"Virtual Acid Trip"
In my opinion, it's a very impressive site.
Here's a website by Roger. It's his tribute to Jerry Garcia. There's a kind photo gallery, a Real Audio music selection occasionally updated and some other Dead links.
Unbroken Chain's web site
Relix Magazine
A little bit furthur than you're gone before...
Photos of TOO 6/25/98 Atlanta gig.
I can recall where I got some of these....
Some came from the magazine Unbroken Chain, 47th Edition (March 1994). While others came from Clinton DiPierro, James Sabherwal & Chris Bertolet. Others just don't know...
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A DEADHEAD WHEN...
1. You spend more money on blank tapes than you do on rent.
2. None of your tapes have names on them, just venues and dates.
3. Everyone is your brother or sister.
4. You swear the guy walking by you at the football game just said "doses."
5. You prefix every noun with "Kind" or "ice cold."
6. You spend more money at the post office than at the gas station.
7. You still have the parking tag from NYE 1976 hanging from your rear view mirror.
8. On forms you list your occupation as "?".
9. GDTRFB, SSDD, BIODTL, FOTD, SOTM, LTGTR, and WALSTIB all mean something to you.
10. At any given moment you can compute how many days, hours, minutes and seconds it's been since Alligator has been played.
11. Someone ask you what you do for fun, and you just smile real wide.
12. The first entry on your MCI friends and family list is 415-457-6388.
13. You got #12.
14. You try to tell your Russian History professor that Marx stole the phrase "One man gathers what another one spills" from Robert Hunter.
15. You think $1.00 for a grilled cheese sandwich is pretty darn cheap.
16. You're up at 3:20 a.m. writing some stupid "You know you're a Deadhead when..."
17. Your boss notices that members of your family only become deathly ill when there happens to be a dead show within a 1,000 mile radius.
18. Your relatives start whispering everytime you walk into the room.
19. You wake up in a cold sweat three or four times a week because you were dreaming there was a show somewhere, and you just find out and have only 12 hours to get there.
20. Whenever you walk through a parking lot you instinctively hold your right index finger in the air.
21. The compass in your car is calibrated so that it always points to the Oakland Coliseum.
22. You can install a new cylinder on a '68 VW microbus with your eyes closed.
23. You have more tie-dyes than neck ties.
24. You find it amazing that some people fill balloons with AIR.
25. You try to convince your grandmother that Aoxomoxoa is an acceptable play for a scrabble triple word score.
26. Your dog is named Bertha.
27. Your kid is named Althea.
28. You spend New Year's Eve with your cassette deck instead of your wife.
29. Your license plate spells HEY NOW.
30. You wonder if DDN is going to have a swimsuit issue this year. (Warning: Thinking about this one may ruin your appetite.)
31. You're still waiting for that second verse of Dark Star that they started back in May of '73.
32. Your computer monitor's wallpaper is a picture of Jerry Garcia, your cursor is a Steal Your Face skull, and you sometimes swear it's leaving trails.
33. You consider :-) a new form of punctuation.
34. Left unoccupied your hand instinctively taps the beat to Not Fade Away.
35. There are still ten people shacking up in your living room from the Summer 90 tour, and you don't know any of them.
36. You consider veggie burritos gourmet.
37. Your copy of DeadBase has long since broken out of it's binding and the ink is beginning to wear off the pages.
38. You try to claim gas to and from Dead shows as an income tax deduction.
39. Your stock portfolio includes 50 shares of the Haines Beefy-T division.
40. You know the ZIP code for San Rafael,CA by heart.
41. You have the postal rates memorized.
42. You know the words to Truckin' better than Bob. (O.K., this doesn't necessarily mean you're a Deadhead...)
43. You spend all morning looking for this killer Playin' jam that you think is on this tape from '72, probably the Fillmore, and you know it's a Maxwell with the label on upside down, but it doesn't have a case, and you know the tape starts with Sugaree but the last time you think you saw it, it was in '83 and it was under your friend Brian's refrigerator, or maybe it was just a filler on that Alpine Valley '89 show, which you think you probably listened to in that dude's bus on the way to Deer Creek this year, but his phone number is on the back of the ticket stub that you think you stuffed in your Soundboard copy of 7/8/78 set II, and you have NO idea where that is, so you pull out DeadBase start looking through every show since '71 that even had a Playin' but by '77 or so you forgot what you were looking for because you got wrapped up in the nice version of He's Gone where Mickey starts playing the beam with dead cat...(if this sounds like something that happens to you every day, you know you're a Deadhead.)
................MORE............
1. You know, deep down in your soul, that Bob is cheesy, but you love him anyway.
2. You know your friends' favorite Dead tunes.
3. You can anticipate the part in a song when the crowd will react with a roar.
4. You bought a car with Maxwell Points.
5. You know the orgin of the dancing bear symbol.
6. You proudly say you were spit on by Bobby.
7. You know the verses of (name any song) better than the band.
8. You can hardly see through your rear window because of the stickers.
9. An entire room of your house is a holy shrine devoted to the Grateful Dead.
10. Every inch of wall space in your shrine is covered with either bootleg tapes or psychedelic artwork.
11. The altar of your shrine is your stereo system, where you spend a lot of time kneeling by your tape deck.
12. You never turn your stereo off because, even if you aren't listening to it, your tape deck is busy making dubs for your friends.
13. You easily have invested anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 in cassettes.
14. You take pride in owning every single fanzine on the Dead ever printed, and you keep them in chronological order.
15. Your ticket stubs, flyers, stickers and concert memorabilia take up an entire drawer.
16. The back of your ticket stubs have a lot of illegible setlist scribble on the back.
17 Your tape list takes up a meg on your hard drive.
18. You're still anxiously waiting for DeadBase to come out in software format.
19. You can tell that the straight-looking guy in the three-piece suit at the post office on mail order day is a Deadhead by the amount of the money order he is purchasing and by the little 3 x 5 cards and SASEs he is carrying.
20. You are never without your own supply of 3 x 5 cards.
21. You are never without a few blanks.
22. After 10 years of going to Dead shows, you're starting to get a little critical of the band.
23. You own more tour t-shirts and tye-dyes than you could ever possibly wear.
24. Half of your tye-dyes and tees have shrunk so bad you can't wear them anyway, but you just can't seem to part with them.
25. You figure your monthly expenses and you notice there's a column for blank tapes.
26. You address your mom as "dude."
27. You can't screw in a lightbulb but you can replace a starter motor in a '68 microbus in your sleep.
28. You answer your phone "hey now!"
29. You wake up in a cold sweat because you had a nightmare that the mailorder was yesterday and you missed it.
30. You camp out for tickets because the mailorder nightmare was true.
31. You "drink all day and rock all night."
32. Your roomates complain that they can't sleep because you mumble in your sleep "mmmbop...bop...bop`bop."
33. Your list of itemized deductions on your income tax return includes "gas for Summer tour."
34. Seeing Jerry in shorts on Summer tour holds great personal meaning and makes you laugh for days...
35. You just got to speed up to see what the girl in the car with the "Steal Your Face" sticker looks like.
36. You catch up with the car and realize it's a guy with long hair, so you just smile and give a peace sign as you ride by.
ADDITIONAL --YOU KNOW YOU'RE A DEADHEAD WHEN.......
1. Your friends call and tell you to turn on the TV because the Grateful Dead is being mentioned.
2. Your co-workers ask if you went to a Grateful Dead concert the days you were not at work.
3. You say yes to #2.
4. People ask you why would anybody want to see a concert seven nights in a row, particularly a Grateful Dead concert.
5. You see someone wearing a tye-dye and you wonder if he/she is one too.
6. You're not satisfied with a SYF golfball but you also want it in tye-dye colors.
7. Your first files in your computer are Dead related.
8. You imagine how you would design a Grateful Dead screensaver and do it.
9. You want bedsheets, pillowcases and anything else you can think of in tye-dyed colors.
10.You start looking at everything in "tye-dyed" colors--even food while you're not under the influence of various substances.
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