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Further, taping bits of Americana with
their sound and movie equipment and
having what were known as "acid tests "
The Grateful Dead, just starting out in
San Franc isco, were invited to the acid
tests, hut were not a main attrac tion.
"The partic ipants were the show."
Mc.Nallv said, "and as Jerry' Garcia said,
thev were free to play or not play."
And so began a bond between Kesey's
Merry Pranksters that has survived more
than 30 years
Members of the Kesey family were
instrumental in the band coming to
Fugene. Kit Kesey. head of Field Trip Pro
due lions, a group dodic nted to bringing
the Umd to town, has tried to arrange con
i erts since last year
Originally the Dead wore set to play In
Veneta for the third Dncndonnt Field Trip,
a onc.e-every-10-years reunion party for
the arid test crowd and friends and fam
ilies Kit Kesey. who is Ken s nephew,
obtained a mass-gathering permit for
40,000 people and built a stage and camp
ing fai ililv to ac i omniodato them at the
Oregon Country Fairgrounds.
I had in work lor aUm! a year to make
the-1 one ert in Veneta happen." Keso\ said
And after all of the planning and building
was finished, the concert in Veneta did
not happen because lend singer and gui
tarist Jerry Garcia fell ill and was hospi
talized only weeks Indore the event.
A year before the canceled Field Trip,
supporters hoped to book the Grateful
Dead to play at Autzen Stadium hi 1991.
Yet Dan Williams, University vice presi
dent for administration, received some let
ters by community members who opposed
tlie fiend's return bee ause of a concern
about illic.it drug use
Williams did not allow the band to
return bee ause he was conc erned that a
hand with a reputation of drug using and
selling fans would damage the Universi
ty's reputation if the Dead were invited to
play a com ert in a University facility.
But after he received more letters that
were angry about the Dead not coming
Iwu k than letters that were angry that they
were coming fwc.k. Williams decided to let
them return. However, by the time that
dec ision was made, the Grateful Dead had
booked other engagements for the date
"Lots of people think that wo get
banned, and that's not true." McNally said
"We ban ourselves, meaning, the Dead
don't play in placos that are too small to
.111 omniodate the large- minority of Dead
heads who don't listen and who will go to
a show with no ticket
If there is a show that seats 60,000, it’s
4Going to Eugene is like
visiting our country
cousins
Dennis McNally.
publicist tor the Dead
possible that 10.000 people could show
up with no ticket. McNally said That con
tingent is visible to the public and is per
haps the biggest nuisance for the I wind and
residents of the town alike, espieially if
there is littering or obvious drug use appar
ent in the parking lot.
It wasn't alwavs that way. Kit Kesey.
who was a senior In high school when the
band played in Eugene in 1082 for the sec
ond Decade rial Field Trip, spoke of a "base
Deadhead group" of 15.000 Rut the fans
have become a "perpetual motion
machine." Kesey said, and have grown to
a base group of 40,000. a number that
Kesey said, "dilutes the people who care
down."
University archivist Keith Richard said
said there was community opposition to
the band playing in the newly built Hull
(.enter in 108.3.
"People were concerned that the Dead
beads would destroy the furniture."
Richard said. "They’ve never really had a
problem except what people imagined
would happen.”
One thing that opponents have imag
ined to be a problem is the sale and use of
drugs nl cow oris And William*, who said
he’s enjoyed (.rateful Dead com oris him
self and has nothing against the Uind itself,
wants to make sure that reality does not
live up to imagining*
In order to ensure that concertgoers are
on their lx-st behavior and that there are
no problems Aug. 21 and 22. an agreement
has been struck involving the promoters.
Hill Graham Presents. Field Trip Produc
tions. the University and the Eugene police
department.
Field Trip Productions will recruit, train
and supervise a 250-member citizens’
patrol to create what thev call the "Glean
Scene.” In addition. T-Shirt Security, the
company hired by the University athlet
ic department, will be a second security
fonac and a legal presence will la? provided
by the EPD.
"I'm not into having an event with my
name on it to be a drug sales fair." Kesev
said. "In this dnv and age you have to abide
by the laws of the community.
“This event is happening under a micro
scope." Kesev said. "Best behavior is need
ed to make this happen again. So lie smart
and lie covert."
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