I’ve seen thousands of reviews over the years, but this actually explains “A Deadhead”…
“REVIEW: stella
As a new fan of the Dead it was years before I realized the importance of the tears streaming down
the face of the girl beside me. She seemed to be having a religious experience. Now I know why”
And a headzup, folks! these next few days are some of this country’s “amateur days”, so keep a
sharp eye out all over!
Grateful Dead
St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, Minnesota
July 3, 1978
Low-gen Audience Cassette
Set 1: TDK SA-90; Set 2: Maxell UDXL-II C90) Cassette(Nakamichi DR-1)
Broadcasting superb audience recordings of official releases two weeks running! Longtime
listeners will know that I do not broadcast commercially-released material, but am not averse to
broadcasting a worthy audience recording. In 2016, a 5-show, 12-CD box set of the complete
Grateful Dead shows at Kansas City on July 1, 1978, St. Paul on July 3, 1978, Omaha on July 5,
1978, and Morrison on July 7 & 8, 1978. This, folks, is an excellent audience recording!
Disc 1 – Set 1:
1. tuning
2. New Minglewood Blues
3. Loser
4. Looks Like Rain
5. Ramble On Rose
6. Mexicali Blues >
7. Mama Tried
8. Peggy-O
9. Cassidy
10. Deal >
11. The Music Never Stopped
Disc 2 – Set 2:
1. tuning
2. Scarlet Begonias >
3. Fire on the Mountain
Disc 3 – Set 2 cont’d.:
1. Dancin’ in the Streets >
2. Drums >
3. Not Fade Away >
4. Stella Blue >
5. Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
6. tuning
7. Werewolves of London
REVIEW: Packed with goodies
This show is excellent. Among many highlights is a surging rendition of Peggy-O. Well worth
the listen. Thanks for the up.
REVIEW: Most like Being there source
Fuller sound on the high end than the other sources, which sound like they are stuck right into a
monitor & biased toward the low mid range. Patch in Fire around 6:00 shows the 2 sources
side-by-side. This one has got to be very close to what it sounded like in the show. Crisp,
captures the hall & some limited crowd during songs & great stuff between. Very nice for ’78. I
have a Red Rocks that is the same tapers & quality.
“Standard” show for ’78. Nice Music No Stop; Chills from Fire and some bubble gum undersea
raging on Dancin’ that will bring a tear to your eye. You can tell they are building up to the Red
Rocks meltdown. 4* for overall crystal clear insight into a ’70s Dead experience.
REVIEW: hot show!
The show itself is sh*t-hot and deserves more recognition. High energy playing from start to
finish with a first set capped by a fantastic run of tunes and a sick Deal>TMNS to close. They
keep the energy high for S>F and Dancin, all excellent versions. Post-drumz still sounds plenty
juiced, though maybe they were rushing to beat a curfew? Sweet Stella end jam, nevertheless.
Werewolves is what it is, but they sure sound mighty happy to be there. Don’t snooze on this
show!
REVIEW: The beats man
The rhythms on a lot of these tunes: Mexicali, Mama, Peggy, has a really cool groove going on I
hadn’t heard before. Very fun concert and a killer aud mix.
Reviews of other recordings(there are just three…):
REVIEW: 4 1/2 stars
ummm The Music Never Stopped !
REVIEW: Agree 4.5 stars
for towering FIRE and one of the best DANCIN’S alone – THIS DANCIN IS OFF THE HOOK.
Stella is sick and Sugar Mag is as well. Sound quality is a 2 but lets overlook that for the time as
it is a ’78 audience that has been stepped all over. Mwood, Loser, Ramble on Rose are
EXCEPTIONAL in fact this first set is yet another Minnesota barn burner. Check out Bobby
blow the lyrics of Mama Tried – everyone is ripped. The PEGGY-O is really beautiful and one of
the best I have heard recently, it is so melodic. Cassidy & DEal are 2 more crushers, Then there is
MUSIC….
REVIEW: red and white,blue swede shoes!!!
wow! what a show,30 years ago,i just got out of high school and was hooked on the dead, and a
few other impressive tidbits in life.like my sweet jelly roll!!!All my love to you,7 times upstairs
and we cried for more.deep deep love,one day,we’ll do it again. Jam on.
REVIEW: Phil Says at beginning of Werewolves
“Whoever is throwing those firecrackers especially those ones on stage, belongs at a Ted Nugent
concert, not here.” Brilliant!
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