| 1979-12-01 | Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Set 1: Jack Straw > Sugaree, Me And My Uncle > Big River, Loser, Easy To Love You, Minglewood Blues, Althea, The Music Never Stopped | Jack Straw > Big River, Loser, Minglewood Blues, The Music Never Stopped |
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| Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone > Gloria Jam > C.C. Rider > Jam > Drums > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia, E: One More Saturday Night | China Cat Sunflower > He's Gone > |
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| Corrections / Observations | ||
| Received by Dick | 1979-12-24 | |
| Tape Source | Dave Weidner | |
| Review Entry Date | 1980-04-09 | |
| Dick's Review | This show is quite popular mainly because of the 1st appearance of C.C. Rider and I received 4 different recordings of this show! The performance is exceptional. Jack Straw starts off with lots of energy and Sugaree follows with burning intensity. (He was going to make a note about Big River) The Music Never Stopped was less than I expected considering how good everything was before. The board portion of this show starts off with a nice but not exceptional version of this fairly common now medley. Similar in its quality of disappointment to The Music Never Stopped. The quality of the board is excellent. The jam section after a usual rendition of He’s Gone is pretty unusual. It starts off in the lately typical fashion of bridging intensely to The Other One but soon things change into a clear and distinct instrumental version of Gloria and this lasts quite a few minutes and might be the highlight of the show for me. It certainly is the most unique aspect! Then things drop into C.C. Rider which is a real shocker and this version is intense. One doesn't hear the blues idiom very often these days from the Dead! The 2nd jam section is not noteworthy at all it being just a bridge to the Percussion Jam which is pretty aggressive and interesting which hasn’t been the case in awhile. Not Fade Away is pretty unimpressive even considering its basic high. Black Peter is also in this same low-key style and believe it or not Sugar Magnolia has very little to offer. |