Pasadena : Grateful Dead at Rose Bowl
With last October’s peaceful and profitable Guns N’ Roses and Metallica concert as a model, the City Council on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for a Grateful Dead concert at the Rose Bowl.
The rock band, with its following of dedicated “Dead Heads,” will stage a four-hour concert Aug. 14. The event, sponsored by Avalon Attractions, is expected to rack up profits for the city of about $184,000.
But the city will strictly forbid the carnival-like setting of many Grateful Dead concerts, in which marijuana-smoking fans have been known to camp out in the parking lot and unlicensed hawkers have sold anything from T-shirts to LSD, said David Jacobs, the Rose Bowl’s interim general manager.
The effect of the anti-camping ban will be to bring in additional income for the city through hotel and motel occupancy tax revenue, Jacobs said.
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