How many ex seedling/straightling dead heads?

[SurRobinHood]

I've wondered a few times how many people, like me, becamd followers of the greatful dead after leaveing the program. This forum seems like as good a place as any to ask. Well?

[Anonymous]

I kinda did, but only because ppl gave me free tickets and rides to the shows...

[webcrawler]

I really wasn't into the Dead much, but after str8 I moved to a new city and met a bunch of Deadheads and befriended them. They always had the best acid.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know about The Dead before straight. I felt so dumb when people would talk about it. I had no idea what they were talking about.

[Anonymous]

i was a dead head before str8!when i got out i traveled all over the country...i was over 18 and on my own by then. i went into str8 in apr.81....in my school,i was the only long haired dead head...i had been assessed by a shrink that i was living in the late 60's and early 70's!lol no shit!somhow i seemed to know it would make a come back and in the mid 80's it did!when i went to shows in the 80's,a lot of the jocks in my school became dead heads....when they saw me,knowing what i had been through in str8,they'd point to me and say"he's been into it before it was popular!" i guess in some way that made up for all the b.s i took from them in school...you see being a beatles and dead head,wasnt cool in the mid 70's and early 80's...even the freaks in my school thought i was wierd....then,in the mid 80's everyone became a dead head...playing "hippie" became cool and a lot of people ruined a good thing....the dead got banned by a lot of places because the crowd became full of what i call fake dead heads...they were there for the scene and the drugs...it was a bummer to see it happen like it did...it just got out of control....str8 never broke me of the hippie culture....hippie564

[Matt C. Hoffman]

This show was in springfield mass. Barrowed a friends mothers car in Portland Maine to drive down to the show (the freind whose mother let me barrow the car did not go another friend did )

They were young (the dead ) both Godchauxs were there. Most wicked Terrapin played Jonny be Goode for encore due to the fact it was Chucks birthday .

You could walk all the way up to the stage it was not jammed up you could easily walk around people .

The Dead took their break on the stage .Jerry pulled out a pouch of drum Tobacc. and sat right there and rolled a big stick  of drum.

Mickey and Billy at one point grabbed a couple of talking drums and started chasing each other around in a circle on the front of the stage .

It was was an amazing show .

We got there a little late and and the only parking spot was directly in front of the front doors to the place. My first show was meant to be .

The Dead were playing Jackstraw when me and my friend walked in.  

I have been shows at Merriweather Post Pavillion
                     Capital Center in D.C.
         The one at U hall in Charlottesville Va
                      Philly
                      City Island Pa
                      Spac
                      JFK in or near D.C.
                      Deer Creek in Indiana
                      Hampton Va  lots of shows as the dead and saw them as the Warlocks at Hampton
                      Salem civic center  Roanoke Va.                  
                      Some where outside of Chicago
                      Sam Boyd Arena in Vegas
                      Autzen in Eugene Oregon
                      Richmond Civic center
I saw Jerry at Constitution Hall in Dc in 84 now that was a wicked fantastic show with J Kahn
any one remember the incident when the security was hasseling a kid who had a seat on the floor and when it was getting a little tense some one thru out a little soldier with a parachute from way up on high and the little toy floated down as Jerry walked back on stage and the security let the kid sit in his seat .
Jerry played the most wicked acoustic Birdsong i have ever heard right after all the this stuff went down .

God I miss the Dead and Jerry.
 
I wasn't a tour rat I went to see them when they were in my neck of the woods  I took one month long trip with my wife to be  around this country and saw the dead 3 times in one place and once in a nother and onetime I took a week and saw them 2 times at deer creek and twice outside of chicago. I saw the Jerry band a couple of times also.

I really just saw them in my neck of the woods and you know I think they really liked to play on the east coast.

The most incredible music I have ever heard in my life and I can honestly say that I never had a bad show. God I miss them.

they were  a blast

[Anonymous]

There was nothing like a dead show.
 The music had a wicked sound and the scene was very friendly and peaceful.

Thank God for the Grateful Dead.

[Anonymous]

safest place to shroom  an 1/8 for the first set and and 1/8 at the beginning of the intermission and wa... la.. an exciting 2nd set (take that acid crap and throw it away.)

[Anonymous]

Saw over 200 shows (quit counting after that) between 1985 and 1995, with a three year boycott thrown in there.  Had lotsa fun and travelled the country, made some good friends, did lotsa drugs.  Don't like 'em  without Jerry, wasn't too into 'em by the time he died, but glad I saw them in Tampa a few weeks before he died.  Face it, they were a good band, but by the time In THe Dark came out, they were just riding on inertia.

[SurRobinHood]

I kinda figured there'd be plenty of ya. It's no wonder we never met either. Since I split the seed in 74 and went west and the seed/straight were an east coast thing. I lived in Berkely delivering pizzas in the eighties and saw hundreds of shows in places I could walk home from. My dog would wait outside and guide me home no matter how high I was. I once got in to a sold out greek theater show by loading a bag with pizzas and putting Rock Scully' name on a phoney tag. I just headed back stage like I belonged there and everyone stepped aside and let me in. A hot pizza has tremendous power over the wills of men. Once in I gave away the pizzas to some roadies and headed into the crowd lost in a sea of tie dyed hippies. Good times.

[starry-eyed pirate]

Ever'one I knew after $tr8 was some kind of a head.  

I travelled around some a few years after $tr8.  I paid attention to where the dead would be and timed my travels accordingly.  I was on a few tours.  My favorite places that I ever saw the Dead was Autzen Stadium in Eugene. saw 'em there 2 days in a row in like '90.  That place was wild.  Little Feat opened both shows.

I caught JGB once at the Warfield Theatre in downtown S.F.  As I walked into the place I noticed that some kid was preachin' somethin' to the crowd that was swirling around him like a river.  It was a cat I knew!!  A cat who had been my oldcomer at one time!!  I went over to him and said: "Whats up brother ??"  I can't remember now what he was yellin' about but he was like some kind of a John the Baptist in the Jordan river.

At the end of the show while Jerry was jammin' Tangled Up In Blue I went up to the top of the seats and opened up the exit to the fire escape and stood out on there, on the escape, about 4 stories high and looked out over the red light district of S.F. in the fog and listened to Jerry play.

I saw lotsa cats an' sistas I knew(from $tr8 cult) on tour an' at the Reggae Festival up in Humboldt circa 1990.

Do you have any Reconstruction ??

[Anonymous]

Deadheads thronged to Wisconsin's Alpine Valley outdoor concert venue on August 3 as the venerable touring band reunited -- minus late guitarist Jerry Garcia -- for the first time since Garcia's passing a decade ago. And while the music was reportedly great, police actions during the concert brought back some less fondly remembered vibes as well.

According to figures released by the Walworth County Sheriff's Department, ten concertgoers were arrested for possession of psychedelic mushrooms, 80 for state marijuana law violations, and 269 more were given county citations for marijuana violations. Police reportedly seized 51 pounds of pot, more than 7,000 doses of LSD, 8.8 grams of liquid LSD, 10 pounds of mushrooms, 82 grams of hash, nine grams of heroin, six grams of cocaine and a tank of nitrous oxide.

With a standard $407 fine for each county marijuana citation, Walworth County stands to add about $110,000 to its coffers from the marijuana citations alone. Who said those Deadheads would never contribute anything to society?

[Anonymous]

I set out runnin but I take my time
A friend o' the devil is a friend o' mine

[starry-eyed pirate]

I got me a silver mine an' I call it 'beggars tomb'  

I got me a violin an' I beg ya call the tune

 ::dove::

[Anonymous]

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