documentary is very accurate to my memories.
A movie about my family! Way cool! My Jim and I toured coast to coast. I hope there's a tour in heaven. Guarantee we'll be on it. Miss you my love. Grateful Dead was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It's home.
Born and raised in San Francisco California, I am 70 years old, I was raised next door to the Dead , my parents Wer’e Jerry Garcia friends, I had a great time , in California in the 60’s and 70’s
It's also hard to ignore these people were instrumental in turning the west into an authoritarian dystopian nightmare. Great art, but terrible destructive culture they helped to create.
Those were some real fun times. I was at most of those shows. I was drumming in that drum circle. We would drum for hours and hours right up until it was time to go inside. That Saturday night Rex benefit in Seattle was off the wall.
The best advice I've ever received from a deadhead: "if you're so high, that you think you can fly, step one fly up. if you can fly up, you're good to go if you want to jump off a roof or something"
When i lived in San Antonio a good friend of mine was pulled over and searched after smelling like marijuana. This was in 1982. Since he had just over an ounce and a small crappy scale you know the kind u get to clip onto a baggie to check your weight not a professional type a dealer would have. He did a year in Huntsville prison. When he came home i didn't recognize him. He had these small circular burns all over his arms, legs, and other areas. He explained that shortly after entering jail, the people in his pod or whatever they are called each took a cigarette, said their name or nickname and put the cigarette out on his body wherever they chose. to cry out in pain got you punched and wasn't the right thing to do. Anyway, this mellow fun loving guy whom never hurt an ant had nightmares, started drinking heavily and a few years after i moved away, i heard he was killed during a robbery gone bad he had hooked up with some people he met while in prison. Way to go drug laws! Today I'm retired and in my 60's. My youngest daughter can't understand why i still have paranoia even though in Maine marijuana is legal now. I used to start shaking when i saw blue lights behind me if i had a small amount of weed. Such hypocrisy! Even the people at the top knew marijuana was not this evil sinful drug. Another wasted life due to laws being bullshit. RIP brother Leroy. MT
@Mardas thomas, C'mon man! Seriously, they sent your buddy to Huntsville for an ounce of weed & a postal scale, are you sure? Even back in '82 by some crazy chance he was sent to (HV). There's NO way in Hell he did his bit in (HV) "Walls Unit?" Sorry about his luck I'm just saying... +Peace & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul+
@@216Numbskull It was a fed prison. Maybe it wasn't Huntsville. Are there other fed prisons in Texas? It was 40 years ago. I guess my memory has faded. The cigarette burns on his body will never fade from my memory. I'm just bewildered by the hypocrisy of our laws. Doctors literally threw opiates at patients for just about any reason for decades and now unless your arm is being cut off you can't even get more than a tylenol when you are in severe pain. It's inhumane. I know, I had 6 teeth pulled in one setting, severe pain for two days. I was given advil. Had to go to the street for my meds lol. MT
I believe your friend's tragic experience in federal prison. You also saw evidence of the torture inflicted on him by other inmates. After retiring after 30 years in NY State prisons I witnessed abuse that most free people would simply find unbelievable. You can become prey to those who won't hesitate to make your life miserable. He had PTSD.
The EDM scene is the closest thang we got in the modern day. I’ll always cherish my Denver festi era-/ slinkin thru urban communes bro- dropping lsd and just free lovin at Bassnectar shows
Besides the military …. ( I never served)this is the only way for me to experience the people from all over the country and every walk of life at one place at one time… I learned that we aren’t that different from coast to coast and every state in between. I always felt that “I” walked into a show but “WE” walked out. God bless the Deadheads… wherever they are! ✌🏻
Memories Man! I noticed very few scenes like this left. My own kids live in a world where you socialize with the same clique. It's hard to be free and just go on a journey to meet cool people.
I felt a lot of love through this documentary, via media this is just about as close as you can get to how it was, besides being there or meeting some old timers who were part of the scene. Where have all the people gone my honey?
Wow, I'm so glad I came across this. I lived in Vancouver, Canada, in 1994, and we went to the show in Eugene, Oregon. I still have stories about that experience to this day. I was transported back to that time, and out of all the concerts I've been to, this phenomenon was on a whole different level. INCREDIBLE.
You can thank the media for once again drawing too much attention to what was a beautiful, fragile scene. What happened to the Grateful Dead is reminiscent of what happened to the Haight Ashbury. Too many came that weren't properly initiated. It was like a pitcher of kool aid where you keep adding sugar until its barely drinkable anymore. I don't blame those who wanted to tap into some of the magic, but it just got out of hand.
People miss the message behind the message. Once people were loving, today not so much. True hippie culture is unattainable for most smh sad but true💆🏽❤️
Interesting documentary, thank you for posting. I think it does misrepresent a few key demographics of the Deadheads. It kind of misses the significant "high achieving/college and graduate school educated crowd" in favor of the parking lot vendors and campers and "bus gypsies" and "tour heads". Although a few people discuss the issue, It also seems to downplay the heavy hard drug problems (mostly coke and especially black tar heroin along with MDMA and other assorted club drugs) that sprung up among many young Deadheads in the late 80's and 90's. When I first started following the Dead in the early 80's, the Band may have been all doped up but the crowd was mostly tripping & stoned--seeing powders or other hard drugs among the crowd back then was very rare. By 1990, that had all changed. RIP Jerry Garcia & The Grateful Dead.
One of my favorite things about following The Dead was the road trips driving my VW karman Ghia & buddies in their bus & bug outdoor cooking, running into friends in huge crowds.The music was the main purpose but so much more came with it,the whole experience..
I feel that I have been chasing this lifestyle and the reality is that it doesn't exist anymore. I was born in the wrong time and it has brought me great displeasure and depression.
My best show was wen I was sober. I had a fisher price bubble machine and walked and went where ever I wanted. I was a blast. Anyone that went to the Vegas shows would remember me. The Bubble man
Made me sad/happy missing friends that are gone, reliving experiances that you can't explain and made my life so much sweeter. God Bless everyone we made this experience happen together.
OMG! I was there! When I was 14 I went to that GD show in Seattle. I never got tickets, just hung out with my brother & all the hippies outside. I had edibles for the first time, it was a "ganja rice crispy treat". That was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced, everyone was cool & really friendly! We stayed there all day meeting all kinds of people & smoking bowls with everyone. I bought a pair of "Bob's 420 Hemp Gear" jeans made of hemp from a deadhead. They had a secret hidden stash pocket & my friends would always borrow them so they could seek bud or whatever into concerts & other places that pat you down or check your bags. ✌
Thanks for posting this. Such a fine time to be alive and young! So grateful I got to experience so many truly beautiful people and shows at Deer Creek. The camping scene was absolutely amazing. I'll never forget being blissed out and wandering around Riverbend and sharing my goodies with my brothers and sisters. My friend meeting this dude and hitting it off famously. He invited us to a "rainbow gathering". Very hush hush kinda thing. About 20 min after the best acid I ever had kicked in, a whopper of a thunderstorm moved in. So naturally I climbed a tree and revelled in the power of mother nature while about 50 of my best friends danced and played and sang in the rain. It was sad to see the scene deteriorate like it did. I remember thinking in 93 that it was getting a bit weird. Enjoyed the shows in 94 but knew they were my last. Some shady shit in the lot and Jerry was clearly not well. There was enough magic left when I saw them live to change my life for the better!
Climbing a tree when bolts of Million-Volt electricity were locating their Earthing-Points, eh? O. M. G. Didn't Mom tell you to NOT shelter under ANY tree in a thunderstorm ? Well please tell it to your brood cos 'shit happens'. Nice story btw✌️
Hahaha @ 12:38 did the cops just get challenged by an electric guitar, and then get defeated by furious dance battling hippies? Goddamn I love the Dead
#2 In the early 80's I could see the love and community. People made their own newspapers, hand designed tour shirts sold on a blanket, hand made things. People seemed to care about one another. By the time the balloons came around I could see it all falling apart. Fights, people getting robbed. Not so much caring. Super fkd up scenes. Not the family I remembered from the hippies I new as a kid who taught me to be a caring person. Saw my last Dead show in 1991.
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My grandfather is in this at 1:03:33, he's the one in the middle. He passed away this morning. He was my best friend and more of a dad to me than my own was. I wouldn't still be alive without him. I always come back to see how different he looked, I love you papa ♡
Sorry for your loss
rest in peace
I'm sorry for your loss..I will look.. nothing like a dead parking lot
May he rest in peace
Wait.... that’s MY grandfather. Are we cousins?
As an African American I was invited to there final show in Irvine, California in 1989, I personally had never been treated any better, that would include church.
They got banned from Irvine that year
Would have been better had they invited you because they liked you, not because of your race.
Oh yeah, I guess you just hadn’t heard that everyone in the entire world is racist against black people except for attendants of Grateful Dead shows, I mean duh everyone knows that 🙄
They did. Your just racist
Hope you attended more at a different location.
From the time I was born in 1980 till 94 I was raised on Dead Tour. My mom home schooled me during this time. We went from coast to coast so many times that I can't count. I am really not sure how many shows I have been to... Maybe 300 before Jerry Passed, maybe more. All I know is that if I had the choice I would have chosen the same path. My mother passed about a month ago. Thanks to her and my GDF I've had more love and life experiences then most. GDF for life!!
Is there anything like it nowadays?
@@marcc16 Phish tour
@@radagastbrown9001 mostly only the same as a superficial party tour. not he same as "family" tour
@@marcc16not anymore
@@marcc16 there is nothing even close
Ahh the early 90’s. Very good times. Rock counterculture was thriving. Grunge, alternative, retro rock, jam bands, classic rockers. It was a great time.
So cool to see my old friends. Alot no longer around. Thank god I hopped on the bus. Some things worked out,some didnt. Im just so grateful to have lived during the Dead era.
When I'm down,I smoke a bowl and watch this...this was a special time
I am here looking for My mom all the time... She’s passed on, but she followed the dead all through her preteen-teen and early adulthood. She passed away when I was 18 after being sick for many years. She was the biggest deadhead I’ve ever known. I watch these videos for hours on end, month after month in hopes to find even a glimpse of her.. Dawn Renee Balbach, Long Beach, CA - Fare thee well, NFA Mama Bear.
Come to a show. Maybe you can connect with her.
@@noone4474 where is there a show!??
You will find her keep looking!
You honor your beautiful Mama and this community. Thank you for expressing yourself so authentically. I live in Long Beach and wanted to send you some Love&Light
I hope you find her in pictures and in spirit. Bless you both!
I am the girl playing harmonica while they show jerry Garcia's art exhibition in Seattle and in front of the blue wall...I was 16 yrs old. What a blast! At 8:30 with Sundance on guitar. And I am at 1:08:24 too with my long lost friend Sundance...where are you?😊ps are music is also playing in the background at 1:10:49 guitar and harmonica........PS ...I am looking for my friend SUNDANCE!!! He was playing guitar with me. Has anyone seen him or know where SUNDANCE is! Hi Sundance luv and miss you!❤😂😊 You can see him real good at 1:08:24🎉❤
It's my birthday on june 30th...it is the 30th anniversary of this time and movie I lived at age 16...wow what and adventure! I do miss everyone and this freedom which is not lost or forgotten!
@@angelinagargano3940 happy belated birthday, honey!🎉🎉
@rudolfforever thanks have a great week and big blessings 🙌
You are a badass harmonica player❤!! Much love!!
That's me tripping balls @1:15:26. Wow! I've been looking for this video forever, but didn't know the name of it. It was on HBO one night, but I missed getting the name of it. One of the best times I've ever had. Thanks for uploading!
That’s quite the mullet sir. Big ups🤙🏼
Holy 1980’s hairdo Batman! 😂
Good mullet
😂more happy trips to you, bro🤙
Big shout out to Rock-Med, who bailed me out of a big jam 1st night of CalExpo on this tour. I spilled a vial on myself and went DEEP space. They took me in and kept ground control for me all night until I came to enough to find my way back to the Freebird Express. Instead of broke and in jail for maybe 5-10, I had every dollar I started out with and got to finish the west coast leg of the tour. I'll never forget that shit. Forever grateful.
Woah a vile? Bet that was a trip! Please tell.....lol
Dude what how many people have gotten placebo highs from acid I've met a lot of people that have gotten acid spilled on them and gotten high asf but I've spilled a ten strip on my arm and didn't feel shit because I looked it up and found out acid doesn't absorb in skin
Oh my god!
Funny story, I had bought a sheet years back, and as I was telling my friend the game plan in case we got pulled over, he held up his hand and said "dude, if that happens, just hand me the whole sheet and Ill see you in a month!" haha.
LSD doesn’t absorb through your skin. I’ve spilled that stuff on myself tons of times and nothing happens unless you ingest it.
@@I_do.not_fearyou he probably didn't wash it off right away and then touched his face or rubbed his eyes etc etc..
I learned with Deadheads that I was not a piece of shit that instead I was loved dearly by my creator and I learned it was safe to fall in love with myself because loving myself and loving creator is special and sacred..after living many years in traumatic suffering and even hating my name it all ended and my journey of love truth compassion and ever evolving forward has continued since those experiences and I'm truly grateful for all of it 🌞
Getting into the Grateful Dead and the whole scene around them was the greatest thing that could've happened to me and I'm beyond thankful for the wonderful experiences,the music and for the people. Changed my life for the better. : )
🎉
you mean beyond grateful*
Some of the greatest memories of my youth seeing the Dead and the parking lot scene-cannot be duplicated-I mean where else can you buy a t-shirt a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of milk a bag of kush and join in on a bongo session with Deadheads and hot girls plus seeing lots of cool dogs and awesome people and art and trinkets and guys selling anything and everything-man I miss those days they will never happen again a stitch in time!!A totally unique experience every time-Shakedown Street all the way!!
"kush"
79steelymatt Phish
So what destroyed it? Multi culture?
this here is the truth.
Nelson’s ledges, in Ohio. Closest thing you’ll get. Classic fest for the zeppelin and Pink Floyd cover bands
The last great American circus, and I was a part of it.
love the kid "Ive got friends on tour, wanna meet a couple?" cuts to fast Eddie .... classic !!
Yup ,I said the same 😂
Wow this is a journey back in time, I was at Watkins Glen in 1973. It was was a 3 day outdoor Concert. There was around 600,000 people of all ages. The Concert had 3 Performers, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Band.
6 of us from HS hitched hike up to this Outdoor Concert.
I still meet that went to this Concert, that’s 50 years ago.
I love live Music, but the shame is that kids today have to pay a small fortune for tickets. Seeing The Rolling Stones in 1975 at MSG, it was a 6 night Tour in NYC. But the best part was was that tickets were $12.50 for a seat in the Red Section of the Garden. Anyone who knows the Garden, those are great seats.
NYC back then had some many Amazing Venues. To just name a few, The Fillmore East, Academy of Music, The Beacon Theater, Avery Fisher Hall, Felt Forum, Radio City had David Bowie for 6 nights.
Personally I like the smaller Venues, the Felt Forum was great, all the seats were great.
I never followed The Dead, I guess life just got in the way …lol
But yeah everyone needs to try something new especially when they’re young. Because later on the job, mortgage, family, schools etc etc just happens.
Life is often too short and people need to enjoy as much as possible, otherwise I personally believe that people are just passing through life without taking a risk and going for it. But hey that’s just my 2 cents.
Thanks for sharing some good memories ☮️
I was lucky enough to experience this. I went to my only Dead show in Birmingham,AL about a month before Jerry passed. I consider myself grateful to have gone to the show, I remember the somber moment when people found out Jerry had passed and seeing my friends cry. The whole experience blew my mind. One of my earliest memories with my dad was riding down the road and asking him who was it I was listening to on the radio and him telling me it was The Grateful Dead. I think it may have been Ripple on the radio that day. He told me it was bluegrass music. If I could go back to one time in my life and experience it again it would be that time precisely.
@andrewshowlandWow I’m shocked the traditional south allowed that🫢 😎😎
This was the summer of 94. I hitchhiked from Denver to Breckenridge to hook up with my boys. We loaded up a blue 1973 VW Bus with a tank of N20 and headed for Seattle. Camping in Eugene was like a dream. The Disco Bus late night was surreal. Driving down the 101 camping on the beach, Walking through the Redwoods on acid, Rolling into Las Vegas at 2 am in the 120 degree heat and Winning 1800$ at the blackjack table when we were down to almost nothing was a miracle. I was 21 at the time and it was the best summer of my life. I have seen the vid so many times just so I can go back there. Oh how I wish I could go back there.
Im 50 now... I still travel to see music when I can, because seeing music in a different city than where you live just sounds better. Hearing it out of someone else's car sounds even better. This is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago.
Keep on Keepin on Freaks! #NFA
Vegas in '94 were my last shows. I flew over from Hawaii for them. I went up to the top of the stadium at one point when the show was going and looked over and saw that there were as many people still outside as there were inside....unsustainable was my first thought.....I will always treasure the years I went out on multi state tours selling tie dyes to get tickets and hotel rooms and to keep it going. The Grateful Dead were special and they changed my life for the better.
I was at those “3” shows! Had the best time! First time ever hearing dave matthews too! That crowd rocked the entire weekend!
Vermont 95' was my last show. Jerry wasn't feeling well. Very confusing..? Jerry had a teleprompter and couldn't get the lyrics, just playing the very minimum, if that..? Really struggling. Many didn't notice, but anyone who had been to many shows, knew it was bad.
I was still shocked when Jerry passed away after the tour. It made sense, health wise, but what was everyone going to do who lived for/on tour..?!
When this was made (after the 94' tour..?!) you can see how many were considering what they'd do if there was no more touring, when they themselves were going to stop touring, and all the other possibilities.
In 95', not too long after this, that's exactly what most Deadheads were thinking.
Great film documenting when everyone started being kicked out of the parking areas by 11pm, instead of camping in the lot for the show (sometimes 3-4 days in the same spot. That was great!).
Everyone tripping balls still! Just follow the car ahead of you, they're Deadheads so they're going in the right direction (hopefully, lol, and it usually worked out much better than expected!). Great times, still.
What a long, strange trip it's been. Indeed!👍💯⚡🎶⚡💜✌️
Too many folk to thank for the last 50 years of the Dead but to Ken Kesey, Bill Graham & most of all Robert Hunter, we owe an enormous sense of gratitude.
Let's all meet again in Terrapin - somewhere along the Time Coast...LOVE
Jerry Garcia's guitar speaks to the very depths of my soul. Those opening notes hit my heart like nothing else can. He sends me to places only his music can send me. It is quite remarkable the impact his music has on me. His music, for sure, is Home. Love you Jerry! 💖
I moved to Boulder Colorado a few years before COVID and that area feels like the most dense area of dead heads still around today with the Dead and Co., Phish and Umpreys McGee coming through regularly and seeing tattoos and bumper stickers of the Steal your face logo.
Thanks for sharing this great documentary! This was such a pivotal movement in American and world history right here.
@drummer is that still the case? Have you gone to Red Rock for any festivals?
I would like to thank the police and stadium crew , during the late 80's and early 90's for being so damn cool. You guys let us enjoy. Thanks again
Didnt really need cops at dead shows , everybody was into family like atmosphere, was more like peace and love and ppl were always ready to help each other, j/s
I was born in san francisco and in 1968 I first saw part of the band at golden gate park. along with about 100 other bongo and drum playing long haired freaky girls and guys.. i was 13 years old. i was instantly hooked on the whole haight ashbury hippie culture.. It was starting to die off by then, but I lived it, for 4 years and I wouldnt have changed anything if I could.. I saw bands like the dead, the stones , hendrix, the list goes on and on.. today, when I talk to people abouth my experiences, they think I'm lying, but i'm not.. I truly miss those days.. doing the purest mind expanding lsd in the world.. It didnt ruin me, Today, I own my own business, my own home and now I live 3 min, from the beach in florida.. The last time I saw the dead was in washington dc in the mid 1980s.. couldnt find any decent herb, so I went to the concert and visited the deadfollowers in there portable citiy outside the gates.. Got some fantastic herb, a dose and a cute little dead head girl .. Oh those memories.. oh yeah also saw jerry and his merry bunch of players.. wow.. wow wow
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Ft. Lauderdale Culture Club
im moving to San Francisco. I'm going to revive that scene to what it was. Ir make something new.
Very cool. I wish I got to see all those bands in their prime. The golden age of rock and roll. The best time to be alive and going to concerts 1965 - 1985.
SpacedTime Hope you have lots of money. San Fran is one of the most expensive cities on the planet to live in now. The scene, lol, that ended over 40yrs. ago. Now you will meet people that "act" like your their best friend so they can use you to get high or rip you off. Just a heads up, a lot of junkies and STD's. Watch your back.
RIP Fast Eddie. I have heard so many beautiful stories about you. ❤
i made some stickers. sold em at Further and Friends. made over 600 in a weekend. fryed my balls off.
the epiphany I had was
"you should be thankful
for being able to be thankful"
could have made a living on tour being a mechanic on all of those vw's
My older sister kept telling me to grow up! That was 50 years ago! I STILL dig the Dead! I STILL wear my flowing skirts and tie-dyed scarf tops!
That is me with the kittens at 8:05, they filmed me at RFK Stadium.
thats pretty cool!
Sparky
TheSaferHouse awesome!
How are you now fam
I saw a couple of Parking Lot Scenes in Foxboro Mass. 88-89. What an experience. I loved meeting people from all over the Country. Especially the Vets. Made sure to buy some things from them. I still have and cherish some cassette case sleeves I bought from a disabled Vet. I look at them and I think of the Guy sitting on a Blue Tarp with all his stuff around Him. I talked with Him for about a half hour. God Bless Him. I hope He turned out ok. 🙏
Hippies always think they sound way deeper in their head when they speak, but it sounds so lame when they're interviewed.
"It" wasn't the band.. "It" was us.. all of us, in concert in and out of the venue. We were all so beautiful, together. How I loved it all, and still do.
I like the band.
I LOVE the band! The Grateful Dead! The Music
Will NEVER Stop!!!
Interesting documentary. Covered quite a few aspects of the scene and others it left out. The wonders of traveling, seeing places you've never been before. The serendipitous things that happened that really made one feel like everything was truly connected. All the folks there that were crazy. I'm talkin' bum on the sidewalk talkin' to himself crazy. Peaking on acid in the middle of the 2nd set listening to Stella Blue in some weird dream like trance. Taking a hit from a balloon and suddenly feeling on the same wave length as everybody in the lot. Living life without any concept of time other then don't miss the show. Sharing a doobie together with the poor and rich and nobody feeling out of place. Playing drums and dancing at a fevered tempo for hours and hours. Meeting people you would never get the chance to meet otherwise. Having a very spiritual or religious type of experience, a lot of that due to the Grateful Dead being the perfect music to listen to stoned on LSD. I don't think anybody mentioned Phil Lesh either in this doc, who is pretty much the coolest bass player ever. I thank my lucky stars those kids from Downey turned me on to the Grateful Dead. Biggest life changing moment I've ever had. Oh, and that punker that said if you didn't look the part you were exposed to being shunned. He was right on the money. How you looked and behaved on the scene was very important. Not to everybody, but to the majority. Which is why wearing a tie dye was an easy way of being more accepted in the community. People that think there is no ego in the counter culture are fooling themselves.
Dude, I really enjoyed reading your true rant. Awesome, hope you found your China Doll, believing you have always obtained a miracle wherever and whenever, it's warranted.
Nope, everyone was accepted, looks did not matter.
@@truthseek3017 Yes, everyone was accepted, but that didn't stop humans from being human if you know what I mean. ;)
@@mikeyj.3605 We can save the world and become one. Iodine calcifies the pineal gland. So iodized salt, seaweed/kelp, egg yolk, seafood and dairy should definitely be avoided. Coke and meat/vienna sausages work great to decalcify the pineal, also lead lol spread it to the good people. ☮☯️💓
People dress/wear their hair to conform to the society that they wish to fit into. And talk. This doesn't have to be superficial - but it can be. But it's really down to the kindnesses they do, and that's the only real proof that they are genuine.
I took my Dad to a Dead show at Irvine, and dosed him his first time.
He said, It was the best experience he had on this planet.
Young enough to not see Jerry, but I love the man. Been to a bunch of Dead and Co shows and it legit changed my life for the better. Will forever cherish these shows.
Honestly seeing these kinds of videos just breaks my heart knowing that I as a 26 year old will never be able to experience this. I can't begin to stress enough that the people in this video are MY KIND OF PEOPLE. And I can't seem to find too many people of this nature these days
Condescending scamming pricks? Honestly maybe 1 in 10 are the type you are talking about. There is a lot of hierarchal bullshit in that scene. Hippies are some of the snobbiest people I've ever met.
Its not Grateful Dead but I’m following Dead & Co on tour around the country right now, a lot of people are and they still have a lot scene. I’m 23 and I’ve seen them 25 times across the whole country. If you’re on the east coast they still got some more shows until July 16th
@@unclechucky420 I will look into it, thanks!
@@anthonytruman how are their shows? Obviously pretty good if you've seen them that much. But I'm midwest, hopefully they'll be playing at least within a state away soon
@@anthonytruman and hell yeah brother, I'm 27. Good to see someone around my age who's into the dead
So gr8ful my mom took me to my first show in 93, the summer I turned 13! Buckeye Lake Ohio, such a wonderful experience. We went to every show we could until Jerry passed away. The lot scene blew my mind!
I was there!!
@@scottauge8629me tooooo ❤😂
I miss these days, so very much. My first show was Buffalo, NY at 14, a kid from the mountains of Vermont…I and my friends stepped into the phenomenon, and I never left. Even when I was in the service, I never lost my love for the Grateful Dead & the people I met. Even if you drove days with no ticket, there was hope. “I need a miracle” and If no ticket, drop, wait & look for an entrance, often a weak security point, bad fence, etc if plan A & B didn’t work, plan C! Enjoy the show in the parking lot. An amazing time. The drive from show to show was apart of this entire journey too. A different time. One that I regularly look back on…Anyone remember when they’d do the fly over for the parking lot after the show? Truly amazing. I regret nothing, only that this just doesn’t exist anymore and that I couldn’t attend more shows than I had…but to be apart of this history, this experience…never to be replicated, I’m so very grateful! Musta been the roses…
If we could just do this again, everyday…together, away from all the BS of today. Unfortunately the powers to be wouldn’t allow this ever again. Not that The Dead could ever be replicated but man…I’d be willing to try! Now it’s “Burning Man” and EDM…smh. I never remember any “real” fights, skirmishes, sure but not life threatening events. Yes, there were some, a very few that exploited the scene…but Cmon. The dude the sleeps with a weapon?! Dudes strung way to tight. Drugs? Absolutely. But we all watched out for each other, not just our personal friends but everyone. With some common sense, speaking for myself & those that I traveled with, we knew enough to stay away from the hard stuff, no judgement just knew to know. Many of us were from families who were of the hippie culture, we had witnessed the effects of the “hard stuff”, so you dropped the bad and kept the overwhelming good stuff. Honestly, we usually had no issues with finding & bringing our own “stuff”…and most of anything I ever did get at a show was given. It was the nitrous dealers that made bank at shows. $3-5 a balloon as I remember, lol. Feeding & being fed by strangers, sharing, even picking up after the show…because it was the right thing to do, that’s what I remember, and the music. One story I remember to this day. On tour, many of us grew to know each other not by our birth names but by our given tour names. So you’d inevitably keep running into the many of the same folks. This one young couple had been pulled over on the way to a show in Ontario. During the stop, the officer apparently found a bottle full of an odorless, clear liquid, to which they informed the officer it was homeopathic water. The officer being a good company man turned the bottle upside down to place a little of the “water” on his finger to ensure it was not any type of “contraband”. Oops. According to the story…things took a “slight turn” for that officer. That water wasn’t water. Welcome to the show! And the couple were nearly 100 miles away by the time his ticket was punched…welcome to the show officer. It is true, shows changed as we hit the 90’s…again, you hold onto all the good memories and leave the bad. The reason many I knew went to shows was for the brother & sisterhood and of course the music, not the drugs. Awesome to see this, thank you for sharing this! Truly amazing to see this, a reminder of my own past, from so long ago.
this brings me so much joy, it aint hard to find, you just gotta poke around
Once in a while, you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right…
Can please get a, "Where are they now?" from all the people interviewed in this video haha
Travis Martin Protesting at Trump rallys in their wheelchairs living off my dime holding their hands out. The true DEPLORABLES! TRUMP baby.....WOO HOOOOOOOOO!
they were all dead by 2000
Travis Martin That first dudes baby is probably an Instagram model now :P
Travis -- I wasn't in this video but I started touring about a year after this was made, and I know some of the people in the video are still alive and doing very well!! I don't think people who weren't there - know what they missed out on :) This really can't relay how phenomenal the experience was... :)
I'm curious as to where the kid is that had a 131 IQ
Man, I felt this whole documentary. It's so true that long about 91 or a little earlier, things just went way downhill. I don't regret the years being on tour. Best years of my life.
I was done by '89. Too many scumbags.
Was done with touring and the whole scene by summer '91. Kept going to see the boys 10-15 times a year but I just came for the show and left. Was not interested in hanging out on lot. I met a lot of amazing people but some of them presenting as "kind brothers and sisters" or "family" were wolves in sheeps clothing. One of many life lessons I learned in my time on tour.
I went to my first Grateful Dead show when I was only 14 years old. Loved it! The parking lot scene is like a big party. I remember they had naked bungee jumping. The true Dead Heads are very inspirational and so cool. This experience changed my perception on life for the better. I've been a fan of the Dead ever since. I will be forever grateful for the music and how it has given so much joy.
So many comments asking what happened to these people. I was going to dead shows during this time period. I went home, went to school, worked, got married had a family, bought a house. I am in my 40's now. I am sure most of these people did the same. We all have to grow up sometime! The lot scene was getting bad towards the end which they hint at in here. I know some tried to tour with other bands for awhile but it wasn't sustainable.
One of the greatest days of my life was getting to experience a Grateful Dead show in 94 at the Shoreline. For that experience has forever been inbedid in my life.
The kids in this video say "9 to 5 sucks" yet they eat food provided by 9 to 5ers, they travel in cars made by 9 to 5ers on roads provided by 9 to 5ers, they wear clothes made by 9 to 5ers. Young people can say yeah do drugs, love and peace because they haven't grown up yet. Eventually they will grow wise to the lies and excuses and lack of taking responsibility for ones own actions and move on. They will get a job, raise a family and become contributors of society rather than users of society. To them I say enjoy your youth it only comes once!
Great memories. My first show was Ventura in '82. 2 days camping on the beach. Great crowd, good weather and great show(s).
14:22 "Hello my name's Turtle I'm from California... uh I like to smoke pot... a lot."
Knew that guy left me and my friends out in the Cold Rain and Snow
😂
That was my mom's friend haha
Hi Turtle...I remember hanging out with you! Peace and love...I am at 8:30😊
In hundreds of shows, I never saw a single fender bender after a show by people on acid.
Spherian7 you know what so true. In the Lot no, but I seen small wrecks miles down the road but nothing major
@WH ROBY Perhaps they thought it was the rhinoceros they knew, as experienced trippers, really couldn't be there.
@@BillBondsHasAPosse I wish I'd seen this sooner. At least they weren't trying to evade a rampaging dinosaur, alien abduction saucer, or the Vortex from Sigma 17
@Brendan McMahon Nice! At least we have the true knowledge.
I Always ended up driving . Was my thing
I’m really glad I got to see the grateful dead two or three times, and saw the Jerry Garcia Band play a half dozen times as well. Great music, not crazy about their long space jams,
I understood the parking lot scene, the one I remember most was in the parking lot when the Grateful Dead did the show Summer of 95 at an open air amphitheater in Reno. The nearby hotel casino was packed with deadheads for the whole weekend, and people kept doing the practical joke by going to the front desk and having Jerry Garcia paged on the intercom. That was a good laugh it’s so typical of dead head to humor
What an experience, LOVE, music, grilled cheeses, granola, patchouli and spinning Dead Heads. What’s amazing about these hippies, today many are just right off center.
The part where the hippie guy said he loved his dog, but left him at the rest area made me question if he knew what love really means
What is love? Baby don’t hurt me
I bet he wouldn't forget his DOPE at the rest area tho. Burnouts 😂
@@terryrollins1973 piss off dickwad Drink your beer and flouride and stfu
Yeah this happened on tour this summer too…. This kid lost his dog at the last show but just kept going to shows instead of looking for his dog. I don’t get it man
Fried their brains so much they forgot about real love and loyalty, not the artificial drug type.
These shows were such a blast. I only got to go to a few of them but I will never forget.
Thats me on the train and art gallery talking about Jerry's artwork. We dosed so hard. Everyone in those scenes were high as a Kiiiite.. 😆
That is my homie who the crew followed all around. Been way too long.. lost touch..
This was a fabulous summmer.
I've had some amazing times at Dead shows. Nothing else like them. Are Dead Heads weird? You betcha, and proud of it.
The Dead changed my life. I never saw a bad show, but I saw some incredible shows. Most Dead Heads, like myself, were seasoned veterans of all different concerts and performers. However, I never saw people talking about an inexplicable type of magic they all experienced in a performance, unless they were talking about a Dead Show. Tripping or sober I was always swept up and taken on a surreal journey when I was in a Dead show.
"However, I never saw people talking about an inexplicable type of magic they all experienced in a performance, unless they were talking about a Dead Show."
Jeff Beck
Santana
Eric Clapton
21st Century Doors (I'm sure if I'd ever heard them with Jim Morrison, that would've been a lot more magical, but alas, I never did.)
Neil Young
B.B. King
Jefferson Airplane
Bob Dylan
Simon and Garfunkel
... Those are just a few of the OTHER producers of "an inexplicable type of magic" I've experienced. ESPECIALLY Jeff Beck and Santana.
The magic is where you find it.
... Hell, even the friggin' Eagles managed to crank out a little inexplicable magic when I heard them live.
Well said, man.
I've seen most of that list. I have to agree about the Door of the 21st century. I'm a big fan of The Cult, and I thought Ian Astbury did a fantastic job. You could tell he had a lot of respect for the music. Saw them at the LA county fair. What a night!
GengoNoTabi well cause u just eat whatever is given
The Mermen will spin you around as well!
This was so fire!! Why am I just now seeing this!! ‼️🔥 great job to the director and producers
Selling grilled cheeses. Beautiful.
yes!! get your grilled cheese!!
what the fuck it's only a buck !!
SaveThePlanetHealYourself Amazing
not bad, but I'd hold out for the kind veggie burritos ;)
yes, with gov't issue cheese. Resourcefulness was a way of life for the DH's. But just as I thought that they were really special I watched a couple of Dh's rob a gas station by distracting the attendant with there little hippie chick and robbing the store of booze and some food. I wanted to kick their asses right there but what a waste of time that would have been.
A great description of the magic of Dead shows from Kesey near the end. Watching hours of mediocre music for those few moments of magic because those moments open up a crack in the reality and let all the possibilities in. You were always guaranteed a few of those moments in every Dead show.
Jerrys spirit was so compelling the whole band and the whole scene just blossomed from it. Perhaps the seed was the acid and the cultural revolution but Jerry was the one who cultivated it better than anyone else. Ironically he didn't really relate to the scene or identify with it after the early 70's but knew enough to keep watering it. I was lucky enough to get to know the man in the late 80's and I miss him still. RIP Jerry.
You know Jerry did have (like all us ) a real personality. Seen him an the boys many a day. First show in 86 Dylan an the Dead , Anaheim. On till his passing into the spirit world.
I would always keep him entertained .We. All had our spot in the crowd .mine was center stage left Ten or so yards out. So my gig was would be too stay kicking back sitting on the ground for the warm up an openers .An just take in all the energy an depending on the energy I'd slowly come growing an weaving hide an seeking. Growing to the best but real slow. It got to be a thing between us , Man He really got a kick out it . An it cheered him up good. Couple times.
It always a good feeling be able to give back to what we receive. even if it's just a smile ,a nod of just being there.
@@doctorpatrickryann836 Well said friend. Saw that same show, best backup band Dylan ever had, imo. I've got many Jerry stories, perhaps someday I will share with enlightened souls like yourself. Peace
Interesting but nice philosophy of mediocre here: - an analogy could be like panning for gold - you gotta sift though some much 'stuff' before you get those nuggets. But WOW are they worth it.
I can't agree so much with hours of mediocre. I get the concept, but mediocre sells the rest of it short and the rest was mostly well above mediocre most of the time and were what led to the cracks in reality.
@@photoslum Can you translate that for us slightly stoopid ones?
The lot scene got real old real for me real quick. The community and brother/sisterhood was all in the show. Here was my recipe for a happy show:
Show up about an hour before the boys went on with tickets and all your own goodies(never cop in the lot!)
Have a couple beers and then get your ass in the show
Dance your ass off,sing your heart out ,share the love and try to have the time of your life
After the show grab a burrito or grilled cheese,stroll shakedown a little while for something cool to buy and then go home
Rinse and repeat!
what a plan! I'll be sure to follow that guideline next time brother (sans the rinse mwhahah)
I agree. too many people started going for the party. I stopped going to the shows in '93 cause it just got outta control. If you don't have a ticket, stay the fuck home
Nearby hotel is so key
Not to be negative or anything, but you may have a plan in mind at a dead and company show, but your mind will be lost and now the plan is trying to find you ⚡️⚡️🤪
He is scared and is carrying a gun to have a mass murder?
It was all full of love and peace because all the people were the SAME. SAME hardcore love of the Dead and their music, lifestyle, etc. But it was its own microcosm. And no one forced you to love and embrace the Dead lifestyle. You either “got it” or you didn’t. They didn’t petition anyone to make them specially protected, they didn’t parade through your town taunting others if they didn’t embrace it they were awful people. They didn’t set up offices on campus to recruit more Dead Heads. They just peacefully vibed to their own. What a concept!
17:00 My first experience exactly. It was on after that first show (Sandstone Bonner Springs Kansas 90'). That night (and Soldier Field 92') changed my life forever. My crew was in for the music more than the lot in the beginning. Things changed around 94' and hopped on Phish tour. That was the begging of the end for me. The lot, the road, tours, and most of all, the drugs set in. After many years of hell I am back on top. Found recovery and skydiving and haven't looked back. This brought back some amazing feelings and memory. If I could go back I would not change a thing. The GD and the family showed me love and life. I unfortunately fell into the dark side of the lot but that is on me and I would not be this me today without it. BLUE SKY'S Family
35:46
I'm a young Gen X, so I only got to 2 shows when I was 18. One in fall 94 and one in summer 95 before Jerry passed. So I got to experience it firsthand luckily, but not to the extent I would have liked, although I have made it to about 60 Phish shows. They were kinda my generation's Dead replacement. In some ways they didn't quite live up, like the parking lot scene, and in some ways they surpassed the Dead too. At least in my opinion. Such as their ability to intertwine songs in a set, or even over the course of many shows. They sorta took that to the next level. (I mean, starting a song at a show, and then finishing it a year later is pretty unique)
But you definitely didn't get that same level of overwhelming kindness you saw at Dead shows. It was there in a Phish crowd, but not as pure. I guess because my generation didn't live through the 60s.
That drum circle in Washington under the bridge was the best drum circle I was ever a part of! Blessed.
That's me @1:15:26 the experience was a blast!
This was one of the most entertaining documentaries I've ever seen
i was told to come and watch this as i just did a video discussing my journey with summers and going to GD concerts. nice to have this videoed during the time period. documentary is very accurate to my memories.
These were some of the best times ever had. I sure do miss those days.
This video smells funny.
But it tastes like rainbows maaaan
A movie about my family! Way cool!
My Jim and I toured coast to coast. I hope there's a tour in heaven. Guarantee we'll be on it.
Miss you my love.
Grateful Dead was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
It's home.
Born and raised in San Francisco California, I am 70 years old, I was raised next door to the Dead , my parents Wer’e Jerry Garcia friends, I had a great time , in California in the 60’s and 70’s
Great video! Brought back alot of memories.
It's hard to ignore the incredible naivety of some of these kids, but at the same time I hope they were able to hold on to some of it.
Must be computer must serve masters beep bop
@@x-raymind7778
Must be a follower of non conformity must not conform beep bop
We were
It's also hard to ignore these people were instrumental in turning the west into an authoritarian dystopian nightmare.
Great art, but terrible destructive culture they helped to create.
They are loving folks what do you mean naive?
Those were some real fun times. I was at most of those shows. I was drumming in that drum circle. We would drum for hours and hours right up until it was time to go inside. That Saturday night Rex benefit in Seattle was off the wall.
The best advice I've ever received from a deadhead: "if you're so high, that you think you can fly, step one fly up. if you can fly up, you're good to go if you want to jump off a roof or something"
Turtle....I met him during the fall of '97 in Vermont and we shared some good times together..
When i lived in San Antonio a good friend of mine was pulled over and searched after smelling like marijuana. This was in 1982. Since he had just over an ounce and a small crappy scale you know the kind u get to clip onto a baggie to check your weight not a professional type a dealer would have. He did a year in Huntsville prison. When he came home i didn't recognize him. He had these small circular burns all over his arms, legs, and other areas. He explained that shortly after entering jail, the people in his pod or whatever they are called each took a cigarette, said their name or nickname and put the cigarette out on his body wherever they chose. to cry out in pain got you punched and wasn't the right thing to do. Anyway, this mellow fun loving guy whom never hurt an ant had nightmares, started drinking heavily and a few years after i moved away, i heard he was killed during a robbery gone bad he had hooked up with some people he met while in prison. Way to go drug laws! Today I'm retired and in my 60's. My youngest daughter can't understand why i still have paranoia even though in Maine marijuana is legal now. I used to start shaking when i saw blue lights behind me if i had a small amount of weed. Such hypocrisy! Even the people at the top knew marijuana was not this evil sinful drug. Another wasted life due to laws being bullshit. RIP brother Leroy. MT
It's legal here in Thailand now. All prisoners were set free.
@Mardas thomas, C'mon man! Seriously, they sent your buddy to Huntsville for an ounce of weed & a postal scale, are you sure? Even back in '82 by some crazy chance he was sent to (HV). There's NO way in Hell he did his bit in (HV) "Walls Unit?" Sorry about his luck I'm just saying... +Peace & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul+
@@216Numbskull It was a fed prison. Maybe it wasn't Huntsville. Are there other fed prisons in Texas? It was 40 years ago. I guess my memory has faded. The cigarette burns on his body will never fade from my memory. I'm just bewildered by the hypocrisy of our laws. Doctors literally threw opiates at patients for just about any reason for decades and now unless your arm is being cut off you can't even get more than a tylenol when you are in severe pain. It's inhumane. I know, I had 6 teeth pulled in one setting, severe pain for two days. I was given advil. Had to go to the street for my meds lol. MT
War on drugs still destroying lives. The laws have led to the fentanyl crisis and all the other horrible synthetic crap they push now.
I believe your friend's tragic experience in federal prison. You also saw evidence of the torture inflicted on him by other inmates. After retiring after 30 years in NY State prisons I witnessed abuse that most free people would simply find unbelievable. You can become prey to those who won't hesitate to make your life miserable. He had PTSD.
Been on the bus for 40 years! I miss this so much!! It’s not the same anymore!
Hoped you got off at the right stop.
The EDM scene is the closest thang we got in the modern day. I’ll always cherish my Denver festi era-/ slinkin thru urban communes bro- dropping lsd and just free lovin at Bassnectar shows
Besides the military ….
( I never served)this is the only way for me to experience the people from all over the country and every walk of life at one place at one time… I learned that we aren’t that different from coast to coast and every state in between. I always felt that “I” walked into a show but “WE” walked out. God bless the Deadheads… wherever they are! ✌🏻
Memories Man! I noticed very few scenes like this left. My own kids live in a world where you socialize with the same clique. It's hard to be free and just go on a journey to meet cool people.
I felt a lot of love through this documentary, via media this is just about as close as you can get to how it was, besides being there or meeting some old timers who were part of the scene. Where have all the people gone my honey?
Wow, I'm so glad I came across this. I lived in Vancouver, Canada, in 1994, and we went to the show in Eugene, Oregon. I still have stories about that experience to this day. I was transported back to that time, and out of all the concerts I've been to, this phenomenon was on a whole different level. INCREDIBLE.
Wow pure gold! Thanks for uploading
You can thank the media for once again drawing too much attention to what was a beautiful, fragile scene. What happened to the Grateful Dead is reminiscent of what happened to the Haight Ashbury. Too many came that weren't properly initiated. It was like a pitcher of kool aid where you keep adding sugar until its barely drinkable anymore. I don't blame those who wanted to tap into some of the magic, but it just got out of hand.
Funny you compare that to kool aid... lolol
TheTestingGrounds ⚡️♥️🎯
This still goes on with like 1000000 low key festivals throughout the US
I am so happy and grateful to have been a part of all this. 🎉❤
@BigHeartNoBS Nice I’ll love 💕 to hear your story in this
@@hemi5.7awdpursuit5I have many!!😂😂😂
I have many❤
Grateful Dead to have been a part of it?
Going to a Dead and Company show later today! Bob Weir is my favorite and most inspirational musician to me and I can't wait to see him as I trip ✌
I did 2 dead tours,92-93.Saw a lot of the country and met so many cool people and saw so many crazy things I could write a book
People miss the message behind the message. Once people were loving, today not so much. True hippie culture is unattainable for most smh sad but true💆🏽❤️
Interesting documentary, thank you for posting. I think it does misrepresent a few key demographics of the Deadheads. It kind of misses the significant "high achieving/college and graduate school educated crowd" in favor of the parking lot vendors and campers and "bus gypsies" and "tour heads". Although a few people discuss the issue, It also seems to downplay the heavy hard drug problems (mostly coke and especially black tar heroin along with MDMA and other assorted club drugs) that sprung up among many young Deadheads in the late 80's and 90's. When I first started following the Dead in the early 80's, the Band may have been all doped up but the crowd was mostly tripping & stoned--seeing powders or other hard drugs among the crowd back then was very rare. By 1990, that had all changed. RIP Jerry Garcia & The Grateful Dead.
That paramedic guy gave the most amazing visual. And that kids friend fast eddie.......hahhahahahah. Love so much of this. All of it.
One of my favorite things about following The Dead was the road trips driving my VW karman Ghia & buddies in their bus & bug outdoor cooking, running into friends in huge crowds.The music was the main purpose but so much more came with it,the whole experience..
Jerry Garcia is such a unique artist that he is still inspiring more and more people everyday despite having been gone for almost 30 years like wow
Great 🍨
I feel that I have been chasing this lifestyle and the reality is that it doesn't exist anymore. I was born in the wrong time and it has brought me great displeasure and depression.
Shut up
Hahahahah
Awwww man it’s out here, your vibe attracts your tribe.
Stop chasing and start living buddy
people died in prison for a dime bag back then... in 2019 you can walk into stores in CA and leave with your hash
In case anyone is wondering, this documentary film was released in 1995. So, as of today, 2017, this film is 22-years-old.
My best show was wen I was sober. I had a fisher price bubble machine and walked and went where ever I wanted. I was a blast. Anyone that went to the Vegas shows would remember me. The Bubble man
Made me sad/happy missing friends that are gone, reliving experiances that you can't explain and made my life so much sweeter. God Bless everyone we made this experience happen together.
OMG! I was there! When I was 14 I went to that GD show in Seattle. I never got tickets, just hung out with my brother & all the hippies outside. I had edibles for the first time, it was a "ganja rice crispy treat". That was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced, everyone was cool & really friendly! We stayed there all day meeting all kinds of people & smoking bowls with everyone. I bought a pair of "Bob's 420 Hemp Gear" jeans made of hemp from a deadhead. They had a secret hidden stash pocket & my friends would always borrow them so they could seek bud or whatever into concerts & other places that pat you down or check your bags. ✌
Don't the Police have 'sniffer' dogs where you go ? They literally smell-out the stash☹️
Thanks for posting this. Such a fine time to be alive and young! So grateful I got to experience so many truly beautiful people and shows at Deer Creek. The camping scene was absolutely amazing. I'll never forget being blissed out and wandering around Riverbend and sharing my goodies with my brothers and sisters. My friend meeting this dude and hitting it off famously. He invited us to a "rainbow gathering". Very hush hush kinda thing. About 20 min after the best acid I ever had kicked in, a whopper of a thunderstorm moved in. So naturally I climbed a tree and revelled in the power of mother nature while about 50 of my best friends danced and played and sang in the rain. It was sad to see the scene deteriorate like it did. I remember thinking in 93 that it was getting a bit weird. Enjoyed the shows in 94 but knew they were my last. Some shady shit in the lot and Jerry was clearly not well. There was enough magic left when I saw them live to change my life for the better!
Climbing a tree when bolts of Million-Volt electricity were locating their Earthing-Points, eh? O. M. G.
Didn't Mom tell you to NOT shelter under ANY tree in a thunderstorm ? Well please tell it to your brood cos 'shit happens'.
Nice story btw✌️
Great
Thank you for uploading!!!!
Hahaha @ 12:38 did the cops just get challenged by an electric guitar, and then get defeated by furious dance battling hippies? Goddamn I love the Dead
#2 In the early 80's I could see the love and community. People made their own newspapers, hand designed tour shirts sold on a blanket, hand made things. People seemed to care about one another. By the time the balloons came around I could see it all falling apart. Fights, people getting robbed. Not so much caring. Super fkd up scenes. Not the family I remembered from the hippies I new as a kid who taught me to be a caring person. Saw my last Dead show in 1991.