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Since the original topic now has hundreds of introductions and is getting a bit hard to navigate, this seems as good a time as any to launch a new one.
The original is here, should you wish to catch up on the who's who since this opened up in May.
If you haven't introduced yourself yet, please do! And if you already have, but have something new to tell us about you and your life, speak up!
(A bit of housekeeping business so we don't have to repost everything we posted before--izzie and I are the moderators here, and for our more extensive intros see the original topic.)
Thanks and welcome!
Bid you good morning...
Hi everybody, I'm new to the site and my name is Gus. I like music from the 60s and 70s mostly with a tiny bit of 80s. The 1960s is my favorite period though for its wonderful aura of brotherhood and its spectacular music.
it aint you gus
a rogue spammer posted after you lol welcome brother
Hey yall, longtime head new to south Jersey here....
Just wanted to see what was shakin' from the branches of this digital tree.. I'm dubbed LaughTear, which is a nickname that actually describes me quite well. Just pokin' around seeing what there is to be seen in this corner of the internet, holler at me if you feel like shootin' the shit or if you think we may have met at some point (or would like to) along the road.
Peace and blessings..
Hey yall, longtime head new to south Jersey here....
Just wanted to see what was shakin' from the branches of this digital tree.. I'm dubbed LaughTear, which is a nickname that actually describes me quite well. Just pokin' around seeing what there is to be seen in this corner of the internet, holler at me if you feel like shootin' the shit or if you think we may have met at some point (or would like to) along the road.
Peace and blessings..
my playlist
Just posted a short playlist for a blog I write for here: http://bareknucklewriters.com/2010/10/the-music-never-stopped/
Reason for posting this is not so much to pimp what I wrote and the playlist itself as it's nothing you haven't heard or read before.
The reason I am posting this here, is that while thinking about my motivations for creating the list in the first place brought back a ton of terrific old memories. Going to the mailbox and seeing that magical package that contained those Maxell tapes. God, I love the Dead : ).
ScarletFire
Hi from N. Calif.
I hope all is well with all who take a glance this-a-way!
It's beautiful weather here, I can understand why so many musicians who made it to SF decided to hang around. I just wish I discovered it sooner! The City is fun but Sonoma and Mendocino are awesome. Micky & family lives out here and so do Tom W. and Charlie Musselwhite. Charlie is always playing around.
I'm Grateful Live today...should a moment later I be Dead...Grateful is the way to launch onward!
I'm Barney,
Peace
Hi, everyone. I've been a
Hi, everyone. I've been a Dead fan only for a couple years. Since summer of 08? I'm hoping to connect with other Dead Heads and make a couple friends. :]
Peace~!
Nothin' really
Hi everybody. Just a lurker here that wanted to say this site is awesome. So much info I love it. Been following the Dead since 87. Really enjoy the new incantations of what they are all doing now. Haven't got to see or hear any of this 7 walkers stuff yet hope Billy will make a trip to the midwest sometime soon. Looking forward to see Further at UIC. See you out there somewhere.Peace
Greatings fellow Heads
I Followed a couple links and ended up here in this beautiful place full of my kind of people. I'll go by cosmicdan, but you can call me anything that makes you smile. I saw every show I could from mid 70's on, (without traveling all over the world like some of you.) I have a collection of live tapes and disks that would make many of you serious collectors flash back to when you only had a little tiny fraction of what you have now. Oh well, I am a happy hippie anyway. Much love to all my brothers and sisters that hang around here, I hope to get to know many of you well.
Nice to meet everyone. I'm
Nice to meet everyone. I'm Myke, I'm 22 from Jersey. Got into the dead about abyeat ago and got hooked instantly. I play guitar and sing in a reggae band, work a lot and hang out with my beautiful girlfriend. I love the positive atmosphere I've seen here and the positivity through te deads music. It's great to meet you all, and Ill see you around.
Welcome everyone....
there is always room on the bus....group hug
Groovy being here, an to think we didn't know it existed ?
Well me and Michele have been Deadheads forever and a day....I think. I learned of and about the Dead in 1984, while Michele was jamming to the Dead around 1979. Unlike life the experience of the Dead and every show was like a rebirth and birth of our senses and spiritually explosive.
Grateful to be part of this
Hi all. I'm Mark and I found the Dead I Jr. High. I borrowed my buddies dads workings man dead tape and was hooked. I started going to shows in 93 or 94 and my love grew for the music and community. I'm married to a beautiful wife and we have two boys four and six. I can't wait to bring the kids to a show they love the music already.
Hello From Ontario Canada
Hello - glad to have found you - I got to see a few shows in the late '80s - very special - thankful for the experience - Hope to make some friends, and participate in the community.
Love the dancing - or loved it at any rate - don't get to dance so much these days...
-ducksy
J from Nebraska
That's right...Nebraska.My older brother brought The Grateful Dead home from his freshman year of college in 1985.
The very first time I heard St. Stephen off 'The Best Of..' that summer, I was toast.
Saw my first show at Alpine in July of 1989.
Saw my last show at the Silver Bowl in May of 1995.
Made it to roughly 60 shows during those blissful 6 years.
I miss Jerry...a lot.
Thanks for having me.
J
The Grateful Dead
What in the heck are you guys doing? Holding benefits for Obama.(In 2009) Ya lost me there. I mean really, Bobby, Phil, ya really lost me there. I can't figure out what you guys are doing. What in the world are you guys talking about. I don't even think you guys know what your doing. You guys obviously don't know what your doing. Ok Dark Star. Got that part. You guys let me down time and time again. You can bash me, go ahead. I'm used to it, You guys treat me pretty crappy when I used to go to shows and hang around you anyway. And I'm one of the people that used to put a bunch of energy into the shows. Its not even worth going to shows and putting any energy into it because why should I? I get treated like crap, by a bunch of people that don't know me and think they know better than me. After the Obama benefits, its like, wow, I don't really have anything in common with you guys anyway. So, I broke off from the mothership. Bye. Whew, well I feel better now, just like I always do for myself.As usual.
mothership
Wasn't the mothership George Clinton??Seems like you're taking the band a wee bit to personally DannyC.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Mothership
Thats really some sage hippy advice, I'm impressed by your wisdom.
Keeping it going.
Just trying to keep it friendly. December is a cold month here. January can possibly be even colder. Gotta still keep the weather in mind.
Saying Hi from Lancaster Pa.
Greetings Fellow travelers
Older then most here I think, 55 on Sept 11. Saw my first show in 71 at Franklin
& Marshall College here in Lancaster Pa. Saw the boys most years till the late 70s then took about 8 years off and started doing shows again in the mid 80s. 92 comes around and a son is born and my run with the band ends. It was one hell of a ride friends!!! Now with the internet and XM radio I get to listen to lots of great shows any time I want, what a great place to live!!! Any body want to chat, just shot me a line.
Namaste
Jeff
What to do with tape collection?
I'm not sure where I should be posting this and I couldn't figure out how to post a new topic anywhere so I'll give this a shot...
Name is John from Philadelphia. I inherited a large collection of tapes of the Grateful Dead. These belonged to a dedicated fan who's life unfortunately ended at a young age and his father has passed his collection on to me after years of storage in the basement. I have not had the opportunity to go through all of them yet but there's a little over 500 tapes ranging from the 60's to 90's... His father said he used to travel to concerts, record the events and later trade tapes... a bootlegger I suppose.
My question is what should I be doing with these? Besides storing them for another decade in my basement and occasionally popping a tape in my boom-box... I'd hate for them to deteriorate with time and become trash. Is it worth while dubbing these to MP3's for safekeeping? Or are there so many of these tapes around that I'd only be wasting my time?
Thank you all for any suggestions you may have
hey all
my names Kenny im 22 and sadly was only alive for a few years during the Dead's run. My biggest regret is that i will never get to hear the world's best live band actually play live.
My favorite period for the dead is 63 (mother mcree's) to 73 (pigpen's death). I only recently (in the last year) got into the dead and have tried to catch up quickly but there's obviously a vast amount of material to indulge in so here i am.
I'm also somewhat of a mediocre musician and my solo album can be found here : www.bandcamp.com/lennylenape . There is also an improvised version of Sugaree on there. I'm just here looking to meet fellow dead heads and allow the dead to consume my life haha.
Cheers
all long as they keep
all long as they keep singing our songs, the dead, the dead, the dead will live on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3nc1gyi6gw
the car in this video has steal your face painted all over it.
It is my car.
I want other dead heads to see it
:D
Danny C, day before Christmas wack-a-doo fa you!
Huhhh? WTF Danno? Obama is such a predominant factor in our mutual love for penulttimate jam band music that you have to feel ultimately violated and hated because we had such a stark choice for president last year?
C''mere you big ole' dancing bear! Quinn the Eskimo's right behind uf and everybody's gonna wanna dose!
I was always sick of the politics but I'm glad I didn't let it define me!
Santa and the psychedelic mushrooms are playings at Harvard in Cambridge Square in Boston. You better not not shout , you better not pout, Amanita Muscaria are coming, to town!
Merry Christmas, Danny -- stay warm!!
Hows it goin, Names Dillon,
Hows it goin, Names Dillon, I have been listening to Dead since I was a small child. My parents used to always play their stuff
Wishing a grateful day to all my fellows in Canton, OH
The music thrives in all of us. Looking forward about tour dates this new year. When I was younger, I always was working keeping ..the main loves of my life __ This phenomenal music which kicks your ass and gives you energy to shake those bones, and Kalli, the one who got away. When you strummed Jack a row to me we should've gotten married later that night. God Bless the Band and all you DEADHEADS everywhere.
Leave the bunk in the trunk...
kottonmouthjeff__
Cher AKA Annie West
I did dead tour from 1989-1994 I was not a regular because I had a son. But when I tour I stayed close to the Wrecking Crew. I lived in Denver and Traveled between Denver and San Fransico. I want to find old friends. I want to hear about the old times and see pictures. I want to be in contact with people I considered family. Although the last time I saw everyone I had a bit of a freak out!
I just got to say- this
I just got to say- this forum is so much more civil than similar bands forums. As to be expected....
I essentially toured the West Coast non-stop from '87 to '93 while I was finishing high school and attending UC berkeley. I move to San Antonio in 93 didn't help the show situation too much. Sold sodas after shows to support myself, slept in a lot of rest areas hanging out with some very cool people. I have never stopped listening to the Dead and apart from my current Dick's Picks obsession, I am a regular Dead podcast listener, aiming to keep things random.
J.T. Gossard
http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/
Hi everyone!
I am in Chicago and would love to meet new folks to hang out with. Remember hearing some years ago about a bar that did a weekly (monthly?) Dead night, if anyone knows if that is still going on would be awesome to hear. I'm 42, married and got into the Dead too late :(...saw them about 5 times in the late 80s/90s but the first few times was just there for the party. Gradually got more into the actual music and now it's most of what I listen to. I have been able to see Furthur a couple times and am very excited about them, I think they are the best of the "post-Dead" bands. Other interests include yoga, biking, sports and beer! Nice to meet you all!!
have a sunshine Daydream
(~);} Hey now , I am a 53 year old mama of 3 grown sons. I saw my first show in 77, phillie.. and off and on through the years,,, Its been my dream to follow the tour for a season or more. I never could because of Babies and hubby died, and I just could not take to the road then... I am SO ready to NOW.. I got to seee Furthur 5 times last year and got the fever to get out of here .... I would like to find a trustworthy responsible travel partner to share expenses and experiences... if u r interested Let me hear from ya,,, shugamagnollia@aol.com (~);} Have a GRATEFUL day (~);}
Have a GRATEFUL day (~);}
Further - Fennario Fest Sat. Boston - It's just a block away
Sorry, got distracted, gdradio.net just put on an outrageous Candyman! O yeah, traveling from NC to Beantown to see Further at the Orpheum, dead-based band Fennario (watch them on U-Tube), are having a pre and post blast a block away! Going to the Saturday show Feb. 5 (or whatever Sat. comes at the begin of Feb!) - anyone comin'? repoman