Grateful Dead

beenwaytoolongatsea yes dead and co have never spoken out in a unified public manner for any candidate or any public concern, but bush is so bad and the world to be inherited by the next executive is such a catastrophe that old chains, no longer UNBROKEN, drop, and unity now, in spirit and in music - rat in a drain ditch ..........

One of the signature attributes of the Dead was that they never (or rarely, if ever) used their fame from music as a soap box to shout personal or political interests from. The collective fans that so notably became 'deadheads' had one main commonality that made them so close, and that was the shared interest in music and environment that the Dead put forth, and anything else (such as political interests) followed this essential likeness in music. I'm not denying the fact that the Dead arose from a politically heated era in one of the most active regions of anti-war and anti-Vietnam ideology, but it was their profound dissociation to one specific political interest, in addition to their incredible music, that enabled the Dead to accumulate such an eclectic fan base. I'm not saying that I oppose this reunion show, fuck I'd give my right arm to go, I just think it definitely strays from what the Grateful Dead were. Perhaps Ken Kesey said it best in his farewell message to Jerry: "Nobody ever heard you use that microphone as a pulpit. No anti-war rants, no hymns to peace. No odes to the trees and All things Organic. No ego-deaths or born-againnesses. No devils denounced no gurus glorified. No dogmatic howlings that I ever caught wind of. In fact, your steadfast denial of dogma was as close as you ever came to having a creed. And to the very end, Old Timer, you were true to that creed. No commercials. No trendy spins. No bayings of belief. And if you did have any dogma you surely kept it tied up under the back porch where a smelly old hound belongs." With that said, GREAT SHOW! TOUR, TOUR, TOUR!!!

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