Again with the Grateful Dead: The archives also have produced extensive video documentation of the band's performances in the latter part of its career. A new DVD set, "Truckin' Off to Buffalo" (a line from one of their more recognizable tunes), chronicles the Rich Stadium performance of July 4, 1989.
The band's first such release, "View from the Vault," holds special significance for Pittsburgh-area Deadheads, as it comes from the Three Rivers Stadium show of July 8, 1990.
Under normal circumstances, I would have been there. But when the concert date was announced, I looked on my calendar and saw my wife's due date was right around the same time.
Sure enough, she went into labor the morning of July 8. A few of my out-of-town friends, dressed as you'd expect for a Grateful Dead concert, stopped by Magee-Womens Hospital on their way to the show to see how everything was going. As you'd expect, they drew quite a few stares.
So today, my son Rob can watch a concert that took place the day he was born, in the city where he was born. (That is, if he ever starts listening to the Grateful Dead!)
The band's first such release, "View from the Vault," holds special significance for Pittsburgh-area Deadheads, as it comes from the Three Rivers Stadium show of July 8, 1990.
Under normal circumstances, I would have been there. But when the concert date was announced, I looked on my calendar and saw my wife's due date was right around the same time.
Sure enough, she went into labor the morning of July 8. A few of my out-of-town friends, dressed as you'd expect for a Grateful Dead concert, stopped by Magee-Womens Hospital on their way to the show to see how everything was going. As you'd expect, they drew quite a few stares.
So today, my son Rob can watch a concert that took place the day he was born, in the city where he was born. (That is, if he ever starts listening to the Grateful Dead!)
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