Didn't know at the time it was Keith and Donna's last show. This was a benefit for the Campaign for Economic Democracy, led by Tom Hayden. His lovely bride, Jane Fonda was in attendance. I was thoroughly dosed. A lovely evening.

Before the introduction of the band, the crowd was antsy about Jane's movie "Fun w/ Dick & Jane" and voiced displeasure. Maybe this is why the houselights were on during tuning and greatest story.

Donna Jean version of sugar/sunshine was great.
Very Fine rock and roll show and 70's right of passage for a 16 y.o.

This one's been a favourite over the years.
It all started with that Deadhead mail flyer invite for a weeknight gig in Oakland, so I bus/BARTED up from LA and used the gig as an excuse to proceed on to friends in the Redwoods.Tickets, dots, and 3D glasses in the parking lot resulted in a few folks with different sized pupils. Deadheads at a crossing near Denny's caused a car to screech and dump a load of timber, but the friendly Deadheads had it all back up on the roofracks in minutes.
Jane Fonda's contribution to the benefit was to screen her latest "Fun With Dick And Jane". As much of the crowd was coming on mightily, many prayed that the film of corporate greed, double-crossing, and backstabbing was just a gag or trailer, but it was soon obvious that we were getting very tweaked by 90 minutes of the nasty vibes. Fortunately, most of the audience lived.
The band came on (with lights on) and they seemed quite tweaked also, presumably on blow and blotter. I had seen the sublime and beautiful 12/30/78 UCLA show just 6 week earlier, but this was a completely different animal; much more akin to some of those frantic/caustic shows with the Brent band years later. You can really hear it on Jerry's guitar GSET and that unsynched opening on FOTD. The whole place was FRYING and Jerry was singing through clenched teeth (earning him the nickname in my mind that evening of Colonel Skillet). Didn't know at the time, but K & D's last hurrah was more poignant when the band or Donna (latter, I believe) missed a cue in Heart Of Me and she actually cried. One unlikely highlight was perhaps the shortest but most beautiful Wheel ever played (it's a cliche, but true in this case). Some folks have bagged this show, but it's a real corker.
After the show I managed to find the kind stranger that had kept my backpack for safekeeping. I moseyed to the Dennys where a whole counter of Heads were having vicious staredown's with their fried eggs. A guy with a maxi-taxi van offered rides to town so I joined a group, only for us to get T-boned by a car on the way and we all tripped off into the night. I spent the rest of the night at the GreyHound terminal with my backback tied to my leg lest it escape, then off in the morning to Eureka and the serenity of the redwoods.

such as this one was rarely ever seen(8 song lead in to Drums/Space 2nd set), but I too, like so many others, can say this show would have played better if Brent had already been on board....

Never had gotten off listening to Keith.... and Donna was just so-so, nothing too special.....they had their place, another wonderful piece of the band's history. Just one DH's opinion.

Yet, what a lovely gift, Brent was, to us, the Band, and to our future GD life together. He couldn't have come at a better time, left us far too soon !!

Geoff

"one way or another"-New Speedway Boogie.... and "you need to be kissed often, and by a man who knows how"- Rhett to Scarlet - Gone with the Wind

The Big Dog Dad - Schultzie