The Deadhead Code of Ethics - Peter Conners

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/04/Peter_Conners_Growing_Up_Dead

Peter Conners, author of Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead describes his experience finding a ticket to a Grateful Dead concert just as the show was beginning. He explains the Deadhead custom of refusing to buy tickets from scalpers.

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Deadheads, Jerry Garcia fans, and the curious join Peter Conners as he reads from his personal memoir, Growing Up Dead, a tribute to the truth behind Deadhead culture and history. Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late 80's to the mid-90's, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. - Books Inc.

Peter Conners was born September 11, 1970. His memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, was just published by Da Capo Press. His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, will be published by White Pine Press in 2010. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology, which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal and will be included in the Forty Under Forty poetry anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press. Peter Conners is at work on a non-fiction book titled The White Hand Society: Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and the LSD Revolution. He recently completed a pair of music-based novels. His book projects are represented by Linda Roghaar of the Linda Roghaar Literary Agency.

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[phfrankh]

As the saying goes..."Take what you need & leave the rest"! (;-)

[freesk8]

The Dead probably would have forgiven, but they were never given the chance to do so.

I think the Dead were "open source" pioneers. They never cracked down on scalpers, people selling non-authorized Dead-branded stuff in the parking lots, nor even boot-leg tapes of their performances.

I think the knew that they would make more money in the long run if they allowed this free market to flourish.

The current record industry could learn a lot from them.

[wolco003]

@wolco003 Should have read "If you come to a show WITHOUT A TICKET you are not a Dead Head" Inspite of the 90's crap from the band, it was still the greatest time of my life!

There is NOTHING in the World like a Grateful Dead Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[wolco003]

@freesk8 In the early 90's they played a recording of Phil telling you if you did not have a ticket, do not come to the show! In Oakland the thug security stole my stove after I had turned it off 20 min earlier. I had to pick it up on Mon from a guy in a polo shirt with a dead logo who told me "If you come to a show you are not a Dead Head. I told him to fuck himself and that I was a LIVE HEAD! Oakland is a lovely place with 250,000 dead heads but by Mon...not a friendly place for van living!

[wolco003]

@freesk8 In the early 90's they played a recording of Phil telling you if you did not have a ticket, do not come to the show! In Oakland the thug security stole my stove after I had turned it off 20 min earlier. I had to pick it up on Mon from a guy in a polo shirt with a dead logo who told me "If you come to a show you are not a Dead Head. I told him to fuck himself and that I was a LIVE HEAD! Oakland is a lovely place with 250,000 dead heads but by Mon...not a friendly place for van living!

[wolco003]

@freesk8 I know this comment is old...the Authors word are soooooo true! I swear I had seen this guy at about 14 on tour...but it was probably some other family kid. However as to the comment...yes the Grateful Dead were "open source pioneers" they had taper sections exclusively for people tapeing the show...real nice! (they have since gotten greedy about those recordings!!!) And as for the non authorized Dead stuff...nope, they regularly would just gank somebody's living, taking boxes of shirts

[rodge2001]

@karmicsin1 i really appreciate them and i've never seen them in person. it's music. all you need are ears and a sense of adventure. a little herbal refreshment doesn't hurt either.

[rodge2001]

@freesk8 so could a lot of democrats.

[sachingururani]

@TheManolakis

1)Believe in 'Reality' and 'Practicality' and never bother to change things.

2)Never try anything new in this life, be happy in the limited existence you live.

3)Believe in the supernatural being whom you have never seen, never feeled, never heard,because your Mamma used to.

4)Never understand the story behind the words.

5)Be born, grow, get a job .Die. Be forgotten. Never live.

Open your eyes. Or rather, open your ears, 'brother'. Listen carefully, the songs speak to you.