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Kimono, Como No?

Grateful Dead

Sometimes, Mrs. Donna Jean liked to put on a kimono and easy skank.

Sometimes, Bobby and Garcia would join her. Not the kimono thing, though not from lack of trying on Bobby’s part. Garcia had to tackle him right before he got on the stage one night: Bobby was in the full M. Butterfly costume, with the little lips and the giant hair and the wooden shoes; he could only take four or five steps at a time without toppling over, anyway.

“No, Bobby! This band won’t be a party to your cultural appropriation!” Garcia said. “Check your privilege!”

“I won’t! I won’t check my privilege,” Bobby spat.

“You check that privilege, Mister. And give me the slide.”

 

Early To Rise

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In 1970, $4.50 would get you not just get you into the Fox Theater in St. Louis to see that far-out band from the Coast, the Grateful Deads, but you might just wind up hanging out onstage.

Nowadays access costs a bit more. This year’s Interferon Concert–or whatever the mudfest is called–offers an executive all-inclusive Diamond Level package for ten thousand bucks. Granted, you do get to sleep with Bobby and Phil, all in the same little bed like the Three Stooges, while wearing those old-timey sleep hats and Phil has that old-timey snore: chhhhhhh-WEEEboobooboo, chhhhhh WEEEboobooboo, so on that level the whole thing’s worth it.

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