41 Years Ago-9/6/1980-Maine State Fairgrounds, Lewiston, ME
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This perhaps IMHO was the best show of 1980 and one of the best of the decade--too bad I missed it. Saw the Spectrum shows, but not this one. Kind of recall maybe an interview with Dick where either the tapes don't exist or a quality issue or something. Its one for the books. Just like Cassius Clay did to Sonny Liston in 1965 up in Lewiston, the boys knocked this one out!
Setlist
Alabama Getaway
Greatest Story Ever Told
Sugaree
Me and My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Tennessee Jed
Feel Like a Stranger
Friend of the Devil
Far From Me
Little Red Rooster
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Promised Land
Shakedown Street
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
Althea
Playin' in the Band
Uncle John's Band
drums
Not Fade Away
The Wheel
Uncle John's Band
Playin' in the Band
Sugar Magnolia
One More Saturday Night
Brokedown Palace
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Sat, Sep 6, 1980 at State
Sat, Sep 6, 1980 at State Fairgrounds
https://livemusicarchive.app/music/artists/GratefulDead/recordings/gd80-...
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Thanks--I got a copy back in
Thanks--I got a copy back in the day that a month after the show--on my Maxcell XII (still have it) and yes, listen to the archive version. I meant a quality enough version that they can put out as a release-like a Dave Picks
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Listening to it now with
Listening to it now with morning coffee, tasty show! I can't remember when or if I've heard this one before.
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Who was it on the zone who
Who was it on the zone who always told that story about randomly fucking that girl during this show?
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https://archive.org/details
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?and[]=date:1980-09-06%2A
22 Tapers links above: 9-9-80. Enjoy
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Epic show! Wish I was there
Epic show! Wish I was there too. Last show before the Theater runs.
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Great show! Some of my first
Great show! Some of my first tapes too - a killer audience or audience-mixed board cassette.
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I wrote a review of this show
I wrote a review of this show for my high school newspaper. Wish I could get a copy of that. My friends brought in a cooler with all the fixings for gin and tonics and then went back to the car to get more gin because they didn't bother to rip our tickets on the way in. I stopped going to shows for about year after this one because I didn't think it could be topped. I was young and even more stupid than I am now.
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This was a great bill--the
This was a great bill--the next year, Roy Buchanan would headline our college summer bash at IUP (I saw him a wek before he died, too). Anyway, the Cate Brothers are some great local Woodstock NY area cats and when the Band (sans Robbie) opened for the Dead in Syracuse at the Carrier Dome on 10/22/83, the Cate Brothers were in The Band when they reformed.
We did catch both of Oxford Plains shows in 1988 when Little Feat opened and the 9/18/82 the Dead did at the Cumberland County Civic in Portland was also pretty solid for the era. They didn't do tons of shows in in the 1970's--one ine 1971 and then two in 1979 but in the 1980s they would do Portland and Augusta--then Oxford Plains in 1988. I have to dig out the 4/22/71 show from the Bangor Auditorium but to my ears, the 9/6/80 show in Lewiston wins the prize for best Maine gig.
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I would have to give the best
I would have to give the best Maine show nod for the years I went to 3/31/85 in Portland. It doesn't hold up on tape as well as some of the others, but being there was a different story. Surprised the old civic center still has a roof after that show.
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When I moved up to Boston at
When I moved up to Boston at the end of 86, used to head north and see some shows the the good ole Raoul’s Roadside Attraction in Portland. Jorma, Tuna, Max Creek come to mind. Maybe even a great bluegrass band called Old Cold Tater
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Raoul's was a great venue! I
Raoul's was a great venue! I do miss that place.
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I don't remember Raoul's. I
I don't remember Raoul's. I do remember the Tree Club and drinking at $3 Dewey's at the old location. I managed the Tub Shop in Old Town around that time so if you ever stopped in for a soak we may have met.
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The Tree Cafe and Deweys were
The Tree Cafe and Deweys were pretty much Old Port area, whereas Raouls was over a mile down Forest Avenue, so not really downtown at all.
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>> Who was it on the zone who
>> Who was it on the zone who always told that story about randomly fucking that girl during this show? <<
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You're right it was Key
You're right it was Key