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From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Grateful Dead Concert complaint
Message-ID: <4823@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 11:19:42 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.4823
Posted: Fri Dec 21 11:19:42 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:49:08 EST
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Reply-To: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

>> Well, this time, 10 years later, it was a whole different story.  The
>> crowd insisted on standing for 90% of the concert.  The people in the
>> aisles stood and blocked the view of people who were sitting
>> in the seats that they had paid for.  If I wanted to see
>> the group I had to stand which wasn't nearly as comfortable. 
>
>   I have been going to Dead concerts for 7 years, and have never sat down
>except when my legs were tired. Where have *you* been? Why would *anyone*
>want to sit down at a Dead concert, unless they didn't belong there in the
>first place? I don't think that people standing the whole time is at all 
>typical of rock concerts. That's one reason why I like to go to Dead concerts
>so much. The crowd is really *into* it. What bands have you been seeing? I'd 
>like to go to some of their shows too, they must be hot. If you want to sit 
>down, stay home. I like to dance.

	Standing or sitting at concerts. It always seemed silly to me
to go to a concert where you where required to sit while foot-tapping,
body-moving music was being played. Its worse when you actually have
an assigned seat number.