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Show Page Six Post-morte- , blues m Votes' apathy Grate? ul Dead conceit killed by Joe Baird Chronicle staff ' ?- - The concert that almost was, now apparently isn't. That was the news from Mike Fischer, ASUU's Concert and Campus Event director, who told the Chronicle Wednesday that a effort to land the Grateful Dead for this spring's Mayfest has gone down the pipe. The setback was the latest in a series of incidents that have frustrated ASUU's concert promoting activities this year. two-mon- th The Grateful Dead decided not to go with us because of the opportunity to do an outdoor show at Park West in September. Mike Fischer Fischer contacted the Dead in January about the possibility of Special Events Center show in the spring, and when the group's management responded favorably with word that a late April, early May show would fit in with an upcoming tour, tentative plans were laid to try to tie the show in with Mayfest the weeks of events and music that ASUU annually stages in the spring. But last- - week the legendary San Francisco band ended up turning down the ASUU offer. "They decided not to go with us because of the opportunity to do an outdoor show at Park West in September1," Fischer .aid "It's something they've always wanted to do here and that show would tie in with another tour they would be doing at the time." a . , - - Fischer indicated he was looking at the Dead show as a way of going out with a bang, in a year that concert-wis- e anyway, has not been up to his expectations. The biggest financial clunker during this past academic year was September's Juice Newton SEC show a conceit that drew a miniscule 1,500 fans into the 15,000-se- at arena. Fischer has no p the country-posinger, claiming that regrets about booking well drew Newton at college shows in Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona. But he did admit the fiasco at the box office here was a major reason he couldn't do as much as he wanted the rest of the year. - - Still, lest anyone get the idea that the whote year has been a washout, it should be noted that ASUU has delivered Spy ro Gyra, the Dynatones and a Laserium rock show, in promotions next month will find ranging from profitable to Weather Report gracing Kingsbury Hall's stage on April 11 and a Union Ballroom date with L. A.. rockabilly band the Blasters on April 12. Confirmed for Mayfest is 'another return engagement for reggae folksinger John Bayley, in addition to the local bands ' that will perform daily throughout that week. " i Financially, ASUU.began the 1982-8- 3 year with a concert fund of S 50,000, and Fischer said he expects to have most, if not all of that money used up by the end of spring quarter. Any left over, he noted, will go into a reserve fund for next year. break-even.A- ' to, but I'm involved with my classes." t . : Brad Allen, a freshman majoring in business, said he "didn't take the elections seriously." , "I thought to myself, 'This isn't politics, some of the posters looked like wedding announcements. ' It's just a big joke,", he ' , . , , said. Allison Adams, a sophomore in political science, said she didn't vote because she didn't have time. MI didn't have time to listen to the candidates or their views. ' Maybe if they changed the time the elections were held, it would help; They are held only about a week and a halfbefore finals, and most students didn't have time to listen or vote.'V Kathy Ockey, a mass communications senior, said she didn't vote becaiise it "doesn't matter. It's a game," - : "When ! went to another school, I was really involved in the student government there. But it's just a game. It's not different in any school in Utah." When asked if she thought she was getting her money's worth from ASUU,-Ocke-y said, "I go to all the Last Lectures, I think But are it's stupid to use money for dumb things they really good. that only a few students care about, like the allocations made to some student groups. I honestly don't know what they spend all that money on, other than their own salaries." Mathew Haun, a sophomore majoring in classics, said he did vote in the ASUU elections, "but only because they had that Burial Party, or I would have voted for Mickey Mouse." ; Trina Bolen, a student in Middle Eastern studies, said she didn't vote because those who- were running for election were a "bunch of clowns. There was one party I would have voted for if V I felt it was worth my time." Sean Campbell, a sophomore majoring in history, said that though he voted in the primary elections, he didn't vote in the final elections because "it wasn't worth my. while, I couldn't be -- nd . ; ( Another reason for declining the ASUU offer was the Dead's iack'of familiarity with' the promoter a problem that Fischer says he's had to deal with throughout his yearlong tenure as ASUU's conccrrorganizer. They wanted to work with an established promoter, someone they've dealt with before,-- ' Fischer said. "It's the same Old problem. I don't look at it as a putdown, it's just that they don't know much about us." , The Dead's last Salt Lake City appearance, in the summer of 1981 , was promoted in part by J.C. McNeil's United Concerts. It's likely United will also have a band in any September show that materializes. - ; from page five ; , The Daily Utah Chronicle, Friday, March 11, 1983 . : " 7 bothered." . 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