The city of Ithaca may be Gorges, but it’s also full of stone-cold noobs. Celebrating 5/8/77? Bah! I can’t wait ’til Uniondale throws a parade on 2/28/33.

It’s been almost 30 years since the Grateful Dead unleashed its most traded set of music on an unsuspecting Cornell crowd. You know the one; it starts with everybody’s favorite fun game, Move Back, begins in earnest with a mindfucking Scarlet>Fire and concludes with the sorrowful Morning Dew. Sicky sicky.

Cornell

Now Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson wants to celebrate the good times, issuing a proclamation that concludes a series of “Whereas” statements with this:

Now therefore, be it resolved that as Mayor of the City of Ithaca, and in heartfelt recognition of the thirtieth anniversary of the May 8th 1977 concert performance, I declare May 8th 2007 as Grateful Dead Day in the City of Ithaca.

Huzzah! To commemorate the occasion, the Dark Star Orchestra will headline Grateful Dead Day with a glorious recreation of 5/8/77, for only $26.50. I love me some DSO, but good lord, where have you gone $5 at the door at Martyr’s?!

I will say, though, this almost makes going to Cornell cool. Almost.

Slade Sohmer

In 2006 Slade Sohmer founded Hidden Track along with current EiC Scott Bernstein. Slade ran the site until 2008, establishing a scope of coverage and level of professionalism that still exists today. In 2010 Sohmer founded HyperVocal with Lee Brenner and the "purveyors of the vital and viral" have gone on to create a network of highly acclaimed sites that includes Headlines That Suck, Weeping Elvis, Distriction and Spike The Water Cooler.

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