A GREAT show from 40 years ago...

It's funny how this show slips by in my memory, it was SO GOOD! But 7 friends & I had rented a condo at Northstar in Tahoe for a four-day/NYE skiing adventure that same week, so there are so many memories from that time.

But tonight I was recalling New Years' past and I remembered that epic trip. A part of it was that a bunch of us had gone to the GD show at the Oakland Auditorium on 12/27/80, the plan being that we'd all go up to Tahoe the next day and check into Northstar on the 28th until the 1st.

But immediately after the show on the 27th a friend was motivated to go to the show on the 28th and drive straight up to Tahoe after the show, and in a flush of youth & Grateful Dead glory I volunteered to join him.

So the next day he & I got in the ticket line (BGP shows in those days held tix to sell day-of-show at the venue) we got in, got good balcony seats and saw a GREAT Grateful Dead show, then blazed up to Northstar immediately after the show, with "enhancements" helping with the drive.

The whole week was a great time, and going to the show on the 28th just added to it, and even though I remember it as a great show it's not one that usually comes to mind. My mistake.

I listened to it tonight, and oh my.

If you haven't heard 12/28/1980, give this one a listen. The Mississippi Half-Step>Franklins Tower opener is worth it on it's own, but the whole show is great.

40 years gone by. Good times then, good times to come.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

https://archive.org/details/gd1980-12-28.sbd.long.34638.sbeok.flac16/gd1...