Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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198 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For people who are interested in experimenting with different levels of consciousness, that the Grateful Dead created a really safe space to do that.
And particularly when those are things that are kind of stigmatized in the culture.
I mean, you think about like the Grateful Dead had a giant, massive blow up in the 1980s with Touch of Gray.
And that was during the Reagan say no to drugs crackdown on drug enforcement.
And I'm not saying like drug use is OK or I'm not advocating for it.
But I think they created a place where people could, for the most part, safely experiment and dive into these different experiences that they were curious about and be guided by music and art in doing so.
And I think there is value to that.
I don't think it permeates all of the scene.
I've been to lots of...
dead shows or dead gatherings where it's like a lot of little kids running around, it's a lot of families, it's a lot of older people.
Like that always made me feel really safe at shows when I was like 18 and there were like grandparents around us wanting to talk about why we were there and why we liked the Grateful Dead if we were so young.
Like there is a community aspect to it and some part of that community might be engaging in the stoner culture but not everybody is and I think the bigger part, the bigger thing is that it's a very accepting place.
Yeah, I think there's a dead for everybody and there's a way to connect with the dead for everybody.
And I think for a lot of people, it doesn't have to be going to the shows.
But I think if you've been to a show, it's hard to separate because I think that those experiences that you have with people become a part of how you feel the music and how you feel the songs, even when you're by yourself.
Like, I remember being in a show at Shoreline Amphitheater and they played Birdsong, which wasn't a song that I really liked that much.
But I was like laying back on the grass and there was birds flying over and the guy next to me was like, oh my God, you see the birds?
And now every time I listen to that song, I think about that guy and I think about that experience.
So it just becomes like a part of the music's DNA.
And I don't think I would not enjoy the music without it, but it definitely makes it richer and it keeps adding layers the more experiences that you have with the music.
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