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From: ckk@cmu-cs-g.ARPA (Chris Koenigsberg)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: net.music.gdead
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 19:36:25 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 resisted listening to the Grateful Dead for many years until a 
woman friend took me to see the concert movie. I realized I
had been missing something wonderful. So (this was back in the
middle '70's) I attended several Dead concerts, in Philadelphia
and then in Pittsburgh, Pa. where I still reside.

It has been ten years or so since then, but maybe it's time
for another dead concert for me. Are they really coming to
Pgh. July 5 as someone posted??


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