Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Grateful Dead Concert complaint Message-ID: <174@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:31:03 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.174 Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:31:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:43:16 EST References: <561@aluxe.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 21 > > In April I went to a Grateful Dead concert for the first time > in about 10 years. 10 years ago the crowd was generally quiet and sat > during the performance ... > <.......> > > Well, this time, 10 years later, it was a whole different story. > People cheering, clapping and just making a nuisance of themselves. > Of give me a break! The entire point of going to see the Dead has always been that they are THE band to go see to let one's hair down (long hairs, get it!) Dancing in the aisles, singing, and cavorting are an ESSENTIAL part of going to see the Dead. I have seen the Dead 5 times over the last 7 years (I am not a hard core Deadhead, but some friends are - 30-40 concerts over 14 years, and they agree) and crowd "participation" has been the one constant in shows where material, sound quality and performance varied greatly. The show you saw 10 years ago must have been pretty boring, or was it the complimentary LSD (:-) ? Marcel Simon