Grateful Dead

For my last Jerry show and my last show at the Omni, I had floor tickets. I was 9th row, Phil side,. By the way does anyone have a copy of this show? Thanks

I saw more shows at the Omni than any other venue. Based out of Nashville for my touring years, and the Omni was like my home arena. It was a unique place. The acoustics varied dramatically depending on where you were in the building, and even from year to year, A lot of times in the upper tier the sound was quite good, and you would be looking down on the band and it kind of felt like you were listening to a tape in your living room. But one tiny little thing that made the Omni special, pre-show and during set break, on some of the scrolling message boards in the arena,--which were probably where the scores of the Hawks games would be on a game night--they would put up Dead trivia questions. I doubt many people noticed them because you're usually just shuffling about pre-show and during the break, making your lap around the concourse running into your brothers and sisters. But my buddy and I always hung out watching the questions come by. One year I remember a question being "most played song at the Omni," and we were totally stumped, and it was Don't Ease. Not sure what year that was or if it was the case after '95. A lot of people seem to gripe about security issues in Atlanta, and the one year when Pres. Clinton was across the street speaking at some convention, it was a pretty interesting convergence of people, and security was tight. But for the most part, I always found the city to be a gracious host of the tour and always looked forward to spring tour there. One year, the mail order tickets had skeletons pitching and catching a baseball, and it said "Grateful Dead - Spring Training" on them. Those little touches you somehow remember 20+ years later, it was all part of the great experience I was lucky enough to be a part of during some carefree, innocent days in my life.

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