By the early 1980s, the Dead were a musical institution that seemed to defy cultural trends. However, they were at their best performing in their own way to their own fans, the Deadheads, and generally tried to avoid this type of festival playing to most who only knew their music a little bit or not at all.
However, I saw an interview with band drummer Mickey Hart who said they made an exception for this festival because they were inspired by festival funder Steve Wozniak's effort to try something new and different. And even though it might seem just like another big rock festival many years later, at the time it was innovative in many ways, especially with technological innovations, such as the sound system, which used digital delay to prevent the echo-like problem of the sound being slightly off from speaker to speaker. In fact, it's not an exaggeration to say the first US festival became the template for how all big music festivals were run afterwards.
Anyway, the last studio album the Dead released was "Go to Heaven," in 1980. But that wasn't the point with this jam band, and they didn't even bother to play any songs from it. Instead, they did a "short" version of their usual concert format, complete with the instrumental "Drums" and "Space" sections.
One unusual aspect of this concert was that it started about nine-thirty in the morning. The festival organizers nicknamed this "Breakfast with the Dead." One of the band members commented that although they'd played past sunrise at various concerts, this was the first time they'd had such an early start time in their long career. It seems the crowd reaction to their set was quite positive.
This album is an hour and 53 minutes long.
001 Playing in the Band (Grateful Dead)
002 Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead)
003 New Minglewood Blues (Grateful Dead)
004 talk (Grateful Dead)
005 Samson and Delilah (Grateful Dead)
006 China Cat Sunflower (Grateful Dead)
007 I Know You Rider (Grateful Dead)
008 Sugaree (Grateful Dead)
009 Man Smart, Woman Smarter (Grateful Dead)
010 Truckin' (Grateful Dead)
011 Drums [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
012 Space [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
013 Not Fade Away (Grateful Dead)
014 Black Peter (Grateful Dead)
015 Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead)
016 U.S. Blues (Grateful Dead)
017 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Grateful Dead)
018 talk (Grateful Dead)
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The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's shows the band's two main lead singers, Bob Weir (in shorts) and Jerry Garcia (with glasses and a beard).
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