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From: cernese@noname.DEC (Dan Cernese APO-1/C3 DTN 289-1120)
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 08:56:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 08:56:11 1985
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>Newsgroups: net.music
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>Subject: The Dead Experience & Tripping
>Posted: Tue Mar 26 08:27:57 1985
>
>     One unique thing about Grateful Dead concerts is that approximately
>30-50% of the attendees are tripping.  This may
>not be interesting to those of you out there who haven't experienced the
>alternate reality of these 'magical' substances, but those of you who
>
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>importance and sharpness of your sences.  Colors, tastes, smells and
>music, espcially music are wonderful.  The Dead, gear their music to
>stimulate these reactions to music.  The music is at times intense,
>moving you higher and higher then dropping you then picking you up and
>bringing you even higher.  The intensity can get frightening but just
>when it is too much to bear, they break into the most sedate and
>melodious pastoral music in which you can smell the fields and stream
>they evoke.  The lyrics are also both stimulating to confusion then
>understanding and reassuring.  In one song, often played after a long
>unmelodious passage, the words "...If you get confused, listen to the
>music play..." leap out at you and grab you and hold and comfort you. 
>
>     At a Dead concert many people are tripping.  It seems as if
>everyone is on the same wavelength.
>You can look at the person next to you, who you have never met before and
>you KNOW that they KNOW what you are feeling. You are really soulmates
>for that short time. Brought together by the music but also the
>experience.  
>
>     I know many who read this will be skeptical to say the least.  And
>you will never KNOW.   
>
>                                 C. Charlie

	I agree with all of my heart and soul...  it has made me the person
I am today, and I'm proud of it.  I've only been going to Dead shows for
five years and every one of them had something to offer (although not every
one of them is a truly ~hot~ show).  What can I say?  Words simply cannot
convey the enormous emotions that the Dead/audience throw around (and back
and forth) during a good concert.  Once in a while, after a particular night
or two of ~hot~ shows, I think to myself "If I died tomorrow, at least I
would have died a happy man".  Dead shows put me in such a good mood that
I'm usually suspiciously happy at work (people wonder... its great!)...

				Dan

"roll away..... roll away.. ..the dew.. roll away... roll away.. ..the dew.."