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Us Alpine Veterans would park the car and walk down to the Alpine lodge to sit in the A/C and shelter and get all prepped for the show. Still they would run out.īy the time Touch Of Gray came out, the crowds grew into 100K size. They had semis filled with beer and ice for us every year after that.
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The managers ordered like four times more food and way more beer and ice after '82. One guy at each end making sure there were not any thefts going on. They hired the high school football team to watch the aisles. People were doing the fireworks and running around naked and there was no way a lot of us were going anywhere in our condition.Īfter that year, the grocery store in town remembered the Dead Heads. The parking lot was just starting to take on the crazy thing that night. They did a double encore at the Greek earlier that spring, but despite the "Greek" aura stuff, the Alpine version was better. And, They came out and did a double encore with some Wang Dang lyrics thrown into the Satisfaction. Boy oh boy did I like it getting squished in a frenzy of mayhem at a Dead show. The first set I was able to hang around row D, but by the second set I got pushed back to around row P. The bottom line was that post drums was pretty killer. I had no idea who the other musicians were on stage and the announcement went right thru my ears. I think they never turned on his guitar? That was the word anyways. Then some other dude came out on a guitar and leaned against brents stuff or a monitor, I can't remember, and was playing. This other dude came out during drums and turned the whole thing up a notch. Anyways, Bobby did a nice job with the vocals on Estimated doing his shreek/howl Hah!'s and all, but no Eyes to follow. The Scarlet Fire was smokin' and they did this one little thing right before Fire that they never did before or after that real was a mind blower for me. Every show they did that song all of a sudden the show took off. Something about Far From Brent seemed to mark the start of the band putting it into high gear. Man, that Music/sugary/music and Let it Grow the first night was the bomb. Maybe not as hot as the night before, but it was solid. But, I thought the set was F'in excellent. And a set ender Sampson was kind of unexpected. We had this thing that we called "M" songs, and while there are no "M"s in Rooster, we thought it was an "M" song. I think I copped an attitude about Rooster back then. My notes have Rooster written very small. I liked the Alabama/Promised rocker opener. But, a lot of hugs from strangers was my saving grace that night, thank you. Only too many mushrooms at one Rosemont Horizon show left me sitting in the back. No security force ever stopped me in my triple digit number of shows. I think I had lawn seats but I am NOT a twirler, I am a railer, so a friend and I snuck up to the front. It was such a cool place to see the Dead.
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It is hard to remember everything but damn! The Alpine valley Music Theater was in my backyard. In 1982 I went to The Greek Theater in Berkeley, Alpine Valley in East Troy and the Fieldhouse in Iowa City.