A review by acdbrn1960
Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall by Peter Conners
5.0
I was at this show, it was 5th Dead show I saw, and every show since I compare to that show, what was it ? what made it so great? I am not sure, maybe the venue, the weather, the crowd, or just the band was so fuckin' on that night.
I had to beg my mother to let me go, I am from Rochester NY and the show was on a Sunday and I was a Jr in High School and had to be at school on Monday. In the end of course she let me go, but that was just the beginning that summer I followed the Dead to every show until the first day of my senior year, then I left Rochester forever 2 years later traveling the world and getting a PHD in the meantime.
I never returned to Rochester and my mother blamed it all on that one Dead show in May of 1977, and Peter Conners has done what very few could, recount that show. It's a great book, even if your not a Dead fan. The 70's was an odd time in America and the Dead got me thru it. Well worth the read!!!
I had to beg my mother to let me go, I am from Rochester NY and the show was on a Sunday and I was a Jr in High School and had to be at school on Monday. In the end of course she let me go, but that was just the beginning that summer I followed the Dead to every show until the first day of my senior year, then I left Rochester forever 2 years later traveling the world and getting a PHD in the meantime.
I never returned to Rochester and my mother blamed it all on that one Dead show in May of 1977, and Peter Conners has done what very few could, recount that show. It's a great book, even if your not a Dead fan. The 70's was an odd time in America and the Dead got me thru it. Well worth the read!!!