Red Rocks Amphitheatre

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Redrocks June 1984

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My tickets show June 12 & 13
Not the 13th and 14th

doh

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My tickets actually show the 12th, 13th and the 14th
*smile*

Great Show, but...

... some guy fell from the rocks and died at this show. That's why they moved the next two nights (originally scheduled to be 3 nights at the Rocks) to McNicols Arena in Denver. They placed a model of a skeleton next to Jerry on stage for those two nights.

My B-Day shows. 1st ever 08-11-87

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G.D.F.F My B-Day shows. 1st ever 08-11-87

shagy!

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that wasn't my first show, but it was my first Red Rocks show, and I was amazed.

 

7/7/78/ & 7/8/78

as with marye, not my first dead shows but my first Red Rocks shows. My girlfriend (now wife) had seen Joni Mitchell there and raved about the venue, and then we got to see the Grateful Dead there. It was magical. The massive red rock formations towering on each side of the audience and a lower rock wall cropping behind the band. And we could look out over Denver, when you walked up to the top of the venue. With the view of the clouds and weather blowing in.....And the sound.... but I really think that the band had a better view, with the rock slabs flanking the wild crowd and the sky rolling by behind us.
A transportive location if there ever was one. A natural wonder, a fantastic elevated amphlitheatre, and an altogether mystical spot for the Dead to work their delights!