Franklin's Tower
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Peggy-O
It's All Over Now
Brown Eyed Women
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Shakedown Street
Passenger
Ship of Fools
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Black Peter
I Need a Miracle
Bertha
Good Lovin'
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Great memories here
My first with Brent
My first show ever
Hey Dean from the Redwoods
My first show. Wished I had
My First Show...In My Hometown!!!
Ah Billerica
Standing On The Ice
I was there, but...
PS
this was a small, stealth venue
My first show with the Dead
thank you lamagonzo!
and @ cchulle:
Is the forum still there?
Billerica '79 - also my first show!
What I remember
Billerica Forum
When U-Lowell bought the place they changed the name to the "Lowell Forum". When I was at Central Catholic in the early 70's we played our ice hockey games there.
My First live show of the Grateful Dead.
Why there was no encore
What a great time! Tiny place, we could walk right up to the stage... but what I most "remember" ("if you remember the 60's, you weren't there") was that my (Harvard) friends and I had each eaten a goo-ball -- I don't even know what exactly was in it -- and were absolutely flying, so much so that it felt like the whole place was rocking like a ship. I told this story to Dennis McNally, the Dead's historian, whom I'm lucky enough to have become friends with, at a Giants ballgame. He started cracking up laughing. Apparently, this show is well-known in the group's annals: add in the heat, as others have described, and that ice under the stage melted so that the whole group was pretty much floating on water. Hence, no encore. I knew it was a hockey rink but never had put two and two together!
It's now called the Chelmsford Forum.