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Grateful Dead Conversation

while I was out: when I

was not there

Joe: Hey, did Tim call while I was out ?

Kristin: No, he didn’t, why?

wanted to run by me:

wanted to tell me about

Joe: Well, he told me he had an idea he wanted to run by me . So, uh, I figured he

might’ve called.

Kristin: What, what’s the idea?

on the road: traveling

Joe: Uh, well, he’s actually thinking about writing a book about, uh, the time he spent

on the road with the Grateful Dead .

Grateful Dead: an

American rock and roll

band

Kristin: Oh, that would be a great topic for a book. You know, whenever you speak

to me about the Grateful Dead, I’m all ears .

I’m all ears: I am

listening

look back on: to think

about something that has

happened

Joe: Yeah, I mean, I, when I look back on the years I spent following them around,

jeez, I, I followed ‘em all over the place. But, I mean, that was some of the most fun

I’ve ever had in my life I think.

Kristin: I can imagine.

Joe: I mean, y’know, first off, y’know, they’re my favorite band.

Kristin: Right.

drew (me) to the scene:

made me interested in

something

Joe: And, uh, second, the other thing that really drew me to the scene was the fact

that there was just this traveling, uh, group of people that followed them everywhere.

It was like, almost like a bazaar sort of…

Kristin: Mm-huh…

Joe: …y’know…

Kristin: …mm-huh…

subculture: small part of

a large group

Joe: …and…

Kristin: Well, it’s definitely a subculture of America.

cult: a group of people

who has strong beliefs

about something

Joe: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean some people even called it a cult [laugh] y’know…

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Kristin: [laugh]

hippie(s): person

(people) with long hair

Joe: And, uh, it was so unique at the time, uh, y’know.... Because there really wasn’t

anything else like it. I mean you had all these hippies driving around, following the

band from city to city. And, uh, y’know, when you’re on the road driving from one

place to the next, you’d see the same people. You’d see the same cars, all these VW

buses drivin’. And, uh, y’know, uh, people supported themselves, uh, by, uh, selling

things in the parking lots at the concerts.

Kristin: Mm-huh.

defray: to pay for

Joe: Like, a lot of people would like make jewelry and sell it. A lot of people would

sell, uh, clothes that they made, um.... Another, uh, favorite amongst people was to,

uh, just, uh, sell beer or to make food. And that’s what I actually did a lot of the times.

I’d make sandwiches or I’d sell beer in order to help, y’know, defray the cost of the

tickets.

Kristin: Uh-huh.

Joe: Because it could get a little expensive, y’know.

Kristin: Right.

Joe: But, y’know, the other strange thing is that you’d have this, like large circus

traveling essentially following the band. And it was all these, like, hippies. People

with like really long hair and beards and like, y’know.... Really sometimes like people

who hadn’t like showered for days. Because they were just traveling with the,

y’know…

Kristin: Yeah.

Joe: …around, following the band.

Kristin: Yeah.

Joe: Because, you know, especially during the summer, you’d just stay at

campgrounds, y’know? So you’d camp and they might not have a shower, y’know…

Kristin: Right [laugh].

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Joe: I remember like, so many times washing my hair, like, under a, y’know, a faucet

in a sink of a bathroom. Or, y’know, under a hose somewhere [laugh].

Kristin: [laugh]

Joe: And having someone help me because, y’know, I had the long hair.

Kristin: [laugh]

travel around: go from

one place to another

place

Joe: Oh man, and, uh, y’know the other thing is, you’d travel around. And

sometimes be driving through these really small conservative towns. And you can

just imagine what it must have been like from their standpoint. I mean they see these

people who don’t look anything like them. I mean…

conservative : people

who do not like change

Kristin: Right.

clean-cut: short hair and

dressed nicely

Joe: …they’re all clean-cut looking, these people who live in this town. And then

you have this pack of like, looks like bohemian gypsies …

bohemian gypsies:

traveling artists

Kristin: Uh-huh.

Joe: …traveling through town.

Kristin: Yeah, that’s a good description.

cops: police

Joe: Y’know, so, y’know a lot of the times the cops in the town would hassle you.

Y’know…

Kristin: Oh, I’m sure.

Joe: …for no good reason, y’know.

jump to conclusions: to

decide something without

knowing about it

Kristin: Yeah.

Joe: I think that they would just suddenly jump to conclusions about, y’know, what

you were doing. Because you look different than them, y’know. They were totally like

judging the book by its cover .

judging the book by its

cover: deciding what

something is like by how

it looks

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Kristin: Right.

Joe: So, um, yeah but, oh my gosh, y’know.... When I look back on those times, I

just met so many people. I mean sometimes I would meet somebody. And like, say

the middle of the country like Kansas, right?

Kristin: Uh-huh.

run into: to unexpectedly

see someone

Joe: And then, like, a year or two later, I’d be, say, in Seattle. And I’d run into the

same people…the same person.

it’s (such) a small

world: said when you are

surprised to see another

person you know at a

place you did not expect

to see them

Kristin: Oh my god, it’s such a small world , huh?

Joe: Yeah, I know. But that was another great thing. Like I met so many people and

became such good friends with so many of those people. They’re, some of these

people are like my closest friends to this day, like Tim. Y’know?

Kristin: Yeah.

Joe: So it was really something that, uh, it was like a community, y’know.

bonding experience:

something that makes

people become closer

Kristin: I was going to say, too, it’s a very, it sounds like it was a very bonding

experience .

deadhead: a fan of the

music band the Grateful

Dead

Joe: Oh, yeah, totally. Like it’s funny, if you’re a deadhead and you meet another

deadhead, it’s like.... There’s just like, uh, almost, a hidden language that you speak.

Kristin: [laugh]

rabid fans: people who

really like something are

‘rabid fans’ of it

Joe: Y’know, it’s crazy. And, y’know, the, the, the fans were such rabid fans . I

mean, y’know, a lot of deadheads.... The only music they would listen to was the

music of the Grateful Dead.

Kristin: Wow. I could see why people would think that was a bit cultish.

Joe: Yeah, totally.

follow through (with

something): to do

(something)

Kristin: Well, do you think that, um, Tim will actually follow through with writing this

book?

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your guess is as good

as mine: I do not know

Joe: I don’t know, your guess is as good as mine . Y’know, he can be a flake

sometimes.

flake: someone who says

they will do something but

then decides not to do it

Kristin: Yeah, I know.

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