Category: Miami

  • GD 6/23/74 Jai Alai Fronton

    Play it loud. https://archive.org/details/gd1974-06-23.akgd1000e.moore.berger.105755.flac24 Sard Thee Well, Jerry Moore. Only Grateful Dead version of “Let It Rock”. Interviewed by Ken Wardell 6/8/74 backstage after the Dead’s Oakland Coliseum show, Garcia talked about the tune, which he put on Compliments: One of the reasons that we did that song was that, in my opinion, that’s Chuck…

  • GD19700327-29: March 27-29, 1970, “Winter’s End Festival,” Miami, FL (CANCELED)

    [Update 20120303] The Festival was held, in a manner of speaking, but almost every big name act, including the GD, canceled. It sounds like a really disastrous episode. Long narrative in the following: Thomas King Forcade, “Winter’s End: free the Rock & Roll Six,” San Diego Free Door, April 23, 1970, pp. 8, 12, accessed…

  • GD: April 1-3, 1969, Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, FL (CANCELED)

    Grateful Dead Dinner Key Auditorium Miami, FL April 1-3, 1969 CANCELED A three-day happening from April 1-3, 1969 at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami was canceled after the March 1st onstage antics and subsequent arrest for lewd and lascivious behavior, indecdent exposure, and other charges of the Doors’ Jim Morrison. The decision to deny…