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This was a hot show in a cool venue. It was an outdoor clay tennis court stadium. The only bad part for me was we were recording with a Sony TCD-5M and 441 mikes up real close and though the tapes came out smokin' we got clay on all our equipment. A great Shakedown to start it off and just rippin' all the way through. Definitely worth listening to. I loved being able to drink Tanqueray and tonics as opposed to stadium beers. Dougles

......but was focused on that great Shakedown. I guess that is what happens when you go to so many GD shows. LOL. Peace. Dougles

i love listening to this show. always nice to kick back and jam to a show i was at.

Always nice to enjoy a refreshing "Tank & tonic" on a hot summers eve! A cool place for a show. The heads were very systematic about removing the folding chairs behind the board for some extra dance space. I remember the back drop for the stage that night was the crews' semi-trucks all lined up. Which, they lit up during ......you guessed it, "Truckin'"

My wife's 1st show (she only saw a couple more at Compton Terrace) and it was awesome - moving the chairs on the clay court, hot as hell, the police helicopter shining the spot on the whole crowd during drums (too bad not during truckin), 1st spoonful I had heard (many shows prior) live, great friends, fun venue - I loved it.

Took a friend of mine, "Frankie the Flea", to this show. His 1st Dead show. Wonderful venue....As we were wandering around behind the stage before the show, we saw Garcia come riding up in a limo. He was all smiles, Later, as the Boys came out and started into Jack Straw, I suddenly saw Frankie leaped over the railing onto the tennis court, and broke into dance. Everyone was standing up, and folding up their chairs and placing them up against the wall, to open a up the court for a Swell Dance Concert! Good times had by all. Frankie the Flea was sold on the Dead that night.

I had been to many rock concerts but my first Dead show. Almost late because we did not know about the strange time zones in Indiana. Drove for four hours with no tix and scored some comp tix from a guy for the same price as waiting in line for hours at the ticket window. Great seats in front (but didn't sit the whole show).Truly a magical experience and was never the same afterward. Stayed at the inn of Indianopolis and cruised the floors after the show all hours of the night and met many interesting characters in various rooms. Wonderful party. First time I met "Don Juan" R.I.P.Tim

It was very hot that day and I danced so hard, I almost got heat stroke. This was probably the last smaller venue outdoor show I saw. This micro-tour for me was a lot of fun. Search Engine Optimization Online Casino

Moved back from colorado on april 15th, was happy to be inbetween jobsand was planning for 4 shows this summer. John and I went to this together. We partied and walked around IUPUI for awhile . The park off West St. near the capital building is perfect for deadheads. Near the river, green grass, large hardwood trees, a small venue.hometown with my best freind. WE are still freinds today even though he lives in indy, and i live in florida.Best songs for me, Dupree's ( I later had a cat by this name) Shakedown, and Playin..I am also a huge Drumz/ space kind of guy,these were memorable. Every time I'm in downtown indy, this is where i remember.. We head to Alpine next.

What a night, I grew up 45 miles west of Indy, on this night a grate friends parents were on vacation. We listened to The dead all day, drove to the show and hungout early in the park. If you were in Military park, well you know what was happening there. First time a friend had turned on which made it even more special. Show was fantastic I will never forget the opening chords of Shakedown and it was on. We were all over the venue. After show at I believe at a Howard Johnsons we met the strange characters as mentioned above. We probably were some of those folks as we wandered from room to room floor to floor it was totally rock n roll. Ended up back at the friends house playing pool,partying twenty minutes home 10 or so big time partiers came by to see how the show went. Watched a beautiful sunrise listening to Bob Marley. A very vivid memory, 21 was a good age.

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

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

A couple of friends and I drove up from Memphis in my 65 Barracuda taking turns sleeping in the back. No tickets, no place to stay, no alternative plan. I was a huge fan ever since my uncle gave me a promo copy of Europe ’72. Found tickets in the parking lot for price on the ticket, thanks to whoever you are, and the show blew me away. We were young and dumb (18) and in the Navy at the time. We stopped in Kentucky, bought a couple huge bags of fireworks, and blew them off in the parking lot after the show. Yes we were the A holes who did that. Ended up at a hotel near the show and partied until it was time to drive back for duty. No show after that one ever lived up to the first.

This was an amazing location for a gig!Clay court tennis location in downtown Indy. Cocktails,Beer,etc...they served everything. Amazing 1st set,...the sound was great...weird,a helicopter flew over the crowd w/ a huge search light during drums-space. Tons of heads setting off fireworks after the show! Drove to Michigan right after the gig & every roadside restsop was a weird,fun circus of Dead followers going north.

We saw no point in leaving a bunch of chairs in perfectly good dancing space. Having chairs on the floor of a Grateful Dead concert always seemed completely pointless. No one objected when we started folding and stacking them against the wall in the back. They were going to do it anyway once the show was over. The first and only show I ever saw on a tennis court. It was this tour that I refrained from smoking due to asthma. My travel friends hooked me up with a guy after the show who was selling edibles. I'll never forget his funny hat with things dangling from it. Oh....really great second set by the way.

We all threw the chairs they set out for us on the courts and danced around them in effigy!

This entire tour was off the charts and so much fun. We had good weather all summer except for the major thunder and lightning after the Starlight show In KC Shakedown never ends it flows into Playin , Small venue all firends

This Indy 1984 show was amazing: LSD 1st set and a transcendent Terrapin. It was also held at the venue that hosts the US Tennis Assoc. clay-court championships. Massive boogie on the floor raised clouds of dust, which stuck to sweaty Deadheads - on the way out, we looked like ghosts: everybody covered with a little greenish-gray fine dust