The Capitol Theatre is open again. It closed in 1976 after having great concerts like the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and Janis Joplin, to mention a few. It reopened in the 1990’s for a short time, that’s when I attended my first concert there, B.B. King. Last night we went again to hear Buddy Guy [...]
Yup, it was Fruday, May 15, 1980, and that is NOT me typing Friday wrong. Here’s the story, and my back-up on this is my buddy Tulch – who is the only other person to catch a Fruday show.
by Mike T. It has been about 33 years since my first Grateful Dead Concert. I have now attended just 3 Furthur Concerts, the most recent last night at the Beacon in NYC. There was something bothering me these past years and last night I finally figured it out – the only place you can [...]
By Randy Heinrich saw grateful dead at the buffalo memorial auditorium sept 21 1981…after the show decided to check out Niagara Falls. On the way back from the Canadian side the 6 of us were stopped by U.S. customs,.the car was searched for who knows what and after 2 hours of being called hippies and [...]
by Jessica B. We saw Further play on Sunday 3/6 at the Orpheum in Boston. Further is a band consisting of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and a bunch of other guys that were not in the Grateful Dead. The Orpheum balcony is not ideal for a show where you might want to move an inch [...]
Even as they grew older (Jerry) and played with less of the energy they once brought to the stage – there was never any doubt that the Fat Man still rocked, and right from the start – Half-Step let us know this was gonna be a Jerry show. Being so close to all those colleges, [...]
I got the passes in Oregon from 1993 from Marshall, a guy who told me he worked for Bill Graham Presents. He had a gigantic pack of passes including one that said he was a writer for Rolling Stone. Even after visiting him in California, I’m not quite sure what he actually did for a [...]
I got my first backstage pass when my friend Liz and I went on tour with the rest of the State College gang. It was 1989 so I was 19 and she must have been 15 or 16. Her mom was friends with Bob Weir so we decided that, I would drive and she would [...]
the Grateful Dead July 4, 1990 Sandstone Ampitheater Bonner Springs, Kansas This was my first Grateful Dead ‘experience’ and I had no idea what i was in for. At 19 I already considered myself a psychedelic veteran but this particular day i met my chemical match. The temperature didn’t help – it was over 100 [...]
Back in the day – concert tickets where print on (get this) dot matrix printers, and the thing was that me and my friend couldn’t make it to the Thursday show at the Coliseum (besides – a Friday night show had a lot more potential for 2 guys from high school. So, we went to work.
