Set List:
Wang Dang DoodleJack Straw
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried
Big River
Brown Eyed Women
New Minglewood Blues
Big Railroad Blues
Looks Like Rain
Deal
Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Throwin' Stones
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Black Peter
Sugar Magnolia
Baby Blue
Comments
Citizens of Boise...
Certainly the smallest crowd I ever saw a show with... about 3,000 people in a place that held 12,000. I'll bet 2,500 were Tourheads too. The locals did not take too kindly to the takeover, but it sure was fun to blow their minds. Those were the days....
...prepare yourself
Rode a greyhound in and got a room with about 12 other Deadheads. Sorry for keeping you up all night, but it felt good to laugh. Don't remember the crowd as particularly small, but the best dancing was in the back hallway, which was open to the arena. Remember the locals walking thru the dancers, clutching on to each other for dear life. Also remember perhaps the most respectful preview of a dead show that I've ever read in a newspaper. My first Wang Dang Doodle, which I described to a friend as "you'll know it as soon as they start it". He wasn't familiar with Howlin' Wolf, but when he 1st heard it, he knew exactly what it was.
The place was empty
We drove from Chicago to see this show and the following 6 of the tour. We drove straight through except for gas and an early morning mushroom enhanced observation of jack rabbits running around the Wyoming landscape (by the non-driving people in our party). We got into Boise and hit the lot in the late morning.
There are 3 things that I remember clearly from this show:
- At some point in the day in the lot, we heard something that sounded like a machine gun and ran over to see a cop car that had just gotten plastered with about 50 stickers all slapped on in rapid succession. That cop must have had a fun ride back to the station.
- The crowd was SO small. I couldn't believe it. Later I found out that most of the mezzanine and balcony had climbed down to the main floor with very lax security. Boise is a Morman town and most of the students at BSU were probably Mormon and didn't go to this show.
- We had no rolling papers and someone had the idea to roll joints with Gideon Bible pages from the bible in the hotel. We were dancing around the mezzanine and ran into a couple of guys who were tripping pretty bad. We sat with them and got them high with God's word and cheered them up a bit. They were up dancing around with us pretty soon after.
This was the only and last really intimate Dead show I remember seeing. It was a very special event.
We found a really cool hot springs on our way to Park City the next day and spent hours there just soaking. I found that same place with my wife years later when we were out traveling out West.
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