It was our home turf, which made it intimate, and made it easy.” “But the fact that the show was happening right here in Ithaca, in our backyard, as students that made it special. “I can’t say I was aware that I was listening to something classic from this band at that moment,” observes Lauran Jacoby ’80, then a freshman in Arts & Sciences. Regardless of how they ended up in Barton, one thing can be assumed: none of them knew this Sunday evening would one day be known in the Dead lexicon as “5/8/77”-arguably the band’s most legendary performance of all time. “Another dude-a gnarled older hippie who had traveled all the way from Tennessee to see the show-got in with a peanut butter sandwich wrapped in tin foil.” “One guy got in with a guitar pick,” wrote Peter Conners in his book Cornell ’77 : The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall, published by Cornell University Press in 2017. Most were ticket holders, but hundreds more were admitted in exchange for silly actions like singing, dancing, or telling jokes. Many were “tapers”-fans who recorded shows on cassettes (with the band’s tacit approval), then copied and circulated them. Others were nomadic Deadheads merely seeing them the first time that week. Some were students seeing the band for the first time. It was Sunday, May 8, 1977-Mother’s Day-and thousands were filing into Barton Hall for a Grateful Dead concert. Fresh from Sustainability Success in NYC, Alum Leads Cornell’s ‘2030 Project’ on Climate ChangeĪs Cornellians anticipate the Dead & Company benefit show in Barton Hall, alums who rocked out at the original look backĮditor’s note: Be sure to check out our special themed crossword puzzle!
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