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Turns out, Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia hasn't let his death last year hold him back. You can still hear him in the mellow sounds of the Furthur Festival, a touring concert extravaganza that will visit 31 cities this summer. Furthur--a reference to the destination posted on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus--features former Dead guitarist Bob Weir's countrified-blues group Ratdog as well as former Dead drummer Mickey Hart's percussive world-beat ensemble Mystery Box. (The lineup also includes Hot Tuna and Los Lobos.) Crowds at the shows range from teens...
Although some observers worried that the bright lights the store displays at night might seem out of place in the mellow Harvard Square atmosphere, Rosen said there have been no complaints...
...forced to meet strangers--nearly everyone lives in a tract house and drives a car, or seems to--L.A.'s public spaces are voluntary, even happy ones: the beach, the amusement park, above all the mall. Or maybe it's just the climate--it's easier to be mellow under bright, clear, 80-degree skies than in the concrete swamp that is Manhattan in the summer...
What the Pharcyde did provide, however, was good background music for a mellow dance party. And although the Pharcyde got the crowd moving to the bass beats and rhymes despite the cool, rainy day, almost any hip-hop group could have made the crowd dance. The group never really formed a definitive sound; when the Pharcyde had little innovative or exciting talent to explore, the concert failed to satisfy the listener...
...imagine the delicious feelings of initiation and surrender with which foreign artists once went to Italy. Each view in Rome, every corner of Naples or Latium, seemed impregnated with meaning--by the memory of artists who had painted them before, by the presence of Antiquity and by the mellow beauty of the light. But to see Nature so authoritatively fused with Culture could also be a misery for a newcomer, for how could you say something new about it? "This sun sheds a light that fills me with despair," Corot moaned in a letter to a friend on the first...