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Of more than 2,300 concerts over the Grateful Dead’s 30-year touring career, there is one performance more famous than others, widely considered their best: The subject of a new Cornell University Press book by Peter Conners, “Cornell ’77: The Music, the Myth and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead Show at Barton Hall,”
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/05/campus-community-celebrate-c...
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Everybody's cashing in on the
Everybody's cashing in on the myth.
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I heard about this and might
I heard about this and might go to check it out. Peter and I went to the same high school and although he graduated several years after me, we knew and toured with some of the same friends.
Curious to hear how they do with the Cornell Chimes, maybe it will be recorded.
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Peter is also the author of
Peter is also the author of "Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead"
http://www.growingupdead.com/
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cool read about the Cornell
cool read about the Cornell Chimes event... thx for posting
Cornell alum here, class of '75
and yes, I did hang around Ithaca for a couple years after graduating, and I attended the 5/8/77 show... I was so spun that the only vivid memory I have of the show is the half-inch of snow on the ground as we exited Barton Hall
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Gary, that;s very cool!
Gary, that's very cool!
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Ill be there Monday.
Ill be there Monday.
http://www.stateofithaca.com/event/1466479-40th-anniversary-celebration-...
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>>>>Growing Up Dead: The
>>>>Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead"
That was a quick, light read which was good for an airplane ride. Nothing too earth shattering and, other than him getting busted for acid, I am sure most of us have had much more harrowing and crazy stories from Dead tour.