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DEAD Continued from Page 1 who were in diaper* at the time of Jerry 's first gui t.ir lick are the ones following the band and living out of their vehir.los And more people than ever are coming just to lurk, in freshly ironed tie dyes with wide, white eyes There lire Still the people that actually i ome to hear the band play And of course, there are the people who come from all over just to party Hut let s not forget those who come to sell. Pipes, dreami atcher earrings, hemp salve (great for those i happed hands), leaded trinkets the air is thick with one-phrase sales piti lies Food? "Kind” veggie burritos. 'fatty' egg rolls, orgnnii hummus sandwiches, "veggie grilled cheese" on white bread. Beer? Choices from Budweiaer to Hof feweisen, at only twice the price ns the store Enough commercialism to make the head spin Steve has been selling beers sun e the (mod Old Eighties. "First you have to know your market " As for the sales pitch, he said "You got to inject it into the crowd" at people who look like beer drinkers "Third, they've gotta la- cold Good old capitalism. They shoulda flown in some Soviet economists to experience greed. American style. A local activist named Spruce agreed, and wore a sandwit h hoard sign dec rving the cash-driven Scene. Not like the Good Old Hays, w here people protested common ial ( ultiire, not embraced it. I notice now there are more dogs than ever here It raises a question: since they all seem to lie run ning around without leashes, do you just pick up someone else's dog when you lose yours? Although dogs and sales are out of mind on< u inside the stadium, drugs aren't. In fact, it wasn't too long ago that the I adversity told the hand to get out and stay out of Kugene, and to take their -druggie fans with them But the gnarled hand of profit beckoned, and with the help of Kit kesey's Deadic«ted Volunteers, blatant drug sales and use were kept under wraps ("Hoy man, I don't want to see that!") It's no secret that people do drugs here Heck, what do you think attracted us touch heads' Maybe people aren't so tempted by the availabili ty of any drug you can think of. but by the atmos phere provided for taking them The sensory stimuli, the weird people, and the "we're all in this together” feeling make The Scene a hot drug spot. This is probably the safest place you could bo if you decided to strip naked, throw your wallet into the port-a-pottv and run around screaming for your mother. One police officer told mo that his job wasn't to keep people off drugs here; it was to keep people from hurting each other or themselves while con Mil What used to bo so countercuttvral Is now so main stream that Jerry has Ice cream named after him suniing drugs In fact, I saw quite u few Eugene hippie hecklers visit The Scene, and suspected that the walking phnrinai v might have attriu ted them Hut I digress I was on a soul search hum why I like the Dead, why not as much, and what will happen when they stop placing A woman named Rainbow told me that when the band croaks out its last "Unde John's Band," she w ill end up doing "something else." Although Grateful Dead con certs still attract wayward misfits —• and truly accept the masses, the huddled and the poor there is an air of lamidom and "what next" linger ing in the air like burnt sage People realize that this will not go on forever The hand rein fori us that notion with a Beatles tune "This Could He the laist Time " Until then, the Grateful Dead is the best way to have the Total Group Experience Claustrophobes need not apply You either like it, don't like it. or have a lot of fun or irritation figuring out whether you do 1 can’t join my Eugenean hadasspunker grungepitdwelling peers in hating the band and the human baggage it comes with Where else can you feel so safe around BO.tKK) people' Where else < an you care less about how you smell' Where else is someone going to hand you a rose and a smile with no strings attached? That sort of kindness doesn’t exist in "The Pit," Thun again. 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