Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxe!david1 From: david1@aluxe.UUCP (nelson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Grateful Dead Concert complaint Message-ID: <561@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 15:33:29 EST Article-I.D.: aluxe.561 Posted: Mon Dec 17 15:33:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 02:57:12 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 24 I've been meaning to post this for months and finally have done it. 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 (probably couldn't stand). It was quite enjoyable being able to hear and see the performance. People still moved from their ticketed seats to the aisles, but at least sat down. 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. But what really pissed me off was all the noise. People cheering, clapping and just making a nuisance of themselves. What happened over those 10 years. The Grateful Dead were revered back then. In the '60s and early '70s they were symbolic of anti-war feelings, long-hair culture and a communal feeling among the concert goers. Now the crowd ("oh, these young people today have no respect") reacted to them as just another rock and roll band. Well I was warned that the concert would not be as I remembered. The Dead still had it, but the crowd was indeed a bummer.