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Er der ikke flere gange blevet sået tvivl om troværdigheden omkring hele "thumbprint" historien?
Den er svær at verificere, men der er vist ikke nogen tvivl om at er er blevet taget nogle gigantiske doser LSD i miljøet omkring The Grateful Dead igennem tiden. Phil Lesh (bassist i Grateful Dead) beskriver selv en dosis i thumbprint-størrelse i sin selvbiografi. Historien bag det såkaldte "Apple Juice Set", hvor flere af folkene omkring The Grateful Dead drak af en krukke æblejuice med en uhyrlig mængde LSD i, er også blevet bekræftet af flere forskellige.
Phil Lesh skriver bl.a. følgende om den koncert, de spillede på den thumbprint-lignende dosis:
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...Somehow, I don't know how, we managed to start playing: It was if the music was begin sung by gigantic dragons on the timescale of plate tectonics; each note seemed to take days to develop, every overtone sang its own song, each drumbeat generated a new heaven and a new earth. We were seeing and singing the quantum collapse of probability into actuality - it was frightening and exhilarating at the same time. At one point, I looked over at Jerry and saw a bridge of light like a rainbow of a thousand colors streaming between us; and flowing back and forth across that bridge: three dimensional musical notes-some swirling like the planet Jupiter rotating at 100 times normal speed, some fuzzy like tennis balls with dozens of legs and feet (each foot wearing a different sock!), some striped like zebras, some like pool balls, some even rectangular or hexagonal, all brilliantly colored and evolving as they flowed, not only the notes that were being played, but all the possible notes that could have been played. That moment may well have been the peak of psychedelic music for me-the combination of absolute inevitability and ecstatic freedom has never been equaled.
Jeg har en optagelse af koncerten liggende, og den er liiidt spøjs. Ét af numrene varer næsten en hel time.
