Set List:
Truckin'
Loser
Beat it on Down the Line
Brown Eyed Women
Mexicali Blues
Mississippi Half-Step
Black Throated Wind
Don't Ease Me In
Big River
Tennessee Jed
Promised Land
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Playing in the Band
Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Brokedown Palace
Me and My Uncle
Ramble On Rose
El Paso
He's Gone
The Other One
Me and Bobby McGee
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Not Fade Away
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
Comments
My first show
I was 16 years old, and a buddy had an extra ticket that I gladly accepted. The Dead were already real popular in my little town in NJ (Cranford)...I had heard them plenty for a few years going back to Live/Dead, Workingman's, etc. A bunch of folks I knew were going to the shows of this three-day run in nearby Jersey City. But I had no idea what I was in for.
The Stanley Theatre is a magnificent old movie palace (built in the 1930s?). And it was a monster show. It didn't take long that night before I know/felt I was in the presence of some very special, powerful energy.
I walked out transformed...and from then on tried to see 'em as often as possible.