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Grateful Dead Live at Des Moines Civic Center on 1980-05-29

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1980-05-29 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live concert

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Alabama Getaway-> Promised Land, They Love Each Other, El Paso-> Mexicali Blues, Candyman, Minglewood Blues, Althea, Far From Me, Let It Grow-> Deal Feel Like A Stranger, Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Comes A Time-> Around & Around-> Johnny B. Goode, E: U.S. Blues

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Source: A:C:C:D > CDR via David Minches, shn encoding Matt Vernon

Addeddate: 2004-07-23 17:06:32

Discs: 0

Has_mp3: 1

Identifier: gd80-05-29.aud.vernon.14836.sbeok.shnf

Lineage: A:C:C:D > CDR

Location: Des Moines, IA

Shndiscs: 2

Source: Audience Recording

Type: sound

Venue: Des Moines Civic Center

Year: 1980

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Reviewer: kbmill - - January 30, 2015
Subject: bread crumb

The jam from drums into Lost Sailor is interesting and unique. A song that almost always starts from a dead stop, the way they find their way there is really quite nice.

Reviewer: deadheadnedwhite - - May 30, 2014
Subject: not a bad show

definitely tasty LIG

Reviewer: I Call - - May 29, 2013
Subject: 33rd Anniversary

I was in college in the northeast in 1980. Two of my friends and I decided to go tour the west for a few weeks and hit some shows along the way. This tour also included the ”Big 15th Anniversary Show” in Boulder Co. After driving straight from NYC we see a few tall building in the middle of nowhere. It was Des Moines. Head over to the civic center. It was a warm day and dead heads were in the fountains out front.

We get inside and this was by far one of the smallest venues I’ve ever seen them perform at. After seeing the 3 blazing shows at the Nassau plus the show in Hartford Ct, we were sure this was going to be something special. Perhaps our exceptions were too high. This show was a bit of a let down. The show was fairly typical for this time period with a few highlights including a hot Let it Grow, Eye of the World and Comes a Time.

3 stars for an average show

Reviewer: Jeff Knorek from Nova Scotia - - May 22, 2012
Subject: Sounds 2nd gen analog to me...

...which makes one wonder why I would want to download it. One has to remember, however, that it was not *that* long ago that having a 2nd gen tape of a great show was at least half a serving of Manna from Heaven...

The placement of the mics is great, the crowd noise is apropriate, and the show has a great setlist and performance. But there is enough warble in it that it sounds the source is either 2nd gen or overplayed first gen that sat on the dashboard all summer.

Nevertheless, for those of us who are old ehough, and you younguns who are open-minded enough, this is a great show to have.

5 stars for performance.
5 stars for basic recording
2 stars for the condition of the tape.
12 stars divided by 3 veriables equals 4 stars for this one.

It would be 5 stars otherwise but for the above-mentioned flaws.

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