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It took me 40 years, but I'm turning into a Deadhead this year. I bought 10 albums, and I'm really enjoying them!

Grateful Dead s/t debut
Anthem Of The Sun
Aoxomoxoa
Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Grateful Dead s/t 1971 live album
From Mars Hotel
Blues For Allah
Terrapin Station
Red Rocks '78

To appreciate the Dead it's really all about the shows.
Jerry always contended that the Dead never managed to capture their energy on any studio album.
All the shows (99.99%) are all online completely free.
The dead allowed it.
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

 
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Owsley interviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley


While the music played you worked by candlelight
Those San Francisco nights
You were the best in town
Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
You turned it on the world
That's when you turned the world around
Did you feel like Jesus
Did you realize
That you were a champion in their eyes
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Every A-Frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to L.A. on a dare
And you'd go it alone
Could you live forever
Could you see the day
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away

[Chorus:]
Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne
Get along Kid Charlemagne

Now your patrons have all left you in the red
Your low rent friends are dead
This life can be very strange
All those dayglow freaks who used to paint the face
They've joined the human race
Some things will never change
Son you were mistaken
You are obsolete
Look at all the white men on the street

[Chorus]
Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne
Get along Kid Charlemagne


Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here
Is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall
Know who you are

Careful what you carry
'Cause the man is wise
You are still an outlaw in their eyes
 
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Hurdy Gurdy Man

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Back in the late 80's,I visited a record shop in Cambridge,MA that specialized in bootlegs and pirated issuances.Naturally, due to an expected prepondrance of Dead concert bootlegs made available through the years,there were several rows of recordings in their section,mostly bootlegged live performances.Does anyone here have at least twenty or more live Dead bootlegs?
 

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Tremendously sad news for the family. Peace, JPB...
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Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
 

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^^

Weird, I follow the Dead across several social media platforms and hadn't heard about this until now. Needless to add, I spend very little time on social media, so probably I just missed any posts on the topic. Either way, this is really sad news. R.I.P. John.

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