Watkins Glen 1973: The Festival That Made Woodstock Look Small
Six hundred thousand people showed up to Watkins Glen in 1973 for the Dead, the Allman Brothers, and the Band — and almost nobody remembers it.
Live Shows & Tours
The Grateful Dead were a live band first and a studio band as a distant second. Roughly 2,300 shows over thirty years, plus tours the band themselves named and fans still talk about — Europe ’72, the Wall of Sound tour, the Egypt shows, the summer stadium runs. This archive covers the tours, the venues, the landmark concerts, and the nights that became legendary inside the Dead’s scene. If you want to understand why the band mattered, you eventually have to understand what happened on specific nights in specific rooms.