People who liked the party. I was in my late teens and early 20’s when I went to the shows. I saw a few shows in high school with my older brother, but for the most part I was 18-23 when I saw them. While at the concerts, the whole scene was just as much, if not more fun than the actual show. Sometimes the band was really tight, most times, not so much. I know this is blasphemous for many dead fans, but it’s true. If you listen to the live shows of the early 70’s, they are so much better than the late 80’s, early 90’s shows that I saw. It was something to do, they came around all the time, going up to New England to see them was a great 3 day party.
I saw them in 93 at giants stadium, relatively sober, compared to any other show I had seen. They were awful, Jerry would forget words. So for me, it was a place to party and meet girls who liked to party. All that being said, the birdsong at Oxford raceway melted my mind?