NC State

NC State might be known for Wolfpack basketball and Reynolds Coliseum, but one thing it never had? A Grateful Dead show. Despite the band’s long history of touring the South, Raleigh never made the cut. That doesn’t mean the music didn’t find its way onto campus—whether through bootleg tapes, dorm room jam sessions, or students road-tripping to catch a show. It’s easy to imagine Reynolds swapping buzzer-beaters for Bertha and a packed student section swaying to Scarlet Begonias, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Still, Deadheads in North Carolina never had to look too far to find the music—it always had a way of reaching the right crowd.