Shopping in the Dead Lot

Editor’s note: In the summer series Classic City Deadheads, Athenians are celebrating their love of the Grateful Dead and reflecting on some of their favorite Dead (or Dead-inspired) recordings. This week’s head is Eric Shea, a writer and musician who recently relocated to Athens from his home state of California. As a teenage skate punk growing up in 1980s Northern California, my young cohorts and I were taught by the older guys that the Grateful Dead was the enemy. I once witnessed a friendly and disheveled looking fellow getting told to “beat it” upon arriving to a backyard ramp for wearing the band’s iconic Skull and Roses T-shirt. Still…