Grateful Dead - 1977-05-07 - Boston Garden (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1977-05-07

Boston Garden

Boston MA

Soundboard Recording

192 Kbps (VBR)

Artwork Included

1st Set

01. Tuning

02. Bertha

03. Cassidy

04. Deal

05. Jack Straw

06. Peggy-O

07. New Minglewood Blue

08. Tuning

09. Mississippi Half-Step > Big River

10. Tennessee Jed

11. The Music Never Stopped

2nd Set

12. Terrapin Station

13. Samson and Delilah

14. Friend of the Devil

15. Estimated Prophet

16. Eyes Of The World

17. The Wheel

18. Wharf Rat

19. Around And Around

Encore

20. Crowd> Jerry's Guitar is Broken!

21. U.S. Blues

OFFICIALLY RELEASED - LINK REMOVED

With today's post, we return to The Grateful Dead's 1977 spring tour, for the start of a 3 show run that many believe is the pinnacle of a tour filled with exceptional performances. The May 8 show from Barton Hall on the campus of Cornell is often considered the band's best ever single performance (more on that tomorrow!). Many Dead Head's feel, however, that the playing on the night before, this show from May 7 in Boston, and the night after, May 9 from Buffalo, was just as passionate, inspired and innovative, Incredibly, despite the plethora of official releases from the Spring 1977 tour, none of the 3Bs - Boston, Barton Hall or Buffalo - is among them! Fortunately we have soundboard recordings of all of those shows, which we'll post over the next 3 days. Here's the May 7, 1977 Boston show, which took place 36 years ago today, to start.  Download this one now, then come back for the other 2 - they are must haves for every one's collection, even if you're not a Dead Head.