Weird combo? P-Car and Deadhead - anyone else out there?
 

Yeah, I know if I'm a deadhead, I'm suppossed to drive a VW van. But hey, at least I have a rear engine of german heritage.

The long hair is gone (the grey is starting to make its way in) and I only get to really party once or twice a year, but the Grateful Dead keep me sane and take me to my happy place.

I just love driving in my Targa with the roof off, the sun blazing in and Jerry Garcia sending beautiful twists of guitar magic into the sky.

Any other deadhead P-Car owners out there?

What a long strange trip it's been...

Thats not to say that I'm narrow minded.

I'm listening right now to one of the greatest peices of music ever recorded;

Little Wing by Stevie Ray Vaughan....dare I say it...even better than Jimi Hendrix's version (foregive me Jimi)

+1 For the SRV version!

Agree on both points.

Actually, the sale of my VW Westfalia partially funded the purchase of my 911. So, I guess it was a quick transformation.
You can always go to a Phish show. (wait, they are gone too. Dang)

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I saw SRV in concert. He gave homage to Jimi everytime he played Voodoo child

I saw the band play a freebe in a park in 68 in miami
with pigpen as the lead singer
on flat bed truck stage

they played 4 hours and then went to play a gig that night

a buddy grew up in the dead family
and ran the sound boards at a few shows later

Hey Nota,

Is this the show:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd68-12-29.sbd.cotsman.5425.sbeok.shnf

Listening to that show might give you flashbacks - be careful!

That Pig Pen was a wild singer

The Dead are in heavy rotation in my 911. I used to go to a LOT of Dead shows. Actually had a beer with Bob Weir once.

Count me in on SRV too. I saw one show of his, musta been 20 years ago now. Wow.

I saw my first shows at Alpine Valley '89. Went on mini-tours every year until Jerry passed. First verse I saw them play was...

'Get in the groove and let the good times roll, we're gonna stay here til we soothe our soul --- if it takes all night long...'

I managed to see the boys about 35 times.

I am catching Ratdog and The String Cheese Incident at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis next weekend.

Lake George 1978 was the last one I saw.
Sometimes Uncle Jerry still calls out to me.

Count me in. My dogs are named Samson and Casey Jones. I also drove a 78 VW Transporter and started seeing shows in the late 80's.

Checked out Ratdog at a tiny venue, maybe 200 people in 03 while my wife was pregnant with our first child.

Good stuff.

jeez, i guess i am old . i started to go see them back in '67 or '68 too.

Same here, just with a little "touch of grey"...Something funny, the wife & I were driving through the Alps last week, and listening to a station playing the Dead and Elvis back to back...talk about a long strange trip!

I still have my long hair (though it has also developed a "touch of grey"). I once dropped an 1/8 ounce of shrooms at a Dead concert in VT and thought I was a million years and knew everybody at the show personally. Vince was the keyboardist. Great set of pipes on that guy. Very sad to see him go.

+1 on the Little Wing cover by SRV. It is no disrespect to Hendrix to say that SRV recorded a transcendent version. Both are side by side in the Guitar Pantheon.

Re: Weird combo? P-Car and Deadhead - anyone else out there?
 

Sounds just like my drive into work this morning.

Count me in... :D

One more, although got into the dead too late to see them in concert. Just saw Darkstar Orchestra though, it was darn good.

My wife is a minor Deadhead, I was neutral...unitil she bought me the, 'Deadicated' album years ago to get me acquainted.

Lyle Lovett, the Indigo Girls, Dwight Yokum et al got me over the hump.

I'm no DH, but they stay in the rotation when the Targa roof is off.

great now i have to make another playlist for the ipod.:mad:

looks like jerry and i are going to have to go for a drive sometime this week.:D

"Hey man, this was the 7th time man...I could be insane now...let me just sit here and get it together, OK?"

Or something like that...I too was becoming experienced that night.

To many years ago!

sorry that brain cell is long gone.SmileWavy

good find but not the show
was on a sunday 04/21/68

in greynolds park ogus in north miami dade
and a free park show at the sunday love in
night gig was at a club call the image in north miami beach
saddly I have never seen a tape of eathor show
I remember I had just got my draft card the day before

and the gig is one of the few NOT listed in any dead site list of shows

BTW I was at the gulfstream pop festival in dec 68 too

Great album!

Los Lobos version of "Bertha" is rockin', and I must admit that after listening to Lyle do "Friend of the Devil" about 1,000 times, I like it better than the original. A lot better.

One of the first concerts I went to outside of a junior high school dance. Tull was actually THE first, but the Dead were in the first two or three. A buddy and I snuck downtown (we were both supposed to be at each other's houses...) on the bus when we were about 13 years old. Never missed them when they came to Seattle from then on. My two boys, 15 and 16, grew up listening to them and rather like their music themselves (along with many others from my time).

You guys that say the SRV version of Little Wing is better than Jimi's have been out in the sun too long. Waaaay too long.

SRV was cool and a top player, but he was no Jimi. His version is a very nice tribute, but lacks subtlety and style. For cover versions, I prefer Derek and the Dominos take...they at least took a different approach to the tune. But Jimi's is the *****...

Concrete Blonde does a pretty cool version, as does Frank Zappa. Gill Evans Orchestra does a wild version too.

I miss Jerry!!!

But we're still Jerry's Kids. I think I remember being at a bunch of shows in the 70's. http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/gitaar.gif

We all miss Jerry - nothing's been the same since.

Anyone else ever shed a tear during Stella Blue?

Cassidy and Jack Straw always got to me. Stella Blue was great for putting the moves on that hot chick when you were both in altered states of consciousness.

But that was 30+ years ago.

music's pretty cool.

Walk me out in the morning dew my friend.
http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/.../FFflower2.gif

"Sat down for my supper was a bottle of red whiskey..." Dire Wolf is one of my favs.

Ha Ha,

The corporate techie goons at my work have locked out all of the on-line music sites, except for www.archive.org.

I still can find a glimpse of sunlight in this world

:cool:

My plate,
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1152287714.jpg My friend has the same decal on his 3.6 Turbo:cool:

Several dozen shows coast to coast. First one- Indy '81 or 82.

"married me a wife, been trouble all my life"...

I still get all choked up over a good Brokedown. Listen to river sing sweet songs to rock my soul. And I rotate most of May 77 regularly.

As to the SRV/Jimi controversy, I think what makes SRV's so cool is the tube sound of whatever amp he was using. No comparison to the original, but very listenable nonetheless.

Aquaintence of mine, Fritz Siedel... Nice IROC 3.0L

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1152315495.jpg

Mushrooms and Grateful Dead concerts in the early seventies, boy does that bring back memories. Incredibly good times.

Until I saw this thread, I had never heard of archive.org. Now I am up working at 1am on a Saturday night. I've been coding since around 10am...but because of you guys I am listening to May '77...Brokedown Palace...man, I needed this. You guys rock most mightily...

SmileWavy