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The hippies are coming! The hippies are com … wait a sec. They’re not?
According to their website, Grateful Dead redux Furthur have been forced to cancel their upcoming Concerts on the Green performance scheduled for 7/5 at stately — and now 99% hippie free — Shelburne Museum. Here’s the announcement:
July 5th Shelburne Vermont Show CANCELLED
To All Of Our Fans Who’ve Purchased Tickets To Our July 5 Show in
This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2010.
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Wow, that was an incoherent mess, even for a 15 year old. I could only interpret about a third of it, but I hope you enjoyed the “toar” I guess…?
look idiotic guy that thinks he knows furthur, the dead, and everything else that signifies who we are, yes i’m talking to you jimmy. i’m 15 and went on almost the entire east coast summer toar. you couldn’t ask for a nicer group of people and people that would better take care of your land. tour is about family and taking care of one another. we don’t leave a mess behind that someone else has to clean up. oh and come to think of it, don’t say that i should be more responsible for my age ’cause i was with my parents and they taught me well. furthur provided you with tourism, money, and a great group of people. now instead of that you have a bunch of pissed off hippies that just wanted to listen to music. all i really wanted to say though, is that you gotta learn what there really is to something before you make a judgement, not act like a know-it-all jackass and try to look at both sides bfore you get so defensive over something that did somehting so wrong and you don’t even know the other side of it. actually if you look into it dead heads are meant to be mellow and i can tell you from real experience not from what i think a hippy is, that we are. you wouldn’t have any issues so let it go and understand that we are allowed to be upset, our hometown, backyard show was cancelled by people who don’t know who the fans are and are too afraid to understand. really it was cancelled because of people like you. and really i’m an accepting person. i just hate it when others aren’t.
I went to the small venue Stroudsburg, PA show on Monday, July 5 and it was great! Thank you Vermont. We spent the the second half of our holiday vacation in Burlington and visited the Shelburne Museum yesterday. Having the concert at that venue would have been a major traffic snarl, a total nightmare getting in and out on Rte. 7. Next time better planning and not scheduling an act that will pull in 1000s of people with or without tickets will be the best way to proceed. H2
I can see where you couldn’t deduce my position, because I only stated it half a dozen times. Put down the bong and read carefully.There were a few chumps on this thread saying that Shelburne Museum should be boycotted (or words to that effect) because they were to blame for this concert’s cancellation. It should be clear at this point that no one knows who is really to blame, so boycotting one of the two sides in this case is ridiculous.Luckily, weed wreaks havoc with your memory, so most people who were incensed about the concert’s cancellation have now forgotten that it was ever scheduled in the first place.
Jimmy, I was at Furthur Fest @ Mt. Aire … while there were a few bad apples, by and large it was a VERY well behaved crowd. You’ve done a great job at arguing for your position vs. the topic at hand from an open minded perspective. I’m not sure exactly what your position ultimately entails, other than support of the LAST MINUTE cancellation of an event?!?
…and you know this how, Reality? What were the specific concerns that the Museum brought up, and how were they addressed? Who else raised concerns? What contract issues were cited?”My guess…”Oh yeah, you’re just guessing. Like everyone else.