• Gulfstream Park Racetrack - December 29, 1968
    Miami Pop Festival

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    alco7737
    12 years ago
    my first G.D.Show at the Miami Pop Festival
    Visiting Miami at 15 years old I saw an advertisment for the Miami Pop Festival at Gulfstream Race Track, what a lineup of music! One of the bands I had heard of on Trinity College radio was called the Grateful Dead, I had bought their 1st album and really enjoyed it so I was excited to see them as well as many others. They played in the meadow, not on the main stage, but were so amazing, energetic, and fresh- I was converted from that day on. It has been a life changing journey of over 40 years.
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    BobbaLee
    16 years 8 months ago
    14 and bored
    what can I say? I was waiting for Zappa and Hendrix To me they seemed to play one song forever. I wish I could go back in time as I think probably most of us do. And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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    Lou Davenport
    17 years 4 months ago
    Supercharged The Other One
    A strong The Eleven segues into one of the best ever versions of The Other One, with Jerry ripping one crazed, high-energy lick after another! It's unlike any other version I've heard.
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My very first show. More like a short set that they dragged out, the promoters were trying to push bands on and off the stage as fast as they could. The Mothers of Invention were running late on the main stage so we wandered over to the second stage to see the 'Hippy Band from San Fran' and were blown away. Right then and there, the bus came by and I got on, that's where it all began................
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A strong The Eleven segues into one of the best ever versions of The Other One, with Jerry ripping one crazed, high-energy lick after another! It's unlike any other version I've heard.
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what can I say? I was waiting for Zappa and Hendrix To me they seemed to play one song forever. I wish I could go back in time as I think probably most of us do. And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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Visiting Miami at 15 years old I saw an advertisment for the Miami Pop Festival at Gulfstream Race Track, what a lineup of music! One of the bands I had heard of on Trinity College radio was called the Grateful Dead, I had bought their 1st album and really enjoyed it so I was excited to see them as well as many others. They played in the meadow, not on the main stage, but were so amazing, energetic, and fresh- I was converted from that day on. It has been a life changing journey of over 40 years.
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Lovelight, Dark Star > St.Stephen > The Eleven > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Feedback > We Bid You Goodnight
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Age 19 on Xmas break from college. Ashamed to admit I was more psyched to see Steppenwolf. Thankfully the Dead came on after them on the #2 stage and I have had my musical priorities in tact ever since. They were great that afternoon, particularly The Eleven and The Other One. I distinctly recall a clean shaven Jerry who was stomping his feet during the show ... May it never end and always be!
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It's been a long time. Memories get hazy, conflated and confused. To correct some of the facts: The Dead played at this festival at sunset on the very low Flower Stage, also called the Grandstand Stage, because it faced the grandstand at this horse-racing track. The second of the two main stages was called the Flying Stage (it was quite high), and it faced a meadow. Neither Jimi Hendrix nor Frank Zappa played at this festival, although they did play earlier in the year, in May, at an event at the same location which was called the 1968 Pop & Underground Festival. The Dead did not play at that earlier event. Many, many people get these two festivals confused (not least because, many years later, a few people started casually referring to the May festival as the "Miami Pop Festival", although that was not its official name when it took place. Unfortunately, that colloquial misnomer caught hold and even ended up on a Jimi Hendrix album release.) Audio for The Dead's set at the Miami Pop Festival - the only known recording of any band at the festival - is out there on archive.org