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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu)
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Subject: Re: net.music.gdead
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 19:51:53 EST
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> Forgive me for adding to the deluge....I consider myself a
> reasonably educated music listener and I appreciate the
> unusual phenomenon of the Deadhead subculture.
> 
> Very few groups formed back in the early '60's are still
> playing and touring extensively as the Dead are today.
> There are probably three generations of Deadheads alive today.
> With the conservative backlash trying to eliminate all forms
> of non-conformity from society, and confine our federal
> government to nothing but a huge metallic WAR MACHINE, the
> indestructible Deadhead subculture is one of our strongest
> defenses against the fascists. Compare it to the solidarity
> underground in Poland for a moment....

I just did.  I can't stop laughing.  A bunch of wasted hippies on drugs
seeing themselves as analogous to the resistance of the Solidarity
movement, fighting for "freedom" in a way similar to what Poles have had
to go through.  It's just hysterical.  And truly degrading to what those
people have had to go through.  The "deadhead subculture" is perhaps
one of THE single strongest elements within the new yuppie subculture,
neo-conservative non-youths in business suits get to dress up like they
did back in college and smoke dope and take drugs and drive home in their
BMW's.  This comparison makes me really sick.
-- 
Life is complex.  It has real and imaginary parts.
					Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr