Grateful Dead

My brother and I just listened to this show and we commented on how crisp and interested Jerry seemed on his leads. Especially the Brown Eyed. I didn't know what I was getting into at the time but I knew somewhere in the middle that these guys were for me. My older brother Steve, God rest his soul, had turned me onto my first Grateful Dead Album, Wake of the Flood, a year and a half to two years before. I just remember that it wasn't like anything I had heard before and I remember the playing card, the 8 of diamonds, and there was one card spinning and flipping end over end and also diagonally. There were eight cards surrounding this card, each card was doing what that card was doing plus the whole group was spinning and flipping. There were eight groups of cards around this group and each group was doing what the others were plus the entire group was spinning and flpping and there were 8 groups around those groups and on to infinity. I just wonder if anyone else recalls seeing this at this show or was I the only one. ;) Dougles

St. Stephen59 I drove down from Boone, NC with a bunch of other Watauga College heads. It was a lot of fun but sad in a way as I moved out to Oregon a week later. Lost touch with a lot of good folks.

At least, I think it was. Drove from Gaffney SC, age 14 (I didn't drive). I can't believe it's been that long. Damn you, time!

Do not scream like a maniac out the window of a moving VW bus at a parked police car in King's Mountain, NC while tripping your way home from a Dead show! Fortunately it all ended well. This was Brent's first East Coast show.

SongsfROwnI remember the show more for it being the first time I saw Brent on keys. The fact it was Brent's first east coast show coupled with what seemed like an unusual number of motorcycle gang members wearing colors (pagans and angels both) plus the Charlotte cops put a really weird vibe on the show for me for sure. I did feel like the tempo and tunes consciously played to this and soothed the night out.

I was listening to some garcia this saturday morning, started thinking about that long ago show in Charlotte, and i found this site ... and ..... jesus, I was in that volkswagen bus mentioned by skjellifetti! (who are you?) I was a student at UTK, i was invited at the last minute, not knowing the others too well except that we all loved the music. We left from Knoxville, the trip to and from the show, what I remember of it, was quite a colorful adventure. Chris was behind the wheel at the time of the cop incident as I recall. Someone really did scream out "PIGS!" from the open window, joking I believe, but not cognizant that the epithet was shouted out very loudly and the cops were just a few feet from the slowly moving van. I don't know how we didn't all end up in jail as the cops didn't take kindly to our presence and gave us a pretty hard time when we were pulled over. Anyone else in that van feel free to contact me, i am interested in comparing notes to see if my recollections of that trip are accurate. i'm in California now. -J. Tang

Jr in High School. Went with Chris Br^*t. I remember talking with some kid with a back pack on and I asked what he was doing, where he came from, and where he was going. It was a long time ago but I just remember him saying he was from up North and that he was on tour. I had no idea what that meant but I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I just knew that one day I wanted to do what he was doing. In three years that is exactly where I was. Decent 1st show and we were dialed and feeling right, cruising down the avenue on the bus.....

This started a long strange trip for sure. No idea what my folks were thinking when they let me buy some tickets in advance at Peaches. ? Pretty sure it was Peaches … anyway when my mom dropped me and my friend off she was horrified at all the hippies. We jumped out and disappeared into the lot. I was never the same again … we had a great show… and my best memories are the girls spinning .. and spinning … beautiful spinning to go with that first ever tab and the endless music… Magnificent