I've been studying it since August, and it s an amazing thing. He talks of removing warts by the heat of his hands, of how he treated a friend with a brain tumor. It's been an easy one. A few damaged toes, a couple of doses of aspirin. You rarely see overdoses here.
People are just a whole lot mellower.
He throws on his leather jacket, picks up his motorcycle helmet and, walking with that peculiar fiat-footed amble, begins to make his way past the beaming Deadheads backstage. He sees the stagehand again and drops his helmet, picks up the guy's leg and moves his hands over it. Intently he works on the ankle for ten minutes, fifteen, and then, satisfied, picks up his helmet and rambles off . . . Shawn Bates is a deejay and writer who tries to like heavy metal.