• Compton Terrace Amphitheatre - June 5, 1980
    also: Warren Zevon

setlist

  • Alabama Getaway
    Promised Land
    They Love Each Other
    Mexicali Blues
    El Paso
    Tennessee Jed
    New Minglewood Blues
    Don't Ease Me In
    Looks Like Rain
    Easy to Love You
    Althea
    Feel Like a Stranger

    China Cat Sunflower
    I Know You Rider
    Lost Sailor
    Saint of Circumstance
    Terrapin Station
    drums
    Truckin'
    Black Peter
    Around and Around
    Johnny B. Goode

    U.S. Blues

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  • mkav
    9 years 3 months ago
    miracle ticket
    many things stand out from this show...it was the 15th anniversary tour...seemed epic at the time. but quaint now got screwed by buying plain paper. ZEVON was great and I remember his roadie grabbing the mike and yelling at the deadheads "C'mon you f****ers...get up and dance". And we did. the show was great. don't remember details but do have it on CD to remind me. i guess Mexicali blues and el paso were a tip of the cap to the southwest or something. for a june night in the desert, it was pretty pleasant. my wife could not make it at the last minute...her ticket became the first miracle ticket of which I am aware. I know it was not THE first...just my first. I gave it or sold it or traded to some young woman at a MacDonald's in Tempe...all her friends had tickets but she did not. I happened to be standing behind her in line and heard her really worried about it. Voila...problem solved.
  • hockey_john
    10 years ago
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    Have always loved this I know you rider with Jerry singing " suns goona shine in my back door some day" and Bob singing " headlight verse.
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    Joe Cat
    11 years 1 month ago
    base anyone
    oh we were bad at this show..basing and i beleive it was a demon show also(DMT)..the exciteable boy and the GD...what a combo...
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also: Warren Zevon
setlist
Alabama Getaway
Promised Land
They Love Each Other
Mexicali Blues
El Paso
Tennessee Jed
New Minglewood Blues
Don't Ease Me In
Looks Like Rain
Easy to Love You
Althea
Feel Like a Stranger

China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
Terrapin Station
drums
Truckin'
Black Peter
Around and Around
Johnny B. Goode

U.S. Blues
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This was my first time to see the dead!
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Music was great....Dead were wonderful and Warren Zevon was a madman. Norm was there and he left all of us too soon.
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The herb was sweet, the girls were pretty and the music was fabulous. Awesome first show. Warren was on top of his game. This is the show where I got hooked on Jed and El Paso. What's so funny about peace love and understanding?
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This is the tape that "made" my decision to attend Uof A and also where Bob and Jerry switch verses on "Rider"
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space (sans Space) section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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It appears that quite a few were baptized into the family at this show. What i remember most about this show was the winds, lightning and light rain of a monsoon blow in (almost by cue) during the Drums/Space section of the show. It was at this point that i knew that these musicians were into something that couldn't be described in mere words; "it" had to be experienced. And yes, brother Jimi, i was experienced.
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What? I couldn't hear you. Could you say that again.lol
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Warren,You left us much too soon. First time I had ever seen Warren live after hearing the albums and the buzz about what a performer he was. Weaseled my way right down front, not too far from the stage to see him up close. Danced my ass off and had a hell of a time, howling until my poor voice was sore. Not sure why the Dead ever needed an opening act, but their choice of Warren certainly made for a hell of an evening. Became a fan of Lost Sailor>Saint that evening, especially as I looked into the desert sky and felt the winds blowing through.
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Warren Zevon opened for the Dead back in 1978 at Campus Stadium, Santa Barbara. Apparently that show was a total disaster for Warren. I wonder how and why he was given the opening slot for this show. Perhaps he was better received at Compton Terrace.
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Not my first - I was a couple years into 'em by then. But I was back living in Tucson (where I grew up) after being in the Puget Sound area for a few years and this was the first chance I got to see the boyz since the end of '78. I took about 5-6 old friends who had never seen the Dead before. Everybody got good and dosed and saw god. Much fun. Good show too, but not terribly remarkable compared to some others. But Warren Zevon was a wild man of an opener. Some of my buddies went more because they wanted to see Zevon than the Dead, but they came away converted. Also ran into a whole van full of college friends from Olympia waiting to get in the gates in our station wagon.
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oh we were bad at this show..basing and i beleive it was a demon show also(DMT)..the exciteable boy and the GD...what a combo...
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Have always loved this I know you rider with Jerry singing " suns goona shine in my back door some day" and Bob singing " headlight verse.
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many things stand out from this show...it was the 15th anniversary tour...seemed epic at the time. but quaint now got screwed by buying plain paper. ZEVON was great and I remember his roadie grabbing the mike and yelling at the deadheads "C'mon you f****ers...get up and dance". And we did. the show was great. don't remember details but do have it on CD to remind me. i guess Mexicali blues and el paso were a tip of the cap to the southwest or something. for a june night in the desert, it was pretty pleasant. my wife could not make it at the last minute...her ticket became the first miracle ticket of which I am aware. I know it was not THE first...just my first. I gave it or sold it or traded to some young woman at a MacDonald's in Tempe...all her friends had tickets but she did not. I happened to be standing behind her in line and heard her really worried about it. Voila...problem solved.