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Wow. You guys are old. I'm just turning 39 tomorrow. I didn't see my first GD show till 06/84 at Riverbend in Cincy, so I'm only at 21 years Dead. A show that changed my life to be sure.
Love and Dance
Widespread Patrick
Widespread Patrick
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Sent: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:02:43 -0400
Subject: Re: [thejellyfish] 25 Years Ago Today
Cool post Miko, this year represents my 25th also. It has indeed been a long and strange, yet wonderful trip. Thanks for being here....thanks to all of you.
Peace,
Randy
Randy
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Sent: Wed, 4 May 2005 07:43:30 EDT
Subject: [thejellyfish] 25 Years Ago Today
Flash back to the evening of 3 May 1980. I was working as a busboy at my cousin's seafood restaurant in Pikesville, Maryland. The Grateful Dead were staying at the Pikesville Hilton, where they always stayed. The road crew, including Ramroad and Parish, came in for dinner. It was a quiet evening and I got to get talking to them. I was asked if I was going to the show the next day. I said that I did not have a ticket. I was told no problem, they took my name and told me to be at will call the next day at 6 pm. My father was in the music business then and I asked him what he thought. He said go (a decision my mom faults him for to this day-tee hee). There were two tickets with my name on them with a little note thanking me for the hospitality. That began a transition that lives on today.
I saw the band that evening at the Baltimore Civic Center and I was hooked. They were the band beyond description and from my small view in the middle of the floor section, I was truly seeing the beginning of the rest of my life. Jerry still had hair, more black than gray, Mickey had a mustache and Brent was still young and full of vigor. Gone are those days but they are etched into my memory for ever.
There are not enough volumes out there to say what I would need to say on how the GD impacted my life. I am the man I am today because of that experience. Yes, it was a band, but the phenomena around it was so much greater. In sum, I got a sense of community, of living -communing in unity, of compassion, of learning what a real network means, and how out of no where I could get shown the light in the strangest of places when I looked at it right. (Thanks Hunter). Most importantly, I, like the sages before me (the Psalmist David, all the post Africa slaves who brought us gospel) learned that I could get high on music and go to that special place I call GOD. I used to use drugs to get to this nirvana, now it is so much better with out.
Literally almost everyone of you receiving this email have been to a show with me somewhere in this great US of A. We met because I had this early experience with the Grateful Dead. We have danced, laughed, cried. We have shared some profound losses and there are some of the special people that are not here with us anymore. Fortunately, we had many more winning experiences. More importantly, we grew together. For me, I first saw the GD as a high school junior. I have gone on to college, graduate school, law school, became licensed and have flourished as a lawyer. You all have had similar experience. See, in spite of what the naysayers said, WE DID make it. There are some many personal triumphs I can attest to bearing witness to in many of your collective lives. The common thread is we shared a musical experience, a way of life and all that much more.
I have carried on what the GD gave us. I became involved in my community as did you. I learned to give and also to receive. I learned to listen and be there when called.
I have seen a lot of America because I got wonderlust from traveling with this rogue circus. To this day, I still combine seeing live music on the road with a vacation, where I really enmesh myself in the town I am visiting. The GD opened my love for other jambands and because of it, we have traveled together, stayed in each other's homes, and eaten in some greasy spoon somewhere in the middle of America in the middle of the night. Man, it does not get any better than that.
So what began 25 years ago today, I hope will stay with me for ever. I still hope for the day when I can get in the car and go out for a road trip. Life on life's terms surely has changed that some. And when I do, I know that you all will be there with open arms, wide smile and a new story, a new adventure and FURTHER . . .
Thank you Jerry, Bobby, Mickey, Phil, Billy and Brent for setting this all in Motion. Actually thank you brother Adam for making me listen to Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Live Dead, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been and Skeleton's Closet back in 1974 when we were mere lads. Thank you Jim Buckingham for giving me my nickname MIKO at college in 1982, after one of our daily parking lot GD listening sessions. Thank you all for welcoming this experience that I would not change in a life time.
Humbly and Gratefully,
Michael L. "Miko" Steinberg, Esq
4 May 2005
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