Onto-Historical - Talking "Heads"

I believe there have been hints here and there relating to the onto-historical world of the Grateful Dead's music video "Touch of Grey." Everything within the piece is so intertwined. Yet I think the main point about their onto-historical world can be seen in the way through which they approached this music video.
Keep in mind, this is the first and only music video the Grateful Dead actually made. This stems from their non-corporate beliefs. Their philosophy of music was their sound-in-time-in-cultural context. They played for themselves and for their fans and for their music for music's sake. This break from structure was a huge feeling of the 60's.

The Grateful Dead also expanded across a vast multitude of genres. Their style is noticeably theirs, but contains an open-mindedness of influences. Lullabies to country to rock, they used it all. Their "fluid, open-eared interchanges, ecstatic mood swings, and visceral impact," are paralleled by the drug and rock and roll culture they were surrounded by.

All of this comes through in the world they set up for themselves. By choosing to stage the music video at a concert, they are staying true to their normal venue and performance style. The place is filled to the brim, as normal, and the band is at first casual with their music. They are far away, tuning up and getting ready to play. There is no grand entrance or fireworks, just sounds. Then their seriously realistic world turns slightly upside down through the introduction of puppets! This convention works wonderfully, because the skeletons are able to be as naturalistic as possible. Even though they are guitar and drum playing skeletons (which could never happen in real life), they are acting as the members of the band, completely normal and causal, jamming on their instruments. This contradiction parallels the all-natural ideals of the 60's along with the visually and imaginatively enhanced influence of the drug culture and psychedelic music. Even through you can see the puppet strings, the audience/viewer is asked to suspend their disbelief and make friends with the skeletons. The tempo and tone of the piece assuage any fears that the world is one of danger or fear.
Being that this was filmed in front of a live audience, everyone in that hall was able to experience the world first-hand. But what about me? I am distanced from both the historical context and onto-historical world through time and medium.
Yet I think the message and feelings are still valid. If you decide the song is indeed about ageing, well ageing is timeless! I know it may sound contradictory, but everyone faces the challenges of getting old, and most people face challenges at some point in their life about how to pay rent, and society is still concerned about the education of our youth. While the musical style and groovy-ness of the sounds and sound progressions may be more relevant to the 1960s, the lyrics are timeless.