Grateful Dead 02/17/79 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA Add Source List Collectors Add to Collection I Was There Add to Want List Wanted By History Edit Show Set I. Blog about Best Music Seconds at Grateful Dead concerts I attended 1975-1994, Dead Stats and Classic Dead Shows Community | Dead 101 | Features | Show Archive We were looking straight up at the screen, making all the faces very wide at the bottom and teeny tiny at the top... meanwhile we are coming on very very hard, and many others too. Set 1: Greatest Story Ever Told, Don't Ease Me In, Mama Tried, Mexicali Blues, Friend of the Devil, Passenger, High Time, Looks Like Rain, Jack-A-Roe, Lazy Lightning, Supplication | Set 2: Might as Well, I Need a Miracle, Bertha, Good Lovin', From the Heart of Me, Big Railroad Blues, Terrapin Station, … Online site of the Grateful Dead Archive at University of California, Santa Cruz. Eighteen months later Keith was gone. Condition:--not specified. He finally, got what I was trying to say and gave me a few puffs of tobacco, Just what I needed to ground me a little. Next thing I know, this huge WHISTLE BLAST goes off! This is a great sleeper show. Maximum file size of 3MB. We had very clean and very strong sugar cubes... oh my heavens. Was: Original price US $227.50. Bill G. is SCEAMING at this rookie security guard,"Don't EVER blow your whistle in my guests' faces. Operator 552 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 28, 2009 ... if not surely our memories. Set 2 starts off with energy and the first few songs are well done (well, Jerry messes up Bertha pretty bad) but nothing special. $30, $30 - I'm thinkin' this is not-a-good-idea. Versions - Different performances of the song by the same artist, Compilations - Other albums which feature this performance of the song, Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists, Notes: Item Information. Verified Purchase. Press J to jump to the feed. February 17, 1979 Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland: Grateful Dead The first post-Winterland Dead show in the Bay Area was at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, where the Golden State Warriors played (and not very well that year, I should add). The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Everything about the Tulsa show is an outlier, and indeed the entire section of the tour is an outlier. Upload one file for each submission. r/gratefuldead: A great place to space your face. Now almost 30 years later I recall that the atmosphere seemed very tense, I blamed it on Tom & Jane. Grateful Dead Concert Poster. Next day they opened the gate and we made a mad-ass dash across what seemed like 2 miles of parking lot. More, Recreation & Grateful Dead 1979/1/17 - New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT 6 0. Doesn't it seem like Jerry/Phil and Bob/Brent pull the band in different (not opposite) directions? The transition in Terrapin is interesting but the Terrapin portion isn't right. return of high time (spring '77?) Grateful Dead 1979/2/17 - Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA 19 0. DON'T EVER BLOW YOUR FUCKIN' WHISTLE!!!" Oakland Coliseum, February 17, 1979 This one started out on Super Bowl Sunday when my closest Deadhead friend and I saw the ticket sale announcemnt in the pink section. In terms of energy, the equipment they were using, song catalog, and jamming synchronization, the tour in early ‘79 is basically a month-long continuation of the Closing of Winterland sound. Didn't know at the time, but K & D's last hurrah was more poignant when the band or Donna (latter, I believe) missed a cue in Heart Of Me and she actually cried. Listen free to Grateful Dead Bootleg – 1979-02-17 - Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. $100, http://images.gdao.org/view/image/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg41j993m%2Fis%2F1, http://images.gdao.org/view/thumbnail/ark%3A%2F38305%2Fg4ws8smx%2Fis%2F1. By submitting my information, I agree to receive personalized updates and marketing messages about Grateful Dead based on my information, interests, activities, website visits and device data and in accordance with the. Then everyone would settle down for another few minutes till the next set of color waves broke over us, and the screaming would start again. Unable to process your request at this time. I finally round up my crew and head to The City, Six or eight of us end up at Francine's house for a a post-show debriefing. Get the Grateful Dead Setlist of the concert at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USA on February 17, 1979 and other Grateful Dead Setlists for free on setlist.fm! Another Good Radio Broadcast !!! Includes audio tape recording from Archive, as well as history, anecdotes, and more about Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Bruce Hornsby, and Vince Welnick. Get the Grateful Dead Setlist of the concert at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS, USA on February 9, 1979 and other Grateful Dead Setlists for free on setlist.fm! (or wrong,as in this case. We bought the tickets, turned around, and made it back to his house in San Anselmo before the second-half kickoff. Stephen’ On New Year’s Eve 1978: Pro-Shot Video 3 weeks ago Grateful Dead ‘Dave’s Picks Volume 34’ Features June 1974 Show DO YOU HEAR ME? As always though you can on the show to get better and better and better the furthur it goes, and it did. February 17, 1979. )I took great care after this to be the most positive ,loving,and caring person I could be ,in times like this.My girlfriend and I got married in 1980 and had two sons.We enjoyed many wonderful Dead concerts together until we split in 1988.Now my two boys, men now,will join me at the shoreline on 5-15-09 and the wheel keeps turnin'. Grateful Dead Concert Poster 1979 Oakland Randy Tuten. The band came on (with lights on) and they seemed quite tweaked also, presumably on blow and blotter. Didn't know at the time it was Keith and Donna's last show. $100, Over The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia and space rock, and for … '73-'74, Cornell He looked up over his shoulder, expecting to see a dromedary standing there. From the Heart of Me, and Big Railroad Blues - all before the meat of the second set - a HUGE Terrapin > Playin'. gd1979-02-17.145262.sbd.troy.smith.miller.clugston.flac1648 Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes > 1st generation reels > Sandy Troy's 2nd generation reels @ 3.75 ips As a curious Canadian , I gave the Dead a try at the Copps in Hamilton , Ontario in ( I think ) 91 . Guaranteed. Maybe this is why the houselights were on during tuning and greatest story. Four photos of Bobby and Jerry have been cropped tighter here and are available as limited edition prints. Décor, Long Grateful Dead performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1987: Jerry Garcia (custom Tiger guitar), Mickey Hart (drums). Set 1: Shakedown Street, Me and My Uncle, Big River, Peggy-O, Beat It On Down the Line, Stagger Lee, Minglewood Blues, Brown-Eyed Women, From the Heart of Me, I Need a Miracle | Set 2: Scarlet Begonias, Fire on the Mountain, Estimated Prophet, Eyes of the World, Drums, Not Fade Away, Black … Everyone was dosing up an hour or so before the downbeat. Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux left the band in February 1979. Like everyone else I had no idea until I read it here thet It was K & D's last show, and in the end a great one for me. Donna, clearly moved by the occasion, sang a beautiful counterpoint on "Looks Like Rain" which made me, a Donna defender, want to turn to the skeptics and say, "Okay, how about that?" His lovely bride, Jane Fonda was in attendance. Live / Dead Grateful Dead. This was my 10th Grateful Dead show. Forget the eighties, we're headed straight for the nineties!" I would like this show to be released someday. If it’s February 17, one show stands out above all the rest: Grateful Dead at the Oakland Coliseum Arena – February 17, 1979. Store | Visual Archive, Submitted by Deaddad on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 22:29, Submitted by dancingbear 99 on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 23:08, Submitted by Box-of-rain on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 15:33, Submitted by friskotatt2 on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 16:32, Submitted by jacksondownunda on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 02:20, Submitted by Jackaroses on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 12:34, Submitted by threesaints2003 on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 08:40. Bobby has always sucked and does to this day. But he did, and while I've always found "Saturday Night" pedestrian, he (and she) deserved big props for even attempting it. Their voices are shot. I still miss the K&D Dead. So I lean over and whisper to Jeff, "Do you wanna come home with us, or go to SF General?" might as well boot k n d and bring on brent. Grateful Dead "Scarlet Begonias/Fire On The Mountain" Live 1/17/1979 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Ct. such as this one was rarely ever seen(8 song lead in to Drums/Space 2nd set), but I too, like so many others, can say this show would have played better if Brent had already been on board.... We arrived in Oakland way too early and spent way too much time in the empty parking lot waiting. Overall, Good show, 7/10, Keith playing in other band date said 5 10 1979. Overall there was a lot of sloppiness but just tremendous energy. Never had gotten off listening to Keith.... and Donna was just so-so, nothing too special.....they had their place, another wonderful piece of the band's history. Looking high, looking low. 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