when I was a dead head I funded my own studies.
my conclusion: when you get the message, hang up the phone.
no one gave me grant money.
no one paid for my lifestyle.
If you didn't have five buck for a couple of six packs, you didn't get to drink any beer.
If you couldn't at least pay for gas, you didn't get to go to the show.
pay for your own drugs.
the government shouldn't pay for it.
also: the conclusion of my study said: I'm much happier the next day when I don't take the drugs.
was the song 'I need a miracle' not about that?
the best I could ever do was pay face value.
"I need a ticket to every show . . .
I need a ticket to every show . . . "
once at a show there were hundreds of people milling around. I couldn't get a ticket. I never paid more than face value.
so I ended up just milling around outside the show.
I had the money for a ticket. If you didn't even have the money for a ticket people didn't want you comeing with them. Many people wouldn't give you a ride. You'd be a burdan. It was a 'pay your own way' scene for the folks I was friendly with.
and so I didn't get into the show but . . . a friend of mine, after first set, marched right up to the ticket counter and paid face for a ticket from them . . .
imagine that: hundreds of 'if it's free it's me' people with their "I need a miracle" signs, and they could have just gone up to the window and bought a ticket there . . .
maybe they only had a few left, someone didn't pick them up who was supposed to . . .
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why would I know that?
My friends and I, East Coast people, tended to have a 'club' of friends who would all get together and meet up at the shows and watch out for each other.
I can tell you that there were people who seemed to be 'cultists' who would 'set up' at in a parking lot adn try to poach people.
'bliss ninny?' that's a harsh term.
I'd say 'seeker after truth' would be a better description.
The Dead weren't the only people giving shows.
and I can tell you for example if you went to the all day hard rock thing at the dirt track that people were far more , what is the term, fucked up and out of their heads.
you look for an easy putdown to explain away a cultural phenomena from the 1980s and that's a cheep shot.
like I said: if you couldn't pay to go you didn't get a ride from anyone.
read the I Chings description of 'Gathering Together' if you want to try and comprehend what the draw was.
eveyrone like to hang around with people at a festival or gathering, and it doesn't have to be about being drunk or whatever.
Many people were doing it with their spouses and significant others.
you're a putdown artist.
you have no idea what it was, what was going on.
we were young and confused people, still in our teens and it was a way for us to meet people from up and down the East Coast, and from as far away as California and beyond.
it was nests of friends and we looked out for each other. It was like a travelling carnival, like a period october fest kind of event.
you can sit up on your high horse and poo poo stuff that happened 45 years ago and you sound like a fool
it's no more neffarious than a horse race, or a car race, or a country fair.
it was civil and sane and you'll find very very little news of people being hurt.
If you read the news reports of that era about it, in fact, you'll find that most towns welcomed the fans of the dead and enjoyed their presence in town: for a mini economic boom during the shows.
next tell me why country fairs are bad. Or traveling carnivals.
you want me to be triggered?
in fact I'm just very quick with my fingers.
if you go back to the begining of this I said that one should not take the drugs, that it's always better without them
do you not believe in redemption?
even though you know that Bobby did a lot of stuff that now might get folks in trouble, and that Cassidy and him were room mates, when Bobby was far too young . . . to be living with such a much older man . . . don't you still love him and wish him well?
didn't you learn anything, anything at all?
read the lyrics to "Cosmic Charlie" and then rethink what you just posted.