Wednesday, July 8, 1987

So for reasons that remain obscure, my friends Human Cake, Drew Boner, and I decided to do all of the East Coast/Midwest GD Summer tour of 1987. At the last minute Drew Boner included two pain in the a** underage girls, one his new girlfriend, and a couple of dogs (the four -footed kind)in our plans. Unfortunately, it was his bus, so our objections to this new arrangement were futile.

I started listening to the Dead in 1980 at the insistence of my Uncle Frank. I was 11. And I was hypmotied. Frank started supplying me with shows when I was a youngster - and I was hooked. But 8 July 1987 was my first show - and I'll never forget it. By a fluke, Ticketron accidentally started selling tix about a month before they were supposed to - and I happened to be in a mall right by a booth when they put up the sign in my hometown of Lynchburg, VA. Got front row center.