“Dead Heads” never die!

At the last outdoor concert in Deer Valley, we listened to Aiko, a band of musical brothers founded in Nashville, Tennessee in1984, in the spirit of the Grateful Dead.

The band gets a huge following, just as the famous band, by the same “Dead Heads”, a uniquely American phenomenon.

These are the same fans that, since the 1970s, have traveled to see the band perform in as many shows or festival venues as they possibly could.

Wednesday night was no different, as a huge fan crowd was jamming along, in full communion with the band, to the tunes of the Grateful Dead.

What was remarkable was to see the average age of that crowd, most of them in their 50s to late 70s, some of them barely able to walk, yet still trying to go to the front of the stage and dance, in a certain way, collectively expressing a Baby Boomers' last hurrah.

Will that special generation ever die?