From: lb04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Laura Bassi)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Dead Sighting
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:34:07 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

how do folks?
one of my colleagues left this article from an obscure local paper on my desk.
 I'll repro it for you.  It's kinda strange.  And the author (you should see
 the guy's photo haha) is in definite need of a flame or two, from the likes
 of you pro-flamethrowers out there ;-)

"Never Know Who May Be a Deadhead"
     (most caps deleted, per ee cummings and my laziness)
     {i wrote stuff inside of these, sorry, can't resist}
    "'let me point out something very pertinent to today's topic.  I don't know
    much about music.  I don't play an instrument.  I don't sing in the choir
    and I don't keep up with developments in the record industry.  Heck, i'm
    the type of guy who hums 'winchester cathedral.'  does anybody know why
    you ver hear about the tijuana brass anymore?
    isn't Hammer an event in the olympics?  isn't ice-t a soft drink? {is
    this guy for real?}
    anyway, i mention all this today because of the news that congressman Pete
    Kostmayer has convinced the Grateful Dead to campaign for him in Bucks
    County.
    actually, he's not getting all of the Dead.  He's only getting Bob Weir,
    who is one of the founding fathers of the band.  Bob Weir thinks the rocky
    mountains should be preserved against development.
    so does pete, and that is why Bob Weir has agreed to come to town and do
    what he can to help re-elect the congressman.
    i know a little about the dead b/c i've known some deadheads over the
    years.
    deadheads are what the fans of the dead call themselves.  They buy their
    records {records, this dude is like living in the 70's) and go to their
    concerts and they have kept up with all the comings and goings of the band
    since it was founded back in SF a quarter-century ago.
    it takes a special sort of something to be a deadhead.  not many people
    can listen to the dead and hear what a deadhead can hear.
    i really can't explain it b/c i'm not a deadhead  {gasp, no!!}
    but all those deadheads out there reading this know what i'm talking
    about.  At this moment they are smiling to themselves and sharing that
    little secret only deadheads can share.
    and I might add that a lot of important people are deadheads...{stuff
    deleted cuz who cares about former lt. gov.William Scranton}
    there is by the way a distinct possibility that Bob Weir won't be coming.
    that's b/c the dead had to cancel its current tour.
    seems that band member jerry garcia is seriously ill, so the band isn't
    travelling and ,therefore, won't be on the East coast this fall .
    still, the Kostmayer people are hopeful that they can make some special
    arrangements to bring in Bob Weir {huh?  hmmmm?}
    Now about that rock band.
    since the dead had its start some 25 yrs ago {Here's where this dude
    should have given up this article before he turned into a _total_
    geek-a-zoid}
    >keyboardist Brent Mydland died from a cocaine and morph. o.d.
    >vocalist ron "pigpen" died from a liver ailment, follwing years of
    substance abuse
    >garcia was arrested for drug possession in '85.
    Holy family values!  {i swear it says this!}
    do you think that the congressman knew all about the g.d. when b.w. walked
    into his office down in Wash. and asked him to save the Rocky Mtns?
    well, our congressman probably didn't.  And even if he did, what of it?
    Over at state sen. jim greenwood's headquarters, i;m sure they all huddled
    and tried to think about what kind of mileage they could get out of Weir's
    visit.
    certainly a good conservative republican such as greenwood can't sit back
    and let an endorsement for his opponent by the GD {is Bobby the whole band
    now, and no one told me or what}
    pass without saying something about what it all means.  {what the hell
    does it mean? anyone; flame warriors????}
    but then maybe the greenwood camp will let this one pass.
    you see, you just never know who may be a Deadhead.'"

Well, that's it.  I just had to let you read this.  Sorry I butchered it with
lower case and the lack of paragraph markers and abbreviations and whatnot,
but this system is so SLOW that it was like a sentence behind me the whole
time...I almost lost this file too.  Maybe it should've stayed lost, you may
be saying...but I had time to kill during my office hours, so you got it!!!!!

PEACE!!!!!
laura