Barton Hall 5/8/77
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According to some, the May 8, 1977 show at Cornell University's Barton Hall is considered by many to be the best Grateful Dead show. This show has something for everyone, including new Deadheads, and is a good way to understand the band's unique qualities and wide range.
Minglewood Blues, Loser, El Paso, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Deal, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried, Row Jimmy, Dancin' In The Streets Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain, Estimated Prophet, Saint Stephen-> Not Fade Away-> Saint Stephen-> Morning Dew, E: One More Saturday Night on a freshly remastered Betty Board with AUD splices, by Rob Eaton Let us know how you like it...
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Barton Hall 77 was a CIA Plot Classified
Never Happened!!🌹💀🌹
Saw the Dead many times in the 70’s. Lived an hour away from Ithaca then. Can’t believe I didn’t go to this show. Thanks for sending me this concert to listen to while I wait for my new hat.(a replacement “steal your face” hat I lost years ago)
Love that show, just bought the "Turkey and the Wolf " cook book they have the Barton Hall concert poster and Jerry Tanzania stamps in a picture of their crew.
Hey folks. Thanks again. Meanwhile, yes, Barton Hall has been (continues to be) regarded as a “Holy Grail,” though I think that was as much because we “all” sought to find that rarest-of-rare tapes and to trade for it.
However, much as I still(!) love Barton Hall—as apparently you do—I recommend you venture toward surrounding dates, especially 5/7 and 5/9 (… oh, right, and which were part of the “Get Shown the Light” box set; so perhaps you’ve already had a tasty listen-or-several to those); and/but then check out 5/19 and 5/21 (Help→Slip>Franklin’s, Cassidy…).
I mean, ya can’t go sideways in ’77, and subsequent Dick’s and Dave’s picks, as well as box sets (for May ’77; then yet another) confirm this, firmly setting that era (1976, 1977, 1978) in the pantheon among the “greatest-of” Dead eras. Anyhooodles, check out any/all of these: you will indeed “… get shown the light [as!] you look it right.” Peace, Bo :-)
Barton hall awesome! I gave a deadhead your link ,he liked my dancing bear hat alot I got it at a American Eagle store ????I see your adds and ordered a shirt .The closing of Winterland ,I watched from a Jim Jones temple across the street on a giant screen Its certainly right up there