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TOASTED SUBS • SOUPS • SALADS UO Campus at 13th & Alder (Inside Starbucks) 5th Street Public Market • Gateway Blvd. & Beltline Rd. Oregon Festival of American Music 2002 GERSHWIN JAZZ AT OF AM * DICK HYMAN, JAZZ ADVISOR DEREK SMITH'KEN PEPLOWSKf RANDY SANPKE'D more! August MO Hult-Shedd-Cuthbert Tickets: 682-5000 |lnfo: 687-6526 lwww.ofain.org John II. Iluincs, MD Kent A. Karrvn. MD The Eye Center ©SSSSKS? ^UNITED Fair continued from page 1 great,” Jerry’s Garcia’s ex-wife Car olyn Adams Garcia said. “Dead heads have a fondness for the show.” Garcia, also known as Mountain Girl, will be introducing Dark Star Orchestra. “(The Dead) played the longest of any American band!” she said. “For a long time, they were the biggest selling show in history.” Newly-minted fans will mix with those who attended the original concert and may have even been a part of the show. Nicki Scully is a longtime fan and ex-wife of Rock Scully— who was the road manager for the Dead the first 20 years they toured. “In 1972, (the concert) was a fairly spontaneous benefit for Springfield Creamery,” Scully said. “It was 100 degrees or higher in August, and 25,000 people showed up.” “What made 1972 really special was, it was a blend of Oregon Coun try Fair and the Grateful Dead,” Scully said. “My greatest memory of that was at the sunset, the halo through the hair of the crowd.” The Dead repeated the event 10 years later with another Field Trip and tried unsuccessfully to meet in 1992. Scully helped the 1982 Oregon Field Trip occur by acting as a liai son between the Fair and the Dead. She described decorating the Fair property for the Dead’s concert with 20 Army surplus parachutes that she and others tie-dyed. They didn’t have time to heat-seal the dye, and a rainstorm came and made all of the colors run into the dust in bright pools. The down payment to buy the Fair property came from the revenue generated by the 1982 Field Trip. The Springfield Creamery, run by Chuck and Sue Kesey, Ken Ke sey’s brother and sister-in-law, has been helping the Fair produce and promote the Dead Field Trips since the 1972 event. Money from the field trips, in turn, helped out the Creamery. Ken Kesey himself was present at the Dead’s 1982 concert, putting on his own backstage show called “The Loyal Order of the Underdogs.” Ken’s son, Zane Kesey, said that he will drive a replica of the famed Further Bus to the Fair every day. Ken Kesey and his friends, the Mer ry Pranksters, took the original Fur ther Bus across the country. Zane Kesey will park the bus next to a booth designed to raise money for a statue to commemo rate his father. The new bus, which Zane has had since 1990, has been on a separate tour to com memorate his father’s adventures Adam Jones Emerald This tower near the river, built as an addition to the ‘Drum Circle,’ offers musicians and spectators a place to enjoy the rhythm of the fair. and the spirit of psychedelia. “It stayed for a summer in the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and we took it to the United Kingdom,” Zane said. “The saltwater on the boat (that took it to the United Kingdom) didn’t do it too well, so I’ve been dealing with scraping the barnacles off.” Zane, who is a Prankster himself, promised that he — and a group of people whom he did not name — had pranks aplenty to surprise fair-goers. The pranks will be harm less fun, he said. The Fair’s Midnight Show, in which Ken Kesey regularly per formed in the past, might also get a few surprises from Zane. Zane said that his father objected to the exclu sive nature of the Midnight Show. Only those who camp overnight at the Fair or who can beat the secu rity sweep that runs after hours, will be able to glimpse the hours long spectacle of the Midnight Show, which regularly features sur prise guests and political humor. Kesey startled fair officials by threatening to move the show to the parking lot one year, his son said. “(My father) wanted everyone on stage,” Zane said. “If I do something, it’ll probably be along those lines.” Zane also planned to read from his father’s children’s book, “Little Tricker Squirrel Meets Big Double Bear,” to honor him. “It’s a family story from (my fa ther’s) grandma that was passed down to her,” Zane said. orezti) Get a dose from the Good Doctor! Ladies get in free nightly til 11 pm! 80s Night (80's dance with mainstream) DJ Grooves (Hip Hop) DJ Grooves (Hip-Hop, Top 20, Mainstream) 683-8101 • on the corner of W. 11th & Charnelton Cocktail Research Behind Bradford’s 942 Olive Street • Free Parking Closed Tuesdays 343-9000 Others also plan to honor Ken Kesey. “There’s a lot of presence around Ken,” Country Fair general manag er Leslie Scott said. Ray Sewell, also known as Chez Ray, was the chef for both the Grate ful Dead and for Ken Kesey’s trav eling band of Pranksters. Sewell is planning a presentation on the stage next to his food booth, called Ray’s Gritz La Ritz. He is calling the performance “Speak Kesey.” “What we’re planning to do on our stage is have the spoken word as the focus,” Sewell said. He plans to discuss not only Ke sey, but the history of the Country Fair. Sewell, also a Prankster, prom ised some pranks. “There’s some chatter; something will come about,” Sewell said. “They can’t keep colors down. They radiate.” Oregon Country Fair tickets are on sale at selected Safeway/ FASTIXX locations, at the EMU Ticket Office, or by calling 1-800 992-8499. Tickets cost $12 Friday and Sunday, and $15 Saturday, plus a $1 service fee. Tickets bought this Saturday for that day’s Fair will be $17 each. No tickets will be sold at the Fair site. Parking costs $5, but LTD will provide a free shuttle that leaves from the Eugene Station and Valley River Center from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Contact the reporter at jilliandaley@dailyemerald.com. 492 E 1 3tH 686-2458 OTONNOR For the wrt of Friday, July 12th! Receive our weekly WebPage Updetel _www.bljou-cinemas.com r“So thick with wit it plays like a reading I from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Ebert. ™ IMPORTANCE <* BEING EARNEST Nightly 5:00, 7:10 & 9:15pm Sat & Sun Mat 2:50pm 5$ “One of the funniest, most joyous comedies to come along since the Greeks invented comedy.” Eric n Wilder. DAILY HERALD . 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