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08/04/76 (Wed)  Roosevelt Stadium - Jersey City, NJ 

Set 1: Sugaree, Minglewood Blues, Row Jimmy, Big River, Loser, Looks Like Rain, They Love Each Other, Music Never Stopped, Scarlet Begonias

Set 2: Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower > Dancing In The Streets > The Wheel > Samson & Delilah, It Must Have Been The Roses, Not Fade Away > Drums > The Other One > Ship of Fools, Sugar Magnolia, E: Johnny B. Goode

NRPS opened (?) 

Mr. Jiggs The Tricycle riding Chimpanzee performed between band sets. That was surreal. 

 

Fond memories of the Ice Cream vendor yelling out "Ice Cream! Ice Cream & Acid!!"

 

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Love it 

Will reply if time evah permits  (;

<3

11/11/71, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium,  two weeks after Duane Allman's death.

New Riders (self Contained) opened. 

10/31/79, Nassau was my first show. I recall a great Lazy Lightning.

2003 Shoreline

9/2/78

Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME (3/28/86)

Iko Iko

Beat it on Down the Line

Loser

Good Time Blues

Me and My Uncle

Mexicali Blues

Althea

Box of Rain

 

Playin' in the Band

Franklin's Tower

 I Need a Miracle

Playin' in the Band

drums

The Wheel

Dear Mr. Fantasy

Playin' in the Band

Around and Around

Good Lovin'

Baby Blue

7/14/85

Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA

 

Set I

Hell In A Bucket, They Love Each Other, My Brother Esau, Althea, Cassidy, Big Railroad Blues-> Looks Like Rain-> Might As Well

Set II

China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Samson & Delilah-> Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Truckin'-> Smokestack Lightning-> Black Peter-> Throwing Stones-> Not Fade Away, E: Day Job

5/11/81

 

New Haven

 

Satisfaction encore

7/27/73 -- Summer Jam sound check, Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway, Watkins Glen, NY

an auspicious start for me smiley

A very nice intro to the next chapter of my life...

The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (11/5/79)

China Cat Sunflower

I Know You Rider

Cassidy

Friend of the Devil

El Paso

Stagger Lee

Passenger

Peggy-O

Music Never Stopped

(2)Althea

Easy to Love You

Eyes of the World

Estimated Prophet

Franklin's Tower

drums

Lost Sailor

Saint of Circumstance

Sugar Magnolia

(E)Casey Jones

Saratoga 6-18-83  

My college friends were all into the Dead but I was always a Dead disliker. That year I was forced to listen to bunch of it. I came to liking Blues For Allah. Some songs like Althea were also acceptable. Anyway, they dragged me from NH to this show.  I dropped a hit of acid. I was overwhelmed by how nice everyone was. The music.....well, I didnt know what hit me. So I had to go back over and over and over and over and over and over to figure out just what the heck was going on. https://archive.org/details/gd83-06-18.set2.aud-silberman.miller.21741.s...

3.23.86 Philly Spectrum

 

Set 1
Gimme Some Lovin'-> Deal, Hand Jive, Candyman, Cassidy, West L.A. Fadeaway, Mama Tried-> Big River-> Might As Well

Set 2
Shakedown Street-> Samson & Delilah, He's Gone-> Spoonful-> Drums-> The Other One-> Comes A Time-> Good Lovin', E: Day Job

 

https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-23.111956.beyer-senn.daweez.d5scot...

 

 

Went solo, none of my friends were interested. I saw a guy from the neighborhood, Pete,  who was considered a bit ne'er do well.  Pete recognized me and called me over. Told him it was my first show, and he was eager to take me under his wing and show me around. It was a General admission show,  and we ended up about 10 ft in front of Phil for gimme some lovin opener. Bonus, Pete's mother worked one of the beer gardens, so it was free beer all night. 

Gunnar...if you ever figure it out...(what was going on)... please let us know...

Hampton. 10/9/89

<<<<<7/27/73 -- Summer Jam sound check, Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway, Watkins Glen, NY

an auspicious start for me 

 

 

An auspicious start for me too.

600,000 gathered to herald my birth.

So you were born at Watkins Glen?

 

Yes. On the stage, 6.

I remember it all.

You were the original Dew baby! I knew it.

4/5/82 Spectrum - I meant to post this on the 35th anniversary of my first, but I was in the hospital & didn't have my phone back yet. I can't believe it's been that long. I was about a month away from my 13th birthday. 

I wish I could find a soundboard, but there doesn't seem to be one. This audience has always worked for me though. 

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4/6/82 Spectrum. Missed you by a day chuck!

Snowing with a Cold Rain And Snow opener. Introductory levels of electric assistance. 

I remember a guy post show in the lot going from car to car to find one that fit his key!!!! 

Good times!

 

^^^ lol Smiley and 6er yes

1/8/79 opened w a smoking Half Step and closed the first set w a blazing Lazy Lightning-Supplicatiion  Second set was also smoking by Terrapin I knew life would never be the same again . 

Summer 1966 at the Fillmore.

I was a college freshman in 1969. I was into Bloomfield/East-West at the time and my dormie told me I should listen to Jerry because he played like Mike. Home in Bahston for winter break, I see the GD are playin' there for NYE and preceding. - went solo on 12/29. Had never heard a note of GD music.

It was at the new Boston Tea Party, nee The Ark. It had been a parking garage previously, and had a concrete floor and ramps. The stage was about a foot high, and the room held about 300. I think it was three bucks to get in - I remember waiting in line in my wool Air Force coat, smokin' jays with the other heads.

The show was partly interesting, partly boring, partly confusing, and partly amazing. In retrospect it was a mediocre show - first  (and only?) NY run outside the bay area, first of three shows, and the end of a hard year - speedway boogie and he's gone times, and the band seemed tired. Apparently the next two nights smoked, but I was not there.

During Good Lovin' a big guy jumped up on the stage and started screaming. Weir took off his guitar and made like a boxer while the rest of the band played on obliviously. The guy grabbed Weir's mic stand and threw it into the mostly sitting (!) crowd, where it landed a few rows in front of me, Nobody was hurt, and Big Steve and another roadie duck-walked the dude to the back door and tossed him out on the RR tracks as the song and show continued.

It took the release of Workingman's and another show in early 71 for me to become a Deadhead.

Wow Judit, the early days!

For me it was 9/1/79.  I don't remember much of it except for the rubber rats flying around.

https://archive.org/details/gd79-09-01.aud.10363.sbeok.shnf

 

10.25.80 RCMH - Midtown Manhattan!
1) Deep Elem Blues, The Race is On, I've Been All Around This World, El Paso, To Lay Me Down, Monkey & The Engineer, Bird Song, Heaven Help The Fool, Dire Wolf-> Ripple
2) Mississippi Half Step-> Franklin's Tower, Me & My Uncle, Big River, High Time, Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Looks Like Rain, Deal
3) Cold Rain & Snow-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Uncle John's Band-> Playin' In The Band-> Drums-> The Other One-> Black Peter-> Around & Around-> One More Saturday Night,
E: U.S. Blues

Was a not so naive teenager in Bergen County, NJ who'd seen a lot of shows already (Allman's, Tull, Yes, Neil, Pink Floyd, Eagles, ELO, Rory Gallagher, Steve Miller and many more).
Did the all night party thing at the local Ticketron w my homies and boy we thought we were cool till we got to our actual seats at RCMH - literally the last row on the 5th floor.
We imbibed and then thought about our situation....

We knew we had homies on the floor so before the show even started we all managed to get past orchestra security and wound up in the 5th row center!

I even went 2 more nights: 10/26 and Halloween!

Crater left in mind - hook still very firmly planted in cheek.....

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Promised Land, Deal, Looks Like Rain, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Loose Lucy, Mexicali Blues, Row Jimmy, El Paso, Box Of Rain, Sugaree, Beat It On Down The Line, Tennessee Jed

Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider He's Gone-> Truckin'-> Playin' In The Band, Loser, Me & My Uncle, Mississippi Half Step, Big River, Eyes Of The World-> China Doll, Sugar Magnolia

May 79 Billerica Mass. The show was a late addition to the tour. My high school English teacher got a bunch of tickets for seniors in her class and somehow they trickled down to 16 year old me. At that point I had seen Emerson Lake and Palmer, Aerosmith, and Foghat. Didn’t really know much about the Dead other than what I heard on the radio so pretty much Truckin.

Someone must have driven me since I didn’t have my license yet. Billerica is tiny little hockey rink. The place was completely unprepared. GA show so people lined up early. Almost got crushed to death on the way in. The staff inside had no idea what was going on outside. They opened the doors and the first few thousand people poured in before they could even deal with  taking tickets. That was the only time I was in a crowd where my feet left the ground due to the crush.

As soon as they started playing I knew this was something different since everybody was up dancing, and never sat down. I remember talking to Heads after the show who explained that they sold stuff in parking lots in order to follow the band around. The whole thing seemed crazy but I knew I wanted more. Of the 15 or so people who went from my school only me and another kid got the bug and followed them around.

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Summer of 1965 - The Warlocks.....a free show on the Haight......yeah I'm old.

"I was so much older then, I'm younger then that now."

- Bob Dylan

Grateful Dead Live at Hartford Civic Center on 1988-04-03
 

Promised Land-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Althea, Little Red Rooster, Cold Rain & Snow, Memphis Blues, Box Of Rain, Don't Ease Me In Playin' In The Band-> Crazy Fingers-> Franklin's Tower-> Women Are Smarter-> Drums-> Jam-> Gimme Some Lovin'-> Black Peter-> Turn On Your Love Light, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue

 

I honestly was so floored by the scene that I only remember Black Peter->BB.   Jerry sounded like he was dyin.  I still question why in '88, when Jerry's voice was completely shot, that he played those 2 songs in one set.    

3/22/72 Academy of Music, NYC 

Got to see the Pig and Jerry played pedal steel on one song. 

10/11/83 - MSG - St Stephen breakout.

My first show was the night before they closed Winterland,  on December 30th 1978 at UCLA.  Have to enjoy a 12 song first set, with most songs played extremely well.  And that second set is simply epic, arguably one of the better 2nd sets they ever played, and the Only time Scarlet / Fire / Playing / Shakedown was played in that combo.  There was a big screen above the stage where they had slide shows from the Egypt shows, with Jerry riding a camel, placing the dead flag on top of the pyramid, etc.  Nice "Clive" Davis reference in Jack Straw ("we use to play for money, now we play for Clive", he was the prez of Arista Records).  A funny "Everybody Polka" comment during Mexicali Blues,  and who doesn't love the rare Ollin Arrageed, with this very likely being the best version ever played.  They had Hamza el Din, Bill Walton, and a dozen folks chanting and playing drums, epic!  Having Lee Oscar sit in during the blues songs was also epic (though I've seen it listed as Mathew Kelly as well, I was too high to remember, LOL).  All in all an excellent 78 show, and worthy of releasing as it has so many unique moments, some epic interplaying, and really kicked ass on the famous show the following night. Even Mickey Hart said they played better the night before, and had the crowd clapping in "11", gotta love that.  I provided a link for the show too,  one of my all time faves, and that's after decades of listening / playing dead songs!  This one would very much be worthy of being an official release (though bobby's guitar needs to be turned up in the board mix during the first set, he's well heard on the aud. tapes).  

Enjoy!!!    

12/30/78
Pauley Pavilion, UCLA - Los Angeles, CA

Set 1:
Jack Straw
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried>
Mexicali Blues
Loser
Looks Like Rain
Stagger Lee
Passenger
Tennessee Jed
New Minglewood Blues
Sugaree
Promised Land

Set 2:
I Need A Miracle>
Bertha>
Good Lovin'
Scarlet Begonias>
Fire On The Mountain
Playin' In The Band>
Shakedown Street>
*Drums>
*Ollin Arrageed>
St. Stephen>
Not Fade Away>
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
**Around And Around

Encore:
One More Saturday Night

* with Hamza el Din (Bill Walton, and many others) 

** with Lee Oscar on Harmonica (from War) 

http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1978/12/30

Blossom Music Center  1984-06-29

I  Bertha-> Greatest Story Ever Told, They Love Each Other, CC Rider-> Bird Song, Hell In A Bucket, West L.A. Fadeaway, The Music Never Stopped-> Don't Ease Me In

II Scarlet Begonias-> Touch Of Grey-> Dear Mr. Fantasy-> Women Are Smarter-> Drums-> The Wheel-> The Other One-> Black Peter-> Around & Around-> Johnny B. Goode, E: U.S. Blues

https://archive.org/details/gd84-06-29.senn.willy.14682.sbeok.shnf

I had just finished freshman year at OSU. The Scarlet and (Touch Of) Grey were appropriate choices.wink

Saw my first King Crimson show that week as well. Great times at Blossom!