POP/ROCK - June 4, 1992
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Banned in Las Vegas: Following three sold-out Grateful Dead concerts at UNLV over the weekend, Las Vegas County Commissioner Paul Christensen says the rock band and its followers should be banned from the city. He has asked county employees to draft an ordinance giving the commission veto power over future large rock concerts where people “are hauled off totally stoned to our hospitals,” Christensen said. Backers of the concert say the event was peaceful, with few drug arrests.
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