The Grateful Dead and Synchronicity? 💀🎸🗲

My Grateful Dead keyring (centre)

When it comes to the Grateful Dead, I guess that I'm just a 'touch head' instead of a 'dead head', because I've never done acid or been to a GD live concert (I've never been outside of Australia until this year, barring New Zealand in 1977).

Touchhead?

I just like their music, but don't love it, like I do Bruce Springsteen's, John Lennon's or Peter Gabriel's.

Turtles, Australia Zoo and The Grateful Dead?

The Grateful Dead sticker on my windscreen

I have had a Grateful Dead sticker on the last 3 cars I have owned and when some people see it they ask me if I'm a dead head and I used to say that I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a dead head, but now I know that dead heads would say that I'm a touch head instead.

Fair enough, I guess.

I have to admit that it was more their artwork, than their music that drew me to them as musicians.

I do own a lot of Grateful Dead CDs, but only play them very occasionally.

Season 1: Episode 8

I wrote recently about listening to this podcast episode above in this post -

Jung and the Post-Human Age? 🤖📱

Introducing Dead and Gone

While Season 1: Episode 8 is a good episode to listen to about the subject of synchronicity, the overall two seasons of 'Dead and Gone' finishes in a dead end with a few lines from a Grateful Dead song called 'New Speedway Boogie' - "Things went down we don't understand But I think in time we will ... One way or another This darkness got to give".

In that Season 1: Episode 8 there are some really interesting "strange things happen"/synchronicity stories surrounding the Grateful Dead and especially band member Robert Hunter (who passed away on mine and Bruce Springsteen's birthday in 2019).  

Jake Brennan is a good storyteller, whether or not his stories, or the ones written for him to tell, are true or not.

DisGraceland is another of Jake Brennan's podcasts that I recently found with some interesting stories about the music industry and its personalities.

DisGraceland:
Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

The latest two episodes of DisGraceland are about the Grateful Dead I see:-)

Grateful Dead Pt. 1:
Freedom's Just Another Word for…

Kinda funny how Jake starts off that part 1 episode above with a Charles Manson quote and that Jerry Garcia died on August 9th, 1995 (the anniversary of the Manson Murders). 
Coincidence/synchronicity?

The Grateful Dead Pt. 2:
The Ballad of Pigpen and Old,
Weird America—an Origin Story

Keep on Truckin' Jake.

Life's a journey, not a destination:-)