Grateful Dead Reunites in Wisconsin
Date: Sunday, August 04 @ 06:42:31 BST
Topic: Music
EAST TROY, Wis. (AP) — It's been seven years since Jerry Garcia's guitar fell silent, but the kaleidoscope of wriggling humanity he kept on the road for more than 30 years is very much alive.
The reanimated Grateful Dead, who have taken to calling themselves The Other Ones, stuttered to a start Saturday.
Apparent equipment problems waylaid the opening notes — a spacy flourish that would have sparkled were it not for the speakers clipping out at least a dozen times.
The sounds righted, The Other Ones lugged out the heavy thunk of ``He's Gone,'' but before the apropos was fully realized or a note was sung, slipped into ``The Other Ones,'' as if to stamp their own identity into the now.
The crowd was ready and with the band fully agroove, the giant green bowl of Alpine Valley Music Theatre was flush with flailing limbs and thousand-watt smiles.
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