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Listening to the live

“Terrapin Limited” Dead show

3-15-90

Uncle Phil’s 50^th birthday

and surprise, surprise

a show I actually

managed to attend

I didn’t really remember

the show

as being

one of the band’s finer moments

but the discs

reveal my error

It were a well played show

and listening to shows

you actually attended

can open a floodgate

of all those glorious memories

of those wondrous times

when you still believed

in the positive vibe

but one memory

that strikes a deep chord

is that I broke up a fight

in the parking lot

and was bummed out

all day that a fight

broke out at a Dead show

I was thinking,

“What the Hell is this?

A tractor truck pull event?

Or an NFL game””

People acting like assholes

at Dead shows

always pissed me off

They ruin the festive mood

with their pissy attitudes

I really wanted

to bitch slap the both of them

for fucking up the good vibes

otherwise gone down

without their transgression