John Fogerty in a Rolling Stone interview: "Creedence had to follow the Grateful Dead. I was like, 'Great, we get to follow the band that just put 250,000 people to sleep. I remember seeing one guy a quarter mile away from the stage with a lighter yelling, 'We're with you, John' so I played our set for that guy."
by Oh Welles September 8, 2006
The dance you do when you're stoned.
Goes a little something like this:
You wave your arms about whilst skipping in a small circle. Making odd noises is optional.
Goes a little something like this:
You wave your arms about whilst skipping in a small circle. Making odd noises is optional.
by Jack Townshend June 22, 2006
A kindly kinship. A tightly knit though loosely organized group of elders who did and do look after my best interests. All share a common love for the music of Jerry Garcia.
"Hey now, do you have a place to be?
"......Uh...I am looking for my friends but I think they left me here.... I don't know how to get out of here or where to go. They have all my money and the car keys and all....."
"No worries. Come on into our bus, my wife is making Bananna/Spirulina smoothies and cornbread. We have a camping permit as we are vendors. We have an extra pull-out bed you can sleep on tonight and you can find your friends tomorrow".
".......That is really nice of you. Thank you. Am glad to find Grateful Dead family.
"......Uh...I am looking for my friends but I think they left me here.... I don't know how to get out of here or where to go. They have all my money and the car keys and all....."
"No worries. Come on into our bus, my wife is making Bananna/Spirulina smoothies and cornbread. We have a camping permit as we are vendors. We have an extra pull-out bed you can sleep on tonight and you can find your friends tomorrow".
".......That is really nice of you. Thank you. Am glad to find Grateful Dead family.
by Justathrowback March 30, 2011
by Rich/Mike September 14, 2007
by rabid weasels March 16, 2005
Also GDF. The Grateful Dead Family is a clique which composes mostly white people between ages of 18 and 35. Most of these members can be seen at music festivals. Your average gdf member can be seen wearing a a tyedye or colorful shirt with trippy patterns or artwork, a hemp necklace with a gem wrapped at the end, and always a colorful, overpriced 'heady' hat under brand names such as Grassroots California. Not to mention, most are mal-nourished/have unkempt hair(see: wook). They can also be seen usually selling various profitable items such as packaged food, bottled water, gems on a string, and especially: drugs. Never buy a drug from someone who may potentially be gdf because chances are it has been cut multiple times. These people may claim that them and their group are out to spread love and peace while ridding their minds of negative judgements towards people and branching away from the "american dream materialistic" lifestyle. They say this and then they proceed to rip people off and steal almost any unattended item they come across. They supposedly look after eachother and keep everyone in the family living a long, happy lifestyle but in reality these people can barely look after themselves. Many of these people will most likely see rehab a few times before they die and also will never hold a steady job where they can then raise kids... they think that the other family members will help them during hard realizations like this, they wont.
Man, I'm glad we're not like those grateful dead family fags and have real family/friends who care about us, our health, and our progressive plans for the future." "I hear ya dawg. fuck those wooks.
by iHATEstupidWOOKS April 27, 2011
Theee 13 point Grateful Dead lightning bolt is located inside of the stealie. The logo was always on the bands equipment and eventually symbolized the band itself. When you see the 13 point bolt(or of course... the stealie) you have encountered a fractal of the Grateful Dead's essence, a piece/part of them. SMILE!!!
The 13-point lightning bolt was derived from a stencil Owsley Bear(along with his close friend Bob Thomas)created to spray-paint on the Grateful Dead's equipment. Owsley was an underground lsd cook/ longtime soundman and financier for the dead)
The Dead in those days had to play in a lot of festival style shows where the equipment would all wind up at the back of the stage in a muddle, it was created to help the crew find the Dead's equipment in the jumble of multiple bands' identical black equipment boxes at festivals.
The lightning bolt design came to him after seeing a similar design on a roadside advertisement: "One day in the rain, I looked out the side and saw a sign along the freeway which was a circle with a white bar across it, the top of the circle was orange and the bottom blue. I couldn't read the name of the firm, and so was just looking at the shape. A thought occurred to me: if the orange were red and the bar across were a lightning bolt cutting across at an angle, then we would have a very nice, unique and highly identifiable mark to put on the equipment."
The 13-point lightning bolt was derived from a stencil Owsley Bear(along with his close friend Bob Thomas)created to spray-paint on the Grateful Dead's equipment. Owsley was an underground lsd cook/ longtime soundman and financier for the dead)
The Dead in those days had to play in a lot of festival style shows where the equipment would all wind up at the back of the stage in a muddle, it was created to help the crew find the Dead's equipment in the jumble of multiple bands' identical black equipment boxes at festivals.
The lightning bolt design came to him after seeing a similar design on a roadside advertisement: "One day in the rain, I looked out the side and saw a sign along the freeway which was a circle with a white bar across it, the top of the circle was orange and the bottom blue. I couldn't read the name of the firm, and so was just looking at the shape. A thought occurred to me: if the orange were red and the bar across were a lightning bolt cutting across at an angle, then we would have a very nice, unique and highly identifiable mark to put on the equipment."
I got a 13 point Grateful Dead bolt tattooed behind my left ear to show my everlasting love for jerry, the band, and the rest of the crew. Peace love Space.
by justAnothercatt July 20, 2010