![]() But it’s a cavernous room with almost two acres of floor space, and its high ceiling and hard surfaces have wreaked havoc on amplified sound for decades, and that continued when large sections of the crowd struggled to hear a series of pre-show announcements and welcomes by a Cornell alumni association VP, a Cornell dean, and a county legislator, all of whom were experienced and clear public speakers.Īmidst all this, Dead & Company had a tall order in front of them: play a memorable and special show in front of people who spent big and traveled far to be there, and do so in a room where their predecessor band played the most popular show in their 30-year history, but that’s also had lousy acoustics the whole time. Originally built in 1915 as an indoor drilling area for the university’s ROTC units, it’s been refurbished several times and is now the indoor home of Cornell’s track and field team, with large windows letting in lots of natural light. With the exception of the Cornell students in attendance, the audience looked and felt very much like the crowds at Dead & Company’s annual Playing in the Sand destination events in Mexico, minus the staggering drunks.īarton Hall, despite its old-school charm and storied history, is a facility whose acoustics for live music events remain suboptimal at best. with people eating very early dinners before making their way up to campus, pre-show partying was noticeably restrained, and nearly everyone was lined up outside Barton Hall well before doors opened. Restaurants in town were filled at 3 p.m. Throughout the day, both on campus and in town, there were clear signs that attendees knew just exactly how lucky, fortunate, and privileged they were. ![]() Despite the higher prices, demand vastly exceeded supply and only a slim minority of applicants got tickets. Aside from an allotment of $77 tickets for current Cornell students, ticket prices ranged from $300 to $1,500 and were allocated via lottery. However, the ticket prices were very much of the 2023 benefit gig variety. The band, consisting of Grateful Dead alumni Bob Weir (guitar/vocals) and Mickey Hart (drums) alongside John Mayer (lead guitar/vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass/vocals), Jeff Chimenti (keyboards/vocals), and Jay Lane (drums, sitting in for GD alumni Bill Kreutzmann) have consistently played arenas, sheds, and stadiums over their eight-year history, so the crowd of 5,000 was a throwback to earlier eras. Exactly 46 years later on May 8th, 2023, the Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company honored the 1977 show by returning to Barton Hall and playing a benefit concert, with proceeds split equally between Cornell’s 2030 Project and MusiCares.īy Dead & Company standards, it was a small show. Thank you for visiting.Back on May 8th, 1977, the Grateful Dead played a concert at Cornell University’s Barton Hall that would become so legendary that an entire book would later be written about it, and the recording by the band’s engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson would go on to become the most popular recording of the band amongst Deadheads. We also offer consultation for performance anxiety, band discord, writing blocks, self-criticism, recording issues, or whatever is impeding your creativity and productivity. Over time, we hope that many musicians will find a good home here. ![]() If you’re here as a musician, we invite you to record with us and/or feature your own music right here on the Magiscope Records Guest Bands page. If you have recorded a cover that you would like to add to this collection, feel free to send it in to us. I ♥ NY is an ever-growing compilation of Neil Young songs interpreted by the collective. ‘Hi-Res Music is Better’ bumper stickers should be issued. ![]() If you’re on the go or your bandwidth is inconsistent, you will always get the highest possible fidelity, millisecond by millisecond, ranging from lossless high-res down to what you are used to hearing when you stream music from all the usual places.įYI, the truly wondrous Neil Young Archives (NYA) is fully powered by OraStream. When you listen to EVERYTHING’S OK with solid data bandwidth, OraStream delivers the music in soul-touching full resolution. We are excited to release our latest album, EVERYTHING'S OK via OraStream, the only adaptive high-resolution audio streaming technology out there. Three bands have emerged from this collective: Through the years, we have gotten together almost every week to create our music - much of which you can freely access here at the Magiscope Records website. Our San Jose, California studio is home base where we play, record, mix, and hang out. Magiscope Records is a working collective with various musical ties that go back close to 30 years.
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