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It was a pretty great Saturday Night.... the band was just fantastic, that's exactly what I think.....

In our existence we experience events that change our thinking and perhaps rearrange the filters inside our brain. I'm 58 yrs old and so far have had two. 1. Sitting forth row at "The Exorcist" as a 13 yr old (insert your thoughts). 2. This Dead show. It proved to me there was another dimension of jams other than Hendrix, Angus, Frank Marino, Nugent, etc...and that this new discovery routed me down an unexplored path to deeper meaning of instrumental sounds. And that 'what had been' was a bit infantile to 'what was to come.' Maybe 3000 were in attendance. Bear Force Security wasn't in harsh mode like they usually were (thanks Papa Bear-Gary Roberts, rest your Mooresville, Indiana soul). I tagged along in Kevin's Bronco with 4 students from the DEKE house at Depauw in Greencastle, IN. Along with Basil, Dave and Mike, I was the uninformed newbie. By night's end, I realized there was another form of music existing on a higher plain. It included not just the sounds of the band but the surrounding environment indoors and outside of Market Square Arena. The 'community-esque' flavor was foreign to me since it really didn't exist at other concerts, to this high a level anyway. If video of this show surfaces, please include me. Andy

This is one of the tapes I played until it was eaten by my cars tape deck. Many nights driving home from College this tape would be selected and a 15 minute drive turned into a 45 minute excursion, luckily gas, cigarettes and the kind where cheap and plentiful back then.