"every silver lining's got a touch of grey"

A non-active lookalike

2008-06-02T03:47:52Z

I get comment very frequently about my lookalike to Jerry Garcia, but since I rediscovered this community--I am seeking your approval for using the icon of Jerry Garcia.

Out of curiosity...

2008-06-02T00:32:17Z

Any fans/members of this community living in the DC area?

a moment of silence

2008-04-30T18:29:21Z

Albert Hoffman dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/30/chemistry.drugs

'Father of LSD' dies aged 102

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Wednesday April 30 2008. It was last updated at 15:48 on April 30 2008.

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann pictured in his garden in Burg im Leimental, Switzerland. Photograph: Niklaus Stauss/AP/Keystone

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102.

Hofmann, known as the father of LSD, died yesterday at his home in Burg im Leimental, Basle, Switzerland.

His death was confirmed by Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village where Hofmann lived following his retirement in 1971.

The California-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps), which republished Hofman's book on LSD, said on its website that he had died from a heart attack.

Dieter A Hagenbach, a friend of 40 years, last spoke to Hofmann on Saturday. "He was in good spirits and enjoying the springtime," said Hagenbach.

Born on January 11 1906, Hofmann discovered LSD - lysergic acid diethylamide, which later became the favoured drug of the 1960s counterculture - when a tiny quantity leaked on to his hand during a laboratory experiment in 1943.

He noted a "remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness" that made him stop his work. "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxication-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination," Hofmann wrote in his book LSD: My Problem Child.

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours. After some two hours this condition faded away."

A few days later, Hofmann intentionally took a dose of LSD and experienced the world's first "bad trip".

"On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror," he said.

"My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. A demon had invaded me, had taken possession of my body, mind, and soul. I jumped up and screamed, trying to free myself from him, but then sank down again and lay helpless on the sofa. The substance, with which I had wanted to experiment, had vanquished me."

The former Harvard lecturer Timothy Leary popularised LSD with his "turn on, tune in, drop out" advice in the 1960s. But Hofmann believed the substance was hijacked and abused by the hippy movement, while he maintained that he produced it as a medicine.

Hofmann and his scientific colleagues hoped LSD would make an important contribution to psychiatric research. The drug exaggerated inner problems and conflicts and it was hoped it might be used to treat mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.

For a time, the laboratory where he worked, Sandoz, sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine, with just one gram enough to drug an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people for 12 hours.

The US government banned LSD in 1966, following stories of heavy users suffering permanent psychological damage, and other countries followed suit.

The president of Maps, Rick Doblin, said he had spoken to Hofmann on the phone recently "and he was happy and fulfilled. He'd seen the renewal of LSD psychotherapy research with his own eyes."

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thebus

Pacers coach Rick Carlisle is a Deadhead

2006-11-29T03:21:31Z

http://indycornrows.blogspot.com/2006/11/story-time-with-coach-carlisle.html

The interview's in print only, apparently, but this link has an excerpt. And from that excerpt, we read:

IMM: What's your favorite Dead song?
RC: "New Minglewood Blues." I also love "Jack Straw." My wife and I had our first date at a Dead show in 1987 at the Capital Centre. During the intermission we went back and sat in a room with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir and Mickey Hart and just shot the s*#%. It was a phenomenal first date, let's put it that way.

shows

2006-09-26T02:42:03Z

Hey all

I'm selling some Grateful Dead / JGB live show tapes on ebay. Go check it out!!

peace

Cubensis video

2006-09-10T21:37:25Z

I just found this community the other day. For my fiirst offering:

Visit them here

widespread tickets

2006-07-22T04:02:06Z

I am selling my blossom and 3 nights chicago widespread panic tickets on eBay. boo.
My 2 girlfriends who were supposed to travel with me backed out and I can't afford to go alone.

I listed them earlier tonight. sold 1 already.
buy my blossom ticket 2nd night Chicago 3rd night Chicago

Check them out. I just want my money back. and someone, maybe YOU, to have a GREAT time at the shows!
go on. you know you want to go!!!

X posted other places. sorry.

deadgrateful @ 2006-06-23T02:12:00

2006-06-23T06:15:50Z

I hope this is ok to do. If not, just let me know and I'll delete this post.

I'm looking to sell a couple of Dead bears. I've got 3 of them and I want to sell them for $8 plus shipping charges. All three bears are in perfect condition and still have their tour memory name tags. If anyone is interested, please email me. My name is Sloane and my email address is smoked_out_eyes@hotmail.com

Here is a real broad picture of the bears.

On the left side, the bear is named Dark Star. He's purple with a baby blue and white stars pattern. Birthday is 2/14/69 Electric Factory.

In the center, the bear's name is Peggy, She's all white with rainbow polka dots and a purple collar. Birthday is 12/9/93 Los Angeles Sports Arena.

On the right side, the bear's name is Ripple. He's dark green, black and white in a tye-dye sort of pattern. Birthday is 10/16/81 Melk Weg, Amsterdam

If anyone wants to read the tour memory on any of these, just let me know and I'll type it out.

Again, sorry if this isn't allowed. Just let me know and I'll delete it. If anyone is interested though, please send me an email and let me know. Thanks.

x-posted to gratefulhead

Western Philly Suburbs?

2006-06-21T17:37:04Z

Hey all... I am moving about 45 mins west of philly and am hoping to connect with some kynd folk in the area...

I dig excellent music more than anything and for me it's about the music more than it;s about the party... but I am not totally straight edge either.

I'd love to connect with some other responsible, respectable types by day who love to jam out on the weekends.

peace and love, y'all
~~e~~

Bonnaroo 2006

2006-06-21T15:29:31Z

hey yall! its the first day of summer- longest day of the year!!
i came back from bonnaroo not too long ago, and it was excellent. phil and friends were truly heart warming, it almost made me cry- the only thing that stopped me was to dance. they opened with Uncle John's Band! with other favorites: fire on the mt., scarlet begonias (fuckin awesome), cumberland blues....uuuh a few others...all along the watchtower, and i think roll away the dew. maybe box of rain, but i forgot now. it was a great festival, worth every penny. but from now on i will come prepared for that scorching tennessee sun. i got a cool shirt, got ripped on off on some hits though. i bought 4 for 40$ so that was a rip off, but it turns out they didnt even work and some guy just sold steal your face blot paper that had nothng on it. and im sorry i have to complain, but thats messed up. Bonnaroo is about a real good time- not making money by ripping off fans of the music! and we got ripped on some hash- but we gotta smoke it during phil with some well-worth it purchased beasters. but all in all the artists put on one hell of a show and phil sure ended it with me in awe. i love you phil lesh!!!

"Reality is a condition caused by the absence of Bonnaroo"

have a great day,
Christina

deadgrateful @ 2006-06-18T21:34:00

2006-06-19T01:35:03Z

watch phil and friends live at bonnaroo right now

spaceship of fools

2006-06-13T03:26:53Z

Tune in Tuesday night to WMMT from 8-11 pm EST for the Spaceship Of Fools !
We'll be playing Radio Bonnaroo with host Ria Houston
and doing a special tribute to a recently departed brother, Vince Welnick.
CHECK US OUT!!!

X posted to bonnaroo and thebus.

a quick hello

2006-05-31T21:32:47Z

Hi all! I just started a new livejournal and wanted to say a quick hello to the community. Leave me a comment sometime!

help a sister out

2006-05-20T16:15:29Z

WIDESPREAD PANIC - CHICAGO
Friday - need 2 tickets
Sunday - need 3 tickets

These damn shows sold out in 1 1/2 minutes! Me and my girls were on three different computers at noon, each of us to get a night. C got through on the 2nd night for 3, I got shut out, went back and got 1 for the 2nd night, and bunny got shut out on the 3rd.
So please please please help a sister out!
:)

rip ramrod

2006-05-17T22:55:00Z

from robert hunter:

http://www.dead.net/RobertHunterArchive/files/hjx/Ramrod.html

Elegy for Ramrod

Most never knew his given name.
They called him Ramrod.
Lawrence didn't fit him.
He came down from Oregon,
Prankster sidekick of Cassady,
Kesey and the merry crew,
a silent stoic in a vocable milieu
his heart was stolen by the Grateful Dead.

A country boy, not given to complexity,
his crowning gift was loyalty
for which he was loved more than
the common run of men by friends.
This is not to say more than was so,
the common fault of eulogies
which shine the silver of modest virtue
into the gold of rareness.

Every soul owes life a death.
Between each heartbeat is a moment
within which the pulse is still.
In the longer beat between life and death
a man was here we called a friend,
a father, a husband and a son.
He is us and we are him,
his death is ours, our lives are his.

Some see Heaven as dying's recompense,
some acknowledge only nothingness
in a space we know not of,
in a place we know not where.
But this we know, as a poet said:
"To have been here but the once
Never can be undone."

Some will pray, some just remember.
Those who pray, having prayed,
will go on to pray for others.
Those who remember,
having remembered for awhile,
will in the course of time forget,
more so as the years dissolve.
This is as it should be
lest death overstep its bounds
and impinge too much on life.
Life, being what is, cannot
impinge too much on death.

The circumstance we most desire
in grief which shakes our branches
like some holy hurricane raging
through this barren world of little light,
is that our brother be gathered in glory.
If so, rejoice! If wishful thinking,
give thanks instead
that he was here among us.
Delivered from the testing fire of pain,
a truer heart was never broken.

May 17, 2006

help

2006-05-15T15:15:42Z

Seeing panic this summer at Blossom and then in Chicago. Wondering who knows where the good camping spots are?!?!?

X posted to bonnaroo, deadgrateful and thebus.

spaceship of fools

2006-05-02T20:33:35Z

Wanna hear some good tunes?
Tune in to 88.7 WMMT or log on to the appalshop website and listen online.
Show is 8-11 EST TONIGHT!!!

X posted to bonnaroo, deadgrateful, and thebus

freaks and geeks

2006-04-29T01:10:37Z

hello deadheads!!!

i do not think i have posted in a loooong time, but i was listening to the dead today and i remembered something...

a couple years ago, maybe six or seven, there was a show on tv called "freaks and geeks" - in one episode, a bunch of deadheads gave one of the lead girls a grateful dead album (in which, during the very last episode, she ran off with them to follow the dead on tour!).

but ANYWAY. i was wondering if anyone remembered or knew which album they gave her?! thanks a bunch!!!

x-posted gratefulhead

deadgrateful @ 2006-04-24T11:19:00

2006-04-24T15:18:56Z

Hey.. has anyone heard anything about the Port Chester Restoration Project? Does anyone know how to get in touch with John?

Also, anyone from the Long Island/NYC area? Did you know Mark Cohen from Bellmore?

deadgrateful @ 2006-04-22T01:20:00

2006-04-22T05:20:36Z

Gasp! Lookie!! *points to cut*

We'd arrive on the 20th, and go see WSP the next day!! I love how all of this is coming together. The picture of the maps is the AVERAGE of where we want to/would go. Minus: Anywhere in Cali, Ruby Mountains, anywhere past New Mexico, Salmon River, Mt. Rushmore (because really, who HONESTLY wants to go there for a vacation if you had the choice? Just buy a freaking post card. sheesh.), and all the rest are open for grabs. But basically we'll be going to: Denver (flying out to there from Savannah), Grand Canyon, Zion, Yosesi-somebody, Jackson Hole, and elsewhere. We'll be gone for the minimum of two weeks, max (and more likely) 3 weeks. Just me and Dad. He said next year I can bring somebody along. :D

Well, I just figured I'd post this before I went to bed while it was still fresh on my mind.

Love to everybody!!

We could be seeing The String Cheese Incident and Bob Weir & Ratdog, and have either Keller Williams or Taj Mahal open for them, but that's too late in our time (July 2/3, we'd be long gone from Colorado by then) for us. Either them OR Ween/the Flaming Lips (but they're allll the way on July 29th. :( Oh well.)!!
Okay, I swear I'm done.

Feed back, anyone? Also if you live out there and you wanna meet up, just let me know!! I'd love to meet some of you and what-not. Or, if you've done this sort of trip in the area before: any tips/places to go? We're really really open to lots of things at this point, so DON'T be shy!! :) Any festivals of anysort or anything!!

X-Posted to various communities and partially to MySpace. :) You love me anyway.

JGB

2006-04-11T00:34:26Z

I do miss Jerry's back up band with the blues singing black chicks and the heaveyset drummer. I saw em at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby a few times. One show they played all Grateful Dead songs, hours and hours of acoustic stuff. He was joined on stage by John Kahn with an upright bass. It was truly one of the best shows I ever saw.

deadgrateful @ 2006-04-02T22:16:00

2006-04-03T05:20:41Z

RAWR!
I got a really nifty Grateful Dead shirt last summer, and it doesn't fit anymore. Damn growth spurts! It's long sleeve, and has the bears on it, and it says Grateful Dead on the sleeves, and it's really awesome, but I can't wear it anymore! *grumble grumble*
BUT... I still have my shirt with the Steal Your Face logo on it. Whee!

Althea

2006-02-06T20:52:57Z

I'm currently loving on Althea, and I'd love to find some good shows of it. Any recommendations?

cross posted

2006-01-17T05:26:03Z

I posted a while ago about a song project I have to do; I finally decided on What's Become of the Baby from AOXOMOXOA (although you'd be harder pressed to prove that a song than a poem). I figured out a few of the cultural references, and have a basic idea on the theme of the song (surrealism/fantasy) but am kind of in a rut as to what it's actually about, and what the chorus is supposed to mean. Any help on this would be great. Also, if anyone has the live version of the song, my email is absurdum00@yahoo.com and if anyone could send that to me, that would also be great.

1994 tour shirt?

2006-01-10T07:28:14Z

Not sure how active it is here as far as knowing about tour t's but I "inherited" a 94 tour shirt about 10 yrs ago and loved the colors so much that my tatt artist copied them on my piece. Unfortunately, the shirt has all but shreaded due to wear and I want to replace it. Ebay and elsewhere proved fruitless.

Any ideas?