You probably couldn't have squeezed one more person into the first floor of the Aqua Vino restaurant on Friday as an absolutely packed house roared with excitement as former NHL goalie Robert Esche officially announced professional hockey was coming back to Utica.
The Grateful Dead preformed three times at the Utica Memorial Auditorium:
March 21-22, 1973
January 14, 1979
and March 13, 1981
Several of the bootlegs from those shows have made their way to YouTube. Here are the best of them: