Kinda weird for Dylan to pull out John Brown. This always seemed like he wrote it specifically for The Vietnam War. It is so graphic that it seems out of place for the La Dee Da 1980's .

CHOOO CHOOOO!

O.K. I started out the Dylan set with some angst but by the time i hit Chimes of Freedom I have to admit the Dylan and Dead have a great groove going.
Perhaps I also need to admit that the time the Grateful Dead spent with Bob Dylan actually was beneficial like a two way street.
SLOW TRAIN is great! First tune I hear Brent really singing some backing vocals,,,You can just hear them tearing into the tune.
I was at the Philly show and was pretty underwhelmed but I will have to give these Dylan sets with the Dead a better listen.
JOEY is absolutely incredible.
Dylan has an ability to just get inside a tune and bring it to life.
I dig Garcia's vocals behind Dylan!
To jam out on a tune with so many vocals
is pretty cool.
Wow! Powerful.
The Watchtower- A song the Dead made their own.
One of my peek Deadhead moments was dancing to Watchtower with thousands of hippies, dancing bone to bone, I actually think Weir topped everyone except Jimmi Hendrix with his version of All Along the Watchtower.(Of course it didn't hurt to have Garcia on guitar!)
Heaven's Door-good but the real climax of this show somewhere during JOEY and WATCHTOWER!

I'm probably in the deep minority on this show. It was a hot day, and the crowd was a little grumpy due to the Dead's single "megaset" performance. Yeah, I wanted two sets, too. Oh well, we were still having a blast, way down front, sweating out the toxins.

The crowd thinned for Dylan. Odd. This was poised to be a legendary moment, and yet there were many who were simply not interested in witnessing it. We edged forward a little. My buddy was a Dylan freak, and we were both beaming. Jerry ripped it up here and there (Ballad of Thin Man, Slow Train, Joey), and we were ecstatic for the pedal steel.

I always felt that 10 or so more shows would have brought these guys to a whole new level. This many years later, I'm now a Dylan freak, and I can appreciate this even more. It's difficult to believe that this could now be considered "mid-career" Dylan. Man . . .

(Sounds like a typical mid-80s noise reduction was used on this recording. Dolby C?)

A couple of these cuts were used on the official release - "Slow Train Coming" and "Joey"

This is a good sounding show. Dylan sounds more sober here than he does on the official Dylan and the Dead album