• Starlight Theatre - August 3, 1982

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  • Mississippi Half-Step
    Franklin's Tower
    New Minglewood Blues
    Peggy-O
    El Paso
    Cumberland Blues
    Althea
    Cassidy
    Big Railroad Blues
    Man Smart/Woman Smarter
    Might As Well

    Shakedown Street
    Samson and Delilah
    To Lay Me Down
    Let it Grow
    drums
    He's Gone
    The Other One
    Stella Blue
    Sugar Magnolia

    Casey Jones

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    erikmoonz
    4 years 11 months ago
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    bigtreesnotbigstumpz
    9 years 1 month ago
    Best Show of 121 - 1979 thru 95- Really Should Be a Dave's Pick
    This show is the one. My favorite of 121 I took part in from 1/79 thru 7/95 This is the only GD show I saw where I liked the first set better than the second set. And the second set is great!! The evening was so magical under the full moon and stars on a warm summer night. The Starlight Theatre is a small outdoor ampitheatre in the park with no cover over the audience. The Mississippi Half Step/Franklin's Tower transition jam is truly incredible. Background theme music for my life. There is no better version of Franklin's Tower out there. This is the definitive version. I remember the sound in the venue during this one was just amazing. Big Railroad Blues is also the best version I've heard. The tone on Jerry's guitar! So clean. So fine. It defines Tiger and how fine that guitar sounded before MIDI sound changed everything. Same with Peggy-O. I haven't heard a more beautiful version. The band truly sparkled that night. The Let It Grow in the second set before drums is also one of the most amazing versions out there. Check out Jerry's last big lead break in the song. He is sizzling and so ON it. The musical definition of lightning bolts blazing in the sky. The audience cheers loudly for it after it ends. And the Stella Blue!! On this night Jerry gives it his all in the end jam. As good as it gets. So delicate and beautiful, yet so powerful. It sparkled like a diamond. It was truly a magical moment at the venue. Everyone standing amazed in silence, listening to the beauty. I can't find a version from the 80s that I like better. I came to realize at that moment that this was the magic. The end jams on Stella Blue, Morning Dew, Black Peter, Comes A Time, Wharf Rat, China Doll. That was the magic time. That moment was the gold ring that I was reaching for.
  • hockey_john
    11 years 6 months ago
    Stranger and stranger
    Review is of the show yet.... I love this show everything about it the entire day was fun.From the wild colors in the sky to song selection to the beauty of this venue. This is where it comes full circle though.Living in mass and being sober for sometime now I had a flash back to this year and show. I was over on Nantucket year or so with bunch of my friends putting on an A A commitment. While sitting there listening to one of my group members he told a short story of living in Missouri and having work concession way back when he first started drinking. To amuse myself and him I asked have you ever been to the Starlight Theater? His reply is that's where I worked concessions. Now I was a bit freaked asked him if he remembered that the dead played there ? He remembers everything about it.How wild is it that so many years later and so many times that had been in his presence and never knew he lived in the Midwest and never would of EVER in my wildest dreams have thought he would even know of the starlight Theater let alone worked the concession stand that day??? Still blows me away how we are all connected in this so called small world of ours. Love and good fortune to all. Miss you Gina. everyday
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setlist
Mississippi Half-Step
Franklin's Tower
New Minglewood Blues
Peggy-O
El Paso
Cumberland Blues
Althea
Cassidy
Big Railroad Blues
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Might As Well

Shakedown Street
Samson and Delilah
To Lay Me Down
Let it Grow
drums
He's Gone
The Other One
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia

Casey Jones
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Dougles, I was at this one and have to say, of the 131 shows I had seen, this was IT. It could have been that I was happy to be there, as our car had broken down in Austin days earlier, we were robbed at gunpoint by the tow truck "guys" and hitched up th K.C. having missed Jerry's B-Day. It could be that I was handed a ticket by a lovely couple who was running late. They asked why I was the only one listening from the outside of the gate. Anyway, ran in just in time for Peggy-O. (Wherever you two are, I hope your well) It could be that this theater is unbelievably beuatiful...... Or It could be that the boys were just really, really on.
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You gotta be nutz to live in KC: 90 or more, and humid, whenever the Dead come to town. Starlight is a wonderful venue. This was the first show I met Barry, sitting in the taper section. The entire 1st set, especially Athea, was hot.
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Unbelievable. Man Smart rocking over into this sweet Might as Well. The Shakedown tore the roof off - or the stars in this case. One of the most powerful nights of my life. I was then a rookie, but jesus god, not for long. Went home that night to Columbia MO to the Columns Quad at the University and wandered around til dawn letting that unreal To Lay Me Down reverb in my head.
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Over 200 shows and this one was one of the best. Look at the first set! Amazingly hot show (both temp and playing).
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Indeed a killer night. Great dancin' on near stage left under a sort of vine (?) covered-alley. Who ever was that sweet girl staring me down, sorry, I should have invited you into my space ... regrets. But a great night.
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of my 150+ shows this was certainly one of the most memorable, ever. unbelievably tight show and to top it off with Casey Jones was just perfect. still grinning from this show. what a beautiful night it was, too at the Starlight
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This was my first show...even tho I'd been listening to the boys on vinyl since '68 .It seems like I lucked onto a good one.
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Does anyone have a copy of this show??? One of my top 5.
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Review is of the show yet.... I love this show everything about it the entire day was fun.From the wild colors in the sky to song selection to the beauty of this venue. This is where it comes full circle though.Living in mass and being sober for sometime now I had a flash back to this year and show. I was over on Nantucket year or so with bunch of my friends putting on an A A commitment. While sitting there listening to one of my group members he told a short story of living in Missouri and having work concession way back when he first started drinking. To amuse myself and him I asked have you ever been to the Starlight Theater? His reply is that's where I worked concessions. Now I was a bit freaked asked him if he remembered that the dead played there ? He remembers everything about it.How wild is it that so many years later and so many times that had been in his presence and never knew he lived in the Midwest and never would of EVER in my wildest dreams have thought he would even know of the starlight Theater let alone worked the concession stand that day??? Still blows me away how we are all connected in this so called small world of ours. Love and good fortune to all. Miss you Gina. everyday
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This show is the one. My favorite of 121 I took part in from 1/79 thru 7/95 This is the only GD show I saw where I liked the first set better than the second set. And the second set is great!! The evening was so magical under the full moon and stars on a warm summer night. The Starlight Theatre is a small outdoor ampitheatre in the park with no cover over the audience. The Mississippi Half Step/Franklin's Tower transition jam is truly incredible. Background theme music for my life. There is no better version of Franklin's Tower out there. This is the definitive version. I remember the sound in the venue during this one was just amazing. Big Railroad Blues is also the best version I've heard. The tone on Jerry's guitar! So clean. So fine. It defines Tiger and how fine that guitar sounded before MIDI sound changed everything. Same with Peggy-O. I haven't heard a more beautiful version. The band truly sparkled that night. The Let It Grow in the second set before drums is also one of the most amazing versions out there. Check out Jerry's last big lead break in the song. He is sizzling and so ON it. The musical definition of lightning bolts blazing in the sky. The audience cheers loudly for it after it ends. And the Stella Blue!! On this night Jerry gives it his all in the end jam. As good as it gets. So delicate and beautiful, yet so powerful. It sparkled like a diamond. It was truly a magical moment at the venue. Everyone standing amazed in silence, listening to the beauty. I can't find a version from the 80s that I like better. I came to realize at that moment that this was the magic. The end jams on Stella Blue, Morning Dew, Black Peter, Comes A Time, Wharf Rat, China Doll. That was the magic time. That moment was the gold ring that I was reaching for.