the parking lot, or large area, outside os Grateful Dead or Phish shows where
everything from drugs, burritos, tie dyes, incense and clothing were sold. Shakedown was the place where one could chill before or after a show and find
whatever it is one was looking for. Most known for it's open air drug supermarket where cats would have nitrous oxide tanks
in the back of cars and sell balloons of nitrous for $5. also people would walk around uttering "trips trips" or "kind bud."