Parking Lot Report: Grateful Dead "Fare Thee Well"

[@Terscheckii-zm6lt]

Seeing that peace sign in the sky immediately brought back that parking lot memory for me. A few hours before the first show, was walking between the golf course and the stadium lot and we look up to this giant peace sign over everyone. I got a free ticket basically exactly where that girl got hers too. And the rainbow at the end while playing Brokedown Palace....whoa. What am amazing time and place....I'll never forget.

[@MrForestExplorer]

OMG, man these heads look gnarly. I love and will always love the Grateful Dead and their fans, the Heads. I am a proud Deadhead. First show 1994.

[@guywoodhouse4684]

wow a real vet eh????"?

[@MegaBoog1]

I was there both nights, sounded great, so much fun, great experience and a perfect last Grateful Dead adventure in my life. Been going to shows since 84', this one was good for the soul.

[@michaelberes93]

The music NEVER stops

[@VivaLaSocialismo]

Just more proof that you can never replicate what has already happened.

[@chasecarter1170]

Why would you ever want to replicate the past? It was never about replication, nobody is trying to do that man. That ain't what it's about.

[@rollingstone]

The Grateful Dead are celebrating their 50th anniversary and returned to their roots for a pair of hometown Bay Area shows in Santa Clara, California. Rolling Stone visited the parking lot to survey the scene.

[@CharlenePowellthree24]

Cool

[@tutonehcc]

Really cool

[@brianmaney1973]

Been lost ever since the Dead died.... No place for us to go anymore....

[@joergie6008]

I’ve Never missed Parking Lots so Much

[@64kraut]

I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972.

[@sandalnice3333]

My brother saw dead and co at the Hollywood bowl on Halloween

[@ozrics62]

First show Rainbow Theatre Finsbury Park London 1981

[@tyleranderson7636]

More power to em.

[@rhardee8]

groovy man..i get high watching these people and all the love they have man....

[@jamestownvirginia8463]

My first was 1974 and talked with Jerry at the hotel in Philadelphia. Peace to all. The captain tried.

[@Peacekpr4]

I in my 50s now, Jerry has been gone 23 years. Damn, time is just a trip in the blink of an eye.

[@elizabethowens8548]

Jeff Hahn. Me too

[@vagueplacebusiness8026]

why are peoole so mad at young heads for rejecting the materialistic culture mainstream new age music tries to force unto them. i think older heads should be happy as its an opportunity to share your vast dead knowledge and love for the music.

[@jimbailey5681]

Because we like people who bathe

[@tg-rl3ul]

Twice a day. Eat me lmao

[@DeadShotFPS0215]

All I can say is that I’ve been a dead head since I was born, and the thing about being a deadhead is that I see so many young people who aren’t deadheads wearing dead stuff and honestly Jerry Garcia was a simple Man plan some of the best jams imaginable, just let the music live on, and let the youth decide for themselves life is life viva la musica

[@stephenmahon6714]

1st show was Englishtown NJ 1977 , 40 yrs ... 9/3/17🍻🍀🥃

[@charlesnolan7602]

ROLLING STONE BLOWS!

[@done1675]

It wasn't always that way.

[@antimurphy8212]

😂

[@matthewburris769]

Just us kids in the parking lot Out here givin' it all we got We don't want to get old and die And there ain't nothing we wouldn't try Just us kids hangin' out today Watchin' our long hair turnin' gray Not so skinny maybe not so free Not so many as we used to be" James McMurtry

[@jambandfreak1]

Got on the bus in 92 and felt like I was home like the head was referring to. Didn't ever want to get off after that.

[@jordanwilbert_]

Damn you barely missed Brent 😢

[@jambandfreak1]

@jordanwilbert_ I know right! Almost had a chance to see them in 87 but it didn't happen. Prior to that I didn't know about them.

[@MyNameIsGhost]

at first I thought the guy at 2:28 was Tommy Chong until they showed who was actually speaking

[@jadenbraaten7562]

Me too

[@WileECoyotey]

I was there sitting across the street on top of a parking lot . It sounded good .

[@dapablo2]

All the way from the UK to a handful of grass from the backpack of the "there's never been a show like this man", thanks again geezer. :)

[@mikegraham1471]

i held my breath watching this

[@Jordan__Sloan]

When your self worth is wrapped up in how many shows you’ve been to and if you’ve seen Jerry or not, that’s a bit sad.

[@littlebigman2947]

finding the way home.

[@JJ-us5kr]

And the moral of this story is "stay in school."

[@antimurphy8212]

Fuckin cool vibes...Wish I was there. Damn

[@BigHeartNoBS]

Oooh I was at this show! 🌹🌈✨

[@yojimboeastwood5602]

Feel like these people just dressed up for the interview

[@josephgraham1075]

Now we are joining to have a movie about Jerry Garcia! I'm looking forward to seeing it, so and sister's on Maui. I'll pay your ways into the movie. That how much I looking forward to it coming out.... I love you all

[@Jordan__Sloan]

Does he smoke black tar through the whole thing?

[@jam3407]

i just bought this outfit at forever 21 and i cant wait for Casey jones

[@josephgraham1075]

Them parking lots did become home. I miss and love each and everyone that would remember me from 88 - 94 It's your brother Puck! I miss my family, so come to Maui that where I would more family in one spot and we all get together every Friday and Sunday. Goggle party on Little Beach on Maui Drum cycle fire dancing all on a nude beach. I wear my clothes unless I'm swim Check it out because it the closest place to the show as I've been able to find. GDF is Built To Last and NFA (~)};=/

[@bigbossman7991]

Band didn’t want you all there in the lot, “believe it or not”.

[@biegs28]

0:59 math is hard..

[@franklansino9805]

this whole culture around the Dead is so goofy. Thank god we have the records.

[@petarticinovic2710]

Garcia was probably happy to get away from this in 1995.

[@guywoodhouse4684]

100% and this is NOT the grateful dead. funny...the "vet" deadheads were people from 1990 & 1994 ! lol. so glad to have stayed away from this shit show !

[@johnnypools6971]

LOL.

[@guywoodhouse4684]

@What Are You On About thats the sad part....this is NOT the grateful dead..or didnt u know that? is it all the same to you and your participation trophy generation? whre nobody is allowed to point out differences o r explain some things are real and some are not...that the REAL GD ended in 1995and is not the same as dead & co or phil and friends or jrad or "fish" or any other lame ass jamband bullshit....this was crap for those who never had the real thing

[@joeibrahimi6009]

Can some one please put up vids and photos of fans,such as 1965 1990 so on and so forth . Miss c.n. All the kids from tour of 1990. Wish l could c. Them again,great friends,awesome souls. Miss December ,star,willow,robia,QAYZAR,David grey, shiann,and bout a1000 more.

[@littlebigman2947]

familey together. lost sheep alone.

[@overkill7990]

Grateful Dead died with Jerry. They should have kept calling it The Other Ones.

[@joelcormier273]

Highgate Vermont Jerry late 90s

[@stefanrandall8345]

Saw dead first time July 1988 Sullivan stadium Boston.

[@CornThaddieusThy3rd]

Crazy how egotistical people are being by saying that all the young people who show up to the cover shows are posers.

[@freeway9437]

It was my first show but not my last

[@Jazzywazz]

Live streams???

[@MrSpankee02]

I tried to get tix and failed.saw my first GD show in 84 when I was 14. (Rochester,ny) I was younger than the 2 sexy blonde girls when I first saw Jerry. But while fare the well was happening in Chicago, I was having a wonderful day with my wife at the Tragically Hip show in Canadaigua NY,at CMAC,

[@marcosluna7792]

HELL YEAH!

[@Richvids48]

wookies yo

[@jakeelliott781]

This is the shit that makes real deadheads look bad

[@22hogfan94]

How so? Seem like a bunch of cool cats to me

[@paulrush4545]

RIGHT AND WHO IS THAT CREEPY CHIC AT THE INTRO WITH THAT KID. CREEPY

[@veek.6463]

That's funny I had been seeing the Grateful Dead much longer than these folks and frankly look like could Be their daughter. My secret? 6 hours a day dead or Jerry band. Kept me young, spun, and filthy rich.

[@JACKDSKIMBOARDS1]

how many WOOKS?

[@Travis-pf3gt]

I want to go home. ✌

[@IndieAuriemma]

christ....its gone to shit with Jerry gone.

[@thepredsrule]

kool.....but my jgb and Jerry dead tour shows far better. jerry forever now jamming with pig pen and Brent there's a show.

[@johnstallings4049]

Y'all Cray 😜

[@ThisIsReadyMade]

People were just there to be "cool." I feel like they don't know "Terrapin Station" or any of the songs that aren't always played

[@bridgmjm]

I got that feeling too.

[@elizabethowens8548]

Don't be like those self rightious holier than though reich wing Christians. Let them learn with love

[@pistolp21]

some of the kids are posers prolly couldnt even tell u 1 dead album name... or even song.

[@22hogfan94]

Hey man theyre willing to hop on the bus. No need for the headier than thou bs. Teach em!

[@LucyLennon20]

Weir Everywhere 😎✌️

[@mojohinson1540]

It's like the grateful dead only it fucking sucks

[@alexcastro7339]

Q: What do Deadheads say when the drugs wear off? A: What is this terrible music?

[@alexcastro7339]

@Ryan Zoerner Lol....I rephrased it so that's not an issue...👽

[@billloman3151]

The Grateful Dead ceased to exist on August 9, 1995. If you disagree, you are wrong. This isnt an opinion, its a fact.

[@jaiguru9538]

Nothing more juvenile than a person who insists his opinion is a fact. The FACT is that it's THEIR band, and not yours or mine. That means THEY get to decide what is and is not the Grateful Dead. You don't have to like it, but you do have to live with it. Grow up, kid.

[@anthonyrodriguez8194]

Me at 1:07 dread heads are deadheads

[@larry6215]

This was not a Grateful Dead show. The last Grateful Dead show was in 1995. This was a money grab, the music was awful, the whole thing was just wrong and the lot was just posers

[@childrenoftheabzu]

there are dead heads now whose grandparents were heads. Too bad that the culture is dead and those younger heads who get it will never get to experience how real, vibrant, microcosmic of the world, and anarchistic it was. Kids today have a romanticism version, it was violent and dangerous along with the love; again a microcosm of the world. The rainbow culture has turned to shit too. i guess every generation has that old man bitching about how great it use to be but damit it is my turn now. I toured with jerry and the boys for years and watched it decline like rome but I never thought it would get this bad. tthe scene in general not as depicted in this vid. It is now mainstream and us freaks are left looking around like ; why are all these people we have been avoiding for years everywhere on shakedown st". Again, it is my turn to rant and I dont care about its lack of coherancy, I like being all over the place. Anyway, the scene is dead and we cant hide in the woods with the rainbows because that is dead too. Im more sad today than when jerry died because as long as the culture surronding the dead lived so did a piece of him. I saw a vouge article giving advice about how one should dress on tour. Picking out a tour wardrobe is so rediculous I cant even begin to describe my disgust. We toured on dolla grill cheese and 2 dolla hits of L. And we shared it all. How do cell phone cams work on shakedown st? Do these kids film the incriminating events that go on there? This is not a " in my day it was so much better" rant.

[@childrenoftheabzu]

But the fact is the culture has been assimilated into the mainstream and it is dead. Fare thee well for real, you whitewashed "deadheads". Go home the party is over. and the rest of the band is just cashing in on their legacy. It is their right to do so it just sucks as a fan to watch what has happened and is still happening and will continue to happen. wonder when the flavor of the month changes there will be enough left of our culture to put it back together again and the kids wont pick up too ,many dirty babylon habits. Even though the older heads did pick up some such as capitalism. A plant, powder, or gas or whatever substance is not a means for social advancement especially in a culture against a hierarchy based on materials. yes im looking at you nitrous mafia and the slinger kids who are just about that and not the love dancing and music

[@marshgray9998]

Im 17 and as much as I regret never being able to see Jerry live or be able to experience the grateful dead at an earlier time, I went to a Dead & Company concert june 20th this year annd I have to say I've never felt so accepted and free than any other time in my life. Ive always been a very shy person, always felt not safe or felt judged, but at the concert I felt free. I'm not saying it is the same as when you were young and in the heat of it, but I dont think the scene is lost. I loved it and plan on seeing them live again in the future.

[@marshgray9998]

I get what you're saying, I'm just saying as a younger kid in a different generation, I think I feel the same way you did when you were young. The situation migght be different, and the world is different too, but the way I felt at that concert leads me to beleive that the feeling you all loved during the grateful dead times is still alive with dead & co. Yes john mayer isnt jerry and to be honest I don't like his singing very much but he is a great successor to jerry and he is phenomenal at playing guitar. Absolutely loved the show.

[@TheRedbull101]

Sorry but you're dead wrong man. I just got off this summer tour and it was my first one ever, I've been wanting to tour since I could walk being that my Dad shared his love of the Dead with me at a young age. I can tell you that from seeing the Deadheads from all over the country that in 2017, the dream is still there. Sure their may be more people that look a little more clean cut than in the past, but not everyone has to be a wook to be a true 'head'. Most of the people who you're referring to that you "avoided for years" are people who toured and then went to college and got jobs and are bringing their kids back to experience the music. Not hating on the tour life at all because I have now lived it once and it will definitely happen again, but life needs purpose and even Bobby and some of the other guys said that at some point it is good to move on from that life. Even the people who moved on though are continuing to spread the love of the music and the love of the community that the Dead created. I saw multiple people crying their eyes out on tour hearing certain songs that they haven't heard in years like 'Brokedown Palace' or 'Ripple' that touched deep down into some aspect of their life and that is a testament that the joy is still there in the music. Sure it ain't Jerr, but it's all us young heads will ever have of the music, and it's still pretty damn good. Keep an open mind and give it a chance, I think if you're anything like the old head skeptics I met on tour, you'll be very surprised! PPMD

[@robsgirl6465]

children of the atomic tide born of the absu : Nothing lasts forever. It's a fact of life.

[@FoFrx]

Too bad this was a weak rendition of the real thing. If you missed it you didnt.

[@doobisu4272]

Somebody didnt take enough blotter

[@FoFrx]

i stick with liquids but that was 20 years ago

[@veek.6463]

Blotter? Haha. Yeah sure man. Geeze.

[@TheChucnoris]

Money grab

[@wendysboyz5658]

Real glad I didn't see any of these people when I was there

[@veek.6463]

"Saw Jerry in 1994 in Denver"- that's it? Really? You didn't go to California after that? Just one night? You look plenty old enough to have gone yourself so why didn't you? It's not enough to see a show at a cattle barn with horrible acoustics/ why not go on to the Pulpit? Makes no sense. Where do you dig these people up Rolling Stone? There are plenty of people who have seen hundreds of shows. Oh. Yeah. Like me they were at Church communing with Garcia- not at this dog and pony show

[@jaiguru9538]

More headier than thou horseshit.

[@elizabethowens8548]

Jai Guru. Exactly. Acting like bitter old fox news watching geezers