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Matt C. Hoffman:
This show was in springfield mass. Barrowed a friends mothers car in Portland Maine to drive down to the show (the freind whose mother let me barrow the car did not go another friend did )

They were young (the dead ) both Godchauxs were there. Most wicked Terrapin played Jonny be Goode for encore due to the fact it was Chucks birthday .

You could walk all the way up to the stage it was not jammed up you could easily walk around people .

The Dead took their break on the stage .Jerry pulled out a pouch of drum Tobacc. and sat right there and rolled a big stick  of drum.

Mickey and Billy at one point grabbed a couple of talking drums and started chasing each other around in a circle on the front of the stage .

It was was an amazing show .

We got there a little late and and the only parking spot was directly in front of the front doors to the place. My first show was meant to be .

The Dead were playing Jackstraw when me and my friend walked in.  

I have been shows at Merriweather Post Pavillion
                     Capital Center in D.C.
         The one at U hall in Charlottesville Va
                      Philly
                      City Island Pa
                      Spac
                      JFK in or near D.C.
                      Deer Creek in Indiana
                      Hampton Va  lots of shows as the dead and saw them as the Warlocks at Hampton
                      Salem civic center  Roanoke Va.                  
                      Some where outside of Chicago
                      Sam Boyd Arena in Vegas
                      Autzen in Eugene Oregon
                      Richmond Civic center
I saw Jerry at Constitution Hall in Dc in 84 now that was a wicked fantastic show with J Kahn
any one remember the incident when the security was hasseling a kid who had a seat on the floor and when it was getting a little tense some one thru out a little soldier with a parachute from way up on high and the little toy floated down as Jerry walked back on stage and the security let the kid sit in his seat .
Jerry played the most wicked acoustic Birdsong i have ever heard right after all the this stuff went down .

God I miss the Dead and Jerry.
 
I wasn't a tour rat I went to see them when they were in my neck of the woods  I took one month long trip with my wife to be  around this country and saw the dead 3 times in one place and once in a nother and onetime I took a week and saw them 2 times at deer creek and twice outside of chicago. I saw the Jerry band a couple of times also.

I really just saw them in my neck of the woods and you know I think they really liked to play on the east coast.

The most incredible music I have ever heard in my life and I can honestly say that I never had a bad show. God I miss them.

they were  a blast

Anonymous:
There was nothing like a dead show.
 The music had a wicked sound and the scene was very friendly and peaceful.

Thank God for the Grateful Dead.

Anonymous:
safest place to shroom  an 1/8 for the first set and and 1/8 at the beginning of the intermission and wa... la.. an exciting 2nd set (take that acid crap and throw it away.)

Anonymous:
Saw over 200 shows (quit counting after that) between 1985 and 1995, with a three year boycott thrown in there.  Had lotsa fun and travelled the country, made some good friends, did lotsa drugs.  Don't like 'em  without Jerry, wasn't too into 'em by the time he died, but glad I saw them in Tampa a few weeks before he died.  Face it, they were a good band, but by the time In THe Dark came out, they were just riding on inertia.

SurRobinHood:
I kinda figured there'd be plenty of ya. It's no wonder we never met either. Since I split the seed in 74 and went west and the seed/straight were an east coast thing. I lived in Berkely delivering pizzas in the eighties and saw hundreds of shows in places I could walk home from. My dog would wait outside and guide me home no matter how high I was. I once got in to a sold out greek theater show by loading a bag with pizzas and putting Rock Scully' name on a phoney tag. I just headed back stage like I belonged there and everyone stepped aside and let me in. A hot pizza has tremendous power over the wills of men. Once in I gave away the pizzas to some roadies and headed into the crowd lost in a sea of tie dyed hippies. Good times.

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