Grateful Dead

Disc 4 "Steppin out" and i am one one of the lucky bastards who were there Bob W - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

If you could go back in time, knowing what you do now, if given the choice, would you rather have attended 8/27/72? "From day to day, just lettin' it ride, You get so far away from how it feels inside, You can't let go, 'cause you're afraid to fall, But the day may come when you can't feel at all."

Would it be that I could attend either. What a delightful choice,.. just think,....time tripping to the shows throughout history!

if i had already seen the Wembley show that would be the choice because of Pig. I did see Pig 3 other times though Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

Could be the passage of time playing tricks, but I am convinced they played 'Caution/Alligator' Stewbee

Dark Star> Sugar Mag>Caution Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam

First show for me. What an introduction to Dark Star and that Caution just blew us away. To see Pigpen was a honour. jedyed "Travellers across the limitless plains of Time Together drawn from fate-led journeyings"

was an echoey cavern of a place, not sure what i remember of the show from the time and what from listening to it over the years. I was quite a way back from the stage and the sound was not normally very good. I had already seen the Dead once before but since then Working Mans and Beauty had come out so my expectations were different. The Stoke show was like a watered down Live Dead, but Mungo Jerry who were before them were so High energy that the comparison was different, also it was only with Workingman's that i really started to like the Dead. I was a big Airplane fan. Out of the first set of the show only 3 songs would have been familiar, but basically it was the style of Dead i was used to. Set 2 started in a familiar way but was soon to change dramatically, the Truckin' stretched not the Country Rock song i was used to then a VERY different Dark Star to the Live Dead version, again this i have been listening too since Glastonbury Fayre came out, i bought the album just for this edited version. You can imagine my delight when the whole sequence came into circulation thanks to David G . familiar territory to end the set but again a different Caution to Anthem I know i came out knowing i had seen something special. My friends i went with were big Deadheads then so i had heard stuff through them first Bob listen to the show on it's 36th birthday - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://spanishsunshinedaydream.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=633338979 Spanish Jam

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This was my First show ever!!! next was May 10th - Amsterdam then I had to wait 7 long years until Jan 8th 1979 New York City - that's where I boarded the bus "counting stars by candle light" - Robert Hunter Love & peace RTFROG

Set 1: business as usual in the 1st half, professional, solid but holding back. Stretch out a bit on Tenn Jed. Playing jam begins around 3:30 mark, fast & furious, but still w/in the main theme, 10:30 overall, very nice Playing. Strong Good Lovin’. LL Rain, early version, Jerry’s notes quite different playing the steel pedal, more country. Set ends with Casey. Highlights: Playing, Good Lovin’ Set 2: Again opens with Truckin’ (# 1 in Turlock), nice jam, good version. Hurts Me Too, lugubrious, very enjoyable. Dark Star: great opening jam, return to main theme at 10:30, 1st verse at 11:30, 2d jam stars slow then speeds up into hyperspace, landing on a serene but strange body before rocketing back into chaos and finding nirvana (in a beautiful jam) around the 28:00 mark, and proceeding into a Sugar-Mag like jam (AWESOME Dark Star) which of course leads into Sugar Mag itself. Sugar Mag goes into Caution, which is hot from the get-go. Show ends w/ Sat Night. Highlights: Dark Star, Caution Overall: VG show, 8.5/10. Band is definitely on but coasts during much of set 1 (ex. BE Women, 1 run in the solo, nothing special). But everything is at least solid and the highlights are hot, especially the monster Dark Star.

50 years ago tonight.
All the years combine
They melt into a dream...

The Empire Pool (so called because it was built as the swimming pool for the 'Empire Games' sometime in the 1930's) was notorious for its echoes. The bands crew did their best by hanging what looked like swathes of parachute silk from the ceiling, which certainly caught my attention as it billowed about! When we left the show and were waiting on a train at the tube station there was a bunch of people on the platform who had also obviously been to the show. The odd thing was they were all wearing full face plastic masks of various types. The even odder part was when they started pulling them away from their faces their actual noses looked like the noses on their masks ( the guy with a big hooked nose had a mask with a hooked nose, the guy with a small pug nose had a little pug nosed mask. Then the Europe '72 album came out with pictures of bozo's and bolo's and I was even more confused. Soon after that I got a job as a salesman for Revelation Records - and boy was I pleased when they told me that had a deal with the Dead to include that nights version of Dark Star on the Glastonbury Fayre album.