ThereвЂ™s a bootleg of the Grateful DeadвЂ™s set posted at the Internet Archive, and the comment section is filled with vitriol - the most recent posted on the 24th anniversary of the show in 2010: Strangely enough, this tape sounds better than my recollections of that awful muddy sounding gig. After thumbing through the letters I looked the show up online. The commissionвЂ™s file folders for the show are filled with letters like this one - from enraged fans demanding their money back. I am a seasoned concertgoer, having seen the likes of Elvis Presley, Simon & Garfunkel and the Rolling Stones from appearances in arenas, concert halls, and farm fields and never have I heard such poor acoustics as I did that night at the Dome. My favorite is a letter to then-Executive Director of the commission Jerry Bell from ticketholder Karen Hoffman from Mankato: I walked out of the Bob Dylan concert midway through the show, as the sound quality was terrible. What happened next? Well, itвЂ™s all right there in the collection of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission at the Minnesota Historical Society. In a show of deference to Dylan, the Dead opened, launching into a single-set show with a cover of the Spencer Davis GroupвЂ™s вЂњGimmee Some LovinвЂ™.вЂќ The crew worked nonstop in shifts until doors opened early evening two days later. The bandвЂ™s crew started setting up immediately after Twins tryouts were wrapped up on the 24th. The вЂњfriendsвЂќ would be Bob Dylan backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - if all went well.ДЄll did go well, at least until the music started on June 26, 1986. In February 1986, a representative from the Minneapolis-based Schon Productions brought a camera to the 4-year-old Metrodome and took some photos to send to a representative of the Grateful Dead, who were kicking around the idea of a вЂњGrateful Dead and FriendsвЂќ show. I donвЂ™t mean to kick the stadium when itвЂ™s down, but what I found was too amusing to keep to myself. Note: While looking for something else entirely in the archives of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, I ran across file folders containing documents and correspondence related to the DomeвЂ™s first-ever full-scale concert.

Bob dylan band in a box files