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Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra brought out the ‘heads to eastern Idaho’s iconic Spud Drive-In on a summery August evening. Erika Eschholz twirls.


Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

Hoopers arrive.

Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

The show even attracted a few people from way out yonder, including this family from Salt Lake City.

Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

Organized by Dom Gagliardi of PoppaPresents, it was the Spud’s first concert. Clint Green surveys the scene.

Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

As a Dead tribute band, Dark Star plays specific set lists from the Grateful Dead’s history, and brought us back to March 26, 1990, the Dead’s third night in a three-night run at Albany, New York’s Knickerbocker Arena.

Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

The show brought out festivarians from various generations.

Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive InSunset.

Dark Star Orchestra Driggs Victor Idaho Spud Drive In

For a funky little drive-in theater in the far eastern BFE, the show was a spectacle of light and sound. Hard not to be affected by it, especially with meteors streaking through the sky above.

  • August 13th, 2009
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