Dead Heads?

i wouldnt consider myself a dead head, but I have Skull and Roses Remastered, and I always listen to it in my car..
 
if i had to declare "deadhead or not deadhead" i would say i am a deadhead. but i never saw them live or anything. but i have listened to countless hours of their music, read multiple biographies, feel like i have a good graspe of their history and different eras. i absolutely LOVE most of their songs, though i must admit their "jams"usually dont interst me and get fast forwarded through. if i was alive 30 years though, i would have gone to LOTS of dead shows. i DO love early 70s jazzy dead. a good "eyes of the world"? hard to beat.
 
dude...you have no concept of what being a deadhead is if you can just calmly say you are a deadhead. The real ones are the people who followed them on tour, tripped out all the time, has listened to every song numerous times, and knows what's up with the solo careers of the musicians. My dad was a deadhead for a little while before he got kicked out of his house, he's told me way too many stories. Too bad he's an uptight banker now.
 
totally. like, intellectually, im a huge fan/ scholar of the dead. but experientially, i got nothin. ive seen donna jean live, but thats it. i know about as much as i can about their music, their career. am very familiar with their songs. but i never saw jerry, so it only goes so far
 
this is honestly funny because it is too true in many cases. i guess when i was a young impressionable lad, and was more concerned with image, i kind of fit this description. at least with the hemp and the tie dyes and trying to look like it was 30 years ago. but, really, as far as the dead goes, i just like their music.

i went on string cheese incident tour a few years back, and it was amazing how some of those people are living in the past. full on dreads and gypsy hippie clothes and vws and everything. its almost all so cliche. like, give it a rest guys.

ive met some hard core life long dead heads who look like clean cut republicans.

i dont know where im going with this..
 
I am not a deadhead, I dont think there really is a such thing as a dead head anymore. Unless there is someone (as a lot of you have mentioned) that toured with them for a while. I am though a huge fan fof them and have seen "The Dead" without Jerry, Rat dog, Phil and Friends, Mickey Harts band... many times. I suggest if you are a fan of the Dead, there are a couple great books out there to read,. Also go check out Rat Dog, they are playing with the Almans this summer.
 
If you really don't think that there are dead heads around now that weren't around when they were touring your wrong. Just because someone wasn't around doesn't mean that they can't be deadheads because they didn't fry all the fucking time. the modern day deadheads are into the music just as much as everyone else was
 
I love their music and their jams, and I listen to them daily... but deadhead? Probably born too late. Still their songs have lots of meaning and can give you a ton of different feelings when you listen to them.
 
i got a big ass grateful Dead tapestry on my wall... cause they didnt have any rasta ones left and it looks cool

but I don't think ive actually ever listened to a single song from them hahaha
 
i got like 400 songs of thiers and listen to them alot, also went to a couple rat dog concerts, but i wouldnt consider myself a dead head, instead im a fan of the grateful dead. but not an extremist i guess
 
my friends are huge Dead Heads, i myself have always fancied myself more of a Phish fan, while also enjoying electronic, hip hop and alternative. However my friends continue to rep the Dead hard, they like them alot and thats dope. i look at them as if there another band and do enjoy burning one to the dome and listening to some Dead sets.
 
what did the deadhead say when he ran out of pot?

These guys suck.
(i do think the dead are ok, tho, but it was too good an opportunity to pass up)
 
My dad is a dead head. Knows pretty much everything there is to know about them. Been to see them more times than he can count probably over 100. I grew up listening to them so I obviously like them a lot. You know how people say that you will remember where you are when huge things happen for example 9/11. Well there are only two things that I remember like that, where I was when 9/11 happened and the day Jerry Garcia died.
 
there are many kids like that today, but not everyone is like that. I grew up with hippies. half of my family is hippies. I have known my parents smoked weed everyday from a very early age

I guess you could say it is in my blood. and I dont dress to impress at all, the dead are probably my favorite band, but I also love many many other genres, I am to open minded to listen to just one band
 
you're a fucking hater man, you don't need to generalize everyonel ike that. sure there are some people like that but you're just being an asshole.

and actually music has a shit load to do with what you look like and wear, i took an entire college course on it, so you're wrong.
 
well maybe for most people, but as I said, the dead are my favorite, and I also LOVE leftovercrack/choking victim, I like some indie, I like my rap..mainly underground shit, and all sorts of jam/funk bands

so I don't really fit in anywhere I guess
 
if you looked at me you'd never guess what kind of music i listen to, and i have actually been surprised by the music people listen to. so i concur
 
yes you did, you said everyone that likes the grateful dead 'smokes pot to pretend to like their shitty music'. im pretty sure that generalizes everyone that is a fan of the grateful dead, and on top of that you called it shitty music which isn't really necessary.

off the top of my head... look at the mods and (punk)rockers, tight leather clothes piercings crazy hair, hip hops all about baggy clothes and doing things big, during the counterculture movement with the dead and all those bands in sanfran it WAS about tye dye shirts and all that crazy hippy clothing, there IS quite a connection between peoples lifestyles and the music they listen to, im not going to dig into my notes from way back to prove it to you, but don't say that there is no connection there because there certainly is.
 
sorry, your argument is well said and constructed, and i am not agreeing or disagreeing with your opinion at all; you have some intelligent things to say. that said, you still are generalizing, saying "i see these kids everywhere" and then making assumptions about them (assuming you don't know them, because you don't like them or hang out with them) is kind of generalizing, or at least judging. oh, and no i am not a dead head.
 
you fail to think outside of the box. what he is saying is that music does not determine how you physically present yourself, it can influence it, but not completely negate your personal style/appearance.
 
well my dad is a real dead head, and its hard to be a True dead head if your not overt the age of 30. but hye, its cool to love the dead if ur 16-25
 
my dads a major fead head he has been to like over 150 of there concerts and has a ton of there cds and tapes and shit
 
ya, to be a deadhead you had to listen to the dead in the 70s, when no one else did, and then, 30 years later, still put a dancing bears sticker on the back of your work vehicle. Anyone can like the dead, kudos if you do, but i doubt there are any true deadheads on ns.
 
My friends mom traveled with them and saw over 200 of their shows. THAT'S a Deadhead.

I can't deny that I love their music though.
 
it looks like most of ns is convinced that you had to see the dead and tour with them to become a deadhead, so I will go ahead and stop
 
Well, now that the dead have finished there tour, and I was able to attend, I can say that I get it. There is no convincing anyone one way or the other what they think about this topic, but now the generation gap between old guys and young guys is gone, and they will tell you that too. Everyone at the shows lives in harmony and they get it. The old deadheads see it in the younger ones and they honestly couldn't be happier! I have met and talked to many people from all over the country and they are just as stoked as they were in the 70's and 80's and are stoked for us too. There really is nothing like a dead show.
 
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