Jerry Garcia and deadhead age question

[Nebe]

jerry is so verry

[mosholu]

The great thing about being a deadhead even now is that there is so much material to listen to. They still put out a few shows a year and you can go back and find new things in each one. Granted they were not great every night or all the way through one show but when they were on it is always enjoyable. I do not find many new bands that I think can play very well live. Too often the best they can manage is to replicate the record. I too could not find my way into Phish however I think the Allmans, Gov't Mule and Derek Trucks are good bands that will carry on the tradition of playing and improvising. More of my time spent listening to music is devoted to jazz for that reason.

[zacs]

I am 31 y/o.

first show, 12/31/91. Oakland coliseum. Out visiting family in the bay area for xmas, my uncle took me and my cousins.

Hell in a Bucket
Candyman
Beat it on Down the Line
It Must Have Been the Roses
Black-Throated Wind
West L.A. Fadeaway
Masterpiece
Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower

Not Fade Away
Eyes of the World
Estimated Prophet
drums
space
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Obviously I was seriously hooked. Wish I kept count but probably around 45 shows. Last show was 6/15/95 (highgate, vt). Nothing to write home about, but a really fun time. I don't know too many deadheads much younger than I am.

I did get majorly into phish in an extreme way. had the luck of a [real] job that allowed me to travel, and would book business trips around entire summer tour. Nothing like changing out of business attire in the lot in my rental car. I also did not keep count like I should have but easily saw 120, probably over 150. And well over 20 trey shows. Towards the end I started feeling old at the shows compared to the crowd, which is how I am sure a lot of the hardcore old school heads felt.

I think that Phish may hold a little bit more of a special feeling for me, but that is difficult to type. There is magic in Jerry's guitar and soul in his vocals that has never been reached by anyone IMHO. I definitely am way more knowledgeable in all things phish, and have a way bigger collection of phish than dead.

I think I saw or heard on Sirius that they are going to have an all Dead channel. Jam on & Howard are all I listen to now.

[RickBomba]

I still have a Steal Your Face tattoo, even though all you guys who know me would say I'm way punk rock.
Me and Mikey used to run a hot dog stand at Mt. Tom in the late 80's-early 90's and blasted really good, really loud second generation bootlegs.
Strangely enough, I still like all my old hippie buddies even though it's really not my thing.
You cane be 8 or 88 and still like the Dead, Bruce and Fred, don't get too mad at me (cause I like the really loud angry music), but we all get along when the music's blasting.
Just make sure you have a good system and your bro's along way from anything that's valuable.
Peace, Love and Ludes,
Rick
PS-Even though I'm not as old as Bruce or Fred, please do not skip me if you're selling the dollar beers...the flaffel, I can pass on, though.

[RickBomba]

Oh, yes...not to hijack the thread, but Tagger...
please bring me a plug for Cutty or I will be forced to give you no lobster roll and maybe you can sit in the corner and listen to my bootleg from Cornell in 77, the last time that they played St. Stephen.
PLEASE BRING ME PLUGS.
OK too much inspiration,
Rick

[RickBomba]

Oh, and by the way, the 91 stuff was way convoluted.
87...Hartford...ooooohhhh so good,
89 in Foxboro.wow.
91 in the garden...sort of ok, but way too homo with the Bruce Hornsby stuff...
Looks like I know a little more than I let on.
Rick

[Clammer]

Not to mess this thread up // but zac struck a nerve :::


my son, was is a D/H first Jerry then Phish >>>>>>>>>.....excellent music on the JAM channel on sires [sp]

Anyway /as most of you now my wife fought one hell of a F #$%^&* battle with cancer / fighting it well over 7 + years >> she wouldn,t have made one /if it was for her determination >>>> she just kept settting goals /never quitting >>>>> damn i miss her><><

anyway ...her dieing wish was to go to hawaii >>>>>>> most of the doctors said noway /but there was one / who did everything possible to make it happen ;;
she couldn,t no longer eat & had a feeding tube // but everything was lined up ;;
My son & his wife went with us / they had been there twice before & wanted to chaffuer {US} around >>> but we knew he was there in [Case] ..
She loved it & saw every single sunset & she snokeled [[alone]]
By time we had gotten to our last night >> we saw another awesome sunset >>>>>> She then asked to go to the hospital >>>> she stayed there for 4 hours /got fluids & sent back to the condo // but the next morning she was back in >>>>>>>> we left there in time to catch out flights & the long ass ride home :;

we were [[home]] but exhausted ......... we sat around for a couple of hours & then she asked to go to the hospital >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
She was in the hospital for 5 weeks & they finally said that if she tried the one expermental Kemo that was left >.it would kill her // that afternoon we met with the doctor / social worker & hospice >>>>> by noon the next day she was home & with all the equipment necessary ;;
I set the bed up right in the living room /so see could see the sun & the birds / & friends that came to visit . we have a awesome family >>>>>>> & with & of us we were able to grant her wish of dying @ home ... while we all kept out work schedules /close to normal :;
Hospice /couldn,t believe it /she lived 5 more weeks @ home ;;
My son would go to work on Monday ..then stay on the couch / next to his mom ><>< make sure she was set . go to work & repeat the process thru Thrusday night // he & his wife had the weekend to recup to do it over again ;;
they say some %$%$%$%$ about [[not being there when a loved one passes >>>>>>>>
She passed on a Sunday afternoon & we were all there except her 85 Y/O father & Jay & kate ;;

we had some private time with her as we waited for hospice & the priest & the undertaker //

I had to call Jay >>>> & I wouldn,t let them move her until he got there ;;

being in the living room /I had tacked up a sheet /so when she was sleeping or needed privicy [sp] she had ;;

We all had some time with her while waiting for Jay ... jay & kate came in the side door >>>>>> which is always open to friends & family ;;


Jay & Kate went into the living room & the rest of us stayed out & let them have there time >>>>> About ten minutes go by >>& we hear music >>> Kockin on heaven,s gate & another song / that i can,t remember ;;
When it ended /none of us went in /But I yelled to jay place it again >. But loauded [sp] which was repeated a few more times /each time getting louder ;;

If there is a heaven >.. they heard her coming ;;

Sorry /i just lost it ,, MIKE