I remember the first time I heard the grateful dead. My mother owned a few record albums - CCR, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Simon and Garfunkel, Moody Blues, and one album by the Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead. She would play these album over and over again. For the most part I hated all of it. I was only 5 or 6 and I really started to like 1 song she played. 'Uncle John's Band' was the song and I would dance all over the living room and spin in circles singing until I fell over. It was so happy, so free, so singable. As I got older I actually would listen to this on my own instead of only when she played it. Then some witnesses or someone told her the grateful dead was bad and she threw the album out before I was out of elementary school.
I had some friends who were deadheads and wanted to take me to a concert, I told them I never had heard any of there music, not realizing that I had. So I went to a concert in 92, I was 18 and I was hooked. I had only been out of the witnesses a year and I saw things at the concert I never had seen before and most were not due to the acid. I saw people being free and non-judgemental and just themselves. I saw people out of their minds and out of their bodies and I swear I even saw people having sex. I danced and danced like I have never danced before or since.
After the concert I become a total deadhead, listening to everything I could find and over the years going to concerts whenever possible. Nowadays, I still really enjoy the music and totally dig dancing at the shows.
I was just wondering if anyways shares this strange love of music and counter-culture?
