Notes:
last "Jack A Roe": 04-17-82 [159] - final/last "On The Road Again": 04-19-83 [102] - first "Playin Reprise"
Set List:
Feel Like a StrangerIt Must Have Been the Roses
On the Road Again
Jack-a-Roe
It's All Over Now
Cumberland Blues
Music Never Stopped
Cold Rain and Snow
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
Don't Need Love
Uncle John's Band
drums
Playin' in the Band
Uncle John's Band
Morning Dew
Good Lovin'
Comments
Unbelievable
Certainly in the top 5 of 100 shows that I saw. Very small venue, I think about 8,000 or so. Both sets just smokin, with about the best "unpredictable" set list ever. If you don't have a tape of Set 2, get it!
One of the Best New England Shows of the '80's
Very small venue, general admission, just how we like it. I walked in and was almost right in front of the stage. I remember a bolt of electricity going through me when Garcia looked right at me over the top of his rose color glasses during Must Have Been the Roses...Flashed!
The second set absolutely smoked. When a set opens with Cold Rain and Snow and closed with Morning Dew, well, say no more! During that show I made up my mind to quit my crappy job and find one I liked…a moment of clarity during a crazy Dead show.
After the show we tried to find a cabin that some girls my friend knew were staying at in Damarscotta, Maine on Lake Pemaquid. The directions were something like “head into town, take a left over a small bridge, look for the tree with red paint on it and take right”. Well, we actually found a tree with red paint on it and took a right. No road, just drove between the trees…and the directions were right! We found the cabin, and some very surprised girls, at about 2 am. I think we freaked them out!
Happy to call this my first show!
I went to this show not really knowing much about the Dead - I had listened to American Beauty and Bear's Choice a handful of times, and that was about it.
I made the hour's drive north up to Augusta with my brother and a couple of buddies of mine (the two buddies, one guy and one girl, wound up hooking up with eachother and never made it into the show - they just dove into a tent outside and that was it - hope they had fun, cause they missed a hell of a show!
Only after attending many shows (I saw about 50 in all) did I begin to appreciate how good this show was - the opening Stranger was really tight, and it set the tone for things to come - the second set just absolutely smokes from beginning to end! I've listened to this show many times on tape and it still gives me goosebumps - couldn't have asked for a better introduction to the band!