041709 The Dead, Albany, NY
On April 17th, 2009 I saw The Dead at Knickerbocker Arena, the very building where I was first introduced to ‘jammy’ music in a live setting…
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On April 17th, 2009 I saw The Dead at Knickerbocker Arena, the very building where I was first introduced to ‘jammy’ music in a live setting…
Here I was at the end of my road with the Grateful Dead…
I had spent a week running out of rooms with my hands held over my ears specifically so I would be a few dozen feet from the stage when I heard Trey Anastasio playing with the Grateful Dead for the very first time…
This would prove to be my last Grateful Dead concert…
June 18th, 1993 was the last night of my first first-ever Grateful Dead mini-tour…
At this point Jerry Garcia only had fourteen shows left in him…
The Grateful Dead concerts in Kentucky were happening at a place called Freedom Hall. It sure didn’t look like a “hall” to me; I remember a huge (and I mean huge) parking lot surrounding a massive outdoor football stadium…
The concert was a conglomeration of musicians called Dead Feat, a ‘super-group’ of sorts that pairs members of Little Feat and The Grateful Dead with a few local heroes solely for a single (albeit annual) New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival aftershow…
The lineup for this amazing tribute concert was scheduled to include the likes of Mavis Staples, Jimmie Vaughan, Gregg Allman, Lucinda Williams, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Warren Haynes and so many more, not to mention the man himself, Dr. John…