48 years ago

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There are many Grateful Dead shows I would love to go back in time to see, but this one is right at the top of the list.

I think everyone would agree that this is a legendary show, from a legendary band rising again from the darkness, performed in a legendary room; what a night that must have been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsA1viEWBik

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How is this pic from 48 years ago? There's at least 4 people staring at their cell phones. Is that how the way-back machine is supposed to work?

That picture is just a random image I quickly found and stuck in to show the room for anyone who may not know how small and how cool that place is. I should have found a better shot but I didn't feel like hunting.

The venue is 127 years old. Shows and the people who attend them have come and gone, but the room remains the same, which is what really matters.

That, and the greatness of the one show that happened 48 years ago.

Maybe this one was taken that night...

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Still have this vinyl bootleg.  Track list has a couple funny song titles

Help On The Way>Slipknot!>Franklin's Tower   The Music Never Stopped   Eyes Of The World     Stronger Than Dirt Or Milking The Roses   It Must Have Been The Roses

Round And Round   Sugaree   I'm Gonna Sit Right Here Until I Die     Perhaps The Other One     Going Down The Road Feeling Bad

From Reddit.....Someone in the One From the Vault post asked about pics from this show. For some reason, pics from 8/13/75 have been difficult to come across. There was a German Vinyl LP pressing of One From The Vault that contained these awesome pics in the gatefold of the LP jacket.   Photography: Patti Healy

r/gratefuldead - Great American Music Hall - 8/13/75   r/gratefuldead - Great American Music Hall - 8/13/75

I've been to GAMH many times and have a hard time imagining the entire band even fitting on that tiny stage!

So epic! anyone going to the shindig tonight in Celebration?

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Donna does not look happy in that last pic.

... on lead guitars and vocals, Mr. Jerry Garcia.  Would you welcome please, the Grateful Dead.

Still gives me goosebumps.  Best Dead ever.

Friend of mine back then managed to get in somehow- she knew somebody.

I caught Garcia/ Saunders there in 1974 with Vassar Clements sitting in for the whole show---GREAT night.

 

 

I really can't even imagine being in that room on that night.  Very happy for those lucky enough to be there. If time travel was possible I would first pick a few 1968 shows to see first, but then jump right to this one!

Thanks for the factual photos, and in my classic day late/dollar short ways, here's a shot from that night I've never seen before...

 

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