Time sure does keep rolling by. This show isn't necessarily a classic, but it was so different and funky that it has always had a place in my heart.
It was a low-budget event in a little fairgrounds hall, and despite all the GD members being advertised they were billed as guests with Joan Baez, no mention of an electric Grateful Dead set, so I was floored when Joan commented well into the show that they would be playing.
Maybe I was just young and naive, but I had no expectation of seeing a Dead set that night, so my excitement, certainly enhanced by my evening's enhancements, went through the roof when they came out and rocked the place.
It's a short set with no extended jams but it's fun and very energetic, with my favorite Cold Rain & Snow ever.
BTW, if you read the article included here, Jerry didn't walk off the stage and leave the rest of the band to finish the set, which makes it sound like he was unhappy, he just didn't come back out for the encore. He was smiling and in good spirits the entire night, he probably just had to hook up with his dealer on his way home.
(I took two full rolls of film that night, but these are the only ones that came out. I guess my enhancements got the better of me there, but they remain some of my favorites)
https://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/03/december-12-1981-fiesta-hall-s...
https://archive.org/details/gd1981-12-12.142975.nak300.streeter.miller.c...
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 02:14 am
Wow!! Never heard of this one
Wow!! Never heard of this one. I always loved Joan's collaboration with the boys New Years (1981?).
Glad you got a Lifer Cold Rain & Snow!
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 08:33 am
From Lost Live Dead:
From Lost Live Dead:
Not having been to the show (I was six years old at the time), I have no idea if it was a sincere tribute or more of a sarcastic dig, but I can offer the following. In Mary Eisenhart's review of 12/31/81 in DeadBase XI (p. 314), she offers this: "If you can, get at least Banks of the Ohio from Joan Baez's set; the Dead are backing her, and it's a nice return to their respective folk roots. Baez makes something of a flourish ("Maestro ...") in introducing Garcia's solo -- a reference to the Dance for Disarmament benefit a few weeks earlier in which she had unceremoniously cut his solo off, causing him not to return to the stage for the encore."
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 11:11 am
it was a great show. So glad
it was a great show. So glad that I was there.
Those were fun times when Joan was sitting in with the Dead. She took no guff from the rambunctious heads at the front of the floor. And she had that silly new song "Children of the Eighties" which has justly faded away.
"We don't care if Dylan's gone to Jesus."
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 11:45 am
>>>She took no guff from the
>>>She took no guff from the rambunctious heads at the front
So for some reason I clearly remember having a conversation with this girl in a hotel room after the 82 Oklahoma City show. She was so pissed off about Joan's set because of that song particularly this part
Some of us are the sisters and the brothers
Who take a leather jacket and a single golden earring
Hang out at discos, rock shows, lose our hearing
Take uppers, downers, blues and reds and yellows
Our brains are turning to Jell-O
We are looking forward to the days
When we live inside of a purple haze
And the salvation of the soul
Is rock 'n' roll
She said it freaked a bunch of her friends out and was just completely wrong to be singing that song on NYE to a bunch of very very high dead heads. That was only my third year of seeing the dead and my first time on "tour" and really my first introduction to people bitching about shows. It was all pretty much rainbows and unicorns for me up to that point.
She was pissed about the set lists on that summer tour and told me people had been bitching to the band. I didn't really believe her but then the next show KC 82 we got To Lay Me Down and Casey Jones. I probably remember the conversation because the rest of her description of NYE was amazing and that is what led me to going in 82. So thanks random hotel room with 20 people in it girl wherever you are now.
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 02:51 pm
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 03:35 pm
It does seem from other
It does seem from other witnesses accounts that Jerry bailed because Joan cut off his solo.
Clearly he and Brent felt like their hands were tied in this situation and didn't like it.
Joan tried to make up for it on NYE with the "Maestro" thing, but he was probably just like "whatever" at that point.
I love Mary Eisenhart's review in Deadbase of the Baby Blue:
".....what was later known as the Joan Baez Scare, with Baez taking it upon herself to take the stage, walk all over Jerry's
vocals, and perform some bizarre dance onstage. A clear testimonial to incompatible styles, and a source of
outraged commentary for months thereafter."
Too bad the Zone didn't exist then!!! Hahahaha.
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 05:49 pm
Those are postcards judit
Those are postcards judit made fyi
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 05:53 pm
And that's when the rumors
And that's when the rumors started that Joan was the reincarnation of the ravenous Catherine the Great
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on Friday, December 13, 2024 – 06:30 pm
Indeed Mice, Mrs. LCL
Indeed Mice, Mrs. LCL purchased several different ones from Judit "way back when."
One has a prominent spot in our kitchen...
It's pretty crazy that these are the last three GD acoustic sets ever, and none of them had
an original Grateful Dead song.....
(12-12, 12-30, 12-31).