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at the Assembly Hall on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — two nights that cemented the Dead’s bond with Illinois

and a rapidly evolving Northern California counterculture

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1971 show at Michigan State’s Jenison Field House was pure early-’70s Dead—tight jams

Purdue x Grateful Dead Stacked Bears Tee polos at the Assembly Hall onOfficially licensed by Purdue University and the Grateful Dead available exclusively through Class Trip. Mackey Arena, tucked into the heart of Purdue University, is best known for its deafening noise and relentless Boilermaker intensity. But when the Grateful Dead rolled through West Lafayette, the hard edges softened, and the concrete walls soaked up something far more fluid than a fast break. For a night, students, locals, and wandering Deadheads