All my Breakouts, 1976-1985 (Songs Appearing Again After 1,000 Days)

When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Reconstruction in Palo Alto June 16, 1979

I was staying with my buddy Johnny Miller in Los Altos Hills when we realized Reconstruction was playing at the Keystone Palo Alto. So we took John's Mom and made it time for set two of the show.  This was the only time I was ever in the Palo Alto branch of the Keystone.

This was the only time I ever heard this tune which I love and this is the ultimate perfect version.

I did not see set one.

SET 2

1. Lovely Night For Dancing
2. What You Won't Do For Love
3. Welcome To The Basement
4. When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
5. Fast Tone
6. Dear Prudence

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

    December 26: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2015/01/east-to-west-grateful-dead-live-at.html

    December 30: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2015/12/tdih1980-grateful-dead-coolest-ever.html

and

December 31: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2015/12/my-first-new-years-eve-1980-acoustic.html

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

Alabama Debuts in Providence November 4, 1979

This show was the 19th time I saw the Grateful Dead in 1979 (and about 25th time I saw Jerry), which ended the longest strange trip while I was 20.   I don't have much to say about this show except it's the first Alabama Getaway.

This show was a bit of a let down after the Cape Cod shows the prior weekend, even though they played well (see the Spectrum show the next night for a Road Trips powerhouse). Maybe I was just tired after so many shows. I wouldn't see the band again until May 1980 in Portland, Maine.

I will let the awesome Mind Wondrin tell you his thoughts

Springfield, October 24, 1979: My Forgotten Show

Gratefulseconds.blogspot.com · 10-24-79 Scar Fire

Back in 2015, when I started Grateful Seconds, I was convinced I had seen the Grateful Dead 80 times. I wrote about this for years, until I remembered that I did see October 24, 1979 at the Springfield Civic, in addition to the April 23, 1977, May 11, 1978 and January 17, 1979 shows, classics all.

What happened was I had a little too much lysergic on this evening and freaked a bit. I do remember I saw in the stands on stage right, where on every other show I was on the floor.  The trigger was remembering seeing Brent here, which could not have occured at those earlier shows.

While I consider this show #4 of 4 shows I saw in Springfield, there was a great Middle of the show S>S and S>F and a nifty Terrapin with a Playin sandwich.

Promised Land, Loser, Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues, They Love Each Other, Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Easy To Love You, Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain, Samson & Delilah, Terrapin Station-> Playin' In The Band-> Drums-> Wharf Rat-> Playin' In The Band, E: Johnny B. Goode

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