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Steve Miller came out and played with the dead for spoonful and stayed the rest of the show

Oh man, I was so upset when they teased the heck out of smokestack lightning(they were playing it!) and then Bobby started singing spoonful. What was up with that? Almost seemed like a Bob mistake? _______________ insert obligatory signature here

The only time I ever skipped an opening act. Eesh. Not a fan.

I thought I remeber them teasing Bertha in the beginning because I remeber people started jumping on to the field an security went nuts trying to catch everyone and they went in to Shakedown instead. I thought it was bads way of protesting the jerks in security. Makes me wonder espcially after the Adam Katz incident a couple of years before at the same run facility across the parking lot.

I remember Steve Miller dedicated 'Take the Money And Run' to the Dead. Not sure if there was a hidden message there. Great show overall! My first!

This show was awsome! For me to see two of the bay areas bands come back to play together at same venue 30 years later in Giant Staduim was great. Steve Miller Band was very good playing some of the greatest hits and some oldies too! Have to say seeing the transition of the Dead over the years was great! Good show for a staduim! It was great to see to my favorite 2 guitar players jamming together at my last Dead show from Spoonful to the end was a treat!

A friend and I went to NYC for a visit. We were in the middle of Manhattan, sitting in a restaurant, when I overheard one of the waiters say that the GD were playing nearby. My friend was a fan of their music, but had never been to a show. I insisted we leave, I think our meal hadn't even made it to the table. I walked out of the restaurant and hailed a cab to that "nearby" place out in NJ! There were tons of people without tickets, but trying desperately. The opening act was almost done when we sat & talked with this guy. Didn't even ask about tickets, just chilled. When we were done, he asked us if we were going in. Upon hearing that we didn't have tickets, he pulled 2 tickets out of his wallet. He wasn't going to go in , because he said that he had to sell all of the tickets to make his money back. I bought another one for him. That was the only GD concert that I sat back & watched the whole time, no dancing. But it was amazing! After the show, I realized that hailing a cab at the end of a GD concert wasn't going to be easy. I tried, anyway. I picked up a pay phone & called a cab company. We sat there for quite a while, then realized that there was no way that cab could make it into the parking lot. We started walking across a field, towards the highway. Right there on the exit ramp was a lone cab, pulled over & lights blinking. We ran up & asked him for a ride back to Manhattan. He said sure, because he was answering a call to pick someone up at the concert, and he couldn't get in the parking lot anyway. Holy sheepshit batman, were we good or what?!!!!

Shakedown > CANDYMAN > Peggarrio

my first show ever, i was 5 or 6 years old. my parents brought me and i was wearing a little hippie dress. people offered me bubbles and stickers...haha my mom refused them. changed my life :) forever grateful

My first show! I was hooked. The dead have been a part of me everyday since!

For a variety of reasons I stopped seeing the dead and started seeing phish around this time. I could tell Jerry's performance had really been slipping and we all knew why. I had been in recovery and could not handle seeing Jerry slowly dying before my very eyes. That is not to say he did not have his moments during and well after this show. This one was a very solid show as were quite a few after it. But this was my last. RIP Jerry.

I remember there was something wrong with jerry's guitar duing samson and delilah, i think bob sang all the way through the first verse with no lead guitar, then all of a sudden during where the first solo should have been they fixed jerry's guitar and he started rippin'!. sweet. Also remember steve miller throwing in annoying guitar licks while morning dew was building and then jerry throwing in some sweet ones that blew him away. Great baba o'reilly, it rocked and jerry's solo was really cool

We drove up all 6 of us stuffed into the little Hyundai a friend had. Myself and my guy we had tickets, the others didn't. Everyone pretty much split up on the lot once we parked. My guy had been on spring tour and got busted at Nassau (what a surprise) so we went to catch up with his tour buddies. Found one and got a 5 strip of white blotter. Ate it and before we knew it we were laying on the burning hot asphalt in the lot just trippin' balls. Went into the show early cause we couldn't handle it, and oh man when Jerry came out and they started up with Shakedown the whole trip went wild. I recall everything looking like claymation and melting. After the show, still peaking, went to find our ride and they had left cause the security was busting people right and left (Giants as usual). We wound up walking the turnpike back to New Brunswick catching a few rides here and there. Crashed at a friends house. That was a truly wild bus ride that night....