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    marye
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    Since the original topic now has hundreds of introductions and is getting a bit hard to navigate, this seems as good a time as any to launch a new one. The original is here, should you wish to catch up on the who's who since this opened up in May. If you haven't introduced yourself yet, please do! And if you already have, but have something new to tell us about you and your life, speak up! (A bit of housekeeping business so we don't have to repost everything we posted before--izzie and I are the moderators here, and for our more extensive intros see the original topic.) Thanks and welcome!

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    welcome aboard! hope you will enjoy the ride!

  • jpruneprospector
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    Hello All!

    Hi all. First post. Recently decided to join the greater Deadhead community after years of being a closeted Deadhead. Actually came to The Dead via The Jerry Garcia Band, so kind of backwards.

  • James Hall
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    Hey all, just joined the forum. I'm new to the Dead,(i know) Just recently picked up the bass, and really got into Phil's playing. Glad to be here.

  • derzell
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    Many Thanks!!

    Dave and Marye, thanks for welcoming me aboard. I can truly say that in this crazy world, I feel like I have found my "forever home" here. I moved from a big town to a little one for work and can't say there are many like-minded folk in this land of sparse population, so it is really comforting knowing I have my buddies right here :)

    As for as the puppy, thanks for the concern and kind words Dave. Lymphoma is kinda scary in dogs I've found out. But my little fur ball is started up on prednisone and has his puppy energy back!! Just one of those things where he's gonna keep rocking until he can't and more than likely he will lay down for a nap and just drift away. Which when you think about it, I know that I would definitely want to go that way if I had a choice.

    I will need to check out that thread! Any others I should look into? I am eager to join the party! I do love storytelling and digging into music theory!

    Much love to you both and thank you again, from the bottom of my heart!

    -AZ

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    Welcome aboard the Bus! You may want to try posting on the Ala Carte DP42 thread also.

    I'm sorry to hear of your beloved dog...

  • marye
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    hey now
    Nice to see you here, make yourself at home!
  • derzell
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    Thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart.

    I understand this thread is half-dead, but I need to let you guys know how much you (yes, you) mean to me. How's everyone doing? I'm Alex and this is not my first post (oops!). But I am so happy to be here. I am in the midst of losing my dog who is the light of my world and the DeadHead family has made me feel at peace. I know this is my introduction but I already have so much thanks to give!! I have been a DeadHead for the better part of my life, living adjacent to the middle of nowhere. So I have always been the black sheep of the friend group listening to this hippie drone music. I called in to Tales from the Golden Road right before Tucker's (my dog) diagnosis with Lymphoma, nervous as all get out about my first Dead & Co show for my birthday here in a few weeks, and as soon as I was connected with Dave and Gary, all anxiety melted away, it didn't matter how many listeners I was on the air with, I truly felt like I was just shooting the shit with some old friends. I felt at home. And now more than ever, I need a little home. And each and every one of you make me feel at home in this strange world. As I make my entrance, I already am feeling beyond welcomed.. So thank you. A lot.

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    hello i am Billy Cyprus how…

    hello i am Billy Cyprus how are you?

  • jaddley2
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    Hey now!New to the site. Kind souls connect with me!

    I'm 44 and was blessed to start seeing The Grateful Dead when I was just 12! Rich Stadium in Buffalo. Hit mostly all the East Coast shows until 96' and then our lives changed for sure. Went to Penn State University and I am a social worker. My son is almost through high school and then I'm looking for adventure! I am not sure where what or with whom? Auroraville, Peace Corp, meet the man who rocks my world??

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    The Sad, Broken Legacy of a Great Band (tl;dr?)

    Hello Bob, Phil, Bill and Mickey…..

    I can probably state this is my first and last post as I’m done. I registered to put this one post up. I wouldn’t be surprised if the moderators didn’t look kindly on the following “appraisal” which I will now explain:

    I was still in the final years of school when Europe ’72 came out which puts me a generation behind the initial Dead fan base. In recent years I have become totally obsessed by the Dead, and the culture that surrounded the band. (Notice I said “surrounded”, as in past tense?)

    On July 4 2021 (I am not from the USA) I ordered the DVD digipak with bonus disc of Long Strange Trip from the Dead.Net Store.

    This is what happened next (copied from my communications with the Store with contact details redacted):

    My Initial Request:

    This 3 DVD digipack of Long Strange Trip has Disc 2 marked "Bonus Content" and does not have the second half of the documentary on it as stated on packaging. The bonus content is the same as that on Disc 3 which is supposed to be the bonus content for this 3 DVD set. Also Disc 1 which does have the first half of the documentary on it does not have a Dolby 2.0 audio option as stated on the packaging. It is questionable whether any of these discs are the one supposed to be packed in this version of the release. After the time and expense of getting the shipped from the Grateful Dead source this is extremely disappointing.

    Where we are at now:
    The replacement copy just sent has the same problem of discs mislabeled and packaged. It must be from the same print run as the first copy I received. Disc 2 is again bonus content NOT the second half of the documentary.

    Please... I'm begging you. I ordered this July 4 and I still haven't gotten the full movie. I'll buy a Region Free Bluray copy. Just send me an invoice for the difference in price. Whatever.... please.

    NOW:
    I'VE JUST RECEIVED A THIRD COPY OF STRANGE TRIP AND YOU'VE DONE THE SAME THING AGAIN. YOU DIDN'T CHECK THE DISCS AND HAVE SENT A COPY THAT DOES NOT HAVE DISC 2 OF THE MOVIE. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME; YOU HAVE RIPPED ME OFF.

    There you have it.

    So this is Grateful Dead 2021; just another commercial juggernaut that wants to extract money from people by selling clothes, pet accessories, garden accessories (or whatever!). Another cash machine that cares nothing about the only thing about the band that matters and what is truly real about Grateful Dead.

    But hey! When it comes to delivering the sound and vision which is the history and legacy of a great band this is what you get.

    Oh! Commercialism! It can’t be!

    Well take a good look at eBay. The egregious amount of profiteering there is disgusting to the point of being abjectly blinding. The CD warehouses will get copies of Get Shown the Light, but they sell out in a day or two and will be resold at triple the price.

    I’ve got some seriously rare Dead CD’s and they are now worth a small fortune. After what I have experienced with the Store I am so disgusted and, more to the point disappointed, that I am seriously thinking of “getting my chips cashed in” (remember that old chestnut I just paraphrased?) and eBaying my whole collection.

    You can’t say there ain’t a buck to be made out of the good ‘ol Grateful Dead!

    It’s so sad to see the band’s unique contributions, their legacy, being torn up in this way.

    There’s a general tenet of art theory that states that art is but a reflection of society. I have been fascinated by the fact that the Dead weren’t a band, but more of a “scene”; a family, a society, if you will.

    Garcia used to talk about evolving humanity, the society, through psychedelics, art, music, culture etc. Well society and humanity, the truth is:

    Welcome to capitalism.

    It’s just as well “faith” is but a word and, therefore, counts for very little. (As I’m sure is the case with my words written in this post).

    Peace out.

    Goodbye.

    __________________________________________________________________

    Addendum:

    I was going to make the above post my first and last post until, upon registering for these forums, this email arrived:

    Hey there Grateful Dead Fan,
    We’re so glad you got on the bus! You’re in for a mighty fine time.
    As a subscriber to Dead.net, you’ll be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
    We’d like to thank you kindly with 10% off* your next order. Simply use this coupon code at checkout:

    Oh, wow! Thank you master! This wage-slave is so uplifted by your magnanimous offer! Thank you so much for extending the cosmic joke you have played upon me, and more fool me!

    Talk about adding insult to injury.........

    I think I’ll pass, as ten percent of nothing, which is what your organisation has given me, is nothing.

    How about giving me back ten percent of the purchase cost of the flawed and incorrectly packaged item that I spent money on in July? I would be happy with ten percent of what your organisation has defrauded me.

    Now I’m done.

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Since the original topic now has hundreds of introductions and is getting a bit hard to navigate, this seems as good a time as any to launch a new one. The original is here, should you wish to catch up on the who's who since this opened up in May. If you haven't introduced yourself yet, please do! And if you already have, but have something new to tell us about you and your life, speak up! (A bit of housekeeping business so we don't have to repost everything we posted before--izzie and I are the moderators here, and for our more extensive intros see the original topic.) Thanks and welcome!
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Hi everybody, I'm new to the site and my name is Gus. I like music from the 60s and 70s mostly with a tiny bit of 80s. The 1960s is my favorite period though for its wonderful aura of brotherhood and its spectacular music.
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I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.
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we love you. It's the spam posts that came along afterwards, now removed, that are attracting the comments!
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a rogue spammer posted after you lol welcome brother
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Just wanted to see what was shakin' from the branches of this digital tree.. I'm dubbed LaughTear, which is a nickname that actually describes me quite well. Just pokin' around seeing what there is to be seen in this corner of the internet, holler at me if you feel like shootin' the shit or if you think we may have met at some point (or would like to) along the road. Peace and blessings..
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Just wanted to see what was shakin' from the branches of this digital tree.. I'm dubbed LaughTear, which is a nickname that actually describes me quite well. Just pokin' around seeing what there is to be seen in this corner of the internet, holler at me if you feel like shootin' the shit or if you think we may have met at some point (or would like to) along the road. Peace and blessings..
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Just posted a short playlist for a blog I write for here: http://bareknucklewriters.com/2010/10/the-music-never-stopped/ Reason for posting this is not so much to pimp what I wrote and the playlist itself as it's nothing you haven't heard or read before. The reason I am posting this here, is that while thinking about my motivations for creating the list in the first place brought back a ton of terrific old memories. Going to the mailbox and seeing that magical package that contained those Maxell tapes. God, I love the Dead : ). ScarletFire
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I hope all is well with all who take a glance this-a-way! It's beautiful weather here, I can understand why so many musicians who made it to SF decided to hang around. I just wish I discovered it sooner! The City is fun but Sonoma and Mendocino are awesome. Micky & family lives out here and so do Tom W. and Charlie Musselwhite. Charlie is always playing around. I'm Grateful Live today...should a moment later I be Dead...Grateful is the way to launch onward! I'm Barney, Peace
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Hi, everyone. I've been a Dead fan only for a couple years. Since summer of 08? I'm hoping to connect with other Dead Heads and make a couple friends. :] Peace~!
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welcome..........
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all these new folks joining us. Welcome!
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Thanks!
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Hi y'all!
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Hello from Florida!!I've been into the Dead since 1990 when I was about fourteen. Only got to see three shows. I've found through constant listening that my favorite era is early to mid '70s mainly '73
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Hi everybody. Just a lurker here that wanted to say this site is awesome. So much info I love it. Been following the Dead since 87. Really enjoy the new incantations of what they are all doing now. Haven't got to see or hear any of this 7 walkers stuff yet hope Billy will make a trip to the midwest sometime soon. Looking forward to see Further at UIC. See you out there somewhere.Peace
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I Followed a couple links and ended up here in this beautiful place full of my kind of people. I'll go by cosmicdan, but you can call me anything that makes you smile. I saw every show I could from mid 70's on, (without traveling all over the world like some of you.) I have a collection of live tapes and disks that would make many of you serious collectors flash back to when you only had a little tiny fraction of what you have now. Oh well, I am a happy hippie anyway. Much love to all my brothers and sisters that hang around here, I hope to get to know many of you well.
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its real nice to meet you welcome.
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Nice to meet everyone. I'm Myke, I'm 22 from Jersey. Got into the dead about abyeat ago and got hooked instantly. I play guitar and sing in a reggae band, work a lot and hang out with my beautiful girlfriend. I love the positive atmosphere I've seen here and the positivity through te deads music. It's great to meet you all, and Ill see you around.
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meet you mykey.
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Well me and Michele have been Deadheads forever and a day....I think. I learned of and about the Dead in 1984, while Michele was jamming to the Dead around 1979. Unlike life the experience of the Dead and every show was like a rebirth and birth of our senses and spiritually explosive.
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Hi all. I'm Mark and I found the Dead I Jr. High. I borrowed my buddies dads workings man dead tape and was hooked. I started going to shows in 93 or 94 and my love grew for the music and community. I'm married to a beautiful wife and we have two boys four and six. I can't wait to bring the kids to a show they love the music already.
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Hello - glad to have found you - I got to see a few shows in the late '80s - very special - thankful for the experience - Hope to make some friends, and participate in the community. Love the dancing - or loved it at any rate - don't get to dance so much these days... -ducksy
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That's right...Nebraska.My older brother brought The Grateful Dead home from his freshman year of college in 1985. The very first time I heard St. Stephen off 'The Best Of..' that summer, I was toast. Saw my first show at Alpine in July of 1989. Saw my last show at the Silver Bowl in May of 1995. Made it to roughly 60 shows during those blissful 6 years. I miss Jerry...a lot. Thanks for having me. J
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What in the heck are you guys doing? Holding benefits for Obama.(In 2009) Ya lost me there. I mean really, Bobby, Phil, ya really lost me there. I can't figure out what you guys are doing. What in the world are you guys talking about. I don't even think you guys know what your doing. You guys obviously don't know what your doing. Ok Dark Star. Got that part. You guys let me down time and time again. You can bash me, go ahead. I'm used to it, You guys treat me pretty crappy when I used to go to shows and hang around you anyway. And I'm one of the people that used to put a bunch of energy into the shows. Its not even worth going to shows and putting any energy into it because why should I? I get treated like crap, by a bunch of people that don't know me and think they know better than me. After the Obama benefits, its like, wow, I don't really have anything in common with you guys anyway. So, I broke off from the mothership. Bye. Whew, well I feel better now, just like I always do for myself.As usual.
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Wasn't the mothership George Clinton??Seems like you're taking the band a wee bit to personally DannyC. ********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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Thats really some sage hippy advice, I'm impressed by your wisdom.
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Just trying to keep it friendly. December is a cold month here. January can possibly be even colder. Gotta still keep the weather in mind.
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Greetings Fellow travelers Older then most here I think, 55 on Sept 11. Saw my first show in 71 at Franklin & Marshall College here in Lancaster Pa. Saw the boys most years till the late 70s then took about 8 years off and started doing shows again in the mid 80s. 92 comes around and a son is born and my run with the band ends. It was one hell of a ride friends!!! Now with the internet and XM radio I get to listen to lots of great shows any time I want, what a great place to live!!! Any body want to chat, just shot me a line. Namaste Jeff
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I'm not sure where I should be posting this and I couldn't figure out how to post a new topic anywhere so I'll give this a shot... Name is John from Philadelphia. I inherited a large collection of tapes of the Grateful Dead. These belonged to a dedicated fan who's life unfortunately ended at a young age and his father has passed his collection on to me after years of storage in the basement. I have not had the opportunity to go through all of them yet but there's a little over 500 tapes ranging from the 60's to 90's... His father said he used to travel to concerts, record the events and later trade tapes... a bootlegger I suppose. My question is what should I be doing with these? Besides storing them for another decade in my basement and occasionally popping a tape in my boom-box... I'd hate for them to deteriorate with time and become trash. Is it worth while dubbing these to MP3's for safekeeping? Or are there so many of these tapes around that I'd only be wasting my time? Thank you all for any suggestions you may have

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my names Kenny im 22 and sadly was only alive for a few years during the Dead's run. My biggest regret is that i will never get to hear the world's best live band actually play live. My favorite period for the dead is 63 (mother mcree's) to 73 (pigpen's death). I only recently (in the last year) got into the dead and have tried to catch up quickly but there's obviously a vast amount of material to indulge in so here i am. I'm also somewhat of a mediocre musician and my solo album can be found here : www.bandcamp.com/lennylenape . There is also an improvised version of Sugaree on there. I'm just here looking to meet fellow dead heads and allow the dead to consume my life haha. Cheers
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Huhhh? WTF Danno? Obama is such a predominant factor in our mutual love for penulttimate jam band music that you have to feel ultimately violated and hated because we had such a stark choice for president last year? C''mere you big ole' dancing bear! Quinn the Eskimo's right behind uf and everybody's gonna wanna dose! I was always sick of the politics but I'm glad I didn't let it define me! Santa and the psychedelic mushrooms are playings at Harvard in Cambridge Square in Boston. You better not not shout , you better not pout, Amanita Muscaria are coming, to town! Merry Christmas, Danny -- stay warm!!
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Hows it goin, Names Dillon, I have been listening to Dead since I was a small child. My parents used to always play their stuff
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The music thrives in all of us. Looking forward about tour dates this new year. When I was younger, I always was working keeping ..the main loves of my life __ This phenomenal music which kicks your ass and gives you energy to shake those bones, and Kalli, the one who got away. When you strummed Jack a row to me we should've gotten married later that night. God Bless the Band and all you DEADHEADS everywhere. Leave the bunk in the trunk... kottonmouthjeff__
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kottonmouth!!!
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I did dead tour from 1989-1994 I was not a regular because I had a son. But when I tour I stayed close to the Wrecking Crew. I lived in Denver and Traveled between Denver and San Fransico. I want to find old friends. I want to hear about the old times and see pictures. I want to be in contact with people I considered family. Although the last time I saw everyone I had a bit of a freak out!
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I just got to say- this forum is so much more civil than similar bands forums. As to be expected.... I essentially toured the West Coast non-stop from '87 to '93 while I was finishing high school and attending UC berkeley. I move to San Antonio in 93 didn't help the show situation too much. Sold sodas after shows to support myself, slept in a lot of rest areas hanging out with some very cool people. I have never stopped listening to the Dead and apart from my current Dick's Picks obsession, I am a regular Dead podcast listener, aiming to keep things random. J.T. Gossard http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/
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I am in Chicago and would love to meet new folks to hang out with. Remember hearing some years ago about a bar that did a weekly (monthly?) Dead night, if anyone knows if that is still going on would be awesome to hear. I'm 42, married and got into the Dead too late :(...saw them about 5 times in the late 80s/90s but the first few times was just there for the party. Gradually got more into the actual music and now it's most of what I listen to. I have been able to see Furthur a couple times and am very excited about them, I think they are the best of the "post-Dead" bands. Other interests include yoga, biking, sports and beer! Nice to meet you all!!
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(~);} Hey now , I am a 53 year old mama of 3 grown sons. I saw my first show in 77, phillie.. and off and on through the years,,, Its been my dream to follow the tour for a season or more. I never could because of Babies and hubby died, and I just could not take to the road then... I am SO ready to NOW.. I got to seee Furthur 5 times last year and got the fever to get out of here .... I would like to find a trustworthy responsible travel partner to share expenses and experiences... if u r interested Let me hear from ya,,, shugamagnollia@aol.com (~);} Have a GRATEFUL day (~);} Have a GRATEFUL day (~);}
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Sorry, got distracted, gdradio.net just put on an outrageous Candyman! O yeah, traveling from NC to Beantown to see Further at the Orpheum, dead-based band Fennario (watch them on U-Tube), are having a pre and post blast a block away! Going to the Saturday show Feb. 5 (or whatever Sat. comes at the begin of Feb!) - anyone comin'? repoman