“The Deadhead is that person – wherever they turn up in society – that’s looking for an adventure in America. Something to do that’s not like what everybody else does and a chance to get out and scare themselves a little. We’re one of the last frontiers where you can go out and get scared and have a scary time of it, and maybe have a little trouble, but also find a lot of support and make a lot of friends and that. So, it has its own energy and [Deadheads] carry on quite nicely, even without us. So it’s a sub-society of some kind. I don’t want to call it a counterculture because that’s not really what it is, it’s really an expression of the kind of larger American picture. America as an interesting place to be in.”
Jerry Garcia, On “What It Means To Be A Deadhead”
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