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Saw this show. I had to leave just as they started Fire on the Mountain. When I got outside ash was falling all over everything. I laughed in amazment all the way home!

Whoa. What a night that must have been!

great show drums to start the 2nd set- killer fire and then after the show rain n ash outside

St. Stephen59 I had just moved to Eugene from Bend and drove my parents old Pontiac to the concert. It was really wierd after the show with the ash falling. It was a quiet drive back to Eugene.

I was 15, my big brother saw his first show 2.5 years earlier at the Portland Paramount in '77 and convinced me to throw away my Styxx 8 tracks and plug into bootleg cassettes of these hippies. After the show, as noted above, it was "snowing" ash as Mt St. Helens erupted DRUING Fire on the mountain. It was then I knew these guys were on to something..........

This was the only Dead show I saw, but it is the one concert that I will remember for the rest of my life.......

Yes indeedy, certainly one of the most bizarre scenes walking out of the venue, ash foofing down like snowflakes....Fire on the Mountain, indeed!

the words came from Phils mic....an amazing evening of mythical proportions....

frisko-mobb shop tattoo aurora,co---wow definetly the most interesting show of my career!walked into the show w/ my buddies sean and hank,sipping from a very small bottle that at one time held 10 thou m.i rember being up at the show thinking i was in a flying saucer ,and the dead were playing and we were on our way to another planet in space.during the second set when the dead played fire on the mtn, the volcano erupted [jerrys fault]and soon the show was over,we went to the airport, and all of a sudden all the ash came down.not knowing what was really happening, and triiping out of our minds,we thought it was the end of the world!(necular explosion/chemical warfare!!!)car melting and doing the fixing to die rag,we drove off.unbeknowngst to us ,toured mt st helens.our car broke down.everyone driving by us were wearing masks and headed over the hill into a bright light.the cops pulled over to try and help us and hank started talking about l.s.d. and the dead,and sean in the back seat screaming like a bitch(desearved a much needed slap in the face )and old beat up wagon pulled up w/ a guy named jerry,we thought it was jerry reincarnated coming to save us!he ended up taking us to his house,which was tour up frm the explosion.suddlenly 3 little girls ages 3-5 came out of the bed room.one w/ a violin,the other guitar,and the last signing.these were jerrys children-buiteful little angles.still waiting to die,some how the children sang to me to sleep.the nxt morning we unbelivable still alive, jerry gave us a ride to our car which was covered w/ 3 inches of ash!took it to joes garage got "bertha" fixed,caught the show in seattle,hank put his car on a boat to alaska shows,and ended fucking it up on the alkine hwy. and thats my story.....

That's an awesome story, friskotatt2!

They played "Fire On The Mountain", we got out and the volcano had blown. We were tripping our minds out and couldn't believe it. We wrote our names in the ash by the highway. My friend Rick Peach and I walked into a Denny's in downtown Portland and ordered eggs. There was ash in them from the eruption. People were turning on their windshield wipers to try and remove the ash and scratching their windshields. We tried to stay at the old Hamilton Hotel, but they wouldn't allow more than one person per room and we were 3 young guys with a guitar, so weren't actually greeted with open arms. We hitchhiked back home to Corvallis, totally blown away and our throats were burning from smoke and ash. Remember when hitchhiking was a viable option?

golden notes to the production assistants. Fire on the mountain/ash in the parking lot was sobering. Image was awesome.

OMG finally a show I was most definitely at. I mean how are you going to forget the volcanoe blowing. "Thank you she blew" oh yeah. I remember Bobbie forgetting the words on some of the songs and looking over at us in the front to see if we could help out. I must have been going to all the shows back then. I was still going up front back then and there I was right in the front row but I was only good at siinging along. After the concert, I remember driving around and around and around in a VW bus, it was like a comedy show. No one would stop and look at the damn Map. Our Tribe was hanging around Evergreen State College back then. I remember about every 5 minutes Tim would say I have a map, I think hunter was driving and it was so intense. You could not see, A map may not have helped us. We surely must have been in Seattle the night before too. And after 2 hours of driving around there we were right back at the colesium lost as usual. it was something trying to drive in that blizzard. It was even more hilarious that no matter what we did to get going home we kept ending up back at the colesium like some kind of twilight zone.

Seemed to always involve an epic journey, going to see the Dead. That one was going too smooth... Got the impression they were trying to cut it short at the end, but the crowd just refused to accept it - the Dead never ended a show without a couple encores. I had a feeling there was something strange going on when they played only 1 encore, and that very reluctantly. I don't suppose it would have been a good idea to announce there was an eruption from the volcano coming this way, though, less than a month after Mt. St. Helens big eruption caused massive destruction. Could have been panic city. I had gone with my sister's boyfriend - he was a long-time Deadhead, she wasn't interested in going. We had to drive 50 miles north to get home, headed up I-5 right into the thick of the ash fall. Visibility dropped to almost nothing from the big trucks kicking up the ash, so we pulled off at the Gee Creek rest area, just north of Vancouver. Off the freeway you could see fine, there were just big wet globs of ash coming down, but we weren't going back out there - just covered up the vents with some papers and waited it out. Tried to kick back and get some sleep, but it turned into the most intense thunderstorm I've ever seen. Torrents of rain, lightning flashing, thunder crashing - it was amazing. May have dozed a little after things quieted down, but soon it started getting light and nothing was falling anymore, so we drove on. A few minutes of driving and we were clear of the ash fall area. As Dead concerts went, it was so-so, but nature put on a fantastic show afterward. A truly unforgettable night.