Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, founding members of the Dead, announced on
Friday that their band, Furthur, will do a series of eight concerts at
the theater starting on April 16.
In the early 1970s, the Capitol Theater, which at the time was a
crumbling movie house, was one of the the Dead’s favorite concert halls
because of its unusually good acoustics. The group played 18 concerts
there in 1970 and 1971
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Shakedown Stream is a weekly Grateful Dead radio/podcast show hosted by Jer Bear. It is 4 to 5 hours in length. The first hour is a mix of old, rare, new, favorite and interesting songs of the Grateful Dead. Then Jer Bear plays a show - in its' entirety - selected from their 30 years run from 1965-1995. Afterwards, some more chestnuts may be played to help listeners ease on out of the Stream.
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"Got on the bus" & saw my first Dead show at that venerable venue way back in Nov. 1970. Going back for one of these Furthur shows, can't wait!
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