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Jerry Garcia, On “What It Means To Be A Deadhead”

“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.”