• Cape Cod Coliseum - October 27, 1979
    last "Caution Jam": 10-22-78 [68]

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  • Jack Straw
    Candyman
    Me and My Uncle
    Big River
    Brown Eyed Women
    Easy to Love You
    New Minglewood Blues
    Stagger Lee
    Lost Sailor
    Saint of Circumstance
    Deal

    Dancin' in the Streets
    Franklin's Tower
    He's Gone
    Caution Jam
    The Other One
    drums
    Not Fade Away
    Black Peter
    Around and Around

    One More Saturday Night

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    gapster
    10 months 1 week ago
    The strangest of places

    Today I was reminded of this show. They played the CCC only twice. I've always wondered if the fact that they never returned was that it was a financial bust. I don't know that it was, but it might have been.

    Small venue. A 6000 seat hockey arena, or so it appeared to me. As the seats filled up it dawned on all of us (I mean everyone there) that the floor (where the ice might be some day) was empty. No seats there. No tickets there. So almost everyone went down to the floor. Of course people tried to get very close to the stage, and many did. I wasn't interested in squirming my way forward, so I stayed where I was, very happy just a bit right of center, with lots of room to stretch and relax. Fifty feet from the stage.

    The sound quality there was pretty good. I remember an outstanding Deal. I don't remember Caution, but it may have been different enough from what I might expect that I didn't recognize it. Don't know.

    Not that you care: One of Brent's first shows. First Brent show for me, and possibly the only show of his I saw. He was innocuous, playing and ... wait ... I thought Donna was gone. Who's that woman singing? Oh. It's the new keyboard. Over time I learned to despise Brent and what the band sounded like with him. Mr. Fantasy -> Hey Jude makes me cringe. All effect, no soul. All hook all the time. Same thing that Rick Wakeman did to Yes. F****d it up.

    If you thought that was not interesting, then here's an opinion that will bore you even more. Bruce Hornsby. He was good. As I understand it, offered a permanent position and turned it down. The shows that included him and Branford Marsalis were special, for sure.

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    Isaiah BenJamin
    4 years 1 month ago
    X factor Show

    Amazing

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    JesterJSNWMF
    9 years 4 months ago
    Really?
    I know this is an old post, but are there any other replies? Slow first set? I don't remember or hear it that way? Candyman, Big River, Stagger Lee, Minglewood, Saint? Jerry was smilin' wide as I recall, standing on the floor near the front. Second Set was an historical, geological and cosmic event!
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last "Caution Jam": 10-22-78 [68]
setlist
Jack Straw
Candyman
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Brown Eyed Women
Easy to Love You
New Minglewood Blues
Stagger Lee
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
Deal

Dancin' in the Streets
Franklin's Tower
He's Gone
Caution Jam
The Other One
drums
Not Fade Away
Black Peter
Around and Around

One More Saturday Night
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so...who knows what Brent is singing in Easy To Love You?? feel free to send me an email or something! Otherwise, seems like a kinda slow first set. Wake up,Jerry!
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My first show and 25 years the Red Sox won it all on the anniversary while I cranked the tape in the background. After all, who can listen to Fox for the whole game!I would really love to get a photo from this show, especially of Phil and Jerry ripping into the the mind melting Other One.
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Yeah, I like general admission shows in a 7000 seat arena. Intimate setting for the Grateful Dead.I meet friends who turn me on to Peyote for the first time. This is definitely a family event... lot of people screwing and dnacing together -- Don't let go!
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Indeed, most of set 2 cooks & rocks. Indeed, intimate 6000-7000 people gen admission, and the outside environnement was ... woooo, rather isolated... in the midst of the C Cod woods. very cool show.
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A group of 20 of us got tickets from a radio station in Boston and rented Elvis Costello's tour bus for the ride. My cousin was with in a hippie commune in W. Ma, and they had the bus in for repairs. So they rented it to us. What a trip! We had to pull around the back to park and as we did the limo with the band pulled along side. Garcia got out and look up at us, flipped up his sunglasses, and mouthed the word "Wow". Great concert ,too. No better start than Jack Straw and Candyman!
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Awesome show we where driving down from boston picked up a dude going to the show.He had some great smoke.
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trippin from Elmira, NY - picked up gonzo in bingo - no herb, just blow - picked up my brother in hartford he had hitched down from amherst, locked the keys in the car ! had to call the mobile locksmith on sat am to get us back in the wheels - met bud, carolyn, & jerry in cape cod - great show - very cold sleeping in car at campground after the show - couldn't stay for sunday since i had to be back at work on mon am - brent was hot ! challenging jerry on jams, still learning to play with the wolf without trying to top him ! !wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
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Nice out of the way venue. Nice crowd inside. During the jam in Dancin' it sounded like an amp gaveway. I remember it being loud at the time. The band paused and the tearing sound happened again. The band just about stopped. They were all looking at each other. Garcia starts with marching like chords, the rest of the band joins in and they all take it to the next dimension in playing from there. Post He's Gone into The Other One still gives me chills 30 years later. Grateful Dead at its best.
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This was the show that started me on my adventures and love affair with the band . I don't remember much of the show but I always felt that this venue was in the middle of nowhere even though it's not. They did play closer to my home that year but I never knew and probably didn't really care much it took getting me to the show to turn my ears around. I was still in Jr High and I loved Kiss at the time.
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A definite highlight of my early years with the Grateful Dead
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If I could go back in time I think I might chose these 2 shows, that's if could time travel Grateful Dead wise. If were real life time travel might chose the 1980 winter Olympic victory over the USSR at lake Placid, lucky enough to see the boys there in 83
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I know this is an old post, but are there any other replies? Slow first set? I don't remember or hear it that way? Candyman, Big River, Stagger Lee, Minglewood, Saint? Jerry was smilin' wide as I recall, standing on the floor near the front. Second Set was an historical, geological and cosmic event!
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Today I was reminded of this show. They played the CCC only twice. I've always wondered if the fact that they never returned was that it was a financial bust. I don't know that it was, but it might have been.

Small venue. A 6000 seat hockey arena, or so it appeared to me. As the seats filled up it dawned on all of us (I mean everyone there) that the floor (where the ice might be some day) was empty. No seats there. No tickets there. So almost everyone went down to the floor. Of course people tried to get very close to the stage, and many did. I wasn't interested in squirming my way forward, so I stayed where I was, very happy just a bit right of center, with lots of room to stretch and relax. Fifty feet from the stage.

The sound quality there was pretty good. I remember an outstanding Deal. I don't remember Caution, but it may have been different enough from what I might expect that I didn't recognize it. Don't know.

Not that you care: One of Brent's first shows. First Brent show for me, and possibly the only show of his I saw. He was innocuous, playing and ... wait ... I thought Donna was gone. Who's that woman singing? Oh. It's the new keyboard. Over time I learned to despise Brent and what the band sounded like with him. Mr. Fantasy -> Hey Jude makes me cringe. All effect, no soul. All hook all the time. Same thing that Rick Wakeman did to Yes. F****d it up.

If you thought that was not interesting, then here's an opinion that will bore you even more. Bruce Hornsby. He was good. As I understand it, offered a permanent position and turned it down. The shows that included him and Branford Marsalis were special, for sure.