Set List:
BerthaMexicali Blues
Row Jimmy
Beat it on Down the Line
Scarlet Begonias
Black-Throated Wind
Sugaree
El Paso
It Must Have Been the Roses
Jack Straw
Ship of Fools
Around and Around
U.S. Blues
The Race is On
Eyes of the World
Big River
Playin' in the Band
Tennessee Jed
Me and My Uncle
Deal
Greatest Story Ever Told
Truckin'
Nobody's Jam
Wharf Rat
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Casey Jones
Comments
children of the corn
Distinct memory of this show:
1) The crystal clear Wall o' Sound, first time I'd heard it outdoors... fookin' amazing!!!! Wondering how the people who lived a mile away from the show liked it, as they had to've had a pretty good listen. Turned out to be the last time I'd hear it, too....such a shame, such high hopes, so huge and massive and bulky, and highs and lows and mids and inner...
2) The realization, first time for me, that our community could be a destructive force... The state of Iowa let us camp there for free! The state fairgrounds, with running water, showers(!!!), easy access in & out of the fairgrounds and all that, and we were there a day before the show. Then after the show, a bunch of shitheads intentionally plugged the toilets, kicked 'em apart, flooding the washhouse; the fencing was ripped up and thrown into a bonfire. Why?
Fuzzy memory of the show:
1) Being able to enter with glass bottles of wine and tequila...
2) Seats about the 35 yard line, center. Sweet!! (although in retrospect, the acoustical sweet spot was the whole stadium, with the Wall)
3) Brain boiling humidity.
7 x 10^37) Some big guy a row or two in front of us with a 5 gallon plastic can of beer that he was sharing, emptying, then refilling somewhere. Myself stumbling. lurching to refill my glass to cure the cottonmouth....
143) Bumping into some friends from back home in SD, one of whom didn't want to dose, who got the massive buzz from drinking the cooler water (which had the bag of doses accidently dissolved into it when the ice melted)...
All in all a great show, the last I would see for a few yrs, until after the big break, with the concomitant loss of the Wall.
des moines... again
my second bus stop. the previous year was my first show and we drove from chicago in my new red celica to my hometown! my life had already changed. this year we thought it might be different. it was. we took 2 large buses with 60 heads on each bus. drove all night. at 11am got enlightened and the ticket from our fearless leader and the rest of my life had started:] the first incident to fall under the gaze of my faithful kodak instamatic! 4 rolls of pics that make this blurry roadtrip look like a Hubble masterpiece. my biggest thrill was seeing an old friend from early 60's woodlawn elementary school at the show!!! my dear friend, roger meyers:) he had the same hunk of white tape on his eye glasses that he had in 6th grade!! what a hoot:) i will remember that moment for the rest of my life!!! this road trip has the makings of a whole book of stories that would make ya wonder:) the show was top notch for a newbie type. the trip home to chi-town was somethun as back then we didn't have designated bus drivers:o yikes. and thats another story.....