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Friday, 6/2 $© THE LEAVING TRAINS BILLY JACK • PEE DEAD GIRLFRIEND Saturday, 6/3 $0 SODA GIRL RECORDS Pollen Count Benefit with twelve bands Sunday, 6/4 $© NUTT STAULK 8pm TRULIO DISGRACIOUS Members of Fishbone. Red Hot Chili Peppers. & Suicidal Tendencies Monday, 6/5 $© Ska from California with FILIBUSTER THE CONSPIRACY Tuesday, 6/6 $o DISCO Wednesday, 6/7 7pm $© FROM SCOTLAND: DICK DAUCHAN (singer/songwrrter) 10pm $© ELECTRIC MELLFIRE CLUB penal colony THRESCHER Thursday, 6/8 $© BUTT TRUMPET WHITE TRASH DEBUTANTES BILLY JACK COD SQUAD Friday, 6/9 $© LOVE LODE AVERAGE JOE PORCH FIRE MULTIPLE SARCASM Saturday, 6/10 $© THE MOTHER HIPS and guests Sunday, a/11 $© from Canada WRETCHED ETHYL WITH DRAWL THE BELLA LOW Must be ©O or over 342-3358 136 E.llth 8a Clothing Sale June 3rd 4th 20% oft clothing (wtlti coupon) | 13th ft High • 484 ?S88 Includev Si Croix I'rout Rod. Orvts ‘Uearv.jter* Itmn Keel i • inland ‘Fairplay* My Unr lj|>cietl trader My line Hu kins tVtKY MONDAVI FRI 2 JUNE PAUL DELAY BAND SAT 5 JUNE The STILETTOS MON 5 JUNE DEM DEkkER WED 7 JUNE RENEGADE SAINTS FINGERS Co*miiwd from Piigf 7 ‘An wo know about the > rsi set is whoever s tom i) <s that eight * Welrack sa d Bobby Wfjif an<j Jerry G.v»:-tn alternate deciding what the opening song w>ii be each night Tho res! o! the songs in the set usu ally alternate Wee-Garcia unless Phil Lesh intellects Wefnck said hs songs tend to come up durmg the second set When it s Garc a s turn, he usu.ely gives the song away while he's setting it up. Wetnick sa<d But with Wea it's a little more difficult ‘Sometimes I wait lot him to count a oh, and he has his back turned to me so I can t see or hear turn.’ Weinc* sa>d "So I'll drop n on tike the IMM or the second measure * f or the second set however, there is some discussion about y > But that's always subject to any last minute veto on the pad of a band member," Wei hum explained He said ad the guesswork used to be scary, because it keeps everything new " I asked him what he thought about Mydiand never ..g totally comfortable in the band, as if fie wasn't a Mi-Hedged member 'i stilt to this day can't under stand how Brent left that way.' he said Tve always fen com fortabie with the band from the beginning ‘ Womick wasn't always com fortable with the music though, as far as how welt he pe» iormed ‘For a while I was bringing chads Out on stage Welnck said, ’and !f»ey were actually catling the sets out so I could be prepared * l read him a quote Horn fellow band member Bill Kreutzmann in the book Playing m the Bend 'Being in the Grateful Dead is sometimes too much ot a responsibility * Weimck agreed and sa*d there are a lot ol expectations put on him by his peers and hirnseit 'It's not always a party.* he said ‘There is some work, and there is some consciousness involved" Me dose'-bed Nntsert as Deng an ambassador to the Grateful Dead Fveryfhing he says and does in public reflects on the band, so he tries to be on Ns best behavior *1 don't go breaking vodka bottles On my hotel room or anything anymore, like t used to with the Tubes.’ he sa*d. taugh *ng The Ouottlon OK. so I had to ask h«m the question that he f as probably been asked <n every interview s*nce the March 19th Phiiade phia show this year Why d'd they dec de to play ’Unbroken Cham." a song they've never performed live? It’s rumored that they played it once in the '70s. but sc tie nobody has found a tape to confirm it ’Phii was riding m h>s car and had a big idea and decided to do it." Wetnick said tt was as smpie as that The PhiHy crowd didn't react so nonchalantly 'Big payoff! It was the biggest audience reaction for the closing o! the firs: sel I've ever a messed We > < v j proudly In (he Studio What about the album that they’ve been recording lately'’ They were in the studio at the end of las! year and a couple of weeks before these shows 'We have a few more bases laid to rest, but we haven’t begun the overdubbmg yet ' Welnick said Me doesn't antici pate it coming out this year Being m the studio as a mem ber of the Dead ts ’a tot differ ent than doing albums with anyone else ' When he was recording with the Tubes, they were always under record company pres sure to have everything done on time and within the monetary budget No record company could push the Grateful Dead around like that,’Weinck said ‘They'll do it in their own sweet time and at their own additional expense and wtth all the caring and consideration they can give lo the mu#ic." be sa'd»*making it. no! perfect, but beautiful * Darnel Philanthropitlm? the Dead care about tftesr muse, ancl they a!®) care a lot about donating generously to a vaoety of charities They set up the Re* Foundation (named after a crew member that passed away) alter the IRS ‘started coming down on them pretty harp and punishing them* tor ati the benefit con ce'ts they used to do T hey donate all the proceeds from designated Re* benefits (one of the recent Seattle shows was a Re* show, as -s the July 2nd Deer Creek. Ind . show) so essentially the money is coming from the audience The money goes to 60 or more cha'ties, including food banks. AIDS research and rain forest preservation ‘We like to spread (the shows] around the country because a lot ot the money goes back into the area. ' Wei nek explained the band has raised about a m.tiion dollars a year for the past live or six years A crew member knocked on the door to inform him that il was 30 minutes until showtime l asked him it he thought they wouid play until the year 2000 "That's the plan, yeah, for sure ' What about doing a New Years show for the new millen nium7 The New Years shows tell out with the death ot Bill Gra ham," Weinick said “But I could see a New Years gig on the year 2000 it we start planning right now and make it a whi/ bang deal ’ Any last comments7 Yeah, l would like to say to all the people that come lo the shows l know you're really Cute with your puppies and every thing, but give them a break' There are too many casualties, and nobody likes seeing that shit go down around them ‘K you wanna be cute then wear a puppy photograph on your forehead or something, but skip the dog thing, please, please, please ' Bnng your own self to the show, don't mfhet it on the innocent * r t \ M _ - 4 a / .'-wt Be copl. t. 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