Alpine Valley
East Troy, WI
This great show was chosen for Dick’s Picks #32 and featured the unusual opener Music Never Stopped > Sugaree > The Music Never Stopped and a gorgeous, seamless set 2 concluding in a powerful Morning Dew.
Leaving my seat and my friend down in the pavilion to go walk around, I sat far back in the lawn to watch set 2 and for the first time thought long and hard about being a pro-Reagan, GOP Deadhead.
I considered it highly likely that so many of the parents of these young kids my age were probably Republicans, and that many of these casual local fans would end up the same.
What did it mean to me? The Grateful Dead would always transcend politics, and that I’d never discuss it at concerts.