Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc12.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc12!nm34 From: nm34@sdcc12.UUCP (nm34) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Deadheads are the gratest (sic) Message-ID: <219@sdcc12.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 10:55:53 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc12.219 Posted: Fri Mar 22 10:55:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Mar-85 03:49:50 EST Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 64 > > So you want to start a net.music.dead huh? Who would you talk about? > John Lennon, Jim Croce, John Bonham, Marc Bolan seem to be a few that would > be appropriate. > > -- > Paul Kirsch St. Joseph's Univ. Real funny Paul. But seriously folks I want to relate a most fantastic event, even for Dead circles. I dont know if anyone read my longwinded song and dance about how there was more to life than a Grateful Dead concert but in it I said that I wished I could go to all the Dead concerts, because I love the Dead and all they stand for. Anyway, I described my life's story and indicated that I couldn't go to the upcomming concerts in Irvine ( I live in San Diego, about 1 hour away. The reasons I gave for why I couldn't go were that I have a very young family and out finances were tight. I also said that I wasn't putting this on the net to get sympathy but to indicate that there is more to life than Dead concerts. I said that I wouldn't trade the happyness, fun, security and love of my family for all of the concerts in creation, and there have been some fantastic concerts. As a joke (I think it was a joke), I put a p.s. with my name and address saying that if anyone wanted to send me tickets, I would be glad to accept them. Two weeks later, I had completely forgotten about the article I had put on net.music, I got a letter in my mailbox. I couldn't imagine who I knew in New Mexico. As I was opening the letter I had a flash about my request for tickets and sure enough out dropped 4 tickets to the concert I had given up on being able to attend. Not only were they 4 tickets, but two tickets to each show. Not only two tickets to each show, but two taper tickets to each show. ( Short digression: The Dead are the only group that I know of that encourages the taping of their shows. The 'laid back' philosophy behind this is that if there are many tapes of each show and if they are available to everyone, which they are, through the Dead Over and Underground, then no one can make money off of bootleg albums, no one will buy them [an example of the unique way in which the Dead bring their 'hippy' way of life into their business]. Since there are so many people taping the shows, sometimes the elaborate mikes and stands can get in the way of viewing the concert. Thus the taping section was born. If you want to tape the show, you have to have tapers tickets and sit in the taping section.) So now, do to the extreme kindness of someone who didn't sign their name except as "A Friend" (of the Devil?) and left no return address, I and my wife ( who is also into the Dead) will get to go to both concerts and we will be out only the cost of babysitting. To my kind benefactor, I want to reassure him/her (the handwritting did look masculine) that I will tape the concert myself, or find someone that wants to. I will go to both concerts or find a worthy Deader that also couldn't find their way to the concert and give them the tickets and make sure they understand about the taper section. I want to end by saying that I think Deadheads are some of the best people in the world and the reason that "There is nothing like a Dead Concert" is the Deadheads themselves. We Deadheads make the Grateful Dead experience what it is, a gathering of the tribes and a truly religious experience every time (especially if you are in the right frame of mind). My love to all, Andy Bindman