GRATEFUL DEAD SELL OUT THE KNICK 25,000 TICKETS SOLD IN 74 MINUTES TO SET RECORD.(Local)

Byline: Mike Gormley Staff writer

Andrew "Dice" Clay didn't stand a chance.

Frank Sinatra couldn't even do it his way.

No one so far has matched the sheer volume and rate of ticket sales Friday for the Grateful Dead at the Knickerbocker Arena: 25,000 tickets in 74 minutes, according to Arena Manager Patrick Lynch.

Greg J. Hotaling of Leeder's Video, a Ticketmaster outlet in Clifton Park, said most people bought the maximum 12 tickets - at the outlet price of $22 a pop - for the concerts on March 24, 25 and 26.

He said 600 to 1,000 people bought tickets from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., while a throng even larger was turned away when the …