Gary Greenberg | The band was the high priest
“it was not just a concert. It was a place of worship. The band was the high priest, the songs the liturgy, the dancing the prayer, the audience the congregation. Out of these simple ingredients we created a tradition and enacted a ritual that was at once entirely familiar and thoroughly mysterious.” Gary Greenberg (Describes the Grateful Dead concerts as “A PLACE OF WORSHIP.” | Not Fade Away: The Online World Remembers Jerry Garcia, p. 42) [“The Grateful Dead embody not only the cultic potentials historically inherent in rock ‘n’…