My first Dead show.

[LeftyFingerPop]

Mother's Day...1977, complete with thunder snow in May.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQSeWLuU8hw

[Inchworm]

1. hippie

hippy..??

shit.. I'll get back to ya.

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. I can dig it.

:hi:

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3. I'm sipping

untaxed liquer

and .. am not a liquer drinker. I hope my sentences have subject and motion...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_G0vVo7zBU

Wish someome would clock me so I sleep... work in morn..

:toast:

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. Go to bed man!

[Inchworm]

5. I remembered the dead doing that song

They did do a LOT of my favorites.

:woohoo:

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17. no

:yoiks:

[LeftyFingerPop]

18. ah fuck it...stay up then...

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

19. I'm suckin! lol

I got a happy buzz and hate to waste it

:D

[Bennyboy]

6. Arguably the best Dead show ever.

May of 77 is generally regarded as the best month of the band. But 5-8-77 has it all. Dancin in the Streets is incredible. the best Morning Dew ever. St Stephen, NFA were just incredible.

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. Morning Dew...

Jerry was playing so fast at the end, his guitar sounded like a banjo...:hi:

Very under-rated Jack Straw also.

[jonnyblitz]

24. I always liked" Row Jimmy Row" from that particular show.

I wore out my cassette of that show back in the day. I was a "wierdo" then. I listened to punk rock AND the Dead.

[Tom Kitten]

7. wow, man

like in June 1980 I saw the Dead and they did Scarlet Begonias into Fire On the Mountain and you know what? Mt. St. Helens erupted! What a trip! People freaked!

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. Are you serious, or funnin' me?

[Tom Kitten]

10. Serious

It's legendary, you can find the whole show on that Internet Archive site, but I was there! We were out in the parking lot after the show when the ash began to fall. It's a long story but I was with a bunch of transplanted hippies from New Jersey and boy did they freak! I ended up navigating them home and safe...really!

[LeftyFingerPop]

11. Wow...

I've read stories written by people at that show.

[Bennyboy]

12. I was at that show....6-12-80 Portland...

Here are a couple. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Grateful%20Dead%22%20AND%20date%3A1980-06-12*

I remember coming out and the cars were covered with ashes. Weird, surreal scene. Had a great Peggy-O and a Lost Sailor/St of Circumstance.
That was me and Dave, jamming from Sac at the very last minute, in his old Honda Civic, getting to the show as it started and leaving for the ride back to Sac.
20 hours driving, one show. Oh yeah!!!

[Tom Kitten]

14. well there you go!

that was the show! Standing in line before we were let in, did you see a circle of people chanting Ommmm? That was my party!

[LeftyFingerPop]

16. Oh man....

Longggg drive...but that was part of the fun.

[Tom Kitten]

13. What kind of stories?

Let me tell you the beginning of mine...I knew there was a big preshow get together the night before in Corbett, a small town in the Columbia Gorge. I didn't have a car, so I took a bus out as far in that direction as it went to the end of the line, and started walking east, towards Corbett...I had recently moved back to Portland from Eugene, where I had met these people I was going to see, and had no idea I was about 15 miles away. About ten minutes into my walk I heard a car come up behind me and rev its engine, I turned around and it was my friends! They had come into town on a beer and food run and saw me walking down the road! What a weird turn of fortune!

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. The stories that I read were probably in Relix magazine...

and related to the surreal scene of driving in the ashes after the show. By all accounts, it was super freaky, and maybe even panic inducing.

Are you about my age Tom? I am 50....

I saw a few shows in 1980...Rochester and Cornell (again) come to mind...

[Tom Kitten]

20. Yes the people I was with panicked and yes

I am "around 50" :D

Saw shows in Portland and Eugene, about six or seven I believe including this one I have the poster, done by Gilbert Shelton (Furry Freak Brothers) for!

[LeftyFingerPop]

21. Ah....the second field trip.

Check out the youtubes for the 1972 field trip if you have not already...Creamery Benefit.

[Tom Kitten]

22. I'll check it out

I took a lot of pics (sorry no nekkid people :( ) and this guy about ten feet away suddenly went into a frenzy with spoons...It was Artemis the Spoonman! I'll someday try to digitalize them and post them.

[Bennyboy]

26. SPOONMAN! I love Artis the Spoonman

He used to be rgular at the NORCAl festival scene too, but not lately. That guy could get down with those spoons. At High Sierra one year he played with everyone but most notably leftover Salmon and the Radiators. And blew everyones mind.....

[Bennyboy]

27. I was at both field trips.....

And trips they were.... in 72 I was 16 and it was my first foray away from home/SF. For me and my friends. We all piled in my friend van and toook off. had no idea how far, where or anything.

Mind melted. The acid then was incredible and the scene was jsut amazing. Amazing.

The second one was pretty cool take in context that at the time the Dead were the biggest act in the country and were trying to pull this small shows stuff off. The same year they played telluride, I think too.

[peekaloo]

23. I saw them for the first time a couple weeks later in Florida.

Too much Southern Comfort(preferred bev for the underage drinker) and Mary Jane required me to take a nap during a mid show jam. Another concerned concert goer, assuming the worst, stomped on my foot and yelled "OD" while jamming a popper under my nose, to bring me around. Silly hippie paramedic wanna be!

[NightWatcher]

25. I am right now streaming a great show from 11-4-77

http://www.archive.org/details/gd77-11-04.moore.jupile-weiner.15208.sbeok.shnf

I was only 2 at the time, so I was a noshow

[Bennyboy]

28. HEY! :shakes former philboy: check this out MAAAN!

Go to the photo 10th from the left in the third row down! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/10/arts/20090410-grateful-dead-user-photos.html?th&emc=th#/0

The others are great too....

[Bennyboy]

29. :Still shaking former Philboy: HEY MANNNN!!!!!!!!

[Bennyboy]

31. hey wake up maaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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32. Hey Benny!! Here's scans of my ticket stubs...

Cornell and Binghamton, 1977.

The Binghamton stub is not torn because the crush at the door was so bad, all you had to do was flash them your ticket as you got pushed through!

[slay]

30. That is sooooo cool - mine was 07/10/90

http://www.archive.org/details/gd90-07-10.sbd.unknown.8256.sbeok.shnf

The 1977 shows were lightning hot though! Especially 05/08/77 at Cornell - the Morning Dew is probably the best I've ever heard - still gives me chills. So cool you got to see them back then. My first show was only the second time I'd ever taken lsd and it was absolutely amazing - even though our ride left us stranded after the show! Good times. :smoke: :hippie:

[LeftyFingerPop]

33. I've never taken LSD...

Although under different circumstances, I may have. I deal with depression, and have always worried about what it would do to me.

That being said, I have attended about 70 shows I think, some high/drunk, and others completely sober.

I have found that I enjoy the experience much better while attending sober, because I can actually remember it lol.

The one thing that has always amazed me about a good dead show...when you would leave and the cool night air would hit you, and spontaneous applause and cheering and hugging would break out AFTER the show, for no apparent reason!

I'm glad you got to see them...the 70's were incredible. :D

[slay]

39. One nice thing about LSD...

as compared to alcohol and what not - it doesn't fuck with your memory - so I remember it all - but in quite a powerful way. It's a hard experience to describe. I could see the music and taste the notes. At one point I felt as if I was floating inside the music as it flowed through me. I remember looking under my arm at my girlfriend at the time as I sat on the hill and seeing her through a rainbow colored waterfall and just thinking - wow!

That said, bad trips do happen. I'd say even maybe 25% of mine were bad. I too attribute that to my depression so you probably made a good call. You have to be pretty wild and crazy to do stuff like that and luckily back then I was just a teenager and - big shocker - tended to be kind wild and crazy. I've been to plenty of shows sober as well and also had a GREAT time. Awesome band, incredible experience that I wouldn't trade for anything. I saw them over 20 times in 5 years. Also kinda regreting not going to The Dead show here in NC tonight which opens their spring tour. But I currently can't find a job so I did the right thing and saved my money for more important things. But still, is very, VERY difficult to pass that up. Oh well, maybe next year. :)

2009 Spring Tour Dates: http://www.dead.net/dead09

[Dystopian]

34. 1969

I saw the Dead in 1969...while you were a little kid:P
I've scrolled down the thread...and so far, I was the first.
I'm cool like that...
Never mind...I'm old like that.
And you inspired me to find the show a while back when you posted a Dead video!
I'm listening now...
http://www.archive.org/details/gd69-04-20.sbd.lutch.4992.sbeok.shnf

peace~

[LeftyFingerPop]

35. Yes...I think you shared this with us before, and I am...

going to give it another listen right now! :D

[Dystopian]

38. Enjoy!

Old is gold!:D
Oh, and I was all hashed out...don't remember much..so it was great to hear what I knew I heard before.

peace~

[Bennyboy]

40. I saw them NYE 68,69.....

First time. First for a lot of things. First acid trip. First concert without chaperones,first visit to Winterland etc...

To this day my Mom says "you were different after that visit with you cousin Skip".

[KittyWampus]

36. BEST Dead Show was in Lewiston Maine Fairgrounds in 1980. I was all the way up front

and they played The Wheel.

[LeftyFingerPop]

37. I used to have that tape...

fantastic show... :hi:

[Bennyboy]

41. Great NY Times Article about this...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/music/12ratl.html?_r=2&ref=arts