deadcommandments

09/27/2026

"See here how everything lead up to this day."

Black Peter is sung from a deathbed. A man is given one more day, and from inside it he turns to his friends: "see here..."

Hunter wrote the song as "a jumpy little tune." Garcia slowed it to "a mournful tempo" - and only then did Hunter write the bridge this line lives in.

Everything. The turns you called right, the turns you called wrong. At the end the verdicts fall away, and only the seeing is left - the whole road, leading here.

One way to hear it: the last day and the first day are the same day. The sacred was never scheduled.

Commandment XI of XIII. Two remain.

08/08/2026

08/02/2026

07/28/2026

"If you get confused, listen to the music play." 🌹

Hunter sits this lyric at the end of a verse about a bell that may only ring once, and a watch kept over you day and night.

When you get lost, he does not send you to the bell. He sends you to the music - the one that has never stopped.

Notice what he does not say. Not look. Not see. When you are confused, sight has already failed you. But you can still hear.

Hearing does not require clarity. The music has been playing under the thinking the whole time.

Commandment IX of XIII. Set Two continues.

What has the music been trying to say to you all along? 👇

07/22/2026

"Keep on dancing." 🌹

The verse this lyric sits inside is stranger than it looks:

No one's noticed, but the band's all packed and gone. Was it ever here at all? But they keep on dancing.

The band leaves. The dancers keep dancing.

Earlier in the same song, Barlow writes it plain:

the music plays the band.

The musicians are the instrument. The music was always playing them. There is nowhere it is not.

The commandment is not dance while things are good. It is let it dance you.

Commandment VIII of XIII. Set Two begins here.

Where is the music playing you right now? 👇

01/11/2026

- Thank you for the life you lived and shared with the world. 🙏⚡♥️

You control the weather and it Looks like Rain. Our landscape is empty.

12/26/2025

Sleep in the stars sweet Brian Tenzin 💫. Thank you for shining your special unique light here.

08/08/2025

A few shots from GD60. It was beautiful being with you all and turning SF on its head. NFA ♥️⚡💙

08/04/2025

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07/30/2025

60 Years Grateful Dead Holographic Sticker
5"x6.6"

Somewhere In San Francisco - 60 Years!

There are many treasures in this design:

A brand new cresent moon with the spiral light of Venus.

A Jerry moon (I'd rather be with you)

Bertha sitting on the 710 house steps looking at the moon bathed in a shaft of light

Naked pole guy

Spinners grooving in the front of the house joined by 'Dancing with the Dead - Rosie McGee'

Jay Blakesberg snapping band and fan pics from the house

And other treasures.

Artwork by L5Dezign