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Great Grateful Dead story

My friend Steve Gayle (a San Francisco public defender) sent me this story during the Marathon and I read it on the air. I post it here with his permission.

Hi David-

I’m spending this rainy Saturday at home working on my current trial and listening to the KPFA marathon (and I thank you for that !). I remembered a great story that a friend of mine told me, and I thought I’d pass it on…

She went to a show at Cal Expo, and after the show was over she encountered a small group of skinheads in the parking lot. The skinheads were standing in a knot, seemingly hell bent on provoking the deadheads by chanting “white power” and shaking their fists in the air as the crowd flooded out of the venue. The deadheads quickly surrounded the skinheads, outnumbering them several hundred times; and soon the deadheads started a chant on their own: “Love is real, not fade away,” clapping to the same beat as the skinheads and drowning them out completely. No one laid a hand on them, but soon the skinheads melted away, their evil vibe completely defeated.

Cheers,
Steve

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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1170

Week of February 21, 2011

Part 1 37:35
Grateful Dead 12/5/79 Uptown Theater, Chicago
SHAKEDOWN STREET->
SAMSON AND DELILAH
SHIP OF FOOLS

Part 2 18:28
Interview: Bob Bralove talks about “First Fusion”
7 Walkers
NEW ORLEANS CRAWL

Lyrics by Robert Hunter, drums by Bill Kreutzmann, vocals by Papa Mali. I am loving this 7 Walkers album!

First Fusion is a collaboration between Bob Weir and the Marin Symphony, a benefit for the orchestra, on May 7, 2011. You can hear interviews with Bob Weir and composer Giancarlo Aquilanti here.

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