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Alex_thedroog
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Just wondering if we have any floating around..

I like to see who is into it
May 18 2008 11:47PM
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ThaLetterM.
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i wouldnt consider myself a dead head, but I have Skull and Roses Remastered, and I always listen to it in my car..
May 18 2008 11:50PM
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low_fidelity
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ME!!!!!! not
May 18 2008 11:57PM
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R-B-B
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i guess you could say that.
May 19 2008 12:04AM
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charmander
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i supppose
May 19 2008 12:12AM
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Elijah.
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Jea!
May 19 2008 12:33AM
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ChanchoVelez.
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listen to em here and there not a huge fan

May 19 2008 12:36AM
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king.tubby
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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.
May 19 2008 12:42AM
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SirFryanator
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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.
May 19 2008 12:49AM
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SirFryanator
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and this is directed to the thread creator
May 19 2008 12:49AM
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king.tubby
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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
May 19 2008 12:59AM
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SirFryanator
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well then I guess you are a modern day dead-head! A rare sight to see.
May 19 2008 3:30AM
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SirFryanator
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those are hippies. Deadheads are different.
May 19 2008 3:54AM
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purplejumpsuit
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dead heads just turn into hippies, I should know im related to way to many.

May 19 2008 4:48AM
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liukangkid
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more like our parents,
my mom travelled with the dead for a little while
May 19 2008 9:43AM
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king.tubby
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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..
May 19 2008 11:51AM
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sarahskis
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My dad used to be, he grew up on the beach loving it all.  But not so much anymore
May 19 2008 12:07PM
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jfoley019
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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.
May 19 2008 12:34PM
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Alex_thedroog
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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
May 19 2008 12:41PM
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Microcosm
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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.
May 19 2008 3:35PM
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eastcoastsoloMAN
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they are the only band i listen to. i wasnt born at that time but if i was i would definatly be one they are the best band ever
May 19 2008 3:46PM
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Ebanforpeace
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"get in the groove and let the good times roll"
May 19 2008 4:06PM
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scofield
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for life.
May 19 2008 4:15PM
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eastAR5
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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
May 19 2008 4:22PM
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babujib
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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
May 19 2008 4:25PM
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bp.lando
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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.
May 19 2008 4:28PM
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king.tubby
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so true
May 19 2008 5:31PM
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inactive
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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)
May 19 2008 5:39PM
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zylstra
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yall mean timothy....lol
May 19 2008 5:42PM
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parkerhouse
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trust me, you have
May 19 2008 6:30PM
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low_fidelity
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aw dude your karma is almost 6666. dang
May 19 2008 7:06PM
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AbeFroman
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EWWWWWW
May 19 2008 7:21PM
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cmeriptahoe
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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.
May 19 2008 7:25PM
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Alex_thedroog
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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
May 19 2008 11:18PM
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R-Bertsch
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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.
May 19 2008 11:22PM
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Alex_thedroog
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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
May 19 2008 11:27PM
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pbandj
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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
May 19 2008 11:36PM
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R-Bertsch
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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.
May 19 2008 11:40PM
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lloyd_christmas
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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.
May 19 2008 11:41PM
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pbandj
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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.
May 19 2008 11:43PM
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R-Bertsch
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and i can agree with that.

"music has never been about what you look like"


i don't agree with that
May 19 2008 11:45PM
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skitoggrob
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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
May 20 2008 12:16AM
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Grube
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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
May 20 2008 12:17AM
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ben_southworth
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i love the dead and listen to them all the time, but ive definitely never had the chance to see them live
May 20 2008 12:19AM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
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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.
May 20 2008 12:20AM
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ThaLorax
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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.
May 20 2008 3:12AM
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Alex_thedroog
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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
May 20 2008 9:06AM
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Alex_thedroog
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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.
May 17 2009 9:51PM
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baethoven
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tim leary? check out my account name.

May 17 2009 10:03PM
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skivt27
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dead head :http://ihateliz.com/?id=3w1995evizy7zfodhog5skh5hb4stk
May 17 2009 10:04PM
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statuswhitegirl
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this
May 17 2009 10:06PM
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