best dead i've ever heard. yeah , was at the show but i think it still ranks as one of their most diverse ,and technically perfect. love it!

This show makes you glad you have two ears for listening and two feet for dancing...amazing!

I remember working my way up to the stage during MTB the moving back to the center of this incredibly ginormous crowd. Watching Jerry's eyebrows dancing over his Raybans during the Eye's and I was hooked. I fell down laughing hysterically during the Truckin. I can't believe they're still playing. Tim thanks for all tapes and shows we did through the 80's. you were the best. jim

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! (~);}


that's all.........

16 years old told mom I was camping with the knights of columbus. Friends family lived a mile away and owned the trackter trailers that made up the walls of the field. Ate some "BLUE KRISHNA" and went the the raceway at 2 in the morning the night before the show..... About 2k people all spaced dancing in the spotlights that the crews were using to set up.. We partied all night and in morning watched the place fill up. Wound up at the back of the venue when the show started after watching NRPS and Marshall Tucker. While in the back by some food trucks we found 4 boxes of frisbees with 250 in each box.. We dragged them out and started throwing them as fast as possible. Half hour later they were all over the crowd.. What a trip watching from the back hill and seeing your work at play!!! Out of the 250k plus people does anyone remeber the frisbees? Would love to know of any Photos?

One of the best...incredible sound for an audience.

Reviewer: Street Pig - - October 2, 2005
Subject: Jersey Fall Ball
Lots of us just graduated High School, this show marked the last time alot heads saw each other before venturing out into the real world from home. I remember the sea of mud which lead to the water spickets, the pregnant women being lifted out by a helicopter, Donna recovering sitting on a stool and Mickey with a small cast on his arm.Were were boxed in by Railroad cars that made gate crashing a challenge.It was the largest amount of people I have ever been around. There was a solid MTB following ( real popular in Jersey 75-78 before they got too into the pop sound) who seemed to filter out when the Dead took the stage.I have no memory of NRPS,Jungle biscuits were in abundance then. THe weather was a factor plus they hadn't been playing as regular for the last month or so. All that aside, the show had awesome moments of the Anthem of the year "Eyes"was fabulous,There were more air guitar playing on that tune than any other in my day! :). Yes we played an inordinate amount of frisbee listening to this tape. The jam out of He's Gone>NFA was special since the playing had been minus significant jamming since 74 era.Performance was a 4, sound was 4 there with all the different versions circulating the Dicks Picks offers the best.. Being the pirate that I am, I would still go out at purchase this show.We had the FM version, I taped it off the radio, thnx to WNEW, I do remember the older freaks freakin out when they played truckin (rather weak but first one since 9-28-75THe dead heads made the Cover of the New York Times!!! RRRRRaceway Park!

One of the best shows of the year in a very nice aud source...the Dick's Picks of this show is perhaps my most played DP I own and that sbd is outstanding...my favorite first set of '77...the band's performance is top notch...look to TLEO, Peggy-O, Half-Step, Music, Eyes for versions that are about as good as these songs get...long jam with NFA and He's Gone...Truckin is a compact hot rocker to close the show...the crowd had to be ecstatic with this performance

This is an excellent aud tape of one of my favorite shows. There's a GD authorized/Dick's Picks recording as well.

One of my top two NFA's. Jeezeuz. They just frickin' ripped that tune inside/out. The whole He's Gone into NFA thing kills. Scratch that. The entire show kills.

Drove down from Philly with my brother Ray and about 8 of his friends going to college there. Got there before most of the crowds and found a nice spot not too far from stage. Was a scorcher of a day, but we brought plenty of coolers of beer and drinks to quench our thirsts. Marshall Tucker and Riders were great..but the dead took it to another plane. Thought the intro to NFA was going to last forever...and an outstanding Truckin'& Terrapin for the ages. What a day!

I will always remember jumping 3 feet in the air (literally -- people around me stared) and pumping my fist when they started playing Truckin' -- and how hot it was and how much we all needed water. And how happy we were when they played Terrapin to finish.

When we arrived after walking 5 miles all you could see as far as the eye could reach was a sea of people, we couldn't even see where the stage was until we went forward.

The strangest part was after the show when over 100,000 people were trying to leave. The crowd seized the fence to the race-track and started shaking it. This was not some flimsy fence, but thick 15ft high steel posts embedded in cement, with a taut chain link fence. One person couldn't even shake it at all.

But, that crowd just started rocking it back and forth until they just tore it down and walked over it in a huge sea.

i was at this concert with several of my buddies...i remember trying to get in with a huge cooler full of beer,some jack daniels,and some acid. we succeeded with everything except about 1/2 the beer. Marshal Tucker was really good, but the Dead were outstanding...i am hearing now for the first time since...:)

15 of us college boys left VA (from Radord/UVA), drove Friday day before show, arrived at friends parents house in Long Island Beach, NJ - didn't sleep much and arrived at Old English Town on Sat. morning,,,the local police had no f_ _king idea that many deadheads were coming to this show, we walk quite a bit to raceway which was surronded by tractor trailers w/the biker dudes on top w/baseball walking up down, so no one climb over,,what scene (how would like to know the head count was),,,,it was freaking hot,they would spray the crowd w/water,,,I remember they brought the band members in helicopters behing the stage for the show,,,what great show by Marshall Tucker Band, New Riders and the members of The Greatful Dead...TLib

this is my all time favorite show.

I could go on and on about this show but I think most are already familiar with it...a must have to say the least.

This is a MUST have hands down, no question. It's a KILLER sounding recording even with no sound editing done to it. This is the raw recording done just as it was made back on the historic day in GD history.
A THOUSAND THANKS to Tim the Soundawg. Listen to the whole show, you're gonna love it. This takes me back TO the show again like a time machine would. 5 stars for sure.