by Dante | Dec 10, 2018 | GDFA, Kid Pix
The more things change, the more they remain the same. How fitting when applied to the Grateful Dead and the legions that have been their ‘family’ through-out the years. The basic entities remain the same — a public arena, the fans, the artists and their...
by Dante | Oct 13, 2018 | Chapter 11, GDFA
Previous Next Yet none of this matters, for the Dead have forged a symbiosis with their audience that, no matter how naive some may find it, is simply unequaled and probably unshakable. In fact, the Dead and their audience practically form their own self-sufficient...
by Dante | Oct 13, 2018 | Chapter 11, GDFA
Previous Next Rock music has never seemed that interesting to me. But when you see a room with 8,000 young people for five hours going through it to the beat of these boys, and when you see 8,000 kids all going up in the air together . . . Listen, this is powerful...
by Dante | Oct 13, 2018 | Chapter 11, GDFA
Previous Next The Kids Room Q: What did the herd of militant horses demand for breakfast? A: Hey, now . . . ! The origins of the kids room are shrouded in the inky depths of chromosomal amnesia. But wait . .. Rifkin remembers me and a kid under the stage at a Day on...
by Dante | Oct 13, 2018 | Chapter 11, GDFA
Previous Next A Eulogy for Robert M. Petersen Bobby Petersen would not applaud a long and tepid eulogy. He was a street poet, first, last and foremost, who recorded what he saw in lucid verse, which is his living memorial. He played a dangerous game with life and left...
by Dante | Oct 13, 2018 | Chapter 11, GDFA
Previous Next Most people make money on the records, and take their losses on the tours. Garcia: That’s true. Exactly. With us it’s been just the other way around. It’s been more fun for us… Garcia: Well, it’s been more fun for us too....
