summer 79

^This is Oakland Auditorium.

Thanks for posting all of this Greg!

Those two Oakland Aud shows were the start of an epic ten year run at that old dump. The start of a love affair between people and a building. 

Watching that video is something else. I had just turned 19 when those shows happened. 40 years ago. I was just a kid.

Hell, the band were still just kids. Listen to Jerry sing, like an angel. Listen how gently they played, oh man.

I loved that band.

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Great stuff. 

Haven't listened to that Portland show since I attended. I experienced it in real time as slow and boring (and rainy). Do I dare revisit this clunker?.

You don't have time. 

Um...OK.

What should I be doing instead then?

Did all three at the Garden, my first trip of many to come over the next 15 years.

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