I’m not sure if it’s more accurate to say that the long, strange trip is finally over… or finally here!
The weekend of July 3, 4 and 5 at Chicago’s Soldier Field will mark the tour commemorating the 50th anniversary of not just the legendary rock-blues-folk-jazz-psychedelic-bluegrass-fusion-improvisational jam band—but the phenomenon that is The Grateful Dead. Coincidence or no, Soldier Field was the last venue they played their last show together before Jerry Garcia died on August 9, 1995. At the time, they were together for 30 years. It’s mind-warping to realize as I write that this was twenty-years ago, already. – (more to follow shortly on this post).
