Grateful Dead

If you look at all the shows I rank you will notice that I rarely give a show a 5. I am stingy in that department so as to delineate the really special events. This is definately one of those shows. What a trippy sound. I don't know what it is with that area of Virginia but every show I ever saw in the coastal southeastern Virginia area was eerily good. ( including the Norfolk Scope in 82' ) The whole first set. The Stanger franklins is amazing. The He's Gone transition into The Other One is so trippy and unique. You have to download this show onto cd and turn up this transition to here the complexities. Sorry guys but if you get this one from Archive you are going to miss the full experience because of the separation dropout between the two songs. The part I am talking about is maybe 10 seconds there. The whole show is a keeper. Nice. Dougles

The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began....

Hey Dougles - you offerin' it up, since the Archive version ain't the stuff?

I was on the floor for this show. There was a naked guy dancing all over the place. I remember the drums were really loud. Drove from C'ville to Hampton in a 68 AMC Ambassador with bad brakes. W/e before finals in my last year at UVA. Just superb...

Was this the Norfolk show that a lot of us got busted at? Or was it at the Scope the year after?

Jerry plays & holds the longest single note EVER in this Deal. It holds for what seems like an eternity.

I'd seen the 1979 show and marked the Grateful Dead off my list bands "you have see." Well...going back in 1981 changed my life. I got and the bus and never turned back.I moved Colorado in 1982, and my first show at Red Rocks was Delbert McClinton and Willie Nelson. Wonderful experience, and my friend said "you know he Dead are playing here in July"...I was graced with all of the shows from 1982-1987, all because of May 1, 1981.

This was my 2nd show and 2nd in a row and help start me onto the road to many many more shows! The special thing about this was the Hampton Coliseum and the wonderful sound inside. Oh to be there and young again...

Great show. First show that Colleen and I got separated until after the show.

Just heard a sbd of this show. Awesome!

On the floor with festival seating right up front ( rare at the time, after The Who show - awful tragedy! ) during Let It Grow, hot, little room, and whoosh.......! Everything Stopped. Dust not moving, just hanging in the lights, everybody frozen in time and space, no sound, and then whoosh......! Everything back to normal. I decided it was time to find a seat. 41 years ago and it still is the strangest occurrence in my life... Very solid show & never missed at Hampton from that point on.....