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    Share Your Stories Of Healing With The Dead

    The feature film The Music Never Stopped is based on the true story of an estranged father and son reconnecting through the power of music, particularly the music of the Dead. How has the music of the Dead helped to heal you? Is there a specific song that has given you inspiration when you needed it? A memory of the Dead that has greatly enriched your life? Submit your personal tale of "gratefulness" in the comments of this page and not only we will pass along your anecdotes to the band, but you may just win a copy of The Music Never Stopped soundtrack and a t-shirt from the film. 10 winners will be selected at random.

    NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and D.C. (excluding Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam), 18 and older (or 19 and older for residents of AL and NE) at time of entry. Void where prohibited. To enter: Visit https://www.dead.net between 12:00pm Pacific Standard Time (“PST”) on March 21, 2011 and 12:00pm PST on April 1, 2011 and follow online instructions to submit entry. Limit one (1) entry per person/address/email address. Subject to Official Rules available HERE.
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    Amy57
    13 years 2 months ago
    Healing every day...
    at 54 years old...having grown up in San Rafael ( MArin Co,) and seeing I have no idea HOW many Dead shows, I still have my iPod stuffed full of live Dead. Ran into Garcia (quite literally) at Oakland airport int the 80's ...thrilled to be able to thank him for the music after untangling my luggage from his...
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    wadeocu
    13 years 2 months ago
    There have been many .....
    .... many such personal moments. One of the more recent occured a few years ago while on vacation. My friend and I had gone fishing and on our return to the hotel, we witnessed a fatal car accident. We performed CPR on a man who was dying or, more likely, already dead. It was a deeply disturbing moment for me with some truly profound realizations about mortality and the swiftness with which it can sneak up on anyone. Later while riding in the car we were listening to 9/21/72. Morning Dew moved us both deeply and I was in tears. It was a type of closure that Jerry's voice was offering; an acceptance of our powerlessness in the grand scheme of things. It really helped to cleanse my mind and come to terms with the experience. Then after all this swelling of emotions, Bobby's choice of BIODTL for a follow-up just made us laugh out loud after I made some comment about Bobby's song choice having the continuity and thoughtfullness of a late night stream on infomercials. We had a good laugh about Bobby's poor choice and that was really the healing moment; perhaps it wasn't such a poor choice after all?!?
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    my-dads-son
    13 years 2 months ago
    pain goes away, scars r 4ever.
    It was about 7:30am on March 24, 2009, two years ago today, that my brother called me saying that our dad had committed suicide. As a farmer, the economy really took its toll on my parents. The short version of the story is that he did it so my mom could collect the life insurance and pay off all the debt, house, car and have some to live on. I know its hard to wrap your mind around it, but I have to say that I love my dad and am proud of him that he was willing to lay his life down for the wellbeing of my mom. Just like Jesus. Now having said that, I would have been willing to risk sitting in a cell for 25 to life for bank robbery, had I known what he was going through.I have always loved the Grateful Dead, and their offspring, but wouldn’t have considered myself to be a deadhead. I gave mom my car for dads truck so she wouldn’t have to drive it, and when I got in the XM was on 57, and has never been changed since. He wasn’t a fan of the dead as much as he was a fan of Jerry. Dad was an old bluegrass guy, so that’s what he loved most about him, his ability to just rip anything up. Listening to the channel as much as I do has changed me, I can tell. I guess its a connection to my dad that I never knew I had. Since I never was able to see GD, Furthur is my live medication. Catch them all I can. Next weekend in Hampton, Va, I’ll be the one dancing in section B row 17 seat 18. High on a Mountain is the song that has probably helped put the words in my mouth that I could never voice. I hope he knew how much I loved him. How much I admire him. How much I miss him. “Oh, I wonder where in heaven you might be. And if love has preserved your memory. As I listen to the breeze Whisper gently through the trees. I will always cherish what you mean to me.”
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The feature film The Music Never Stopped is based on the true story of an estranged father and son reconnecting through the power of music, particularly the music of the Dead. How has the music of the Dead helped to heal you? Is there a specific song that has given you inspiration when you needed it? A memory of the Dead that has greatly enriched your life? Submit your personal tale of "gratefulness" in the comments of this page and not only we will pass along your anecdotes to the band, but you may just win a copy of The Music Never Stopped soundtrack and a t-shirt from the film. 10 winners will be selected at random.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and D.C. (excluding Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam), 18 and older (or 19 and older for residents of AL and NE) at time of entry. Void where prohibited. To enter: Visit https://www.dead.net between 12:00pm Pacific Standard Time (“PST”) on March 21, 2011 and 12:00pm PST on April 1, 2011 and follow online instructions to submit entry. Limit one (1) entry per person/address/email address. Subject to Official Rules available HERE.
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The feature film The Music Never Stopped is based on the true story of an estranged father and son reconnecting through the power of music, particularly the music of the Dead. How has the music of the Grateful Dead helped to heal you? Is there a specific song that has given you inspiration when you needed it? A memory of the Dead that has greatly enriched your life? Submit your personal tale of "gratefulness" in the comments of this page and not only we will pass along your anecdotes to the band, but you may just win a copy of The Music Never Stopped soundtrack and a t-shirt from the film. 10 winners will be selected at random.

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Having first heard the music back in 1974 I wasn't a stranger to who the Grateful Dead were. Beginning in 1977, I became a Dead-icated follower and through seeing well over 75 plus shows on both coasts lasting through the early 90's, I was able to establish a concrete understanding how an influence directly affected my life and how I looked at life. Leaving shows not only was a rewarded by an intoxicating energy transfusion, but a fantastic, overwhelming feeling of peace. There were folks on this planet that could get together and enjoy a time of music, fun, and spiritual inspiration. Can you really verbally download to a non-believer what a show is like. Or better, attempt to describe the Grateful Dead. It's like explaining what its like to take a trip on acid. I reflect on a time in the early 80's when in college. We would live with The Dead as music of life. Everyday a consistent provision of group contributed bootleg tapes to enjoy. yet through our congregations dealin' at the wheel, it was uncanny how when a problem arose and group think attempted to solve the dilemma, it was answered all too often in a Hunter lyric at just the right time. Cosmic awareness was yet another aspect that The Dead opened up a corridor of understanding and left all of us in the know, completely mystified in such a wild, cool way. Knowing that a magic was created during those years and having had the opportunity to enjoy was a great experience. Jerry may have taken a huge part of that magic with him, but the music and memories are still a very much living organism that continues to grow in my heart, mind, and soul.
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Regine "Pegi", Prinzess of Hohenzollern (yeah, he wasn't lieing.It is me).Edelweiss. Since forever, the music has helped me get awake, clear my brain, forget, and go to sleep. Even just connecting to this site, the pain I'm always in relaxed somewhat. The music just triggers the good neurons, the good natural chemistry of me lets me let go of the usual things I never wanted to be part of in the first place. I get back to me; I find my balance. I wonder sometimes if this was known when the music was written or just the happy result? And the lyrics...the softest ballads have an intensity that only comes from feeling the real....and the rocking numbers, well, you know...I can't explain it, but I'm so glad that it is. It'd be easier to list the one or two songs I don't really like much than to pick any one as a fave-that changes day to day, what my head and heart need right then. I always needed my music and I need my "Dead".
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And you thought those channeling sessions with the shrink would never pay off... Best wishes for all good things, Mona!