Grateful Dead

It will definilty be nice to hang with some like minded people, and I'm sure fun will be had by all. I'm loading up my 69' VW Bug (Her names Sunflower, and her nametag even says so.lol), and making the 16 hour trip solo from Iowa. Again, Thanks for the welcome and nice to meet you all. Billy

I'm a youngin' at 24, grew up listening to GD my entire life...seen Ratdog and Phil and friends a few times, but Penn State will be my first time seeing the Dead. So excited!

Welcome to a wonderful destination. you will find grate friends, beautiful music, hearts of gold, and a place to hang your hat. Enjoy yourself ! This a magical place like no other.ps... and frankly Scarlett we do give a damn! peace, love and hope,pk

My apoligies for the above post. Kinda out of line. Anyway's welcome there are wonderful people here with much better sense.Have fun at the show!!!!!!! peace,pk

way out of line there, pk!!! some welcoming committee , cursing up a storm as they walk through the door!!! might just as well have iknowurider here handing out "hells bells" too ; ) Welcome ScarletBegOnias1313, sorry about that, pk get a little unruly at times ;) so glad you made it here! and you got tickets for your 1st dead show, thatsfuckinawesome, have a grate time at the show... say high to....everyone : )

I agree w/TC-your welcome is very very kind and thoughful! Quack! ********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

Thanks everyone, for the warm welcomes! This place is groovy. I'm planning on sticking around for awhile! Can't wait to share the pictures from the upcoming show!

Hells Bells & Welcome Scarlet & Billy S :) Cant wait to see pics of the show! Hey Billy ~ share some pictures of SunFlower too ~ Positive Air Cooled Beams Heading your way. PEACE

I swear i just saw iknowyourider say the "d" word on another post seconds ago!!!!At least I was welcoming someone into the fold!!??@@#%!?!!????...... ohh....never mind. Inapproppriate. Shame on me. I'm still very sorry;(((

Are you calling me a Potty Mouth ?? Well you know, Anglo Saxon words & all !! he he he, shock value can never be under rated :) PEACE

I love unruly ! TL : Down with Shoes & Rules!! PEACE

Hey-Ho Sherlock Rider. Down with Shoes & Rules, you unruly gal, you! Free your Feet, and you will Free your Mind!!! No wonder we are so unruly. ********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

where is this video!!! what "d" word, the 1 that holds water or Richard! are ya sure it wasn't just that southern drawl, or was it in the chatroom? all bets are off in there, couple glasses of wine and ya think ya just got into port!!

I really dig this song about Brandy being a fine girl .... I get alot of, er, Flack ( notice the non curse word there) for digging that one. Any how, When I read the post "What you talkin 'bout PK"? ? Made me think of Ol' Arnold & Willis. Sleuth Tiger is a Funny Gal Indeedy ! PEACE

Perhaps we should be more demure in this thread, Rider. The new guys might think we are Quackers.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

on a store saying... Free your Feet, and you will Free your Mind!!!it was a vacuum cleaner store how @#$% strange it that :/ anyway and I'm not new on this bus ;) welcome to those who are :) Peace DOWN WITH SHOES ! QUACK!!

Gigi!!!!!!! Had said just exactly that to rider in the chatroom today, and we quacked up. And to hear was not exactly an original thought is sad. Really hadn't seen that sign though.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

A spirit fitting a couple of unruly magical grateful dead loving sailor's! Feet's a flying! This is no ship of fool's! Do not underestimate these dead loving energetic souls, they will out dance you til the morning comes! grdaed 73 ,there is no proof, everyting seems like a dream, a dead dream. I swear I heard it and it was a southern drawl.......and...strangly enough...............a vacuum cleaner??What a beautiful world!

And suddenly...40,000 headmen. very strange.peace,pk

Great song. I've always thought that song, the Pina Colada song and Baker Street were cut from the same great cloth.

C'mon get on board! lights off spinning round the christmas tree to The Music Never Stopped > Ashes and Glass > Truckin.....Wier Here..Yes, Were Here! On this beautiful blue planet,spinnin, spinnin free! Now come on, board this bus are let yer feet fly. the gratest people you ever will meet and music that will send double rainbows flyin in your heart! peace, and rainbows. pk

Hey Hello and HelpHey now from Austin Texas (good shows from the boyz at Manor Downs!) A friend Railroad Bill was playing "Bob Fried Memorial Boogie" on his radio show in Baton Rouge yesterday and emailed asking if anyone Knew how Bob Fried died? I can't seem to glean any info off the web so was hoping that some folks on the west coast might remember anything (besides passing away in San Mateo in 1974?). Any help would be greatly appreciated! Jim

imagine turning a total non-head, virgin set of ears, turning them on to The Dead at a live show this up-coming tour. just say to a dude, 'hey man, wanna go see a concert?' I mean, someone who ain't never even heard a studio album of the Grateful Dead let alone any live tapes of the Grateful Dead... then imagine playing them some choice live tapes with Garcia in the bus ride home... ( -; mind bender that one. there gotta be Grateful Dead, The Dead, Ratdog, Phil, and 'Garcia' virgins out there somewheres... sounds like a search and rescue mission which needs accompLESHing! peace.

I was turned on through "The Schwag" a GD tribute band...if it weren't for tribute bands being around i think a lot of "youngens" would have never gotten on the bus...the torch bearers deserve quite a bit of credit....be sure and listen to the "Tales from the Golden Road" on the GD Channel March 8th...I sent a few emails to Gans (host) and got my lil brainchild to come to fruition finally....the whole show is deadicated to the various tribute bands around...I believe he is going to be interviewing Jimmy Tebeau-the founder of "The Schwag" "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."

" start every morning watching the 89 Oakland New years show while I use my Nordic Track." I believe that show was from 1987 though...great nonetheless...."Cooking with Jerry" is hilarious! "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."

Throughout the years of my travels from Cali to AZ to Chitown, there has been alot of my friends that couldn't help being influenced by the Dead...they were around me. It's funny to look back over the last years, and talking to old friends, and knowing that at least 5 people are going to see The Dead for the first time this spring! _See tagline below_ ____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!

I everyone. I guess I'm somewhat new on the bus but not really.... My fascination with the Dead and their music has really been enhanced in the last year or so by listening the Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel. I was lucky to see the Dead 3 times. I got into the Dead in 1987. I had a friend at the time who was a real Deadhead. I was more into Hendrix, the Stones, Pink Floyd and such. He talked me into going to my first show. To be honest, prior to that I didn't know what all the fuss was about. My first Dead album was Skeleton's in the Closet. I was pretty young and the album didn't hook me. I didn't get the country angle then and my musical vocabulary was quite limited. My friend turned me on to "Blues for Allah" and "Terrapin Station". Those grabbed me more and the live shows hooked me. I was in college in the early 90's so I was pretty broke and didn't hit any shows for a while. I was doing a college radio show and one of my shows was a late 60's psychedelic show (of which the Dead were in the rotation of course). My show was a free from psychedelic show that could go from Syd Barrett to live Hendrix to well anywhere I wanted to go. All of us college Dee Jay's were friends. There was also a Dead Show at the station. One night one of the Dead Dee Jay's asked me to run the show for him because he was going out of town. Cool, I thought.... That turned out to be the week Jerry passed. I suddenly felt very uncomfortable but did my best to cobble together a fitting "tribute" show that week. It was a surreal experience. The listeners said I did a good job even though I was just a substitute Dee Jay. I went through another Dead phase in 2000 when I got married for the first time. We listened to the Dead all the way up to Reno for one of those overnight marriages. unfortunately the marriage didn't take but we had fun and I got a son out of the deal. I think the Dead were very wise to let the fans record all those shows. It really keeps the legacy alive. I think of other old bands I like and it's like you got the same one or two live albums to last 20 years..... I might take a trip down to L.A. to see Cubensis. The music really relaxes me and brings out the good side of my nature. I can get uptight a lot. The music puts me in the moment and is always different. I had to quit drinking a few years back so I need things to help me unwind. A good Dead show really seems to do the trick. There's enough shows on the Archive to last me a while. Thanks for letting me introduce myself.