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The sophisticated New Yorker takes on the Grateful Dead. Rob Eaton is in the lead paragraph. Hilarity ensues.
They dispensed bromides about peace and fellowship as they laid waste to parking lots and town squares.
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In A Silent Way
, Nov 19 2012 05:46 PM
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Posted 19 November 2012 - 06:52 PM
13 pages 
Not to be tl;dr'd, though.
9 pages in - Good read.
Not to be tl;dr'd, though.
9 pages in - Good read.
The first memory I have of the Grateful Dead is of a classmate in sixth grade telling me he’d gone to see them with his older sister. He reported that the band consisted of a bunch of hairy old guys in baggy clothes sitting on a stage eating spaghetti. It occurred to me later that he might have made this up, or that his sister had perhaps said something about “noodling.”
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