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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.gdead
Subject: Re: KOKOMO !!
Message-ID: <1158@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 13:28:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 13:28:50 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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I have to agree with Liz about Kokomo.  I was very dissapointed.  I might
have walked out earlier too, but I didn't get there until Max Creek had
finished, so I kept hoping something would happen to make
my $8.50 investment worthwhile.

As soon as they started playing, I started having my doubts.  The guitarist
and bassist, whose names I've forgotten, were jumping around the stage
in a manner much more akin to AC/DC antics than Bob Weir at his most
rambunctious.  I was saying to my self, "I can't take them serioiusly".

And the music confirmed my doubts.  AAAH, AAAH, AAAH, went the guitar, in
classic '70's hard rock fashion.  Overly loud, overly distorted, and lacking
in the creative improvisation that makes every Dead show as fresh as the last.

My friend and I spent most of the show in the lobby.  There, the volume was
tolerable, and we could sit and watch the constant outflux of dissapointed 
heads.  We were joined by a number of people with similar feelings.

As we were sitting there, a man walked out and said, "THey're playing
Dark Star". "Good luck", said my friend, not convinced.  And then we
heard the words "Daaaaaaark Star crashing."  After doing a short double take,
we rushed in only to find them playing a song that had in common with 
the deads Dark Star only the lyrics.  It was, as stated before, 
barely recognizable.  Disapointed, we retreated again to the
lobby.

The saving grace of the evening was the audience.  Dead Heads are still
dead heads, regardless of who's playing, and this was no exception.  I
really got off on the Dead show like atomosphere.  While in the lobby, 
we were entertained by two young kids, apparently tripping on something, 
playing a little game by making strange gestures at each other using one
arm crossed over the other, with a hand pressed against their forehead and the
other outstreached.  They looked like strange elephants of sorts.  But I
digress.


All in all, I'm still convinced, THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A (GENUINE) GRATEFUL
DEAD CONCERT.




  
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Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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