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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
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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. I’m glad they aren’t staving forever
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