writing seems mundane, sacrilegious when compared to the music found within this tape. the holy remnants of some disappearing dream, formless but repaired mightily one cold, random night. Jehovah's choir must have been searching long and wild for somewhere to settle in and score themselves dope before they slipped further into their wood-paneled nirvana. who can say now what time was like back then - I've spent so much time, powerlessly thinking about cheap tickets to that personal enlightenment...when I should be searching for my own nirvana.

this tape has long kept me safe and it's time I leave my name upon the wax tablet. even though there are hundreds, possibly one thousand songs and dates the Grateful Dead played to any millions of souls. what's happened since the music began but shadows of colossal giants reaping bows, dying in fields of fresh morning dew. how epic they must have been alone writing their own kind of history as nothing was being told but played through the inspiration of melody. I love this music, and hope you might, too.

Peace To All Human Beings * Nick 2/16/2023

I'm just in the very beginning stages/brainstorming a book on the concert from 5.8.77.

Widely considered to be the best show the band ever played, I'm hoping to gather enough photographs, recollections and other assorted information to turn the book into an oral biography. But of a show, not a person.

If you were there and would like to tell me about the show/what you recall/what you saw please be in touch. No memory is too small!

Feel free to email me at cornell5877@gmail.com.

Thanks.

Jawal Nga

Just a few notes after listening a few times from someone who's not all that new to the Dead thing (saw my 1st show in '87) but is fairly new to the streaming/downloading side of the experience.

- This is an excellent-sounding AUD recording. Obviously, it's doesn't have the low end of a soundboard, but a very professional-sounding recording nonetheless.

- This is probably the tightest and most consistent Dead show I've ever heard. I don't know that it has some of skyrocketing peaks of some of the better late-60s Dead show I've heard, but there's a hypnotic quality to the long jams that just about peerless in my experience.

- The "Dancing In The Street" is probably the best I've heard by them. I loves me some Mu-Tron! :D

- Jerry really gets into the pinch harmonics on the solos here, particularly on "Loser" and "NFA". Must have been listening to the Band (or ZZ Top, perhaps?) before the show. :)

Conclusion: A very solid, very tight show. Definitely worth downloading.

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Sweet, thanks.
Miss you Jerry...
Z

This AUD has the wonderful distinction of NO burp between Scarlet Begonias and Fire on the Mountain. Most downloads give one the unnecessary option to hear only Fire, and in so doing leave an electronic burp in mid-transition, most irritating. AUDs have the advantage of the full ambiance of a concert, with Jerry filling a cavernous hall.
This is the Hope Diamond of the five crown jewels played from 4-9 May. They blew the roof off Boston Garden the night before, i was there, we were bouncing off the walls. But this delivers that Deadbeat rhythm I want 24/7. I have listened to this thousands of times since I got my tapes in 1978, of my suitcase of tapes, this is the ONE.
Thanks again for Scarlet Mountain complete!!!
A very Grateful Golfer.

I KNEW there had to be a Jerry Moore tape of this show (I'm a big fan of Both). A bit distorted on the highs, but not nearly as muddy as the other auds I've come across. Although I miss the gut wrenching Phretless Phil slides that dip into pachyderm frequencies... The crowd is everpresent without being overbearing like some of those Capitol Theatre '70 tapes (siddown! siddawn, awshole, siddawn!)
I mean to say: NICE

Not that I needed another copy of this show. Luckily, it's easy to give this one out to the kids who think DMB were the first jam-band.