I was a stagehand for Jam Productions at last shows in 95. You guys had the best catering!!!!

Thank you Steve for all your awesome memories........

This is great! Nice one Steve for sharing your amazing stories. For someone like myself who loves the Dead and psychedelia I could sit listening to this stuff all day long lol...

I am fascinated

Big Steve, thank you so much for sharing these intimate stories. Thank you for your teachings. Be well

The best lsd trip i had, we where on train tracks and it was on a very steep hill and there was a tunnel down the hill water would go through, you can look down and see a small pond of water, we would through rocks in it and the ripples would change colors in the sun, it was so beuatiful looking. We sat there throwing rocks for hours. It was a memory i will never forget.

What a gift Big Steve is for everyone. Aloha to you, Big Steve-mahalo nui for sharing your amazing stories! Grateful for this KZfaq channel. One hour every Thursday isn’t enough for the wealth of knowledge you give to us. A hui hou 🤙🏼

So interesting to hear about the formation of the road crew in Episode 1. I guess it's the logical place to begin but also especially interesting to me because not to long ago I wondered how everyone came together. Now, lo and behold, here you are telling the whole story. The Dead have been part of my musical life since 1972 when I first heard them at a friend's older brother's house. Thanks to you and all the crew for your hard work over the years in bringing the band to the people so we could hear them play live. It was always a wonderful experience. By the way - Subscribed!

thanks for starting this relationship with us all, Steve! I was lucky to have lived in Menlo Park from jan '67 until june of '68; having come up from LA, and then back there after. hitchiking up the bayshore into the city, heading to the Haight and Golden Gate Park starting at the tender age of 14; whew! lots of free shows, and the Avalon and Fillmore; you're bringing back a lot of memories.... the bus came by, and I got on....

This is big news! So happy he is making his stories are more accessible 🙏

The story teller makes no choice. His job is to shed light. Exquisite story teller, exceptional memory. Bravo!

Big Steve YOU ARE A NATIONIAL TREASURE!!!! Can you please do a story tour? Hit CT or even NYC I PROMISE to come see you. I look forward to Thursdays drive home every week AND I hope I get to meet you one day.

The part about the tree of life and staring at a😮 oak tree if you’re tripping too hard directly from Bear himself is legendary!!

Thank you 🙏 Brother

Hey Big Steve ,Love your history stories, it’s amazing the detail that you remember, 🌵🌵🌵 peace DW

Man! Love some long form Steve. I do hope all his radio shows get archived. So many great stories.

I met RamRod in 1978 + he put a Greatfuldead sticker on my back Jean jacket ! I still have this now at this time 7/18/2024 !

Love it big Steve 💯

That...was...awesome!!!!!

Great stuff thank you

Big Steve you were Jerry's guy! These stories are incredible. Much love bro

Big Steve, we are all blessed because of your incredible memory and dedication to the impact of this incredible band and crew. Thank you!

Yes. Thank you big dawg. ✌️

Badass Steve. Beginning to build a hard trucker Jerry cab for a buddy in our local JGB/GD band here in Asheville. (Jerry's Dead) Gonna be fun to play with!

You certainly were in the right place at the right time.... And it all started from being kind to a stranger. I love the Grateful Dead, and I love your stories. You sir are a legend. Peace and love always to you and yours. Long live the Grateful Dead!!!

We can't thank you enough for this Big Steve❤

Nice channel Steve/Guys! Toured a lot with the GD in the 80s Been in a lot of dead cover bands. These are stellar stories!!!

Great first show, Big Steve…Look forward to many more in the future !!! 🌈☮️🌈

I met Owsley at the Green Peace table in Hampton…90? Something

Big Steve! You're the best my man... so happy to have this opportunity to hear you share your memories... thanks and blessings...

My dad also rose to the top of the teamsters working for Transcon trucking company. He was diehard until the early 90s when he figured out Hoffa let the mob steal everyone’s pensions. He also knew how to grease the palms of people in power & got my brother out of a long prison sentence for dealing. Edit: he got him a 2 year sentence (do 1) down from 15 years. He got busted at the Dead show at Deer Creek Indiana in 1995.

Big Steve!! I heard about your KZfaq show just today listening to your weekly Big Steve hour. Nice to have another dose of your wit and wisdom and storytelling. Best wishes

There are so many stories I'm looking forward to hearing. Really excited about this podcast. How does Rick Turner fit into the Alembic story? Somebody posted a Macintosh 2300 amp for sale on facebook a couple of years ago, claiming it was used at Watkins Glen in '73. Turner weighed in on the pic, saying that if there were no serial numbers on it it could well be authentic, because the five that Janet Furman pulled off the line that day at Macintosh hadn't been stamped with serial numbers as yet and that had never happened at Macintosh before. The story of Janet's trip by helicopter that morning is legendary, also.

I was cleaning Mike Hagen's storage trailer out a couple years ago so I can put a few things in there (still there, I hope) and found his brother Johnny Hagen's stash of stuff (I have a video of it). Including a set of original Herb Greene photos of Jerry and Pigpen, and unused backstage passes, and a bunch of great stuff. Mike was prankster #0, as deep in the history as you can get, and a sweet guy. Still lives up on the hill and has rather epic stories.

Thanks for starting this channel and taking us on this journey with you! So awesome!!🎉❤⚡️💙

You guys changed the history of the world in so many ways. Please tell us more of these awesome stories! Thank you. I give thanks to the universe to have been around for 14 straight years of Dead shows.

Thanks Big Steve for doing this. I love all the background history. All wee need is love..... and kindness ❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you dearly for doing this⚡️💀🪶

Big Steve I had binoculars and my fav thing to do was watch the crew put things together and the placement design to fit the room was fascinating. Audio you guys were tops. Hear y'all was like the quality of the sound would draw you in. The clarity was so appealing. I was 16 when I saw The Wall. I'm 67 now... Thanks for all you do

Thanks for starting this channel Steve. I only saw the Dead once, Wembley Oct 30 1990, but it changed my life!

Love THIS ! I approve of this message !

I saw The Grateful Dead at Duke but first the Philadelphia Spectrum.

Thank You Big Steve ✌🏼 Awesome ! 😎💯 ❤love it!

Thank you Big Steve!! Nothing short of the preservation of a vitally important history that is a cornerstone of culture, worldwide.

What are the amazing gift you are giving us. 🙏🏻✌🏻❤️

Love the show, fascinating stories. Completely hooked.

Grateful atltitude of my platitude of gratitude from the Northeast Corridor Ram Rod Dass

Steve the Historian. Grate show dude!

Everyone need to sub to big steve,and even more importantly, share,only way to share this amazing knowledge of the best band that has ever been...thanks so much Steve,this is great!!!

As a teenage kid growing up in Port Chester NY...The Capitol Theater (around the corner from my family's Tavern) was Rock&Roll heaven to me. I got to attend many concerts there between 1970 and May of '73. My personal favorite was the Joe Cocker MD&E concert. I know that many of the Capitol "stage hands" and "roadies" from various bands patronized the bar in the Tavern. I'd be interested to know if any (older) members of "The Dead Family" remember the Tavern around the corner from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester. One of the Capitol stage hands invited my Dad and a bartender to listen to the Dead during a summer concert in 1970. It was 2am in the morning and in true form, the Dead were still playing...with the stage door opened due to the hot weather. So my Father (RIP) got to attend a Dead show one year before I did. When I asked him if he liked "The Dead"..His response was.."Yea...they weren't too loud..". My Dad got see Duke (Ellington), Benny Goodman, Glen Miller and Cab Calloway...so he understood the importance of "live music". I caught the Dead at the Cap during final concert during the Feb '71 week long "residency" at the ripe old age of 16. But it would be two more years before I really "got on the bus..". Looking forward to this series...subscriber to Dead.net

Excited bro!!!!

As a 5th generation NY stagehand and a big fan of the Dead, this is amazing! I also loved the book Steve!!! Acts of kindness Change lives. I cant wait to see the next episode!

Thanks Steve for this and all your work since '68 bringing us the Dead!

Thanxz Big Steve my first show was 72 a Black panther benifit show I really miss Ramrod ❤ I was blessed to work.with the band in the 90s with Gino and chez Ray

Hell yea Big Steve!! I smashed the hell outta that subscribe button!!

Yo ⚡️ looking forward to all the learning you’ve got to gift Mr Parish 🏴‍☠️ Weir tuned in thanks

First thing is Thank You! There isn't enough space to say how much I enjoy the Grateful Dead music, I can't really listen to any other music. I live out in wheat country, middle of nowhere, not to far from Pendleton. I guess really what I just wanted to say is Steve , thank you for taking us along, and remember always that I am appreciative of everything you helped with , why? Because the music has helped me so much, and as a full time biker, I know the importance of giving respect and learning from people like yourself. I enjoy listening to you man, like your style, time to smoke here first thing, and get into episode 2. I was gonna call your show, I figured I would thank you here in the comments, so yeah, thank you, have a great day !

Big Steve!!! much love from Canada. cant wait for the future!!!

Priceless stories ❤

What an incredible story! I'm only in my 40's and am obsessed with the Grateful Deads music, and this story with the pictures is wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing!!

Thanks, Big Steve!! 1st show 74 Roosevelt Stadium N.J. which led to a lifetime of shows. Have my mail order tickets for the Madison Square Garden shows in 95 which sadly never happened. Saw all the different versions after Jerry passed. Fun but not the same, I miss and enjoy him every day

Big Steve, You had some magical shit looking over you all. You are a hell of a storyteller my friend. I am a member of I.A.T.S.E Local 16, San Francisco. A fellow Stagehand! I know you did a lot more than that though! I worked on the lighting rig and did follow spot at Oracle Park for Dead and Co's last shows. Our office knows I am a big Deadhead so they put me on that show. Jerry and the Dead get me home from work, crossing the Golden Gate every day and night! As Robert Plant once said 'Whole Lotta Love!' I could listen to you tell stories all day long! Kurt in Santa Rosa, Ca.

Greetings from the Land of Happiness! Thanks. This is fun 😁. It's like my own live copy of Relix. '68 I was 2! ✌️

I met my brother for the first time at 35, he lived in Livermore and wanted to show me this old abandoned race track, turned out to be Altamont, I walked around taking everything in, meeting my mom and now getting stoned with my brother at Altamont, great day. While exploring a blue belly lizard ran up my pants leg, so I am shrieking as I could feel it's little claws getting closer to my junk, I dropped my pants and chonies and was dancing around yelling when I finally got it off, my brother who I had known for less than 3 hours was on the ground laughing his ass off. When I first met my Mom and brother on the way to see the Dead for the New Years shows in 88, all I knew about her was she lived in the Bay area, on the way to the show I stopped in Livermore for some cigarettes, I saw a phone booth and looked to see if I could find her name, which I had done in many other cities and towns, this time i hit pay dirt, so I called and told her who I was and she asked where I was and told her, she said dont move and was there in 3 minutes... she lived right around the corner. If it was not for going to that show I may have never met my mom or brother. I have not thought of this for many years and am not sure why I am sharing with you but thank you for stirring up old memories with your old memories.

Del yeah, thanks from the hollers of West Virginia. Love ya brother c

I loved listening to your radio show. Glad to see you’ve back.

Love hearing some of the things we always ponder how it was. THANK YOU BIG STEVE. Love hearing all we wonder about in the band and family

This is my new favorite thing! Amazing!

Steve, you’re a treasure! Read your book and am a regular listener to the Big Steve Hour. So looking forward to learning more from you!

The most important living historian of the Grateful Dead has a new KZfaq channel??? Hell yes, I'm hooked!

I am Senor Frazzilito from Boston

Can't thank you enough Steve, Keep on Keepin' on Brother

So excited for this Steve!!! This IS a great way to connect and share beyond your lovely radio show!! You are amazing!!! Love you!!!!

Just found your video(s). I read your book "Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead". It was great. Obviously you are one with many memories - very detailed too.

Glad your alive and well, Parrish.

Yes! Big Steve on Y.T. 🎉

Mezz Mezrow was a white guy from Chicago who grew up in a Black neighborhood, early 1920s. He always identified more as a black man than white. He became a jazz clarinetist, but he also moved the first marijuana to New York City in the early jazz days, 1930s & '40s. This must have had a big impact on the city and the jazz scene. Mezrow's book, "Really the Blues," lays down the scene for real. Louis Armstrong was a major customer of Mezz in New York. Armstrong called him "Muggles." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezz_Mezzrow

smiles from mt hood. i love music history. this is just lovely

Blessings for the History met you with Moon Alice with GE Smith and Jack Casady in Fall River

BIG Steve Parish! Digging the channel great idea Thanks brother ⚡

Instantly monitized, kudos!

This is amazing, thank you Steve! Much love and respect

Count me in, The wheel Keeps Turning.

En España Seguíamos los Deadheads en las portadas de los discos de vinilo WB y en las revistas Disco exprés

Thanks, Big Steve. I have a little catching up to do here but look forward to it. This is great!

Thank you so much for this Big Steve!

Glad I found this!! Thanks. Sending love and good vibes to you Steve! ✌🏽🦁❤️‍🔥🎶

Woohoo! Big Steve you are amazing brother!!

So psyched to hear all the stories Big Steve!

I have enjoyed your stories over the years. I will be happy to adventure with you.

Very enjoyable Big Steve! Keep us posted. ☮️

Appreciate all your rock and, roll backstage epic tales from your journeys. Shock hands with many rocklegends and , Have had many moments Backstage in my days. This is a wonderful epic show. Appreciate that your sharing story telling of these epic moments Thank you , Steve Love ya , late 🤙🏼Maxwell 🌊

STP??? WTF??? DAMN! This is sorta the life all of us would pay bitcoin for... for a year or two. My gosh. The lore is true. So stoked. Awesome. Gratitude. Love. And thank your braincells for me.🏴‍☠

We love you Big Steve! Thank you for this channel. I’m really looking forward to the episode about Woodstock!

Grate show Steve Grate memories for sure!

Love 💜listening to Big Steve! Thank you. 🎸⚡🔥✌

Rest in Peace Sam Cutler

It really was a golden road. What an education!! During the mid 2010's, I really enjoyed seeing Steve at Moon Alice shows and hearing him spin a yarn.

I hung out with a band called "Tumbleweed" in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. A guy who was a friend of the band named Plum Boy was big into the dead and in 1970, I began to turn into a deadhead. I got on the bus for myself at Winterland in November of 1973.

My old man left me in jail general population for a weekend when I was 18 to teach me a lesson and I never went back again. I was so pissed off but eventually realized the value in it. He actually did me a favor and I learned deep down to avoid the behaviors that could ever put me in that situation a 2nd time.