December 22, 1978 in Dallas: Jerry's Voice Shaky But Guitar Rocks, Bobby Talks Texan

I never realized that the songs after Wharf Rat are missing in Grateful Dead History at Dallas 12-22-1978.  No Deadheads with a pen in Texas back then? I would guess Around & Around and US Blues except that's no fun.  So I'll guess they encored with Dark Star>St Stephen as a tune up for New Year's and then swore the audience to secrecy

In took only two weeks after the cancellation show in New Haven for the Gratetful Dead to be back on the road in December 1978 (and then the make-up tour in January 1979).  Jerry was still a bit below par in the voice department, though he rocked out on his guitar in each and every tune.

Three days after the only Mississippi show, we find the gang back in Dallas, home of many a good show. We can share

The Dead played Texas a lot late in the year probably because it was warm and nine nights before the monster Winterland show, they played all of 1978's Dead "hits", Shakedown, Scarlet Fire. Estimates Eyes and NFA Wharf Rat. The Dallas paper thought Jerry still had voice problems (fuck 'em) but played his guitar like ringing a bell. I like that Pete, the reporter thought they were playing Sugaree during the opening Shakedown Street.

Apparently like 8-25-1972, no one remembers how the show ends after Wharf Rat.  I'm pretty sure it was Dark Star>St Stephen as a warm-up for New Year's Eve as I guess above, but you can disagree.

There is a nifty interview of Bobby, which surprises me that Pete can talk shop to Mr. Weir but not identify Shakedown Street in 1978 (and Tennessee Jake). 

Shakedown Street
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Tennessee Jed
Looks Like Rain
Stagger Lee
Beat it on Down the Line
Candyman
New Minglewood Blues
Deal

Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
From the Heart of Me
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Not Fade Away
Wharf Rat

We're an American Band: Grateful Dead play 96% of their Concerts to US Audiences

Wave that flag because we truly are an American Band.  Only the Allman Bros and Phish are as uniquely American as the Dead.  Prior to his Dead-ness, John Mayer played about 80% of his shoes in the US, while many bands originally from European like The Rolling Stones and the U2 typically play only between 30% and 40% of their shows here.  As an aside, The Beatles only played 4.5% of their concerts in the US.

The post-Jerry versions have stayed here in the States with a few concerts South or North of the Border.  Bob Dylan has been a wanderer with nearly 1,000 shows or almost 33% of his performances outside of the US and Great Britain.

Hope you like this little slice of life.

Band	Debut	Shows	US	% US	Intl	% Intl
Grateful Dead	1965	2,325	2,234	96.1%	91	3.9%
Allman Bros	1969	1,952	1,884	96.5%	68	3.5%
Bob Dylan	1957	3,595	2,259	62.8%	1,336	37.2%
The Beatles	1960	1,435	65	4.5%	1,370	95.5%
Rolling Stones	1962	1,974	658	33.3%	1,316	66.7%
U2	1976	1,685	700	41.5%	985	58.5%
Phish	1983	1,782	1,684	94.5%	98	5.5%
Muse	1994	1,467	333	22.7%	1,134	77.3%
John Mayer	1999	936	762	81.4%	174	18.6%
The Other Ones	1997	33	33	100.0%	-	0.0%
The Dead	2003	101	101	100.0%	-	0.0%
Furthur	2009	242	237	97.9%	5	2.1%
Dead & Co	2015	84	84	100.0%	-	0.0%
Total Dead Spin-Offs		460	455	98.9%	5	1.1%

A modern band like Muse covers the four corners of the world with an equal number of shows in North America. Great Britain, Europe and Asia/South America.  The Rolling Stones followed a similar pattern but doubled-down on shows in the US ans Great Britain.

	USA	Can/Mex	Britain	Europe	Asia/Other
Band
Grateful Dead	2,234	25	24	38	4
Allman Bros	1,884	28	6	16	18
Bob Dylan	2,259	180	228	503	425
The Beatles	65	9	970	347	44
Rolling Stones	658	79	655	321	261
				-	-
U2	700	85	443	243	214
Phish	1,684	25	7	55	11
Muse	333	41	390	357	346
John Mayer	762	44	30	40	60
				-	-
The Other Ones	33	-	-	-	-
The Dead	101	-	-	-	-
Futhur	237	5	-	-	-
Dead & Co	84	-	-	-	-
Total Dead Spin-Offs	455	5	-	-	5

Data from setlists.fm

What Did They Open WIth? Idaho, Boise, I'll 'ska September 2, 1983

The answer to the answer man today is: Wang Dang Doodle, the only opening tune the Grateful Dead ever played in Idaho.  Boise got the Dead at the Pavilion in the Student Union Building on September 2, 1983 during the interesting season when the band, after playing the normal Dead strongholds of Washington and Oregon played Boise, Park West Ski Area, and after Red Rocks and Manor Dows, played unusual settings in Grass Valley and Watsonville, CA

http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/idaho/extinct-otter-species-named-after-grateful-dead-guitarist/228598798

Reviewer: Brooklyn Peach - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - March 28, 2007 

Subject: Fabulous show!

I was at this show and can attest to it's amazing qualities. 1983 was the first year I joined in on Dead tour, and I thought it was one mind blowing show after another! This summer tour was fabulous all around, with a great parking lot scene! What a great way to see the United States...wherever you go, all your friends are there, too. This show stands out for me in that we were successfully smuggled into the show by circuitous routes, led by a helpful college student, and once inside proceeded to dance our butts off in the hall, culminating in a Sugar Magnolia that wouldn't quit, the segue into Sunshine Daydream being so prolonged that everyone started looking at each other like what's going on? come on already, dancing, dancing until we were ready to drop and finally the pause, and the downbeat...dancing til the last note, and then we all did drop (and I'm not kidding, everyone in the hall where we were did fall to the floor) and we lay there writhing and moaning from the fantastic experience of it all...and as I lay there I thought: What a great show! And as people started coming out of the arena, and having to walk over all the prostrate dancers lying on the floor in the hall, I thought what it must look like to them, like "That was a great show, but what the heck went on here in the hall?" Nothing but a communal orgasmic experience, resulting in the inevitable aftermath...pure bliss.

Wang Dang Doodle
Jack Straw
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried
Big River
Brown Eyed Women
New Minglewood Blues
Big Railroad Blues
Looks Like Rain
Deal

Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Throwin' Stones
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Black Peter
Sugar Magnolia

Baby Blue

The Just Exactly Perfect Brothers Band Show, December 29, 1977

Happy 40th Winterland
For their last big trick in the 1977 concert season, the Grateful Dead certainly pulled another rabbit out of its hat on December 29, 1977, forty years ago today.Double Dutch China in the Middle of a Playing In the Band Sandwich. For Charlie Miller's 14-pack go here

This was a first ten Dick's Picks, of course, Ten exactly. The allmusic.com review
Deadheads will treasure the 53-and-a-half-minute medley in the second set (and on the second CD) of "Playing in the Band/China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider/China Doll/Playing Jam/Drums/Not Fade Away/Playing in the Band," especially because it marks the first performance of the 1969 song "China Cat Sunflower" in over three years (that's why you hear all that applause when they start to play it). 

My pal Tom from Carmel saw this show, as he was already a West Coast Winterland deadhead in 1977, whilw I was still an 18 year on the East Coast celebrating my New Year's in Upstate NY at Colgate, Rochester and Broome Ciunty on Nov 4-6.

Photographer exterordinare Bob Minkin wrote this a few years back at http://newfillmore.com/2015/01/01/the-grateful-dead-at-winterland-1977/'
I buy every one of his books, you should too.

FLASHBACK | BOB MINKIN

After my summer trip to San Francisco in August ’77, I was itching to get back to the Bay Area. The Grateful Dead provided the perfect excuse — their fabled year-end concerts at Winterland. As a young Deadhead who never got to see shows at the Fillmore, Fillmore West or Avalon Ballroom, Winterland represented the last of San Francisco’s legendary venues.

Armed with my new camera — a Minolta SRT-101 with a 50mm f1.8 lens — and a load of film, I left New York City on Christmas day, taking Amtrak to Chicago and switching to a Greyhound bus that took me to San Francisco.

After arriving late at night, I lost my wallet in the San Francisco Greyhound bus terminal. My wallet contained all of my money, plus a pair of tickets to each of the three sold-out shows. I freaked out! What was I going to do now?

A hippie I met on the bus let me stay at his place that night, and the next morning, December 29th, he drove me to the corner of Post and Steiner Streets, home of Winterland.

It was a rainy, dreary morning and here I was standing outside the venue with no tickets and no money. Not only did I lose my own tickets but my friend Joel’s as well. Fortunately I still had an ounce of Thai sticks that I had carried cross-country, and selling a few sticks gained me some cash.

When Joel arrived, I gave him the bad news about our predicament, and he wasn’t very happy about it, to say the least. We decided to take a cab to Winterland Productions’ offices downtown, since that was where the tickets had been mailed from. I remembered the name of the woman who had originally helped me get them — Gloria Pulido — and asked for her when we got to the offices. She helped out again by selling Joel and me new sets of tickets to the three sold-out shows.

The year 1977 was a great one for the band, and they closed it out in style with three fantastic shows at Winterland. The first night, December 29th, is one of my favorite shows, and it was released on CD as Dick’s Picks, Volume 10.

Sadly, Winterland is no more, and condos now occupy the corner of Post and Steiner Streets.

— From Live Dead: The Grateful Dead Photographed by Bob Minkin

Dead still a little underground in SF in late 1977

New Years 1977

Not in Deadbase 2 in Deadbase 3, another later discovered show on the East Coast?

Fillmore East, January 3, 1970; A North Carolina School of the Arts Point of View

Nice shout out to all your Dead fans that made the trek to Charlotte last night. MY only show there was Brent's second show May 3, 1979. I couldn't find that but I discovered this.

Some cool hip dude or chick M. Ferguson from North Carolina School of the Arts went up to Yankee territory in early 1970 to the Fillmore East and we now have this beautiful little study of a classic early 1970 Dead show.  Enjoy. I won't spoil this by adding any meaningless comments. But there is one tune is night called "Jam Bid You Goodnight Jam Jam Alligator Jam & Reprise Caution Jam" on archive.org

Note that Light Into Ashes set me on the trail of this show a few months ago.  Don't forget to read every word he ever wrote. http://deadessays.blogspot.com/

Listen here

Band Grateful Dead
Venue Fillmore East
Location New York, NY
Date 1/3/70a - Saturday posters tickets, passes & laminates
One [50:58] ; Morning Dew [8:48] ; [0:15] ; Me And My Uncle [3:00] ; [0:14] ; Hard To Handle [4:00] ; [0:17] ; Cumberland Blues [5:12] ; [0:20] ; Cold Rain And Snow [4:44] ; Alligator [3:48] > Drums [2:07] > Jam [8:41] > Bid You Goodnight Jam [1:04] > Jam [0:25] > Alligator Reprise [1:42] > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) Jam [0:18] > Feedback [5:25] ; [0:29]
Encore [5:55] ; Uncle John's Band [5:55]



Band Grateful Dead
Venue Fillmore East
Location New York, NY
Date 1/3/70b - Saturday posters tickets, passes & laminates
One [93:33] ; Casey Jones [#4:02] ; [0:12] ; Mama Tried [2:27] ; [0:20] ; Big Boss Man [4:08] ; [0:36] ; China Cat Sunflower [2:48] > Jam [2:41] > I Know You Rider [4:07] > High Time Tease [0:07] % [0:32] ; Mason's Children [4:55] ; [0:35] ; Cryptical Envelopment [2:01] > Drums [3:29] > The Other One [9:54] > Cryptical Envelopment [4:58] > Cosmic Charlie [6:20] ; [0:55] ; Uncle John's Band [6:08] > Black Peter [8:27] ; [0:12] ; Dire Wolf [3:34] % [0:15] ; Good Lovin' [8:33] ; [0:35] ; Dancing In The Street [5:12] > Drums [1:28] > Dancing In The Street [3:48] ; [0:12]
Encore [15:38] ; Saint Stephen [6:10] > In The Midnight Hour [8:59] ; [0:17]

Cashbox Jan 17 1970 issue