Standard disclaimer: When reviewing any Grateful Dead release at this point, it needs to be noted that a lot of the truly great shows from the band have already been professionally released. (If you are new to the band, check out RtBE's Beginners Guide to The Grateful Dead Part's one and two.) With their vast back catalog on archive.org and all of their previous releases, the band's selections are running thin when it comes to must own, professionally released shows.
That said, the band still release shows because rabid fans (RtBE included) will listen to everything they put out. So let's dive in...
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing). This week...Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers!
Let's go back to New Years Eve 1978 as we celebrate New Years Eve 2021 tonight. Who better to host than Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers?!?!? From Santa Monica California, Pro Shot, Pro Sound, full set list below.
Happy New Year and as always, thanks for reading, listening, commenting and participating in any way. All the best to you and yours in 2022 and beyond.....
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica Ca
Setlist:
1:11 I Need To Know
3:33 Surrender
6:26 Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)
12:34 Tom Talks, Intro To Casa Dega
13:10 Casa Dega
18:27 Refugee
22:18 You're Gonna Get It
26:36 Mystery Man
29:56 American Girl
34:19 Breakdown n/a Runaway
41:30 Too Much Ain't Enough
46:00 Band leaves
48:02 (Encore) Shout
For the last few years the folks over at Dead.net have been hosting 30 Days of Dead during the month of November and it continues again this year. The site will hold a contest and post various live tunes from the group, available for free download every day.
Head on over and grab a new tune every day from the archives. To get pumped here is a rousing version of "Bertha" live from the 4/12/78 concert at Duke University.
There is a lot of music out there and some artists have massive catalogs which can paralyze new listeners with overwhelming choices. This Beginners Guide series will attempt to give new listeners entry points to some of these artists. Today we will look at: The Grateful Dead.
This post was very long so we are breaking it into two parts. This first offering will discuss the five places RtBE feels are the best entry points to the band. The follow up post will dive into the different eras of the Dead and pull out some well known and underappreciated shows for further listening.
In part oneRtBE discussed live shows and albums which will ease a listener into the band. The group has such a wide range of music/sound/shows that RtBE went through the years they were active and pulled out specific highlights. While this gets long, it is literally the tip of the iceberg. The Internet Archive is a digital gold mine for amazing Grateful Dead shows, but below are are choices throughout the years for highlights and further listening.
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Heart!
Today we fly back to 1978 and a full concert from Heart. Full set list, band info and bootleg info below. Enjoy:
Live at Capital Centre (DHV 2011) Capital Centre, Largo 15 October 1978
Ann Wilson - Vocals & Flute Nancy Wilson - Guitars, Piano & Vocals Roger Fisher - Lead Guitar Michael Derosier - Drums Steve Fossen - Bass & Vocals Howard Leese - Keyboards, Guitars & Vocals
RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.
For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen
The next "new Dylan" Bruce Springsteen had high expectations and early in his career searched for his own sound which would be solidified in the mid 70's as Phil Spector inspired grandiose rock and roll that goes for it every time.
An artist who recently pulled back the curtain on his craft, Springsteen famously said he never worked a day in his life but yet can craft a song like "The River" or "Factory" which cuts to the heart of a working man. Poetic, bombastic, country tinged and inspired by that sweet soul music, Bruce's sound is his own yet he inspired tons of others. It is impossible for RtBE to listen to Thin Lizzy and not hear Springsteen B-sides and for that matter half of E-Street went over the top with Bat Out of Hell.
The Boss remains an artist striving for the sound, his newest record went all retro-pop country, he is willing to experiment and take chances and his best successes rank up there with the greatest in rock and roll history. He became meticulous in the studio and it shows on the five albums we selected below so let's not waste any more words.
As a reminder these lists are to start conversations not end them, with that in mind let's see all that heaven will allow...
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band!
For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen
Here comes the Jersey Devil for our October Masters Series as The Boss has been wowing fans for decades now and his live shows are things of legends. All Full Show Friday's this month will be a testament to these and get ready because we have some doozy's lined up.
Thanks to our resident Springsteen expert Tom Gallagher for curating this month's Friday concerts. Let's start in 1978 on The Darkness tour on his home turf of New Jersey which just might be the best of the bunch.
We will be talking more about this tour, album and Springsteen in general all month so we will shut up and let the music do the talking, but this is simply put one of the best tours in rock history as Bruce and the E-Street band are super pumped up to be playing.
Black and white video is grainy at best but the sound is electric and you can see this simply monumental night up close and personal. Set list with timing below. Enjoy:
Badlands 4:36 Spirit in the Night 15:05 Darkness on the Edge of Town 20:08 Independence Day 27:47 The Promised Land 35:05 Prove it all Night 47:29 It's my LIfe (The Animals cover) 53:05 Thunder Road 58:41 Jungleland 1:09:45 Santa Claus is coming to town 1:14:50 Fire 1:17:47 Candy's Room 1:21:02 Because the Night 1:28:10 Intro/Point Blank 1:37:03 Kitty's Back 1:51:00 Incident on 57th Street 2:01:15 Rosalita (Come out Tonight) 2:14:00 Born to Run 2:21:35 Tenth Avenue Freeze-out 2:26:55 Detroit Medley 2:40:17 Twist and Shout
RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.
Uncle Neil is an artist who constantly follows the muse for both good and bad. Not everything has been great or even good (see his early and mid 80's output) but when the creative stars align he has produced some of the best classic rock tunes, which will live on forever.
A songwriter who oscillates between screaming loud riffs and acoustic folk ballads Neil touches on all genres and sounds. RtBE tends to lean towards his louder/heavier side, and for this list we are leaving out all of his albums with Crazy Horse. This is done because basically our personal preferences would put five of those albums in this list so we wanted to separate them out with their own post coming later this month.
Below we are picking Neil Young's best studio work, (minus the Horse, that list can be found here), but like lots of artists in our Master series there will be excellent albums left out. As always this list is a discussion starter, not a final statement on the matter. Let's dig in...
RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.
For April The Masters focuses on The Rolling Stones.
Live music is the best thing out there. Being caught in the moment is religion. Palpable vibes of healing and energy are transmitted and shit...gets...real. For this month's focus, The Rolling Stones are one of the best live bands in the world, but their studio albums get more respect than any live records and with reason.
While the the group has released a bunch of live records, throughout their career they acted more as stop gaps and contract fillers than devastating/must hear shows. Moments may feel transcendent but this is a group who managed to get the most out of their premier studio work and a lot of their live albums fall into the "release so we can stave off a studio record" category.
However, things have been changing over the last ten years as their archives have opened up and some great sets/shows/performances have been officially released to the world through the vault series and other venues. Longtime fans have had bootlegs of these for years, but now they get better quality and blessings from the band.
Below RtBE ranks their best five live albums, so let's get to it.
As always, these lists are designed to start conversations, not end them.
RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.
A few months ago we focused onThe Beatles and when you think of best rock and roll bands of all time, they and the Stones are usually somewhere near the top of the list. What is truly amazing is that the Rolling Stones are STILL getting after it. You can buy tickets to see them in 2019 and RtBE will be catching them twice, once in Jersey and once at NOLA Jazzfest in just over a month! (Update: With Mick Jagger's Health Issues, the Stones have canceled their tour with the hopes to reschedule). With the Stones set to tour we figured April would be a good time to focus on them for The Masters series.
Unlike The Beatles, who I loved upon first listen, I was a late bloomer to The Stones. I knew the hits (they were impossible to miss) but never dove into any of their records with much passion. During the early 00's when I was downloading a lot of live recordings from bands like Phish, Gov't Mule and The Grateful Dead, I stumbled upon a bootleg called A Few Hearts Broken, A Few Strings Busted, I downloaded, burned it and put it in the case with other live shows.
When I listened to it a few weeks later I was blown away by the power of the group. This was the high point of the Stones to these ears (and continues to be years later). The band officially released parts of these shows as Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones on DVD. When I next saw my Uncle who is a massive Stones fan, and played him this bootleg he turned to me and said this is the best Stones he had ever heard. I was hooked and dove in, hard. In fact, when it came time to personally play and write music in my own band, Angels & Vagabonds, The Stones were our collective rallying point, covering their songs live and writing a bit in their style.
The group has had many eras and a few lineup changes, but the core and their overall sound has remained pretty solidly intact. They are a great bar band who just happened to become one of the biggest and best bands in the world. Today lets go to what RtBE considers their top five studio albums.
As always, these lists are designed to start conversations, not end them.
RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.
Live music is the best thing out there. Being caught in the moment is religion. Palpable vibes of healing and energy are transmitted and shit...gets...real. For this month's focus, the feeling is really all there is behind a few notes. For a "simple" art form the blues is endless complex and in the live setting this is immediately obvious in the hands of these Masters.
Even more than the studio recordings which we highlighted, these albums seem to evoke the spirit of the heartache, pain, and simmering soul under the guitar strings, horn blasts and drum fills. Recording in seedy clubs, at concert halls, prisons and esteemed festivals, our choices run the gamut of locations and playing styles, but one thing they all have in common is the passion of the live performance.
Your list will probably look different, feel free to share thoughts in the comments below, but now on to the records.
As always, these lists are designed to start conversations, not end them.
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Koko Taylor!
Our focus this month in our ongoing Masters series are The Blues.
Gotta give it up for one of the most powerful blues voices there is, Koko Taylor. This show comes around the peak of her career, and is a hell of a performance. Coming on the back of The Earthshaker album she nails "Let The Good Times Roll" and makes "Wang Dang Doodle" her own. A hell of a show from a hell of a performer. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Full Setlist with timing below.
Enjoy:
setlist :00:31 Call my job 07:23 musical introduction to KOKO Taylor 08:29 Let the good times roll 12:35 i'm a woman18:30 29 Ways to get to my baby 24:10 Baby please don't Dog me29:45 Trying to make a living 34:00 The Blues never die39:30 You can have my husband 45:10 Wang Dang Doodle (all night long)
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Frank Zappa!
This one is a bit different as it is a bootleg movie, centered around a live Frank Zappa show from Germany in 1978. Enjoy the madness of Frank and company...
Frank Zappa "We Don't Mess Around"
September 8, 1978 Circus Krone, Munich, Germany
FZ, Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Arthur Barrow, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann, Vinnie Colaiuta
58 mins
Tracklist:
Pound for a Brown Baby Snakes Deathless Horsie Dancin' Fool Easy Meat Honey Don't You Want a Man Like Me? Keep It Greasey Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? Sofa #2 Vinnie's Seal Call Fusion Music Bobby Brown Conehead Dead Air/I'm On Duty St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast Father Oblivion Rollo Bamboozled Outro
One of the iconic NYC live music venues, The Bottom Line closed in 2004 but Paul Shaffer will be hosting an All-Star tribute to the location right down the block from where it once stood.
There will be a two-night tribute show (October 13 & 14th) at the NYU Schimmel Center as a host of stars come out and join the former Late Night/Late Show band leader. Our friends over at Brooklyn Vegan are reporting that the likes of David Johansen andChristine Lavin will be there and the Schimmel website itself mentions Darlene Love, Jimmy Vivino will also be showing up to share stories and songs from the venue. Here is a snippet of the preview:
Join us for a multimedia celebration of The Bottom Line, featuring music and memories, songs and stories by a selection of artists who were regular performers at the iconic club. Host Paul Shaffer with special guests will swap stories about their favorite times on stage, off stage and backstage and perform songs that made the club a destination for fans of all music genres.
From opening night on February 12, 1974, when headliner Dr. John jammed with Stevie Wonder and Johnny Winter in front of an audience that included Mick Jagger, Carly Simon, Bette Midler and an SRO crowd of entertainment industry luminaries, The Bottom Line was destined to be a cultural touchstone and hub of the music industry. For the next 30 years The Bottom Line influenced and impacted millions of music fans, providing a rich soundtrack to their lives that reflected the changing times.
Should be a cool event and tickets are onsale now. There were thousands of amazing shows that were recorded at the venue, and perhaps down the road we will dedicate a month of Full Show Friday's to it (like we did for CBGB's) but for now, how about a few individual songs recorded at the location to get us in the mood?
First up, Tower of Power (how about those fucking hair cuts?!?!) playing "Squib Cakes" from 1989
Then we go to 1978 for Van Morrison and "Wavelength", recorded live at the club:
Then we hop to 1990 and check out JJ Cale doing "Magnolia":
And wrap it up with some some jazz in the venue as Branford Marsalis and company do "Yes or No" in 1989:
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's.
These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so
enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every
which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still
playing)...This week.. Elvis Costello & the Attractions!
We have a mix of a two shows of Elvis Costello & the Attractions this week from 1978. The group is caught with some backstage footage and the editing makes it that it's technically not a full show, but can't complain at all.
The sound and audio quality are not the best but this is 1978, so we can't be too picky. Enjoy:
We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's.
These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so
enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every
which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still
playing)...This week...Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers!
We are going to spend some quality time at Winterland back in 1978 with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers this Friday. A cool show from closer to the beginning of the groups career and right before their mega breakthrough Damn The Torpedoes. Things aren't perfect but it is a good capture of that night. The following evenings NYE show is up there as well so maybe we will get to that one next year. Anyway on with the gig we are presenting here.
Love all the covers they mix in, especially "Dark End Of The Street" which is one of our favorite tunes. The original came out of Muscle Shoals and is a doozy, the bands version here is great as well. "Shout" and "I Fought The Law" whipped the crowd into such a frenzy Tom got pulled off stage.
As for the originals, we get a glimpse of the rare and spooky "Casa Dega" that is accented nicely by organs. I love the dark vibe hanging over "Fooled Again" along with the mixing of pure pop "American Girl" and desperation of "Breakdown". A fun peak into early Heartbreaker setlists and shows.
Enjoy:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live in Winterland, San Francisco, CA Dec 30, 1978
The Crowd Pulls Tom off Stage 1:14: 04
Tom Petty- Guitar & Vocals
Mike Campbell- Guitar
Benmont Tench- Piano & Vocals
Ron Blair- Bass & Vocals
Stan Lynch- Drums & Vocals
1. Surrender 0:00
2. Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll 3:03
3. Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) 6:48
4. Casa Dega 13:32
5. I Need To Know 19:09
6. Take a Bow, Phil 21:40
7. Refugee 23:05
8. Dark End Of The Street (Making Love) 27:10
9. Listen To Her Heart 36:08
10. You're Gonna Get It 39:19
11. Mystery Man 44:45
12. American Girl 47:20
13. Breakdown 50:09
14. Strangered In The Night 59:17
15. Too Much Ain't Enough 1:03:50
16. Shout 1:08:58
17. I Fought The Law 1:19:09
18. Any Way You Want It 1:22:00
19. Even The Losers 1:26:40
Last year we searched the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and posted them to the site monthly. That was all well and good but this year RtBE is upping the ante with a show every week to celebrate Full Show Friday's.
These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so
enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every
which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still
playing)...This week...Koko Taylor!
Well here is a nice surprise, a full live show from Blues Queen Koko Taylor. The video comes from 1978 right around the time Taylor's fantastic Earthshaker LP was released. The songs from that that record feature here and they are doozy's, staples of the genre sung by a vocalist who is timeless.
Flipping the sexes on "I'm A Man" to "I'm A Woman" is perfect as Koko proves with this take on Bo Diddley's classic. Koko's gravely take on "Let The Good Times Roll" is a marvel as she matches yelps with lead guitar player Emmett "Maestro" Sanders. Sanders expertly opens the show by the way with a take on "Call My Job" which is a scorching blues number. His axe matches perfectly with Koko on tracks likeher original"Baby Please Don' Dog Me"and the classic elongated "Wang Dang Doodle". Have fun with this bluesy full show Friday before you start screaming "Hey Bartender!"
Last year we searched the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts
and posted them to the site monthly. That was all well and good but this year RtBE
is upping the ante with a show every week to celebrate Full Show
Friday's (props to Hidden Track for giving us the name). These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for
long so enjoy them
while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way,
but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This
week...The Grateful Dead!
How can we not start things off with one of RtBE's favorites? The Grateful Dead have been a part of this site since it's inception (literally our first day of posts) and the only band we would like to start this on going series with.
Today we get a show from the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey from 11-24-1978. You can stream the show here from Internet Archives as well as watch it below. The band is cooking from the beginning with a powerful "Jack Straw" starting things. Jerry's voice is a bit more ragged then usual but it can add to songs like on the second track "Sugaree". He was actually getting a case of laryngitis that would force the cancellation of the following nights Philly show. Maybe it was because his voice was shot that he plays a mean guitar on this night...or maybe it is just the fact that he is one of the best ever on that instrument.
Other then Garcia's vocals here and there this is a really solid show and setlist from 78 and anytime a late 70's funk fest of "Shakedown Street" gets rocking I am happy and this one is takes the listener up there. The sound is A quality and the video seems to be professionally shot, so you can enjoy the band in all it's 1978 glory. Give it a listen and enjoy the ride..until next week...
So the pure genius that I am actually recycled a show with last weeks burner from Miami 1974. Oh well, I guess I just really like that show, and I did go to FLA twice this year so it makes a bit of stupid sense. To make up for it though I wanted to find a gem and post it today.
Bring on the glorious 4-24-1978 concert from Horton Field House at Illinois State University. Click that link or listen right C'here:
Unreal that I made it to the middle of October before posting a show from 1978. Just goes to show you how many great years/tours/nights there were in the career of this amazing group of musicians.
This show has a bunch of high spots and rates as one of the best from the Dead during this phase of their career, which is saying a lot as 77-78 hold a special place in the hearts of most Dead Heads. The show was the last before a week off for the group and they let it loose at the Horton Field House on this night.
The full accompaniment of the Dead is on display here, and I would offer this show to all the Donna haters out there to prove she added a grand vocal dimension and forced the fellas to harmonize more then they ever had...she also covered up the warts of the vocals at times and it is on display all night here. Donna and Keith would leave the band shortly, but tonight's show, as well as countless others, shows the heights this formation of the group could achieve.
There are a couple of copies of this night's show on the archive to check out, the great Charlie Miller himself posted 2 versions, I am going with one of his, but I wouldn't fault you for going in a different direction if you wanted, they are all fairly good recordings, I noticed the overall volume level is a bit dimmer on the other versions, and I wanted more bang in the speakers so I am using this version. I would give the recording an A as a lot of heart and soul seemed to go into it.
A good beginning of things, but the weirdness happens about 2 songs in as the group teases, of all things, "Stayin' Alive". Hippies doing disco...gag-able. They actually played with the tune in various songs all that week (I hope to post more shows later) and the crazy thing is, the "Stayin' Alive" tease plays throughout all of "Big River" Johnny Cash just threw-up. Maybe sacrilegious, but funny and the Dead are nothing if not pranksters. Another Early highlight is "Friend of the Devil" stretched out and jammed real nice like for 10 minutes.
The mega-highlights that make this a must hear concert start to show up at the end of the first set and skid right on through to the begging of the second. "Passenger" is a fast furious work out, before Jerry and Donna team up to create the beautifully heart wrenching "It Must Have Been The Roses". They close out the first set with what could be argued is their top tier version of "The Music Never Stopped", this one is a jaw dropper. Not an extended flight of fancy , just a funky-as-all-get-out burner to close out a dynamite set of tunes. Shows that any night, any song could reach monumental peaks, as Jerry races and scrambles on guitar while the percussion crashes all around him to close out the track and set. The Dead's own taper section noted as much back in 2007 when they posted those two tracks here.
After that a break was needed, but the momentum was never lost. The group comes out flying for the opening duo of "Scarlett Begonias>Fire On The Mountain". Again this combo on this night must pop up in "All Time Great" discussions. I have mentioned some epic "Scarlett>Fires" on this site in the past, and this one goes toe to toe with those. Phil slides his bass into Scarlett with ease and like all great versions of this tune the keys get a proper airing and Keith does that wonderfully. The whole group just seems to be in complete sync to open up the playing here, building to dynamite crescendos and interacting with each other on what seems to be a higher level.
Donna vocalizes as the group starts the journey to the Mountain and gather the kindling to start the fire with Garcia strumming away as Keith seems to be walking alone on the piano as Billy and Mickey crash around on cymbals before they all come together at the base and start to climb. The groove gets rich and thick as the Wah Wah dominates the proceedings and the rhythm section gets into their best song. I always have seen Fire on the Mountain as a Phil-Mickey-Billy jam more then anything else with the best versions having those three propel the others to greater melodic moments. That takes place here as Jerry and Bobby start dueling around the 5:30 mark and just get after it with each other, this is actually some of my favorite guitar work from Bobby, and really does play like two leads, something that rarely happened with the band as Garcia often dominated.
Garcia singing "Let it burn let it burn let it burn" is icing on this glorious musical cake and then he decides to just rip into the track as Weir falls more into the rhythmic role we are used to as the band rolls on up and up into thin air. These songs are the Dead at their peak and what you listen to the group for, excellence.
The band moves into "Good Lovin'" and while not up to the same levels it still kept the crowd grooving before they hit the next highlight song. "Terrapin Station" was always hit or miss live, while it is an epic tale, the fellas were known to blow it on many occasions this night was not one of those as they nail it. Jerry always is a bit iffy on the lyrics which can take away from the story, but the song is so large and encompassing it has power even when the band isn't completely together. In this version the Inspiration break isn't as monumental as other versions but the totality of the track works wonders while it builds to a devastating ending via drum rolls and Jerry flashing some distortion.
The rest of the show is solid, if not particularly memorable, but with those high spots to end the first set and beginning the second you couldn't ask for much more. "Not Fade Away" is fun, "Black Peter" has never been one of my favorites but this version is a good bluesy listen very emotional guitar playing. I love Warren Zevon, and always got a kick out of the Dead covering "Werewolves of London", easily one of my favorite covers the band did.
So enjoy this show, and I promise not to repeat it the next time I post a 1978 show.
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