I'm psyched Sirius & Bob Weir just announced an all Grateful Dead channel! SWEET! My 1st show was in 87' when i was 18. I miss the shows.

clammer- great post! i also want to fish with you! the edge plays the best music of any shop i've ever been in- make you want to stay...

High Tide, yes that's the one :)
I wore out a few others as well, got a killer JGB with a Dear prudence I must have played hundreds of times.
I saw the dead from maine to CA
I was at the Providence 79 show also Tautog, one of my firsts, got there at the break missed the whole first set :( and just walked right on in nobody asked for a ticket.

Saw JGB many times and Jerry and John Kahn acoustic at the Opera House, saw Hunter in Cambridge and others
Great music and great times.
Clammer, you wreck me, hope you had a good day fishing :D


John in VT, yep, you're a deadhead :uhuh: :D how you doing? see ya soon I bet.

Cold rain and snow is always cranking in my truck when i am on my way to go holdover fishing :D

(NEBE)

Slip, my head my be dead but i am not a dead head.never had the urge to live on the road following a band across the county for years at a time selling whatever to get by.i remember going to a show in NJ right after the watkins glen showwere it poured for days, the nj show was delayed a few days till the equipment could get down. a good portion of the crowd were still covered in mud from the show days before,they were the true dead heads.i think that was in 73.will be on the cape from end of june for most of the summer

WOW! I can't believe there are this many Deadheads on this site! Me too. Age 42..First Show 5-14-80, Nassau Coliseum. After seeing many shows, I had to quit in the 90's. It broke my heart to hear how Jerry's playing and voice had deteriorated.

I threw out my tape collection after finding this site. Pick a year and find a show. Great quality and many shows are downloadable. Enjoy!

http://www.archive.org/search.php?qu...r%3A%221980%22

I guess im kinda a head. Been listening since 90, and caught a show in 95 at auburn hills michian, wasnt long after that it was all over. The music, the scene, the vibe and the way of thinkin when your listening. There is nothing like cruisin down the road on a summer day crankin some dead/JGB. Got into phish quite a bit for a while but it never did the same for me. Never did replace the dead sticker on my truck when i got a new one. Funny how customs in canada has been a bit more laid back, the sticker and a foot and a half of hair shorter and the attitudes change.

OK John, from your definition I guess we are both dead fans then.
see you in June

37 now and I saw them alot in the mid/late 80's. Fun while it lasted during my school days, but it got old towards the end of it as the band deteriorated. I Still have a couple hundred live recorded tapes and CD's I listen to on occasion.

I like Pig Pen stuff. "Cream Puff War" and "Aligator" are a few of my favz! Dark Star Orchestra plays around here every once and again. Close as you can get these days I think.

I agree.

Pigpen covering the Otis Redding song "Hard to Handle" live in Canada in 1970. One of my all time favorites,unfortunately they didn't play it after Pigpens death.
The old Merryprankster himself shows a little more life than normal on guitar.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=L91ZHpEaE-0
YouTube - The Grateful Dead - Hard to Handle

That was weird. Not 2 minutes after that exact version played on Sirius, I find this thread here... :kewl:

If you like 'em, and have experienced the Dead shows, then you are a Dead head. I saw them many times, starting in 1976. But you would have had to been there, to be a Dead Head. IMO:kewl:

My HEAD IS DEAD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>:wid:

:smokin:

Last show was 6/15/95 (highgate, vt).

Mine too. I still have one intact,unripped ticket from that show.

I read something years ago.
Can't remember the exact words.
Went something like....
"The noise, the crowd, and the magic of a summer night."

foxboro stadium.. '90 or 91?? good show. Ive got some goos stories from that show, but... um...they are not for here :hhi:

all stories >>>>>>>>>.

glass man <><>,

you can,t even be sure they are real :as:

My first show was in 78 in Colt Park Conn. If anyone was their, it was one hell of a show :kewl:
But, I for one liked Bob Dylan better ... :gu:
VB

i was there! sunset start, crowd crashed fences and burned a car or two...... washing down brownies with coolaid....

Teddy Stefen told me you were a big dead head but i didn't believe him. hippy :hs:

:D

Once I get off the Vineyard I'll dig up my ticket stubs. I'm sure a lot of us were at the same shows. Man I've been listening to the Dead recently. Old Filmore stuff and shows in the eighties. Feels good to feel good.

John >>>>>.... don,t go & feel toooooooo good >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I,ll make ya pay :liquify:

I hear ya.

:D "Thank You Jerry" :hihi:

I was a stealth head, polo shirt and a crew cut....what else can I say?

my first show was 9/15/73 in providence.......they had a couple of horns with them......i think.....

I went to the Pvd shows in 73 and I don't think they had any horns with them. Thus was the time they were experimenting with the famoues "Wall of Sound". It was very a impressive and had great sound but they stopped after a couple of years due to cost, moving it ,trucks, help etc.
One of the only horn players I remember doing much with them was Branford Marsalis playing sax on "Eyes of the World" on the "Without a Net" CD.
I'm sure other horn players have jammed with them but I don't remember too many in the early 70's.

Thanks for the stories, everyone. Clammer, you almost made me cry....almost.

I still think of my Dad whenever I hear "Box of Rain". He's been gone for 5 years now

I only saw about a dozen shows but stilll listen to some Dead, enjoy "Jam on" on Sirius from time to time. Never got into Phish for some reason or other, go figure, but really looking forward to the Dead Channel this summer!!!. Rock sent me to Dead, which sent me to bluegrass, which sent me to country. Now I listen to just about everything but it doesnt define my dress or lifestyle. Patchouli is no replacement for a weekly shower, imho.

Anyway, you all may want to check out Ludwig's Vault dot com for some downloads.

Rock on.