Grateful Dead - 6/19/93 Soldier Field
Was at this show over 19 years ago and just (finally!) got a soundboard copy of it yesterday. So this is the first time I'm hearing it since that day.
Great Friday morning listen!
The shows from Soldier Field 93 featured severe thunderstorms each night including one night where they evacuated the bowl between Sting (opener) and the Dead's first set. They had all 55,000 people underneath the stadium and the crush was so bad that we actually went back out into the bowl. Rather be zapped than crushed with thousands of stinky wookies.
I remember fog rolling in during the second set of the first night. It was just pouring over the rim of the stadium and down into the bowl. Had a really cool effect on the light show.
This was also the year that they interspersed the Bulls winning the championship during drumz.
Surreal moments abounded during these shows (even more than usual for Dead shows, which is saying something

).