Grateful Dead

I will step up for good ole Javamaster here, please read my post above. There used to be posters and handbills available at Pearl Alley Discs( the great hippie record store) and Agora Pizza, which flanked the club entrance. The Agora was (still is!)located across the street from the Ohio State University Law School.You can always believe your lawyer, right? I purchased my copies of Europe 72, Wake of the Flood and Blues for Allah at the Pearl Alley Discs, I also bought my first two Bruce Springsteen albums there (before he became a real star), on the strength of a recommendation by the store clerk. So they had good taste there.

I have heard the same thing about this show, that there were two performances originally scheduled and then there was only one, the late show. I distinctly recall handbills promoting this show were circulating at local college campuses, and that the first show was canceled in favor of the second evening performance.I attended many rock shows at the Columbus Agora club. Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Phillips, Joe Walsh, Badfinger, Bad Company, Argent, Spooky Tooth, Glass Harp, Pure Prairie League, most of them were mid-level touring acts in the early and mid-70's. After a while, the touring acts subsided, as the economics of music tours changed, and the Agora, while still booking touring acts, became more or less just another campus bar and dance club, with a house band called The Crowd Pleasers billed on the outside marquee. Eventually, the hall changed hands and is now the Newport City Music Hall. *** But yes, there ABSOLUTELY were handbills promoting local and touring acts for the Columbus Agora which stated prominently that the club had purchased and installed a "Grateful Dead Sound System". These were posted all over the campus area (I remember the yellow ones stapled to the neighborhood bulletin boards). Elsewhere on Dead Net, another poster suggests that the P.A. components were purchased from the Dead since the Agora date was the end of that leg of their tour. I heard several stories (authoritative or not) regarding this P.A. but I can confirm none of them, but the tales did indeed circulate, as did those handbills I mentioned earlier. Just one more piece of Dead lore trivia, I guess?

None of the Post above is accurate. Equipment did not come in late. First show cancelled by mutual agreement with Rock Scully. It was an under 18 show and 0 tickets were sold. Everybody knew the Dead played all night and nobody wanted the 1,5 hour show! It was an experiment that was never repeated.Also, no Sound System was ever purchased from the Dead! That never happened! Sometimes we traded equipment for larger speakers, while the band like smaller horns etc! But we did neither with the Dead! Also, Agora changed hands to get management since Agora had built 13 clubs and did not have enough managers. It never closed, it just changed hands. They rented until the Newport purchased the building! These are facts!