Greatest Story Ever Told
West L.A. Fadeaway
C.C. Rider
Ramble on Rose
My Brother Esau
Bird Song
Jack Straw
Shakedown Street
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He's Gone
Smokestack Lightnin'
drums
The Wheel
The Other One
Black Peter
Turn on Your Love Light
Revolution
dead comment
Does no one remember "The Band" opening?
Peaker
Isn't it funny that on the
TC post concert show
The Power of 'Cuse
My second show.
Syracuse Grads.
I remember on the way out of
one of my faves
Is there anyone that
My First Show
I missed most of the first set...
Is the roof caving in?
Hey Cuse Alums!I envy all
Got Busted
Great Jack
Made the last show
take a step back
First Show
Carrier Dome 84
Memorable trip to Syracuse
Angry Jack
i know one thing. the guy
Long Shot
I know I am seriously late to the party. Believe it or not, it took my 29 year old son to tell me about this site. I never new this forum existed. So I logged on and read some of the comments from the 1984 Carrier Dome show and, boy, did it bring back some memories. Many of them quite fuzzy, but really great memories.
Me and my crew of 7 from Poughkeepsie made the trip in my tricked out 1977 Dodge Tradesman Custom van. We arrived on Friday night before the show and were lucky enough to buy a weekend parking pass at the parking lot right across the street from the south entrance. We set up camp and commenced to having one of the greatest experiences of my life. I will have some stories to follow.
The reason for my first post is that I am reaching out to the community to see if anyone can help me get ahold of a piece of my deadhead past.
I was a senior in high school that year and I was taking a commercial art class. As part of the class and a huge part of the final grade, we had to create, market, and sell a piece of art. For my project, my partner and I created a poster dedicated to 20 years of the Grateful Dead. I worked at a printing press at the time and convinced my boss to do a 250 count run of the poster. The plan was to bring the posters to the Carrier Dome show and sell them to recoup our investment, pay back my boss, and turn a small profit, then write the report and submit it for credit in my commercial art class. Needless to say, Deadheads are very kind to one another and we sold the first 100 on Friday night. The printing press charged me $100 to do the print run and we sold the posters at $2 a piece. So we doubled our money on the first night. And since Deadheads are very kind to one another, the next day we were handing them out for free and an occasional trade for mind altering substances. We scored some great tabs, a couple bottles of liquid, and copious amounts of opium and hashish.
Anyway, the poster was drawn entirely freehand and featured the skeleton playing the fiddle from Blues For Allah right in the center. We had dancing bears, shakedown street, steal your face, skull and roses, and so much more on the poster. The top left had the year 1964 and the bottom right had the year 1984, and in between was artwork from each of their albums during that time frame. I am an idiot and did not keep one for myself. The only one that I knew of in existence was kept by one of my gang of 7. When I reached out to him a few years back he no longer had his copy.
So, I am reaching out to the community in hopes that someone who came into possession of one of these posters sees this message and, providing still had one of the original posters, would be willing to take a digital snapshot and send it to me. I tried contacting my old boss at the printing press, but as you can imagine, almost 40 years later and several technological advances since then and the printing press of old no longer exists.
It will be killer if someone actually reaches out that remembers this and better yet has a copy to share. Peace!