It began Friday as it ended in 1995, with one of the most beautiful songs in the Grateful Dead canon. "Box of Rain" was the final song performed by the band when it last played Soldier Field in 1995, and it was the opener in the Dead's three-night sold-out return to the stadium to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
The tender goodbye to a dying father also nodded to the Dead's legac before a record Soldier Field concert crowd of 70,764 "This is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago," bassist Phil Lesh sang. It was a heck of a dream, but it ended in '95 when the band's benevolent visionary Jerry Garcia died only a few weeks after the two Soldier Field concerts wrapped up the band's summer tour.
Without Garcia, this couldn't be the Grateful Dead anymore, no matter what the ticket stub says. Instead, this was – at best -- a Grateful Dead tribute show, a celebration of a remarkable legacy that reunited Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart from the '60s lineup.
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