*with David Crosby
setlist
Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Mississippi Half-Step
Black Throated Wind
Bird Song
Promised Land
Deal
El Paso
Sugaree
Playing in the Band
Casey Jones
He's Gone
Truckin'
Ramble On Rose
Beat it on Down the Line
Dark Star
drums
Jack Straw
Sing Me Back Home
Sugar Magnolia
One More Saturday Night
show date
Venue
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my first dark star
The Palladium holds 5000 people. It was packed and hot. A ballroom, so no seats, except upstairs in the VIP section. When they launched into Dark Star, everybody lay down on the sticky, dirty, beer soaked floor. Great show.
Black Peter Is Missing
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the show that got me
while not the first time I saw them, this was really the one that got me on the bus. Nice bluegrass band opened up (High Country, I think) and a long first set where Bird Song really blew us away. For the second set, we were down right in front of Garcia (festival "seating") watching him smile at all of us. We could see behind the speaker bank David Crosby rolling and smokling joints. Yea, right we said. Then, Dark Star begins and there he is. A long night at a great venue. Thanks for the memories.
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