What I Miss The Most
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What do you miss the most from a Grateful Dead concert.
Not Phil, or Further or Ratdog.........but a real live in person Grateful Dead concert.
Was it the lot? Jerry stepping on stage? Jerry giving you a wink and pluckin away?
For me it was space and drums.
I have seen and heard every dead tune live by them and by every Tom Dick and/or Harry with every off spring band play them. Some of the songs are fantastic versions, some have sucked.
The one thing no other band I have seen on any kind of regular basis play it was The Grateful Dead. I don't care where it was I don't care how tired I was from being on tour for weeks on end or how fucked up I was I always found it in me to dance, sway, jiggle and just take in a S&D.
Fuck I miss those 15 minutes of pure heavenly bliss. Long Live the GD.
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Too young. No spot taken.
Too young. No spot taken.
Drop me a line, T. [email protected]
Do it.
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that magic when the lights
that magic when the lights would go out...
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That was just Timmy, and his
That was just Timmy, and his roaming hands, Turtle.
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I missed that moment of
I miss that moment of tuning and trying to guess what the set opener was.
I also miss the blissed out barefoot Deadheads twirling in unison.
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JD made me chortle.
JD made me chortle.
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One time a female human let
One time a female human let Java Dave touch her.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: always
i have an olfactory sensation
i have an olfactory sensation which rarely, if ever, shows up anymore.
the strangeness that happened in between it all.
and i agree, space and drums.
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ganja/patchouli/b.o.
ganja/patchouli/b.o.
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no, its not that. it is
no, its not that. it is stranger, though could be layered on a base of all that. it's one of the smells that truly takes me somewhere.
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I used to call it " Dead
I used to call it " Dead Heaven" that spot in time that the music just touches every cell in your body..................it used to take you away...
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everything
everything
I do not attend any more "Dead related" projects
what's the point?
(but I still have the tapes :-)
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We all loved the music. I
We all loved the music. I loved the transience of set break. Everyone had nowhere to go...we were there already. Good tunes on a great system and people just milling aboot....
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Barrel Aged
The butterflies I'd get as
The butterflies I'd get as the boys took the stage, knowing there was no place I'd rather be.
Dancing with an stringy mass of humanity in the halls...it was sweaty, happy, disordered chaos.
Camping in the venue parking lot with your crew for multi-show runs.
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The palpable electricity
The palpable electricity before the show started, and the cheer that would happen at 7:30, even though the lights were still on and the band wouldn't be on for at least 15 more minutes.
Having my eyes closed during a jam, and being spontaneously moved to cheer by some lick or run. A dozen other people would cheer at the same time, and I knew that they also heard it. (The flip side was hearing a dozen people cheer, and I knew they heard something I didn't)
Walking out of a show in near silence, everyone too blown away to say a word.
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Exactly what Brian just wrote
Exactly what BrianK just wrote.
I also liked the Space/Drums segment (which was always in 3-D), and what songs were they going to go into after the Drums/Space deal. Guessing was half the fun.
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>>I used to call it " Dead
>>I used to call it " Dead Heaven" that spot in time that the music just touches every cell in your body..................it used to take you away.<<
^^This^^
and the three BK just listed..
too many feelings/vibes/energy to put into the right words...
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The goosebumps....
The goosebumps....whenever , ...it could be walkin in...ppl twirling...sitting in car in lot w cassette on...acoustic box of rain w heads singalong in lot..or just that moment, lights down, tuning,....yup..
And...all the above
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The intensity of listening to
The intensity of listening to the music with thousands of other people listening just as intensely. The ripple of laughter from the crowed after a flubbed lyric that no one at any other concert would ever have heard. The collective cheer after a jam. Everyone waiting for and then singing Test Me Test Me Why Don’t You Arrest Me followed by the concerned look on the security guards face trying to tell people not to light up. And most of all seeing actual women in the audience.
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that magic when the lights
that magic when the lights would go out...<<
That, and taking a stroll around the concourse of arenas during break to freak-watch.
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I still get excited about a
I still get excited about a band coming out to play. That's why I go.
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In the indoor arenas, during
In the indoor arenas, during the second set, there was always a beautiful silhouette, dancing and twirling, back-lit by the hallway light.
I still see that, but they don't quite move in the same way. I think that it has to do with the lack of Jerry.
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Getting to seats then
Getting to seats then watching all the trippers coming on, but pretty much everything about a real Grateful Dead show was nifty, at least for me.
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Certainly the adrenaline rush
Certainly the adrenaline rush when they would walk on stage but mainly that feeling that you were in the cathedral for a real musical sermon with total audience participation. That's what I miss the most.
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Da jams.
Da jams.
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Drumz
Drumz
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What BK said All the feels
What BK said
All the feels
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That feeling when you've
That feeling when you've driven a long distance to the show and you get to the venue and all your freaky friends are everywhere and you are so glad you made it.
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Blowjobs for my extra's.
Blowjobs for my extra's.
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The way jerry would rise
The way jerry would rise above that cloud of rhythm and make that guitar dance, nothing comes close
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................that and the
................that and the acid
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What I miss the most is my
What I miss the most is my Youth; being 15 or 18 or 20 years old seeing the Good Old Grateful Dead all across this Fine USA of ours.
How I managed to do entire Summer Tours at age 17 on a hundred or so bucks is quite the Miracle, but it was possible back then.
What's gone now, and everyone from back then would miss is the "Free Camping On Lot".
Until the latter 80's or so, every venue just assumed that if they hosted a GD show, folks would be staying overnight in their parking lots. Of course not every venue, but most, even like Nassau Coliseum or the Spectrum or Compton Terrace.
Really, that actually happened.
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The points at the show when,
The points at the show when, for a few seconds, EVERYBODY was on the same page.