Once repulsed by the band’s music, fans, and hippie iconography—at the lowest point of my life, I got on the bus and never looked back, writes Anthony Fisher.
wrote a Substack essay last year about how he went from a lifetime of loathing the Dead to falling in love with their music as “an antidote to pandemic malaise” in his mid-forties.
But it’s this passage from Gilbreath that really nails the experience: “Embracing The Dead in mid-life revealed a lot about myself philosophically, too—my old, stifling ideas, my blind spots, and how much I shared with the very same hippies I wanted to loathe.”explained the appeal of becoming a late-in-life Deadhead: “it does offer a tremendous opportunity for seemingly endless discovery.
Over the past seven years, I’ve seen more than 30 “Dead” shows of various iterations, and have even flown on a plane to get to some of them.
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