"Dude, where's those important papers?"

"Huh?"

They are also said to be making a substantial donation to the hydroponics program in the school's Botany Department, and in lieu of an honorarium for a tribute CD, asked that the school's space sciences program be renamed the "Far Out, Man! Astronomy Cluuuuuuuuub."

Do the Dead know that everyone goes to Colorado for the "weed atmosphere?"

Prof. 1: Dude! We should totally call it Dead Central.
Prof. 2: Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh
Prof 1: We'll put those props to good use!
Prof. 2: Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh
Prof. 1: Hey, gimme that thing before it's gone.

@mikedell: Hah!

Mickey Hart (the guy on the left) is wearing his own band's t-shirt. Isn't there some kind of rule against that?

Still. I dig the mustache, floppy hair and huge sunglasses look.

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Looks like Phil is too. Maybe it was a class photo?

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Also, when did Bill Murray play in the band?

Your move, Boulder.

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Yeah... the Dead sort of had their own rules and one of them was that the drummers always wore band shirts, presumably bc they sweat so much playing for 4+ hours. In the late 80s Bobby used to wear a Madonna shirt with the neck cut out and played a hot pink guitar. Don't even try to figure it out...

Still the best.

How can the Dead do this? Shouldn't the band be remembered only through the oral histories provided by fans who were totally tripping at the time of the events they relate? Do we really need to know about them in this kind of obsessive detail?

This archives thing has gotten way out of hand. People should be required to burn their papers and memorabilia from now on.

Having lived the glamorous life of a touring rock musician, I can endorse the pulling out from the merch box and wearing of one's own band shirt as a fallback tactic for when you haven't been able to do any laundry for two weeks and even you can't stand the reek from the clothes you've already sweated in multiple times. However, I would avoid that strategy if it meant that I'd be wearing a Grateful Dead shirt.

@IntoAshes:
At least it's not one of those horrible horrible "dancing bears" monstrosities. It looks like his t-shirt has a skull coming up out of a mountain with smoke pouring out of the eye sockets.... which is fairly cool.

Mickey used such a powerful form of LSD that in 1973 two fingers emerged from the top of his head.

Possibly the next step in our evolution, "reaching for God..."

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: I always hated the dancing bears. Gimme skulls, roses and lightning bolts any day, but teddy bears? Whatever... it's all cool man... nothing left to do but smile smile smile...

I always knew Jerry only had 9 1/2 fingers, but I had no idea he had a second head growing out of his left shoulder. (And a third arm, apparently.) When did he get that thing removed?

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: That's not Mickey; that's John Oates. He was a such big fan back in the day and wanted to get his picture taken with band while he was wearing his favorite shirt

Also: Weir everywhere.

@IntoAshes: Don't forget Bobby's shorts! Wear's them even in freezing NYC Feburary. Thankfully they have gotten longer in recent years past. I have a few DVD's that are semi-painful to watch due to his camel toe coochie cutters.

I'm hoping that these recent Dead updates (concert for Obama, and this kinda press stuff) may indicate they've finally settled their internal differences regarding downloads and royalties. And possibly forshadow a possible DEAD tour comming up (not just Lesh and Ratdog sold seperately).

Pretty please PLEASE cuz I miss the lot a whole hell of A LOT!!!

@IntoAshes: Uggh... agreed.

The bears are the mascot equivalent of the scratchy trustafarians fans willing to trade their last bag of meth-crack for a miracle ticket.

SO NOT BAD ASS!!!

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: I think it's actually the moon rising over the mountain, and some clouds making it look like a skull. Although I do like your interpretation.

Also, their "songs celebrated ... mind-altering drugs"? Which songs would those be? "Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine" was "a shame", and Casey Jones didn't fare so well either. Am I missing something, or is the Times just using the easy stereotype? "The bus came by and I got on", maybe? There's no denying a cultural connection between the band and drug indulgence, but not in their songs so much.

@luciluce666:
I saw Bobby's short shorts too many times in too many altered states to EVER forget those things. Seared onto my mind...

Seriously... being a Deadhead is rough, esp in this day and age. I loathe jam bands and that whole trustafarian gathering of the tribes nonsense. I will go see Phil simply because I need a dose of that Dead vibe 3 times a year and Ratdog just doesn't do it, but MAN what would I give for just one more intense night at Alpine Valley in August... sigh... In the meantime I'll be in Red Hook sucking down bong hits and listening to my Winterland 73 box set until my ears fall off. I miss Jerry...

I assume everyone knows this joke:

Q: What did the Deadhead say when the drugs wore off?
A: This band sucks!

This from someone who saw more than her share of shows back in the proverbial day. And kissed Phil once! (on the cheek)

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the day Jerry died...

Oh wait, no I don't.

@IntoAshes: God I know... I saw RD twice last summer and they played so many covers it just killed it for me. Like Penny Lane by the Beatles... are you f*ckin kidding me?!!!

Play DARK STAR bitches!!!... oh riiiight... you're not Phil.

@IntoAshes: "I miss Jerry" Me too, so much.....and Dead Shows in small arenas........ahhhhhhh, Yours in Garcia! (and let us not forget Robert Hunter.)

@luciluce666: Every time RD plays Dark Star, Kenny G kills a kitten...

@BeachLover420: I never forget Hunter. One day he will be recognized for his genius. Also, Hampton VA, 10/9/89- as small as it got in my day, and still the best night of my life.

Kind of wish there was a Gawker for heads. It's sad that we are the last generation that will truly know what it was like to see the Grateful god-damned Dead.

Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there...

"Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there..." With tears in my heart and joy in my heart, I now head to my CD's for a fix. St Stephen with a rose in and out of the garden he goes..........

Re: Gawker for Dead Heads - Have you heard of WOLFGANG'S VAULT"
[wolfgangsvault.com]
"Wolfgang's Vault is the home for the past, present and future of live music. This is the exclusive destination for The Bill Graham Archives, the King Biscuit Flower Hour and the Record Plant along with a dozen other archives that live here, and are relived here." It is the coolest site with mucho Dead.

I remember the 89 tour. I went to a show at Madison Square Garden and while the venue was far too big, the thousands of Wall Street Wonders shedding their suits, shirts and ties to reveal a most wonderous display of Dead t-shirts worn underneath their corporate attire still gives me hope!!! Also, I saw dozens of shows upstate NY in the 80's at itty bitty arena's...........AHHHHH!!!!

Yours in Peace, Love and the Grateful Dead