setlist
Promised Land
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Peggy-O
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Brown Eyed Women
Looks Like Rain
Althea
Passenger
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Lost Sailor
Don't Ease Me In
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Not Fade Away
Black Peter
Around and Around
U.S. Blues
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Peggy-O
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Brown Eyed Women
Looks Like Rain
Althea
Passenger
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Lost Sailor
Don't Ease Me In
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Not Fade Away
Black Peter
Around and Around
U.S. Blues
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Venue
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back at the rocks- some rain
back at the rocks- some rain starting thus the next shows at McNichols...
I remember the rain, RamRod
I remember the rain, RamRod and Steve came out and placed plastic over some of the speakers, I also remember Ken Kesey at the show banging away on bells during a long protracted space. They all made the mountain ring. after the rainit was pertinent to hear Jerry sing ' and who can the weather command'....
Best Road trip to see the Dead
DAVE:
We were all just 19 years old : Craig, Mark, Kenny and I -
we drove a van from Philly to see the west, and to see the Dead. By this time in our lives we were vetern GD concert goers on the East Coast.
Red Rocks blew our mind, the place is the best venue to see a concert.
We partied and did the window pane dance around the Bon Fire at Chief Hasa camp ground over ran the town of Morrison
Now we are old men - but still young at heart -
Mark is gone now we miss him, I still see Craig and Kenny when I get back to Philly, We still see some shows, some of the new JAM Bands
But this Red Rock show is one of my all time favorites.
Maybe it was the place, maybe it was the people we met,
or maybe it was that we were young and free on the road with no responsibilities.
2many dheads
A ton of people w/o tix, someone died trying to sneak in. Buckets of rain later.
F-ing life changing show for me...the best ever!
I got double dragoned on that day and the RD must havebeen 400 mics...DOD just kdding!
So anyway I just remember the drums RIPPING open the sky like primordial caveman like Shamanistic magic- a wheel with the faces of the audience on it and once in a while even my own head popped up on the "slot machine" - i think this a prankster archetype...sat near i think Phil Jackson- fourth row and a bastard with a grim reaper outfit that scared the living piss out of me most of the night til I finally succumbed to group mind...recall a pile of the Van guys (could well be guy from above) snuck in when a poor guy died by falling off the rocks....I too recall ramrod standing above it all looking and the floods all shining to see what happened to the guy who fell off left side of the rocks as the ticketless got their miracle via an offering to the gods---
The Rocks is a MYSTICAL and wierd place- I felt the presence of Indian spirits there and I am sure the guy who died spirit hovered around most of the rest of the show...
Lazy Lightning was kind of frightening if you know what I mean...but after that it took me about 4 years to integrate the show...and I got it...or so I think...
BP
"if the Thunder don't get ya then the lightning will!"- The Wheel
"Gonna find out something only dead men know" - Silvio
Class of Red Rocks '79...
Life without the Dead is not life...and so we carry on...
Site says nobody says they attended show yet 15 people posted
SIte is not being run well enough as this stuff is all telling me incorrect info and only shows me attending the two shows i already mentioned attending in prior reviews years ago-that I now see-argh-what a waste of time..come on dudes, fix your links and names as my handles and ID are the same but you seem to have lost the old site names and emails list and I created mine newly again so its probably hashed as a different id than my id since my email is different now than when I posted but my nickname and Dead.net ID are the same-and I am that person so Peachy attended about 40 to 50 shows and posted the ones he did 12 years ago and that is same person as me-so maybe you can fix this for me-and others slowly?
Site says nobody says they attended show yet 15 people posted
SIte is not being run well enough as this stuff is all telling me incorrect info and only shows me attending the two shows i already mentioned attending in prior reviews years ago-that I now see-argh-what a waste of time..come on dudes, fix your links and names as my handles and ID are the same but you seem to have lost the old site names and emails list and I created mine newly again so its probably hashed as a different id than my id since my email is different now than when I posted but my nickname and Dead.net ID are the same-and I am that person so Peachy attended about 40 to 50 shows and posted the ones he did 12 years ago and that is same person as me-so maybe you can fix this for me-and others slowly?
Second Trip to the Rocks
I mnde it back in August 78 and this time I took some friends from Madison out west. What a place! There was this lady, probably security, on top of the stage-left side where the screen is now outlined against the sky...it was wierd and beautiful...the Estimated was rockin'.
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Roll away the dew, Rob.
Looking for this show...
...because I was born on this day.
Thanks,
Justin
JCDrakeWFU@yahoo.com
Leave no stone unturned.
here comes the rain
e-mail friskotatt2@yahoo.com...my second trip to the rox from the bay i remember during looks like rain and bobby kept repeating looks like rain feels like rain, here comes the rain ..the whole world turning grey. jerry was hitting these notes that sounded like rain coming down.. i was looking out over the rox toward the light .poss. denver and then all of a sudden thunder. lightning and rain rain. hence the next show mcnicols. was that the mcnicols show where they had a skeleton on stage holding a silver. halo ring ovr his head?
What a trip
Drove from NJ in my VW bug with Joe. Got to Red Rocks for Marshall Tucker the night before and snuck on stage after the show. Joe and I performed the Cumberland Blues with my acoustic guitar to no one before security threw us out. That night partied hard in Evergreen. Joe hooked up with a local beauty who had an extra ticket. Next day they found me asleep on the side of the road and off to the show we went. I layed on the floor covered with sleeping bags to get through all the check points. Massive steps to get into the show. About 20 deadheads made it that far besides me with no tickets. 2 girls in bikini tops distracted security while this big dude grabbed 2 guards in headlocks. We all went running up the stairs. I don't know how many made it in, but I did. Melted into the crowd and found Joe. Scored a couple of cubes and waited. Decided we weren't getting off so we score some red dragon. 2 minutes later we were flying. an hour later I couldn't speak only take in the weirdness. Saw the guy fall off the rocks. Didn't quite know if it was real. Then Jerry played It Looks Like Rain and saved my life with the cool drops falling from the sky. Definitely my most memorable show.
yea there's a price for being freeeee....
One of the most unique experiences in all the years of touring- a show at red rocks. Loved it. The show was average but I listened to the audience tape over and over. The space - not fade away was lovely. The china rider was super duper. The lost sailor i thought bob was yellin at me trippin' and dreamin'. Ahh yes the care free days of pure dead livin'.
these were the concert years
Youngun and in mad love with the whole Dead Scene, Get out of Jail free, had to graduate from high school and college shoved down my throat, but I wanted more. I was a prankster at heart so we toured the dead shows for several years and this was definitely one of those years.We hid in the rocks cause we didn't have a ticket for the second night, and the guy that worked there was like ok I can help here is what you should do. He said you just hide in these rocks and when you hear the band start come out. I was like ok. Then we hear this frantic calling out hey I know you are in there please come out. Crap we think we are busted for hiding out with no tickets. I just loved Red Rocks, the people there were top notch, down to earth and crazy bout the dead.
Leave it to the dead to be right in tune and say heck we don't want you to be standin outside the party, so we be da ones who gonna take this show to a bigger venue, even though the dead loved the rocks escpecially Phil, they saw a greater good their lovin fans who at that time, well I mean we were all ape ship over the dead. So although dissappointing that we had suffered so much to get in, so happy that once again the dead knew what was best.
Happiness, knowing your tribe. being a loving giving soul, well is something money can;t buy.
My very first Dead show
Having taken about a week and a mixture of greyhounds and hitching, me and my buds converged on Red Rocks a few days prior to the start of what was supposed to be a 3-day never-ending party. Eyes wide open! Lots of stories here, but, to cut it short, after making a solemn vow with my best of buds months earlier we were there. Red Rocks - our personal Terrapin! I'm kinda glad I never made it to the Springfield, MA show in January, or the UMASS show in May. These were closer to home. But making it to Red Rocks for my first Dead concert was the right way to do it in retrospect. Just barely 16 years old, I witnessed one of the best Estimated Prophets I would probably ever see, and China Cat/Rider's return after a long hiatus at my first show. And even though were confused by Althea and Lost Sailor (known as 'Driftin' and Dreamin' for some months to come), we felt like this was where we belonged. The night was surreal. The whole trip was nearly beyond explanation. Perhaps I will get it all out, one day...Good start for Jester!
Road trip to red rocks
Me and my buddy from high school drove from the city (SF of course....there are only two cities, in my opinion, in the U.S., SF and NY) to see the Dead at Red Rocks. Had all the essentialls...Heinekins,ganja, driving powder, and mesc for the shows. We were 19 ,and geniuses that we were, we looked at the map and highway 50 looked like the most direct route. Drove all night, killed about 50 rabbits along the way. My first time at red rocks. A few nights before the concert I wanted the check out the awesome and historic venue, so we went to Morrison and just walked in and the Marshall tucker band members were there just playing acoustic, no lights, sound system, just playing and partying, so we joined them and sang with them (can't ha see'). Wild!! Show night we took some mesc and show was great. A concert at red rocks should be done by everyone at least once in their life. Spectacular natural amphitheater and love the sound...but so visually stunning. Great show, especially second set opening with China/rider and also Prophet into killer Eyes. Passenger to close the first set Jerry was on fire. Bill Walton was back stage jammin....how could you miss the 7 foot red head. That as also the show where the guy fell from the rocks trying to sneak in....or he thought he could fly! Unfortunately , it rained after that, so the next two nights were indoors at McNichols, so I was blessed to catch the one show Red Rocks, but the other two shows were great. That year, I think I saw the dead about 15 times; great year!