Grateful Dead

Great Show. The Scarlet>Touch and does anybody remember the Thunder and the Lightning during the Wheel I distinctly remember being under the covered walkway at the rear left ( stage right )of the Venue duing the storm. Awesome heat lightning too. Dougles

Yes I remember there was some awesome heat lightning that seemed to start up during looks like rain, but then it really was crackling during The Wheel. This was an awesome show!!

I don't agree with the above assessment of the show, I thought that it was one of the weakest shows I had ever been to. By that time the Throwing Stones-NFA leaving the stage one at a time had, in my mind, gotten stale. I thought that they rushed through it because of the storm that was brewing. And what a storm it was! I don't believe that I have ever seen rain that dense on the road to Cedar Rapids. We had to pull off the road until we could see anything. Some one named Paul in the Rainbow Bus was killed during that storm. The band dedicated the show at Cedar Rapids to him. An aside about the KC show, this young man recognized me as one of the referees for his football team. He was decked out in tie die from head to foot. I had to laugh when I found out that it was his 2nd show..

Hey coach, everybody who ended up seeing 130 show had to experience their 2nd at some point. The important thing is, he saw one........ and was smart enough to come back for more! P.S. hey dougles, I'm looking at comments from shows I was at..... and on every one of my shows so far, there you are.

Deadhead Dave--I believe that you misunderstood the basis of my humor--I had run into someone from my hometown, hundreds of miles from home that that was tie-died from head to foot, one would think from that perspective that this was a vereran hard-core head. It was a matter of surprise to find out that his first show was only 3 nights earlier in Indianapolis. That is getting on the bus with two feet and not looking back. If he should read this I would be curious to know the end of the story.

VERY HOT weather- the Scarlet/touch/fire was nice and yeah the lightning/thunder at the end was amazing- glasd it held off- looked like the band was enjoying the weather show at the end- after drums kinda same ole same ole!

Looks like rain was incredible with the backdrop to lightning, dont remember much else about this night as I was in an altered state of affairs....lots and lots of tracers

Hey Now! One thing I always remember about this show, aws that after the show we were hanging out in front of the theater trying to "orient ourselves" before leaving and there were some heads in a tent over by this group of trees that were actually lighting firecrackers in their tent. You would hear bang bang bang bang and see flashes going off in the tent and then several people would just break up laughing! A few seconds would go by and they'd do it again. About this time a couple of K.C. cops walked by. The jusy looked at the tent for a minute, shook their heads and kept on walking. The Starlight was always one of my favorite venues that I ever saw the Dead in. It alway had a kind of magic of its own.

First time I heard it, and it was very powerful. The crowd reacted very strongly, cheering wildly with "We Will Survive." A great moment.

keep your character, enjoy living, share your fortune,OXOX Merple Reddin

This was my first Grateful Dead show. Born & raised in K.C., Swope Park and Starlight Theatre are like the back(s) of my hand(s). I'd heard of the band over the years, was intrigued, and knew I'd learn more eventually. I had, at that time, a part-time job ushering concerts at various venues around Kansas City-- I opted to not work this show, knowing what I did about Grateful Dead music and deadheads! Also, a friend of mine had popped up with a batch of tickets so I just climbed aboard... My stand-out memory of the evening was the work of Mickey-n-Bill during" Fire On The Mountain"-- their drumming caught the attention of my wandering cosmic-ized consciousness, returning it to my corporeal form and terra-firma-groovus, where that Moment Of Knowledge set upon my smoking husk with a joyous shriek! good ol' Grateful Dead!!

I passed out the Mikel stickers at this show. After the show I couldn't find where to get back on the interstate and stopped at this shabby little roadhouse for directions. I half expected a redneck or two to follow me out and hassle the hippie. No one did; I'd like to think they thought I looked too big and mean to mess with but they were probably just too drunk to get off their stools...

Holy cow, this was my first show! Taken by my boyfriend's brother-in-law and some of his friends. (BF was out of town.) Had a nice ride up and some snacks and thought that would be the most of it. But shortly after finding our seats, was offered half a tab. Oh My. Isn't that what a first show is for?? Lightning and distant thunder. Mind-blowing show. At one point, I looked up and there was a ring of skulls around the Medieval looking stage and occasionally the eye sockets crackled with light. The ride home was like "dancing with ghosts". Way too intense - don't know how the driver did it. All in all, a baptismo del fuego. Long live the DEAD!

This was a great venue. I remember spending the entire show dancing in the back behind the last row of seats. They let us all dance. I don't recall any problems with security. I remember having a crush on this beautiful dark blonde curly-haired girl who was also on tour. I was dancing right near her at this show and didn't have the nuts to go up and talk to her. After the show as we were driving out of the parking lot, I saw her in a car and waved. She smiled back me.

This is the show we all found out Paul had past away. I remember him at Pine Knob asking us for a ride to the starlight. It was along the ride that we saw the bus in the ditch. As odd as it maybe he drown in a small roadside water ditch. The bus had crashed and everything crushed him in the front of the bus where he drown. God rest his soul. 2 nights later we got the set deadicated to him in Iowa

Came to this show this morning because of the Fire on the Mountain blog. On the archives listeing to this one rite now. I love this Theater. Wow a very BEAUTIFUL place to see the band. Lucky enough to be here the 3 times they played here. 8 3 1982, 7 3 1984, 9 3 1985. This Scarlet Touch Fire caught me off guard. Maybe deep down had hoped for it.

Loved this place very lucky to have been at each year they played here. http://images.gdao.org/view/image/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg4fx78gw%2Fis%2F1 http://images.gdao.org/view/image/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg4b56hrg%2Fis%2F1 http://images.gdao.org/view/image/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg4kp816m%2Fis%2F1 http://images.gdao.org/view/image/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg46d5s0q%2Fis%2F1 http://images.gdao.org/view/image/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg4qf8rw3%2Fis%2F1

I was there. Great venue. Bobby was raspy. Great fireworks. Altered state of affairs! Hah!

I believe this is the first time they played Touch of Grey between Scarlet>Fire. You can tell they tried to fit Touch in after Scarlet a few times, but those happen to be the few times the played Scarlet without Fire. Can it be added to the notes?

A family member went to this show while he was going to med school in KC, presumably. He died from lung cancer in 2020. My mother found the stub yesterday in a desk of his. I know he was at the Hampton ‘79 show because he told me about that while I was listening to it at my place several years back. I’d love to share a photo of the KC stub for everyone if y’all would advise me on the best way to do that. Gratefully, Craig