Letting it Bleed: Joel Selvin Takes on Altamont

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/letting-it-bleed-2/

Midsummer Rock

On July 28, 1973, The Band, Allman Brothers, and the Grateful Dead played a mammoth show at Watkins Glen, NY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqlADKgCS_Y

In late July 1970, a rock fest was supposed to happen, but the authorities cancelled it. People showed up anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeK-k9BRtQ

then there was this--I made it to one day....

Let There Be Rock

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/01/let-there-be-rock/

Blast From the Past--1969

This piece first appeared in the now defunct newspaper edited by Shay Totten--the Vermont Times....it was reprinted in Counterpunch a few years later...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/

The Dead Show That Closes Out My Book

I went searching for a recording of the January 198o Kampuchean Refugees Benefit Show that I close out Daydream Sunset with.  While searching, I found this description of the show.  I have a few differences with the author, but it's a good read.  So is the rest of the site--Lost Live Dead....Check it out.
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2014/12/january-13-1980-oakland-coliseum-arena.html

If you want to hear the Dead's portion of the show, here is a link to a fairly decent recording

https://archive.org/details/gd1980-01-13.sbd.miller.106517.flac16

Happy New Year!