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From: hlee@unixg.ubc.ca (Henry Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.music.video
Subject: Re: Rick Astley question?
Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:32:35 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: kynok.ucs.ubc.ca

In article <1992Dec30.212245.4748@sys.uea.ac.uk> djt@.ic.ac.uk (Mr D.J. thomas) writes:
>In article <johnl.0m7q@amiganet.chi.il.us> johnl@amiganet.chi.il.us
>(John Liskey) writes:
>>Isnt there a singer (bad one at that) named Rick Astley?? i seem to remember
>>him being a james dean wannabe.. i may have the name  a bit off.. if so help
>>me.. 
>That's right... he was a really bad singer.

Actually, he does quite an adequate job in the Nat King Cole cover
(pls correct me someone if I'm wrong) of "When I Fall in Love."
This video was aired a few times during Christmas on MuchMusic.


-- 

Henry Lee   <hlee@unixg.ubc.ca> // <lee@physics.ubc.ca>
From: johnl@amiganet.chi.il.us (John Liskey)
Newsgroups: rec.music.video
Subject: Rick Astley question?
Date: 30 Dec 92 06:33:01 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Someone help me here...

Isnt there a singer (bad one at that) named Rick Astley?? i seem to remember
him being a james dean wannabe.. i may have the name  a bit off.. if so help
me.. 

Secondly.. wht video was it of his that had the girl in the restaurant?

Thirdly, where can i get this video?

Any help appreciated.

John L.

johnl@amiganet.chi.il.us
From: curt@access.digex.com (curt williams)
Newsgroups: rec.music.video
Subject: MADONNA's music video's--  Why do they upset people
Date: 2 Jan 1993 07:54:01 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

I recently had a run-in with some people who were really upset
with Madonna's video's.  I'm only familiar with a very few of them--
probably haven't seen any more than twice each.

What's the big beef?  Perhaps someone can help me out with a run
titles and an explanation of why some folks find them so objectional.

Thanks
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: ericg@std.mentorg.com
Subject: Tape Tree Administrator for hire - cheap
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:45:39 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Top of the Cosmo

With all this sturm und drang between seeds and administrators
let me just say this:  I will run a tree of any low gen dat
or analog of any show at anytime.  Just let me know.

If you can spin me a top level copy--great.  If not, I'll just put
you at the top and myself in a choice spot--seems like a fair price.

PS: of course I do need to get the 8-1-82 tree posted first.
Today! I promise!

- Eric (ericg@std.mentorg.com)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: tracer@carson.u.washington.edu (David P. Tracer)
Subject: Re: Yay!  Dead not as popular?!? 
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:39:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.190116.17389@osf.org> jff@osf.org (James Fournier) writes:
>Sorry, Jim, but I think that you've forgotten that the Dead had an unexpected
>three month hiatus this year, including having to blow off the very lucrative
>Boston Garden and Madison Sqare Garden shows.  I'm sure that this would have
>put them into the number 2 spot.  I'm afraid hot-line, mail-order, wrist-bands,
>etc. are here to stay, unless you want to pay scalper prices.
>

It's probably true enough that the reason the Dead are 4th is that they
took time off.  However Jim's comment may also be true in part.  I don't
think anyone's mentioned that at the Oakland run, many tickets could not
even be sold at face value let alone scalper-scum prices.  As a matter of
fact, tickets were literally being given away at showtime (even for the
Saturday night show!).

I don't think things will be like this on the East coast, but still I
thought it very strange -and in a weird sort of way, comforting - even in
Oakland.
 
-David
"It's a real shame,
 they got to cost so much"
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: bill@isl.Stanford.EDU (Bill Moore)
Subject: Sheila's attitude
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 02:11:59 GMT

>I was one of the people who started this thread during the recent Oakland 
>shows.  However, some woman flamed us and referred to us as "the whiners".
>(To you, my dear, a heartfelt "Fuck you!"  It's my $50, I can "whine" if I 
>want...)

Right on! Right on! Don't take that kind of shit!
That, after all, is what our whole scene is built on:
the right to complain and the right to pay for it.
Everyone remember Jerry at Woodstock? He goes out of Dark
Star into this incredible whine that lasted for, shit, musta
been hours, or was it all the people around me telling me to turn off
my TV set? Ah ain't sure.

Happy New Year!

Bill
From: dsle@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.s.lerner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: SPRING TOUR - DATES INCLUDED IN THIS MESSAGE!!!
Summary: Summer info?
Keywords: jah love!
Date: 25 Dec 92 00:48:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T


Is the summer tour information on this message old info? Seems like it to me
as April 14th 1993 is a Wednesday, not a Tuesday as listed here. It was a
Tuesday in 92.

What gives?

Dave
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: gaile@well.sf.ca.us (Gail Edwards)
Subject: All-a-Dream Venues
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:55:45 GMT

Mt. Tamalpais Outdoor Theatre!

Monday was an off day during the past Coliseum run.  It was a glorious
cool sunny day, so I took a drive up Mt. Tam, laid around in the sun
with a book, then follwed a path to the Mt. Theatre.  This is a 
natural amphitheatre with stone benches set into the hillside, a stage
area at the bottom and a beautiful view.  I sat on a bench looking out
and imagined seeing an outdoor show here.

That evening I got Mouse to sign my copy of his book _Freehand_, and
afterward, while paging through the book, I came upon a poster
advertising a 1966 show at the Mt. Theatre with Grateful Dead, Joan
Baez and Quicksilver ($2.50 adults, $1.00 student/child)!

The poster features Winnie The Pooh, and there's a short poem in small
print at the bottom that just about says it all:

     AND THE COWS ARE ALMOST COOING, AND THE TURTLE-DOVES ARE MOOING,
     WHICH IS WHY A POOH IS POOHING  IN THE SUN.

,-)
Gail
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: IWS%ssmic@cdfq.ssd.ray.com
Subject: Re: "you never listen to my advice"
Reply-To: IWS%ssmic@cdfq.ssd.ray.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:35:14 GMT

(Ofer posts his side of the story wrt to trying to set up a tree
and Steve Jeck being the seed...)

Surpisingly enough, Steve Jeck can be a very pleasant person in 
person.  It's too bad that some of that can't rub off on to his 
net.persona, because he is such an email/net ogre. :-)

Btw, Steve did not make those stickers - someone gave them to him :-)
From: joels@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Joel Schneier)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Songlists for December 1992
Summary: please send
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:24:45 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Could some kind person out there pleaase e-mail me all of the songlists
from December 1992.  

Gratefully,

Joel Schneier
joels@gradient.cis.upenn.edu



Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: Jannette Pazer <ibmsupt!ibmpa!jannette.aix.kingston.ibm.com!jannette@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Re: Christmas Card from Terrapin Tapes..
Reply-To: ibmsupt!ibmpa!jannette.aix.kingston.ibm.com!jannette@uunet.uu.net
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:42:47 GMT

Charles Fee writes:
| Just thought I'd ask and see if anyone else got a holiday greeting from
| terrapin tapes..  
| ...but they also mentioned a 10% discount for anyonw who has
| ordered from them before! 

Yeah, I got one too.  Very nice...except that I just ordered 50
tapes from them for megabucks, and literally a couple of days after
my tapes arrived, I got the card saying I could get 10% off.  A little
late, eh?  Considering I just spent lots of money on Christmas gifts,
I don't think I'm ready to order another 50 tapes to take advantage
of the discount.  I wish he would have mentioned the discount was
coming when I ordered my tapes.

Jannette

-- 
Jannette Wing Pazer 		* 	IBM Kingston, NY - "tangled up in Blue"
		No direct internet access, go through uunet. 
uunet:
   uunet!panews.awdpa.ibm.com!jannette.aix.kingston.ibm.com!jannette
internet:
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Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: redfreak@softcopy.ecn.purdue.edu (Thomas Lobonc)
Subject: HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! (NEED MO INFO)
Keywords: mail order, groooovel
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:15:46 GMT

I heard mail order is today for Rosemont. Could somebody PLEASE PLEASE
send me the details.. All I need is the price of the tickets, the dates,
what PO box number to send to, and any other "special" instructions
other than including spring tour part one.  Post or e-mail, and PLEASE,
SOMBODY get me this info as soon as you can, as I need to get to the post
office.  I somehow lost most of the posts from the last week when I was
gone.  Today is the first day, right????

THANKSTHANKSTHANKSTHANKSTHANKS,
redfreak
From: rangok@wpi.WPI.EDU (Rangaswamy Keshavan)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: Yay!  Dead not as popular?!?
Date: 26 Dec 1992 18:49:37 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


They haven't been touring as much this year because of JG's problem.  But we 
can only hope!  I remember a show in 81 where I had extra tickets but couldn't
even give them away (in Providence) because they weren't that great, and plenty
of good seats were still available!  We can only pray and hope that the Touch
of Grey crowd has gotten sick of the drums and space enough to stop coming to 
the shows and chatting so loud during them that they ruin the whole thing!  I
remember at the Boston Garden show in 91 the crowd murmur got so loud as a 
function of how spacey Garcia was playing (the spacier they got, the more the
crowd murmer got louder).  I couldn't believe it!  For me the drums and the
space is the best part of the show, where they take apart everything and then
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: Emil Petruncio <7039P@navpgs.bitnet>
Subject: Merle in Santa Cruz Saturday
Reply-To: 7039P@navpgs.bitnet
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:27:34 GMT

Hey Folks,

Merle Saunders and the Rainforest Band will be playing at the Catalyst
in Santa Cruz this Saturday night.  Tix are a mere 6 bucks.
Call 408-423-1336 for further info.

I'll be there tonight, looking forward to a nice Bertha from Los Lobos.

Best of Luck and Good Health to all in '93.

Your friendly neighborhood oceanographer,
Emil T. Petruncio  BITNET: 7039p@navpgs
                   INTERNET: 7039p@vm1.cc.nps.navy.mil
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: tjdalton@athena.mit.edu (Transitive NightFall of Diamonds)
Subject: Re: Fantasy Venue
Followup-To: rec.music.gdead
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:11:53 GMT

dario.wolfish@idcbbs.uu.holonet.net (Dario Wolfish) writes:
>For fantasy location too see the dead, I'd pick the old Academy of Music in
>New York. I saw them there in March of 1972. It had the best sound
>acoustics of any place I've ever seen the dead. My 2nd choice is
>Carnegie Hall. In SF, the Fillmore Auditorium on Geory would also be
>great. Oh well, looks like I have to settle for the Oakland Coliseum.

Well, not quite a fantasy location, but I'd like to see the boys return 
to LeZenith in Paris.  It was an INCREDIBLE venue.  The acoustics in
that place were great.
Every seat was practically FOB.  And it was real easy to walk from the
back to the rail.  No problems.

As a matter of fact, anywhere in Europe would be fun!

	Tim

Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: tracer@carson.u.washington.edu (David P. Tracer)
Subject: Re: (none)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:51:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.212602.1745@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> andrejkow@tbosch.dnet.ge.com writes:
>
>	Anyone who has seen firsthand how an LSD overdose can mentally cripple
>someone would not argue with a 10 year sentence for a dealer.  I have no 
>sympathy for these sheet yielding clowns who get nailed.  Most of them
>haven't a clue as to what they're really selling.  They never seem to gave
>have the pleasure of witnessing someone freaking out, trembling uncontrollably
>and losing their mind.  As long as they get enough cash to feed thier jones
>and get to the next show (deal) they're satisfied.  I say let the dealers fry. 


Talk about uncontrollable trembling, freaking out, and losing your mind!

I just wonder if you shouldn't feel,
less concerned about the deep unreal.

-David
From: vosshall@Apple.COM (Pete Vosshall)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: SETLIST 92.12.19
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:44:48 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <margolin-211292103412@fp1-molbio-19.uoregon.edu> margolin@oregon.uoregon.edu (Brian Margolin) writes:
>Does anybody know what TWLWMYD stands for?
>
>Brian

That's What Love Will Make You Do
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Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: "Brian J. Rupert" <0004903167@mcimail.com>
Subject: ODC & Neil Young's Lyrics - "You & Me"
Reply-To: 0004903167@mcimail.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:03:11 GMT


A lyrical coincidence? Or possibly a Dead reference?

On Neil Young's new album, "Harvest Moon", the third song entitled
"You & Me" has a coincidental(?) reference to Jerry in it:

     "...Old man sittin' there,
       Touch of Grey, but he don't care,
       when he hears his children call..."

     "...Open up your eyes,
      See how life time flies,
      Open up and let the light back in..."

Strange coincidence, huh? "You & Me" is a pretty deep tune. I've
never heard Neil Young put together such an incredible array of 
tunes - it's a great album.

BJR

E-Mail: 490-3167@mcimail.com
From: mrichey@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
Subject: Re: Yay!  Dead not as popular?!? 
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:56:16 GMT

In article <Bzo9u3.3C1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay) writes:
>
>(From "USA Today", 12/22/92)  
>
>TOP TOURS:  With 99% of box office recpeits tallied, here's the final ranking 
>of 1992's top-grossing tours, according to the Jan. 8 issue of "Perfomance
>Magazine":
>
>U2, $67.9 Million (M$); Metallica, M$40.4; Guns'n'Roses, M$37.2; GRATEFUL
>DEAD, M$31.9; Bruce Springsteen, M$27.9; Neil Diamond M$25.8; Elton John,
>M$23.2; Hammer, M$19.3; Lollapalooza, M$18.6; and Garth Brooks, M$18.4.
>
>(MY COMMENTS:)
>Last year the Dead were first so naturally I'm elated that they appear to 
>becoming less popular.  Maybe concerts will return, scene-wise, to pre-1987.
>Well, it'll probably never be the same but closer would be nice. 


I wonder what would have happened if Venetta and the fall tour would
not have been cancelled due to Jerry's health?


Mike
From: carmienlane@igc.apc.org (David Lane and Tonya Carmien)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: dead and dead-head sighting!!
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:34:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:1992Dec21.152201.3137@uvaarpa.vi:255450901:cdp:1456400103:000:354
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!carmienlane    Dec 21 20:34:00 1992


In a response to this sighting topic someone mentioned a Deadhead
movie deal in a commercial on MST3K.  I haven't watched that
lately, but i've seen the commercial on CNN! of all places.  I
think the price was 39.99 or 49.99 $$.          It cost a lot to
win and even more to lose, so you and me gonna spend some time,
wonderin' what to choose...
-david
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: SIMON%XTAL0.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Personal Deadstats
Reply-To: SIMON%XTAL0.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:07:37 GMT


I am going to repeat an offer that I make periodically on the net:

The reason I wrote my Useless DeadStats program was to generate
stats for the shows I had seen.  This would allow me to answer
such burning questions as:  Did I see any songs that I had never
seen before at this latest show ?  How many times have I seen
Bucket as a Set I opener ?  Do I see more Jerry songs than Bobby
songs ?  Was this last show pretty short ?  You get the idea,
useless deadstats !  :-)

I can generate the Useless DeadStats output for any subset of
shows.  So, if you would like to fill your screen with useless
trivia about the shows that *you* have seen, email me an ASCII
message which contains the dates of the shows you have seen,
one per line, in order (oldest show at top), in MMDDYY or YYMMDD
format.  I will mail you back your very own, genuine
Personal Useless DeadStats (TM).

Example of file to send:
Shows that Eric saw
921206
921212
921216
<EOF>

Example of file that you get back:
<1000 lines of Personal Useless DeadStats (TM) deleted>


take care,

ejs

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From: pelovtzd@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: new to net
Date: 1 Jan 93 23:16:22 GMT
Organization: New York University

Hi,
I'm new to the news network in general, though I've been reading
for a while.  What are flames and FAQs?  ALso, mail ordered for Cap. 
Centre two days late.  ANyone think they might have extras?
David the Deadhead - "PELOVTZD@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU"
"But more musicians have floundered in the channel to "Cherokee" than
have gotten through from end to end. All those long, long notes...what're
they up to,all that time to do something inside of? is it an Indian plot?"
Thomas Pynchon
From: Mike.Swartzbeck@p816.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mike Swartzbeck)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Yay!  Dead not as popular?!?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:21:04 -0500

In a SubSpace transmission on stardate 12/26/92, Rangaswamy Keshavan stated: 

  RK> From: rangok@wpi.WPI.EDU (Rangaswamy Keshavan) Newsgroups:
  RK> rec.music.gdead Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  RK> 
  RK> They haven't been touring as much this year because of JG's problem. 
  RK> But we can only hope!  I remember a show in 81 where I had extra
  RK> tickets but couldn't even give them away (in Providence) because they
  RK> weren't that great, and plenty of good seats were still available!  We
  RK> can only pray and hope that the Touch of Grey crowd has gotten sick of
  RK> the drums and space enough to stop coming to the shows and chatting so
  RK> loud during them that they ruin the whole thing!  I remember at the
  RK> Boston Garden show in 91 the crowd murmur got so loud as a function of
  RK> how spacey Garcia was playing (the spacier they got, the more the
  RK> crowd murmer got louder).  I couldn't believe it!  For me the drums
  RK> and the space is the best part of the show, where they take apart
  RK> everything and then

...and then re-assemble it, piece by piece, like rebuilding a '72 Beetle engine
on your kitchen table in the dark? I guess that's what you were about to say;
your msg got chopped off.

Yeah, man. I really get a charge when they jam hard on some straight-ahead rock
& roll numbers, but the Drums/Space really separates the men from the boys. It's
where you find out who's been listening to Miles, Coltrane, Zappa and Hendrix
and who's been listening to Michael Bolton and Whitney Houston.



Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: jeff@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Jeff Althoff)
Subject: Happy Christmas
Organization: Institute for the Theoretical Physics
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:44:57 GMT

To all my fellow members of this cyber community--

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a very happy New Year!

ODC: Happy Christmas to the Grateful Dead!

Jeff. 
-- 
--------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: pmc@world.std.com (Patrick M Chase)
Subject: Mickey & Hartbeats, Matrix 10/68
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:13:19 GMT

_Tape/Show ID perhaps?_

OK, this one has me stumped. Haven't listened really close yet but I figured
someone out there could solve all this in a second. I've got these tapes:
(these are the labels; I haven't yet listened for cuts and such)

1) 90min.
A: jam (cut here), it's a sin (there's a cut here), jam* ->
B: jam* -> walkin' cane blues*, jam, death don't
* w/Paul Butterfield

2) 90min
A: dark star -> death letter blues -> cryptical -> drums -> other -> cryptical
B: lovelight -> eleven jam -> death don't
(cryptical series marked as "That's It for the Other One". I'm assuming here)

3) 90min
A: dark star -> cosmic charlie -> jam
B: jam -> death don't -> jam

And here's a tape from another source:

4) 90min
A: death don't, dark star jam, eleven, seven
B: lovelight, drums, alligator, other, caution

OK. Now tape #4 is labelled 10/9/68 (A-side) and 10/10/68 (B-side). That seems
like a good bet, and jives with DeadBase VI - although I haven't yet carefully
listened for Jack Casady on 10/9/68.

Now. I gotta feeling that tape 1,2, and 3 are really a mix of 10/19/68 and
10/30/68. The "jam ->it's a sin" on side A of tape #1 could easily be the
beginning of 10/9/68 but I didn't do the match yet - I'm spinning them now and
will be comparing later - deck's are all tied up for a day or two.

There's also a cut after the first jam on tape #1 and that jam's about
28 minutes in length. I'm listening to the 2nd jam now so I can't comment
on anything after that. This tape is like *reeeeeaaaaall* laid-back and the
Paul Butterfield harp is prominent. Saturating this tape too.....damnit..

So does anyone out there have a similar bunch of Matrix tapes that they have
confirmed labelling on? And what the hell is "Walkin' Cane Blues"?

Any help appreciated. I'm sooo confused. Oh....BTW, the first three tapes are
simply labelled "Mickey and the Hartbeats, The Matrix, San Fran, 10/68"

Thanx....
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Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
From: chrisvh@med.unc.edu (Chris G. vanHasselt)
Subject: About Chapel Hill
Originator: chrisvh@nakina
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:08:45 GMT

Since it is official that the Dead are playing the Dean Smith Center in
Chapel Hill, let me tell you about the Dean Smith Center.

As you surely know, the Dean Smith Center was named after Dean Smith, the
winningest coach in college hoops, and current coach of the UNC mens team.
Naturally, the UNC team gets a lot of TV time, and when the Smith center
is on TV, it used to sound a lot too quiet.  Although the fans were
cheering, the sound does not carry in the Smith Center, and so on TV it
would always sound like a real quiet audience even though people were
cheering; that's how bad the sound is.  In fact, when you see the games
now and hear cheering, it is because over the student section they have
placed microphones, and they amplify the sound of the student section and
carry it over speakers located all around the arena. 

In addition, every concert I've seen at the Smith Center has had really
poor sound.  So good luck,  Mr. Healy and company!  It's really too bad
the Dead have to play in such a terrible arena.

Any comments?  Please e-mail to...
chrisvh@med.unc.edu

Thanks, 
Chris van Hasselt