Today in Deadhead History - Grateful Dead On this date in Deadhead history - In 1966, the Grateful Dead played the Cal Medical Center in San Francisco as part of the LSD conference - In 1969, the Grateful Dead played an early and late show at the Fillmore East in New York City - In 1974, the Grateful Dead played the Omni in Atlanta The Truckin>Eyes is good
Documenting The Dead: Taping the Dead - Grateful Dead Every Deadhead understands what noted Deadhead writer Steve Silberman eloquently called “the treasures buried in the taped record of the Dead's pursuit of their restless muse ” Yet taping was also more than just capturing history: tapers understood that the recordings they made had the power to help create the subculture
What Is a Dead Head? - Grateful Dead A Deadhead is a person, animal, plant, mineral or art form that begins to smile and glow and vibrate and pulsate and dance when the sound waves and or visions of the band enter that being’s senses (don’t tell me you haven’t seen those smiling, glowing, vibrating, pulsating, dancing forms) If the doors of perception were cleansed
Religion, Spirituality and Deadheads | Grateful Dead I've met atheist Deadheads, Muslim Deadheads, Buddhist Deadheads, Catholic Deadheads, Jewish Deadheads, and Wiccan Deadheads My Deadhead friends are all over the map on this stuff, and as far as I'm concerned one of the real richnesses of the scene is the ability to see how things look to other folks and, sometimes, experience it from their world
Deadheads of Europe - Grateful Dead But what I DO miss are the community of friends who are Deadheads, the dancing frenzy late at night to somebody's tape, the exposure to tapes I haven't heard before, the joy seeing of a car driving by with a Deadhead bumpersticker and knowing is a potential friend, talking about show experiences with somebody anybody without having them look at
All In The Family: Steve Silberman | Grateful Dead So after being introduced by a mutual friend to a great writer named David Shenk, who had this wacky idea of doing a Deadhead dictionary, I told him it should be more than just another novelty Yuppie Handbook that would be forgotten six months later It should be an in-depth history of this fabulous zany subculture that was half like a baseball
KFOG - Grateful Dead Hour Used to listen to KFOG when I lived in the Bay area circa 85-86 I actually wasn't aware of a Grateful Dead Hour then on KFOG, and in fact the first Grateful Dead Hour I heard was in 1988 in Los Angeles (the show that featured the Beautiful Jam from a 1971 Dark Star into Wharf Rat, which I still have on cassette tape)
Comments - Grateful Dead seems to me that Japan got a very active and lively deadhead scene withregular events as far as i know nothing like it exist in Australia but i hope that i'm wrong about it a Byron Bay radio station had a night program 'A Long Strange Trip' simular to the Grateful Dead Hour;i don't know if it's still going - lost the link if somebody here knows more about GD related events and radio
Deadheads of Asia - Grateful Dead Well, it's been 7 years since I wrote this initial post looking for deadheads to hang with in Nagoya, Japan While I've enjoyed venturing to such places as the Oshino Dead Festival near Mt Fuji in 2013, Yukotopia a few times( Hi Kuma) and the Happy Farm Music Festival near Nagano in 2016, I've been looking for someone I kind spend time with on weekends listening to tunes and exploring the ar