i remember this show:
i was 14 living in new haven
got my first peice of tail the night before; nice girl named lisa from upstate new york (said she lived on a chicken farm)
me, lisa, tom straight and ray and kathy drove up in ray and kathys vwagon micro bus
first dead concert was up front in a mass of people and a sheet of blotter aicid with skull and cross bones came by
(the bus came by and i got on that's were it all began)
the piano turner was late; jerry came out and said he had a new strat as he noddled (just then a big beach ball flew by with a 20' tail) he pause and said they dont make them like they used to.
Said they were to play a lot of old dead that day and they did (imagine old dead in 72)
as high as i was it was a fast peak and out due to the heat in fact if not for the gallon jugs of water passed up in spent gallo wine bottles i would have probobly gotten heat stroke.
made it back to the head once (one of those 20 minute acid leaks comming down)
it was good to see the set list in sparked my memory a little
i remember several of the 1000 watt marshall heads exploding althouth that may have only happened once i'm not sure
i do recollect that pigpen wasn't there but keith and donna were
barry oakly wasn't there and rumor was he was dead and i think pig pen had expiered around this time
the most vivid memory was not fade away goin down the road and johny be good and they turned off the lights.
we went to a place called miller's pond afterword and the water was like over 90 degrees. some day indeed
was a dead head afterwords until there concerts seemed well
not what they had been.
I remember the wintland concert on new years eve when they closed it. That was my last dead concert.
they were definetly outdone by the blues bros. and we left around one.
the girl i was with started to get crazy (too much coke) i understand they played till after sunrise and i missed a bit of history. would have liked to seen John Cipolina too bad