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Dead Body Found at Gathering of the Vibes Festival Site
http://www.spinner.com/2009/07/28/dead-body-found-at-gathering-of-the-vibes-festival-site

This past Sunday was a sad day for the Gathering of the Vibes, a popular and well-established classic rock festival now in its 14th year, when news of a death spread through the campgrounds. According to the Connecticut Post, the body of 29-year-old Jay Caliro of East Meadow, New York, was found in the camping area early on the festival's fourth and final morning.

Rumors spread in the campground that the body was dumped there from a getaway car, fueling speculation of foul play, but that's likely a fabricated story that exists only in the imagination of the music fans who were partying in the campground over the weekend. Police are investigating but have told several local news outlets that the cause of the concertgoer's death appears to be medically related. As such, it is not being treated as a homicide at this time.

The Gathering of the Vibes itself was born out of a death -- specifically, Jerry Garcia's. When the guitarist passed away in 1995, he left behind a family, a band, and a nation of Deadheads. Festival promoter Ken Hays founded the Vibes as a way for old tour friends to reunite and dance to live music, even though the Grateful Dead had closed up shop. The festival has since grown to become a staple of the summer festival circuit and a benchmark to which many other festivals are now compared. This year's headliners included Crosby, Stills and Nash, moe. and Bob Weir (an original member of the Grateful Dead). It's had several homes over the years but is most closely associated with Seaside Park in Bridgeport, CT, where it was located this past weekend.

While few years went off without a hitch (a lightning storm here, a cancellation there), this is the first casualty the festival has ever suffered. Hays told local news Channel 8, WTNH that the tragedy "saddens me and I know it saddens the Chief and the Mayor, but we continue forward."

Moving forward isn't alway something Deadheads are the best at, but by now, they're used to it. The Gathering of the Vibes, meanwhile, is determined, as always, to celebrate the past by looking ahead and to just keep truckin' on.

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gbarbie131
at 7-28-2009
Bullshit. His body was broken and bruised and his face was burned. It is common knowledge at this point that it had to do with the N02 mafia, and was a murder. What, did he put the tarp over himself after he was dead? I don't understand how a cover-up of this proportion is possible, but it angers me. If this is not handled, crime and danger will be present at next years vibes.

Disgusted vibes fan.

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Papa Smurf
at 7-28-2009
my tent was one row away from where they discovered his body
i heard the screams for a medic for atleast a half hour before anyone came, i spoke to lots of people who saw the body. bruised from head to toe, partially wrapped in a tarp, face burned intensively with what seemed to be cold air. The Philly nitrious mafia definitaly did this. those fuckers are such scumbags i watched them all weekend. supposivly this dude had his own tank and he was supposivly trying to steal from the other dealers all weekend. alsoooo that night there madddd fireworks were set off consecutively, the 5 dollar fatty dealers i made friends with in the tent next to us told me they probably were used to cover his screams as he was beat to death. Tanks do not belong at festies, the ppl who ride those things are full blown retarted. save vibes, search cars, take tanks. Man that was a sweet ass time though, didnt eat or sleep for 4 days solid!

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bloodysnow869at 7-28-2009
just so all you know it was my friends that found the body first and it was burned and bruised! cops are covering it up. and if no one noticed the N2O mafia was setting off tanks next to cops and nothing happened? yeah they were paid off.

F U N2O MAFIA

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