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Showing posts with label 1980-12-27. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980-12-27. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Never Miss the Middle Shows: December 27-28, 1980 in My First New Year's Five Night Run



You can check out my prior looks at this run
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The second-half of 1980 is a great underrated space in the history of the Grateful Dead as the late summer smokin tour ends in the famous Lewiston show less than a mile from my family home I moved to in the Summer of Love in 1967.  Then the acoustic set shows and finally, my first of three years seeing the five nights of New Year's shows at the Oakland Auditorium.
December 27 was my first "smokin" New Year's run show where the start the show with three openers in a row with Feel Like a Stranger, Sugaree and Minglewood.
But where this show shines is set two, a seamless gem that is worthy of more attention 








12-27 Feel Like A Stranger, Sugaree-> Minglewood Blues, Loser, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Passenger, It Must Have Been The Roses, The Music Never Stopped 
China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider-> Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> The Wheel-> Truckin'-> Wharf Rat-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> One More Saturday Night, E: Johnny B. Goode
12-28 Mississippi Half Step-> Franklin's Tower, Me & My Uncle-> Big River, Bird Song, Little Red Rooster, Althea, Jack Straw Don't Ease Me In,
 Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Terrapin Station-> Drums-> The Other One-> Stella Blue-> Sugar Magnolia, E: Casey Jones




















Thursday, June 23, 2016

December 27, 1980 Oakland, Sons of Anarchy Conspiracy Show



I flashed upon December 26, 1980 more than 100 posts ago in post #2  http://gratefulseconds.blogspot.com/2015/01/east-to-west-grateful-dead-live-at.html but when GEMS put up an upgraded soundboard of this up on Lossless Legs yesterday, I felt I had to speak now to my 43rd show (out of 80, so just over the midpoint of my Grateful Dead Journey), but only my 5th show in California, the promised land.  I have to say the recording and the performances are just superb. Make sure to listen.

There is a lot to love about this show. Obviously, the SBD is fantastic.
There is a nice Stranger opener followed by a nice 1980 Sugaree>Minglewood, high quality LLR and The Music Never Stopped. And the second set is no slouch, with China>Rider, Estimated>Eyes>Jam, and a nice closing sequence of Space>The Wheel>truckin>Wharf Rat>GDTRFB>Saturday Night.
Enjoy!

A funny sidenote is that years later, Sons of Anarchy showrunner Kurt Sutter decided to give the character Juice a nice 12/27/80 tattoo.  Considering the fact the show takes place in the East Bay, it makes you wonder....  Such is the world of bike clubs and San Francisco rock bands of a certain era.




SONS CONSPIRACY SECTION


Hi Juice
The Reddit Conspiracy

I should have asked Tiggy about this