Coolest things you saw early in your "dead" career
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Heads coming thru the roof at New Haven Coliseum (1981) and running all around cat-walks to sneak into show
The cream puff war at Saratoga (83, i blv), not the song, but the actual marshmellow war, that i witnessed from far right side woods where i had walked to go take a leak...coming out of woods, upon first glance, my vision enhanced by a bright sun, and some great boomers , i thought everyone was throwing ice cubes at each other. But, then i saw ppl literally like two feet away from each other just whipping these "ice cubes" into some neighbors face. My brain could not comprehend. I was like...wtf?? All ive heard and witnessed in my first cpl years seeing this band is how peaceful these ppl are, how the fuck could this be happening??
As i walked closer and closer , the "cubes" became whiter and whiter and i just laughed my ass off...i stopped in my trax, and just took it in....who else would think of this?? What can i throw as hard as i can at my best friend (or a stranger) and not hurt them??? Omg, i laughed for a long time....also, from a distance, you couldnt blv just how many marshmellows were airborne, and ive never seen anything that compares to that "marshmellow war", before or after...nothing ever came close...it was like everyone knew to bring marshmellows???? And i didnt even get memo...lol...there were a few small battles at shows later that summer, but, again, nothing compares...etc
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smoked one with jack herer
smoked one with jack herer
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The lightning knock out the
The lightning knock out the PA for a moment during Wharf Rat at my first show (MPP 6-20-83).
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Hampton '85 we were dosed
Hampton '85 we were dosed hard. During set break i saw what I learned to be one of those spinning hologram disks. No one was watching or tending to it. I had never seen one before and it looked like a deep worm-hole portal. Just awesome considering my mind set. I thought it was the hallucinations we'd heard about. Well, it was, and it wasn't. I eventually bought one of those disks at the Pipefitter in Boulder :)
Oh...and plasma generators behind Jerry during space at my first show (on the rail).
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>smoked one with jack herer
>smoked one with jack herer
Same here, but with Wavy Gravy ... probably not an unusual thing.
Alpine 89 a guy repaired my car in the lot.
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ghrame lesh w/ phil in oak as
ghrame lesh w/ phil in oak as a kid. he was maybe 3-5? he was out on stage w/ phil as he was sound checking. he did a killer t. thumb that night. we were in early and high already...
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This Band I had never seen
This Band I had never seen playing on a flatbed truck
In the park near downtown, serendipity And perhaps altering my life’s path...
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"spinning hologram disks"
"spinning hologram disks"
Yeah, they could suck you right in.
First song, first show (Bertha, 3/24/73), seeing the crowd clapping in time with their hands over their heads and thinking "This is how excited people are at the end of other shows".
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These little pieces of paper
These little pieces of paper that added dimensions full of useful data.
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Jerry
Jerry
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And phil
And phil
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Went to my first ever show
Went to my first ever show (Kaiser, Feb '85) super burnt with no money for booze, or rugs. I also knew nothing of the Dead and had just a cursory knowledge of the music from the few rare times I heard them on the radio (friend who was a head gave me the ticket). So the following is on me, not the band or music (though listening to the show now, it does sound sloppy and a little plodding at times).
Anyway, as I was slipping into a semi-coma during 2nd set pre-drums>drums>space>china doll, I realized that, unlike any rock show I had ever attended, I could just lie down and take a nap right in the middle of the floor and no one would stomp me. This kind of blew my mind.
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Saratoga '83: It was raining
Saratoga '83: It was raining and every time Phil dropped a bomb it changed the direction of the raindrops. Thought it might be a hallucination until I saw a bunch of people enjoying it as well.
Number 1 with an asterisk. The great Jerry Garcia playing guitar.
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GDTS was kind to me for an
GDTS was kind to me for an early Q show ... single ticket on first day of mail order and I was right next to the SBD.
Just being neighborly, smoked up the folks next to me all first set
Set break ... someone informed me that those were Phil's kids.
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Living room sofa on the field
Living room sofa on the field at Englishtown
Weir briefly tuning a double neck guitar before the Terps encore
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I saw the light.
I saw the light.
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I seen everyone in Nassau
I seen everyone in Nassau Coliseum turn into dancing skeletons in the early eighties. How did they do that?
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My first show (and Lance's),
My first show (and Lance's), 10/21/78 at Winterland, Hamza El Din to open, followed by the "From Egypt With Love" men and women in flowing robes, then GD. I thought to myself "This is not a regular rock and roll show."
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I saw the electro-magnetic
I saw the electro-magnetic energy interchange between the clouds and crowd at the last night of Red Rocks in 1985, but then again, I was very high on some of Owsley's purple gels.
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>>>>"This is not a regular
>>>>"This is not a regular rock and roll show."
Yep. That pretty much sums it up. I had seen plenty of hard rock and heavy metal concerts with loud, muddy sound, and was just amazed how the GD was just as loud (and heavy) but sounded crystal clear - like a good stereo. The crazy lights and 360 degree stereophonic effects during Drumz>Space was pretty mind blowing too.
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12/31/69 was my first
12/31/69 was my first winterland show
the bus came by at about 4am
God bless America
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1978 was my first big year
1978 was my first big year for seeing shows, and I got to see some great ones. My only dead show was the night before they closed Winterland, 12-30-78. We were lined up outside the gate and things were really laid back, then they opened the gates and the crowd surged. It was a true study in clothed sexual practices in a raging-hippie-river environment. I actually got sort of lifted off the ground, and an eddy (possibly the result of a reducing drum circle vortex) helped spawn me up the human stream. Once thru the gate everyone was running for the best seats. (I'm thinking nobody did this at Muddy Waters or Jethro Tull, lol). We get inside and end up next to the taper section. None of the 2 dozen shows before this had a taper section, and being naive to the scene at the time, thought it must be important or something for so much attention to be paid to it. But the show was great, enjoyed the big screen w/ a slide show from Egypt, during drums Hamza el Din and crew came out for a nice chant / drum section with the crowd, and various dignitaries drumming along with them (Bill Walton / Graham etc), into Ollin Arageed, which was beyond a rarity!
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01/01/69
9pm till 9am
At 4 AM so I’m got six months some got one solid
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At my first Dead show 8/04/76
At my first Dead show 8/04/76 in shithole Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ. There was an Ice Cream vendor working the crowd yelling "Ice Cream, Ice Cream & Acid!"
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Coolest things you saw early
Coolest things you saw early in your dead "career"
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Thank you, F.O.M. ;)
Thank you, F.O.M.
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