Set List:
New Minglewood BluesDire Wolf
Cassidy
Peggy-O
El Paso
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Row Jimmy
Music Never Stopped
Bertha
Good Lovin'
Ship of Fools
Samson and Delilah
Terrapin Station
drums
The Other One
Close Encounters
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
Around and Around
U.S. Blues
Comments
For my money this is the
For my money this is the best late seventees Dead show. Too bad it's missing from the vault. The audience recordings sound like the audience wants to eat the band alive. The Dead give it back to them and then some Minglewood explodes as a opener Tennessee Jed and Jack Straw run along similer lines and Music keeps the party going strong.
As good as the first set is the second tops it. This Terrapin is brilliant. Listen to the end of drummz someone starts dragging their pick down their strings making this creepy intro for The Other One. Of coarse the original Close encounters space>St Stephen is the highlight. The final jam out of St Stephen makes me want to jump out of my body. Must be something in the water up there in Eugene(Kesey)????
BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!!
From first note to last, there's not one single GD show that tops this one. My favorite shows are those in which the boyz (and girl) sound as if they're attacking their instruments, and this show is a non-stop exhibition of that. 'Minglewood..." starts things off in raucous fashion and things never let up. The entire first set is a highlight in and of itself but highlights of the highlight are the "Tenn Jed" and "TMNS". The interplay between Jerry & Bob in "Jed" is simply AMAZING. Especially during the final jam. I've never heard another "Jed" that comes remotely close to this one. And the energy and final jam in "TMNS" is unparalelled, imo. It sounds as if the band is a train that is JUST ABOUT to run off the tracks at any second but somehow, some way, it never derails; CONTROLLED CHAOS at it's musical best. As for set II, there are no words to do it justice. All you can do is listen with mouth agape and drooling. Like Dick said, this show's so hot even the "U.S. Blues" encore is in a league of it's own. There are good shows, there are great shows, there are unbelievable shows......and then there's 1-22-78!!!!!!!!!!!!
1/22/78-really one of the best!
This show really should be released officially. There are some shows in '78 that are unfortunately so overlooked. No, it isn't '69 or '74 or whatever (both some amazing years!) but it is one of their finest moments as a living, breathing organism of gigantic musical creative power!
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