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    The Grateful Dead were the movement existentialists were waiting for. The Grateful Dead, starting in San Francisco, we’re a band surrounded with free love and a large quantity of psychedelics. Their band is largest cult band around. Their fans and followings are known as Dead Heads. The Dead used their music to have people come from all over and be themselves. In choosing three different Grateful Dead performances, there is a clear diversity between the three. One performance is in response to police brutality in 1968, the second is a dead show that was happening in San Francisco where they started, and the third is the Grateful Dead in 1985 performing one of their more political songs. Starting with their home performance in 1968, the reason that the Grateful dead IS the Grateful Dead becomes abundantly clear. The crowd is dancing, painting faces, bubbles, the idea of free love and how it was shown through music is plentiful. Of the three performances, this is the most distorted of videos. Through the video, it has…

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    Grateful Dead History

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    over. Whether it’s because they are marginalized as a hippie fad or just that the average person doesn’t stop to consider their impact, the Grateful Dead are rarely brought up when discussing influential music artists. It may not be widely known, but the Grateful Dead were the founding fathers of a whole genre of music, and also had a major role in changing the business practices of music.…

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    Jimi Hendrix Influence

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    enjoy these things and the music to this very day. No other music could make you feel the way psychedelic rock can. It’s as if the music just flows right through your body, taking you to places you’ve never been to inside your mind, and expanding your thoughts. Psychedelic rock had a lot of effect during its hay days, as well as LSD, and the different festivals. The first topic I feel is important to brush upon is LSD in the psychedelic rock scene. Many artists as well as fans took LSD to…

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    1965-1970 Research Paper

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    infamous for its use of psychedelic drugs and bands of “hippies” with their antiestablishment views. The feelings of the 60’s were, in a way, propelled by the music that reinforced their ideas. One of the most iconic “acid rock” bands is The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead had such an amazing following that people would travel with them through they’re whole touring schedule, going to every city they went to hear them play and be a part of The Grateful Dead experience. These people were…

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    Essay On Dual Soul

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    the concept of dual soul. As a Northeast candidate, the custom of Northeastern had a profound effect on me since I was a child. I remember I often heard from my grandma said that when people die, hun soul was leaving the body, and po soul still exists. On the seventh day after the death, hun soul will come back home to take a final look. The living people would prepare a meal and lighting up incense for the hun soul before the hun it came, and then tried to sleep or hide under the quilt to make…

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    click. The song was “I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire” by The Ink Spots, and I felt it belonged with the first section of “Burial Of the Dead”. It is lilting and full of desire and hope.…

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    That’s fine, everyone has their own opinion. However, most people would listen to the tracks and think, “Wow, they put a lot of work into this album,” or, “This band really understands me as a person.” The album is very unique: Some of the things that we lose are mental or physical, and Bad Blood has songs about both. Take “Flaws.” The music video starts with a policeman writing down a report for a dead man (Dan Smith) on the beach; the dead man being covered in a sack beside him. The dead man…

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    way and EDM get together is put together, “‘During the day, organiser would prepare the secret venue… In the evening, via a mobile phone, they’d dial a computer that would record their spoken directions to a special meeting point..Party goers would ring this number to get directions to the meeting point...A member of the Rave organizers would be at the meeting point with instructions on how to get to another one”. (Sylvan 123) Sylvan also explores how the way today’s youth come to find rap music…

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    didn’t speak ill of the dead, especially when the dead were young. When Ashleigh’s grandfather said something about friendship the woman sitting behind Sarah gasped. Not even the celebrant had mentioned Jo directly; he spoke about love and forgiveness, about tragedy. He talked about the risky nature of youth and…

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    The Flowers Analysis Question 5and 3: What do you think is the central point of this story? How might paragraph 5 be described as an example of foreshadowing? The main purpose of this story is to basically tell how the little girl Myop wondered off and saw her too far away from home. When she realize she was too far she began to walk back towards her house then she steps on a dead man face on a mistake. She later then realize that the man got hung by the tree she was around because his head…

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