"A bass guitar note took my attention from the hacker’s trail.
The Grateful Dead were playing outdoors at the Berkeley Greek Theater,
only a hundred yards downhill from the lab. The police couldn’t keep people
from sitting in the field overlooking the concert, so I skipped over there,
mingling with a thousand others in tie-dyed shirts. Burnt-out panhandlers,
left over from the sixties, walked the crowd, begging tickets and selling posters,
buttons, and grass. The drum solo in the second set echoed from Strawberry Canyon,
adding a weird backbeat appreciated only by us cheapskates in the fields.
Life was full: no hacker is worth missing a Dead concert for..."
"The Cuckoo's Egg" - Pag 35 (on my edition)