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JFK Stadium Grateful Dead 7-7-1989 We did "The Wave" during the Break... Philadelphia, PA - Here are Many Videos of That Concert

I was there... and by a wonderful twist of fate, they filmed the concert so I could enjoy the show years later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpaD-ktv7Q
"Aiko Aiko"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkAzMiEUUQ8
"Hell in a Bucket"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gspGPBijYFU
"Little Red Rooster" Bob's big slide guitar song...
however, Brent sings... and I really believe... when Brent sings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0HdJ__sykw
entire First Set...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYenjCpJ8g
entire Second Set... get's really interesting at 46 minutes when they go into drums/space... I always felt that all performances of drums/space are interconnected thru an inter-dimensional time warp... that they were simply dipping a ladle into a larger than reality pool of rhythm...

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My Story: Art and Tales... original poetry inspired by shows at the Spectrum Arena and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

ceremony and ritual: a story...
OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING
COLONIAL ANIMAL...
FLOWING IN THE
CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC...
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.
THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,
FEEL THE HEAT...
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL
REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION
AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND
I RICCOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM
ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.
A CROWD OF DEADHEADS
SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES...
THEY JUST...know... THAT I WILL LAUGH...
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

God, THE 'BIG G' WALKS RIGHT UP TO ME
AND SHAKES MY HAND.
HE ANSWERS ALL THE
REALLY BIG QUESTIONS...
OF COURSE, BY THE NEXT MORNING I FORGOT THEM ALL!

NO PROBLEM ....

THEY WERE PROGRAMMED DIRECTLY INTO MY DNA...

At the JFK Show I was sitting up high in the bleachers and noticed that the dancing people looked very similar to Sea Anemones. When the music got very exciting, they would throw their arms up in the air... I could see the music as it flowed from the front to the back as people raised their arms when they heard it. Very similar to a Sea Anemone flowing in the currents of the ocean... We were flowing in the currents of the music...

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I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them.

He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly,
creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.
See the picture that changed my life:

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TJ420: Posted on Facebook... It was 19 years ago this evening that I had the priveledge of seeing the Grateful Dead for the very last time. Although pretty blazed thru most of the show, I do remember as if yesterday the final encore of that show, Jerry played 'Brokedown Palace" and it was so beautiful it made me cry, but at the same time he sounded so very tired. I will always treasure those final moments,,. there have been many shows and festys since, but the ledgend still holds true..."THERE IS AND NEVER WILL BE ANYTHING, ANYTHING LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW!"

TT: Except a DSO show!

TT:Try it before you knock it!

RS: Last time

Greg Vanderlaan While going to a performance of The Grateful Dead was wonderful... I believe that it misses the point... Something Else was happening and that Something Else can be experienced at any Dead Related Event. For Example: When I was in High School, someone went to a concert and concluded that we could build our own... and we could be in the band, run the light show... etc... And we built Forbes Mill teen club in Los Gatos, California...

Greg Vanderlaan Speaking of Dead Related Events. The Rainbow Gathering will be in Nevada or Utah first week of July. Exact location to be announced June 14th...

JL: Shoreline, it left an impression in my life. That was also my last show.

TC: you are correct Sir!

Greg Vanderlaan Speaking of Dead Related Events... What about the entire town of Arcata, CA... or Nimbin, Australia???

TJ420: Greg, likes I said and will repeat,"THERE IS AND NEVER WILL BE ANYTHING, ANYTHING! LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW!"

Greg Vanderlaan: Jim, that is true... I'm just making due with what we have left... Sure, the band is not as interesting without Jerry but... I will go dance to local bands that have learned how to play the songs... Thankfully we have every performance stored online... I just enjoyed the JFK show that I barely remember...

AMR: I'm feeling you, thank you for sharing that

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LINKS TO MANY MORE BLOG POSTS:

Autobiography: When We lived in Washington, DC our Families would come to visit and... Every Woman wanted to See The First Ladies Inaugural Ball Gowns at the Smithsonian...

an Exhibit that I Had No Interest in... But Since They Asked, I drove and We Went! That exhibit is in the Same Building that has... Automata! Old Robots that were made in Germany as Part of Cookoo Clocks. Some are Life Size People that Dance... So there was Something for me to look at while they were looking at the Inaugural Gowns... and the Smithsonian Has... TV SHOW Props Like Archie Bunker's Chair from "All In The Family" and a M*A*S*H Tent... and Old Campaign Buttons... The Next Building over has Rocks. and Mister Smithson Collected Rocks... His Collection was the First Part of the Smithsonian... The OPALS were the best... One was 4 Inches long in the shape of a Tree Branch... and my Uncle wanted to see the USMC Silent Drill Team Marching... That's another Event that I Never would have gone to... and we went to Colonial Williamsburg to see how People Lived 200 Years Ago. That Pace meant a lot to me Because a Paint Company Sold Housepaint in Official Colonial Williamsburg Colors... and I had just worked in a paint store for three years... Like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever... The Smithsonian has Many Traveling Exhibits. We went to see Chippendale's Doll House, that had scale model Chippendale Furniture in it... and a Japanese 3D Animated Movie "We are Born of Stars." - and a Gamelan Orchestra at the East Wing of the National Art Gallery (The Very Angular Stone Building with the GREAT ECHO) - and Leonardo Da Vinci's Silverpoint Drawings. - Buckminster Fuller's TENSEGRITIES. - Freud's Son's Self Portraits (they looked creepy with blotchy skin like looking in a mirror on acid)... I went to an installation of a TOTALLY MIRRORED HOUSE that we walked inside of and experienced infinite reflections... Every visit was different due to who else was in the room with you. In the West Wing (traditional painting) they had Classical Music Concerts. Connecting the East and West National Art Galleries is a Tunnel with a moving sidewalk ond thousands of tiny lights embedded in a silver colored wall and ceiling. I have heard that Recently they have made the lights BLINK in Computer Controlled Psychedelic Patterns. Waves... During that Time I Made Black and White Psychedelic Drawings in Ball Point Pen and Xeroxed them, Then took the copies and thumbtacked them to the wall of the National Art Gallery... Therefore, My Artwork has Hung at The Smithsonian... Sometimes the drawings would stay posted for Hours before a Guard Noticed them and Took them Down... There were MANY other ART Galleries, Shows and Museums in Washington DC. I Saw a Sculpture Called "The Awakening" that is a Giant Man arising out of the Ground. You can see His Head, Arm and Knee but MOST of the Sculpture is Imaginary and Underground. and there was a JOHN CAGE Concert at the National Science Academy. Their concert hall is a curved room that looks like the inside of a lozenge or medical pill... That performance had a Lot of Cello playing Notes that were drawn on the Sheet music by running a pen around a round coffee cup... and in the middle of the performance, a guy had his cellphone ring... that's a kinda John Cage Type Random Sound... We also went to the Kennedy Center to see Handel's Messiah (boring), Beethoven's Ninth Conducted by Leonard Bernstein (EPIC) and an Unknown Japanese TechnoPop Group that used computers to play rhythm (they sounded silly - like a FUN Machine)... and there were Massive Rock Concerts on July 4th at the Washington Monument. 500,000 People ti see The Beach Bows with Jimmy Page and Joan Jett... at the other end of the Mall the National Symphony Orchestra was Playing and Being Conducted by Henry Mancini.

It's Wonderful to Expand My Horizons by Driving Other People Where they Want to Go... and Sometimes It's Interesting! I drove to a Star Party way out in rural Virginia to See A Comet... with a Guy who owned a Fancy Telescope that Rotated a Complete Circle Once a Day... To Sync the Telescope With The Rotation of the Earth. I drove to an Indian GURU's Ashram with a Lady who was a Follower... and I Couldn't Understand a Word He Said... I Drove to a Hindu Wedding in the Bronx... I drove to a Laserium Show in Pittsburgh and a Hologram Art Gallery in Manhattan... and then there were the times I went alone... all the way to Key West Florida and then to Niagra Falls Canada... To Utah for the Rainbow Gathering and Seattle and The Deserts Outside LA... and Once, Coast to Coast on Highway 80 from Santa Clara to Washington DC (With my First Wife to Relocate for a Job) and then 12 Years Later, without my First Wife, I Came Back on Highway 40...

I guess that all that driving around is a part of The Past American Culture. History, Never to be Done Again... Like People Driving a Horse and Buggy... Quaint! Since Burning Gasoline Causes Global Warming, it Just Won't Be Much Fun to Cruise... Pointlessly Driving all over the Place For Fun... When will they stop having Auto Races? Indianapolis 500? Datona? Hundreds of Cars Getting NOWHERE Driving in a Circle... Polluting the Earth... Is That Fun? I did go to a Motorcycle Race in Laguna Seca Raceway once... REALLY LOUD... But I didn't go TWICE... It Seemed Bizarre... The High Point of the Trip was Listening to a Live Doors Performance in the Car as we went there... This was the Performance where Jim Morrison Scolds the Audience for Mis-Behaving at a Rock Concert. NOW, That's a Bizarre Concept, Mister Mis-Behaving Himself giving Free Advice... PFFFBT! and Now, I Don't Own a Car and Don't Go Anywhere... Unless Uber Drives Me... and THE $20 PRICE for a Short Trip always makes me Question IF I REALLY Want to GO... Maybe I'll Stay Home Instead...

Read more of my Autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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