Jerry garcia band 1991
And the audience wants to be transformed from whatever ordinary reality they may be in to something a little wider, something that enlarges them. Because when we get onstage, what we really want to happen is, we want to be transformed from ordinary players into extraordinary ones, like forces of a larger consciousness. “And I thought that maybe this idea of a transforming principle has something to do with it. “I was thinking about the Dead and their success,” Garcia said on a September afternoon, as he sat in a hotel room overlooking New York’s Central Park. Jerry Garcia, the group’s 49-year-old singer-guitarist-songwriter, is as baffled as anyone by the Dead’s seemingly unstoppable success - though he continues to search for explanations. The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know All of the shows, of course, were sellouts. And then, immediately after Labor Day, the Dead hit the road again, playing three nights at the Richfield Coliseum outside Cleveland, nine nights at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and six nights at the Boston Garden.
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Their average gross per show, according to the industry newsletter Pollstar, was more than $1.1 million, or nearly twice that of the summer’s second biggest touring act, Guns n’ Roses. Over the summer, which experts have declared the worst in memory for the touring business, the Dead were the only band that chose to concentrate on - and, indeed, that filled - outdoor stadiums.
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While the rest of the music industry has suffered through one of its worst years ever - record sales have plummeted, and the bottom has virtually fallen out of the concert business - the Dead have trouped along, oblivious as ever to any trends, either economic or musical.ĭuring the first half of the year, the group - now in its 26th year - grossed $20 million on the road. If there’s such a thing as a recession-proof band, the Grateful Dead must be it.