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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.
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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.
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