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A Deadhead Since Age Three: When Music Took Hold

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0:00AWhen did you know music was important to you?

0:02BI would say music was important when I was, like, at a young age. I would say, like, I got really into it, listening to all types of genres at, like, the age of 12. I would say I got into hip-hop, rap, dancey music, and then kind of like jam bandy, old You like Phish? Nah, I’m more of a Deadhead.

0:32AI respect that. I respect that. How many times you see them?

0:37BThe Dead?

0:39AYeah.

0:39BUh, I would say my dad took me to them to a show in ’93 in Cali.

0:47AOh yeah.

0:48BBut yeah.

0:49AThat’s sick. How old were you?

0:50BI’m 35.

0:51AI’ll be 36 this Oh yeah, but how old were you when you saw like the Dead?

0:56BOh, 3 years old.

0:57A3 years old?

0:59BYeah.

0:59AI hear it though. Well, your dad was a massive Deadhead then.

1:01BYeah.

1:02AYeah, yeah.

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