European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine v York Tif a photos grateful dead Tan in a tie dyed Kaftan. Tho band s fans a to been described As a cult following. The dance of the dead Eads during a concert in Palo Alto calit., e Mother one of the Many ims who camped outside the holding her child danced to the music. Amphitheater and hoped to get a ticket Friday june 10, 1988 by Jane Gross new York times in dyed from head to toe and fuzzy with Mari Diana the Young men and women paraded up and Don Campus drive outside the Frost Lamphi Thaler a i so Ansurd univ Cisily in Palo Alto. Calit. One. Just  they crooned Wilh Index lingers raised High begging or Nickels to a recent Grato tul dead concert. Their base Camp was a Patch of nearby Lawn which began tilling of Dawn with battered vans and psychedelic school buses the transportation of Choice Lor Iho most deadheads. The fans Are fixtures wherever heir band performs but nowhere More than in Iho san Francisco Bay area where Iho grateful dead was born More than 20 years ago inside Iho Amphitheater on Grassy tiers beneath Groves of Oak and eucalyptus Trees. 8,000 deadheads settled in for an afternoon of music rambling sets at new songs and old an improvisations Medley that began with a Lazy rendition of lot the Good times Roll and included touch of Gray an Anthem to longevity that last year was he group s Tirol top 10 hit. Outside those without tickets peddled scented candles Silver jewelery Woven Friendship bracelets and tie dyed to Shu is to earn Gas Money for the next leg Oll heir idolatrous journey the grateful dead is one of the Best drawing bands in Rock n Roll history and their tans have been described As a cult following. The dead May draw bigger crowds else Hie at new Yolk s Madison Square Garden Tor instance where they will play in september. But it is Here thai Jerry Garcia and his five fellow musicians live and work the majority of Itier concerts Are in Iha san Francisco Bay area including the greek theater in Berkeley. Inc Kaiser auditorium in Oakland and in Palo Alto where inc group is regarded As a cultural icon. They Are Home grown and they never lol Hal  said Jann Winner. Editor of rolling Stone Magazine they did t Fly of to Hollywood or now York " surrounding the band is a vast counterculture Umpire Bill by and Lor Tho deadheads there is a Slick  Magazine. Trio Golden Road and a weekly radio program. Inc read Hoad hot Hal began in san Francisco thick Zertis ago and has since been syndicated in 15 other cities there is a computer bulletin Board in Sausalito and Telephone hot lines on Bolt coasts Lor ticket information. There is a ruthlessly efficient mail order operation Lor tickets and a collage Industry Lor bumper slickers among the most popular of which is Wake tapes. Nol  since the dead encourage lans to record their conceits in arc is also a worldwide network of tape traders who run classified advertisements in the Golden Road seeking the missing sinks in their colled ions desperately want Boulder 9-3-72 or need greek 87 and anything 72-74." Many of those closest to the band say they Are ally acted to the grateful dead because they Are cd thinkers democratic and Anli commercial More interested in performing than it coding and devoted to each other and to their symbiotic relationship with their fans for David cans author of playing in the band an oaf cd visual portrait of Tho grateful dead and produced of the Deadhead How i Lekoy is the group s resistance to mass Market pressures. When you thrive outside those mechanisms it s something Lobo proud  he said Jon us entire. The band manager talks of a willingness to take risks in concerts by never playing the same song twice the same Way which sometimes works and some mos is a  Iho Frost Amphitheater at the dead s most recent Bay area concert the audience was mined with stoned Young people spinning Ecol apically in the aisles and More Pedalo men and women in Alligator shirts and Cico necks gathered on blankets with their children. Outside however the Deadhead encamp Mcnol was dominated by the Raggedy Crow who follow Iho band irom concert to concert trading to Shirls Lor tickets smoking marijuana and calling Homo when they run out of Money it s like going to Europe for a year said one Young woman describing inc upper Middle class Post College ritual of another age. Those in the official entourage Are Sensitivo about what they consider undue attention to these hardcore deadheads the ones who brag Alrjoub seeing 80 concerts a year while earning a living of sorts Selling tie dyes. Some of them Are devoted to the Point they have no other life said Dennis Mcnally a stall member of Tho band. Obviously people can do More productive things than follow a band around bul they re Cesi Hinfy not hurling  the stars and stripes Page 13