European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jerry Garcia a new a Reefer madness by Ben Dipietro associated press it s a different kind of Reefer madness these Days for Jerry Garcia. The Man they used to Call Captain trips has become Captain Cousteau. The unassuming Singer and guitar wizard of the grateful dead whose music sprouted from the Quot acid test Ltd parties of the 1960s and remains an enduring legacy of the psychedelic Era now gets his kicks underwater. Quot i like the water. I like the Way it feels. I like slipping around in it a Garcia said. Quot i feel like a fish. It s sort of like having an infinite aquarium to swim around in. Garcia was on a Quot working vacation in Hawaii that included two concerts with his Jerry Garcia electric band and As much scuba diving As possible. His first show on May 19 at Waikiki Shell was Garcia a first Hawaii performance since 1970, when the dead last played Honolulu. The second concert May 20 at Hilo civic Center was a Benefit for the Ocean recreation Council of Hawaii. Torch is trying to preserve Hawaii a Coral reef by placing Anchor mooring pins in Ocean Waters. The moorings would be used by fishing and tour boats that currently drop Anchor into the Coral reef and destroy it. Quot in be seen what anchors do to Coral Quot Garcia said. Quot the reef is the Bottom of the food Chain. It provides food for the fish and so on and the fish end up on people s plates and so on. If you do away with the Coral you re basically thrashing the whole Economy of the islands or at least a Large percentage of  Garcia also is Active in the rain Forest movement. The grateful dead has raised More than $1 million for environmental groups such As Greenpeace and the rain Forest action network. Garcia 47, started scuba diving three years ago shortly after recovering from a 1987 coma caused by untreated diabetes and exhaustion. That illness which almost killed him occurred a few months after he stopped using cocaine and heroin. In More than one Way it was a rebirth for the beloved and reluctant figurehead of the one of the men most associated with the psychedelic �?T60s, Jerry Garcia says he Snow an aficionado of the infinite aquarium. Dead Heads subculture that spreads across the Globe and numbers in the hundreds of thousands Garcia a recovery was followed by the 1987 release of the most successful grateful dead album Ever in the dark. The current album built to last also has gone Gold but never caught on with radio stations and did no to fare As Well commercially As in the dark. Not that Garcia cares very much. Quot we certainly Arentt top 40. That a not what we do its not who we Are a he said. Quot our relationship to top 40 is pretty Remote. Its almost As Remote As our relationship to classical music or mainstream jazz we re about 90 degrees off of just about everything. Quot Garcia said the dead is wording on a live album that will feature material performed on tour this Spring. It should be out by summer and the band is planning a series of stadium shows with a european tour slated for fall the band s first in a decade. Also the band has begun work on releasing Vintage concerts from its massive tape vault on compact disc the ongoing project should keep the band Busy Quot Well past the turn of the millennia a he says. Despite the Success there s trouble in grateful dead land. It s becoming More difficult for the band to find places to play As More and More venues say the problems real or perceived associated with the dead outweigh the big economic boost a series of dead concerts provides to a Community. As the Success of the band increases a 1990 is their 25th anniversary a Many people come to concerts without tickets to take part in the Quot parking lot scene Quot of hanging out and partying. Sometimes this leads to confrontations with police when ticket less fans try to crash a concert. There also is the problem of drugs. As the band that made its name at the famous Ltd parties thrown by Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters the dead and their fans always have been associated with mind expanding substances. While the band frowns upon drug use now there still Are significant numbers of fans who done to. The band and most of the dead Heads Are making a very conscious Effort to minimize their presence cutting Down on outside vending and camping and working to keep concert areas clean and positive. Quot the audience has been behaving so Well lately Quot Garcia said. Quot we be been communicating with them what it is we have to Deal with. Quot the party a Over forded Heads by Alex Dominguez associated press so like last summer de Duffy was raking the kind Buck at grateful dead shows Selling Central american clothing. Last Winter he was pushing his product in a shopping mall the victim of a ban on vending at concerts. One of Rock music s longest lasting acts imposed the ban last fall ending a virtual 25-year party at which fans and vendors set up tent cities before shows and entrepreneurial Neo hippies hawked everything from thai jewelry to vegetable burritos. The grateful dead opened its Spring tour at the capital Centre in Landover my. Some vendors who tried to sell their goods were handled in strict fashion by Security guards Duffy said. The ban May have signalled the end of a subculture that had grown to include its own language food and dress. Quot the party was Over they admitted that. No More circus Quot Duffy said. Quot now it s like going to see the kicks. I was into the  one of the clearest examples of the dead subculture is its Peculiar jargon. Quot kind Quot is the biggest grateful dead buzzword meaning Good or healthy. The term comes from the song Uncle Johns band in which Lead Singer Jerry Garcia asks Quot Are you kind Quot a dude Quot is used quite frequently and Quot like Quot is Well like you know used almost As punctuation Quot a lot of the scene goes beyond music Quot said Eric Rittenhouse who supported himself for two years by travelling to Central America and Asia buying jewelry to sell at shows. So dude like what it All Means is that the kind dead vendors who were styling when they were raking at shows Are now scamming another Way to keep eating. Rittenhouse 32, took a Job in commercial property management last Winter in los Angeles. Duffy 28, spent the Winter with his brother Tim 25, Selling guatemalan peruvian and ecuadorian clothing and accessories at shopping malls and Flea markets in Maryland Pennsylvania and new York Sherri Greif 28, has managed to keep running her business fractal vision Selling psychedelic computer generated posters stickers and videos. The ban however has had an Impact. Quot a dead show is a concentration of people who Are really into the kind of Art we do. So it s not really the same Greif said. Dead Heads say that in addition to putting an end to vending the ban has ended a Way of life. Gone Are the super kind Veggie Burrito and organic Fried Rice and the dead a eccentric entourage. They be been replaced by fast food and department stores. Grateful dead spokesman Dennis Mcnally said he appreciated the fans commitment to the band but said the group was not responsible for providing a living for them. Quot Over the last two years the amount of Energy that has been put into the outside scene was More social than musical Quot Mcnally said in a Telephone interview from san Francisco. While we appreciate the outside activity it is not a social scene it is a music scene. Quot we stopped allowing vending and camping because facilities and Halls with which we had been doing business with for years said we Kwe you but we can t do business with to anymore Quot said Duffy Quot it was one of the few ways left in America to grow up. You have your adventures in the old was the West. Now there is no Wes a Page 16 the stars and stripes monday june 4,1990