• Sun Dome - October 26, 1985
    *without Jerry

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  • Gimme Some Lovin'
    Greatest Story Ever Told
    Dupree's Diamond Blues
    C.C. Rider
    Stagger Lee
    Me and My Uncle
    Big River
    Big Railroad Blues
    Looks Like Rain
    Don't Ease Me In

    China Cat Sunflower
    I Know You Rider
    Man Smart/Woman Smarter
    He's Gone
    Don't Need Love
    drums
    Comes a Time
    Throwin' Stones
    Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
    One More Saturday Night

    Midnight Hour

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  • gwizard
    16 years 6 months ago
    long strange trip first show
    long strange trip first show in fl ate some shooms allmost lost it ended up in first aid station they tried to make me go to ER ha finialy talked my way back to show second set was magic midnight hour brougt the house down
  • GaryHartman
    16 years 8 months ago
    Sick
    This show is a big blur. The night before in Hollywood, in the parking lot, I eat a beagle with creamcheese. It was bad and I got food poison. So there i sat with a fever, stomach killing me, not into the show AT ALL. All I was thinking about was bed. I missed a week of work after tis show also.I NEVER eat anything in the parking lot again i did however heard a tape of this show.......Sounds like it was pretty good show....................lol
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    swaneeot
    16 years 9 months ago
    Missed Show
    I missed the show, my son was born on this day. Still have the unused tix. And yes he is on the bus, loves the dead and we have been to a few shows together. Ain't that sweet!
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*without Jerry
setlist
Gimme Some Lovin'
Greatest Story Ever Told
Dupree's Diamond Blues
C.C. Rider
Stagger Lee
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Big Railroad Blues
Looks Like Rain
Don't Ease Me In

China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
He's Gone
Don't Need Love
drums
Comes a Time
Throwin' Stones
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
One More Saturday Night

Midnight Hour
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All in all, a pretty neat little show for my second time ever (and first in the ol' hometown). One of only 3-4 times I slept in my own bed after a show! Very long and interesting first set with an outstanding Gimme>Greatest opener. The two guys next to me promised to buy me beers if I would help them yell out for some song called "Dark Star" or something like that. Yes, I was just a bit of a newbie for this show! Alas, no Star that night, but lots of good cold (and free) draft beer as a nice consolation prize! "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
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Remember that Phil sang on Gimme Some Lovin'Awesome show with a great drumz set
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I missed the show, my son was born on this day. Still have the unused tix. And yes he is on the bus, loves the dead and we have been to a few shows together. Ain't that sweet!
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This show is a big blur. The night before in Hollywood, in the parking lot, I eat a beagle with creamcheese. It was bad and I got food poison. So there i sat with a fever, stomach killing me, not into the show AT ALL. All I was thinking about was bed. I missed a week of work after tis show also.I NEVER eat anything in the parking lot again i did however heard a tape of this show.......Sounds like it was pretty good show....................lol
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long strange trip first show in fl ate some shooms allmost lost it ended up in first aid station they tried to make me go to ER ha finialy talked my way back to show second set was magic midnight hour brougt the house down
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GaryHartman? No wonder you had stomach trouble! Just hope it wasn't Snoopy ;-) Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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there were some really great doses that night ....phil was godlike
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First and only hometown show for me, if I don't count St. Pete a few years later. Headed home from Hollywood the night before and met my new (now ex-) friend after his bailout from arrest in a bathroom stall down there. He made the Tampa show despite the Broward County Sheriff's best efforts. The show itself is a bit blurry in my mind, although I had a tape. There was relationship drama and other distractions. So glad that part is over. Would love to re-visit this show. Maybe I will.
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I was 13 years old and was visiting cousins in tampa from my hometown new york. I tagged along with my older and "cooler" cousins to this show and I think I had fun. Don't remember a whole lot but I remember them telling me this guy Jerry Garcia was a god. I thought they were crazy!! Years later I found out they were nor crazy and am "Grateful" they let there littlle cuz tag along. Have seen several Dead shows, phil and friends, furthur, ratdog and everything in between. They are all magic to me still. Keep on keepin on boys. Bobby and Phil forever... TOMO Rochester NY
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We were visiting a friend who was attending USF at the time. We decided to check out the Grateful Dead concert being held on campus that night. I'd heard of the Dead, of course, but definitely was not on the bus yet. We dropped some hallucinogens before the show. Hey, it's the Dead! That's what you do, right? Some might argue this would be the prefect scenario to first experience the band. However, I was so totally freaked out by the whole scene, in full regalia, I floated right out the Sun Dome doors sometime during the second set... Looking back, I found my first Dead live experience to be extremely disorientating. I like to tell myself it was the dope, but wonder if any other Dead newbies felt this way... Regardless of whatever happened that night, I certainly got intrigued by the Dead mystique. What had happened to make me feel like I couldn't handle it? Strange trip, indeed!! I was fortunate enough to catch several more shows when the Dead rolled thru the Central Florida area up until Jerry's death. And I made it thru all of those! It was just that first one... Hippies, peace and chicken grease!! StStephen
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Thought I would check this one out start to finish this morning. Good show had a lot of fun here. Funny thing happened to me many years later. Around 1995 met this girl here on cape cod she and I started seeing each other and as I always do asked if she ever saw the dead? Her answer floored me because the only show ever went to was this show here . She did not go to the show just to the parking lot to find some things for her and her friends. I am the one she bought those things from. She was a great, GREAT soul, ......Loved her like a sister. Christine was for sure someone very special and fun. God bless you my friend
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This was a great show but what stood out for me was the kindness of the Heads in the parking lot scene. I went with my brother and a couple buds and for the 1st time in my adult life, was out of weed. Lo and behold, we were hanging out in lounge chairs in an empty parking spot in the space next to our car, resigned to emptying the cooler of beers we had brought along, when all of a sudden some Phreak comes zooming around our car - headed right for the spot we were lounging in. Luckily, the guy had his wits about him and braked and saved us, but then we found out he had rushed down from Boston for the show and was in a mild panic. We offered him a beer to welcome him and join us in celebration and upon hearing we were weed-dry, he gladly handed us a joint! Problem solved! Later I was wandering thru the lot, grooving on the scene and noticed 2 things at the same time - a Phreak in a car ahead obliviously rolling one and a cop coming in the other direction, scanning cars for "illegal activity". I popped my head in the rolled down window and said "cover it, cop coming" and the dude slid a magazine over his frisbee filled w/weed and we did the fake buddy chat as he approached. "Hey man...gonna be a great one, eh? blah..blah.." and cop, seemingly satisfied, kept walking. The guy was so grateful he handed me a nice nug and thanked me profusely. So...the kind Heads indeed provide for those in need! Just good vibes, good luck, good people and good times! There IS nothing like a Grateful Dead concert!
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In my senior year at FIT, my roommate and I scored 4 tickets to the Grateful Dead Concert in Tampa @ the Sun Dome. At the time my roommate's girlfriend was a Kathy, and my new friend was a Kathy. So we started driving, Ron, Kathy1 & Kathy2 but when we were on 192 leaving Melbourne, I realized and remembered that the tickets, were still on my dresser. This was the first glitch. So next, about 30 min out of Temple Terrace, my roommate produced 4 hits of Looney Tunes blotter. I was a total novice with this stuff, had only tried blotter once and it did not do much. So I took a single dose, while the Kathy's split one between them and Ron did one as well. As I pulled into the parking lot, we found a great spot and I pulled in. When we got out of the Car, I started to feel the "Looney Tunes". Suddenly a dead-head strolled up to us and said "Doses?", I replied "We are Dosed" and gave him a Thumbs Up, He just smiled and strolled off in his Tie-Dyed Shirt. When we got in line, we were next to Biff from Squamish, our Anti-Frat, and I figured we would run into someone from Melbourne, that was a nice thing. The show began, and my Looney Tunes started to kick-in Heavy. I had visual hallucinations, every single cigarette smoking person in the Stadium would leave a trail of light when they lifted their arm to draw on their Cig, I just could not stop staring at the hundreds of cigarette light trails, I liked it. Then The Dead started to play their awesome Music, really sounded amazing, but... then, the Music became just sound, a bunch of noises and effects. I had lost my ability to decode continuous music. The rest of the show, had me staring at the Crowd who were dancing & swaying side to side, and they began to oscillate moving in unison to a blurry visual cadence. Then the Phil Lesh Bass Solo blew my Mind, it was like extra terrestrial sounds that became diagrams suspended in the center of the stadium. Geometrical patterns that floated to the cadence of the sounds. I just sat there, scared to go for a Beer, so Kathy1 went for a Beer Run, I did not feel the Beer at all, it tasted great though... Once the concert was over, as I walked the Halls to the stairs, I stood frozen as I cam upon a Door with a sign that said "Caution High Velocity Winds", I just stood there wondering if that sign was me tripping.... Kathy1 grabbed me by my arm, and said, "come on we are leaving". When we got to the Car, I could not find my keys, and this was the second glitch of the evening. What I did not realize, was that I had left the Car open, with the Keys in the ignition. Kathy1, Kathy2 and Ron were already inside, as I cursed myself for having lost the keys. Well when I saw them smiling at me from inside the Car, I said, "Wow I am really losing it", I can see them in the Car but I lost my keys? Well Yes, they were in the Car and got in as the Car was un-locked, without me noticing. I had paced around the Parking Lot as they slipped into the Car without my knowledge. I tried to walk back and forth to see if the keys were on the ground, and I wasn't sure what happened first, heck the Looney Tunes and I were all-in by this time. I then jumped on the roof and stated freaking them out, and finally got in the drivers seat. Kathy1 looked at me and said "Are you OK to Drive?, this can get like a Cartoon!". I said "I'm OK Kathy, just be my co-pilot". So I drove us out of the Stadium and on to Fletcher Ave. headed West, wrong direction. I, for the life of me, could not muster a U-Turn. I kept driving past every intersection, trying to turn, but just could not. I could see fine, I just had a weird feeling I could not release. Then Fletcher dead ends, and I was forced to make a U-Turn, and I did. We pulled into a 7-11 on the Right, and scored some Big Gulp Sodas. The rest of the drive to Melbourne, everyone in the Car was yelling at me telling that I did not know where I was going. Well, they did not know, that my Uncle, lived in Temple Terrace, and I was very familiar with those roads, my best kept secret. Ron was really tripping and laughing out loud, his words were not making sense, but His buzz was great, and I felt great that the Looney Tunes now was not as strong as in the Stadium. So I kept driving below the speed limit, East, on US192 as I knew that this was a one-shot to Melbourne. After what seemed like 4 hours, but closer to 3, everyone fell asleep, and I just drove the rest of the way on US192 with my Big Gulp and the Radio Playing Classic Rock, or whatever the FM gave me. When I finally pulled into Southgate Apts. from Babcock Ave., close to 3am, everyone woke up and said "Wow YOU made it Rich!". So I gave Kathy1 and Kathy2 kisses on their cheeks and went into my dorm, and put on Jefferson Airplane - BARK, then spent the rest of the early morning 3:30 am until 7:00 am spinning records, enjoying the rest of my Looney Tunes Buzz. That was a show where the Dead was not so much for me a Concert, but a total adventure. The Concert itself was a big fog for me, and that was the last time I ever dropped Acid blotter. I figured that I pushed my luck, and survived, with a sign from above that I should be a more responsible driver, than a Tripping College Student. Time distortion is fun, but it is a very special thing, and maybe a Concert is not the place to Trip, a Forest or a Botanical Park is probably the better venue, or maybe attending Mass, to better understand what the Priests are saying.