The Ecstastic Soul of The Grateful Dead

And so we went to the July 4th Fare Thee Well concert. The Ecstastic Soul of The Grateful DeadThe Grateful Dead, even without Jerry Garcia, played with heart and inspiration.The Ecstastic Soul of The Grateful DeadThe sound was almost as great as was the feeling of being back at a show, that feeling of ecstatic calm, where it seems there is nowhere else ever to be, just in the music, surrounded, like a child, soothed, where everything else turns off, except thinking about what they might play next. The Ecstastic Soul of The Grateful DeadIt is a precious, precarious thing that, now gone, has left me melancholy, thinking that they have to do it again – just one more, man –  where they just yet might get into a Lazy Lightning-El Paso-Supplication jam.The Ecstastic Soul of The Grateful Dead