• 734 replies
    marye
    Joined:
    Gather here and tell us your stories! And thanks to TigerLilly for the suggestion!

Comments

sort by
Recent
Reset
  • deadkat
    Joined:
    The only Deadhead in Plumstead?
    I might just be that person...LOL Plumstead is in SE London. It's a well known fact that I only got to see the boys once, Bickershaw 72-05-07 but what a show that was. A sublime Dark Star that will long live in my memory. I'd been listening to the Dead since Aoxomoxoa caught my eye in the Co-Op. I took an instant like to the album cover and had to have it. Up to then I think I had caught a couple of miscellaneous tracks on the radio but after that I had to have more. Since then I've been buying, d/l and editing shows,and there just isn't enough time in the day to listen. I'm backed up with sweet music that should see me through to my retirement and beyond (yes there might just be an afterlife). And Mr Witcher, who is our resident Spanish correspondent, there will not be a matrix of the Charlies from SOLparty emminating from this direction. It's just too much of a chore. We have the aud (my favourite), the sbd and the video. Isn't that enough for a grown man :-) Mick
  • marye
    Joined:
    Hi Dermot!
    Are you still in London? My great-grandfather came from County Cork to help build the Union Pacific Railroad back in the day.
  • Dermot
    Default Avatar
    Joined:
    Greetings from Ireland
    Could I be the first Irish person in here? That would be a new experience! Anyway, briefly... Moved to London after I finished school in 1970 and remember buying American Beauty and Astral Weeks (Van Morrison) on the same day that autumn (Fall!). I don't think I'll ever do better than that again. Got to see the Dead at the Lyceum in 1972 and then somehow fell away from all that until the 80s when I was in the States and someone (thanks Bob Hapgood if you ever hit this Forum) turned me on to the great taping tradition. Got lots of stuff from very generous US traders (I didn't have much to trade at the time). One of my favourites is the Warfield concert. I later found it on the Reckoning CD. STill I have Dead besotted periods and have only truely come to appreciate Gerry as a guitar player in later years. Good luck to all here and many thanks to the people who have totally revitalised the old web site. Finally a thumbs up to Bob Hunter. I am a semi regular reader of your diary Bob, thanks.
  • joakim84
    Joined:
    marye
    I´m from the woods of Karlstad quite close to Norway. But I worked a summer in Uppsala actually, very nice place! Have some friends there as well.I know Uppsala were one of the most interesting places in Sweden in the early 70s, with all their musicforums and stuff. A lot of great experimental bands came out of that place, like Samla Mamma Manna, and others. Linköping is almost a blank spot on the map for me though.. Oh, those nice ladys on the countryside.. I think they are angels in disguise, they have saved me in similar ways as your story. Nice to see a story from Sweden, Thanks.
  • Sunshine-daydr…
    Joined:
    Barry Melton and Deadicace in Paris 8th Septemebr
    This was posted on Eurotraders some of you might be interested Paris celebrates the Summer of Love June through October with a series of exhibitions in Montreuil. It gets live on Saturday 8 September with a Deadicace gig and, though not announced on the site, Barry Melton will be there too. All you need to know and other links at http://www.ridethewind.org/Deadicace.htm Really hope some of you can get there. Barry fans may already know he's also performing amidst an eclectic line up in France at the Rochefort festival sometime around 24 August, with French backing band and Deadicace members Jamasutra. Details of Rochefort are at: http://www.anythingmatters.com/rochefort/index.html "Try on your wings and find out where it's at Hey, hey ....." Bill - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
  • marye
    Joined:
    Joakim! where in Sweden are you?

    When I was a student doing the summer-in-Europe thing, I took my student railpass and took the overnight train from Copenhagen to Uppsala, because I really wanted to see Uppsala. Long story. But anyway, I have the loveliest memories of the place.

    Except there's this Bergman movie in which there's a scene of a particular corner with yellow stone buildings and cobblestone streets, and it gave me intense physical flashbacks to dragging my no-sleep self and excess luggage past that very corner looking for someplace to sleep. Wound up at what seemed to be a private hostel out in the country. It was full, but the lady took pity on me and let me stay in the attic. The view was incredible...

    And the sound of the train conductor calling the stops. Linköping is the one I remember.

    Of course, this was in 1971. But in my mind, it's still lovely.

  • joakim84
    Joined:
    Sweden!
    Pretty sure this is my first post on this site.It´s so nice to read all your anecdotes and thoughts concering the Dead. Big thanks to you all. Your keeping these nights, when i really should be sleeping, interesting. Me myself lives in Sweden, with our long winters, and my name is Joakim. I´m in to ecological lifestyle, and doing my best to live as eco-friendly as possible, with plans of beeing self-sufficient as soon as possible. Wonder if there any fellow swedes here? But Im not that hung up on nationality or geography, we are universal people us ´heads it seems to me. The Love connects us. I havent seen any GD-show, I was only eleven years old when Jerry left the earth to join the places where only his music had been before. So I have not that much to contribute with when it comes to that. But I´ll do my best.
  • Sunshine-daydr…
    Joined:
    Deadheads in England
    This might be of some use for you to contact like minded folk. There are lots of Deadheads in the London Area. You could see the Cosmic Charlies who regularly play London, The next show is in August for Jers Birthday http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/eurotraders/ http://www.cosmiccharlies.co.uk/ Bob W - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
  • Mats62
    Default Avatar
    Joined:
    Greetings from a London
    Greetings from a London deadhead...got switched onto the Dead by an old girlfriend while living in the US in the early 90's but, alas, never got to see them live...my only live experience is the post-Jerry Dead at Jones Beach, PAF at the same venue and RatDog when they played the Astoria a few years back...still, have managed to d/l numerous live shows via archive.org (before they stopped sbd recordings) and bt.etree.org with my favourite years being 1974 and 1977...it's great to have this forum because being a deadhead in the UK is a somewhat strange existence...you have this huge connection to this amazing world of GD music that somehow creates little resonance with most of your compatriots...I do my best to proselytise among my group of friends...put on some GD when they're round for dinner or something and wait for them to say, "this is good, what's this..." (a frequent reaction)...anyway, good to see there are some likeminded folk here in Europe!
  • hanuman
    Default Avatar
    Joined:
    Deadhead in France/Denmark
    I moved from the US to Grenoble, France in 1999, and unfortunately the only deadheads I meet here are the ones the old friends that come to visit me here. I'm about to move to Copenhagen for about a year and then return to Grenoble. Anyone out there in either of these cities...I'd love to get together and share some music and show memories over a cold beer or bottle of wine. Most of my european friends just don't seem to get the music. I'm sure there are some of you out there. I'd love to hear from you.
user picture

Member for

17 years 5 months
Gather here and tell us your stories! And thanks to TigerLilly for the suggestion!
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

Hello Friends:I´m deadhead for 35 years ago, recent follow 7 shows in this Spring Tour '09 in west coast. My first in Barcelona in 81', only time in Spain, great final concert of the European Tour. Here my Dead blog in spanish http://estacionterrapin.blogspot.com/ WHERE IS THE REST OF THE SPANISH DEADHEADS? .. the music never stopped..
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

EUH I MAY NOT KNOW ABOUY DEADHEADS IN SPAIN BUT AS I LIVE IN FRANCE I THOUGHT JUST TO SAY HELLO
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

This is a little info I just read about and I thought you might laugh too hearing it:there is a little town in Austria called "Fucking" cerated by lord Focko in the VI century .Nowadays people come from far away just to have their picture taken near the town's signs . the mayor is so pissed off about it he install cameras next the signs of "Fucking" to find out who is making jokes about his town 's name !!!
user picture

Member for

15 years
Permalink

Hello, friends! Just return from Egypt. I was at Gizah Sound and Light Theater. Magical place! I looking for some GD recordings. If anyone can send me CD-R or DVD-R with stuff it would be very nice. Please, don't sent me links for downloading.
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

Hey everybody, last Tuesday I welcomed a studio guest on my STASH radio show, Marc from the Hamburg-based GD tribute band Cosmic Finger. You wanna check out their delicious sound? http://www.stash-radio.de/archiv.htm (interview and moderation in German, though...). All the best, Frank--- www.stash-radio.de www.myspace.com/stash_radio
user picture

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

Will give it a listen, thanks! Hey! Hast du gewusst dass gibst ein GD Coverband in Heidelberg? Ein Freund von mir hat ein Video von sie auf YouTube gefunden. ********************************** Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

... do you have a segment on your show called "Sprockets" by any chance?
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

Hey TigerLilly and buddy plant, a GD cover band in Heidelberg? No, I didn't know. What's their name? I only know that Billy Goodman's living there. Ah, perhaps Karmic Society? One can read on their myspace page "Sounds like Cobham and Stockhausen are having a barbecue, somewhere in the San Francisco bay area. And everybody's coming. Emerson, Hendrix, McLaughlin, the Doors (they even brought some salad),... But it seems like the Beatles have put some lsd in everybody's sausages!" Btw, Cosmic Finger will play live and acoustic in the studio on 8 December! Sprockets? No, what do you mean? Ciao, Frank
user picture

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

may be correct. I will look up that vid again.And Sprockets was a sketch from the comedy show Saturday Night Live-was poking fun at German music and "musicians" from the hmmm bauhaus into neue deutsche welle times. Was very funny! ********************************** Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
user picture

Member for

15 years
Permalink

Hi All. My first ever post! I live in the UK and have been a Dead fan for nearly 20 years. I guess that makes me a new starter compared to some folks on here. It took me a while but I saw the light in the end!!! I love all sorts of bands, especially jamming guitar bands, which brings me on to Guvt` Mule. I`m desperate to hear the Dead with Warren Hayes as a member!! Where can I get some of the latest gigs??The only Dead related "boot" live stuff I have to trade is a Ratdog gig from Newcastle upon Tyne, England a few years back. Rob Wasserman on bass. I do have quite a few shows by other bands. I will be grateful for any help....... Cheers
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

Yippee! Tomorrow evening we'll have live music on the STASH radio show, namely the Hamburg-based Grateful Dead Tribute Band Cosmic Finger with an unparalleled studio jam! Tuesday - 08 December 2009 - 10-12 PM CET - Radio FSK: 93,0 MHz antenna - 101,4 MHz cable (Hamburg/Germany and vicinity) http://www.fsk-hh.org/livestream (Live stream in OGG format) Under http://www.stash-radio.de/archiv.htm you can download the latest STASH shows in mp3 format (older ones only after request). Have fun, Frank ----- www.stash-radio.de www.myspace.com/stash_radio
user picture

Member for

15 years 1 month
Permalink

hey there im a north californian deadhead that was deported last year for marijuana, now im living in frankfurt germany n i really would like to know where r all the deadheads hiding at. it sucks to feel like theres no one here that understands the life on the road n the family connections we make in that life. if anyone can help me n let me know of good jam bands playing where i can meet some family n feel the love again i would really appreciate it. thanks for being u
user picture

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

I am quite close to you, about 40 KM from Frankfurt. Deadheads in Europe are few and far between, but we are here. There is a pretty good jam band in Heidelberg, and another in Nürnberg. The names escape me at the moment, but I will look them up and post here again later. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
user picture

Member for

17 years 5 months
Permalink

two of my favorite towns, back in the day. I'm sure they've changed a good deal in almost 40 years, but lovely to think of jam bands there!
user picture

Member for

15 years 1 month
Permalink

thanks tigerlilly its nice to hear that there is good people n good music here guess i havent looked in the right areas, i thought that i was just in the wrong town.. i went to both heidelburg n nürnberg last summer they r nice but not for me.. i think next summer im going north to hamburg see what it is about.
user picture

Member for

15 years 1 month
Permalink

hey stash thx for last nite was great cant wait to come to hamburg in juli for cosmic
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

Heyho, Cosmic Finger play (only) a 1-hour set of marvellous GD sound at the Modern Hippie Festival in the music club Kir in Hamburg, Germany this night.More info here: www.myspace.com/modernhippiefestival www.myspace.com/cosmicfinger Curious about the new song they promised to play. All the best, Frank --- www.stash-radio.de
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

14 years 4 months
Permalink

hello
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years
Permalink

hello everybody! how we all doin? it's really good to know we've got some heads on this side of the atlantic! since it's summertime, i'd like to know what's going on as far as festivals, weekends, gatherings, shows, that sort of thing? it would be grate to meet up with some brothers & sisters :)
user picture

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

Some of our Brit pals are going to SOL in Kent very very soon!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 2 months
Permalink

Hi Buz Off to SOL tomorrow.The weather forecast looks decent,especially Saturday.Looking forward to it,the only downer is the lack of a dead cover band.If you fancy it next year Google Solparty
user picture

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

tsk tsk tsk! Don't be down-you're going to SOL! There will be a handful of grate folks from here there, and it's an amazing vibe, from what I've heard. Rock out and enjoy it for what it is!!!!!!!!!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 2 months
Permalink

I wasn't really being down just a bit dissappointed.Anyway we had good bands,good sound,good beer,good weather and good company.A perfect hedonistic chillout weekend that carried on well into Sunday night after we got home. Only 360 days till the next one - can't wait.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

What kind of debauchery do you all engage in where you have to join a private club to get in?In the English countryside? The mind boggles with the possibilities... Did Mick, Keith, Justin & Andrew make the scene, having Ripplesex to the Jerry Sounds? Did the pap outnumber the participants inside?
user picture

Member for

14 years 3 months
Permalink

Hi dead friends,see you on tour. Caught some of you at Antaris. BooooooM.
user picture
Default Avatar
Permalink

I am positive if there were any promoter types close to who could locate out precisely how the band would settle concerning revenue for doing, say eleven, shows on the European tour. Then it's just a matter of booking the proper venues within the time they could tour. Obviously a lot of Americans would arrive more than. I'd expect a good interest here from Europeans also. It would definitely be financially viable. Who can discover out what the bands needs will be? Surely they'd be up for that tour of the lifetime, specifically as there's the opportunity today to hit up Eastern Europe. I'd undoubtedly recommend Prague, Budapest, Gdansk and Tallinn at the same time since the clear Western European spots.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

Good GD tribute band is playing their annual 'Jerry Fest' this Saturday evening at a bar near Marylebone Station, London NW1...worth checking out if you're around! Scroll down this page for venue info:http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~billpannifer/cosmic.htm Can check the band out at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cosmic-Charlies/297790653518?ref=search
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

Stuck inside of Vienna with the San Francisco Blues again!I miss SF, My sister just saw Neil Young play a little solo show in oakland and then hung out with his son Ben. I got to see him play 14 shows straight warming up for a Europe tour before I left SF in a little bar where I used to play, It was really low pro, he used a fake band name, and only about 100 tix were sold for each show. I miss seeing phil and friends and the new tour they did with everybody, I guess as the dead. Do they ever plan on coming back out to Europe????? They really should, I agree with the last post, It would for sure be worth it for them, and I am SURE they would enjoy their time here. Let's bring em back!!!! Hand me my old guitar and pass the whiskey 'round. Matt
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

just this year we have started up a new site for deadheads/jamband fans in europe.it's at www.jambandseurope.com we try to have all the information on tour dates for bands coming to europe as well as gig dates by local european jambands and dead cover bands. some interviews, reveiws, etc. right now it's more of a resource tool, but hopefully a new version will be up by the beginning of the year with discussion groups, etc. to make it more community oriented please take a look. send us your suggestions, your contributions, etc. and please tell everybody about it! thanks a lot and keep on truckin'
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

14 years 2 months
Permalink

i will definatly lookin into this.
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

see you at Drive By Truckers in Toulouse??
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

love to see DBT but don't think it will happen this year. plans are for JITD if it happens and also The Grateful Dread in april
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

sorry to keep plugging my website jambandseurope.com but ...i invite anyone interested to sign up for our email newsletter the monthly jam. basically at the beginning of each month i send out an email with as complete a list as possible fo relevant shows here in europe for the coming month, both european bands and american bands. i also include links to all the free downloads i have culled through other websites and/or newsletters. at the same time, please let me know if there are jamband radio programs, websites/blogs, and or jambands/dead cover bands here in europe that i have missed and need to be on the site. finally, feel free to send me anything that you think should be or would like to have posted, announcements about upcoming deadhead gatherings, reviews of concerts or CDs, etc.. thanks a lot.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

all of you brits got a treat coming your way.The New Mastersounds are playing a one off gig at Band on the Wall in Manchester on December 18th. It's nothing like the dead, but a lot like the Meters (in fact they are playing Halloween in NOLA as the backing band for Art Neville). Although they're from Leeds, they almost never play in Europe, too busy playing just about every club and every major jamband festival in the u.s. (in fact the guitarist apparently has relocated to the U.S.). They played JITD here last year and in January they're playing i think their third JamCruise. Enjoy.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

jamcruise would be awesome, but a bit out of my budget this year. doea anyone know what's happening with Jam In The Dam for spring 2011? will it happen?
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

17 years 2 months
Permalink

still no word on jam in the dam for 2011 - - i don't hink it's going to happen, but keeping my fingers crossed! Jack Straw in Holland
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

wow. somebody is far away from wichita!just fired off an email to Armand Sandler, maybe we'll get a response and clear up the doubts. although i imagine that they rely heavily on u.s. fans coming across, and with the weak dollar and high unemployment ... (although that hasn't seemed to hurt jma cruise or the mayan holidaze or any of the other similar packages). your first show was merriweather 1984? i lived about a mile away from merriweather all my youth. saw my first dead show there in 1985.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

Armand has promised me a press release by tomorrow. no word on whether its good news or bad news yet. i'm on the road tomorrow so not sure how soon i can post it. although i'm sure it will appear on all the usual websites..jambands.com, jambase.com, etc..keep those fingers crossed
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

it's official Jam In The Band has been cancelled for 2011, or rather postponed until 2012, with the idea of making it a biannual event in the future. you heard it here first. although i hate to be the bringer of bad news. looking forward to 2012 now.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

17 years 2 months
Permalink

Hey Bro Esau,I am a long way from Wichita! Total bummer that it's a no - go for 2011.... Jack Straw in Holland
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

looking forward to JITD 2012. in the meantime i'm working on some other stuff which hopefully will pleae deadheads here in europe, and including holland
user picture

Member for

17 years 3 months
Permalink

Esau, if you are including Holland?********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 9 months
Permalink

yes, for germany too.the project i am working on right now is to bring The Grateful Dread (dead tunes with a reggae groove) www.thegratefuldread.com to europe in april. we already have them booked for friday april 22nd at Muzikcentrium De Bosuil (Weert, Netherlands) and sunday, april 24th at Big Mama (Miltenberg, Germany near Frankfurt) and talking with a lot of other places. any help would be appreciated, if anyone has personal contacts with club owners and/or can recommend particularly suitable clubs (ideally with a capacity of 250 to 400 people), please send me a message. also, for spanish jamband fans the new mastersounds will probably tour spain in february, if you like the meters you'll love these guys.