Golden Age

Saturday, September 3, 1977

Englishtown, NJ · Raceway Park

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Saturday
Day 246 of 1977
Show #
39 of 63
Era
Golden Age
Keys
Keith
Recordings
6
Top rating
★ 4.93 (15)
Official release
Dick's Picks Vol 15
Best source
MATRIX
Total dl
505,157
Songs played
19 · 3 sets
Show length
2h 49m
Longest track
Not Fade Away · 21:04

Curator Score

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Featured on: Dick's Picks Vol 15

From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry

From the tapers · archive.org · 3
  • ★★★★★ · You cannot be more mistaken - this was IT!!!! Cowboys and girliegirlz!!! · jamesnix · 2021

    Not one review even mentions the most staggeringly heart ripping bliss opening delightfulness of ever seeing what I never ever saw at more than 100 other shows EVER - Jerry and Bobby facing off face to face doing that dueling guitar stuff practically spatting and sweating and drenching each other with their surrenderfull souls twin merging.nation NFA!! in front of us front row Motherchukkers!!

  • ★★★★★ · Crackling Energy · RiPHRaPH · 2023

    Some rate based on recording quality. Some rate based on setlist and others based on mix. ‘77 saw less jamming and more straight forward sets due to the hard driving production on Terrapin. The run of the mill first set songs are dripping with personality. This is one of those big shows they didn’t mess up. I’m a method listener. Get into the era. The Dead just got done with April/May/June 77 spring and was fresh having taken some time off.

  • ★★★★★ · 150,000 Heads · PFflyerkid · 2006

    Wow...only 750-odd page views on this show? Maybe everyone has heard it a million times as this was broadcast on powerhouse WNEW-FM NYC that Labor Day weekend. I've had it for 25 years and I still listen to it. If you haven't heard this you should seek it out, or buy the Dick's Picks, as there are some landmark versions here for the era. For me, this show is about three in particuliar (although The Music Never Stopped crushes too, as most do from '77): Miss 1/2 Step, Eyes and Not Fade Away.

Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.

Official release

Setlist

Set 1

  1. 1.Promised Land
  2. 2.They Love Each Other
  3. 3.Me and My Uncle
  4. 4.Mississippi Half-Step
  5. 5.Looks Like Rain
  6. 6.Peggy-O
  7. 7.New Minglewood Blues
  8. 8.Friend of the Devil
  9. 9.Music Never Stopped

Set 2

  1. 1.Bertha
  2. 2.Good Lovin'
  3. 3.Loser
  4. 4.Estimated Prophet
  5. 5.Eyes of the World
  6. 6.Samson and Delilah
  7. 7.He's Gone
  8. 8.Not Fade Away
  9. 9.Truckin'

Encore

  1. 1.Terrapin Station

Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)

Recordings on archive.org · 6

Best source

gd1977-09-03.131317.mtx.dusborne.flac16

2 Source Matrix by Dusborne; Soundboard (shnid:000276) Source: Two-track Pre-FM reel > DAT > CD-R, except for (terrapin), which is unknown AUD and Audience (shnid:91650) 2 Sony ECM 270s> Sony TC-158; Transfer and FLAC encoding by David Minches: Master audience cassette played back on Nak Dragon > Grace Lunatec V3 (24/96) > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe> Adobe Audition> (dither/downsample)> FLAC encoding · ★ 4.82 (13 reviews) · 66,820 dl

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