I have a Grateful Dead Obsession

I love to draw, and I love the Dead.
SO I put them together. I'm 16 years old and can't help but have a passion for them.
Unfortunately kids y age don't much appreciate them because they don't know what real music is, so I decided to share them with you.





I hope someone enjoyed them.

 

Nice!!!!

I was 16 when I first saw the Dead.

Zen

 

I met the guy who drew the very first one.

 

I think too many kids your age like the Grateful Dead.. if youre the only one in your area FLAUNT it, soon people will realize how pimp it is.. happened to me, I was the only kid in school, doin the "hippie thing" I came back 2-3 years later, every kid has a Mandala tye-dye and a Jim Morrison haircut, with all kinds of party supplies in their bags.. The art isnt bad, almost replica

 

I don't love the Dead just to say I do.
I love them because they are genuine musical geniuses.
I only wish I could have seen the great Garcia himself, I've gone to two Furthur shows and saw the Dark Star Orchestra but it's not the same.
I live in a small town and it's a rare occasion if anyone knows who they are when I wear my Dead shirts, only my badass teachers.
I have to fight the urge to punch some Usher listening bastard in the mouth when they come up and ask, "Why are you drawing a bear inside that skull?"

 

I would've loved you when I was your age.

(And I'm not even well versed on the Dead)

 

D'awhz thanks,
Most kids just assume I'm some burnt out pot head.
Half way true except for the fact I'm not some imbecile.
It's always, "Don't ask Amy questions, she's probably too stoned to answer."
But they always stop laughing after the first quarter of the year while I'm on the honor roll and their struggling for marret role.

 

I can't imagine a better obsession to have... You should be proud.

 

It's a good obsession.
And because of it my friend's paying me $80 to paint a steal your face skull on his wall.
4 of my teachers asked me to draw them Dead shit and my art teacher gave me a box of PRISMACOLOR colored pencils (which run for $50 for a 50 piece set)
for free so I can continue doing so.
Of course I just don't make Dead stuff.

 

Stay proud of those academics; that's where I went wrong.

 

Always,
It's sad though that my peers have no belief in the statures I can reach but I could really care less. In the end when they work their dead end jobs I'll be doing something with my life.
It just gets annoying, but it's fun to prove them wrong.
My astronomy teacher painted the way for me to just brush it off, a fellow dead head. One of the most righteous people I've had the pleasure of meeting, a rock climber, photographer, astronomer, and back packer.
We had to write a 4 page minimum medterm paper, I wrote 7.
When he graded them all he put alll the grades up on the board and said, "match the students in the class to the grades."
Someone shouts, "Ski definitely got the 53"
My teacher says, "Actually, Amy's the only one in the class that got a 100."
I just sat there and laughed and stated, "Are you all that stupid? YOU dub me as a burnout hippie loser, how could you think I'd fail at SPACE?"

 

Focus on this part. I became a slacker when I switched to the public schools here, where education was the lame thing (and not even the teachers seemed to value it). And now, even when I do good in my classes, I have a lot of trouble feeling proud of that.

That was really cool of him. I'm doing Astronomy this semester, and can't wait =D

 

I'm looking to finish strong this year, maybe pick up some scholarships.
I'm lucky I live in a small town with one of the highest ranked public schools in Western NY.
I've been lucky to meet some truly inspirational teachers spanning from my history teacher who was always listening to the Dead when I came in in the morning. My favorite person ever maybe, I spent many lunch periods/after school/before school in his room burning him live concerts of the Dead and talking about everything from politics to way back in the day when he was watching the Dead live in Maryland.
I'd bring my acoustic in and jam with my astronomy teacher in the mornings. Ironically we had the exact same guitar, little different stain.
I've been blessed with sweet dead head art teachers that tattoo in their free time, an English teacher who I toked with this summer and because of it I am who I am.

Astronomy was def my favorite. It's a lot to learn and grasp but if you can it's one hell of concept to have under your belt.
All of it's interesting but the theories always had me in awe. Just the fact that we could have blemishes like black holes in the fabric of our spacetime, and the concepts of things like String Theory and the Grandfather Paradox. I stayed after so much to knock more cosmic knowledge out of my teacher.
If you really want to look into it further but don't feel like reading watch a series called The Elegant Universe, it explains the more complex things to a T.

 

Amy

WOW !!!! Is all I can say for now, for it seems you're going to be somebody someday .
It seems you've led a good life so far, & have good inspiration, & hope it gets even stronger as you grow older, & wiser.
Would love to know more of you, & you of me, for we're like minded folks, with a few things in common, drop me a line soon, as I have for you.

Sundance

 

i couldn't agree more!

and yeah those are pretty precise pieces, i like the one with added color and you wrote "The Dead" on it. good stuff


:cheers2: the mother fucking grateful dead

 

D'awhz thanks.
That's the newest, and for my brother
The one who introduced me to them <3

 

It's weird when I was in highschool in small town Maine we had the opposite problem. It became a fad for the Lacrosse team and their suck ups to wear Dead t-shirts. Just imagine a whole crowd of future frat boys of America in tie die. One of my friends and I wanted to stop each kid we saw in the hall in a Greatful Dead T-shirt and ask them to name 3 Dead tunes that weren't Truckin, Touch of Grey, or Casey Jones. One of my friends actually pulled this stunt on a kid (he leaft out the avoid songs) and got the response "Uhhh......(long pause) Truckin......(long pause).....Touch of Grey..........(long pause) Something about a train."

By the way it is good to be smart and really fun to hide it. I am what they call "Gifted but learning disabled." That means that I have a high IQ but don't generally perform well academically. But the fun thing about it is since sometimes people percieve be as an idiot and I can then haul out a lot of big words and make an articulate arguement and they look like a moron because they just got outsmarted by a dude with a beard and ponytail who can recite facts not just blind rhetoric.

So Ami, keep up the good work. And expand beyond just The Greatful Dead.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

Amy grate work, have you been to any shows yet. im also 16 almost 17 next month but there are plenty of heads out there You just gota poke around im seeing furthur in november i also have alot of cool teachers that are headie - Dan

 

I saw Furthur twice, and Dark Star Orchestra whenever they have free shows here, which is once or twice a year.

 

Aha. Yeah, sadly no one at my school really knows or cares to know about the Dead. I like it that way though, makes me get along better with my teachers. Before me there was only a handful of Dead Heads, and those were my brother Joe, and a handful of our mutual friends who introduced me to The Dead.

Also, I don't just do Dead work, http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=406660&f=6