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July 4, 2007 - 8:16am

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marye

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Gather here and tell us your stories! And thanks to TigerLilly for the suggestion!

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July 11, 2007 - 5:46am

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TigerLilly

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IoW Fest

Nope-didn't make the original, was just a baby, and on the wrong continent :-). Have only seen a documentary about it.But you are right, show from this year looked pretty corporate and tame, despite some interesting bands. One singer-Amy Winehouse caught my attention with her great voice! Such a skinny person, and such a big voice! Gave me a good laugh to watch all those young kids watching Country Joe, and looking very blankly at Donovan. If I remember right, they both WERE at the original fest.
July 11, 2007 - 5:13am

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cliffl

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Dead heads in England

I see if I can track em down. Yep fests are getting more organised, but losing the nice laidback hippiness feeling. I have not been to Glastenbury for a few years but watching it the box its all very yuppy and corporate now. As to weather its been awful for ages now so I'm expecting the wellies to come out from the shed. Still looking forward to it no end, switch off from work and TV and all that stuff. Did you get to the origanal IoW fest that had some excellent bands on, missed that as well. Born at the wrong time I guess although having topped 50 it seems I should have done more.
July 11, 2007 - 3:53am

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TigerLilly

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Deadheads in England

Sure there are a couple here, have seen posts from British guys here and there! Is one guy posting under "Howard" if I remember correctly. Watched footage on t.v. last night from Isle of Wight (sp?) festival 2007, which looked like were some fun bands there, and also alot more DRY and organized than the original fest.
July 11, 2007 - 3:07am

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cliffl

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No Deadheads in Jolly Old England then!

I know I'm probably the only one in Beccles, Suffolk but are there any deadheads out there in the rest of this green and pleasant land. Never got to see the dead live so I'm extremely jeolous of all those who did (thats everyone writing here it seems). I play the albums, read the books, and read your experiances to fill the void. At least I've converted the family, took awhile before Gill my wife would listen, then said "I thought they were heavy metal or something with that name" oh! well got there in the end. Spent the 70s and 80s seeing lots of gigs cant remember most of em so they must have been good at the time. I got the hang of it after a while and if poss got tickets 2 nights running. The first to watch and enjoy sensibly the second to get off my face and really enjoy. Now with a family I go to nice gigs/festivals We are off to Latitude Fest down the road to us tomorrow. Should be good, poetry, theatre, and good music, Arcade Fire,Tinariwen etc. this year and fine beer as well. If anyone fancies listening to Radio 4 Loose ends, Sat night its live from the Fest. Take care all you fine folk, I'll let you how the fest goes when I get back. Cheers Cliff
July 9, 2007 - 4:04pm

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tommygutt

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france near lyon!

france near lyon!
July 9, 2007 - 1:37pm

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Viola Lee Guitars

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Hey all,I grew up just

Hey all, I grew up just south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and Redwood City. Now I live in France like Garcia44. Was living in Paris working as a cook, and now I've been travelling around South and Central America for a year with my wife. When we go back to France we'll be moving to the south to Toulouse, and in a couple years maybe move back to San Francisco, but like tigerlilly said you learn a lot about the states by leaving, but I've been to some great places and in my heart home sweet home will always be the San Francisco Bay. It is so nice to see this site finally up and running after waiting for sooo long. But just to let the heads in europe know, I did come across a European version of dead.net, but it seems pretty empty there. www.eurodead.net, now that we're here, we'll have to get the people on that site over here. Hand me my old guitar and pass the whiskey 'round. Matt
July 9, 2007 - 1:22pm

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Viola Lee Guitars

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Hand me my old guitar and

Hand me my old guitar and pass the whiskey 'round.Matt
July 9, 2007 - 7:32am

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JoeBurke

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from the other direction

good day everyone ... this is my first post on the new site ... it looks tres cool from here in rio nido, ca (north of SF) ...
July 9, 2007 - 7:17am

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Garcia44

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Maudits francais!

Merci beaucoup pour ton message! All Deadheads that want to speak french can send me messages!
July 9, 2007 - 7:02am

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TigerLilly

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Maudits francais!

LOL! Non, ce n'est pas possible que tu est teut seul la! Je connait un Deadhead Parisien. Et je suis beaucoup de temps en France- en Nancy, Paris, et Toulouse. Bon chance á trouver un autre ici!

John Perry Barlow

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CRB

Those Koko vids ARE the best. Amsterdam were good too. They might be the greatest band on the planet. Im waiting for the reels.

I was at the London show. It

I was at the London show. It was a fun Monday night ! Really great !

Dead show in Soviet Era Moscow???

Do you also believe in the Grateful Dead FBI conspiracy? LOL!

Soviet Era Moscow?

That was my first thought, also.!.. the FBI Conspiracy!! (LOL).. i don't think anything shows up on the Bands'passports.??

Hi all I am from Istria (Croatia)

Hi all I have been around some for time and listening to the GD for more than 10 years and just now I have realized that I am still not a member of this Forum ... well hi everyone! : )

good things

Hope many things are good in mu country!

Hello freinds! We are jam band from Serbia, we play mostly Grateful Dead songs.. There are also Bob Dylan, Allman Brothers Band, JJ Cale... This is our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Dead-Mondays-Grateful-Dead-Tribute-Band-from-S… and our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_asT_Vl62xrySpomjAuSQ Hope you like it! Greetings from Serbia! :)

Anybody from Europe want to go on Dead & Co tour in 2017?

I live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and am looking at going on tour this summer (2017),Anybody want to go and maybe share a rental car, van or RV? Let's go!

Dead & Company

Any Euroheads going to Dead & Company this summer? I will be at the Chicago shows June & July. Maybe we can meet up.

EireHead

Any Irish on here?

Belgian

Looking for Belgium people :)

Frenchforum if you want

Frenchforum if you want http://gratefuldead.forumactif.com/

Radio Free Serbia

Given my own lack of innate musical talent, or sufficient discipline to acquire playing skills, I always admire - but don't often listen very long to - amateur cover bands. However, DHSerbia, having just completed your entire 6/12/16 set on utube, I'm tremendously impressed. Your collective musicianship, communication, and emotional conncetion with the music warrant a greater, or louder, audience than the 4 people who audibly applauded. In particular, let me say that I kept waiting for familiar instrumental landmarks to "Cocaine", but got none. That intro is fantastic, but led me to believe that the setlist described below the video must be incorrect. Still, when the vocalist sang the all-too-familiar, "If you want go out...", I realized the band was putting it's own imprimatur on the classic by infusing it with a slower, bluesier feel across a broader instrumental palette. Well done! Were you stateside and local, I'd be a groupie. Perhaps when back in Holland later this year I can plan a trip to the (other) BBC!/peace, Katherine

Can you name the Grateful Dead songs by their lyrics?

I found a cool game guyswhat is your score? http://quizforfan.com/can-you-name-the-grateful-dead-songs-by-their-lyr…

Anyone in the south of

Anyone in the south of Bulgaria and fancies a visit drop me a line. I live in the province of Varna and it's great in summer, Cheers

deadheads in Austria

Hey now, I am an american head looking for others in Austria. Are there any meetups or places for heads in Austria or Vienna? Any Jam Bands or the like? thanks, deadnik

A music lover with technical inclination

Hi I am a music lover and a hobbyist guitarist. I am always in search of music which I have not listened to. Being from a technical background I am always trying how I can mingle my technical knowledge of programming and music.Looking forward to have a great time here.

re deadheads in Austria

Deadnik , there are some heads here in Austria , you will meet some at local summer festivals called " Lovely Days " in Eisenstadt and " ClamRock " at Brurg Clam. You will see some at concerts of Gov`t Mule , Warren Haynes ( as he is the only Dead related musician who plays most every year here in Austria ). Another fine scene is the " Arena " in Vienna.Unfortunately there are no Gatherings here ---- Austrian Heads are the one to grow their collections at home and play them to their friends... cheers , Erik

Non non je suis là ;)

Deadheads from Germany

hello... first time poster here! my question, sind hier deadheads aus deutschland? (are deadheads from germany here? have a nice evening ph.

Deadheads of Russia - Saint-Petersburg

Hello . l listen to the Dead for more then decade) Also play bass https://youtu.be/9pnqIdQk7bI

bara försöker att passa på

Hey now! Im a US Expat living in Umeå, Sweden soon moving to Stockholm(Skarpnäck). The Dead are the most constant musical element throughout my soon to be 40 years upon the 3rd stone, I am Warf Rat and completely so, a recovered alcoholic but I dont judge and like to take an alcohol free ale. Hit me up on the off chance you see this are in Stockholm/Norrland are kind want to share gd dates or even pass some flacs = l Also into kraut, underground garagepsych, ambient, new age, stoner doom, post musics, cosmic synth, drone minimalism... Lee flueretapes@gmail.com 0725182220

re GratefulFrum

no , don`t think so ; ich bin der einzige österreichisch head hier , aber lass dich nicht davon abhalten , ist nett hier , gibt viele gute Infos und auch gute tips .....

France

People who love the Grateful Dead in France (Les gens qui aiment Grateful Dead en France)...you don't need to be Deadheads or wear a uniform (pas nécessaire d'être Deadhead ou de porter un uniforme)...Who are you? Where are you? (Qui êtes vous? Ou êtes vous?)..."We are everywhere", maybe, but I sure don't bump into many of you just strolling around (On a beau dire "Nous sommes partout", mais je ne vous croise pas sur mon chemin)...

those london gigs

We have shared the same road, Eliseu. See you at the Jubilee...

european deadhead in USA

first saw the dead in 1970 at Hollywood festival with Pig :)

France....

well, i`m lucky here in Austria - a good friend of mine is a Head too, we do usually warch the Dead and Company gigs via nugs.net together , staying up till the morning sun comes , chatting and smoking through the night and dreaming the dream of flying over to the States ( maybe next summer tour finally ).....

Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Canadian dedhed

Kitchener memorial auditorium Canadian best place 2 hear best musician who ever lived Netherlands Germany Chlie st Stephen estimated prophet Touch of Grey fire on the mountain uncle johns band casey Jones friend of the devil shakedown st syfisticated syfisticated fresh water fresh fish legal marjiuana lsd25 phine psychological PS4 psvita PlayStation rattlesnake78 caimanlizard7878 cya latter

Dead and Company coming to Europe?

Euroheads stand by the rumours are getting stronger about 8 Dead & Co dates in Europe after Lockn', starting in Amsterdam.

France

Hi! I live in France border to Germany and Switzerland close to Basel exactly.I was never at a dead show but I saw them on live TV (lol) at Rockpalast in Germany in 1981. Since then I'm a big fan of the Dead. I have a huge collection of CDs and DVDs of concerts, Books, first printing poster t-shirts. Now, I need a miracle and Dead & Co are welcome in Europe ...

France

re : Gr8tefulspace

welcome on board - it`s a nice place here though ther are not so many European heads here i suppose.Dead and Co coming to Europe this fall ? if they do i will travel from show to show. I am thankful for nugs.net - covering all them shows on TV , even the Bob and Phil solo shows....if you like to trade , pm me...... Erik ( Austria )

PETITION FOR DEAD&CO EUROPE FALL 18

how about startin a petition for them boys havin a few shows in good ole europe this fall as it is rumoured ( Relix et c. ) ?We need to tell them that there are enough Heads in Europe to fill a 10.000 seater in the betutiful cities of London, Paris, Amsterdam , Milano , Munich , Vienna , Prag.......

ITALY

helloin the late 80's i left for the states and saw gd in oakland.. ended up living in sf for a year and a half.. really miss those times while there i bought a 69 sg with bigsby b5 that looked exactly like the live dead one unfortunately is gone, i regret selling it every day no one knows the wereabout of that one sg ? greetings from italy h

Amsterdam Dead Heads

Hello From Buffalo NY! I hope you made it to the U.S. for 2016 tour! I am responding to your post because I will be visiting Amsterdam This Sept 2nd 2018. I am looking for fellow Amsterdam Dead heads to meet up with. Do you still live there? -McKenzie O'Malley Buffalo NY

Spain

Hello From Madrid

4 MAY 1972, PARIS, FRANCE

The atmosphere is hot tonight, boulevard des Italiens in Paris: the Grateful Dead will give its second concert in Paris, as part of its European tour. But if the atmosphere is electric in the streets, it is mainly because dozens of young people demonstrate and fight against the CRS to claim the free rock concerts.

The Olympia Room is a classic music hall, with its rows of tight seats against each other, and the balcony overlooking the stage - and where I'm sitting tonight. Really uncomfortable to dance. But the music, irresistible, seizes the body and, like many others, I spend a good part of the concert to gesticulate, standing, wedged between two chairs.

I dance like crazy on a Good Lovin 'furious. The musicians have no look, there is no stage play, nothing to do except Pig Pen, his hat, his look, his mouth. But after a while I do not listen anymore, I focus my attention on what the musicians do behind him. They weave wefts, they ornament, they open paths and then close them, they are discrete or roar, it seems endless, and the rhythm, always the rhythm that catches the body, makes them vibrate, the music that becomes colors, red sounds, mauve sounds, and it whirls, a real party for the head and the body.

So many songs played beautifully, tonight! From the first title of the concert, Greatest Story Ever Told (very energetic) to Chinatown Suffle, Playing In The Band (played, it seems to me, on a tempo a little slower than usual), Big Railroad Blues (where Jerry launches riffs as rarely) and so many others. Until that Dark Star, which I did not know and which appeared to me in all its magnificence, a waving and swirling sound wave. Never heard!

Graceful acrobats, subtle tightrope walkers, the musicians, fire in the veins, give, this May 4, 1972, a magnificent concert, not resembling anything I had listened to until today. Probably, one of the best concerts of one of the best tours of the Dead. For my part, one of the three biggest concerts I've attended in my life, and the biggest rock concert.

Paris 4th May 1972

Great review, Alain. This show is definitely one of the best, if not THE best, in the box set that came out a few years ago. I was fractionally too young to catch the band in 1972-but that was the time to see them. One of them..

Quality Grateful D inspired Jam Band desiring to play in Europe.

We are a Grateful Dead inspired Jam band looking for info to tour Europe. Please contact us at thejamcooperative@gmail.com. Our Facebook page is Cooper Pearce and The Jam Cooperative. We are not a broke wanna-be band. We have means and a desire to bring our brand of authentic quality Dead to Europe. Please contact us with any assistance or suggestions you may have. Thank you.

Germany - Ja

seit 2007

Deadheads in Spain

Any heads in Madrid ? I've been living here for 3 years and have yet to meet a fellow fan.. reach out if you want to sesh and listen to tapes this summer !

Athens, Greece

Hello from ol' Athens.

Deadheads in Europe

Hello from a Deadhead in Girona Spain

deadhead in europe

hi everyone!!
this is a deadhead in pamplona, north spain..
love and light for all of you!

Dead Heads in Europe

Hi everyone.
With a couple of friends we are planning a Dead party on saturday 8th of august somewhere in southern France. Any cool Dead Head could be welcome if around...

Belgian deadheads

Hi guys
I'm a belgian deadhead born after jerry died. Me and my girlfriend went to the states for half a year in search of the scene, and in search of the music. We were so surprised to see and feel how alive it was, one of the most beautiful moments of our lives! Saw a lot of shows that took me to that place, met the loveliest people and i'm so grateful to have experienced it. Now we're back in belgium for a while and i have literally never found one single other deadhead in belgium than the 2 of us. It's so weird not being able to talk or dance to, some grateful dead and jerry tunes.. so this way i'm trying to connect with people from belgium or even europe who are deadheads, i never met one in europe anyway, and i wanna play their music, the scene has to come to europe, europe needs it, and i just really miss it :)

much love to all of you beautiful souls