Dosed beyond belief. Yet I still remember so much of this show, particularly when Mickey Hart's drums appeared on stage and the buzz of "Mickey Hart" spread throughout hot, dirty, sweaty, perfect Winterland. What a gift to have been there through so much of those days.

My seventh Dead show. This was my fourth show of the five in this run. I said there were 6 shows in my reviews of 10-16,17,18 but that's wrong. Sorry. This show was going to be the "last one" so I had to attend. I was working in SF at an Engineering firm. I had a key to office and coke machine. I borrowed $26 in change from it and headed over to Winterland. Found a ticket for the $26 after I converted the change into paper near the venue. Not my favorite show I was pretty worn out after a week of partying. The weirdest night of the run was Saturday's show when there were so many people outside who didn't get in. We all partied all night outside. Then I scrounged up $26 by Monday morning to put back the change I'd taken from office machine.

I've already written a fairly extensive description of the sights and sounds of this run in my 18 Oct entry, but here's a just little bit more.
Once again, a relatively short wait in line for tickets-at-the-door (can you imagine?), then the wait in the other line to go inside with a lot of the same faces, then the cartoons, then the show.
Not as "high" as the 18th, but still a gathering of kindred strangers and friends to catch one more show.
Mickey dropped by for the later set. Two things stood out for me from this show. First, was Bobby doing Good Lovin', a fitting and poignant last night tribute. However it was Mississippi 1/2 Step that I thought was such a classy farewell tune, and then they bid us Good Night. There were mobs of folks outside. I heard later they'd passed "The Last One" tickets out but I must've walked right by them. I've never lost the memories, though.
As I previously explained, the week had been flavored by a news item about a crashed UFO. As I drove back to LA the next day, I was thinking about the great gigs and about how the world was gonna be a different place when Newsweek ran their cover story about the aliens. Of course, it didn't happen, but it was a week of high thoughts and "what if?". Months to come were to include intimate gigs with Legion Of Mary, Kingfish and Keith & Donna, catching up on the Dead's official back catalog as well as all those hi-fi and lo-fi bootlegs, and meeting other Heads during the hiatus in anticipation of The Return Of The Grateful Dead!