Daily Listen by Brian Brock

The Grateful Dead - Live in Buffalo, June 6, 1992

I found audio of my first Dead show on archive.org.  It’s great to hear it, because my primary memories of the show were:

a) being kept even more awake than I already was by someone in a tent five feet away from mine, playing the Pogues’ “Christmas in New York” over and over again at Two O’clock in the morning.

b) at Niagara Falls the next day, playing with a fountain which made a single unbroken inch-thick arc of water.  I found I could cut the flow with my hands and watch little water cylinders follow their intended path.  That was pure joy, making little rhythmic patterns.

The music was good, too.  I had this song, “He’s Gone”, stuck in my head for the rest of the trip, and listening back, it is still my favorite.

I never before realized how similar Will Oldham’s singing is to Jerry Garcia’s.