How did you get into the Grateful Dead?

he wasn't? oh.

Yeah, no. He definitely wasn't. I don't think.

 

my family is filled with deadheads, aunts, uncles, cousins etc. i grew up with it.
being 13 and stoned and hearing cassidy from boston garden.....77 i believe? is what turned me on to them.

 

jerrys awful diet killed him actually

 

I got into the grateful dead after seeing the Dark Star Orchestra at Allgood music festival 2007. I was trippin balls on who knows what and relearned the meaning of feeling music. I had my mind blown and tried to get some space from the show... but the sounds of eyes of the world, estimated prophit, and st steven crept through the forest to my tent. I have since then loved the grateful dead's music.

Once I got back to my home town I kept listening to the dead and have a new respect for music.

again, the grateful dead taught me how to feel music

the good ol' grateful dead

 

Listening to Blues for Allah on acid in the back of a van. Help / Slip / Franklin's got me. March 1990

 

or a Buddha?

 

A treatment director at a Vision Quest camp i worked at gave me his tickets for Dylan and Dead at JFK in Philly, 1987. Morning Dew got me hooked. I can only compare it to a religious experience. I saw lots of shows that summer and the next and next, etc...Dear Creek and Chicago were the last shows I saw and the last Jerry played.... They made me appreciate music and learn to play. Thank God for tapes and memories.

 

I had been interested in them for a while, purchase a couple compilation albums (terrapin and three from the vault) along with American Beauty. This was back in 9th grade (going into 11th now)...I dig thier music, always have....but it wasnt untill this February when I saw Furthur live. I am now officially a deadhead! :deadxmas:


we should see if we can get a dead smiley without a santa hat....

 

my mom use to be a deadhead

 

an angel? are we not all equal?

i do like to listen to live shows but some of them(probably due to the fact that i wasn't there) i just can't get into. but other live shows i can totally vibe off of. but the albums are always pretty timeless.

 

i was waiting until i had the perfect response before i posted.

so my journey began long ago when my dad used to sing "Peggy-o" to me. I found out yesterday he didn't know the Grateful Dead sang it, apparently it's an old like folklore song or something...but that's where it begins becuase i used to love when he would sing that. he frequently changed "Peggy" to my name and said my name-o...it was beautiful.

my dad listened to the grateful dead on occasion, and i could never get into it growing up. the older i got, and started getting into the scenes which i am still a part of, all my friends tried to get me into the grateful dead, knowing once i saw the light i would feel it eternally. it took many friends giving me music to listen to, and i gradually started enjoying it.

it was a phil lesh and friends when i found the light. i had seen both ratdog and phil lesh and friends before, but not like this. i was at all good in 2008, alone and tripping on the best mushrooms i have yet to try. i fell in love with the grateful dead when they played "Fire on the Mountain," it was absolutely magnificent. the next day i raged it hard to Dark Star Orchestra. At that point I LOVED the grateful dead, but i wasn't a head...the next two years i listened in appreciation.

it was on my way to All Good 2010 when my boyfriend and i jammed out to some badass dead on the way there and he threw me pieces of information here and there...it was beautiful and i will forever appreciate him for what he has done for me in becoming the head i am now.

i became a head at all good 2010, it was beautiful, the best show i have seen in my life (and i've seen a lot of fucking shows) was Furthur at All Good...i was on half a hit of shiva, and oh my gosh, i saw the light. the entire set was magnificent, and i was in love. no joke i felt jerry's pull and energy during the entire show. it was magnificent. that was the day i became a dead head, 15 years to the DAY of Jerry's last show, it was perfection.

i haven't stopped listening to the dead since i got home

i thank everyone who was a part of my Grateful Dead journey, and they are numerous

 

^^ Welcome to the family!!!!!

 

Doh!! (double post)

 

Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.
One of its founders, Garcia performed with The Grateful Dead for their entire three-decade career (1965–1995). Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders-Garcia Band with longtime friend Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary. Garcia co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson. He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story. Later in life, Garcia was sometimes ill because of his unstable weight, and in 1986 went into a diabetic coma that nearly cost him his life. Although his overall health improved somewhat after that, he also struggled with heroin addiction and was staying in a California drug rehabilitation facility when he died of a heart attack in August 1995.

Sorry, but he was a long time heroin addict.
Maybe you didn't think he was because he didn't fit the stereotypical image of an addict. Remember that stereotype of an addict is based on addicts who are NOT able to maintain their habit and resort to crime or prostitution to support their addiction. Jerry had money and connections, so I'm sure he never "hurt" for having heroin.

I think all of us would be astounded at the number of successful, high functioning heroin and morphine addicts there are in the world. It is the criminalization of the user and lack of access to a clean, steady supply that gives such substances their bad image and reputation. It's when a person can't get their drug of addiction that the problems arise with heroin. An addict does not need amounts that are going to cause them to "nod out" every ten minutes in order to maintain their addiction.
Much like medical marijuana, the effective dose to maintain addiction is often below the dose needed to get "high".

He was just a man, like you and I. Talented and musically gifted, but still just a man.

Why did you put this in the LSD forum anyway Desos?
Maybe you are under the mistaken assumption that all LSD users must also be Dead fans?
Are there not more appropriate sections of HF for such a thread?

 

This is the song that got me into the dead

This version. the rhythm, words, energy, light, guitar . . . . i knew there was something here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?v1e1di58vml55a4

 

i posted it here because there are alot of heads that also use lsd. the grateful dead has an obvious and public history with lsd, and it seems as if their music has a deep connection to that psychedelic headspace.

 

Have heard of this band "the Grateful Dead" for years but really I was a east coast guy- a Dylan- Bleeker st , kind of a folk music guy growing up. The Beatles changed a lot of things also for me at that time. As the end of the sixties came I began hearing more of these guys -along with the Airplane, Quicksilver, of course Janis , and the northern california sounds. -

Interupped by the us army for awhile, I used to listen to the dead, the doors, and many others while on the other side of the world.

The 1st time I every saw the Dead was in Englishtown NJ, , in 1977- - I remember there were sooo many people there , and they werent even that great.
I do remember the energy though- the dead seemed to transport thousands of people into a different world. This is where I remember becoming a "Deadhead"- I couldnt get enuff of their music or thier history after that day.:hat:

AHHHthe memories
jjack

 

you know I wuv you, don't ya?
also this guy does to


And I plan on giving the Dead another listen next time I'm flying Lucy Airways.
I'm keeping an open skull about it.

 

PB, I recommend Anthem Of The Sun for a good album to sample the Dead. Pr0ne recommended it to me a while ago and it's really good. Pure lucy.

If the cover is any indication of the contents

 

it was the gorillas..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441QdFb_Gi8&feature=related"]YouTube- Drum, Drum, Drum, the Gorillas Are Dead