Saturday night, I was listening to the Grateful Dead on PBS.  A recording from Radio City Music Hall.  The fundraiser person was talking to someone that was supposed to be a Dead lover that ended up working with them on something.  He said when he started collecting the Dead albums around '84 or '85  they were so good, the greatest hits stuff and all.  Now, ....... I was playing on my pc, doing this and that and letting the music waft around my head.  Then I heard that comment. ....... I sat up straight in my chair, like my mommy told me to, ( I had been slouching and stretching trying to get comfortable).  And I listened thinking that maybe I was in a time warp.  Or maybe he was in a time warp.  No, that's another song, all together.  Anyway, I start to get my brain in gear and think.  I have seen the Grateful Dead at least one or two dozen times.  If you wanted to see the Dead live you needed to live in San Francisco or New York.  They loved playing those areas.  So having grown up in New York, I didn't need to fly to the west coast.  They played a lot of smaller outdoor venues and some large ones too.  I saw them at Gaelic Park in the Bronx many times.  Well, I can remember two times clearly, the others you will just have to take my word for it.  But as a friend of mine used to say, "if you missed them last night, wait they'll probably be back next month"  By the time '84 and '85 rolled around, the Grateful Dead had been around for 20 years.  Just WHAT  took this guy so long to start collecting their work and why is he on tv spouting off?  I saw them in New Jersey and they were awesome, and that was in about 1972 or 73 and this guy is on my local PBS station bragging and extolling the virtues of the Grateful Dead music?  I could do that and more from the heart than he could.  Little short haired person that you are.  He looked like he never had a hair out of place in his life. I'll bet he never saw them from the top of an old step van dancing the night away.  That is till the cops told us to get down, they were afraid we were going to rock it over on it's side.  I don't recall getting up there, on top of that big box van, but I do remember getting down.  The cops were nice about it and gave some of us a hand down, as if we were ladies or something.  I would call PBS and give them a piece of my mind, but they would probably just ask for a donation.  Just cause my name is on a past donation list don't think you are getting money out of me when both of the people on there right now wouldn't know how to find their way to Watkins Glen, where the Dead was sooo good.  Now, that was three days of fun!

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