(The ski resort said last year they will be changing their name to remove the racist slur however, a new name has yet to be announced.)
One local reporter for a Roseville newspaper followed a ramshackle camper truck with Iowa license plates that was adorned in Grateful Dead stickers its driver wore a long ponytail and a shaggy beard and was undoubtedly heading toward the last of three consecutive Grateful Dead concerts at Cal Expo.Īfter the Sacramento shows, the train of Deadheads routed east to follow Garcia up and over the Sierra Nevada Crest for a two-day mountain music festival at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe. Tim Mosenfelder/Getty ImagesĪ week before the show in Tahoe, the migration of Deadheads into Sacramento’s suburbs was well chronicled. “If I knew what made us popular, I’d bottle it,” Jerry Garcia, the famed guitarist and one of the group’s leaders, told the New York Times in an interview that year.ĭavid Grisman, left, and Jerry Garcia perform at the music festival on Aug. But its lore lives on among Tahoe’s hardcore Deadheads and in the corners of the internet, on Reddit threads and YouTube comments where fans reminisce about a show that seems impossible today. It was hardly even covered by California newspapers.
This show didn’t make New York Times headlines. But in between the sold-out stadiums and the mega festivals, Garcia and his side project, the Jerry Garcia Band, popped up to the Sierra Nevada to play two sets - an electric one and an acoustic - at the top of a ski resort for one of Lake Tahoe’s most legendary concerts ever.
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