Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...leftovers huddled beneath an overhang of the Centrum, trying to escape the cold drizzle. Bearded and bedraggled, they each held small flowered signs which read, "I need one ticket." They joked with each other, and didn't seem the slightest bit worried abuot getting in. At a Grateful Dead concert, things just seem to work themselves out. Later on, I saw both of them inside...
...concert began at 7:30, and included such favorites as "Kansas City," "Birdsong," and "Shakedown Street." The band also included a rousing rendition of "Good Lovin...
...highlight of the concert was Kreutzman and Hart's duet on "The Beast," a huge set of percussion instruments originally created for the soundtrack of "Apocalypse Now." The cacophany created through "The Beast" is a showpiece of the Dead's kind of musical power. "It's magic when you can bring 5000 people down to just the sound of your fingertip on a drum and then build it back up again from a whisper to a scream," said Hart in "Playing in the Band," a book by David Gans and Peter Simon...
Today, Dead concerts are acid tests for many of the audience, if not the band. "Man, you've just got to get stoned to really get into the Dead," said one fan on the way to the show. At the concert, the show. At the concert, controlled substrances are sold everywhere. While some fans danced in the aisles, close to the stage and on the stairs, others simply sat in their seats, staring straight ahead, stoned out of their minds...