As a ‘natural born dead head’ i’ve been collecting their albums ever since i’ve bought my first Grateful Dead album “Live/Dead” in the early seventies. Not very fanatic but i’ve managed to get a complete collection untill the days the Dick Pick’s series were released. Ffom then on I lost track and purchased a new album every now and then… This weekend i’ve made two low-fi videoclips of the Grateful Dead bootlegs in my collection. Nothing fancy, just some good ol’ grateful dead music!
… and so it happened that my wife Mercedes would like to visit the local second-hand store. Strolling along I found a good looking leather vest. Right size and really cheap. Next step was a search on Ebay for some Grateful Dead patches. I found four smaller ones in the UK, Germany and US. For the back I found a real big Cyclops Skull 1977 tour patch from a seller from Singapor! Within a week all patches arrived and I went to see the local Armenian shoemaker. He could do the job even within an hour. But it costed dearly; 30 euro’s! But hey, are you a big Dead Head or not… So now i’m really proud of my custom made vest, looking a bit like PigPen.
Owsley Stanley, the prodigiously gifted applied chemist to the stars, who made LSD in quantity for the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey and other avatars of the psychedelic ’60s, died on Sunday in a car accident .
Mr. Stanley, the Dead’s former financial backer, pharmaceutical supplier and sound engineer, was in recent decades a reclusive, almost mythically enigmatic figure. He moved to Australia in the 1980s, as he explained in his rare interviews, so he might survive what he believed to be a coming Ice Age that would annihilate the Northern Hemisphere. Hè was 76 and lived in the bush near Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland. His car swerved off a highway and down an embankment before hitting trees near Mareeba, a town in Queensland, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Stanley’s wife, Sheilah, was injured in the accident.
Some words from his website thebear.org: THE music of the Grateful Dead is an important assistant to the revival of tribality. Because it has to do with the way things are. It’s not somebody’s idea about the way things might be, or the way things could be or should be. It’s what it is. It’s real music about real things. The whole thing is about a social movement. It’s tribalism. Which is the only social structure that is truly human.
The structure of the world today runs on feudalism–governments, companies; all those structures are feudalistic, arranged in a hierarchy which at the root of it follows Parkinson’s law. That is, once you create a hierarchy or bureaucracy, it has only one purpose, and that is: To Continue. There’s nothing else. But that has nothing to do with the tribal entity. The tribal entity exists so as to abide in harmony with its environment. It’s something that benefits everyone, not just this one structure.”
Reel > cass Recorded by the Immortal Owsley Stanley.
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