Thursday, April 24, 2008

It just doesn't seem right....

A Deadhead’s Dream for a Campus Archive
The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part of a research center to be known as Dead Central.
It bothers me more than just a little that all of the "old" counterculture has gone so damn mainstream; and I have a feeling that Jerry would not really approve of this either. But what do I know? It seems that every commercial and TV intro has a song from the Who; and the Louis Vuitton ads with Keith Richards make me want to wretch.....

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