The alchemical experiments performed at Kesey's farm and in the studio where the band would drop acid and record the music produced some of their best work . The drug, is a mind altering halucegin, which was extremely popular in the sixties and seventies among the hippies and Deadheads. The Grateful Dead performed while on acid almost all the time and most everyone at their shows were under the influence of the drug. It was a time of sex, drugs, and rock"n roll and the Grateful Dead were a major part of that. .
The Grateful Dead made their political statement by not making a statement at all. "The Dead have always advocated freedom of choice-hence, it's their choice."(p.296 sweet chaos) The Dead chose not to ever really make a clear stance on any pertenent political issue. Overwhelmingly their music speaks of the old American west. "Rather than attack suburbia, the Grateful Dead instead sought to align itself with a steady stream of fictional and complex drifters, and ne"er do wells who ran away from the dreams of success of their times, and wandered to the West."(150 perspect) Of the songs that tell stories of this nature, we see their characters fail in the end. However there is evidence that in failure these characters showed that they were courageous in the fight for success, but that success was simple not in the deck of cards and such, they are destined to failure. In the song, "Loser," the main character whom remains nameless just wants to play a hand of poker believing he's going to strike a good hand and turn around his misfortunes, and has to borrow the money to get on the table and when he does, he looses the hand, leaving the table claiming he will win eventually (listener not left confident). In this there is a common theme of the Grateful Dead that being, " the noble marginal character who is doomed to failure in spite of his determination and good heart, done in by his weak nature.
The Grateful Dead, now known as The Dead, were first known as The Warlocks. They changed the name to the Grateful Dead in 1965. ... He would become the Grateful Dead's first keyboard player. ... The Grateful Dead is a very unique band. ... The remaining members of the Grateful Dead are now touring as the "Dead". ...
The Grateful Dead, a name known by many and memorialized by fans as a strange spiritual journey. The Grateful Dead embodied more than just the music they produced, but also the sense of community they conveyed to their audience. ... Jerry fingering through a dictionary, turned the page and his eyes led him right to the term Grateful Dead. He read a little further and Grateful Dead was a term for a type of ballad where a person dies leaving behind and unfulfilled promise, they then make a deal with a living person to fulfill that promise, the deceased person then becomes the grateful dead. ...
The word deadhead' was made famous by the group of people that followed the music of the Grateful Dead around the country. ... The deadhead subculture was an offspring of the music of the Grateful Dead, that started in the mid to late sixties. ... The Grateful Dead organization distributes information to about 290,000 deadheads, but it is thought that there is more than that. In 1998 half of the deadheads that were in attendance during the Other Ones concerts, a band consisting of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead plus three more members, said that they do not receive any infor...
Dead Poets Society is a film about real life issues. ... Dead Poets Society is a poignant film that touches on various important issues, all which can be related back to real life. ... They sneak out of school grounds to travel to the old Indian caves to hold the Dead Poets Society's meetings. ... Dead Poets Society is a beautiful and touching film that can be related back to many real life issues. ... Seize the day, and you will be grateful. ...
Dead Poets Society is a poignant film that touches on various important issues, all which can be related back to real life. ... The boys use this strict code as a source of rebellious behaviour and they reform the old Dead Poets Society, to savour their curious need to defy authority. ... They sneak out of school grounds to travel to the old Indian caves to hold the Dead Poets Society's meetings. ... Dead Poets Society is a beautiful and touching film that can be related back to many real life issues. ... Seize the day, and you will be grateful. ...
The Game of Hackysac or Footbag What if I told you that in my hand I hold the secret to world harmony that diplomats have been searching for for centuries. That a toy about the size of a plumb can improve your physical and mental well-being tremendously. It may sound corny, but it may even b...
Bob Dylan- To me and many other people that have never heard Bob Dylan, he probably seems like a Grateful Dead kind of artist. ... I never really gave him a chance, because I had always heard my mom talk about him and she only listens to Grateful Dead and bands like them. ...
Perhaps the most significant users of LSD, however, were the Grateful Dead. The Dead, especially Jerry Garcia, used LSD "as if it were weed."" (MCNALLY 245) LSD users have their own nickname because of the Grateful Dead: Deadheads. Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: an inside history of the Grateful Dead, notes that "the [100 or so] "weirdos- were there too, dead faced acid heads .demented on whatever drug was their choice .standing at the bottom of a hill in front of a low stage- (MCNALLY 345-346). Moreover, a simple definition of the Dead can be attained through these few sim...
