Notes:
first "Baby Tonight" - first "Chimes Of Freedom" - first "Heaven's Door" - first "I Want You" - first "Joey" - first "John Brown" - first "Man Of Peace" - first "Memphis Blues" - first "Queen Jane" - first "Slow Train" - first "Thin Man" - first "Times A Changin" - sound check: Times A Changin - Weir, Serve Somebody - Garcia - Memphis Blues - Dylan, Baby Tonight* - Weir, Heaven's Door - Dylan & Garcia
Set List:
Touch of GreyHell in a Bucket
West L.A. Fadeaway
Tons of Steel
Little Red Rooster
Box of Rain
Althea
Uncle John's Band
Playin' in the Band
drums
Truckin'
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Throwin' Stones
Times They Are A-Changin'
Man of Peace
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
John Brown
I Want You
Ballad of a Thin Man
Stuck Inside of Mobile
Queen Jane Approximately
Chimes of Freedom
Slow Train Comin'
Joey
All Along the Watchtower
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Comments
Backyard show
Could they play any closer than this except for my back yard Ah I remember the day the weather and the 70 or so people parked and hanging out in my back yard My parents and neighbors were wicked cool I had two friends play accoustic guitar on my patio and then my neighbor came over and joined them with his 12 string playing some CSN talk about a trip way to cool There were people from PA that ended up staying over the weekend and we became good friends and touring pals They stayed with us Bostonians when the Dead payed in my area and we stayed with them when the Dead played the Spectrum and other PA shows
I remember this one too
Good ol GD
I still have the actual ticket, when we were going through the gates the turnstyles were broke or something and security was just letting people in like just guiding everyone through.
I tried to hand my ticket back through fence for a brother/sister but got swept up by the crowd. Anyway this wasn't the hottest show I've ever seen either but I really didn't lget all that into any of the Dead /Dylan or Dead/Dylan TP&H. Though I did like an RFK 86 show with all 3 , think Jerry went to the hospital shortly after that one for diabetes and abscess tooth.
Hey...
One thing about this show which I will remember to my dying day, seventy thousand people singing along to Uncle John's Band. Incredible.
Agreed
hey srdill, agree on that holding back comment, as I think about it it seemed like that to me too. The next Watchtower I saw was at Red Rocks about a month later and remmber that one to awsome was some much more electrifying. But most shows at Sullivan didn't seem to something, maybe it's just the place.
July 4th
I was there that whole weekend...was part of a group that spray painted a steal your face on the foxboro watertower...narrowly avoided arrest. May not have been the coolest thing to do since it gave the Foxboro town council ammunition to not have the Dead back, but at 3am, half out of my mind it seemed the thing to do at the time....
Still remember standing on the port o lets dead center on the field all the way back watching the "Knocking on heavens door" as the sun went down llike it was yesterday. Great times, great summer to be 18...
Hot like a bad day in hell
Guess I wasn't high enough for this one. On paper this show promised magic; unfortunately History and audio will prove this was not the best pairing. This was Dylan during his post-Jesus pre-Oscar eras in what we can only call his "lost & mumbling" phase (didn't he get really sick right after this tour and almost not make it?) Maybe that had something to do with it. I remember The Dead (who must have been suffering themselves in that solar cooker of a football stadium) offering up slushy, boring sets with Jerry gamely trying to keep some energy going to no avail while waiting for Dylan while many of us were dying of thirst and the heat up in the stands. I've read interviews with BD in years since where he admits he was a little out there during this period (rumor is he asked Jerry to join the Dead permanently which Jerry politely declined). Anyway, if you enjoyed the music, good for you. I thought the whole thing sucked.