Golden Age

Saturday, May 28, 1977

Hartford, CT · Hartford Civic Center

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Saturday
Day 148 of 1977
Show #
35 of 64
Era
Golden Age
Keys
Keith
Recordings
11
Top rating
★ 5.00 (3)
Official release
To Terrapin: Hartford '77
Top-rated tape
AUD
Total dl
310,074
Songs played
20 · 3 sets
Show length
3h 13m
Longest track
Sugaree · 21:32
48StandoutRank #169 of 1,999
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Featured on: To Terrapin: Hartford '77

From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry

From the tapers · archive.org · 3
  • ★★★★★ · Better Than Buffalo + Sugaree · direwolf600 · 2010

    Well, so are a lot of shows. I like to take any opportunity I can to mention how over-rated that show is...all in good fun of course. Anyway, this Bertha-> Good Lovin'-> Sugaree Is an incendiary opener. Just power packed playing through Good Lovin' and then the GD version of Sugaree that stands a top the mountain. 21+ minutes for those of you wondering. There is great back forth from all the players on this night and sugaree is a brilliant example.

  • ★★★★★ · The Dead at their Best · hitmeister · 2016

    This is one of my all-time favorite Dead shows. The whole Spring '77 tour was great, and this one was a fitting climax. From the monster Bertha/Good Lovin'/Sugaree medley opener through the encore, the intensity never let up. This Sugaree is the longest and arguably the best ever. The Row Jimmy is also one of the best I've heard, with Jerry really making that slide guitar sing. The second set is Dead jamming the way it was meant to be.

  • ★★★★★ · I Will Believe You · Petronius Jablonski · 2014

    Some call them trance versions, where the Prophet mesmerizes you. Here’s one. The long and winding Jam stands as a paradigm of Great Trippy Dead Music. Deja vu and nostalgia arise, even though the passage of music is unique, as though it partakes of some deeper commonality perceived only in flashes. To describe Garcia’s guitar in the latter half of the song raises baffling issues about the Private Language Argument.

Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.

Official release

Setlist

Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)

Recordings on archive.org · 11

Top-rated source

gd1977-05-28.141832.sony.ecm33p.moore.dalton.miller.clugston.flac1644

Jerry Moore's Master Audience Cassettes; Sony ECM-33P mics > Sony TC-158SD (Maxell UD-XLII with dolby B) > PCM · ★ 5.00 (3 reviews) · 7,872 dl

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