Yea it was fuckin wild
These thousands of people basically traveled along with the band and set up their own little shanty town in whatever arena parking lot the band played in that week(they played multiple dates in each city so the little town would be there for like a week)
It was like a drugged out barter system flea market/festival/tailgate party out there, kinda like Burning Man
You always knew when the Dead had just been in town because suddenly there would be a shitload of LSD and mushrooms on the local drug black market
I got burned once for two sheets of Acid(200 hits) at a Dead show
I told the random hobo I wanted to test it first so he pulls out a sheet and rips off a tab and shoves his filthy hobo finger in my mouth
We walk around with him and after 30-40 minutes I'm frying balls so we do the sale, but I'm a fuckin noob ass kid who dont know no better and we buy two clean sheets instead of the sheet I tested from
Once we got home and started trying to sell it we found out we paid a few hundred bucks for a couple pieces of useless construction paper
If you cant trust a filthy hobo living a vagabond derelict lifestyle who can you trust