Really happy that my dad made the cut here. I remember him doing this interview so well. I was DEEP into the scene at this point and loved dragging him to shows circa 88-94. It gave him a renewed hope in finding what he thought was lost. I thank Walton and Barlow for bringing us in - it's a debt I can never repay.
Your father’s important work/research/advocacy in the area of psychedelics is only now being validated by the medical community. He was light years ahead of his time, much like Garcia himself.
Thanks to your father, I was able to open my mind and see that LSD can be used as a tool rather than a party drug. I read his writings and it opened another world. This was around 1985 and I was 15, it changed who I was and who I became, and it was for the better. You must be proud of him.
@@gnewts3155 Thanks. Well, it's kinda a full circle catch 22.thing. I got into the GD, and got tix, via Barlow and Walton (his friends) but yeah, then I took him to shows because I wanted him to see how good it still was. So it worked out for both of us:)
Little secret for my brother & sister Deadheads going way back. Real miracle 🎟 tickets started before 1980 & were free, given out by unknown associates and friends of the Band!! All the way through to Jerry's passing!! How cool is that? They just come out in the parking lot and give them out to unsuspecting heads! BS passes, too! It has been done, I know cos I did it!! It felt awesome!! After meeting them in SF, my 1st show on east coast they gave me 10 tickets & 5 BS passes for me, 3 friends who had tickets & extras to give out miracles! I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD ❤ 🌹 💎
My first show was 1973 and by the late seventies and into the early eighties I was seeing them a lot. Just took in the Wrigley Field D & C shows and had as much fun as ever.
I saw the Dead 5 times over the many years. Last 2 show's were at Autzen Stadium in Eugene Oregon. The one show was opened by Little Feat. The other show was the Indigo Girls. Great memories.
i was a DH since the 70s, tribal kind community i miss you so, you were good to me we had an amazing time and i loved you. there are moments seared into memory.
@ Sunshine Daydream. I’m 71 and was not a fan until last august on the 25 anniversary of Jerry’s passing. I’ve never been to a concert in my life, but I sit here in the evenings by myself and listen to and watch these past concerts and I’m absolutely amazed the beautiful visual effects and sounds. I sure wish Jerry had taken better care of himself but it is what it is. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😎
@@George-wx9dj I often wonder why some people get it right away and others just hate it. Glad you found it and can enjoy such a massive catalog of live shows. It is magical at times and just okay sometimes, but always an adventure.
@@heynow01 I listened to the dead for years. They were just another great among greats (petty, dylan,young etc) But I didnt "get it" till I saw the full terrapin album live by Bob and Phil. Now I know every word to every song. I'm a massive PigPen fan. Know all about bear, haight ashbury, ken kesely the whole thing lol. IM DEFINITELY ON THE BUS😂
@@SEPHICHI420 It is funny how one can get so into it suddenly, when before it was not so spectacular, then suddenly you hear it on a different system or an environment or with someone who just treasures it and then it hits you like you never heard it that good before. Those are the moments that bring me such happiness, but I must admit I don't know the words to any of their songs good enough to sing it without a cheat sheet.
After Brent passed away 😢 everything changed dramatically in my opinion I could feel that it was not the same and still followed the grateful dead in till Jerry died those where good days 🙏
Anytime someone in the dead left/ died, it always marked the end of some sort of an era and things always changed from that point on. And I guess for certain fans, depending where they were in their personal life at that time, they may feel that whatever it was that left when whoever died, and whatever was that change that happened in the music because of it, never was replaced enough for them to feel like the band and the live shows they played after represented the same things to them ....and they no longer could enjoy it. I hear people talk like that, but I'll honestly say, I am super grateful that I have never ever felt that way. Even after Jerry died, i was praying for them to figure it out and when they did in 98 it was pure joy. The Glorious way they continued the band after 95 and continued to stay true to the music and to the playing style into each other is a Real Testament to what they were all about to begin with. 98 other ones, 2002 Alpine valley, 2003 dead, maybe even 04 or 09 and bits of further, there were some seriously awesome shows and high moments all throughout all that stuff. And dead and Company, for me, really couldn't be any better as far as nailing that modern dead sound and continuing to push the music while staying true to what a dead show was. Where else can you go and see a long two set show with all your favorite songs and then get drums space in the middle of it!!!! And I have a little bit of a feeling that when they finish this tour and hang up that project we're going to get something else good, maybe not as big and huge and super star-ish but I do kind of miss my small rat dog theater and club shows or seeing further all kinds of random places. Maybe Bob and Phil and John will do something that would be awesome. And for me Jeff chimenti has earned his spot as one of the great keyboard players of the Dead. Shoot his lasted longer than any of the ones before him!!! Anyways, long live the dead and honestly until Bobby is dead the band's heart still Beats
I was a "metal head" in 91... friends from Wisconsin drove to Cincinnati and took me to Buckeye Lake... changed my life. That same Summer I had a chance meet/ conversation with Timothy Leary at Union Terminal in Cincinnati and I happened to be out and about "micro dosing" on 1/2 hit I scored at the Dead show.
Try actual* microdosing! 0.08-0.1 psilocybin per day. It will help bring back your inner fire from your youth, and it helps me remember the good and truth of everything… if that makes sense. Love ya.
Living on the east coast during the late 80s through mid 90s we were spoiled with so many Dead shows. MSG, Brendan Byrne, Giants Stadium, Albany, RFK, Spectrum. It was a magical time
Did west coast tour 93, 94, 95... A friend grabbed me for 93 tour. I was super sceptical. Hopped off tour, sold everything I owned, then followed them for 94 - 95 along with hopping on and off Phish tour and jumping around the country for various festivals and Rainbow gatherings. Best time of my life.
There was no stopping Jerry from playing the guitar, he told the guys that he was gonna play the guitar every day with somebody. He was a true lover of the guitar.
People who excel at guitar are the people that never put it down. Hendrix, Jerry, etc. They always practiced and kept a guitar nearby because they loved music, and expressing themselves thru music kept them in touch with the divine. 😊
I was proud to attend all those shows at Buckeye from 91' on. The 90's Grateful Dead shows were some magical events and like it is said about every period of the Dead's career..You had to be there cause there was nothing like a Grateful Dead show..I'm beyond thankful for those shows in 93'...I saw Atlanta thru Chapel Hill and Richfield and Buckeye...That space was getting hot, smoking hot..One of my favorite Buckeye memories was looking back on 100,000 pairs of eyes and wide-open mouths when the guys brought out a real Train whistle and let that train horn blast...The stage lights turned like an oncoming train and the whistle roared..Only the Grateful Dead did that kind of stuff..Mind Blowing
I did Atlanta and Charlotte every year until Jerry passed. Hummus aming us and hair wraps for what you csn spare. The campground in Charlotte was LIT. The owner road around on a golf cart in a yogi bear suit passing out balloons full of nitrous and jamming with us. Quite the scene! I miss the groove. I usually saw their show in pairs- and made a point to be mid- air, between. Worked all year to ride around for a month.
I've got the same memory of a Buckeye Promised Land, making my way from our group in the middle all the way to the front to grab a friend, then turning around to walk back to the group, and seeing 100,000 of the SMILINGEST FACES EVER bobbing up and down. 100 shows and that's one of my favorite memories!! BTW Mickey still brings that train horn on most every tour. I've helped pack it ;)
It was fun while it lasted. First show in 89. Then dead-icated for 91 summer tour starting in Vegas and ending my run at the shoreline shows and back to college. 92 saw most of the summer tour. . 93 saw the scene getting toxic….gate crashers started to ruin everything. Band was getting fed up. Cars getting broken into and fights in the parking lot…etc. by 94 things turning ugly. So sad. But I regret not seeing more shows in last tours . I’d give anythiby to be thee agin. So many friends no longer around or lost among the years. I still dream of going to shows. The feeling of rolling into the parking lot, the smell of the lot in the air…kind bud, burning sage, grilling cheese sandwiches, the feeling of having a ticket, and the energy as you walk into the venue walking through the spinners and the packed gate entrances to the stadium/arena and the vibe of the crowd…..all this etched into my memory bank. was such a “long long time to be gone…and a short time to be there” But I’ll never forget.
Yes my first shows were in 88bu tmy Dad was a big hippie guess I was trying to be him. Those 91 August Shoreline shows were so good tho. The 1st set Dark Star and all. I got off the bus after the May 92 Csli run. I really dug Brent, Bruce worked but Vince by himself wasn't my bag. Saw a bunch of Phish shows in 93 but got my fill of thar NYE 93. Went to their Shoreline shows in 2001 but that was my last showsof any kind. I rarely look or listen to the Dead anymore Bobby and Mickey ring me bers of the Bohemian Grove threw me.
They are on their membership list under the artist memberse. They started going down there in the late 90s. Bobby even talked about kicking it with Wild Bill Donovan's right hand man when him and Parish were posting conversations from the studio in San Rafael yrs ago. It's no secret
@@stephengrahn9361 interesting, didnt know. After they promoted Obama's campaign it doesnt surprise me. They should have stuck with Jerrys no politics adage, "We dont want to mislead"
Thank you for posting this for people to watch and those that were there an opportunity to look back. There was a lot of good and bad in the lot back then but if you ask those who were there, I feel they would say the good out weighed the bad. The love , respect and kindness most of us had for each other made us strong and we live in a better society now because of it. The main thing I loved about our community was it didn't matter who you were, what you look like, where you were from, who you knew....you were welcomed like family. The music is our bond and to this day it lives on 26 years after this film was recorded. What a long strange trip its been :-) Gonna say to my Sisters and Brothers ,keep the faith
Hello Bradley Fish! Love seeing folks I know in these videos. Still think about my first show all the time. Life changing. Nice to revisit the scene. Love to all!
You got on the bus in 93’ while I left the Bay Area and began a homestead lifestyle. I missed these years in the 90s till Jerry became pure light. Great doc. Highlights some of the problems that came with the popularity. Contrasts that with the glue that was the good hearts of the many.
Ahhh man! I’m so glad to find this!!! I sometimes forget about this part of my life. This is bringing back sooooo many memories, and I love it so much! Patchouli, ganja goo balls, gel tabs! KOA, trip and Emily’s, who I saw get married at their farm at one of the festivals they always held there in terra Alta West Virginia just up from the beautiful deckers creek. New river gorge. Buckeye Lake, three rivers stadium, where I saw the Grateful Dead for the first and last time. I was 10 years old, my parents had absolutely no interest in them and I begged, kicked and screamed until my mom bought me and her a ticket and took me to 3rivers on this tour shortly after Jerry passed, and that was it. I saw “the other ones” a bunch of times including once at the civic arena, where Robert hunter opened up, and played promontory rider. My 1964 Plymouth valiant signet 200 with the push button transmission that we used to take to all the festivals. I bought that car off of who would be my best friend for 2 decades with the first $1100 I ever made at my first job when I was 14 years old. We had so many memories in the car and my buddy had to sell it in order to buy his 1972 charger and it broke my fucking heart that the car was going to be gone forever. I couldn’t let it happen so I went out and got a job at age 14 and was the first $1100 I ever made. I bought the car off them like I said I bought it when I was 14 and 41 today and I still have that Car. In fact, I just began to restore it last month still has all the dead stickers on the back bumper and on the back windows and the sticker on the glove box door that says “ass gas or grass nobody rides for free.” my best friend who sold me the car was absolutely my ace. We used to hang out and get high on this old wooden bridge about 3/4 of a mile up the street from my house about 200 yards from my grandmothers house and my buddy before I knew him live right up the street across this bridge, and he stopped one day and said hey, do you guys wanna get high and we were like fuck you dude I’ll match you. So I match them that day in the second time I encountered this dude I was walking down the train tracks which this bridge was right on the side of the set of train tracks so I’m walking down the tracks with my buddy Nick, my other best friend, my oldest friend Who I met on the bus on my first day of kindergarten and like I said we were about 50 yards from the road at the bridge where they intersect it and all of a sudden he comes rolling up across the tracks in what is now my 64 Plymouth valiant, and he slams on the brakes when he sees us on the tracks backs up rolls down the window and yells to us. “Hey, hurry up get in!” we hit this back road and he pulls these 2 gallon size Ziploc bags out of his waistband full Boston at the seams with Durbin poison and I about shit a fucking brick. I never seen anything like it in my life. Up until then, it was all brick weed for me. Seedy schwag. It was on after that. I’ve been thinking about writing a book about my life. Recently I’ve met some new friends who didn’t know me then. And they are in a constant state of awe, at the stories!😂 they are always asking for a new story and think I should write a book. Love ya guys!!!!!
Thank You guys for creating and sharing this! I saw plenty of West Coast 90's shows, but this was the one Summer East Coast tour I managed to do. My bro & I sold veggie fajita burritos in the lot & made it into every show. So many memories, thanks for taking us back to Shakedown Street Summer '93!
@@sammyscotch9945yeah that’s right I forgot that you can fill ur gas tank with “free” and everyone knows you can go to the grocery store and just ask them to “give” you the ingredients for your burritos because, hey man everything should just be shared
Ken Kesey said it well. About the magic. "That Crack". Sometimes moments in a show, when the crack, a shift, and it can be nourishing~ healing~uplifying~inspiring~ sharing. Can feel like a moment in a familiar dream ❤
I’m a “new” Deadhead but I’ve always loved the communal aspect of the Dead shows.It’s one of the few places where every person’s inner light,positivity and kindness shines brighter than anything.I’ve had a guy walk up to me and hand me a fat joint and pat me on the back and say have fun.Where else on the face of the earth are you going to find someone who will just hand you a joint without a single alterior motive other than to brighten another fans day.
Very nice to see Pete Shapiro is a fellow Wildcat from Northwestern I got on the “bus” 73 at Nassau and have been on ever since Even saw Jerry play McGaw Hall in 75.....thanks for all the great music Pete you are an inspiration My son is an aspiring film maker and we went to Citifield last year on a Fathers Day miracle ! Keep on truckin’!
I miss touring so much... It lived on for about 8-10 years after Jerry passed, through Other Ones, Phil & Friends, Ratdog, and some of the similar bands like String Cheese and Big Wu. Wasn't the same, but in some ways it got better; the crowds were lower, less drunks/people only there just for the party, no more dumbass gate-crashers. And there were still some stellar spots like Alpine, Deer Creek, The Gorge, Red Rocks, but then the festivals really started to take over and it kinda spelled the end for it. I mean Gathering of the Vibes, High Sierra Telluride BGF were amazing but something around 2005ish started to change. Maybe it was Bonnaroo, and the inclusion of acts (and their fans) that didn't "get it" idk. The community wasn't really there in the way it was in the past. You'd still see the same tour rats all over the country, but it was a smaller group that were still committed, but those still doing it were just as kind, caring, giving and loving as ever. Just beautiful. Ultimately, there was enough momentum to carry it forward nearly a decade after Jerry, but it had to slow eventually. There are still some great little festivals, and some fantastic bands in the scene to this day, but its just different... Heroin, cocaine, speed, Oxy's became nearly as common as doses or psilocybe. To those of my family still out there keeping the spirit of the Dead alive, bless you. I do my part to keep newer generations interested in the music and I don't think the interst will ever die. I'm just sad and miss all of the friends I've lost touch with since the fallout, but I'll always have the memories and they were the best years of my life. Forever Grateful, Forever Dead
Agreed. I refused to go until The Dead at Bonnaroo in 05' with Haynes and Herring. Those two were spectacular but still found myself in tears during every Garcia number, especially the ballads. I went to Phil & Friends and Further a few years later so my sons might experience what the big deal was. The effort fell short in my estimation, and the no Jerry pain was just as prevalent. Not a fan of D&C, never cared for Mayer, it's excruciatingly slow and just don't dig Bobbys choppy stile on Jerry tunes. Lol, I guess all in all I just missed the big man too much to ever "feel it" again. Lost so many people I love since then, I'm sure that plays a part as well. No memories like my touring memories (bout 220 shows) I miss it dearly. Glad I chose wisely in 83' when I saw my first show and took first step on the bus.
Wow huge fan. What an awesome community. Nicest people in the world.Listened to your show all the time. This is a great way to share the community. Thanks steve. Allot people told me I wasnt going to be anything in life. now I look back and realized I shouldn't have ever listened to those people. They were nothing
Reminds me why I got into shooting live music and festivals. It has never really been about the music for me, I love the community and the memories that are made at these events.
Wow 51:06 one of my old housemates in college.. was childhood friends w my boyfriend. We all lived together and I remember when he became a DH. What a trip
I was at Buffalo and surprised to hear people were crashing the gates. I must’ve missed it being inside having a GRATE time listening to Sting. Got to see Jerry up close playing beautifully on Tea in the Sahara. Wonderful memory :)
For as long as I can remember I grew up feeling music fill my heart. I just couldn’t really explain it nor did I understand it’s positive impact until my 1st Dead show, Buckeye Lake ‘93. From the very second Garcia appeared on stage sporting shorts and t-shirt then tuned up a ripping Foolish Heart it kinda all fell into place, my heart was home ❤ filling up and pouring out every bit of Love it could handle 🏴☠️
Buckeye Lake summer 93, friends and I gave a security guard 20 bucks a piece to walk us into the medical tent and lets us go into the show. lots of people jumping the fence that year. buckeye was a great venue to camp at
Got to see 25 to 30 west coast shows. Sold shirts and did 4 summers tours. Best job I ever had, life changing Fer sure. Even did the Last D&C shows in SF just to try and catch a glimpse of the “good ol days”. The folks were just as Beautiful in 2023 as they where in the 90’s. NFA
I was on the tour during this period. I had a wok and a stove that could burn gas from a normal gas station. I had a grilled cheese operation and also I was selling beer a lot and a guy I knew got us Calvin and Hobbes shirts to sell..
I was a teenager during the 1970's. I saw many Dead shows between 1973 and 1983. Jerry was the most inspirational musician. He had a great aura. Bob, Phil, Mickey, Bill and Ron together made up the greatest improvisational band in history. True magic on stage. The Dead scene was also magical for a while. Eventually dope killed it. The same dope that killed Jerry. Our generation was not over protected like the millennials. Many of us took to the road, taking a try at music or as fans. Life was wide open. While the experience provided great opportunity for growth it also claimed victims. Jerry was one of many. However, many of us survivors find it difficult relating to today's world. We over protected our children and they're creating a world far different from the 1970's. Woodstock Nation is dead. John Lennon told us the dream was over a long time ago. I couldn't really see it until I got into my 60's. Where are we? "What a long strange trip its been."
"Jerry is gone in one form, but like the magician that he is, he has explosively been transformed into a million Jerrys-one improvising in each of our hearts." - Ram Dass "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." Walter Savage Landor Keep on jammin' to what moves your soul!
Today, a ticket to see Dead & Company costs like $150 to start!! Things were way better back then in the 90s and before because ticket prices were so low!! I couldn’t afford to see Dead & Company at all! And I really didn’t want to without Jerry. Jerry was the light in the Grateful Dead. Without him it’s not the same.
I was there, was an awesome venue. Just a huge open sprawling area (I thought woodstock when I first got there). Sting opened for them. I remember it was a prefect day, sun shining when the Dead came and it slowly morphed into a beautiful evening. After the show everybody just hung out right there on the spot, was such a blast. I really don't even remember going through a gate or any thing. Seemed like it was all just wide open.
Interesting in 2020 seeing the commentary on Pearl Jam after the career they've had and the relationship with the fans. Sorta Deadish. Also cool seeing Ice T.
I saw all 3 Cal Expo shows in 1993 and one December Oakland show. I put all my $ and driving down from Arcata into JGB Warfield shows. So much more fun being 15 feet from Jer on the floor. Goosebumps just recalling those velvet curtains open just as they kicked it off. April & October 1993 Warfield were so much fun!!!!
Saw my first show in 1990 foxboro stadium, I was 16 the dead played bid you goodnight for the encore there was no going back after that I graduated high school (92’) I packed a backpack and went on tour with some friends. I was in tour from 92’-95’ when Jerry died
By the 90s, the band started their obvious slide downhill, which mostly crystallized around Garcia's addiction and failing health. I had lived in the Bay Area for 20 years and had to stop going to shows because what I was seeing and hearing was just sad. I like that the scene continued, but even that turned dark in the latter days with the Dead relegated to playing gargantuan, crappy venues and the crowd resorting to outbursts of violence to gain free entry. I truly feel that if they had wrapped things up in '89, Jerry might still be alive and vital today.
Bullshit. That's revisionist history at best. Jerry's dead because he smoked like a chimney for nearly 40 years & did heroin & cocaine in exceptionally copious amounts. Jerry died in large part because he treated his body like it was a dumpster. Yes, Garcia kept touring because he didn't want people to lose their jobs. But he also kept touring because he needed tons of money for his drug habit.
I'm glad they played on because seeing them changed my life and the way I thought about music and I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to be in the same place on planet earth with the Grateful Dead performing incredibly. Those times when I felt in a telekinetic relationship with the group and the audience was one with everyone super chill and kind to one another. The times themselves reflect a lot with the grunge scene, hardcore hip hop money, sex and violence things, and the industry itself on the verge of what would be essentially a complete collapse. When it came to my friends we chose to see "The Grateful Dead". It's funny that all these years later those ripples in still water continue to influence new fans. Watching and listening to Jerry and the boys live was life-changing, and badass.
@@jakejohansen1889 The drug habit was just a fraction of the $ he and they took in. Keeping up the lifestyle of the wealthy off the stage with several women and different kids in expensive houses and all the overhead that comes with that and his side projects. His side gig with the Jerry Garcia Band provided plenty of income for drug habits and employing friends. When Brett OD'd in the summer of '90 they were receiving a sign to put the machine to rest. He had a lot of people depending on him financially and it wasn't the driver's and stage hands like the band claimed when he passed. They were making chump change compared to the type of income others were reaping.
@29:45 i found my way into the cop zone at phish at finger lakes 95 and it was the same story. They had a whole crew of UCs they called "the college guys" who would bust shirt vendors > hit the lot in said gear > search for drug buys
Probably one of the best shows of the shows that have been shown and it just goes to show don't ever know! Yeah reminds me of my first show what was that back in 72 Town Inn where was it Roosevelt Stadium also a good year for a pretty damn good record I mean what then decides to pack up and go to Egypt what the ?
I hate to say it but some of the phoniest, shadiest people I ever met were so called tour rats or heads. I know that is not the high % of people who went to Dead shows but man those few can really give a scene a bad name. Thieves, lazy and drug addicts...I saw them move over to Phish shows in 95...dont mean to be negative but some of the people in this doc reminded me of these cretins and it stuck a memory nerve.....
That’s why I quit going to shows in 92-93! I couldn’t take all the losers that didn’t go into the shows and didn’t even want to unless you were going to give them a free ticket. The last Jerry band show I went to, my wife couldn’t make it so I had an extra, and we were poor, on food stamps (but I worked every day and she was a stay at home mom) and I needed the money back from that ticket to be able to get a beer at the show and have enough gas to make it home. If I gave it away I wouldn’t make the hour long drive home with the gas I had and I was broke besides the ticket. And I walked around the lot and everyone that asked if I had an extra I said yeah and I just wanted face value thinking it would sell quick but as soon as I said I wanted money every one of them were like “fuck that give it to me” and one guy offered to give me the value in food stamps and I said I have those too I don’t need those and you get them for free and that guy and about 5-6 other people around him all wanting tickets started booing me and yelling things like “fuck off asshole” “money grabber” “scalper scum” and I was like FUCK so I stood by the ticket window and had to wait for someone buying a ticket and convince them to buy mine instead because I needed gas to get home and had to take less than face value. So I was sick and tired of all those self proclaimed tour heads. Just a bunch of loser scumbags. Don’t get me wrong there are tons of cool people on tour and at shows but those beggars and drug addict bums ruined the scene.
The thing I hate about almost all of the documentaries about the Grateful Dead, is they mostly just interview the low-hanging fruit, but I'm watching this one, and at least it has Kesey, so that is the top of the tree! Mostly I agree though, that there's always too much of a focus on the ratiest elements. The ones I personally always avoided at shows...
Yeah, it’s something I could maneuver as a younger person, but it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. I would imagine a lot of those ppl are either dead, homeless, or in jail. It’s not a sustainable lifestyle that’s for sure
9:50 I once talked with a hubcap until security came up and took me inside to Rock Med, The kind woman there asked me if I could find my friends and said "have a great show" No need to fake anything life threatening, simply befriend an inanimate object!
30 minutes into the video you have the law harassing and arresting harmless people for selling t-shirts without a license. Let`s look at this. There are evil people in this country who are kidnapping people, raping people, mugging people, stealing off people, etc... and the law chooses to waste time and money and energy going after harmless people who make arts and crafts. That`s the problem with America!
Really happy that my dad made the cut here. I remember him doing this interview so well. I was DEEP into the scene at this point and loved dragging him to shows circa 88-94. It gave him a renewed hope in finding what he thought was lost. I thank Walton and Barlow for bringing us in - it's a debt I can never repay.
Your father’s important work/research/advocacy in the area of psychedelics is only now being validated by the medical community. He was light years ahead of his time, much like Garcia himself.
Thanks to your father, I was able to open my mind and see that LSD can be used as a tool rather than a party drug. I read his writings and it opened another world. This was around 1985 and I was 15, it changed who I was and who I became, and it was for the better. You must be proud of him.
Your dad is a legend. It sounds like you guys were great friends as well as father/son. So cool you took him to shows!
@@gnewts3155 Thanks. Well, it's kinda a full circle catch 22.thing. I got into the GD, and got tix, via Barlow and Walton (his friends) but yeah, then I took him to shows because I wanted him to see how good it still was. So it worked out for both of us:)
Toured from 89-95. Best time of my life for sure. Changed my whole outlook on life.
Little secret for my brother & sister Deadheads going way back. Real miracle 🎟
tickets started before 1980 & were free, given out by unknown associates and friends of the Band!!
All the way through to Jerry's passing!! How cool is that? They just come out
in the parking lot and give them out to unsuspecting heads! BS passes, too! It has been done, I know cos I did it!! It felt awesome!!
After meeting them in SF,
my 1st show on east coast
they gave me 10 tickets & 5 BS passes for me, 3 friends who had tickets & extras to give out miracles!
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD ❤ 🌹 💎
My first show was 1973 and by the late seventies and into the early eighties I was seeing them a lot. Just took in the Wrigley Field D & C shows and had as much fun as ever.
I saw the Dead 5 times over the many years. Last 2 show's were at Autzen Stadium in Eugene Oregon. The one show was opened by Little Feat. The other show was the Indigo Girls. Great memories.
i was a DH since the 70s, tribal kind community i miss you so, you were good to me we had an amazing time and i loved you. there are moments seared into memory.
Thankyou soo much mr Barlow
The Gratefuldead kept me alive & well , partied my ass off !
I was on this tour with my best friend... Our last tour. She has sadly passed on but these memories sustain me.
@ Sunshine Daydream. I’m 71 and was not a fan until last august on the 25 anniversary of Jerry’s passing. I’ve never been to a concert in my life, but I sit here in the evenings by myself and listen to and watch these past concerts and I’m absolutely amazed the beautiful visual effects and sounds. I sure wish Jerry had taken better care of himself but it is what it is. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😎
@@George-wx9dj I often wonder why some people get it right away and others just hate it. Glad you found it and can enjoy such a massive catalog of live shows.
It is magical at times and just okay sometimes, but always an adventure.
@@heynow01 I listened to the dead for years. They were just another great among greats (petty, dylan,young etc) But I didnt "get it" till I saw the full terrapin album live by Bob and Phil. Now I know every word to every song. I'm a massive PigPen fan. Know all about bear, haight ashbury, ken kesely the whole thing lol. IM DEFINITELY ON THE BUS😂
@@SEPHICHI420 It is funny how one can get so into it suddenly, when before it was not so spectacular, then suddenly you hear it on a different system or an environment or with someone who just treasures it and then it hits you like you never heard it that good before.
Those are the moments that bring me such happiness, but I must admit I don't know the words to any of their songs good enough to sing it without a cheat sheet.
After Brent passed away 😢 everything changed dramatically in my opinion I could feel that it was not the same and still followed the grateful dead in till Jerry died those where good days 🙏
I adored Brent’s Keyboard skills.
I still can relax by
listening to The Dead
It’s like I still am In Love with The Boys
I agree.
Anytime someone in the dead left/ died, it always marked the end of some sort of an era and things always changed from that point on. And I guess for certain fans, depending where they were in their personal life at that time, they may feel that whatever it was that left when whoever died, and whatever was that change that happened in the music because of it, never was replaced enough for them to feel like the band and the live shows they played after represented the same things to them ....and they no longer could enjoy it. I hear people talk like that, but I'll honestly say, I am super grateful that I have never ever felt that way. Even after Jerry died, i was praying for them to figure it out and when they did in 98 it was pure joy. The Glorious way they continued the band after 95 and continued to stay true to the music and to the playing style into each other is a Real Testament to what they were all about to begin with. 98 other ones, 2002 Alpine valley, 2003 dead, maybe even 04 or 09 and bits of further, there were some seriously awesome shows and high moments all throughout all that stuff. And dead and Company, for me, really couldn't be any better as far as nailing that modern dead sound and continuing to push the music while staying true to what a dead show was. Where else can you go and see a long two set show with all your favorite songs and then get drums space in the middle of it!!!! And I have a little bit of a feeling that when they finish this tour and hang up that project we're going to get something else good, maybe not as big and huge and super star-ish but I do kind of miss my small rat dog theater and club shows or seeing further all kinds of random places. Maybe Bob and Phil and John will do something that would be awesome. And for me Jeff chimenti has earned his spot as one of the great keyboard players of the Dead. Shoot his lasted longer than any of the ones before him!!!
Anyways, long live the dead and honestly until Bobby is dead the band's heart still Beats
So cool to see Ice-T in a Grateful Dead video 😁🙏🏼 I'm a huge fan of both The Grateful Dead and Ice-T. Both are part of "MY PEOPLE!" 🔥🔥🔥🎶🎶🎶🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
I was a "metal head" in 91... friends from Wisconsin drove to Cincinnati and took me to Buckeye Lake... changed my life. That same Summer I had a chance meet/ conversation with Timothy Leary at Union Terminal in Cincinnati and I happened to be out and about "micro dosing" on 1/2 hit I scored at the Dead show.
Great story brother
Try actual* microdosing! 0.08-0.1 psilocybin per day. It will help bring back your inner fire from your youth, and it helps me remember the good and truth of everything… if that makes sense. Love ya.
Living on the east coast during the late 80s through mid 90s we were spoiled with so many Dead shows. MSG, Brendan Byrne, Giants Stadium, Albany, RFK, Spectrum. It was a magical time
My son is 12 and he loves the Grateful Dead!!
So glad that all those wonderful years with the Grateful Dead were before cell phones! They would have ruined the whole thing...
Could you imagine haha. We were blessed to be cell phone free :-)
Everything is life is either a blessing, a sign or a test
Truer words were never spoken.
@@tvav69 should be #1 comment
Did west coast tour 93, 94, 95...
A friend grabbed me for 93 tour. I was super sceptical. Hopped off tour, sold everything I owned, then followed them for 94 - 95 along with hopping on and off Phish tour and jumping around the country for various festivals and Rainbow gatherings.
Best time of my life.
Start a channel telling stories :)
There was no stopping Jerry from playing the guitar, he told the guys that he was gonna play the guitar every day with somebody. He was a true lover of the guitar.
and you can hear that always!!
And he mastered the banjo before the guitar beating out Steve Martin for Mr Banjo of California
People who excel at guitar are the people that never put it down. Hendrix, Jerry, etc. They always practiced and kept a guitar nearby because they loved music, and expressing themselves thru music kept them in touch with the divine. 😊
I was proud to attend all those shows at Buckeye from 91' on. The 90's Grateful Dead shows were some magical events and like it is said about every period of the Dead's career..You had to be there cause there was nothing like a Grateful Dead show..I'm beyond thankful for those shows in 93'...I saw Atlanta thru Chapel Hill and Richfield and Buckeye...That space was getting hot, smoking hot..One of my favorite Buckeye memories was looking back on 100,000 pairs of eyes
and wide-open mouths when the guys brought out a real Train whistle and let that train horn blast...The stage lights turned like an oncoming train and the whistle roared..Only the Grateful Dead did that kind of stuff..Mind Blowing
I did Atlanta and Charlotte every year until Jerry passed. Hummus aming us and hair wraps for what you csn spare. The campground in Charlotte was LIT. The owner road around on a golf cart in a yogi bear suit passing out balloons full of nitrous and jamming with us. Quite the scene! I miss the groove. I usually saw their show in pairs- and made a point to be mid- air, between. Worked all year to ride around for a month.
I've got the same memory of a Buckeye Promised Land, making my way from our group in the middle all the way to the front to grab a friend, then turning around to walk back to the group, and seeing 100,000 of the SMILINGEST FACES EVER bobbing up and down. 100 shows and that's one of my favorite memories!! BTW Mickey still brings that train horn on most every tour. I've helped pack it ;)
It was fun while it lasted. First show in 89. Then dead-icated for 91 summer tour starting in Vegas and ending my run at the shoreline shows and back to college. 92 saw most of the summer tour. . 93 saw the scene getting toxic….gate crashers started to ruin everything. Band was getting fed up. Cars getting broken into and fights in the parking lot…etc. by 94 things turning ugly. So sad. But I regret not seeing more shows in last tours . I’d give anythiby to be thee agin. So many friends no longer around or lost among the years. I still dream of going to shows. The feeling of rolling into the parking lot, the smell of the lot in the air…kind bud, burning sage, grilling cheese sandwiches, the feeling of having a ticket, and the energy as you walk into the venue walking through the spinners and the packed gate entrances to the stadium/arena and the vibe of the crowd…..all this etched into my memory bank. was such a “long long time to be gone…and a short time to be there”
But I’ll never forget.
Yes my first shows were in 88bu tmy Dad was a big hippie guess I was trying to be him. Those 91 August Shoreline shows were so good tho. The 1st set Dark Star and all. I got off the bus after the May 92 Csli run. I really dug Brent, Bruce worked but Vince by himself wasn't my bag. Saw a bunch of Phish shows in 93 but got my fill of thar NYE 93. Went to their Shoreline shows in 2001 but that was my last showsof any kind. I rarely look or listen to the Dead anymore Bobby and Mickey ring me bers of the Bohemian Grove threw me.
@@stephengrahn9361 what makes you think Bob and Mickey are members of bohemian grove?
They are on their membership list under the artist memberse. They started going down there in the late 90s. Bobby even talked about kicking it with Wild Bill Donovan's right hand man when him and Parish were posting conversations from the studio in San Rafael yrs ago. It's no secret
@@stephengrahn9361 interesting, didnt know. After they promoted Obama's campaign it doesnt surprise me. They should have stuck with Jerrys no politics adage, "We dont want to mislead"
Thank you for posting this for people to watch and those that were there an opportunity to look back.
There was a lot of good and bad in the lot back then but if you ask those who were there, I feel they would say the good out weighed the bad. The love , respect and kindness most of us had for each other made us strong and we live in a better society now because of it. The main thing I loved about our community was it didn't matter who you were, what you look like, where you were from, who you knew....you were welcomed like family.
The music is our bond and to this day it lives on 26 years after this film was recorded. What a long strange trip its been :-)
Gonna say to my Sisters and Brothers ,keep the faith
👍🏼✌🏽❤️🎶
Hello Bradley Fish! Love seeing folks I know in these videos. Still think about my first show all the time. Life changing. Nice to revisit the scene. Love to all!
You got on the bus in 93’ while I left the Bay Area and began a homestead lifestyle. I missed these years in the 90s till Jerry became pure light. Great doc. Highlights some of the problems that came with the popularity. Contrasts that with the glue that was the good hearts of the many.
Ahhh man! I’m so glad to find this!!! I sometimes forget about this part of my life. This is bringing back sooooo many memories, and I love it so much! Patchouli, ganja goo balls, gel tabs! KOA, trip and Emily’s, who I saw get married at their farm at one of the festivals they always held there in terra Alta West Virginia just up from the beautiful deckers creek. New river gorge. Buckeye Lake, three rivers stadium, where I saw the Grateful Dead for the first and last time. I was 10 years old, my parents had absolutely no interest in them and I begged, kicked and screamed until my mom bought me and her a ticket and took me to 3rivers on this tour shortly after Jerry passed, and that was it. I saw “the other ones” a bunch of times including once at the civic arena, where Robert hunter opened up, and played promontory rider. My 1964 Plymouth valiant signet 200 with the push button transmission that we used to take to all the festivals. I bought that car off of who would be my best friend for 2 decades with the first $1100 I ever made at my first job when I was 14 years old. We had so many memories in the car and my buddy had to sell it in order to buy his 1972 charger and it broke my fucking heart that the car was going to be gone forever. I couldn’t let it happen so I went out and got a job at age 14 and was the first $1100 I ever made. I bought the car off them like I said I bought it when I was 14 and 41 today and I still have that Car. In fact, I just began to restore it last month still has all the dead stickers on the back bumper and on the back windows and the sticker on the glove box door that says “ass gas or grass nobody rides for free.” my best friend who sold me the car was absolutely my ace. We used to hang out and get high on this old wooden bridge about 3/4 of a mile up the street from my house about 200 yards from my grandmothers house and my buddy before I knew him live right up the street across this bridge, and he stopped one day and said hey, do you guys wanna get high and we were like fuck you dude I’ll match you. So I match them that day in the second time I encountered this dude I was walking down the train tracks which this bridge was right on the side of the set of train tracks so I’m walking down the tracks with my buddy Nick, my other best friend, my oldest friend Who I met on the bus on my first day of kindergarten and like I said we were about 50 yards from the road at the bridge where they intersect it and all of a sudden he comes rolling up across the tracks in what is now my 64 Plymouth valiant, and he slams on the brakes when he sees us on the tracks backs up rolls down the window and yells to us. “Hey, hurry up get in!” we hit this back road and he pulls these 2 gallon size Ziploc bags out of his waistband full Boston at the seams with Durbin poison and I about shit a fucking brick. I never seen anything like it in my life. Up until then, it was all brick weed for me. Seedy schwag. It was on after that. I’ve been thinking about writing a book about my life. Recently I’ve met some new friends who didn’t know me then. And they are in a constant state of awe, at the stories!😂 they are always asking for a new story and think I should write a book. Love ya guys!!!!!
The miracle ticket part was beautiful! Only place in the world that would happen✌️❤️
Thank You guys for creating and sharing this! I saw plenty of West Coast 90's shows, but this was the one Summer East Coast tour I managed to do. My bro & I sold veggie fajita burritos in the lot & made it into every show. So many memories, thanks for taking us back to Shakedown Street Summer '93!
If youre cool your burritos would have been free or at least exchange
@@sammyscotch9945 obviously your not very cool and don't understand anything about being on tour,
@@sammyscotch9945 there's always a douchenozzle......
There's always a douchenozzle.... ;-)
@@sammyscotch9945yeah that’s right I forgot that you can fill ur gas tank with “free” and everyone knows you can go to the grocery store and just ask them to “give” you the ingredients for your burritos because, hey man everything should just be shared
I hope these people found new loves and new places after Jerry died. Bless you all!!
Ken Kesey said it well. About the magic. "That Crack".
Sometimes moments in a show, when the crack, a shift, and it can be nourishing~
healing~uplifying~inspiring~
sharing.
Can feel like a moment in a familiar dream ❤
🎉oh yeah 💯
I’m a “new” Deadhead but I’ve always loved the communal aspect of the Dead shows.It’s one of the few places where every person’s inner light,positivity and kindness shines brighter than anything.I’ve had a guy walk up to me and hand me a fat joint and pat me on the back and say have fun.Where else on the face of the earth are you going to find someone who will just hand you a joint without a single alterior motive other than to brighten another fans day.
DC! 💙💋💙
At the gathering.
Try to catch Joe Russo's Almost Dead (JRAD) anytime you can if you wanna hear the best Grateful Dead show possible these days.
Enjoy this newfound
Knowledge in all you
do. The Dead gave
many Deadheads how to be inclusive
with all peoples!
Nice, I love vintage footage and Deadhead scene videos from the era. These videos are like catnip to me. Thanks for sharing!
2404 (~);} NFA
Like catnip-funny Its like marijuana to my kitties
Very nice to see Pete Shapiro is a fellow Wildcat from Northwestern I got on the “bus” 73 at Nassau and have been on ever since Even saw Jerry play McGaw Hall in 75.....thanks for all the great music Pete you are an inspiration My son is an aspiring film maker and we went to Citifield last year on a Fathers Day miracle ! Keep on truckin’!
I miss touring so much... It lived on for about 8-10 years after Jerry passed, through Other Ones, Phil & Friends, Ratdog, and some of the similar bands like String Cheese and Big Wu. Wasn't the same, but in some ways it got better; the crowds were lower, less drunks/people only there just for the party, no more dumbass gate-crashers. And there were still some stellar spots like Alpine, Deer Creek, The Gorge, Red Rocks, but then the festivals really started to take over and it kinda spelled the end for it. I mean Gathering of the Vibes, High Sierra Telluride BGF were amazing but something around 2005ish started to change. Maybe it was Bonnaroo, and the inclusion of acts (and their fans) that didn't "get it" idk. The community wasn't really there in the way it was in the past. You'd still see the same tour rats all over the country, but it was a smaller group that were still committed, but those still doing it were just as kind, caring, giving and loving as ever. Just beautiful. Ultimately, there was enough momentum to carry it forward nearly a decade after Jerry, but it had to slow eventually. There are still some great little festivals, and some fantastic bands in the scene to this day, but its just different... Heroin, cocaine, speed, Oxy's became nearly as common as doses or psilocybe. To those of my family still out there keeping the spirit of the Dead alive, bless you. I do my part to keep newer generations interested in the music and I don't think the interst will ever die. I'm just sad and miss all of the friends I've lost touch with since the fallout, but I'll always have the memories and they were the best years of my life. Forever Grateful, Forever Dead
💯 (~):}
Thank you for keepin' no Truckin' on...
Agreed. I refused to go until The Dead at Bonnaroo in 05' with Haynes and Herring. Those two were spectacular but still found myself in tears during every Garcia number, especially the ballads. I went to Phil & Friends and Further a few years later so my sons might experience what the big deal was. The effort fell short in my estimation, and the no Jerry pain was just as prevalent. Not a fan of D&C, never cared for Mayer, it's excruciatingly slow and just don't dig Bobbys choppy stile on Jerry tunes. Lol, I guess all in all I just missed the big man too much to ever "feel it" again. Lost so many people I love since then, I'm sure that plays a part as well. No memories like my touring memories (bout 220 shows) I miss it dearly. Glad I chose wisely in 83' when I saw my first show and took first step on the bus.
MSG Spring Break 1981. I got it the second night. Dancing Bears ever since,,,,
Thank you for sharing. I was going to college at the same time just a few blocks over. Brought back so many great memories. Thanks.
Man....glad I found this
Wow huge fan. What an awesome community. Nicest people in the world.Listened to your show all the time. This is a great way to share the community. Thanks steve. Allot people told me I wasnt going to be anything in life. now I look back and realized I shouldn't have ever listened to those people. They were nothing
Summer 93 was great.. so was spring 93 and fall :)
But not the summer so much
@@sammyscotch9945 Being a negative jerk runs deep, into your lame life it will creep. Did I say CREEP? ;-)
Reminds me why I got into shooting live music and festivals. It has never really been about the music for me, I love the community and the memories that are made at these events.
What a long strange trip for us! For me...1974~1995! 💙😇💙 ( love the Niagara Falls scene!)
Wow 51:06 one of my old housemates in college.. was childhood friends w my boyfriend. We all lived together and I remember when he became a DH. What a trip
Great Documentary Peter. My kind of SHOW. 1972 a passage in time between old & new. Great Perspective.
I think I made a good choice joining deadhead culture.
Welcome!
My first show was in Landover that year (I got on late 😯) St. Patrick's Day. As with alot of us, that nite changed my life. Cheers! PS Miss ya Jer!
3 18 93 ----encore i fought the law
@@dirt597456 I remember crying during the Morning Dew, tears of sheer joy running down my face, I think it was the 16th. Mind blown...
I was at Buffalo and surprised to hear people were crashing the gates. I must’ve missed it being inside having a GRATE time listening to Sting. Got to see Jerry up close playing beautifully on Tea in the Sahara. Wonderful memory :)
Buckeye Lake is awesome I was blessed to see the GD there 3x including Bruce on the accordian and the Violent Femmes opening up,,
I was there, walked right up to the stage as Jerry and Bobby were tuning up. Very hot summer and very good times.
For as long as I can remember I grew up feeling music fill my heart. I just couldn’t really explain it nor did I understand it’s positive impact until my 1st Dead show, Buckeye Lake ‘93. From the very second Garcia appeared on stage sporting shorts and t-shirt then tuned up a ripping Foolish Heart it kinda all fell into place, my heart was home ❤ filling up and pouring out every bit of Love it could handle 🏴☠️
OMG. I have been dancing with Dr. Adams for 20 years and had no clue what she has accomplished! Thanks Relix and Shapiro. Great film. Changed my life.
Buckeye Lake summer 93, friends and I gave a security guard 20 bucks a piece to walk us into the medical tent and lets us go into the show. lots of people jumping the fence that year. buckeye was a great venue to camp at
Been a long time. Missing it.
Thanks for sharing !! I did most of this tour I was looking for my family ..... I miss papa bear
93 is when I moved to Eugene, OR and got to meet all the prankster kids.
Got to see 25 to 30 west coast shows. Sold shirts and did 4 summers tours. Best job I ever had, life changing Fer sure. Even did the Last D&C shows in SF just to try and catch a glimpse of the “good ol days”. The folks were just as Beautiful in 2023 as they where in the 90’s. NFA
looks like living the dream.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!!
Great job on this piece!
I was on the tour during this period. I had a wok and a stove that could burn gas from a normal gas station. I had a grilled cheese operation and also I was selling beer a lot and a guy I knew got us Calvin and Hobbes shirts to sell..
I was a teenager during the 1970's. I saw many Dead shows between 1973 and 1983. Jerry was the most inspirational musician. He had a great aura. Bob, Phil, Mickey, Bill and Ron together made up the greatest improvisational band in history. True magic on stage. The Dead scene was also magical for a while. Eventually dope killed it. The same dope that killed Jerry. Our generation was not over protected like the millennials. Many of us took to the road, taking a try at music or as fans. Life was wide open. While the experience provided great opportunity for growth it also claimed victims. Jerry was one of many. However, many of us survivors find it difficult relating to today's world. We over protected our children and they're creating a world far different from the 1970's. Woodstock Nation is dead. John Lennon told us the dream was over a long time ago. I couldn't really see it until I got into my 60's. Where are we? "What a long strange trip its been."
Dang G put on a show and dance😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Long gone my friends
My favourite line here is - "All these tie-dyed, freaky lookin' people" ....... FLY YOUR FREAK FLAG HIGH PEOPLE !
& here I am back again.✌️
My 2nd Show. 1st Show was 1992 at Buckeye Lake.
"Jerry is gone in one form, but like the magician that he is, he has explosively been transformed into a million Jerrys-one improvising in each of our hearts." - Ram Dass
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." Walter Savage Landor Keep on jammin' to what moves your soul!
Today, a ticket to see Dead & Company costs like $150 to start!! Things were way better back then in the 90s and before because ticket prices were so low!! I couldn’t afford to see Dead & Company at all! And I really didn’t want to without Jerry. Jerry was the light in the Grateful Dead. Without him it’s not the same.
I was there, was an awesome venue. Just a huge open sprawling area (I thought woodstock when I first got there). Sting opened for them. I remember it was a prefect day, sun shining when the Dead came and it slowly morphed into a beautiful evening. After the show everybody just hung out right there on the spot, was such a blast. I really don't even remember going through a gate or any thing. Seemed like it was all just wide open.
👻 That's right cannabis forever Nothing like getting Melo and enjoy the band.🎸I got on the bus 1968 .
smile smile smile....
Interesting in 2020 seeing the commentary on Pearl Jam after the career they've had and the relationship with the fans. Sorta Deadish.
Also cool seeing Ice T.
Thank you.
I saw all 3 Cal Expo shows in 1993 and one December Oakland show. I put all my $ and driving down from Arcata into JGB Warfield shows. So much more fun being 15 feet from Jer on the floor. Goosebumps just recalling those velvet curtains open just as they kicked it off. April & October 1993 Warfield were so much fun!!!!
grew up in louisville and was at those two shows as a 16 year old. this doc couldn't be more spot on about the cops.
Saw my first show in 1990 foxboro stadium, I was 16 the dead played bid you goodnight for the encore there was no going back after that I graduated high school (92’) I packed a backpack and went on tour with some friends. I was in tour from 92’-95’ when Jerry died
Good Time's........👣🐾
I watched Kesey do that coin trick 10 times ,my mind is definitely cracked !
How well I know that!
Very cool video tho. Thank you for posting it \!/
Late to the party but so was I. Still welcome.
By the 90s, the band started their obvious slide downhill, which mostly crystallized around Garcia's addiction and failing health. I had lived in the Bay Area for 20 years and had to stop going to shows because what I was seeing and hearing was just sad. I like that the scene continued, but even that turned dark in the latter days with the Dead relegated to playing gargantuan, crappy venues and the crowd resorting to outbursts of violence to gain free entry. I truly feel that if they had wrapped things up in '89, Jerry might still be alive and vital today.
Curtiss T sir..please stop smoking meth
and cops everywhere at those shows...
Bullshit. That's revisionist history at best. Jerry's dead because he smoked like a chimney for nearly 40 years & did heroin & cocaine in exceptionally copious amounts. Jerry died in large part because he treated his body like it was a dumpster. Yes, Garcia kept touring because he didn't want people to lose their jobs. But he also kept touring because he needed tons of money for his drug habit.
I'm glad they played on because seeing them changed my life and the way I thought about music and I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to be in the same place on planet earth with the Grateful Dead performing incredibly. Those times when I felt in a telekinetic relationship with the group and the audience was one with everyone super chill and kind to one another. The times themselves reflect a lot with the grunge scene, hardcore hip hop money, sex and violence things, and the industry itself on the verge of what would be essentially a complete collapse. When it came to my friends we chose to see "The Grateful Dead". It's funny that all these years later those ripples in still water continue to influence new fans. Watching and listening to Jerry and the boys live
was life-changing, and badass.
@@jakejohansen1889 The drug habit was just a fraction of the $ he and they took in. Keeping up the lifestyle of the wealthy off the stage with several women and different kids in expensive houses and all the overhead that comes with that and his side projects. His side gig with the Jerry Garcia Band provided plenty of income for drug habits and employing friends. When Brett OD'd in the summer of '90 they were receiving a sign to put the machine to rest. He had a lot of people depending on him financially and it wasn't the driver's and stage hands like the band claimed when he passed. They were making chump change compared to the type of income others were reaping.
Where can we find the tracks of John Harman & Arnold Kim??
Those segue jams were killer!
Yes. Good Question.
Incredible institution
Great interviews. Timothy Leary followed by William F. Buckley, Jr. I laughed my ass off.
me too ;-)
Where has this video been this is the word this is the truth
I've got to leave I never did like this..... I was at deer Creek when everybody rushed the hill... It broke my heart so 😞
Nice!
I think I still have sunburn from that tour.
36:57 Is that the girl from the Neuro Soup RUclips Chanel??
The girl from the lsd silo? If so, shes my age and in 93 she'd be 12.
@29:45 i found my way into the cop zone at phish at finger lakes 95 and it was the same story. They had a whole crew of UCs they called "the college guys" who would bust shirt vendors > hit the lot in said gear > search for drug buys
In 93 I caught RFK and JFK shows. Big fun.
Does anyone know who the guy in the last interview is?
both shows at louisville that year for me ..
Man I hate seeing the gate crashers
They ruined it for Orlando. Dead got banned.
Ruined the scene, pretty much.
Terrible.
16:41 that's my step dad, Frederick fratiello. He just recently passed away 🕊
Grateful Fred was a great man and I'm glad he was included in this documentary.. I'm the kid playing guitar on the left at 16: 40
Probably one of the best shows of the shows that have been shown and it just goes to show don't ever know! Yeah reminds me of my first show what was that back in 72 Town Inn where was it Roosevelt Stadium also a good year for a pretty damn good record I mean what then decides to pack up and go to Egypt what the ?
I hate to say it but some of the phoniest, shadiest people I ever met were so called tour rats or heads. I know that is not the high % of people who went to Dead shows but man those few can really give a scene a bad name. Thieves, lazy and drug addicts...I saw them move over to Phish shows in 95...dont mean to be negative but some of the people in this doc reminded me of these cretins and it stuck a memory nerve.....
That’s why I quit going to shows in 92-93! I couldn’t take all the losers that didn’t go into the shows and didn’t even want to unless you were going to give them a free ticket. The last Jerry band show I went to, my wife couldn’t make it so I had an extra, and we were poor, on food stamps (but I worked every day and she was a stay at home mom) and I needed the money back from that ticket to be able to get a beer at the show and have enough gas to make it home. If I gave it away I wouldn’t make the hour long drive home with the gas I had and I was broke besides the ticket. And I walked around the lot and everyone that asked if I had an extra I said yeah and I just wanted face value thinking it would sell quick but as soon as I said I wanted money every one of them were like “fuck that give it to me” and one guy offered to give me the value in food stamps and I said I have those too I don’t need those and you get them for free and that guy and about 5-6 other people around him all wanting tickets started booing me and yelling things like “fuck off asshole” “money grabber” “scalper scum” and I was like FUCK so I stood by the ticket window and had to wait for someone buying a ticket and convince them to buy mine instead because I needed gas to get home and had to take less than face value. So I was sick and tired of all those self proclaimed tour heads. Just a bunch of loser scumbags. Don’t get me wrong there are tons of cool people on tour and at shows but those beggars and drug addict bums ruined the scene.
The thing I hate about almost all of the documentaries about the Grateful Dead, is they mostly just interview the low-hanging fruit, but I'm watching this one, and at least it has Kesey, so that is the top of the tree! Mostly I agree though, that there's always too much of a focus on the ratiest elements. The ones I personally always avoided at shows...
You are not lying there was a dark underbelly to tour. But there was alway a bright shinning light too
Yeah, it’s something I could maneuver as a younger person, but it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. I would imagine a lot of those ppl are either dead, homeless, or in jail. It’s not a sustainable lifestyle that’s for sure
Brings back memories of all the Feds and Agent Provokers.
Yeah, the bad memories. Cops have the perfect wet blanket motif My whole life, I see a cop, and my stomach turns!
Miss home I was there man !!😂
Was this thew Buckeye tour with Sting opening and Vinnie C drumming for him?
Is the interview with John Barlow available in full length anywhere?
Johns book is a really good read. He just finished it couple of days b4 he died..Glad he did
9:50 I once talked with a hubcap until security came up and took me inside to Rock Med, The kind woman there asked me if I could find my friends and said "have a great show" No need to fake anything life threatening, simply befriend an inanimate object!
Had something like that at the Fox at a Allman Brothers show but it was a cabbie not a nurse 👍
I'm here cause of Rev Gary Davis
30:21 There’s Todd, but where are Dakota and Emily? 😂
30 minutes into the video you have the law harassing and arresting harmless people for selling t-shirts without a license. Let`s look at this. There are evil people in this country who are kidnapping people, raping people, mugging people, stealing off people, etc... and the law chooses to waste time and money and energy going after harmless people who make arts and crafts. That`s the problem with America!
Hit the nail on the head