Dead Days!

Landmark Dates...Trivia! A list of milestones........

1/7/79 – First Madison Square garden show, NYC

1/17/68 – First Carousel Ballroom(Fillmore west) show, San Francisco, CA

2/7/89 – Last show at Henry J Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA

3/23/74 – First “Wall of Sound” gig – Cow Palace, Daly City, CA

4/29/71 – Last show at Fillmore East, NYC, NY

5/7/89 – Last show at Frost Amphitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

5/9/87 – First show at Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey, CA

5/19/66 – First show at Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

6/1/67 – First New York show – Tompkins Square Park, NYC, NY

6/9/84 – First performance at Cal. Expo Amphitheater, Sacramento, CA

6/14/68 – First Fillmore East show, NYC, NY

6/17/72 – Pig Pen’s last show – Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA

6/18/65 – Phil Lesh’s first gig – Frenchy’s, Hayward, CA

6/28/67 – First show at Oakland Auditorium (Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center) , Oakland, CA

7/2/71 – Last show at Fillmore West, SanFrancisco, CA

7/4/87 – First Dylan and the Dead gig – Foxboro, MA

7/7/78 – First show at Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
7/17/82 – First show in Ventura, CA

7/29/66 – First show outside US, Vancouver, BC

7/31/88 – Last show at Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey, CA

8/19/89 – Last show at Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA

8/23/80 – First show at Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI

9/25/80 – Dead start a 15 night run at Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA – revive acoustic sets

10/1067 – First show at Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA

10/2/87 – First gig at Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA

10/4/70 – Dead play Winterland, the night Janis Joplin dies

10/7/66 – First show at Winterland, San Francisco, CA

10/9/82 – First show at Frost Amphitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

10/20/74 – Dead stop touring, pack in Wall of Sound, Mickey Hart returns to the band

11/11/78 – First appearance on Saturday Night Live, Phil wears a “Hi Mom” button

12/31/71 – Donna’s first Dead appearance, Winterland, San Francisco, CA