My First Grateful Dead Show
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43 years ago today was when all the trouble started. My first Grateful Dead show, at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ 8/04/76. It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago...
NRPS opened, and surreally enough, Mr Jiggs, the Bike-riding Chimpanzee did his act between sets.
Favorite non-musical memory of the day: Ice cream vendor working the crowd, shouting "Ice Cream! Ice Cream and Acid!"
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My girlfriend at the time
My girlfriend at the time lived in Jersey City and I drove her home that day. Went right past the stadium but didn't bother to try for a ticket, in '76 I wasn't quite that far gone yet.
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The band was nice enough to
The band was nice enough to come to my college (Rutgers) in 1980. Thunderstorm and skylights during Fire on th Mountain. Pretty freaky how the lightning was synched with the "Fire" chant at several choruses.
Thought it was just me and something that I ate, but the lot was buzzing about it after the show
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I dunno. I spent the night
I dunno. I spent the night outside The RAC, and don't remember getting wet. Or lightning.
I was pretty hammered, tho.
Also, I was there in '81. You sure you weren't?
https://archive.org/details/gd1981-05-15.sbd.miller.86783.sbeok.flac16
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Ooops 1981, not 80. And it
Ooops 1981, not 80. And it was LLR , not FOTM
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Reviewer: Mountain High - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - April 3, 2008
Subject: Lightning
I vividly remember the lightning flashes through the skylight during LL Rain! There was almost a dialogue between the band, audience, and electrical storm that really upped the energy.
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The amazing thing was just how perfectly the atmosphere inside merged with the outside as they hit the chorus on Looks Like Rain, the lightning flashed through the giant skylights and the thunder boomed. The audience roared in appreciation of the cosmic convergence of music and weather. It was epic!
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Reviewer: chris nubar - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - November 2, 2016
Subject: Marley Reference during Estimated
Bob Marley had died a few days before this show and Bobby sings a snippet of Get Up, Stand Up as a tribute during Estimated. Fun show, and yes, the lightning was cool.
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>>>>>Mr Jiggs, the Bike
>>>>>Mr Jiggs, the Bike-riding Chimpanzee
how New Jersey
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My memory of that Rutgers
My memory of that Rutgers show is the neat little riff that Jerry did at the beginning of Eyes. I've only heard a few other versions where he does this. A so-so show, nothing spectacular but solid. As I recall the place had a windowed ceiling of some sort so the lightening created an interesting effect.