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If you've never heard the 1/10/79 Dark Star, immediately seek out the audience tape as the boards still don't exist to this day...that's one holy grail missing for sure! And the space madness after the drums is one of a kind!

Worse copy ever ,of course. Up in the nose bleeds but I tried .The taping situation improved dramaticlly as time went on but nothing was gonna help the droning of Donna on the St.Stephen....the end for Keith and Donna was surely near.

A Great Dark Star and 3 Chuck Berry Tunes and The Music Never Stopped is Epic!!Rogue

Being from Long Island, maybe I am a little biased, but I thought the boys were always great at this venue. Out of the 100 shows I attended from 78 through 84, I remember this show as one of the very best.

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To say I was psyched would be an understatement. I had the last row of the first section on the floor. Everyone stood on their seats for the entire show. (later learned that this was not a good habit and certainly no way to dance). I was very lucky to get my Dark Star early I know a lot of people who waited a long time.

I agree that the Dead were always great at he coliseum.

This was the show that got me started. And it's been a Long Strange Trip. "Nothing Left to Do But Smile Smile Smile"

zordan i for one was laying on the seats listing to DARK STAR tremendous night i don't know if there was any better show after this night.

15, lost or seperated from my entire traveling buddies and made many new ones during the first set up in the mid to higher rafters , having fun but still spacinlgy sure ill spot my budds heheheonly very baked down, maybe a beer but nothing else that night made it down to about the 15th row right center on the floor, lookin happily lost, and offered to burn one with some heads with seats who quickly asked if i needed a seat cause there buddy had to go upstairs couldne handle the floor SHAZAAAAAMMMM if the thunder dont get you than the lightning will i enjoyed the entire second set, and the music touched and moved me in ways all night I WANTED MORE and I wanted to find out where they were playing sooooooon, that seemed to start a pattern for me gone are the days we stopped to decide, where we should go we just drive great aud on archive btw really nicest ive heard

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My show count is easily in triple digits, but this was my first and still in my top 10, if not top 5 shows I've attended. (I still think 9/18/87 MSG takes top honor...the Dew!!) I remember feeling as if Jerry played only perfect notes this night from start to end. Dark Star...St. Stephen...this was truly a phenomenal show!

I went to this show with my friend Mark and it was five degrees that night. An extra bonus was that this show was not originally scheduled, as the fall '78 tour stopped when Jerry got sick. The Music Never Stopped to end the first set was one of the best ever! This show was the last pairing of Dark Star and St. Stephen.

this was one of the shows rescheduled when Jerry got sick in 1978 , so it fell on my 17th b-day. loved the darkstar

got lucky - only my second show and I got to experience my first Dark Star. The energy from the crowd was like nothing I'd ever experienced.

After the mess in 73 the dead said goodbyeto Nassau. But this makeup show had the star lined up and BOOM my 1st show sweet. My mom dropped me off little did she know. 16,000 singing tenn Jed. Well ok I'm in . The rest of that show was magic. Thank you

So its early december 1978. The Russian Hockey team is going to play the Rangers at MSG. A couple of friends thought it would be different and I was elected to go to OZROCK in cedarhurst to buy the tickets. At the time I remember the price was steep 40 bucks or so per ticket. So I had plenty of cash. Get to OZROCK and a 12 year old is ahead of me on line waitin for it to open.I ask him what hes waitin for. He tells me the dead at the coliseum. I doubted him until I paid for my tickets. Thats how I got 5th row center both nights. The first set was nice and long. Second set was great start to finish. I was in the fifth row lovin every minute of it. It wasn't that easy buying tickets until years later and GD ticket sales took all the hassle out of it.

A Promised opener, 3 cowboy tunes, and a really screechy Row (both Bobby and Jerry) make the first set underwelming, though the excellent solo in LL Rain and the outro in Music are noteworthy. The second set has great versions of Shakedown and Bertha, an interesting Space (gets really cool and eerie around 4:15 mark), and of course the heavy hitters, Dark Star and St. Stephen, which, though not the greatest versions ever, are post-retirement highlights whenever played. Overall, Good set 1, Great set 2, 8.5/10

I used to walk to church on Sunday mornings via the LIRR train tracks in Glen Cove. I would stop and sit on the crossing gate junction box and grab a smoke. Written on the doors of that box was this second set. The crews painted over it and in the spring of 84 someone put MSG 10-11-83 second set on the doors. Nassau was a dump and the cops on horse back and spying from the Hotel in the lot was a drag but the boys always laid it down dirty and played back clean there.

At the time I saw this show, I was really only familiar with songs from American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. But, I got a Dark Star/St. Stephen show. One hell of a way to start!