Ithaca To Be Renamed N00b City

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.

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.

• Click here to stream 5/8/77 at Barton Hall from the Archive