Thirty-Five

Today, three shows featured...and we'll go backward in time, while also featuring a bit more of the "audience" than previous posts.

We'll start in 1976, with the fourth night (they took the night off on the 15th) at the Orpheum Theater.

Two streams for this one.  The first is the "soundboard" recording, which apparently only exists for the second set of tunes.

Now, here is the complete show, apparently taped by a couple of attendees, from a lovely position: the front of the balcony (as in the photograph above).

Plenty of folks (myself included) aren't too fond of the audience tapes, and rarely listen to them...unless there's no other source, of course.

There are those who listen to nothing but the audience tapes as well, since it gives more of the feeling of actually being there...less detached and sterile, or something like that.  See what you think!

Next, we move to 1972 and Dillon Stadium in Hartford, Connecticut.

This show is a combination of sources, patched together to form the complete show.  1972 was a year of amazing shows...but again, not to everyone's liking.  For many, compared to what the scene had been in the mid 1960s, this was a completely different band - and not one they found as likable.  Of course, with all the shit that had gone down in the seven years they'd been together, things were bound to be different.  Some band members were even reaching (gasp) 30 years of age...crazy how that alters things.  If you're not there yet, believe me...it's waiting.

Finally, back to 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.

Maybe it's two shows, maybe it's out of order...I have no idea.  It's just a lot of fun to hear how things were in those early days.  Plenty of people, plenty of acid, plenty of volume.  Community...

Enjoy your Sunday.

Set lists after the break...

San Francisco (1976)

Cold Rain and Snow
Cassidy
Deal
Mama Tried
Row Jimmy
Big River
Brown Eyed Women
Looks Like Rain
Peggy-O
Music Never Stopped
Scarlet Begonias

Playin' in the Band
Stronger Than Dirt
Cosmic Charlie
Samson and Delilah
drums
The Wheel
Spanish Jam
Playin' in the Band
Around and Around
High Time
Sugar Magnolia

U.S. Blues

Hartford

Promised Land
Cold Rain and Snow
Black Throated Wind
Sugaree
Playing in the Band
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Deal
Mexicali Blues
Stella Blue
Cumberland Blues
Me and My Uncle
Mississippi Half-Step
Sing Me Back Home

Ramble On Rose
Truckin'
drums
The Other One
He's Gone
The Other One
Looks Like Rain
Sugar Magnolia
Not Fade Away
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
Hey Bo Diddley

Johnny B. Goode

San Francisco (1966)
I Know You Rider
Big Boss Man
Standing On The Corner
Beat It On Down The Line
In The Pines
Cardboard Cowboy
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Next Time You See Me
He Was A Friend Of Mine
Cream Puff War

Viola Lee Blues
Don't Ease Me In ->
Pain In My Heart
Minglewood Blues ->
Sittin' On Top Of The World
You Don't Have To Ask
Cold Rain And Snow ->
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl ->
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Dancin' In The Streets