Grateful Dead Birthday

May 9 2022

May 9th is my birthday and as a gift to myself and y'all, I'm sharing a listening tradition I've been digging into for a bunch of years...

In 2017, my pal Brian gifted me the newly released "Get Shown the Light" box set of the Dead's magnificent week in May 1977 and since then I've played their May 9th show in Buffalo on my birthday every year. 

Hot off of the hallowed Barton Hall show in Ithaca the night before, the energy is huge and it's become my fave from their super focused spring run - a really nice way to ring in another year of being alive.    

Highlights include:
Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Cassidy, Peggy-O

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