40 Years Ago New Year's Eve

Nice, Roarshock.

I had a milestone moment also. I met a young lady for the first time. She's in the bedroom sleeping.

Good Lovin >>>Samson

yeah man

My first GD NYE away from Winterland. FUN!
Brought a few people to the show for their first live Dead experience.
They especially enjoyed the baby bottle that was passed through our space in the crowd.

I hadn't even found the Beatles at that point.

Did you know that show was being broadcast or was is just a damn fine coincidence?

Those seemed to happen a lot in those situations.

Nice! My first GD NYE was 10 years later. 

Killer quality and the sound of the band when I fell in love with 'em.

Thanks for sharing!

I wasn't even 1 years old yet. Y'all are old motherfuckers up in here.

Great show, only to be trumped by 3/23/74 which is the best Cow Palace show of all time (but you guys already knew that).

I like 12/30/86

Old is a state of mind, and Jerry, Phil and the boys taught and continue to teach me how to stay young.

Creaky now, but still young.

On this night 40 years ago a couple of my friends were at the show. They tried to get me to go but I was uneducated and I smirked at them.

Sigh.

But thank the Gods I did become educated a couple of years later, an education I hope continues for a long time to come.

There's still so much to learn.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!

>>>I wasn't even 1 years old yet

I was 6.

>>>They tried to get me to go but I was uneducated and I smirked at them.

Man, I really wish I could have talked to you back then--I would have convinced you to go, there's no doubt in my mind.  I wouldn't have had to tell you about your mantra as an old man in doing so, either.

And THEN 10/21/78 would have really hit you where you lived. 

>>was 6 months later in June 77

6/7 or 6/9?

Roarsock...when we have our countdown with our daughter at 8, we've got the balloons and a little confetti and I just decided it's going to be Sugar Magnolia from this show at Cow Palace in honor of this thread.

She's really pumped. 

Happy new years guys.

In reality I wasn't ready in '76, and I believe it would have been a big mistake if I'd have gone to that show.

I might well have hated it and never gone back.

Every step along my musical path has been just exactly perfect, each step taken at just the right time.

And I'm still stepping, sometimes even high-stepping into town.

Damn the little room was rocking tonight.

I love rock 'n roll concerts.

Youth is a state of mind, not a time of life. Another way of saying what lance said above, that was the header on the front of a prayer card at my Dads funeral in april 78. A week later , i turned 18, and rcvd American Beauty for a gift from my non dead head sister in law. I listened to that over and over ....and went to my first show 3 years later. I never asked my Mom who picked out that quote on prayer card, but ive been quoting it, and living it, ever since.So, ....thanks Dad, for the quote....thank you Lynne for the gift. Its a gift i have given now numerous times to many many children of friends mine (and my own) when theyve turned 18. I wrap American Beauty up, and include a lil card, and usually end up writing that quote in the card somewhere.

My friends all laugh and shake their heads as their child opens it. And everg single time, ill get a phone call a week or two later....usually from parent, sometimes from the 18 and one week old, saying "wow, i never knew the Grateful Dead sounded like...(and you know the rest of the story).

Happy 2017....all

I lived about 15 mins from the COW that year--Glen Park-SF

Didn't get tickets for the show but recorded it on KSAN on a crappy little Superscope cassette deck   --had the tape for years of course.

Some friends showed up at our house that night for drinking and drugging - and wouldn't go home.  I had to run them out of there the next morning whilst they were still drinking hot buttered rums- I needed breakfast.

>>>In reality I wasn't ready in '76,

You were ready.

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