I wish I was a headlight.... (Page 1 of 2)

It's just not the same without Jerry. I'm not even sure if they are gonna tour as the Dead any longer. It's been awhile since they did and now it's pretty much Phil Lesh & Friends or Bob Weirs band Ratdog if you want a Dead fix.

                                                                                       The Fatman Rocks,

                                                                                       J Dawg

Thank you, thank you, and.....thank you!

I've started with Oakland '86. Any particular ones you'd recommend?

Deadhead here!!! I simply LOVE the Grateful Dead...thanx for the thread on them! . Jerry's passing meant the death of a huge part of psychedelic/jamming rock. GD were something else with Jerry on guitar, but I DO appreciate what the Dead are doing today....the important thin is they haven't in any way wimped out on us....Jerry would have wanted it that way!

"ONCE A DEADHEAD ALWAYS A DEADHEAD"
"MAY YOUR D O G S BE WITH YOU"

Check it all out here.....http://www.dead.net/

Yeah, right on , heheheheheheeeheheheheh ....GD were the IN thing alright!

I have no idea how old you are Bill, but I can only say that you had to be in the right age group to have had that experience at that time. Dead-mania was totally different to say, Beatle-mania. It was certainly also to do with being stoned or tripping at their gigs, though it was also much more than that.

I know what you're saying, Bill. It's funny how things go sometimes. I honestly can't remember how I first got into the Dead, but it was certainly in the early 70's when I was at university in England. I got hooked by the music...and the lyrics, Jerry's playing, Bob's fragile voice and the different 'feel' (at the time) of long, rambling songs interspersed with wonderful solos.

I probably became a different sort of 'Deadhead' than many in the US were at the time, if for no other reason than because our 'experience' was very different. We were a minority at university and thinking of ourselves as 'Deadheads' was, no doubt, a sort of bonding. Also, when the Dead came to England it was usually to appear at one open air festival, so we generally only saw them once, invariably in the rain and mud.

I have no idea why, since the music was not really in the same 'bag', but most of our little group of Deadheads also became Feat freaks in the early 70's. (So much to say about Little Feat, I may have to start a separate thread.)

Finally, on the subject of manias, in particular Bonamania - I turned a young (31) friend of mine on to Joe. He came to the Paradiso show with me and was as knocked out as I was. He subsequently turned his father (my age), who lives in Spain, on to Joe. His father is so knocked out that he will be joining us at several of Joe's gigs here next March!

You're 10 years younger than I am Rob, so I guess I'd fit in with the older brothers you refer to!

Hit me with a link to the forum please and I'll join you there.

George

Edit - never mind, I found it.

Excellent Cathy!

It was 'Feat Freak', by the way. Ok, Feat topic coming up later.