Grateful Dead

Another great outdoor arena in beautiful upstate New York that became a ruined by trashy big-mouthed "Deadheads" A nightmare of a place after the Touch of Grey success.

Confucius say,
Study the past if you would define the future.

This was the second show I attended and it happened to be on the day I graduated from High School! I remember that it was a warm sunny day to start. My best bud from school and I basically ripped off our graduation gowns and threw them at our parents and drove the 25 minutes north to Saratoga. The rest of the day is kinda of a blur. I remember that my brother told me to meet him on the lawn. He said he'd be waving a Confederate battle flag (yeah, I know, soooo polically incorrect!). When I found him, he stood back and looked at me in a hazy gaze and once he actually focused on me, we shared the HUGEST HUG! Just a really special day in my life!!

Peace!
Puff

~Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!~

Wow, the memories are coming back. It did start off to be a beautiful day. I taped this show so I had to keep some of my head intact. I set up under one of the walkways because of the forcast. It started raining during Minglewood Blues, and never let up. I remember watching water coming off the arena like a water fall as Jerry belted out,"ran into a rain storm" and we all reacted like we just hit the lottery. The China Doll was amazing. Listen to Brents harpsicord sound on it. Afterwards, the parking lot was a riot. We watched one guy hit at least 3 cars trying to get out of his spot. Looked like bumper cars. And in the dark, through woods somewhere, all you could hear was some guy was beating the hell out of a lawn chair.

keep your character, enjoy living, share your fortune,
OXOX Merple Reddin

Tripped balls all day..great sunny day.got right to the edge of the cover,,roof, then the sky ripped open!!!!stood there maybe an hour..the band came on we moved,Billy got clothes lined by security.i rightly punched that goon square in the temple.A dude i had been bsing with for the whole hour. and we ran down the aisle...front row!!!!! They kept comeing and comeing..by the third tune i was pushed or danced Back to the 5th row! Jerry was like a statue the whole show..but played great...then when the show was over cattle herded back to the parking lot..moo. moo, remember??I woke up in some chicks lap, who wondered into my car that night..5 hrs later we were swimming in the ocean at Jones beach......on a side note...we brought a 5gallon gas container with gas in case we ran out....paulys face when he got a mouthful trying to cyphon it into the car....still laughing after all these years!!!!