has anyone ever....

[Jahfin]

Snuck a JB cd into someone's cd player without them knoqing?

HUH? What is the fun in that when there is a OFF and EJECT button?

Typical house/car rules among those I know are "keep your hands off"!

Yeah, I don't see the point in trying to make someone listen to something they may very clearly have no interest in hearing whatsover. Now, trying to introduce someone to one of your favorite bands is another matter entirely. Forcing it on them isn't going to help endear them to the artist in question. In fact, it will most likely have the exact opposite effect.

[RinglingRingling]

Snuck a JB cd into someone's cd player without them knoqing?

HUH? What is the fun in that when there is a OFF and EJECT button?

Typical house/car rules among those I know are "keep your hands off"!

"You don't mess with the bus driver when you ride the MTA. Welcome to the TTA. Now get your mitts off the freakin' radio/CD player and keep them behind the White Line."

[MrTwain]

I have. Into my wife's cd player in her truck. I've been trying to "indocrinate" her about Buffett over the past few months and I'm finally having some luck. I made a compilation CD of songs that I KNEW she'd enjoy... (3 tracks off of the Hoot soundtrack, Trip Around the Sun, Coast of Carolina, Barefoot Children, etc... some of his more mainstream stuff) and I put it in her CD changer. Then, while taking my daughter to dance class, the cd started playing and I knew that Diane had been listening to some good Buffett. THEN... I heard the CD playing on the kitchen stereo.

YEA... I'm making a dent, apparently.

[OystersandBeer]

Didn't the Dead slip everyone acid back in there Merry Prankster days when they were doing the Acid-Tests?

[Jahfin]

Didn't the Dead slip everyone acid back in there Merry Prankster days when they were doing the Acid-Tests?

If I remember correctly they had apples soaking in acid tainted water in a huge tub when you entered the Fillmore. Again, going from memory, I think most folks knew what they were getting into but the first time they turned Bill Graham on he had no idea.

If you've never read it I highly recommend the Bill Graham bio Bill Graham Presents. He may have appeared to be a hardass on the outside but inside he was an old softy. Very few ever managed to penetrate that veneer though.

[OystersandBeer]

Thanks for the recommendation(sp?). The only book on these guys I've read, which I thought was great, is Dark Star an Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia.

[FINSUPinIdaho]

My first Dead show in 93, I posed the question to a seasoned deadhead about slipping acid to everyone (in squirt guns, water bottles etc.) and he replied, "Who the hell has the money to do that here?"

[Jahfin]

Thanks for the recommendation(sp?). The only book on these guys I've read, which I thought was great, is Dark Star an Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia.

I've read a few in my time but they were mainly picture books interspersed with anecdotes. Right now I'm reading Phil's book Searching for the Sound.

[Jahfin]

My first Dead show in 93, I posed the question to a seasoned deadhead about slipping acid to everyone (in squirt guns, water bottles etc.) and he replied, "Who the hell has the money to do that here?"

Apparently quite a few of them. I know I recieved a notice from the Grateful Dead themselves prior to some of the shows I saw that warned against "fans" in the parking lot that would spray people with water spiked with LSD. The Bill thing is one matter since he was friends with the band and they wouldn't have done anything to harm him. Innocent bystanders (some being kids) is entirely another.

[OystersandBeer]

We were talking back in the sixties when they were doing the shows for Neal Cassidy and the other guys. Before they became the commercial success of neckties and such. Way before my day, I was born in '79 and never been to a show. So I have no first hand experience. But have friends who had been to well over thirty or so shows, but again that was in the eighties and nineties as well. Never met anyone who was seeing them in the sixties or seventies. I wouldn't mind hearing some first hand stories though of that era.

[Jahfin]

Even though one of the first albums I ever purchased back in the early seventies was Workingmans Dead, I never attended a Grateful Dead show until 1989. That's when things first started to fall apart for them concert-wise in the wake of the success of the "Touch of Grey" single. Lots of new fans without a clue began jumping onboard and within a few years their concerts began to show the weight of that strain with lots of "fans" gatecrashing and the like, something not at all associated with Deadheads beforehand. I just feel fortunate to have seen them at all. I never dropped my life in favor of following them around as so many did but I got in at least 5 or so shows before Jerry died. Unfortunately there's no concert (or parking lot) experience quite like it out there now. Not even close, even at a "Dead" show.

[OystersandBeer]

At least you went. I've seen the Dead and RatDog and even JGB Band with Merle Saunders (without Jerry) and all were fun shows, but I can only imagine what something like the real thing could have been like.

[Jahfin]

I've seen all of those as well including a Jerry-less Jerry Garcia Band (they were still great though). The closest I've had to a Dead-like experience was The Other Ones (and the parking lot at Merlefest). The version I saw was the first one (without drummer Bill Kreutzmann) that the press seem to want to forget since I hardly ever see them mentioned. They released one live album during that incarnation called Only The Strange Remain. Rumor has it there's supposed to be another Terrapin Station like gathering this summer that will involve all of the previous members of the band (again). The "rumor" has it happening at Alpine Valley.

It's obviously not the same but I'd recomend checking out some of their concert films (such as The Grateful Dead Movie) if you haven't done so already. Festival Express is also well worth seeing as it was filmed at a very interesting time when the 60s ethos were coming to terms with the harsh realities of the 70s (as witnessed at Altamont).

[FINSUPinIdaho]

Saw them in the early 90s at autzen stadium at the univ of oregon, that was a "long strange trip" in itself...

[ragtopW]

Is this like slipping someone some acid to see if they would like it?

Stories we could tell

The Grateful Dead use to slip promoter Bill Graham acid back in the day. Fortunately he ended up liking it.

I met Bill once.. He was a great guy..

[ragtopW]

My first Dead show in 93, I posed the question to a seasoned deadhead about slipping acid to everyone (in squirt guns, water bottles etc.) and he replied, "Who the hell has the money to do that here?"

I had a nice young lady leave Blotter acid on my arm
at a Show.