Have you ever experienced a Grateful Dead show?

:) Amazing things have a tendency of happening at outdoor concerts and music festivals.

During a Radiohead show in 2006 while the opening band was playing, the skies were cloudy and it was raining, not horribly, but miserably.

Then the opening band ended and everyone was still grumpy. Then low and behold, the rain stopped, the skies cleared around the outdoor ampitheater, and a vivid rainbow appeared in the distance behind the stage, similar to your picture.

EVERYONE in the crowd started to cheer slowly, like an ongoing cheer and then the lights went out.

The album Radiohead was touring for was called "In Rainbows" as well :)

Great times.

it was a good show. i had no idea back then but Jimmy Herring was really holding back to stay true to the GD sound.

watching him with Widespread Panic now I know him as a face melting shedder.

i bought a tank of nitrous and a ferret at a dead show.

Seen them twice, this was always my fav, dunno why it doesn't get more respect-

No...and they were just a tool to get a whole generation high on acid. They have illuminati symbols all over their artwork ! They suck !

I saw the Dead in June of 1974 at the Iowa State Fair Grounds in Des Moines. I had a great experience.

I saw Bobby and the Midnights, probably around 1977-78, at the St. Paul Civic Center. Don't remember much about the show. My brain was frozen from riding to the show on a motorcycle in late November.

I saw Further this New Year's Eve at the Civic Center in S.F., with my hardcore Deadhead friends. We took some "friendly" which certainly enhanced the show. Still the musicianship, sound, and light show were all excellent. When they sang Uncle John's Band it was a real Kumbaya moment.

Wayyyy too many...

Spoken like a true little sheep...

One of the most amazing things in my life. One of my favorite shows was Soldier Field in Chicago. Sting opened for them and it was pouring down rain. When the Dead came out the sky cleared and the sun came out during the first song. It was magical

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Yes. In D.C., summer of 89. They were the most awful band I ever saw live. They all just stood on stage and did their own thing. I can't recall them doing one song that was tight and together.

Maybe this is what Dead fans expected. The crowd got all excited when they did Dark Star. To me it was just a lot of jamming noise. I thought it sucked big time. Shocking really. But everyone else there was having a great time. I never got it.

htp you always have something cool to add

They definitely don't suck...however, bobby & Mickey are Bohemian grove attendees, as well as performers. They had to wait till Jerry passed before they went full illuminati...

There was no other band quite like The Dead. (Phish is/was a good fill-in though)

I saw them or I should say, I attended Watkins Glen circa 1973 and my tongue was out the entire weekend. Whatever anyone wanted to drop on it, I ingested.

Life's general pulse was SO much different back then. Trust was a given, not something earned (hey, we actually rode our bicycles without a helmet. We were such rebels)

The musical energy The Dead exhibited was magical. It wasn't so much the words but the frequency and resonance of the sound.

One of my favorite songs is China Doll and I haven't a phuckin' clue what that song is about.

Jerry's death left me as numb as when I heard about John Lennon and Princess Diane's deaths.

Too young to leave us but their gig was up in this life-time.

I had a similar experience with the Phish @ Watkins last summer, it was pretty magical :)

I thought they broke up???? I guess I've been out of the loop too long.

They did for a few...Trey got sober after getting busted, so they got back together in 2009.

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Cheers......hope you are doing well WN.

David

The Parking lot was the place to be OP.

Balloon or tea?

The one I went to in 1974 ain't over yet.

Some mornings I wake up singing Dead tunes!

Broke a molar and had to have it pulled...Doc asked if I had ever had nitrous before...

I asked him if he had ever been to a Dead Show...

I am, thank you David. I hope all is good in your life!

Got to be at the closing of the Fillmore West with the Grateful Dead.....along with the Jefferson Airplane....New Riders of the Purple Sage. What a wonderful time to live in Cal.

pffffttt, not. Eyes wide open and wide awake !

To be fair, they have played at Bohemian Grove and I remember rumours about Mickey and Bobby actually joining.

At Irvine Meadows we would hang in the parking lot to party with all the dead heads.We were all Metal Heads but the dead folk were always cool.We would stock up on acid and shrooms.Every now and then you would get some peyote or some good liquid Acid.It was a trip.

Despite the scene being somewhat evil and corrupt, I absolutely love and cherish every moment I lived on Dead tour (in 2009) as well as following Furthur (late '09) and eventually playing festivals in my own project

3 Days and Nights of Grateful Dead Music!

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DSO with Mickey Hart Band, Dumpstathunk, Boom Box and Jahman Brahman, 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann, Keller Williams, Jorma Kaukonen, Donna Jean Godchaux Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, Donna The Buffalo and even more of our Grateful friends.

Reggae and Bluegrass acts round out the line up.

Indeed

I highly advise anyone who has not heard a vinyl in a long time to immediately put it on their "to do list:. A quality vinyl is far superior in sound quality to any cd I've heard recently, even the digitally remastered stuff.

I was really amazed when I brushed off my turn table a while back to spin some of my vinyls. I had not heard anything but digital in about a decade and I had simply forgotten how great it sounds.





I'm <3 Jerry with David Grisham.



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