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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Madison Square Garden on 1979-09-04 (September 4, 1979)

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Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: September 4, 1979 (check for other copies)
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Location: New York, NY

Source: Soundboard and Audience composite
Lineage: Master Soundboard Cassette > Reel to Reel > PCM > CDR: Secondary Source: Barry Glassberg's Master Audience Cassette; Nakamichi CM700 mics
Keywords: Live concert

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Jack Straw, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle-> Big River, Candyman, Minglewood Blues, Tennessee Jed, Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Deal China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone-> Drums-> Wharf Rat-> Around & Around, E: Shakedown Street

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Reviewer: tommygutt - - November 16, 2009
Subject: shot the f up,, dude,,
review the show or not,, the negetive attitude,and descriptions on how to download are really uncalled for,, get a job, or a blow job your apparently in "dire need"!!

Reviewer: phunkjunkie - - November 6, 2009
Subject: fan.
I think the boys made allot of great music after '77. I mean Alabama Getaway, Stranger, West L.A...etc. I just mean, listen to the evolution of the band from Warlocks on. It tells a story.
Thanks for the show. Hits and misses for sure, but all in all, smokin'.

Reviewer: mmw12207 - - October 30, 2009
Subject: zealot or sycophant? give me a break
keep your ridiculous rants for the forums man. people can like what they want to like. I agree that after 1977 the dead when downhill but I'm not going to talk smack about people who like that stuff. The Grateful Dead became an American institution for a reason....they, in their best years, did an amazing job of mixing traditional American music with different genres resulting in something that many bands never attain...a truly distinct, unique sound. they are, or were, all excellent musicians with a fantastic ability to improvise by reacting to one another in an almost innate way. Sure the drugs wrecked a good thing but why talk about that? Why not be happy they produced so much good music for for us all to listen to for nearly 15 years of their career?

I LOVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!

p.s. I am not a spun out hippie living in the past. I'm 27 and never even listened to the dead until I was 18....and I started to listen to them because they made great music...Zealot, sycophant? I think not.

Reviewer: AUGUST-WEST420 - - October 30, 2009
Subject: Sad,Sad,Sad!!!
Right on Jasper!!!! This oh um cat has commented on a shitload of shows,but that's the problem folks.These are supposed to be reviews of the shows not a bunch of whinning & bickering! I'm very sorry to hear that Mr. oh um,or whatever the fuck he calls himself,dispises the Dead "money machine",as he reffered to it,but it's funny that he spends an awful lot of time on this FREE site "reviewing" and downloading shows.By the way,quit posting directions on how to download SBD's! The powers that be really don't need to be informed again & again that we can download these shows!Come on man!!! I'm also sorry that you had to grow up to be such a bitter person,but please don't rain on our "counter-culture" parade!You have the right to say,feel,or be anything that your cold heart desires,but,if you can't be nice,then,by all means,post your hateful babble somewhere else. PEACE,LOVE,& THE GRATEFUL "goddamn" DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 star for the whiner & 4 stars for the show

Reviewer: TRUEBELIEVER - - October 8, 2009
Subject: 9-4-79
GOOD SHOW AND A DECENT RECORDING IMO. THROUGHOUT
THE LMA I'M CONSTANTLY READING PEOPLE PUT DOWN THE SOUND QUALITY OF MP3'S. IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SOFTWARE AND KNOW HOW TO MANIPULATE IT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOSSLESS AND MP3 IS INDISTINGUISHABLE. THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE TRY TO OVER COMPRESS. YOU CAN GET A VERY NICE RECORDING IF YOU SET YOUR SOFTWARE TO PUT TWO LONG CONCERTS OR THREE SHORTER ONES ON AN MP3 DISC. IF YOU SET IT TO PUT TEN SHOWS ON ONE DISC IT WILL DEFINATLY SOUND CRAPPY. I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH IPODS AND OTHER DEVICES THAT PLAY MP3'S. I HAVE STEREOS THAT PLAY MP3 DISCS AND THEY SOUND GREAT. IT NEVER FAILS THAT SOMEONE WILL BE AT MY HOME AND I'LL BRING UP MP3'S MUCH TO THIER DISDAIN. ALMOST ALWAYS THEY TELL ME MP3'S SUCK. I ANSWER IN ONE OF TWO WAYS. I EITHER SAY THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LISTENING TO NOW. THE USUAL RESPONSE IS "THAT SOUNDS GREAT". THE OTHER RESPONSE IS TO GET OUT A DISC BURNED IN LOSSLESS AND AN MP3 OF THE SAME SHOW. I PLAY BOTH AND DON'T TELL WHICH IS WHICH. SO FAR I'VE NEVER FOUND ANYONE WHO CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE. MOST OF THE TIME IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY ARE JUST REPEATING SOMETHING THEY HAVE HEARD FROM SOMEONE SUCH AS THE COLORFUL OH-UM. I'VE GOT THOUSANDS OF CONCERTS OF VARIOUS BANDS AND I LOVE BEING ABLE TO STORE THEM IN A SMALLER SPACE. I'M ONLY WRITING THIS SO SOMEONE WHO IS SWAYED BY THE NEGATIVE REMARKS MIGHT FIND OUT FOR THEMSELF. I DON'T CARE WHAT FORMAT YOU LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC IN. TO EACH HIS OWN. BY THE WAY IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW MP3 WAS INVENTED AND DEVELOPED FOR THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY. THE M STANDS FOR MOTION THE P STANDS FOR PICTURE AND THE 3 MEANS THIRD TRACK. THIS TECHNOLOGY HAD TO BE DEVELOPED WHEN THEY STARTED TO COMPRESS MOVIES FOR DVD. THEY HAD TO FIND A WAY TO COMPRESS THE SOUND TRACK TOO. DO YOU LIKE THE SOUND WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOVIES? GUESS WHAT? IT'S MP3. PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL MUSIC LOVERS.

Reviewer: Fern2 - - September 23, 2009
Subject: Awesome show!
ah-uh-oh-um, Reason Tatters, and Back From The Dead are obviously the same person. What are you 50? 60? Get a life old timer. You still live at your mama's house? Loser! Someone should really ban this old, racist, dead beet, burn out off this site. Go back to watching porn nd wackin it, you douche bag!

Reviewer: SaintStephen420 - - September 16, 2009
Subject: good show
check out "looks like rain" into "He's Gone" good stuff. as for the guy who thinks way too much of himself, I got news for ya bud your the "counter culture underground warrior" haha... or so you think, why don't you go comment in the phish forum or listen to some new age jazz that doesnt go anywhere, but please, do me a favor and dont come in here and pretend that you know anything about the grateful dead

Reviewer: Matt In The Clouds - - September 12, 2009
Subject: Ears on fire
I thought it was great. The snivelers should give up, I don't always like MSG shows but this one just rips with enthusiasm. LLR and Shakedown are really clean, Bob blows Around&Around but who cares. What fool wouldn't want this show tomorrow night?

Reviewer: BIG_R - - September 12, 2009
Subject: 9-4-79
Nice show. I prefer the C Miller remaster myself.

Reviewer: Reason_Tatters - - September 7, 2009
Subject: The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live at MSG" September 04, 1979, NYC, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Well, for crappy MP3s, I guess it's not too bad....eh?

I wonder why so many people listen to lousy MP3's?

DOWNLOADED 482,316 times.....hmmmm

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Surrounded by sycophants, zealots, and other weakminded trolls the DEAD kept their cash cow alive until it killed Garcia in 95.

From 75 to 95, we see a homogenized, pasturized, filtered GRATEFUL DEAD. The Money machine.

Produced for the masses of asses that would fling themselves towards the DEAD and their "Alleged Counter Culture", like moths to a flame...

The cult religion of the GRATEFUL DEAD is now a cult religion on line, where zealots worship their idols and live in the past.

The truth about Garcia's heroin addiction deleted from history, like FDR's polio.

When the DEAD started playing slower and slower, I knew they were into smack. I guess after going crazy on LSD the only way to slow down and come back to reality is on smack...some reality...

I bet I could sell dirt from Forest Knolls on eBay to idiots on line that worship Garcia.

Millions of people liked the GRATEFUL DEAD from 75-95...I wasn't one of them. I had seen them in 71,72,73,& 74.

I did like their brief indulgence in the acoustic shows of the early 1980's...but even that was tired compared to the acoustic shows of the past.

I couldn't be fooled with the hype, or "Mickey's return". (Mickey can't play, ask Chuck Brown)

It's nice to know the DEAD were making $50 million bucks a year in the 80's practicing on stage.... Some "hippies" eh?

So enjoy your cult religion and worship the GRATEFUL DEAD, it's all you got, which is pathetic, because the GRATEFUL DEAD have your money...

I wish Mickey and Billy had learned to play the drums from the bottom up, like Clyde Stubblefield...I mean, from the bass drum up, big difference in groove. But hey, when you are flyin on a few hundred/thousand mics of LSD, it's mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter.

Enjoy your "DEAD show"...."kiddies". Live your fantasy as a hippy, a counter culture underground warrior, or whatever it is you think you are.

The problem with hero worship is, heroes die.

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Repeat these steps for each song.

Rock On...

PS: as for this show, everything sounds fine, except the singin' and the playin'...

just kidd'n...this show doesn't do anything interesting or special, or new. It's just another show...where the DEAD hit all their licks and hooks that the crowd expects....but if you are a zealot, or sycophant it won't matter to you.

Enjoy the show....

According to the slobs at the IA and some of the regulars (the people with no life that live on the IA) I have NO RIGHT to say what I am saying...

I call these people BIGOTS, LEFTWING TERRORISTS.

PS: If I wanted to listen to JAZZ music I'd listen to real JAZZ musicians....

Reviewer: Skippy61 - - September 3, 2009
Subject: the show??
reviews folks... not anger and bad vibes... ah um aht whatever you call yourself... here's your answer... SHUT IT OFF... go back to 73, 74( great years by the by) and leave us ALONE...

the show is nice... sounds good... it's like an old blanky... nice and comforting in these hard times esp.

Reviewer: verbenco - - September 1, 2009
Subject: beautiful nuanced version of candyman
was listing to candy man while reading silly criticism and the angry responses. it is possible that i am a zealot, but listening to this version of candy man made it difficult for me to be angry.

Reviewer: back_from_the_DEAD - - September 1, 2009
Subject: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR CRAP MAN
I think this guy/gal oh_uh_um_ah has a right to say whatever he/she wants. So shut yer pie hole.
You are not supposed to use the 'Write A Review' section for your personal attacks, and bigotry. READ THE RULES FOR THE INTERNET ARCHIVE, dummy. Save it for the 'Forum'.The 'Write A Review' section is for talking about the show, it's not for attacking each other. It's not about persecuting someone for telling people how to share the music. If someone doesn't want to download a show they won't. And if someone wanted to record a live GRATEFUL DEAD show no one could stop them..rightSHARE...SHARE...SHARE....that's what this is about...it's not about your hate for someone that is helping people enjoy life.

I support sharing the music...so pass it on:

Here's one way to download/stream this show:

The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer.

RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at www.realplayer.com.

Using RealPlayer to view this webpage, click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist.

If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer.

Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it.

When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder.

Repeat these steps for each song.

OR

Take the "audio out" of the "headphone jack" on your computer and hook it up to the "input" on your Reel-to-Reel, Cassette, Beta-Max, VHS, CD, DVD, MP3 recorder and record it in real time....duh?

Reviewer: doubleyouteeeff - - August 31, 2009
Subject: ?!
for anyone interested in taking a peak behind the mask of the complete tool oh_uh_um_ah, this link might be of interest:

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/forum-display.php?poster=oh_uh_um_ah

thanks for the HATE!

Reviewer: skullsnroses - - August 31, 2009
Subject: Just like Jack the ripper
Who so feels it knows it lord! I liked this show, and I don't give two shits if you were the one who introduced Jerrys parents to each other. The early 70s were just as drug addled as the early 90s if not more so. The dudes just had seen less time on the road at that point. If you can't see the fun in the history here to be heard at the tip of your fingers I hope you crap in your diapers and get ass rot! Rock on.

Reviewer: ah_uh_oh_um - - August 29, 2009
Subject: Deprogrammed SPINAL TAP
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DOWNLOADED 475,103 times.....hmmmm

~^|\_@|@_/|^~
~<->/<->\<->~

Surrounded by sycophants, zealots, and other weakminded trolls the DEAD kept their cash cow alive until it killed Garcia in 95.

From 75 to 95, we see a homogenized, pasturized, filtered GRATEFUL DEAD. The Money machine.

Produced for the masses of asses that would fling themselves towards the DEAD and their "Alleged Counter Culture", like moths to a flame...

The cult religion of the GRATEFUL DEAD is now a cult religion on line, where zealots worship their idols and live in the past.

The truth about Garcia's heroin addiction deleted from history, like FDR's polio.

When the DEAD started playing slower and slower, I knew they were into smack. I guess after going crazy on LSD the only way to slow down and come back to reality is on smack...some reality...

I bet I could sell dirt from Forest Knolls on eBay to idiots on line that worship Garcia.

Millions of people liked the GRATEFUL DEAD from 75-95...I wasn't one of them. I had seen them in 71,72,73,& 74.

I did like their brief indulgence in the acoustic shows of the early 1980's...but even that was tired compared to the acoustic shows of the past.

I couldn't be fooled with the hype, or "Mickey's return". (Mickey can't play, ask Chuck Brown)

It's nice to know the DEAD were making $50 million bucks a year in the 80's practicing on stage.... Some "hippies" eh?

So enjoy your religion and worship the GRATEFUL DEAD, it's all you got, which is pathetic, because the GRATEFUL DEAD have your money...

I wish Mickey and Billy had learned to play the drums from the bottom up, like Clyde Stubblefield...I mean, from the bass drum up, big difference in groove. But hey, when you are flyin on a few hundred/thousand mics of LSD, it's mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter.

Enjoy your "DEAD show"...."kiddies". Live your fantasy as a hippy, a counter culture underground warrior, or whatever it is you think you are.

The problem with hero worship is, heroes die.

Here's one way to stream/download this show:

The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer.

RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at www.realplayer.com.

For easy streaming or downloading you should use RealPlayer.

Using RealPlayer to view this webpage, click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist.

If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer.

Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it.

When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder.

Repeat these steps for each song.

Rock On...

PS: as for this show, everything sounds fine, except the singin' and the playin'...

just kidd'n...this show doesn't do anything interesting or special, or new. It's just another show...where the DEAD hit all their licks and hooks that the crowd expects....but if you are a zealot, or sycophant it won't matter to you.

Enjoy the show....

Reviewer: chill-i - - August 25, 2009
Subject: positivity
gooood for you ah_uh_oh_um - nice way to support positivity and family - now why don't you go live your own life and let us enjoy this fantastic show without your complaining and divisiveness.

thanks to the source for a fine sounding show from a historic time - please do not download if requested not to - respect.

Reviewer: rick e. - - August 25, 2009
Subject: Agree
I agree with you AugustWest ,next thing you know we won't even be able to stream sbd's not because of the Deads so called greed but because people have to take advantage of a good thing like for example broadcasting the way to download sbd's. I remember when I had to go out and find tapes then sit there with a few decks and wait in real time for each tape. It was a ritual for us to get together and trade .In those days I really really cherished my collection because it wasn't all that easy to get them .We would have been all over Dicks Picks back then too.. I don't blame the Dead at all for cashing in on some of their sbd's after all they did make the music . I don't care to hear anyone else whine about the day the pulled the sbd's. Those boards are still out there, its just that people are to lazy to go out ang find 'em ,now that they can't go clickety click and have a dozen nice board tapes. There are still plenty of hot audience recordings available for download.
I usually only review the show but I finally had to say my peace. As for this show it is pretty Hot ...Imo Just about every year has its smokers and it's duds...
Be happy and thankful with what you got now because a good usually doesn't last forever..
Peace

Reviewer: jasperjones - - August 24, 2009
Subject: ah_uh_oh_um ,you mean bummer right?
Geez man. What are you upset about the fact that the grateful dead made a good living from their music or that you weren't invited to any of their "counter cultured" parties? I know people like you, you dig something until it becomes popular then you stand back with your arms folded and say look at me I'm the counter- counter culture. That's sad.

Reviewer: Burnt Rich - - August 18, 2009
Subject: ah uh oh um hum
Speaking of indulgence......good grief.

Reviewer: Deprogrammed - - August 9, 2009
Subject: Go Listen to the New Kids on the Block, Child.
Too bad you never heard them, dude. Go play with your little etch-a-sketch symbols and come back when you grow up.

Reviewer: oh_uh_um_ah - - July 15, 2009
Subject: The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" September 4, 1979 at Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY, USA
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lost interest in the DEAD after 1974, nothing but a cash cow.

Here's one way to download this show:

The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer.

RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at www.realplayer.com.

For easy streaming or downloading you should use RealPlayer.

Using RealPlayer to view this webpage, click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist. If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer. Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it.

When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder.

Repeat these steps for each song.

Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.

Thanks for the LOVE.

Reviewer: dudley1 - - June 25, 2009
Subject: the fat man rocks!!
sugaree was rippin

Reviewer: thomasrj - - March 10, 2009
Subject: Brent
Great show overall. This was during Brent's first year with the band, only six months after he began playing with them in April of 1979. The bell-sounding keys do get annoying, but fortunately he seemed to use that sound less and less over the years.

Reviewer: st stephen 11 - - February 15, 2009
Subject: Play for Clive
Dead dupree, the reference of "Play for Clive is Clive Davis, president of Arista records. Always loved shows at MSG. This was the show, if memory serves me, that I bought a ticket off someone at the last minute and was completly uncomforatable with the fact that this was in fact a real ticket, only to be told as we were walking in, that there were a lot of fake tickets being sold and you would not be admitted, in fact, the police would be talking to you. Ticket was off center and was completly white on the back. The guy taking tickets laughed at me and said,"Get in there, I'm giving you a miracle"

Reviewer: tommyboy14 - - February 6, 2009
Subject: Grate Show!
I was 15.... Tickets were in the blues
Ended up in the front row

God Bless the Grateful Dead

I'm trying to convert L. Kravitz guitar player Ross into becoming a fan! Wish me luck... Lates

Reviewer: ascheylus - - January 31, 2009
Subject: Downloadable
So how in the world can a soundboard be the "most downloaded" show this week????? I thought soundboards weren't available for download!!! How do I get the SHN's, or am I missing something here????

Reviewer: PeterW. - - January 28, 2009
Subject: Dern good
Sugaree - the second jam would have been SO GOOD if only Bob had kept the slide away. Overall, though, the first set is okay, but can pretty much be skipped over.

Set 2 - China starts a little sloppy, but really picks up on the segue to Rider, which is itself a little bit uninteresting, but good.


He's Gone > Jam > Drums > Space> Wharf Rat > Around and Around... is absolutely amazing. Especially, in my opinion, the second half of Space. Truly a beautiful soundscape. If you only listen to part of this show, listed to that string of tunes.

Overall, the show has its low points, but without a doubt, the people there got much, much more than their money's worth in the second set. It's truly stunningly good.

Reviewer: high time... - - January 9, 2009
Subject: '79 Magic.
Truly a fantastic night of music. Very much worth every listen and a download. '79 Magic. Renewed energy. This show will be ... true to you!

Reviewer: avant/chicago - - November 8, 2008
Subject: The Past
Great to get the feel of some classic live Dead!!

Reviewer: Evan S. Hunt - - October 25, 2008
Subject: Only 11 Reviews For A Show DL'ed 224,000 Times?
Always curious to me -- one may think there may have been more reviews for such a popular show.

Regardless, It's a good show, nice recording. Lots of interesting renditions of songs. Some fireworks.

Reviewer: Stagger-ly - - September 15, 2008
Subject: "we were here...
...where were you"

Reviewer: dead dupree - - July 23, 2008
Subject: Play for clive?
[Bob]
We used to play for silver now we play for life (note 2)
And one's for sport, and one's for blood at the point of a knife
And now the die has shaken, now the die must fall
There ain't a winner in the game
He don't go home with all, not with all

Reviewer: Houjazi - - May 13, 2008
Subject: I'll Take an Extra Helping of Sugaree
Super clean sound and an outstanding version of Sugaree.

Reviewer: MAFIA!!! - - April 3, 2008
Subject: jack straw
In response to BigBoyPeete below, in Jack Straw Bobby does say 'we used to play for silver, now we play for Clive' referring to Clive Davis the president of Arista records. Other times he has said 'we used to play for acid, now we play for Clive'

Reviewer: Styrofoam Cueball - - March 22, 2008
Subject: You Just Gotta Poke Around...
Even though they must have been tired at that point, the encore of Shakedown kicks some booty and the jams are quite tasty. You can hear the crowd cheering, and the more they cheer, the tighter the song becomes. There is a lovely quiet jam near the last verse where Phil brings the kamikaze bomb-dropping fonk.

I even like what Brent's doing, but I will never like his 'tinkle-bell' keyboard tone...the one he uses most. When he gets on organ, piano, or a different synth, I like him 100% better. Those infernal bells....arrrgh! ;-)

Reviewer: JRimLik - - July 4, 2005
Subject: MSG
The Graden was a great place to see the band. Very intense energy. I can think of many better East Coast venues, that were smaller, cleaner, better sound, like Hampton, Cumberland County, etc. But the Garden was the epitome of the East Coast energy, and the boys really seemed to feed of fof it. Brendan Byrne and Nassau had great energy, so did Philly - nothing like a Spectrum Shakedown - MSG had something a little extra. It is after all the World's Most Famous Sports Arena. I saw several shows there from '83-'87 and am very glad I did.

This is from their second run their, and I would definitely download this. To the last reviewer, what Bobby is saying in Jack Straw is "now we play for Clive." As in Clive Davis, the President of Arista records, who the Dead had recently signed with at that time. This tour was the East Coast debut for alot of the material on their upcoming first Arista release, Go to Heaven, tunes like Althea, Sailor>Saint, Alabama Getaway, and Easy to Love You.

Reviewer: bigboypeete - - June 22, 2005
Subject: jack straw
sounds like bob says we used to play for silver now we play for clide?

Reviewer: bigboypeete - - June 22, 2005
Subject: jack straw
sounds like bob says we used to play for silver now we play for clide?

Reviewer: lesthayes37 - - February 17, 2005
Subject: pretty solid trio
i think this show is pretty dope. not exceptional. i really like a trio of songs in the first set. candyman, minglewood and tennessee jed are very solid. i think the sound quality is a little above average.

Reviewer: stealthhippy - - September 23, 2004
Subject: 25 years ago..................
me and my best friend drove from school to the garden for our usual deadfest.....row 7 section o orchestra...the energy was wild....and when Jack Straw started and we heard Jerry's voice with an enrgy we hadn't heard fom him in a few years, it was the beginning of a great road trip...he was On that night,the band was tight..and when they came back from intermission, they just blew the roof off the Garden.scarlet was ok..but the jam and fire..cooked..and then an amazing he's gone..and the journey continued..i had forgotten how good they were that night until i heard this excellently recorded show...except for the few audience patches, sound is super...a great 79 show..Enjoy!!

Notes

Sources: Primary Source: Master Soundboard Cassette > Reel to Reel > PCM > CDR: Secondary Source: Barry Glassberg's Master Audience Cassette; Nakamichi CM700 mics; Secondary source supplies the first 0:21 of "Jack Straw" (d1t01), the final 3:00 of "Minglewood Blues" (d1t07), the first 2:01 of "China Cat Sunflower" d2t01), "Looks Like Rain" (d2t03) in its entirety, as well as a patch in "Wharf Rat" (d3t05) from 2:37 thru 3:11; Patching / CD Mastering by Scott Clugston; also to abgd via Charlie Connor