Red Rocks Dead

I did not take this photograph, as much as I would have liked to have been there, I was not... I did, however, purchase this image, which was a postcard I sent to my soon-to-be but not-as-yet wife in early 1992. The postcard does not say who the photographer was, so I can't give credit where credit is due, but it does specify that the picture was taken at Red Rocks, Morrison, Colorado, on September 5th, 1985, during Estimated Prophet. I followed up on this postcard by taking my soon-to-be wife to two Dead shows at Deer Creek, Indiana on June 28th and June 29th, 1992. And those were the last two Grateful Dead shows I would ever see... as I moved to France definitively in October 1992.
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So, sadly for me I never saw the Dead at Red Rocks, which was reputed to be a magical venue. I did get to see them in Paris, France; Oxford Plains, Maine; Compton Terrace, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; Las Vegas, Nevada; Deer Creek, Indiana; Pittsburgh & Philadelphia (Civic Center, Spectrum, & JFK with Bob Dylan) , Pennsylvania; Landover, Maryland; Giant Stadium, New Jersey; Albany, New York; Madison Square Garden, New York; Nassau Coliseum, New York; and RFK Stadium, Washington DC where a Dark Star was played; all things considered, I had a pretty good run there for a while, and many of those shows left indelible memories as they picked us all up and swept us away to other worlds in other galaxies for entire evenings at a time. The old saying, "there is nothing like a Dead show" was absolutely true... and from that cup no more. R.I.P. Jerry...
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