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Post by 32Green on Oct 27, 2024 17:49:35 GMT -5
They do have a few tunes I like so I cant say I dislike the band. Remembering back to HS, the kids that jumped on the Dead bandwagon were also the first ones I knew to start drugs harder than weed etc. That def. turned me off. I wasnt an angel (parking lot/woods beer/wine kids) but the whole cult thing was weird. Freshman college roommate from Philly introduced me to them. I was clueless. Then we all went to a show and I was flabbergasted. I didn’t mind the college kids into them (college was a time to be idiots) but the slightly older traveling types were odd. They were all jus a bit “off”. And for all the hippie vibes they strived for there was an undercurrent of mental illness and sometimes violence. Anytime people completely define themselves by an outside entity it gives me weird vibes. That said I still listen to the Dead a lot. Good music is good music. They just had the circus following them. Probably sucked for people who wanted to see them live but had to be exposed to the whole shitshow too. |
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Post by 32Green on Oct 27, 2024 17:51:51 GMT -5
Gonna avoid the Haight-Ashbury; usually i take friends over to 710 Ashbury (some beleaguered Asian family lives there now - mystified by the attention lol); word is that the crowd is quite big; that's a big throng you got there, buddy - lost souls indeed. I think currently, the lost souls that would have followed the Dead back in the day, follow Phish instead. I would def. prefer the dead over Phish though. |
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Post by shakin on Oct 27, 2024 18:20:29 GMT -5
They do have a few tunes I like so I cant say I dislike the band. Remembering back to HS, the kids that jumped on the Dead bandwagon were also the first ones I knew to start drugs harder than weed etc. That def. turned me off. I wasnt an angel (parking lot/woods beer/wine kids) but the whole cult thing was weird. Freshman college roommate from Philly introduced me to them. I was clueless. Then we all went to a show and I was flabbergasted. I didn’t mind the college kids into them (college was a time to be idiots) but the slightly older traveling types were odd. They were all jus a bit “off”. And for all the hippie vibes they strived for there was an undercurrent of mental illness and sometimes violence. Anytime people completely define themselves by an outside entity it gives me weird vibes. That said I still listen to the Dead a lot. bro you come into the hampur and start belittling an undercurrent of mental illness and sometimes violence? we have feelings too you know |
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Post by shakin on Oct 27, 2024 18:30:43 GMT -5
Freshman college roommate from Philly introduced me to them. I was clueless. Then we all went to a show and I was flabbergasted. I didn’t mind the college kids into them (college was a time to be idiots) but the slightly older traveling types were odd. They were all jus a bit “off”. And for all the hippie vibes they strived for there was an undercurrent of mental illness and sometimes violence. Anytime people completely define themselves by an outside entity it gives me weird vibes. That said I still listen to the Dead a lot. Good music is good music. They just had the circus following them. Probably sucked for people who wanted to see them live but had to be exposed to the whole shitshow too. my older brother started listening to the dead when shakedown street came out. nothing at all like a deadhead, and to me it's hilarious that their most "commercial pop" album is what got him into it anyways he started listening to their other albums, and liked a lot of it. so he goes to a show at nassau coliseum, normal guy among pigpen waste products that would lick the hershey squirt out of jerry's boxers. he's digging the show and making small talk with the malodorous deadheads next to him, and he goes "man i hope they play terrapin station." the foul stinking goons all look at him mockingly and tell him "lol wtf they never play terrapin station duuuuuuuude lol" and start giving each other knowing self-important glances and headshakes so he's embarrassed and outed as not being one of the losers that drive a '75 vega with no muffler around the country and sleep in parking lots to follow a bunch of acid soaked hippies anyways like three song later, they start playing terrapin station. as soon as they're enough notes in to make it clear that's the song, my big brother, god love em, turns to the pigpen crew next to him, eyes bulging, big pointer finger in their faces, and yells "AAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"i love that story
my fuckin big bro. i wanna be just like him when i grow up |
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Post by crossfire on Oct 27, 2024 18:40:26 GMT -5
Good music is good music. They just had the circus following them. Probably sucked for people who wanted to see them live but had to be exposed to the whole shitshow too. my older brother started listening to the dead when shakedown street came out. nothing at all like a deadhead, and to me it's hilarious that their most "commercial pop" album is what got him into it anyways he started listening to their other albums, and liked a lot of it. so he goes to a show at nassau coliseum, normal guy among pigpen waste products that would lick the hershey squirt out of jerry's boxers. he's digging the show and making small talk with the malodorous deadheads next to him, and he goes "man i hope they play terrapin station." the foul stinking goons all look at him mockingly and tell him "lol wtf they never play terrapin station duuuuuuuude lol" and start giving each other knowing self-important glances and headshakes so he's embarrassed and outed as not being one of the losers that drive a '75 vega with no muffler around the country and sleep in parking lots to follow a bunch of acid soaked hippies anyways like three song later, they start playing terrapin station. as soon as they're enough notes in to make it clear that's the song, my big brother, god love em, turns to the pigpen crew next to him, eyes bulging, big pointer finger in their faces, and yells "AAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"i love that story
my fuckin big bro. i wanna be just like him when i grow upLove that |
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Post by crossfire on Oct 27, 2024 18:45:39 GMT -5
I have a few close friends that are huge Dead Heads. One of them loved them so much that he started working for them as a chef for a while so that he would get paid to travel with them. But they all did that crap when they were young & had real jobs.
I like quite a few Dead songs. But just never had any desire to see them in concert.
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Post by westcoastoffensive on Oct 27, 2024 23:24:35 GMT -5
The Grateful Dead Movie is awful; I'd rather go and watch some lost soul make donuts at Krispy Kreme
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Post by jetfan29 on Oct 28, 2024 11:04:58 GMT -5
R.I.P. Phil
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Post by Ff2 on Oct 30, 2024 16:59:49 GMT -5
Freshman college roommate from Philly introduced me to them. I was clueless. Then we all went to a show and I was flabbergasted. I didn’t mind the college kids into them (college was a time to be idiots) but the slightly older traveling types were odd. They were all jus a bit “off”. And for all the hippie vibes they strived for there was an undercurrent of mental illness and sometimes violence. Anytime people completely define themselves by an outside entity it gives me weird vibes. That said I still listen to the Dead a lot. bro you come into the hampur and start belittling an undercurrent of mental illness and sometimes violence? we have feelings too you know undercurrent? |
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Post by Ff2 on Oct 30, 2024 17:22:08 GMT -5
I first saw her in One From The Heart and was smitten. Bare breasted and clad only in panties made great eye candy! RIP beautiful... Mods please move to Classified For Sale thread |
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Post by shakin on Oct 30, 2024 17:42:47 GMT -5
The Grateful Dead Movie is awful; I'd rather go and watch some lost soul make donuts at Krispy Kreme hey say hi to southside for me |
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