| Dead Head Quotes...... |
| "Becoming a Deadhead had everything to do with the times you're "there," the times you join in a circle of friends and families and experience the freedom of the Dead's music. Discovering your Deadhead identity means that you know when you've gone around the corner, when your disbelief melts into understanding." ~ Paul Grushkin (1982) "Strong grass and live Dead put me into a stoned trance, staring at Garcia. Something popped in my mind as I realized he was also staring at me. I beamed a huge uncontrollable grin at him. He winked back and jerked his guitar neck at me twice. I felt bolts of energy strike me, and my grin was fixed in place for the rest of the concert. I've been a Deadhead ever since. My mother will never understand." ~ Alan Praskin (1976) "If there was any doubts as to where I was, they were immediately dispelled when the wiry young man with the crazed glaze came up to me with a plateful of bright red fruit and asked if I'd like an electric strawberry." ~ Jay Trachtenberg (1981) "A Dead concert is my Sun Dance and I eagerly await the festivities and rituals of cleansing and reintegrating my humanness. Each event retains its own special significance, and remains in my mind as moments of shamanistic ecstasy. The participation in each dance enables my spirit to transcend my body and mingle and rejoice and be one with the spirits of all the other participants." ~ Deadhead letter (1973) "When those house lights went off, I heard something I've never heard in my life. It wasn't so much that the ovation was a loud ovation- it was very loud, to be sure- but it was this TONE. There was a sound in the yell of the crowd that was unmistakeable; the sound of pure unadulterated, unfettered LOVE, shameless and fierce, pouring out endlessly in one unbroken roar, and it was, no kidding, the most moving sound I have ever heard in my life. I will remember it till the day I die. Such affection!" ~ Deadhead letter (1980) "I'm off again in rapture and excitement where the music of The Dead takes my soul to endless limits in space, in time, to the vast beauty where wide open space prevails and time is no matter. I feel the warmth and the sensations that lift my spirit" ~ Deadhead poem (1981) "It's like a pact, we show up and give the Dead our good energy and they fill us up in return...it sounds kind of stupid when you talk about it." ~ Blair Jackson (1980) "We have a certain amount of faith that the Grateful Dead is a special thing in ways that we aren't able to articulate. But we know it experientially because it's an experience rather than a thought or an idea; it's something that's somehow fundamental to humanness and whatever ritual and celebrations are all about." ~ Jerry Garcia (1981) "The sound test did such amazing things to my blown-out head, I almost forgot I was an oiled sardine." ~ Deadhead letter (1974) "I was at the Grateful Dead, we all got the munchies and we all got fed." ~ Deadhead letter (1973) |
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