Grateful Dead

The roadtrip to the hometown with my 2nd-year college buddies. A fabulous time indeed!

MY 25th birthday. Drove in from Des Moines with Kim. Temps were frigid and they kept the doors closed until just before showtime. A mass of people huddle together to keep warm. Wonderful show. Truck engine fired up at start of Truckin'.On the way back to Des Moines, the heater went out in Kim's VW. The coldest ride in my life plus trying to keep the windows fog free to see out of. Great show. Magical Scarlet/Fire!

I just noticed that they list the state as La. Cedar Falls is in northeast IOWA!!!!!!

Cedar Falls is in Iowa. I was at this show. Did a round trip from Lincoln to see it.

very cold but great tunes

Walked right through the load in doors like I knew what I was doing. My friend and I went up to press box and played cards for hours waiting for the doors. Best memory was the house lights went down and they fired up the semi-trucks flanked at each end of the stage and launched into "Truckin". I was a junior at UNI at the time. Great first show!

My first show. A very cold night. Friends and I had waited for years to see the band and finally they were right here in Iowa. I remember at age 21 seeing how old many of the folks were -like in their late 20's and into their 30's. And all the hair and beards on the guys, lots of folks had cut their shoulder length hair by this time, but not here. The Iowa hippies had come out of the woods and the farmhouses. We stood on the floor, not too far from the band, to the right and could not believe how good this band was live. The crowd I was with had been listening to GD records since Europe 72 came out. Also first show for my wife and brother and the three of us with many other friend have been grooving on it all and seeing the various present day projects of the boys when we can.to this day. Thank you Jerry, Bob, Bill, Mickey, Phil, Keith and Donna! If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

i am the only 13 year old deadhead i know. i recently became a deadhead and studied the dead and their music ever since. then, my friend (who is 50 something) told me they played this show.i live in cedar falls so this is a big deal. thank you dead thank you

is there an album where it is just the show at the uni dome?

as far as I know there is no commercial release of this, but if you go over to the Tape Trading and Vineyard areas in the forums and ask around, someone might very well have this show for you.

I saw many of the shows between '77-'80. The finest year was '78, after a night of hard rockin we stayed at the same hotel as the Dead in Ceder Falls, IA. We topped it off the next morning by eating breakfast w/Garcia and Mountain Girl @ Holiday Inn restaurant. There were about twenty of us who stumbled in and pushed our tables together over by Jerry. He was totally cool about it and talked w/us for a long time. He commented about the strange feedback and vibrations he kept getting off the ceiling of the inflatable dome. And the Trucks firing up and Scarlet into Fire was totally awesome. We (me and Dean Ottinger) stayed around and watched the crew brake down the set and discovered the drum kits were nailed down to the stage so they would move during the show!! It was great!

As compact, furious, fiery an Other One as I have ever heard.Sounded like how the Allman Brothers are doing it now at the end of "Black-Hearted Woman." My all time favorite show. If you went to Grinnell, see my full review in DeadBase 10. "Where did you learn to cut trees like that?" "In the Sahara Forest!"

dicks picks 18 has uni and dane county wis.

Really cold. Came up from the Quad Cities in my van with the girlfriend and several buds. Tomato slice deep dish pizza at a campus place. Got a speeding ticket on the way home and my girl paid it; "pays my ticket when I speed". :-) Favorite part of the concert was the kick-off of "Truckin'". The road semi's were backed up inside the arena floor to form book ends at either end of the stage. And, at the beginning of "Truckin'", the stage crew had some sort of fireworks rigged in the stacks of the semi tractors; which they fired to start the song. And then the diesels roared for the first part of the song, blowing smoke into the arena air. Classic!

no set 1.... set 2: https://archive.org/details/gd78-02-05.aud.set2.warner.19466.sbeok.shnf

Hi. I was at this concert... really good...but my memory's fuzzy. I noticed that the Set 1 playlist here differs from that on gdnotebook.blogspot.com. Does anyone have a notion about how to figure out which (if either!) is correct? (Loved Truckin' and the encore, when we meandered quite close to the stage).

still have the ticket and its printed wrong greatful dead if anyone want it email pgoeltz at yahoo dot com

Bitterly cold day in IA. Had sun-dried tomato pizza at a place on campus.
The stage was semi trailers with the tractors attached. And, to start "Truckin'" they rigged some explosives, or rigged the diesels to backfire to kick off the song with the engines roaring and smoking through the first part of the intro. Way cool!

Got a speeding ticket in the middle of the night driving back to IL, which my girlfriend paid!
"Pays my ticket, when I speed" : - )