Why Deadheads are happier people:

[Earth_First]

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[ET Awful]

1. And all this time I thought it was just becasue we had the best taste

in music :)

Grouphugs must have helped though, you're right.

[kodi]

2. joe campbell at 82 said it best when speaking of his 1st dead show

“I had had my first rock and roll experience at a performance of The Grateful Dead in Oakland (in 1986, he was 82 years old) Rock music had always seemed a bore to me, but I can tell you, at that concert, I found eight thousand people standing in mild rapture for five hours while these boys let loose everything on the stage. The place was just a mansion of dance. And I thought, "Holy God! Everyone has just lost themselves in everybody else here!" The principal theme of my talk was the wonderful innocence and the marvel of life when it recognizes itself in harmony with all the others. Everyone is somehow or other at one with everybody else. And my final theme was that this is the world’s only of answer to the atom bomb. The atom bomb is based on differentiation: I-and-not-that-guy-over-there. Divisiveness is socially based. It has nothing to do with nature at all. It is a contrivance and here, suddenly, it fell apart.”


J. Campbell, “the Mythic Dimension” Harper Collins, p. 152, 1993.


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[ET Awful]

3. Nice, I also liked David Crosby's explanation . . .

"It's like a great big love beast crawls out and eats the audience. I don't know man. Something happens when the Grateful Dead
are on stage that don't happen when Percy Faith is out there "

:)

[Old and In the Way]

4. He would know......

I've seen a lot of acts in my days, but there is/was nothing quite like a GD show. People knew their music, they sang, they danced...it was a tribal experience of the 1st order.