Friday, July 29, 1994

There were a few Summer gigs that were always the hot tix to have for any summer Dead tour because you know the band loved to play there. Deer Creek, Alpine Valley, and Buckeye Lake (AKA Ledgend Valley) were a few of them. I live in Columbus so it so very cool to have a show in your back yard. It had rained all week and Buckeye Lake is a big mud bowl in the middle of farm land in central Ohio. The ground was soaked but that did not dampen the fans spirit or the bands performances.

first show(late comer)....walkin in there blew my mind like nothing else i've ever been a part of. it was like bein a kid and finding yer ma in a busy department store after you had lost her and lost hope. there was that same sense of elation where yer face kind of expands and you shine with a little hint of brilliance.... i ran into the lot as if i were divin back into the primordial ooze... some of that could be taken literally cause it was a wet and muddy one one.