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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: net.music.dead
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 04:06:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 04:06:59 1985
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All we deadheads have to do is start flooding net.music
with articles of clearly parochial interest.  Then,
EVERYONE will agree
     a. there is enough support for the net.dead
     b. that it should be in a separate group
I know this isn't a very hippy-dippy peace, love and skiwax
approach, but it's fair.

All we need now is a left-handed monkey wrench.

Did anyone see the posting in net.rumors about this summer's tour?
I'm specifically interested in Red Rocks &  Santa Fe.  

Who's got spare tix for Nassau Coliseum?  

I've got tapes of Alpine Valley 82 & 84, one of them
containing a cover of "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (orig. Traffic)
I'd like to find something with Scarlet Begonias into Fire on the
Mountain, a good, clean version.  Anyone up for an exchange of copies?
Oh, and that slow version of Bobby covering Little Red Rooster (by
Willy Dixon)

Now THAT's parochial.  Let's start a list of songs they do 
regularly in concert, but are NOWHERE ON LEGIT VINYL.  Like
Aiko, Aiko.  That's right, the women are smarter. 

And now for something non-parochial:

The Violent Femmes do a terrifying cover of Sister Ray, but
NOLV; the tape I heard was made in an icecream parlor in
Milwaukee by a deadhead.  NOLV material is rare, precious and
99% of it is gone, daddy, gone.  And it's generally only 
deadheads who have the foresight to at least get some of it on tape.
(Do you really WANT the stuff that future generations hear to
be only the stuff that some music-company manager decided he
could make a buck off of by putting it on vinyl? huh?)

The point is that deadheads make a valuable contribution to
musical culture just by going to concerts, and supporting
a community that values real music, live music, music that
evolves far beyond the marketing constraints of the record biz.
Songs on albums are, to the dead, a mere outline, the bare
bones.  What you hear in concert goes far beyond that.

Furthermore, by studying, playing and creating adaptations
of folk ballads, country and western,and bluegrass, blues, etc.
the dead perpetuate a tradition of uniquely American music.
Their music is not from the groin of adolescent angst, it's 
from the heart of the heart of the country.  Jerry Garcia
studied banjo for years with Earl Scruggs, Vassar Clements
plays violin on "Wake of the Flood", and they all play to-
gether with Lester Flatt on "Old and in the Way"  Jerry was
Bob Weir's first guitar instructor. The dead are not a 
rock band. They are part of a musical heritage. And they
extend that heritage to include elements of popular, psychedelic,
rock, and yes, even disco music.  

And because it's all live, you can't BUY them in a STORE on
VINYL with MONEY (all you get is an outline).  

You just have to be there.


 "Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there"

                                    Cheryl