Grateful Dead - 1978-01-22 - Eugene OR (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1978-01-22

McArthur Court

U. of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

January 22 1978

Soundboard Recording

256 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. New Minglewood Blues

02. Dire Wolf

03. Cassidy

04. Peggy-O

05. El Paso

06. Tennessee Jed

07. Jack Straw

08. Row Jimmy

09. The Music Never Stopped

2nd Set:

01. Bertha* >

02. Good Lovin*

03 .Ship Of Fools*

04. Samson and Delilah*

05. Terrapin Station

06. Drums

07. The Other One

08. Close Encounters of The 3rd Kind (Garia solo)

09. St. Stephen

10. Not Fade Away

11. Around & Around

Encore:

01. US Blues

*audience source

LINK REMOVED - OFFICIALLY RELEASED

On November 16, 1977, Stephen Spielberg released the now legendary movie, Close Encounters of The Third Kind. The film, which tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with a UFO, would be nominated for 8 Academy Awards and gross over $300 million in ticket sales. The movie’s 5 tone musical motif which was used by the aliens to communicate with humans, became ingrained in popular culture. No better example is this soundboard recording of the Grateful Dead’s concert in Eugene Or on January 22, 1978, 34 years ago today. As the Dead segue out of the Other One, they launch into “Space” with none other than the 5 notes from Close Encounters! Quite appropriate, to say the least. No wonder this one shows up as one of Deadbase’s top 5 shows from 1978! One note - the first 4 songs of set 2 are from an audience source. No soundboard is available for those tunes.  One other note - the mountain shown on the artwork is Devil's Tower, which is in Wyoming not Oregon.  Why use a landmark from another state? The reason is simple -  Devil's Tower is the site of the alien landing in Close Encounters!