Full Show Friday: Diana Ross - Caesar's Palace In Las Vegas 1979

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...Diana Ross!

Today we head back to Las Vegas in 1979 for the disco days with Diana Ross. 

Pro shot, pro sound, full set list below. Enjoy!

Album Review: Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Vol 47: 12-9-79

Grateful Dead

Dave's Picks: 47 

December 9, 1979 @ Kiel Auditorium St. Louis, Missouri

*** out of *****

Covering the Dave's Picks series, and really any Grateful Dead release at this point, it needs to be noted that a lot of great shows have already been professionally released. The selections are running thin when it comes to must own, professionally released shows. Even this year the band released the huge Here Comes Sunshine box set and stand alone 6/10/73 monster show, which really is must hear.  

Dave's Picks 47: December 9, 1979 @ Kiel Auditorium St. Louis, Missouri is not in that same orbit, but it is a fine little show from an era from which Dave has released a few shows already. Nothing earth shattering here, just an OK-to-good night of Grateful Dead music, which is pretty damn fine anyway you slice it. 

Full Show Friday: Randy Newman - Live in Holland 1979

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...Randy Newman!

Every April (and first week in May) we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we will focus on Randy Newman who will be playing Sunday May 1st.

To kick off our monthly focus on Jazzfest artists, we start with a doozy, Randy Newman. The satire king himself starts a month plus of artists playing the Fairgrounds, and he does it on April Fools Day no less! This is a huge one for Jazzfest and Newman will be a treat to see live on the closing Sunday of the first weekend.

The show below comes from 1979 Amsterdam, specifically, the Casanova Fair in Ahoy, Rotterdam with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Roelof van Driesten and it was Broadcasted Nov. 9, 1979. A live album was released from this show as well. 

Pro shot, pro sound, full set list below. Enjoy!

Full Show Friday: Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light Concert

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...Joni Mitchell! 

Recorded at the Santa Barbara Bowl in September 1979, the concert captures Joni Mitchell on her Mingus tour. This show was officially released as a live album a year later as Shadows and Light.

 

Mitchell has some impressive support here with Jaco Pastorius - bass; Pat Metheny - lead guitar; Lyle Mays - keyboards; Don Alias - drums/percussion; Michael Brecker - tenor/soprano saxophone; The Persuasions - backing vocals.

Pro shot, pro sound, full set list below. Enjoy!

0:00 - Intro 1:59 - In France They Kiss on Main Street 6:07 - Edith and the Kingpin 10:18 - Coyote 15:12 - Free Man in Paris 18:43 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 24:36 - Jaco's Solo (Third Stone from the Sun) 28:40 - The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines 33:02 - Amelia ≈ 39:41 - Pat's Solo 42:57 - Hejira 50:04 - Black Crow 54:00 - Furry Sings the Blues 59:37 - Raised on Robbery 1:02:52 - Joni introduces the band 1:04:02 - Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1:06:26 - Shadows and Light

Album Review: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s - The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s

The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts

***** out of *****

Compiled from two concerts (9/21 & 9/22) of the MUSE benefits held at Madison Square Garden with a huge lineup, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts is a coming out party for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in more ways than one. 

The band had not been on tour, working in the studio on The River when they busted out with the raw abandon of a gang on holiday for these sets. This combination collection of the two nights captures the band in smoking form with Springsteen starting to ramp up his activism, finding a direct cause of No Nukes. The concert has high profile guests, covers and powerful renditions of many of Springsteen's crowd favorites, jumping up from the theaters of The Darkness tour to full fledge arenas, commemorating the first time Springsteen played MSG. 

A fairly tight "Prove It All Night" opens the set with the highlight being Clarence Clemons sax solo before the band slam home on a passionate "Badlands". The tune seems cathartic as Max Weinberg's drums lead the charge with Roy Bittan on piano and Danny Federici on organ sliding up and down the keys as Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt scream their hearts out; stellar kick ass rock and roll. 

Springsteen then takes a well earned mini break minute to introduce "The Promised Land", dedicating the song to all of the people participating in No Nukes. With a bright harmonica shining the way the song rings out proud before only the second version of his newest song "The River" was played live. The stark tale is in all of its heart-wrenching form from the beginning of its tear inducing existence. 

The party picks back up for the Jersey Shore swing of "Sherry Darling" highlighted by Van Zandt's lithe guitar work which displays Caribbean flashes as the whole band cuts loose, enjoying themselves with yelps and hollers. The massive hits follow as Springsteen evolves into the arena god almost before the fans eyes, "Thunder Road" is massive, "Jungleland" is epic, "Rosalita" is exciting and "Born To Run" is inspiring. Each one proves Springsteen & The E Street Band's scope and scale as they embark on a decade where they would own the rocking world. 

Tom Petty and Jackson Browne join the group for Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs “Stay” as the oldies roll out. The bands tried and true "Detroit Medley" complete with the early rock tunes of "Devil with the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly / C.C. Rider / Jenny Take A Ride" delivers the hip swinging fun, rolling our for almost twenty minutes when you add the bands cover of Gary U.S. Bonds "Quarter To Three". The old time rock and roll wraps up the night with "Rave On!" as the band blasts out and the crowd explodes with vibrant energy.  

This collection vaults to right near the top of the best Springsteen live releases ever as the quality is exquisite. The only real downside is that all of these tunes are familiar to fans in multiple live versions before and there is very little mystery here. That stated, the time constraints of a 90 minute set actually compress Bruce and E-Streets energy and instead of the sprawling three hour concerts he played before and after, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts solidifies the fact that Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band are one of the best live rock and roll acts in history.

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Year In Review 2021 - Favorite Archival Releases

Each year the music industry dips into the past to deliver box sets, live albums, re-masters and outtake collections to sell to the music loving masses (present company included). This look back will round up some of RtBE's favorite archival releases from the past year. 

Usually these releases can fall into the money grab category, not really adding much outside of revenue for the label and (hopefully) the artist. Every now and then though some spectacular collections are unearthed and are worth any price. 

RtBE includes live albums in this year end review as well, since they were recorded in the recent or distant past and fall into archival release status. 

With the increase in vinyl interest and enhanced Record Store Days to help smaller sellers, there seem to be more and more archival/live releases each year, we are sure to miss a lot of them, but the quality and abundance is exciting. 

These were our favorite archival and live album releases of 2021, click the link in the title for full length reviews. 

Full Show Friday: Gordon Lightfoot Soundstage 1979

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...Gordon Lightfoot!

This week we check out Gordon Lightfoot from 1979 on Soundstage. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy:

Full Show Friday: Kate Bush - 1979 Hammersmith Odeon

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...Kate Bush!

1979 was the year, Hammersmith Odeon was the venue and Kate Bush was the artist. Here is today's Full Show Friday. Pro Shot, Pro Sound with full set list and song notes below. Enjoy:

Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK on May 13, 1979. 01: Moving 02: The Saxophone Song -- OUTTAKE 03: Room For The Life -- OUTTAKE 04: Them Heavy People 05: The Man With The Child In His Eyes -- OUTTAKE 06: Egypt -- OUTTAKE (soundtrack being with terrible noise) 07: L'Amour Looks Something Like You -- OUTTAKE 08: Violin 09: The Kick Inside -- OUTTAKE 10: In The Warm Room -- OUTTAKE 11: Strange Phenomena 12: Hammer Horror 13: Kashka From Baghdad -- OUTTAKE 14: Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake 15: Wow 16: Coffee Homeground -- OUTTAKE 17: In Search Of Peter Pan -- OUTTAKE 18: Symphony In Blue -- OUTTAKE 19: Feel It 20: Kite 21: James And The Cold Gun 22: Oh England My Lionheart 23: Wuthering Heights 24: Curtain Call -- OUTTAKE "Fullhouse" was supposedly not played for this show, although it was usually performed right after "In The Warm Room" on other dates.

The Masters: Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Top 5 Albums

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 August The Masters focuses on the great Neil Young.

This month we already chatted about Neil Young's best studio albums, his best live work and now we tackle his studio work with Crazy Horse. The reason we broke all of these up is because if we didn't, the records below would have dominated all of our lists; there is no doubt that RtBE likes Neil Young best when he is backed up by Crazy Horse. 

With a new NY&CH album coming soon we couldn't be more excited to revisit these great records. As always this list is a discussion starter, not a final statement on the matter. Let's dip into it as the top album on this list is our favorite thing Neil has done and I guess could technically top all three of our previous lists.

As always this list is a discussion starter, not a final statement on the matter.   Let's dig in...

The Masters: Neil Young - Best Live Albums

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 August The Masters focuses on the great Neil Young.

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. This month's focus, Neil Young has been following his musical muse from soft acoustic one man shows to huge loud electric raging his whole career.

We already discussed best studio albums and will get to our favorites with Crazy Horse next week, but now it is the live show. Having seen Uncle Neil live in various formations this was a fun one to revisit. There have been a bunch of recent archive releases, and there promises to be even more in the future, which could alter this collection but this is how we feel now.

Also, there is one album in his catalog which could possibly top this list, but we will discuss why we kept it out later. Remember these lists are meant to start conversations, not end them, now let Neil guide the way....

Full Show Friday: James Brown 1979 Monterey, California

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...James Brown!

For May The Masters focuses on James Brown.

Here is the Godfather of Soul doing it up proper in 1979. Apparently this was filmed in a conference room of a Doubletree Hotel smack dab in Monterey, California..."No one goes to Monterey". James Brown did in 1979.
Enjoy:

Full Show Friday- Cheap Trick 1979 Rockpalast

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...Cheap Trick!!!

We recently caught the episode of Live From Daryl's House that Cheap Trick was on, so we wanted to focus on them this friday. Today's concert comes from the bands 1979 tour and is a good sampling of their career to this point with some nice covers tossed in. This show is very close to their must own, At Budokan release. 

A pro shot, pro sound show that is a great way to end this fall week. Setlist below. Enjoy:

Hello There
Come On
Stiff Competition
On Top Of The World
Ain't That A Shame
Need Your Love
I Know What I Want
I Want You To Want Me
Surrender
Good Night
Day Tripper

Full Show Friday: The Brides of Funkenstein 3/18/1979

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...The Brides of Funkenstein!

Have you noticed our understated theme this month for Full Show Friday's? No...well we picked a year and found 4 great and diverse shows from 1979. Why? No idea. Next month we have a much more solid theme, so stay tuned, but as for this Friday....

The Brides of Funkenstein! Bringing some disco infused riffs and a full female vocal section led by Lynn Maybry and Dawn Silva the Brides on this night opened up for P-Funk. They were short lived but influential and popped around the P-Funk universe. Lynn also sang backup for The Talking Heads in 1984 and shows up in Stop Making Sense.

A great energetic funk show from 79, pro-shot, pro-sound. Set list and funky players below. Enjoy:

Setlist:

War Ship Touchante/Birdie
Ride On
Vanish In Our Sleep
Together
Amorous
Disco To Go
Outro

The Ladies: Lynn Maybry, Dawn Silva, Sheila Horne, Jeanette McGruder

The Band:
Blackbyrd McKnight- Guitar
Jeff Bunn -Bass
Gary Hudgins -Keyboards
Dennis Chambers -drums

The Baltimore Connection Horns : Bennie Cowan, trumpet; Greg Boyer, trombone; Greg Thomas, Sax

Full Show Friday: The Jacksons 1979 - The Destiny Tour

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...The Jacksons!

Here is a jamming show from The Jackson's Destiny Tour. That album was the first the brothers wrote and recorded for themselves in their whole career. It was their third post Motown release and also their best, also their last before Michael went full solo. A nice slice of history with the brothers.

Enjoy:

Full Show Friday: Van Morrison 10/6/79 Capital Theatre

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...Van Morrison!

This is a damn good show, there is a ton of info after the jump about this particular show taken from the concert vault. Just click that Read More there, then click play on the video and dig into this gem of a Van The Man night of music. Complete with history, setlist, players and more.

Pro Shot (black and white) Pro Sound, don't get much better. Enjoy!

Full Show Friday: The Tubes 8/24/79 Oakland Aud

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...The Tubes!

When we were in NOLA on Saturday night we caught one of the best (and our favorite) groups playing anywhere today, The Rough Seven slayed it at Vaughn's. The show was amazing as always, we will probably discuss it on it's own at another time. 

An interesting thing happened though, a fellow fan in the crowd was wearing a Tubes t-shirt, we hadn't thought about them in so long that when we came home we looked online to revisit their tunes and loved this show...so here it is for Full Show Friday. 

The San Fran Band is an oddball mix of showmanship, musicianship and art rock. "White Punks on Dope" is classic satire and for this show they end with some Who covers. For those who don't know the keyboardist here, Vince Welnick, went on to join The Grateful Dead in 1990 until the end of their run.   

Black and white with great audio and video from Bill Graham's vault. Setlist and a lot more information regarding the recording and show after the jump. Enjoy:

Full Show Friday: Bob Marley 1979 Harvard Stadium Boston, MA

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..Bob Marley!

This show comes from 1979 and it has a full intro in the video and a Dick Gregory introduction that puts you smack back in that year, lasting until 15:10. This was Bob and company's first show on their 1979 Survival Tour and it took place in early October up in Boston.   

The video comes from a VHS tape, it is pro sound and pro shot, but a bit weathered in this digital age, still great though. The setlist from this show is also a bit different then others on this tour so this is fun experience on this freezing Friday.

Let the "Positive Vibrations" flow with songs like "No More Trouble", "Lively Up Yourself" and my personal favorite Marley tune, "Exodus" which here features Babatunde Olatunji the Nigerian drummer/activist. The rally was a political ones though so songs like "Slave Driver" Wake Up & Live" and "Them Belly Full" with a nice guitar solo, all get featured.

Really cool time capsule show. Enjoy:

1.opening announcer (Mel King)
2.Dick Gregory talk
3.Dick Gregory introduces Bob Marley Bob talk
4.Positive Vibration
5.Slave Driver
6.Them Belly Full
7.Running Away
8.Crazy Baldhead
9.The Heathen
10.War
11.No More Trouble
12.Lively Up Yourself
13.No Woman No Cry
14.Jammin'
15.Get Up Stand Up
16.Exodus (with Babatunde Olatunji)
17.encore break
18.Zimbabwe
19.Wake Up & Live
20.band intros by Junior Marvin
21.credits & announcer
22.end

Full Show Friday: Bob Marley Live 11-25-79 Santa Barbara

Well we are still recovering from the most amazing time down at Jazzfest, we hope to have few posts concerning the experience, but really it is getting harder and harder to find ways of saying how amazing everything is....if you've been you know, if you haven't you should go. Simple as that.

We figured the positive vibes of a pure legend were needed today, so we went to the obvious choice, Bob Marley. We choose a show from his Survival Tour which took place in 79 because of its more laid back nature then some of our favorite early shows of Bob...we are just looking to relax today and what better place then Santa Barbara in 1979? 

Having already been diagnosed with Cancer a few years earlier this would be his second to last tour, and he would be dead in just 16 months at shockingly only 36 years old. Bob is physically frailer but his playing/singing/spirit still transcends time and space like few ever have.       

This is a professional recording that was officially released and you can buy it here.  You will know almost all of the tunes if you are even a casual fan but some highlights are the opening "Positive Vibrations", the raw vocal performance he puts on during "Ambush In The Night", the passion and percussion of "Them Belly Full", "Ride Natty Ride", the string of all-time classics to close and our favorite Marley tune (probably) "Exodus". Enjoy the show:

Monday Dead: 1-8-1979 Madison Sq. Garden, NYC

Going for a local show in today's addition to the Monday Dead series, as we walk down the block and back 30+ years to January 8th 1979 @ Madison Square Garden.  Click that link or listen right c'here:

This is only the second show the Dead ever played in the big arena, the first being the night before, which by all accounts was not a highlight for the band.  Just like the group their big shows seem to disappoint, then they come back the next night and knock it out of the park.  I haven't put too many AUD tapes in the Monday series, but this one is pretty special, as you can hear the energy from the get go with the crowd exploding at "Mississippi Half-Step" and they are ecstatic most of the night.  Surprisingly my other 1979 post was from the same month and is an AUD tape as well, but the playing from both shows makes it worthy of listening.

With this recording the levels do seem to fluctuate and Bobby is almost non-existent on Guitar with his slide solo in "New Minglewood" being very very low in the mix.  Other pieces work nicely like the loud highs of Jerry's guitar and Keith's Keys.  There is a definite distance here and the recording isn't perfect by any stretch, but it is listenable.  There is also an amazing set of Photos from this night on Bob Minkin's Photo Stream on Flickr.  Check out the slide show of great pictures here.

You can feel from the opening that Jerry is going to be 'on' this night, the playing and singing contain an added passion, I am not sure why but his guitar tone weeps through 'Candy Man'.  The highlights of the 1st set are the opening duo of "1/2 Step" > "Franklins Tower" which is a fun pairing, a jammed out "Friend Of The Devil" and a really pumping "It's All Over Now".   The real action come sin the second set so I will focus on that....

When no one less then the great Charlie Miller states that this is one of his favorite 2nd sets the band has ever done you kinda sit up and take notice.  "Scarlett Begonias" eases out brilliantly, with a nice tag team from Keith's Keys and Donna Jeans Vocals.  The couple would leave the band shortly, but they always made Scarlett>Fire a good listen.  Jerry was also feeling his oats on this night jamming out in various directions, he has mentioned that the Garden is "juiced" and how much he loved to play there...this is an example of why and how.  The "Fire On The Mountain" is glorious ringing out with wah-wah and a jubilant vibe with a cinematic last guitar solo that I could have listened to all day.

A rocking "Samson and Delilah" keeps the energy high as the rhythm section gets their groove on with the bouncing beat.  Then the epic nature of this set becomes apparent as "Terrapin Station" spins out the yarns of shedding light among blissful, golden guitars.  A huge version of this fan favorite has "inspiration" popping up and inspiring the New York City crowd before the tune crashes into a great disco flavored version of "Playing In The Band".  All killer, no filler in this second set as Bobby whips up the crowd into a funky groove.

After the 'Drums' take hold we thunder out we get hit with rattling bass bombs from Phil that signal "The Other One" which is energetic and upbeat before a huge "Wharf Rat" finds Jerry showing off those passionate vocals one more time on this night.  "Good Lovin'" and "US Blues" let the crowd sing along and end a terrific night of music from the boys and girl in NYC, sending those in attendance home happy.

Monday Dead 1-20-1979 Buffalo, NY

So for this Monday in Dead-story we are hitting back to the winter of 1979.  We have had such beautiful weather today in the city, a cool morning going to 70 degrees this evening, I figured why not look to some of the coldest shows, Buffalo in January?  Safe to say it was freezing outside...but the playing in Shea's Theater was HOT, as this excellent recording.

Today's show is 1-20-1979 which can be found at that link or listen to it right c'here:


This is perhaps the best audience recording I heard of the fellas, this show is amazing, and you can see Charlie Miller commented that this has been remastered twice, but nothing has been lost from the sound, in fact a ton has been gained.  You get the full range of the band, a touch of the crowd, and the energy from the night leaks through everywhere.

A quick "Promised Land" opener gets the show going, but the magic really starts with the 12 minute "Sugaree".  This one has it all Jerry's high fret board wizardry backed tastefully by Bobby on slide and the easy drumming of Billy; a real highlight of this first set.  Feeling good in the laid back workouts finds "Peggy-O" in majestic form as well...Garcia was simply on this night. 

   
His playing and singing are really top notch and that is needed as this was a very stressful time in the bands history.  Supposedly this is the first night of Donna and Keith's break-up and while this must have been devastating for them as people the rest of the band seemed to grow a bit tighter.  Donna is not at this show, and honestly you can barely hear Keith, and with the quality of this recording it seems like he was absent.  While I know they both played shows with the Dead for the next two weeks (last show was 2/17) it seems like they checked out here mentally, the only time in the first set I hear him really contributing is during the late "Minglewood Blues" and he really only shows up for "Dark Star" in the second set.

That said though the group pulled together that much tighter with Captain Garcia driving the bus like no other... Really some fine axe work here, just peep the first sets "All Over Now" double solos that he pulls out, and I should also mention Bobby's slide playing on this night which is inventive and adds a lot to the songs, something he wasn't always known for.  Two of my favorite tunes end the first set with "Stagger Lee" and "Jack Straw" these versions aren't all time classics, Jerry forgets some lyrics, but they set the tone for a great second set.

A huge bombing of "I Need a Miracle" starts a blazing run of tunes, with the band propelling into the stratosphere with a huge second set, see that Mammoth skull on the poster?  It was a harbinger of the mammoth second set to come..."Too much of everything is just enough".

Bertha is a bit all over the place as you can tell the band is excited, when they immediately cowbell it up with some "Good Lovin'".  "Loser" makes a rare 2nd set appearance and is punctuated by Garcia's weeping notes before a big "Estimated Prophet" cruises into town.  This tune would really gain steam when Brent would soon join the band, but it is a fun ride here with it's warbling guitar flights...then begins the jelly with a sweet segue into..."The Other One" rumbling out into the Buffalo night with "Drums" and "Space" lurking in the wings.     
The "Jam Out of Space" is interesting here, but it acts more as an intro back into "The Other One" and I would have probably just called it "The Other One" if I was labeling this on a snazzy tape cover...

  After that brief dip back into "The Other One" we get the surprise of the set...."Dark Star" and what a surprise it is...the crowd goes nuts for this selection by the fellas.  Having been revived by the band in late 1978, this version has Jerry spazzing out with nice touches by Keith and Phil bombing along, getting freaky around the 8 minute mark.  A cool treat before segueing into a light and airy version of "Not Fade Away" and a rocking set closing  "Sugar Magnolia".  The encore of One More Saturday night is electric, like this pristine audience recording and must have sent the Buffalo deadheads away with a smile...a great show and a fun listen to hear just how dynamic Jerry can be on guitar during a transitional phase in the Dead's career.  Enjoy.