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  • Day Tripper
    West L.A. Fadeaway
    C.C. Rider
    Dire Wolf
    Beat it on Down the Line
    Row Jimmy
    Me and My Uncle
    Big River
    Big Railroad Blues
    Jack Straw
    Might As Well

    Gimme Some Lovin'
    China Cat Sunflower
    I Know You Rider
    Playin' in the Band
    drums
    The Wheel
    Playin' in the Band
    China Doll
    Sugar Magnolia

    Touch of Grey

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  • hockey_john
    11 years ago
    Love these spaces
    these summer spaces this year were OUTSTANDING,Anyone new must of thought OMG WHAT IS THIS.I took to much of something..
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    telerisghost
    11 years 11 months ago
    1st show
    The vibe was so intense at this show, it blew me away w/o drugs at all. I think maybe we drank a little...I was with a pretty straight crew. I remember having so much fun as I joined a daisy chain of dancing Deadheads. I think I was the only one not tripping or something...I think we danced away the whole second set... I remember that them opening with Day Tripper just blew me away...and I'll always remember that Dire Wolf, and Touch of Grey at the close. After the show, my friends were hauling a heavy cooler, still loaded with goodies. Some nice young tripping hippy asked if we still had food, and offered to buy a sandwich. We spent the next hour slapping sandwiches together & taking anything, cash, trade, whatever. We scored t-shirts, a wad of cash, cds, even (to my delight) some kind. It was an amazing night... I've been a DeadHead ever since. Not hardcore, or anything. But my 21 y/o son rocked in his baby swing to "American Beauty" and "Cumberland...". And I traveled to a show or 2...
  • thursday's child
    12 years ago
    First show
    I worked at Blossom in 85 and 86. This was the first time I saw the dead. I would begin to get into them heavily in 86 and 87 as many of my friends at Kent State were on the bus. I had never seen so many people on cid at one place or at one time. Great day, and we broke the sales record (weird huh?) for beer at my station. Never worked another dead show......always in the crowd from then on.
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setlist
Day Tripper
West L.A. Fadeaway
C.C. Rider
Dire Wolf
Beat it on Down the Line
Row Jimmy
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Big Railroad Blues
Jack Straw
Might As Well

Gimme Some Lovin'
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Playin' in the Band
drums
The Wheel
Playin' in the Band
China Doll
Sugar Magnolia

Touch of Grey
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Submitted by james_pablos on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 06:59

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If there's a better Sugar Magnolia out there, I have yet to hear it.
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Submitted by Steve-O on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 13:16

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I thought I was going to lose 3 very good friends that day!!!!!!!! My roomate Shog, walking around in circles looking up in the sky, my best man Jim, just had to be somewhere different every minute, and Larry,just smilin and looking around. What a great day!!!!
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Submitted by coachdeadhead on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 00:37

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What a beautiful little place for a concert--summer home for the Clevland Symphony--We paid for preferred parking and ended up at the gates edge. The parking attendants were as excited as we were, I don't think that they had ever seen a crowd the likes of us. One asked very excidedly if the Hell's Angels were going to be there. We had a case of beer and asked one of them to watch it for us while at the show, I didn't believe it, but when we returned not one bottle was missing.
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Submitted by GaryHartman on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 11:32

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Day tripper blew me away. I seen and went to the show with 3 cousins that I have not seen in years......They did not understand. Brent and phil during Lovin was real hot!! Graet place to see a show. James is right------THE BEST SUGAR MAGS I EVER HEARD!!!
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Submitted by slimpickens on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 13:07

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5 star playing in the band. the wheel out of space back into pitb and then china doll. amazing first show -- still one of the best i ever attended. first time i ever took um.... well, first time i ever ate little bits of 'special' paper. wow. --------------------------------- dark star 02-26-73 dark star 11-11-73 dark star 02-24-74
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Submitted by Eriepiper on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 07:17

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This was my very first GD show with many years and shows to follow. BMC was the home of summer partying, besides the home to one of the worlds greatest symphony orchestra's. We all hung on the lawn(hill) by the "tree" and just settled in for along summers jam. Day tripper blew me away. But being new to the scene, what really sort of caught me off gaurd was after we snook down into the pavillion (a ritual for all BMC concerts) I got within 10 rows of stage and was dancing away and while on a spin I saw this totally naked bearded guy in his own twirling state, with not one person paying attention to him. True freedom of expression - lol Now I take my son to Nelson Ledges Quarry Park for the annual Grateful Fest every summer.
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Submitted by gonzo4osu on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 19:10

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What fun, my friend Todd called the 1st song Day-Tripper on the way to Blossom. I was amazed!The bathroom at White Castle was so freakin' weird, dude!
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Submitted by Dpwilljr on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 19:33

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Quite possibly the best 1st set of the entire tour in my humble opinion.
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Submitted by One Man on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 19:31

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I was on a roll here: Cincinnati, this one, then Saratoga. No big deal except I needed to be back at work in FL way before I could get there. I went here alone and heard someone jokingly hawking Grateful Dead turkey basters in the parking lot. Now it's pretty much come to fruition. Picked up a rider on the way to the next show and he was the son of some bigshot physicist. The show itself is a blur. Lots of nitrous in the parking lot and some fake opium that only created 15 seconds of lightheaded wishing for a buzz. I got by on beer.
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Submitted by thursday's child on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 13:20

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I worked at Blossom in 85 and 86. This was the first time I saw the dead. I would begin to get into them heavily in 86 and 87 as many of my friends at Kent State were on the bus. I had never seen so many people on cid at one place or at one time. Great day, and we broke the sales record (weird huh?) for beer at my station. Never worked another dead show......always in the crowd from then on.
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Submitted by telerisghost on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 01:57

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The vibe was so intense at this show, it blew me away w/o drugs at all. I think maybe we drank a little...I was with a pretty straight crew. I remember having so much fun as I joined a daisy chain of dancing Deadheads. I think I was the only one not tripping or something...I think we danced away the whole second set... I remember that them opening with Day Tripper just blew me away...and I'll always remember that Dire Wolf, and Touch of Grey at the close. After the show, my friends were hauling a heavy cooler, still loaded with goodies. Some nice young tripping hippy asked if we still had food, and offered to buy a sandwich. We spent the next hour slapping sandwiches together & taking anything, cash, trade, whatever. We scored t-shirts, a wad of cash, cds, even (to my delight) some kind. It was an amazing night... I've been a DeadHead ever since. Not hardcore, or anything. But my 21 y/o son rocked in his baby swing to "American Beauty" and "Cumberland...". And I traveled to a show or 2...
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Submitted by hockey_john on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 05:55

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these summer spaces this year were OUTSTANDING,Anyone new must of thought OMG WHAT IS THIS.I took to much of something..