The Grateful Dead were dangerous, just not THAT KIND of dangerous.

Sadly, it really is. It's truly amazing that there was so rarely able to capture any of the real GD magic on studio recordings. You would think, especially as time went on, with their love of technology and experimentation that they would have been able to get it right more often than they did.

No, but I have been to Haigh- Ashbury district many, many times.

Brokedown Palace.

First of all, never heard a single Deadhead talk THAT WAY. That's the made up Deadhead persona, the one people hate that doesn't really exist. Second, are you saying that other fan bases don't express their love for and come to the defense of the artist, bands and music they like? Because in my experience they…

'k.

Good read, a little long, maybe, and like any piece of that length written by a Deadhead filled with quite a bit of ephemera and poetic dreaminess. Not any facts or opinions I hadn't heard before, either, short of the authors own personal experiences, but still a good read.

Agreed about the burnout hippie, too. I live in the Bay Area and they reside here in abundance, but they were always only a portion, a fraction, of the Dead's fan base, not the entirety of it. Even amongst those who did wear tie-die and patchouli, a great many of them were always employed, regular people who felt…

I had not, am doing so right now. Thanks.

Definitely agree. It's just become a "thing" to speak poorly about the Dead and their fans, regardless of the fact that the person doing the speaking may not have any personal knowledge of their music or history. It's a mockingbird effect - hear it and repeat it. I remember the "I'll be grateful when they're dead"…

Which fans? Because the misconception that all Grateful Dead fans are acid dropping, patchouli wearing, long-haired, unwashed and unemployed, tie-died wearing, "hey man did you hear that jam from such and such date" losers is a huge part of the problem. They aren't, and really never were. Don't judge a book by it's…

Aimed, fired, hit target.

Casey Jones is not a pro-drug song. So many people think it is, because so many people don't listen. Check out the lyrics, it's very clearly not.

Yeah, I remember a lot of bananas… which doesn't necessarily mean there WAS a lot of bananas…

I have to say that I always hunted the Dead parking lots for grilled cheese as well. Unless we were in Oakland, because that lady had the best egg rolls ever! She wasn't a touring Deadhead, she just brought a big batch of egg rolls to the parking lot for those shows and they sold out SO FAST. I think they were $2, if…

OMG I'm so sorry. I hate spoilers.

Nice!

You're late.

Really isn't that many GD concert films in relation to the number of shows they played, very few, actually. Also, there hasn't been a proper Dead documentary yet. Yes, everything has been documented and everyone has been interviewed (I talk about this further up the page a bit), but there hasn't been a real…

Pretty sure Robbie Robertson sat in with the Dead on more than one occasion. Regardless they did an entire tour with Dylan, won't be hard to get Robbie in there. The 'Gimme Shelter' inserts on the other hand… not so sure.