Saturday July 28, 1973 to be exact. The promoters were Shelly Finkel and Jim Koplik. It was called Summer Jam.
Crowd estimates were between 500,000 and 650,000 depending on the source. I was there and it was a wild weekend. We arrived on Thursday evening and by then they had pretty much given up on collecting tickets. As a result, I still have my entire 10.00 ticket. Friday late afternoon/evening, the Grateful Dead's soundcheck was about 90 minutes long. I have the tapes from it and listen to them often. There were rumors of a movie and soundtrack album to be released but it never came to fruition. Too bad too. There was some remarkable music that weekend, including a monumental "Mountain Jam" featuring the Allmans and the Dead. Of course the obligatory torrential rain on Saturday afternoon as well, creating a lot of mud. If the Finkel/Koplik boys are not mentioned on the poster, it's a phoney. If the date on it is 1972, well, that's a dead givaway (pun intended).
Crowd estimates were between 500,000 and 650,000 depending on the source. I was there and it was a wild weekend. We arrived on Thursday evening and by then they had pretty much given up on collecting tickets. As a result, I still have my entire 10.00 ticket. Friday late afternoon/evening, the Grateful Dead's soundcheck was about 90 minutes long. I have the tapes from it and listen to them often. There were rumors of a movie and soundtrack album to be released but it never came to fruition. Too bad too. There was some remarkable music that weekend, including a monumental "Mountain Jam" featuring the Allmans and the Dead. Of course the obligatory torrential rain on Saturday afternoon as well, creating a lot of mud. If the Finkel/Koplik boys are not mentioned on the poster, it's a phoney. If the date on it is 1972, well, that's a dead givaway (pun intended).