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  • philmaywalt
    8 years 1 month ago
    I was there
    Fire on the mountain started as a blazing sunset began. It's been 38 years and I still remember it as if it were yesterday. Also the scoreboards all read. Come join the grateful dead and explore the mysteries of the pyramids September 16,17 and 18. Gizeh Egypt
  • Charbroiled
    8 years 2 months ago
    Giants
    Had a crystal clear board of the second set and the Good Lovin', Scarlet>Fire, Estimated>Eyes is awesome. Keith & Donna had only months left before being dumped by JGB and then the Dead, the end of the seventies had begun.
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    danc
    8 years 2 months ago
    Giants Stadium '78
    This second set starter was a nice high point in the latter part of the K&D era... Much news over the subsequent six months -- Egypt, SNL, Jerry's illness, closing of Winterland, first MSG shows... K&D fired.
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Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we wrap up our January listening with music from the end of summer in 1978, 1979, and 1983.

First stop this week is on 9/2/78 at Giants Stadium, just before the Dead left the USA for Egypt, their second giant New Jersey show in a row to celebrate Labour Day. From this huge show, we have Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain, one of the biggest and most interesting versions of this combination ever played.

From a year later at Madison Square Garden on 9/5/79, we have the start of the first set of the middle night of a three night run in New York, featuring Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower ; Mama Tried> Mexicali Blues ; Peggy-O ; Cassidy.

Lastly this year, from four years later on 8/31/83 in Eugene, OR, we have the start of the first set, featuring Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told ; Dupree's Diamond Blues ; Me And My Uncle > Mexicali Blues ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; Hell In A Bucket. This is a year into West L.A.'s existence, and it had settled into a terrific groove by this point.

Be sure to join us here next week for more music from the vault.

David Lemieux
vault@dead.net

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This second set starter was a nice high point in the latter part of the K&D era... Much news over the subsequent six months -- Egypt, SNL, Jerry's illness, closing of Winterland, first MSG shows... K&D fired.
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Had a crystal clear board of the second set and the Good Lovin', Scarlet>Fire, Estimated>Eyes is awesome. Keith & Donna had only months left before being dumped by JGB and then the Dead, the end of the seventies had begun.
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Fire on the mountain started as a blazing sunset began. It's been 38 years and I still remember it as if it were yesterday. Also the scoreboards all read. Come join the grateful dead and explore the mysteries of the pyramids September 16,17 and 18. Gizeh Egypt