Grateful Dead

Hello everybody. Have been a huge music fan for my entire life, but only VERY recently decided to start listening to the Dead. I've been listening to a few concerts I found on-line, but would like to start hearing the officially released, higher quality stuff. The only thing is.....where do you even think about starting? There is so much stuff out there and a lot of it looks great......it's pretty overwhelming. Any of you long time fans have advice for a newbie?

Hey welcome aboard the bus! Take a look around and enjoy yourselves. Wonderful people here. And can post, just not start a new topic, but marye who is our moderator extrordiniare, is very helpful and extremely wise, she may be able to help you out. Good to have you all here on this monday, a holiday by the way, umm National Grateful Dead Day....ohh umm Columbus Day,sorry,all caught up in the big day! peace,pk

Hello one and all i am chris i am from Tennessee (jed) i am 27 i have been a fan for 15 years now and going strong.I write alot of poetry and play guitar-mandolin/harmonica/ and sing. I have been on this site for awhile so i decided to join up after i seen how cool this forum is.About time bands like this start getting cool things like this on the web.Also i know the dead are all about letting you get their live stuff where do i go to download full shows? chris

Since I've been a member for over a year I suppose introductions are not only in order, but long overdue, so here goes...HELLO! I'm a deadhead too & would love to rap with y'all about all sorts of stuff. I'll be checking out the chat room occasionally, but mainly I'm a forum kind of guy.Have A Grateful Day!

Hey Y'all! My first Dead show was Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City '76. The show that changed my life forever was Englishtown, NJ '77, with The New Riders and Marshall Tucker. The most memorable for me was Lewiston, ME '80, with Roy Buchanan and Levon Helm. I've been hosting a Radio Show for awhile now, based in Northwest New Jersey. It is called "Signpost To New Space", and as you might guess, it is very Dead-friendly Radio, amongst other great music. Some of it is downloaded and some from my own collection, as well as our Radio Station's. It is Internet-only Radio, and we go by the name : www.HomegrownRadioNJ.org As for my show, "Signpost To New Space", it airs on Tuesday Afternoons 3 - 6 pm (EST) But tune in anytime! We have 50 Volunteer DJ's , and If you stream us, you will like what you hear (we even have one 3 Hour Program dedicated to Railroad Earth! -- that's Thursday nights.) So, Tune In and Turn On a Friend, as we like to say! And if you do, send us an IM so we know you're there @ HGRNJ... Peace & Love DJ Easy Wind

Deadhead Paratrooper My active bus years were from 84-91, god that was fun. I so miss it. Got on airplane Oct 91. Hey all my real name is Dwight. I have been in the Army 17 yrs now and have found a few other ol heads. After touring the country with the dead and seeing that the purple mountain majesty is for real and so many other things I/we did seen experienced and so on. I beileved in defending this great nation so that others could have or so closely have related FUN and life. I joined the Airborne and love it jumping from a perfectly good airplane is an experience, like charging the gate at red rocks or jumping the wall in the meadowlands, getting that last second ticket for free. I think that military heads may have a greater appreciation for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and FUN. I am dissapointed that I missed quite a few shows from 92-95 but I was doing a job. I will retire in three years and plan on hitting the road again for a while. I do get to catch some fests now and then. But just not the same. Anyway If there weren't those that do what we do others would not live the way they do. peaceful and free. There are those that are so anti military radical that they forget where thier right to be as they wish and say what they want came from. So for all grateful people everywhere wave that flag. Wave it wide and HIGH

I am new here and to this format of forums. It says I am unable to start a new topic - do I have to ask a mod for permission to post something? I joined this forum to help spread the word about a Grateful Dead fan from 1995 who died and remains unidentified. I would like to post a police sketch of the victim, along with the details, so that if any other DeadHeads from the 90's recognize him or remember him, we might be able to get him ID'd. Thank you to anyone who can help me.

What's up guys, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about my baby, the inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues festival, this 11/22 at the historic Congress Theater, all benefiting the Saving Tiny Hearts Societies fight against the country's most common birth defect. www.cbgbfestival.com The first 10 folks that hit me up at michael.raspatello@gmail.com will get a pair of tickets mailed to them. We're excited for you to help us spread the word about this righteous endeavor

My name is Bill, my first show was JGB in '75,toured for a while,slowed down for a while to raise kids. Now I moved to Eastern Fl to be around them. I have brought the kids to see some offshoot shows. I am an ok drummer ( I have my moments).Used to jam with friends all the time but they live in Ct. .Enjoy 70-77, mostly and Coltrane. I really enjoyed the scene of family at the shows.Miss the scene and feeling of electricity in the air. I have been here maybe a year but just found this page.There is nothing like a Grateful Dead Concert.

Hey Now! My name is Steve and I first saw the Dead at RFK Stadium on 6-9-73. I didn't know what I was getting into way back then so I missed the 6-10-73 show. 22 years later I saw a total of 201 shows, mostly on the east coast. Living in the DC area allowed me to catch quite a few shows within a 300 mile radius. I only missed 1 show at the old Cap Centre (the Cosmic Charlie show in '77), I missed the 1 RFK show and was at all 6 Merriweather shows. My favorite venue was the HJK in Oakland, I knew I could find my friends in the bar downstairs before the shows. Phil is resposible for my current musical passion. He introduced me to the guitar playing and singing of Warren Haynes. Some of you may know me as a moderator at the Mule Army, I go by the same screen name there also. I'll be poking around here when I can so I'll see you around!