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  • Not miracle tickets, the Dead are known to let anyone in who wants to be there, tickets or not

  • RIP Bam Bam - what a great shot of him drumming at the start of this video, and a great example of his over the top drumming style. I was SO fortunate to have met him through the So. Cal. Rainbow Family and to have been blessed with his energy and music.

    P.S. - I WAS AT THESE SHOWS!!!! This tour is where I finally passed the 150 show mark!

  • @trpnstn1 Ha! The video started and I said hey that's Bam Bam!...He used to give me shit at every show for selling grilled cheese sandwiches...I was just telling my 16 year old who is a vegetarian that he used to say "the poor cows utters!"...WTF, It's just a buck...Grilled cheese your face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I wonder why the Grateful Dead attracted so many people looking for miracle tickets over other bands.

  • @HuggiMa i dont

  • I was at this show!!! I actually remember it!!

  • bam bam on drums in the first 15 seconds and harry perry on guitar from venice at the last thank you for posting this

  • Are there any of videos of the Disco Bus. That would just be too cool.

  • Wasters, mooches, fuck ups, posers, whores, deadbeats. That is 99.8% of the so called deadheads. Let one of these fools ask me to smoke them up, sorry I work for what I have.....

  • @thcdreams654 You sound happy at least.

  • Or is it Robert Hunter's lyrics?

  • Dude, I've seen that guy at 7:58 on Venice Beach! He's there every time I go, skating around, playing his guitar with a huge smile on his face. Wow, that guy's a legend!

  • @raider2661 And the funny thing is he looks exactly the same in this vid as he does now...like he hasn't aged a day

  • this shit totally still exists... go to a FURTHUR show lot and its just like this... i know, i know... its not the same

  • @forest1997 i wish the sissy with the mic would just get over it and hug his bros.

  • @forest1997 i kow exactly what you mean

  • I remember yelling six up now and then, but the rest areas and campsites around the shows lasted all night..

  • the long haired dude looks like a grunger from the 90s , man is that Evan Dando from The Lemonheads ????

  • i wonder what that parking lot smelled like

    butthole and weed im guessing

  • I was there at the parking lot on this particular day. Every time the Dead came to town I would be in the parking lot all day for the whole weekend when they played. I really miss those magical experiences. I loved all the great food ("kind" burritos, veggie stir fry, falafels, etc), drum circles, brownies, cool people, the Kama Kosmic Krusader (guy on roller blades playing guitar), etc. I was bummed when they outlawed bonfires in the parking lot after 1985.

  • I REALLY miss those days!!!!!!!

  • ah the memories..

  • I watched a bunch of stoned kids dance on top of their car... they mashed in the roof.. it was insane.

  • wishing so bad i was this age in the 90's :((( today sucks!!! it breaks my heart i could not live during this time. its all about the the thuggish rap music, pop, and autotune shit now :'(

  • @QuEEnSkiTTolZ In a lot of ways the hip scene has gotten bigger now than it was then. You wouldnt believe. Most of the best festivals are in California though. Message me if you want info about it. Peace

  • bam bam?

  • The freaky guy at end lived in Tempe few years ago. Always on Mill Ave jammin!

  • that weekend was one of the best of my life, first time hippy flipping, we hooked up with my dad at this show got some hash went down to the front (jerry side) smoked out all the sisters and brothers, second set (if the year is correct) open with Helps on the way Slipknot, Franklins mind blowin Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou love you Jerry we miss you so much

  • GD parking lot pre show was somethin else At Deer creek in 1994 I saw some really unusual stuff and people there . A grilled cheese sandwich or veggie pitta would bring things down to reality somewhat . What fun and greatness those days were . Thanks for sharing there From someone who lived in Iowa for 16 years . And now in Chile - S America

  • I want to go see hippies:)

    There fun

  • love this.....thank you

  • I know half those people. :)

  • Jenna is hot!

  • i hope the guy with the hat got his miracle...

  • its harry perry dude! runnin Venice Beach. hahha.

  • Oh f##ing hell this takes me back!!

    HAHA oh man, I feel sorry for those that missed it! WOW!

    You just can't describe it really, you had to be there!

  • yeah, but who's the guys with microphone and video recorder??? They are completely off the hook! peaceout\ hippie- ?

  • repeat this comment

  • It's about the overall vibe dude! Oh, and the hugs!

  • It's about the overall vibe dude!

  • After 2002 it turn into no selling anything at the shows, no tailgate parties, and noone was to show up without a ticket. that was at the request of the dead. Maybe not their choice but somone prettty powerful told them to stop the parties before a show. But up until then it was such a trip to see scenes like this video.

    My friend and I would have "Who has the dirtiest feet " contest just among the 2 of us. It was pretty funny

  • @laneiam Na man I went on the 2003 and 2004 Dead tour and there was shakedown street at all the shows. People selling everything from awesome food, glass works (pipes, beads, etc), crystals, music, hand drums, clothing, basically anything you wanted.

    Also there were tons of people looking for a miracle and they got it, how are the venue staff going to know if those people that got their miracle didn't pay for it?

    Even Phil & Friends shows Ratdog shows Shakedown street was still raging.

    Peace

  • wow...talk about taking me back! what year was this? looks pretty freakin' familiar.

  • yeah man, why did you bring Mike anyway!s? Then mike told Sue, Bill liked Sue so Bill came too... and I fuckin hate bills. Fuck Mike!

  • good times

  • Hey that's Bam Bam drumming in the first shot!

  • love it miss it

  • CHECK OUT JERRY ROCKS.

  • i saw Herry Perry at Dead shows as well as raves in the early nineties. Good times

  • lot style hasnt changed too much in the last 17 years... minus all the tree thuggers this looks like a pretty current lot scene.. love it... our fasion is obviously timeless

  • -think this triggered a flashback... th full experience, minus th concert/music.

    can't wait for my Mad Hatter, OVER-SIZED, reversible hat comes back in style.

    most of them went on ebay to fuel my ed hardy & christian audigier addiction but a precious few remain.

  • theres his eyeballs and thats his voice thing

  • ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC!!! So Crucial!! Thanks for the footage and the Memories....... This world is SO EPHEMERAL after all. Meditation is the key........ I found after all this good stuff....... QUAN YIN!!!!!!!!

  • i love that mama..dont shake my hand, hug me:)

  • How to get a ticket to a sold out show - walk all the way to the very beginning of where people are driving into the show. That way you are the first person they see looking for a ticket. The later it gets the better your odds because quite a few people have the ticket for a friend that canceled at the last second. I rarey got shut out, but I had to work real hard for lots of those.

  • Good times, great band. Thanks for the video!

  • god i miss the 90s

  • I was at this show and just saw my friend walk by the girl talking at 2:34. must watch again, more closely. BTW- you negative people are really annoying- just keep it to yourselves, please!

  • I remember being at a Dead show in 1987 at the Roanoke Civic Center and this dickhead at the beginning of this video, the one with the dreads playing his drum out of time, approached my brother and I, we were sitting in my truck doing bong hits, and asks us to smoke him out. Our weed was dank, but he didn't like it because it was grown in upstate N.Y. not in California. What a fucking dickhead. I have many more stories about the peace loving deadheads, most just like this one.

  • @jjevans2009

    i love real deadheads- people who were there for the music

    fake, wannabe important nobodies like this guy suck.

    87 was a good show

    tell us more tales about fake deadheads

    lol..they really do/did suck the life out of everything!

  • these hippys look crazy to most ppl, hell thats what this vid was made for. this is exactly what im about just stoned and in the molment always

  • this guy filming this is a stupid fuucckkeer , he doesnt have any idea what its all about. interviewing people that have been once or twice... taking the piss..after 400 GD shows,,Jerry Garcia Band. Mr Saunders, etc my soul is fat and full of light but i would peacefully kick his arse

  • @mintpatti Shut up, limey fuckface.

  • @mintpatti I mean you dumb ugly kangaroo fucker.

  • Wow you must have been what, about 19 years old when Garcia died? You live in Australia? I would venture to say you didn't see the Dead or JGB more than 10 times, but like most deadheads you're a liar and an asshole. Yeah he should have interviewed someone like you or maybe that self righteous hippie with the dreads playing his deum out of time. I saw that piece of crap at several shows and he never greeted me with anything but condescension. So you are a true deadhead= an asshole an a liar.

  • I liked vegetarian tacos at ead shows.mmmmmmmm!

  • Nice Vid! Footage like this is hard to come by!

  • This is great !!!!!!!!!!!

  • 6:00-6:10 is funny as hell!haha

  • 5:53 if there is anybody out there who can help me???

  • Those were fun times, The Silver Bowl in Vegas were the best. Alpine Valley were good also. Iam 54 years old and still love the Dead. The vibe has been gone for years , but still miss the shows..

  • Those were fun times. I was at all the LV Silver Bowl shows and could write a book with the awesome memories I have of *every* parking lot at GD and JGB shows. The people you meet, the expansion of mind and spirit. It was the introduction to the GD brother and sisterhood that lasted until the end. Never was there doubt that you would run into someone you had met in the past, and greeted with a hug, a smile, and positive vibes.

    The beauty of the memories remain, even though Jerry is gone.

  • @shakedownstreet48 Yea us old dead head supposedly are to old to know what going on. If they only knew what we know and if they only saw what we saw. Just absoultely amazing

  • the dude at 5:54 is severly dosed on lsd what a lucky motherfucker

  • i meant 5:33

  • Lmfao, i've seen the guy on the roller blades and guitar, like 50 times. But in Venice beach Ca NOT Sacramento. CRAZY

  • 1:30 i had that shirt!... i still have that shirt! lol awsome, my mom gave me mine, when i was 14.

  • dude sickest video of just hippies and stoner mann fucking awsome! 8 ) make it world wide.....

  • Love the Dead but who are they following now!? LOL

  • Hey thats that same dude from venice

  • Hey, that was me at 1:42 - 1:44! Cool. Thanks for posting.

  • I got so ripped off at this show. Hippies broke into my car and ripped off everything my Cam Corder which I had video of this show to. This was the end of the dead.

  • yuppie

  • @tahoetishta

    sorry to hear you got robbed at a show.

    real deadheads o hippies would have never done that and would have helped you.

    the scene was ruined by the fake wannabe party going creeps you see in this video

    don't think bad of the GD because of a few losers. these people are FAKE

  • @jojojigaboo I'm bettin' there were always SOME put-ons at dead shows. Fritz the Cat was puttin people on way back in the day, There was just a lot MORE of them towards the end, when the band got so HUGE. They were way too big for Jerry's taste--that's a matter of historical record. He advocated a break, possibly for 2years. It would have brought short term financial pain, but it would have been good in the long run. Thin the herd. Refresh, They were penny wise, pound foolish about it.

  • Lol, the little kid with the legalize shirt. Peace sign dude. Hell yeah

    good stuff

  • 5:50.

    That kid is on SO MUCH ACID. HAHAA.

  • lol he is

  • haha and you know what's funny it's fucking true you can tell if you've tripped yourself

  • What keeps' em comeing-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Dead put a spell on you-Like a Worlock

  • This was my first show! So excited to see this on here. I actually remember some of these faces!

  • 2:46 you can hear some acoustic jack a roo

  • I was too young to go to the show but I lived close enough to the old Arco that at the time we could HEAR the concerts, Yea. We went fishing and I remember some Dead Head walking into our polls and where our hooks were in the water and my dad was like "what are you doing?" and he was like "I'm just drawn here maaaan" haha.

  • Indra from haight street is the peace sign master 30 +years

  • that is were i belong

  • Carmichael native here:

    Rad...I was at the Cal Expo '92 parking lot party but I missed '93. That roller-blading guitar dude is a Venice Beach regular. You can see him in one of my vids.

    Thanks so much for sharing that. I think I see some familiar faces.

  • fucking dead heads i was at one of there concerts and all u see are them selling tidye shirts,food,LSD,marijuana and various drugs but the GFD rule

  • I was somewhere in that eugene lot. I got a miracle!!! well august was when I was there when Indigo girls opened. Wish you well. Whops actually 08/13/93 my bad

    peace

  • In Eugene Wa. 1991, my friends got "lost". I had their tickets, which I quickly turned into "Miracle Tickets". I gave them to two crazy hippy chicks who gave me 20 doses and a gram of hash.

  • i was there...

  • I got some friends who get miracle tix all the time. im just not like that. can't get it done. pretty cool though. people's generosity you know?

  • Cool clip. I saw my first Dead show at Cal Expo on my 18th birthday in 1991. Very fun. Bought a Guatamalan blanket in the parking lot and a veggie burrito from some guy selling them from the trunk of his car. When we went inside I registered to vote a booth set up inside. :)

  • favoriting! the 13 yr old with the shirt, dude with the bulls hat, the two plasterville stoner chicks, the guy who says "kitty-kitty", grilledcheese, the 4 hours that it took that guy to make the peace sign and last but not least the guy who fucking WAILED at the end...hells yeah i can only imagine how wicked of a time that was...to bad i was only 6 then :(

  • Plasterville? Hahahaha (They said Placerville.)

  • what an era. there was a lot of beauty and a lot of bullshit. i hope people took away what good was to be found.

  • i love how he said do you think its jerrys lyrics but, robert hunter wrote most of the lyrics

  • yea he did

  • I camped next to that skating guitar player guy at bonnaroo 08 in the vending lot.

  • The Skating guitar guy was Harry Perry, he's a ficture at Venice Beach, He was in some movie, just a cameo shot of him skating on the Venice boardwalk, it may have been point-blank-not sure, I first saw him in like 1998-1999 at Cal-Expo Dead shows.

  • @Jerryjeffelvis

    that dude was in Point Of No Return starring Bridget Fonda.

    BTW, obama is a schmuck too.

    GD is apolitical - the surviving members were misguided by doing a concert for o voters.

    jerry would have NEVER done that - ever!

  • wow, 1993, who woulda thought a horrible, horrible tragedy would happen2 years later

  • Pretty much everybody. I think most of us were grateful that Jerry even made it to 1993. We all knew our time with him was limited and that he was extremely lucky to have made it as far as he did.

  • Oh yea I know, I just wished I cold have seen them play with Jerry, I plan on seeing them play there next time around, I didnt get tickets to these shows that are going on now, I hope i can get tickets for the next one though

  • Brings back amazing memories :)

  • That's one scary b*tch at 2:45

  • oh yea rolling skating hendrix wanna-be was at venice beach all the time made people PAY to take a picture with him hadn't heard his actual guitar sound in at least 15 years not goot

  • I remember that guy at 8:00...he was at a lot of the west coast shows. Didn't he also lurk in Venice on the boardwalk?

  • far out!...

  • "do you think its jerry's lyrics" ... "well his lyrics are pretty powerful at times and at other times they're pretty meaningless"

    jerry didn't write lyrics, hunter wrote all the words and they were never meanignless

  • Thats not true at all. Jerry wrote plenty of words.

  • Name one tune where Jerry wrote the lyrics.........

  • Only one: "Cream Puff War" off their first album.

  • jerry helped write most of the songs

  • I met harry perry the guy at 8:00 min in! In michigan actually at a system of a down show.

  • That's right...Harry Perry! I kept wanting to call him Harry Caray, but obviously this ain't no Cubs game.

    CLASSIC guy!

  • he was in perry farrells movie.... gift.

  • I'm seeing them (well, "The Dead") when they come to NJ this April. Do any of you guys think it will be anything remotely like this? Or will it just be people showing up 45 minutes before the music and going straight to their seats?

  • it will be like this. it was in 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004... so i think it will be like this!

  • i went to g borro and its just like this

  • I am viewer 99,000! Do I get a free veggie burrito?

  • Thank You for this blast from the past, I spent many days on nights in that parking lot. I saw my first show there in '86 (with a miracle ticket). Love that you bookended the video with Bam Bam on Drums kicking it off and Kama the Kozmic crusader ending it with his guitar, skates & turbin................ total classic !!

  • What a great slice! Even tho I followed them summers in the midwest, this could have been filmed at ANY show, which makes it so great.

  • I drove down from Oregon for these intimate little shows. What a sweet little venue. The shakedown street outside was so great. I ran into so many friends all over the place. Great shows for my birthday. I slept in my truck at some park with a bunch of cool people. Now I vote republican and make a bunch of money and give most of it away BY CHOICE--be cause I want to BE WITH YOU, BE WITH YOU, I WANT TO BE WITH YOU, BE WITH YOU!!!! I want to be with you!!!

  • That's mostly cool and all but why in the sweet FUCK would you ever vote for republicans?

  • Are you saying you voted for mccain and not obama?? punish yourself, now get off the republican bus and get on the bus!

  • wow, really dumb statement

  • i was at hese shows, thanks for posting the video, brings me back to a simpler life

  • omg. i wish i was there. (wasn't even born yet. screw that)

  • everybody knew when the dead was in sac when the traffic on the 80 freeway was stopped dead, with folks waiting to get into the parking lots causing a backup onto the highway. it was quite a site though : )

  • the rollerblading bullseye guitar guy is named fantuzzi and he lived in venice when i did, he is really really cool and under that turbin he had dreads that dragged on the floor

  • theres just so much love when fellow deadheads join up and listen to what they love. this video was actually pretty trippy how it sped up and everything.

  • OMG !!Those fatty eggrolls were THE BEST!

  • They were epic. I could also go for a grilled cheese and a Sierra Nevada right about now!

  • bullseye guitar man was at rothbury

  • Holy Schmoltz! I used to see that roller-blading guitar player with the turban every time I went to Venice Beach in the late 90s! Nice video.

  • @cecilian97 IVE SEEN HIM EVERY TIME I WENT TO VENICE B IN THE 90S AS WELL! LMAO

  • rip jerry garcia

  • Good Video.....Takes me back.....I liked Harry Perry rocking out at the end.

  • good people

  • wow. 1993. seems like just yesterday.

  • the flowerchild at 2:30 looks like a manson family member

  • harry perry from venice beach at 7:57

  • does anyone smell nag champa and armpist

  • OHHH And doses!!!!!

  • AHH to be young and going to shows and goo goo ball parking lots and "KICK DOWN SCHWILLS" narguals etc... Sigh... Thanks for the shot of nastalgia....

  • may all gods from all religions bless the dead man.

  • brings back memories...

  • this is pretty groovy, I wish I was there to see all this and join in on the fun, seems like great times

  • Nice to see.

  • 1st drummer I think I know. I went to 5 shows also. Hard to believe this is 15 years ago. One show at Oak coliseum really sucked, they crammed everybody inside of these white lines inside, and the band was tired, you could see it. They played good as usual, but I hated all the guards. Outside shows were better. I never got a "miracle". That's why it was called a miracle. I was jealous.

  • man the interviewer is annoying. great video though.

  • hey! haha yeah I did! It was awesome!! and yes, I am sure everyone missed you! lol

  • wow! some things never change [kinda] the one guitar guy on wheels doesn't look a minute older, he's on the Venice Beach boardwalk almost daily

  • Do any of these people know that soap and water is not a deadly combination?

  • dont make fun of us deadhead hippies i dont wanna make fun of u but dreadlock aint dirty.

  • Atlanta Ga. has the best drum circle

  • I love Jenna...find me and marry me, okay? Oh...never mind. Unless...you know like dig, dig?

  • lol

    that was a throwback, thanks for posting this.

    most of the shows i saw were east coast, except for a few in denver when i was living out there.

  • Harry Perry @ 7:57!!! I haven't seen that guy in forever!

    The guy with the mic is kinda goofy, but this was cool cuz I was on this tour

    thanks!

  • Hey where have all the flowers gone?

    Where has that Voodoo gone?

    Hardly any traffic police, hardly any guards, no barbed wire fences?

    Last but not least the prices, certainly no rip offs?

    Jerry was certainly no foolish businessmen _ but that money was for all, no obsessive personal accumulation.

  • I am seeing The Dead next Monday at Penn State and watching this is just making me sooo excited!

  • did you see the show? were they good? did anybody miss me? lol peace