Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scripture-Screamers were booked for a show at Malacanang Palace Monday morning, but sniper fire in downtown Manila delayed the band's bus. When they finally arrived, carrying bullet-proof Bibles, it was already late afternoon...
...sure you know some too--lend themselves easily to overstatement. The whole scene has become almost a cultural cliche, and certainly a musical anachronism, but I'm not going to get really mean because some of my Deadhead friends got me a seat on my school's "Dead Bus," which was informally run by several undergrads for transport to the concert. Tickets, I was assured, were no problem. Everyone scalped them at the stadium...
...bus, which turned out to be two vans, was indeed informal. Paul, the driver and organizer, said, "You can do anything you want, just don't blow anything out the windows, and if you can, wait until we get to the highway...
...students on the bus were mostly bonafide Deadheads, bedecked with traditional attire--ripped jeans, bandanas, Indian blankets, and tie-dye T-shirts. The smoke-filled vehicle soon pulled out of the city, bearing 13 excited Deadheads, and one slightly anxious...
...show, Deadheads were once again displaying brightly colored T-shirts. We examined several, before settling on an intricate design with a Grateful Dead skull and lightening bolt on it. The police soon began to close the Deadheads down, however, and we made our way back to the "Dead Bus." The groupies packed up, ready to head for New Jersey, site of the Dead's next concert...