nm34@sdcc12.UUCP (nm34) (03/26/85)
One unique thing about Grateful Dead concerts is that approximately
30-50% of the attendees are tripping. This may
not be interesting to those of you out there who haven't experienced the
alternate reality of these 'magical' substances, but those of you who
have, and haven't been to a Dead concert, you should try it.
The experience of entering an alternate reality with a few friends is an
unbelievable experience to say the least. You find yourself in a world
where many doors are open, doors to your heart,
doors to your feelings, and your logic. You cant think
straight, but you sure can feel straight. Not only are doors opened,
but floors fall away, leaving nothing solid to stand on. Everything you
exerience is new and fresh as it would be to a baby seeing a flower for
the first time. Since the world is new, it can be scarry at times,
until you find that the "real" things in life are the people with you.
Once you discover your friends, you will never be any closer. You will
discover how much people can really care for each other.
Another experience that goes along with these feelings is the
importance and sharpness of your sences. Colors, tastes, smells and
music, espcially music are wonderful. The Dead, gear their music to
stimulate these reactions to music. The music is at times intense,
moving you higher and higher then dropping you then picking you up and
bringing you even higher. The intensity can get frightening but just
when it is too much to bear, they break into the most sedate and
melodious pastoral music in which you can smell the fields and stream
they evoke. The lyrics are also both stimulating to confusion then
understanding and reassuring. In one song, often played after a long
unmelodious passage, the words "...If you get confused, listen to the
music play..." leap out at you and grab you and hold and comfort you.
At a Dead concert many people are tripping. It seems as if
everyone is on the same wavelength.
You can look at the person next to you, who you have never met before and
you KNOW that they KNOW what you are feeling. You are really soulmates
for that short time. Brought together by the music but also the
experience.
I know many who read this will be skeptical to say the least. And
you will never KNOW.
C. Charlie
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu) (03/28/85)
> One unique thing about Grateful Dead concerts is that approximately > 30-50% of the attendees are tripping. This may > not be interesting to those of you out there who haven't experienced the > alternate reality of these 'magical' substances, but those of you who > have, and haven't been to a Dead concert, you should try it. > > The experience of entering an alternate reality with a few friends is an > unbelievable experience to say the least. You find yourself in a world > where many doors are open, doors to your heart, > doors to your feelings, and your logic. You cant think > straight, but you sure can feel straight. Not only are doors opened, > but floors fall away, leaving nothing solid to stand on. Everything you > exerience is new and fresh as it would be to a baby seeing a flower for > the first time. Last night 64 people were busted at the Grateful Dead concert at Nassau Coliseum for possession/sale of LSD and other hallucinogens. Given the above, perhaps net.religion.dead is a better idea for a subgroup. :-? -- "Right now it's only a notion, but I'm hoping to turn it into an idea, and if I get enough money I can make it into a concept." Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr