Grateful Dead 12-31-82 Oakland Auditorium Arena 

lonely boy...............

I missed the days of the house we had in the hills of California where the gold was mined, at night it was so quiet you can actually hear your own heartbeat. And you'd be able to hear a pin drop in the room.

right on sir :) gotta have our daily jerry garcia.......

You're comment gave me a hearty grin I feel this show is worthy of the official release the setlist is cool the Etta James encores only reinforce that notion for me Lol I just watched Tucker Carlson on Rogan talking about how he stole his parents car in San fran when he was 15n drove 2 hrs to a dead gig got miracle 1 ticket n then abandoned his 13 brother who was tripping balls and how he went in woundup chains making in a bathroom stall peaking on psilocybin fungus buttons and subsequently found his brother in the lot . Lol you just don't get life experiences like that at non Dead concerts lol

When the boys find a groove they can really get a good Cumberland goin' !

I’m back for another serving.

Yep. ditto

Is your name Bill Clinton?

Something like that happened to me too at a show, when the promoter came up to me he seen I needed a ticket but the place is already packed out he told me to wait then I will smuggled in that was Mr Graham. It's very nice guy bumped into him several times during many shows.

Yes!! Brent have to the band it’s best era.

Agreed. Brent and Jerry After them, the band never more was the same.

I was there and I was 17! Thank you Tower of Power horns and Etta James!

wow etta james in the third set.one of THE greatest singers of all time. jerry's singing doesn't seem to be on form this night doesn't matter though he has the coolest vocals in rock...just wish pig pen was up there with them to rock the house down..

I love to jam along to the Dead on flute

Yes. I totally agree with you. 😊

also... im only a few songs in but.... where is the between song noodling? seems weird and... umm... professional? :)

chippety pop I've heard some good stuff while he was using and I've hards some slop.BFA was the high point for me.I'm partial to anything Terrapin and before.But,I love ALL of it !

+chippety maybe it was the smack.....maybe it was us...

+Geoffrey Russell things had changed..... so had the drugs

+Geoffrey Russell time was .... a doobie and a hit was cool... turned nasty towards the end.

+Geoffrey Russell before Brent died , he and myself would sit and discuss the " who would die first. Prior to Ventura shows he decided that it was onerous...and that as much as he loved ithe band,,,,he couldn't keep up. so,,,,,we did the Nitrous thinging for a few days,,,,, nothing like a " sunset : on a life in Nitrious.

I was there for the whole run and got into every show.Some of that run was a bit blurry, but not all of it. I remember that night not only because Bill Graham rode into 1983 on a giant mushroom, but because I actually went up to him later on that night and shook his and thanked him for putting one hell of a five night shindig. Another memory able to pierce through the haze that night was watching about a half dozen or so friends who formed a dancing circle while they passed around a Visine bottle full of dreams just like it was a big phattie dropping it on each others tongues or even in theirs eyes while they simultaneously feed each other fresh strawberries in the theatrically debauched manner of a Hollywood produced Roman orgy scene and they didn't stop passing the Visine till the bottle ran dry. I don't see how I could ever forget witnessing that. Later on after the show we were fed a breakfast of rolls, jelly and fresh oranges, and they allowed us to stay in the venue till dawn. I'm glad I didn't forget everything...