Steve Silberman on what Grateful Dead shows were like in 1974

deadhead scene to me seemed to be slightly rough you know there were a lot of bikers around you know now that the words Grateful Dead have become associated with dancing bears and jar bear and tiedye and TS and you know no The Grateful Dead you know the the phrase Grateful Dead you know in 1974 it was supposed to scare the so you know like people would people who didn't know what their music was like would think that it was like some kind of Death Metal B whatever but uh you know so it was it was it was pretty rough [Music]