Wednesday, June 22, 2016

June 22, 1991 -- The Grateful Dead Play Soldier Field



June 22, 1991 – The Dead Zone opens in Chicago as 10,000 to 20,000 faithful followers of the Grateful Dead camp out in the city for the weekend.  Although the Chicago Park District prohibits camping at Soldier Field, the site of the concert, the city does allow Deadheads to camp at Lake Shore Drive and Roosevelt Road.  The Chicago Tribune observes, “In the Dead Zone, the tie-dyed shirt is the national costume.  Anything vegetarian is the national food.  Hackey Sack, a bean bag game, is the national pastime.  Reality is easily sublimated.”  [Chicago Tribune, June 24, 1991]  In three and a-half hours of music the band plays 18 songs with one intermission, beginning with the 1987 release Hell in a Bucket and covering The Band’s The Weight as the encore.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is definitely not from 1991 - Brent Mydland died in 1990

Anonymous said...

That's true. I'm pretty sure Bruce Hornsby was on keys for this one.