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06-20-91 Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Mi. (THU)

1: Touch>
Greatest
Peggy-O,
Mexicali>
Maggie's Farm
Bird Song
2: Throwing Stones>
Iko Iko
Watchtower>
SOTM>
He's Gone>
Drumz>
Wheel>
Miracle>
Wharf Rat>
Throwing Stones>
NFA
E: Brokedown

highlights: Bruce Hornsby's Accordion solo during Maggie's Farm, Jerry's heartfelt solo during Standing on the moon w/fully tie-died sky,the Not Fade Away chant and Drumz baby...Mickey rocked it that night-

Grateful Dead
Venue William And Mary Hall - College Of William And Mary
Location Williamsburg, VA
Date 9/24/76 - Friday posters tickets, passes & laminates
One The Promised Land [4:10] ; [1:37] ; Deal [4:45] ; [2:57] ; Cassidy [4:22] ; Sugaree [10:07] ; [2:21] ; Looks Like Rain [7:27] ; [1:58] ; Row Jimmy [9:30] % Big River [5:04] ; [2:04] ; Tennessee Jed [8:37] ; [4:09] ; Playing In The Band [11:44] (1) > Supplication [3:56] > Playing In The Band Reprise [5:26] (2)
Two Might As Well [6:01] % Samson And Delilah [6:31] ; [1:05] ; Loser [7:26] ; [3:05] ; New Minglewood Blues [4:15] ; [1:16] ; Help On The Way [4:14] > Slipknot! [5:51] > Drums [5:36] > Slipknot! [5:24] > Franklin's Tower [8:05] > The Music Never Stopped [5:49] > Stella Blue [7:29] ; Around And Around [6:11]
Encore U.S. Blues [5:42]
Comments (1) {Playing In The Band verses 1 & 2 [2:46] > Playing In The Band Jam[8:58] } * (2) {spacey Jam [2:24] > Playing In The Band Jam [0:47] > Playing In The Band Reprise [2:15] }

hands down that second set rocked ~!!
drove up from Norfolk Va from where i was stationed in the Navy (USS SHREVEPORT), needless to say i "lost it" when Promise Land started.

04-19-83 Alfond Arena, U. of Maine, Orono, Me. (Tue)
1: Jack Straw, FOTD> All Over Now, Dire Wolf> Big River, Dupree's, On The Road Again, West L. A., Lazy Lightning> Supplication> Might As Well
2: Sugaree> Samson, He's Gone> Drumz> Spanish Jam> Truckin> Wharf Rat> Around> Good Lovin E: U. S. Blues


I was 15, and had been into the Dead for a few years, but really didn't like the live stuff at all. I had recently gotten Long, Strange, Trip, and couldn't believe how terrible the live St. Stephen was. Yes, that's the St. Stephen from Live Dead. D'oh. I went in expecting to see a typical concert where the band plays their hits, so I assumed we'd get truckin, sugar mags, golden road - pretty much anything on skeletons in the closet.

As it turns out, I had a curfew because of a baseball game the next day, and could only stay for the first set. I loved Jack Straw, fucking hated FOTD because it was so SLOW, and Dire Wolf was the only other tune I knew. I had fun, but wasn't overwhelmed by any stretch.

But what was truly incredible were all these tshirts people had on. They were these crazy multi-colored things with really cool patterns them. I had never seen anything like it. These days, I think they call them "tie-dyes."

I also saw something I'd never seen before, which was these circles of people (wearing those crazy colored shirts, of course) standing around playing some game where they hit this little bean bag up in the air with their feet. What a strange concept, but it did look kinda fun.

06/18/83 (Sat) Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY

Set 1: Bertha > Jack Straw, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues > Big River, Althea, Hell In A Bucket > Deal

Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Playing In The Band > Drums > The Wheel > Playing In The Band (reprise) > Morning Dew, Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away > Touch of Grey, E:Don't Ease Me In, E: One More Saturday Night

I was 19 years old and although I preferred to say I didn't like the Dead, I had recently come to like "Blues for Allah"
I rode out from New Hampshire with a bunch of friends from UNH. Scored the hit of "A" for $2 and the rest as they say is history.
The crowd was a rush. Phil was impressive. My hallucinations were immense.
Bertha is still one of my all-time faovrites.
Awesome Morning Dew

9/15/82 - Cap Center

set 1: Playing In The Band > Crazy Fingers > Space > Little Red Rooster, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Beat It On Down The Line, It Must Have Been The Roses > Playing In The Band Jam > Let It Grow > Keep Your Day Job

set 2: Shakedown Street > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
Encore Touch Of Grey

just started the last yr of high school...was very psyched to see the band since some of my friends had been to the cool Balt. civic center show in April of 82 and ranted about that for months & months.

being a newbie i couldn't truly appreciate the Playin' spaciness that was in the 1st set. Since this was my first show, and being a big fan of the Stones, i really enjoyed hearing the boys take on rooster, nfa, around & around.

My 1st 3 shows absolutely BLEW ME AWAY (74/76/77). The closest I ever came to that feeling again was Phil in '00/'01

yeah they musta really blew you away. away so much that you saw 1 show a year!

12-09-89 Great Western Forum, Inglewood, Ca. (Sat)
1: Touch, Minglewood, Row Jimmy, Mexicali> Cumberland, Bird Song, Saturday Night
2: Foolish Heart, Playin> Crazy Fingers> Uncle John> Playin> Drumz> Mr. Fantasy> Hey Jude Finale> Lovelight E: Heaven's Door
"Bird Song" appears on "Without A Net"

saw 99 GD shows.

>>>> away so much that you saw 1 show a year!

I was f-in' FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (at my 1st show) - considered myself lucky as hell to have been taken to those 1st 3 - plus in those days there really weren't very many "tourheads" - going to a GD show was no different than going to any other show - basically similar people - a buncha stoners - at least to the shows I went to (Clapton/Yes/Eagles/Doobies/etc).

Long Beach Arena (11/15/87)

Iko Iko
Walkin' Blues
Candyman
Me and My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
West L.A. Fadeaway
Cassidy
Don't Ease Me In

Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Looks Like Rain
He's Gone
drums
The Other One
Morning Dew
Around and Around
All Along the Watchtower

Black Muddy River

WOW Bob, wut a trip I was 14 at my first deadshow too! Fire on the Mtn was the highlite, took some purple dragon that nite, what a nite, one i will never forget!

There goes Gunner again with his holier than thou touch head bravado.
Hey gunner - 99 shows (beginning 1989) = F'N NEWBIE pal..........................

my first concert ever was between 7th and 8th grades, I was twelve.

Grateful Dead
07/12/1989 RFK Stadium

06-14-87 County Fairgrounds, Ventura, Ca. (Sun)
1: Bucket> Sugaree, Tons Of Steel, Ramble On, Me & My Uncle> Mexicali, Althea, Stranger> Might As Well

2: Scarlet> Fire, Playin> Terrapin> Drumz> Truckin> Wharf Rat> Throwing Stones> NFA E: Mighty Quinn

fire hooked me for life

Blossom Music Center
6/29/84

1st Set

Bertha>
Greatest Story
They Love Each Other
C C Rider
Bird Song
Hell In A Bucket
West L.A. Fadeaway
Music Never Stopped>
Don't Ease

2nd Set

Scarlet>
Touch Of Grey
Dear Mr. Fantasy>
Women Are Smarter>
Drums>
Space>
The Wheel>
Other One>
Black Peter>
Around & Around>
Johnny B. Goode

Encore

U.S. Blues

I was 20 and my college friends talked me into going to the show. They told me what to expect so no real big surprises.

A couple things stood out:

1) While they were tuning up there was a guy near us stretching out before dancing.

2) Fire was the 1 song I wanted to hear; they started the 2nd set with Scarlet and friends tell me it looks like I got lucky. Then they play Touch out of Fire. This to me summed up what being a Dead fan was all about.

i was 14 at my first show.

Ha ha I have been to more GD shows than KF.

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BAND Grateful Dead
VENUE Recreation Hall Penn State University
CITY University Park
STATE PA
DATE 05/06/80
DISCs Three

Lineage: sennnheiser 421 > nak 550 fob analog mastering AND
analog to digital by rob eaton. dat > cd was sony pcm r-700 >
hhb cdr-800

Disc One:

Set 1
Alabama Getaway >
Greatest Story Ever Told
Peggy-O
Me And My Uncle >
Big River
Loser
Far From Me
Lazy Lightning > Supplication

Disc Two:

Althea
Lost Sailor >
Saint Of Circumstance
Set 2
China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider

Disc Three:

Feel Like A Stranger >
He's Gone >
The Other One >
Drums >
Space >
Wharf Rat >
Around And Around >
Johnny B. Goode

ENCORE
Brokedown Palace

He's Gone>Other One si where I hopped on. I swear Jerry was lookin directly at me while singing;

He's gone
He's gone
and nothing's gonna bring him back
He's gone

I was pretty sure at the time that was my queue to get on the proverbial bus.

By that time, I had seen The Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Bruce Springsteen to name a small fraction, The Vibe in that gymn was far more familiar than anything I had ever felt previously, I knew I was home.

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9.2.80 ~ Community War Memorial ~ Rochester, NY
set 1: Minglewood, Sugaree> El Paso, FOTD, All Over Now, China> Rider> Sailor> Saint> Don't Ease
set 2: Althea, C C Rider, Ship Of Fools, Estimated> Terrapin> Playin> Drumz> Iko Iko> Morning Dew> Sugar Magnolia E: Alabama

I was going to school in syracuse & some very cool guys that lived at the "hippy house" invited me on a little road trip...
never imagined that the trip would last 24 years!
like popi, I'd been going to concerts since I was 13... but this was so different, and yeah... home...

in retrospect, this whole show is amazing, but I remember everybody freaking at the iko> dew

Not sure how many I saw.... First one though was Merriweather !983 what I remember most was "Wharf Rat" Mother Nature sat in with some extra percussion that night. Seemed like there was thunder at the end of each chorus of I'll get up and fly away" as the saying goes that was when the bus went by and boy did I get on.

8/2/76 colt park hartford

Playin> Wharf Rat> Drums> GDTRFB> Playin> Around E1: U. S. Blues E2: Sugar Magnolia

09/05/82 (Sun) Glen Helen Regional Park - Devore, CA
Set 1:
Playing In The Band >
Shakedown Street >
Minglewood Blues,
Samson & Delilah,
China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider

Set 2:
Sugaree >
Women Are Smarter,
Truckin' >
Drums >
Not Fade Away >
Black Peter >
Sugar Magnolia,
E1: U.S. Blues,
E2: Satisfaction
I wasnt into the dead (yet). I was at a 3 day festival and all of a sudden Sunday morning the whole crowd seemed to turn into tie dye wearing hippies passing out acid at 9:00 in the morning.
God Bless America! I remember thinking....I also remember thinking "I can't beleive they didn't play Casey Jones" (which was the only song I knew at the time) But now looking back after many many shows, I saw a pretty good setlist and show for my first time even with out Casey. I think i'll break out that show and give it a listening to now.

*Breakfast in bed with the Grateful Dead*

what a weird~fun day *that* was!!!