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Those 3 pre spring tour shows in Passaic were a tough ticket, there was a deadheads mailing list lottery that entitled you to buy tickets...only got into the 3/31 show...weather was strange...late April and it was snowing outside...the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ was always a blast!

Birmingham was a great tour opener, but a strange town for deadheads to be wandering around in.  Bill Allen took some really nice photos both inside and outside the venue:

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^3/31 in Passaic...that would be late March not April

Thanks for posting these shows, Greg.  Just listened to 3/31 straight through, which I haven't done in years. The jamming in and around Terrapin was sweet!

Great photos above. 

Shots of Garcia and this trusty briefcase always kill me. I'm surprised he didn't chain it to his wrist. 

Oops wrong year

The Hampton show was one of the worst performances I ever saw from these guys.  30 minute pre drums of sloppy nonsense.

5-11-80 is a scorcher

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