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Transcript: Hey Now, A Directory to Deadhead Culture
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- August 29, 1994
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NOAH ADAMS, Host: The Grateful Dead. This is one of the old songs.
They've been at it so long you have to look it up. It was December
of 1965 when the name was first used for a Jerry Garcia based band.
Three decades of traveling, and last year the band sold more than
a million tickets, many of them bought by the same people. The fans
who travel each year from show to show are called Deadheads. They
see each other at the shows and keep in touch by computer.
And now there's a guide to this culture, a book titled Skeleton Key,
a dictionary for Deadheads. The authors are David Shenk [sp] and
Steve Silberman [sp]. Between them, they've seen 300 ...