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Helping the band amass those electrifying stats is a remarkably loyal core of "Deadhead" fans. But the competition was hurt by something less remarkable: the recession. Concert business is off 25% compared with last year's first half. Some managers are reluctant to send their artists on tour in such an inhospitable climate...
...Everyone in the whole bohemian preppie stoner set, who do the reggae Deadhead-tie-dye-long-hair-down-to-earth trip while they're here and then go to deb balls and work on Wall Street when they leave...
...folks I know who are "into" The Dead--I'm sure you know some too--lend themselves easily to overstatement. The whole scene has become almost a cultural cliche, and certainly a musical anachronism, but I'm not going to get really mean because some of my Deadhead friends got me a seat on my school's "Dead Bus," which was informally run by several undergrads for transport to the concert. Tickets, I was assured, were no problem. Everyone scalped them at the stadium...
...spirit of giving seems to pervade the Deadhead culture. When we ran into someone with two tickets for sale, I offered him $50 for both, even though we had previously agreed that we would go as high as $35 apiece. Startled by my reckless spending, he said, "Wait a minute, I'm not out to make a profit or anything. Take 'em for $45." After giving him the money, a friend said, "See? No one's here to make money. They just want to make sure everyone gets in!" Dumb-founded I took the ticket, and we headed...
...entertainment side, live bands play consistently at Jonathan Swift's on JFK St. Swift's features deadhead rockers and blues musicians. Doors stay open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. Passim, in the alley between the two halves of the Coop, doubles as a restaurant by day and features folk artists and acoustic guitarists by night. If you don't mind a short hike up Cambridge St. to Inman Square, you can hear live jazz at the 1360 Club...