We showed up the day before the show, camped out in a nearby camp ground full of Heads. We were up all night (had no control over it, if you hear me ;). Next day was my first experience in the lot. It was awesome....just this huge grassy lot with Shakedown Street and happy people everywhere. There were some treed areas, and I remember sitting midday in one around a drum pit with a balloon in hand and simply losing myself in complete elation and happiness. It was great. The experience was great. This is what a Dead show should be!

The show was awesome...the rain dampened nothing, but it did get cold. I distinctly remember holding tarpaulins and plastic overhead with participation from other audience members, and it was raining so hard a game soon evolved of pushing upwards on the tarps so that water raced toward the gaps between...whoever was unfortunately standing at the point the water dropped was SOAKED! Hey, who cared? We all were really.

I remember the music being pretty tight...but of course it was my first show and probably tainted by that fact. Regardless...I feel very fortunate to have gone. It'd be the only show I'd see while Jerry was still with us. In general, it offered everything it should have.

Hey Hackster,

I remember the storm looking like it was going to go around us

at that '94 Buckeye lake show.

Then Traffic closed with Rainmaker and it came right at us.

Pink, Yellow, blue, and green lightning all over but the miracle

to my knowledge no one was hit. And hey! I hadn't even

dosed yet. It was quite an experiance as The Grateful Dead

( I heard ) Went off their set list and opened with Rain.

I have that first set on cassette tape and wow the

lightning pops! Ra ra ra a a a ain, I don't mind.

I'm there!

Vincent

Forever Grateful

Forever Dead

we had driven from Riverport,staight through to Buckeye.When we arrived,there was only a few hours till the lot opened.So,we gathered in parking lot of a shopping center,with a bunch of other heads.As time came to leave,I climbed in the back of the truck i was traveling in and wouldn`t you know it,i fell asleep,sure as shit....A few hours passed,and eventually i came to.By this time,it was high noon,and humid as hell itself! I was dripping through and through with sweat and only having a few hours of rest,felt like total shit!..So i threw up the campershell hatch to take a fresh breath of air and to my happiness,all the friends i was traveling with were in a tent right across the way and they called me over.When i entered,i was handed a handful of fungus and HOT Molson Golden beer,in the can to wash it down.What a combo!!...Well i guess you can imagine what the rest of my afternoon was like!I spent my time wandering the lot in a daze.Never-the-less,I was sooo ready when the time finally came for the show.A misty rain had set in and they came on stage and broke out a spectacular "Rain."Later that night Jerry took us through a wonderful "SOTM"and they brought us home with a "Mighty Quinn,"for the ages.All in all,it was a pretty sweet night.

This was supposed to be my first show with my older brother. He had been dying take me but mom wouldn't let him. I was 18 and just graduated from high school. But this became my 2nd show. They came to Vermont, where I lived at the time just 16 days earlier. My fabulous big brother said he so wanted to take me to my first show, but so understood that I couldn't pass up going to see them when they were only going to be 45 minutes away.

I remember it was nice, then the rain started. Regardless of the rain, it was an awesome experience! I was with my big brother who taught me about The Dead. I saw a real Shakedown Street (the one in Highgate could not come close to compare to what I experienced at Buckeye Lake). It was really a great experience.......probably mostly do to my awesome big brother who treated me to this show.

Cloudy, cool, and wet made for a challenging day to record: I had a poncho on, but my equipment kept getting exposed to rainwater. Arrrgh!!