Trips and Tales — Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead Road Stories—Europe '81 (Russelshiem)

1980s Europe '81 Grateful Dead Road Stories

Grateful Dead Road Stories—Europe '81 (Russelshiem)

Munich to the Walter Köbel HalleRusselshiem, West Germany10.13.81   After recovering from the great show the night before at the Olympiahalle, I made my way from the youth hostel I was staying at in the suburbs of Munich to the main train station, the “Hauptbahnhof”. Wearing my “Relix” shirt I was spotted by a group heads while I was wandering around the station looking for the train to that night's Grateful Dead show at the Walter Köbel Halle in Russelshiem (near Frankfurt). They invited me to travel with them to the show, in a VW camper van, and the plan...

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Grateful Dead Road Stories—Copenhagen '81

1980s Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia

Grateful Dead Road Stories—Copenhagen '81

Grateful Dead Road Stories—Europe '81The ForumCopenhagen10.8.81   I had heard that the Dead were to do a European tour, so I figured out the details, passport, grab a "Lets Go Europe" book, (hey the internet wasn't invented yet!), plane tickets and off I went. I was 22 and went solo! After arriving in Brussels the morning before, I took an overnight train, then a train ferry to get to Copenhagen. I saw all the flags at half staff, I wondered what happened. Saw a newspaper and found out that Anwar Sadat was assassinated… so sad. He was a leader that...

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Grateful Dead - Rainforest Press Conference

1980s Grateful Dead Press Conference

Grateful Dead - Rainforest Press Conference

The day before the Dead’s Madison Square Garden run, there was a press conference held at the United Nations for Rainforest Action Network.

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The band’s last real adventure - Melkweg Club '81

1980s Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia Melkweg Road Stories

The band’s last real adventure - Melkweg Club '81

The highlight of my Grateful Dead “concert career” took place on two nights—October 15-16, 1981—in Amsterdam.

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Turned on and tuned into the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia

Turned on and tuned into the Grateful Dead

I was turned on to Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead in the Fall of 1972 when I was 13 years old.

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