To all of you who think the dead is just about pot and acid, go F*ck yourselves. This is a beautiful song (Check it out on Europe '72, absolutely beautiful.) I may only be 16 and have never been blessed to see em with jerry but even I know they were about more than just dope. Sure, there was pot, and alot of it, sure there was alotta acid. but not everything has to be about drugs. This (while no doubt does contain drug refrences,) song conjurs up images of carefree summer days spent with a beautiful girl, and as "Sugar_Magnolia" said, ""Its about a girl who has yet to reach self actualization but she is coming around and will soon get there, but he seess her as a beautiful person who still brings light to everyones day even though she doesnt yet realize who she is."" So thank you to all those who know that music from the 60's and 70's goes deeper than a buncha pot smokin acid droppin long haird hippies and can have a deeper more beautiful meaning
To deadhead21 I appoligize, peoples ignorance really can just get on my nerves. I post this in retaliation to those who chalk everything from the 60-70s to be drugs.
To deadhead21 I appoligize, peoples ignorance really can just get on my nerves. I post this in retaliation to those who chalk everything from the 60-70s to be drugs.
The meanings are up for us to decided, but please dont just blindly say drugs, thats just stupid
The meanings are up for us to decided, but please dont just blindly say drugs, thats just stupid
u are exactly right! Most young ppl tho associate them and all the their songs with drugs and the 60s but these idiotic young ppl fail to get is the hippies has a deeper meaning and they cared about things, the environment politics OTHER PPL. Everyone assumes it all about getting effed up outta ur mind and gettin naked! Thanks for showing me that some young ppl are all idiots and just wanna get high!
u are exactly right! Most young ppl tho associate them and all the their songs with drugs and the 60s but these idiotic young ppl fail to get is the hippies has a deeper meaning and they cared about things, the environment politics OTHER PPL. Everyone assumes it all about getting effed up outta ur mind and gettin naked! Thanks for showing me that some young ppl are all idiots and just wanna get high!
There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy...
There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy and Mickey's jazz fusion/world music influences. All this combined to make a unique whole that was all their own. Garcia's guitar playing was not of this earth - it was pure inspiration, as if his playing was driven by some unseen force. There would be moments seeing them live almost nightly when some amazing theme would just pop out and they would just FLOOR you with it. For better or worse, they fathered the whole "jam bands" scene (some bands good, some abysmal). The old bumper sticker was true: there is (was) nothing like a Grateful Dead concert." Saw them 142 times, I should know lol.
To all of you who think the dead is just about pot and acid, go F*ck yourselves. This is a beautiful song (Check it out on Europe '72, absolutely beautiful.) I may only be 16 and have never been blessed to see em with jerry but even I know they were about more than just dope. Sure, there was pot, and alot of it, sure there was alotta acid. but not everything has to be about drugs. This (while no doubt does contain drug refrences,) song conjurs up images of carefree summer days spent with a beautiful girl, and as "Sugar_Magnolia" said, ""Its about a girl who has yet to reach self actualization but she is coming around and will soon get there, but he seess her as a beautiful person who still brings light to everyones day even though she doesnt yet realize who she is."" So thank you to all those who know that music from the 60's and 70's goes deeper than a buncha pot smokin acid droppin long haird hippies and can have a deeper more beautiful meaning
To deadhead21 I appoligize, peoples ignorance really can just get on my nerves. I post this in retaliation to those who chalk everything from the 60-70s to be drugs.
To deadhead21 I appoligize, peoples ignorance really can just get on my nerves. I post this in retaliation to those who chalk everything from the 60-70s to be drugs.
The meanings are up for us to decided, but please dont just blindly say drugs, thats just stupid
The meanings are up for us to decided, but please dont just blindly say drugs, thats just stupid
u are exactly right! Most young ppl tho associate them and all the their songs with drugs and the 60s but these idiotic young ppl fail to get is the hippies has a deeper meaning and they cared about things, the environment politics OTHER PPL. Everyone assumes it all about getting effed up outta ur mind and gettin naked! Thanks for showing me that some young ppl are all idiots and just wanna get high!
u are exactly right! Most young ppl tho associate them and all the their songs with drugs and the 60s but these idiotic young ppl fail to get is the hippies has a deeper meaning and they cared about things, the environment politics OTHER PPL. Everyone assumes it all about getting effed up outta ur mind and gettin naked! Thanks for showing me that some young ppl are all idiots and just wanna get high!
There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy...
There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy and Mickey's jazz fusion/world music influences. All this combined to make a unique whole that was all their own. Garcia's guitar playing was not of this earth - it was pure inspiration, as if his playing was driven by some unseen force. There would be moments seeing them live almost nightly when some amazing theme would just pop out and they would just FLOOR you with it. For better or worse, they fathered the whole "jam bands" scene (some bands good, some abysmal). The old bumper sticker was true: there is (was) nothing like a Grateful Dead concert." Saw them 142 times, I should know lol.