Where are ALL the Deadheads Fans?!

[longwalker]

[indianajoe]

[queen isabella]

Originally Posted by indianajoe

AAAAAaah this is just AWESOME IndianaJoe!!!!

Bravo!!

[queen isabella]

Originally Posted by longwalker

Ok LW I'm looking at these and hearing Jimmy H's "Purple Haze" hahahha

[longwalker]

Originally Posted by queen isabella

Ok LW I'm looking at these and hearing Jimmy H's "Purple Haze" hahahha

Ahhhh yes, had the privilege to see Jimi twice...exhilarating! Here's one for you Queen!

[queen isabella]

Very nice ASS isn't it?


Thank you!
Happy Thanksgiving Hon!

[queen isabella]

Look what Indiana Joe sent me!!

Originally Posted by indianajoe

This is one I found...believe its a ink dot photo..or something like that.. I wasnt to impressed with it but hell . it's jerry..lol

I like it!

[Miss_Manzy]

Nice add-ons Longwalker and Joe

Heres some Dead Trivia

Dead Facts

• The Dead produced 164 songs over a 30 year career
  
  
• The average true "Deadhead" spent over $2,000 on Dead concerts and travelled over 3,000 over the past 3 decades
  It is recorded that one person actually spent $13,000
  attending Dead concerts.
  
  
• The Dead, over the length of their career, have performed to more people than any other band in history
  
  
• Their song, "Touch of Gray" was an expression of Jerry Garcia's determination to survive. The music was recorded shortly after Garcia recovered from a diabetic coma and the accompanying video features skeletons that transform into the members of the band.
  
  
• The Grateful Dead are named after an old British ballad which sings about spirits that are called Grateful Dead when they finally are freed from whatever binds them to remain on Earth

[Miss_Manzy]

Group Members: Past and Present
Jerry Garcia, 8/1/1942 – 8/9/1995
Lead guitar, vocals (1965-95)


Pigpen (Ron McKernan), 9/8/1945 – 3/8/1973
Keyboards, harmonica, vocals (1965-95)


Bob Weir, 10/16/1947
Rhythm guitar, vocals (1965-95)


Bill Kreutzmann, 5/7/1946
Drums (1965-95)


Phil Lesh, 3/15/1940
Bass, vocals (1965-95)


Mickey Hart, 9/11/1943
Drums, percussion (1967-71, 74-95)


Tom Constanten (T.C.), 3/19/1944
Keyboards (1968-70)


Keith Godchaux, 7/19/1948 – 7/21/1980
Keyboards (1971-79)


Donna Jean Godchaux, 8/22/1945
Vocals (1972-79)


Brent Mydland, 10/21/1952 – 7/26/1990
Keyboards, vocals (1979-90)


Vince Welnick, 2/2/1951
Keyboards, vocals (1990-95)


Bruce Hornsby, 11/25/1954
Keyboards, accordeon, vocals (1990-92)

[Miss_Manzy]

Ben & Jerry's has an ice cream flavor called Cherry Garcia, named after their guitarist. Garcia donated the royalties to his favorite charities. Garcia also had lines of shirts and ties. His ties have been seen on people as influential as Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

The name Grateful Dead refers to a motif in English (and other cultures') folktales and ballads in which a poor traveler spends his last coin to pay for the proper burial of a pauper, and is later rewarded for his good deed by some creature or person that reveals itself to be the spirit of the "grateful dead." (thanks, Gwyn - Fairfax, VA)

While on tour with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1986, Garcia fell into a diabetic coma. He was in the process of recovering from drug addiction. The coma lasted five days.

The Dead were into preserving the world's rainforests. Some of them went so far as to purchase a jungle in Costa Rica. They were going to try to make chewing gum from the rubber trees.

Hart and Kreutzmann composed percussion-heavy music for the Apocalypse Now soundtrack in 1979.

Garcia died in his room at Serenity Knolls, a treatment facility in Forest Hills, California. He was there battling his heroin addiction and died of a heart attack. His death marked the end of the Grateful Dead.

There were sections at Dead shows specifically designed for the hearing impaired. They were seated next to the speakers and given a person to translate the lyrics into sign language.

At the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, the Dead played a set in between The Who and Jimi Hendrix. They also played at Woodstock on the second day between Canned Heat and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The Godchaux's were husband and wife. Keith had been Dave Mason's piano player. They were asked to leave in 1979.

Hart was kicked out his High School band because his teacher didn't think he could keep a beat.

Kreutzmann loves diving and has filmed a fifty-minute documentary called Ocean Spirit.

Garcia designed a suite at the Beverly Hills Pescott Hotel. The room features his paintings, pillows, bathrobes and towels.

The fans of the Grateful Dead are known as Deadheads, and have often been called the best fans in rock n' roll. They frequently followed the Dead from town to town, attempting to see as many shows as possible. They usually wore tie dyed clothing and would also engage in the use of many illegal substances.

Garcia was in the army for nine months in 1959 before meeting longtime collaborator Robert Hunter in Palo Alto.

Pigpen, Weir, and Garcia were members of Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964. Also in the band were John Dawson (New Riders of the Purple Sage) and Bob Matthews, later a Dead engineer and founder of Alembic Electronics.

As the Warlocks, the band were the house band for Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. These were public LSD parties held before the drug was outlawed.

They have lost 3 keyboard players. McKernan died of cirrhosis, Godchaux was killed in a car accident (The Dead fired him a year earlier), and Mydland died of a drug overdose.

By the end of the 1960s, the Grateful Dead owed Warner Brothers $100,000 for studio time. Their first three albums were not commercially successful.

Pigpen's last show with the band was at the Hollywood Bowl on June 17, 1972. He died of liver disease a year later.

Welnick was a member of the Tubes. Sometimes, Bruce Hornsby would sit in on piano during concerts.