Remember your old dead shows?

About the same as what "they" say about the '60's- if you remember them, you weren't there. ;-)

The anniversary of My 1st show is approaching in 4 days

4/12/82 Nassau

Me too: 4/20/84 Philly

The 30 to 40 crowd get sensitive when we remember when...lol

>>>>4/20/84

Nice Ned, East Coast Spring Tour was always intense!!

And that was before 4:20 was even a thing...

5/4/80

"About the same as what "they" say about the '60's- if you remember them, you weren't there. ;-)"

Oh, that's not true. I went to hundreds of Grateful Dead shows and most are clear as yesterday in my memories.

My first just passed a few weeks ago, 3/28/86.

My first one was on 11/16/78 at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago. This was my only Keith and Donna show, and the only time I saw Jerry play Wolf.

I was at Ned's first show, and BK's too.

11/11/71, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium.  Two weeks after Duane Allman's death.  

Four more after that ending in '74. Became cowboy singer in country bars until 83  when I quit show biz, fit my voice and was my last gasp commercial sellout attempt.

Spent the eighties listening to bluegrass and Miles Davis. Had no clue about you weirdos "touring". 

Heard Derek Trucks Band in '98, a couple years later found a black screen with hippie crap on it and Bob's your uncle. 

Yep  I sure do

1980 through 1995;  second half of the 30 - Year experiment.

The last 15 Years,  if you consider Grateful Dead as 1965 - 1995.

Thirty years in that span,  so one - half equals fifteen years.

i saw a black man that was blue. lbc 87.

My first show was the night before they closed Winterland...   a classic for sure (first set doesn't fit on a 90 minute tape, 2nd set epic!)

Pauley Pavilion!    Was Bill Walton there? 

Actually, I'll answer my own question: That was the year after he won the NBA championship for the Trail Blazers, so I would guess not.

Bill was definitely there;  During drums and Ollin Arageed, he, Hamza el Din, Bill Graham, and others, played middle eastern hand drums and chanted on stage, maybe a dozen or so up there, good times.  Since I don't trust my memory on such things anymore, I went ahead and looked it up;  The Blazers played the Lakers on the 29th, then were off for several days.  

1/8/79 MSG

9/4/79 MSG

9/6/79 MSG

10/31/79 Nassau

11/1/79 Nassau 

5/14-16/80 Nassau 

8/30/80 Spectrum 

10/22, 23, 27, 30 and 31/80 Radio City 

OLD regional white man remembers his first taste

Without apologizing for being an old fart

http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2015/06/july-2-1967-el-camino-park-palo...

I would  post pictures if I could

Noodler, thanks for looking that up! Cool history. I think I've seen clips from that drum session...

Compton Terrace, 1992.

Fun in the December sun, and Here Comes Sunshine.

lltd, can you post a selfie from 67-69? thanks!

Good call Turtle.

There is no way Walton missed the Closing of Winterland.

That UCLA show is killer, but the one they did there in Nov. '73 is one of my favorite Dead shows.

>>>Compton Terrace, 1992.

Named for the late William Edward Compton, Program Director of KDKB radio when it was great. Early 70's. What an incredible time to be there. A true musical hero. 

I was able to remember every one in order for quite a while, until the number got up into the 40's or 50's.

Whether it was me or the band, or both, about five years in, the shows stopped being as individually memorable.

Plus, in their later years they played a lot more in the Bay Area than they had been in the late '70s when I first started, and then I was working many of the shows as well, which tends to just blend into a general experience.

But I can still leaf through a Deadbase and pretty much recall every one when I see it on paper.

My first shows were a run at Cleveland Music Hall, my favorite home venue on 3/2 and 3/3/81 

first show's Setlist

Shakedown Street
New Minglewood Blues
Dire Wolf
Cassidy
Althea
El Paso
Jack-a-Roe
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Don't Ease Me In
Promised Land

Ramble on Rose
Playin' in the Band
China Doll
drums
Playin' in the Band
The Wheel
Around and Around
Johnny B. Goode

U.S. Blues

Earth Day '77 Spectrum

Promised Land
Mississippi Half-Step
Looks Like Rain
Deal
El Paso
Tennessee Jed
Estimated Prophet
Peggy-O
Playin' In The Band  **Last time as a stand alone version, equal to '72-'74 shows**

Scarlet Begonias>
Fire On The Mountain
Samson And Delilah
It Must Have Been The Roses
Dancin' In The Streets>
Mojo>   **1st of 2**
Dancin' In The Streets>
The Wheel>
Terrapin Station **No Encore**

https://archive.org/details/gd77-04-22.sbd.miller.27747.sbeok.flacf/gd77...   SBD starts w/Half Step   Kicked off Spring '77 Tour

5/4/80...Good one, Sunday, bought tickets @ the box office a few minutes before show time. Weekend show in the Northeast not sold out??

Pauley Pavilion!    Was Bill Walton there? >>>On drums 6/29/80 also, as was Lee Oskar who stayed for the rest of the set.  Really fun show that night

Yeah and 5/4/80 they had the day before and after off. Unusual in the middle of a tour especially at that time. The usually did 3 nights in a row. I guess it was a scheduling thing.

I saw my first show at a brand new Rupp Arena in Lexington KY. The place held 23,000 and I'm guessing the crowd size at about 2-3 thousand. The place looked empty. Great show! Donna Jean has no recall about this show when I asked her if she remembered this tiny crowd in a mega arena while driving her down the 580 freeway to a rehearsal. She did not remember any of it! 

>>> That UCLA show is killer, but the one they did there in Nov. '73 is one of my favorite Dead shows.

Pauley 11/17/73 was my 4th show! Still "remember" (staying with the theme here)  being blown away by the vocals on "I Know You Rider"... umm, it was a different world. ;-)

I think I like the 78 Pauley show best. Vocals were more mature and I love the bands sound more at that time. And I love Jerry's crazy fingers (not the song but his meandering ) in 78/79.

I'm grateful that they played in my "home town" (Laguna Seca) for a couple of years.  Looking back, I enjoyed the arena shows the most (Long Beach, Oakland Coliseum, Great Western Forum).  Well, I LOVED Frost and had a particularly good time at Irvine Amphitheater.  There were some great stadium shows; however, I was pretty far away from the action in those venues (that's about the time that I got into going to small blues clubs in Chicago).

Nowadays, I enjoy GD related music in small spaces (TXR, Ashkenaz, Sweetwater, etc, etc...).  Pandemics permitting, of course.

I think those of you who can remember shows from long ago are amazing. Really. If I hadn't kept set lists at the shows I wouldn't have any idea what was played when.

My 30th show was on this date in 1989.

The return to Freedom Hall in Louie Louisville.

https://archive.org/details/gd1989-04-09.fob.thompson.motb.83523.sbeok.f...

@Judit  Me too. I vaguely remember how I got home to so many shows or how the weather was let alone the song list. I can remember songs eg. at Ventura and look it up in todays world see what year it was. For example they opened with Sugaree in the 2nd at one Ventura show and didn't know which year it was until I looked it up/

First show was 6.19.76 Capitol Theater Passaic NJ. 

https://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-19.sbd.digitalrbb.miller.111852.fl...

But others stand out as more cosmic or epic

Englishtown 77 - We got there the night before and stayed up until the gates opened at 4am - went in and crashed.. Woke up in the thick of it - pretty close up. It was a hot afternoon and the Riders and Marshall Tucker opened. By the time we got to that Not Fade Away we were like jelly. Terrapin encore and then hours to find the car again. 

College of William and Mary Spring 78 Morning Dew - It was parents weekend and the freaks were abundant. We had an amazing day outside the venue on campus. We were primed and ready when the Dew happened. 

Radio City run 1980

Earthquake show Hartford spring 82

Spac and Merriweather Pav Spring 83  - I don't really remember rain at SPAC but it rained really hard driving the next day as we drove to MD. We didn't have tickets so we just stopped at a ticketmaster outlet and somehow pulled 3rd row for the first show.  The first show was the one where lightning hit during Wharf Rat and it all went off and on and then I'LL GET UP AND FLY AWAY! Yeah.Mud people everywhere. Otter sliding after the show. Funny but I don't really remember the next night except for one little detail. From my seat I could see the stage and the side stage and outside. At the end of the encore Jerry just turned and burned.  Somebody gave him a towel and a briefcase and he walked right out to a car. 

Red Rocks 83 

Santa Fe 83

Greek Theater 7-13-84

Red Rocks 85 with the future and current Madam Twang

Red Rocks and Telluride 87

That was a great ten year period in my Dead story.

Others of course but those were special and even transformative in different ways.

Good times.

Judit- I "remember" some shows more specifically than others- maybe an incident or particular song that was beyond blissful, but not other factor's like- who I went with, who drove, where we stayed, or what year was that again at the "Deadowlands"?

I do know it was a blast and I'm honored to have lived through it. Went a lot of places I  surely wouldn't have ever seen.  All kept turnin' by the grace o' God, of course. ;-)

My 2nd show in 72. 

Same venue following year