setlist
Alabama
Promised
FOTD
Me & My Uncle
Big River
Althea
Rooster
Tennessee Jed
Let It Grow
Deal
Stranger
Franklin's
Sailor
Saint
He's Gone
Other One
Drumz
Wheel
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
U. S. Blue
Promised
FOTD
Me & My Uncle
Big River
Althea
Rooster
Tennessee Jed
Let It Grow
Deal
Stranger
Franklin's
Sailor
Saint
He's Gone
Other One
Drumz
Wheel
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
U. S. Blue
show date
Venue
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My first Hampton show!
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
My first show
The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began....
fst hampton show
thumpin' other 1 out of nowhere. Rockin' let it grow>deal to end the 2nd. You wish you were there...
longest note ever
Jerry plays & holds the longest single note EVER in this Deal. It holds for what seems like an eternity.
You took the words out of my mouth...
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.
great show!
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 but where is Colleen ?
Great show. First show that Colleen and I got separated until after the show.
The Night Time Stood Still
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.....