Golden Age
Saturday, May 12, 1979
Show stats
- Saturday
- Day 132 of 1979
- Show #
- 31 of 79
- Era
- Golden Age
- Keys
- Brent
- Recordings
- 6
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (2)
- Top-rated tape
- nak300 > MC
- Total dl
- 98,362
- Songs played
- 20 · 3 sets
- Show length
- 3h 0m
- Longest track
- Playin\' In The Band \ · 13:43
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · Ah, UMass Spring Fling ... · MayAllSentientBeings · 2009
What a treat it was to be a complete and utter DeadHead and have the band at our own Spring Fling. I was a Freshman at UMass that year (Baker dorm), and friends with couple of the students on the booking committee who were also DeadHeads, and who booked the show. We were completely freaked!!!! I'm trying to remember how many classes I cut that semester from the sheer bong-fueled anticipation (probably more than I went to, judging by my grades that year ...
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- ★★★★★ · What a long strange trip that was! · sportdeath · 2005
We drove out from Boston in a rental car that looked and drove like a white whale. Gates opened at 10 AM, Roy Ayers ubiquity came on at 11:30, followed by Patty Smith, followed by the Dead. The concert was supposed to be limited to U Mass students, so there were legions of fans without tickets... when the Dead came on, some of them tore down part of the fence, and they all streamed onto the field.
- ★★★★★ · Great Show · PatRx · 2024
Was going to UConn at the time. My girlfriend's best friend was on the Student Board of Governors at UMass and got us tickets. It threatened to rain most of the morning until the Dead played "Look's Like Rain" - the sky cleared up, the sun came out and the place went wild. Patty Smith was EXCELLENT !! They sold about 10,000 tickets for this UMass spring concert. About 40,000 people showed up.
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Setlist
Set 1
Set 2
Encore
Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)
Recordings on archive.org · 6
Top-rated source
gd1979-05-12.nak700.glassburg.willy.10345.shnf
nak300 > MC · ★ 5.00 (2 reviews) · 6,924 dl
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- gd1979-05-12.151040.nak300.gatto.hance.flac1644Audience FOB Recording · 1,670 dl
- gd1979-05-12.nak700.glassburg.willy.10345.shnfnak300 > MC · ★ 5.00 · 6,924 dl
- gd1979-05-12.nakcm300-glassberg.egert-sirmick.motb0034.85220.flac16Nakamichi CM300's > Sony 158SD > MAC 50ft. DFC Hand-Held · ★ 4.29 · 15,194 dl
- gd1979-05-12.set2.nak300.friend.andrewf.106433.flac24FOB AUD: 3x Nakamichi CM-300's > Nakamichi 550 (lead deck) > Sony TC-153SD (Tim's deck) > Maxell UD-XLII's. Set up FOB center aprx sixty feet from stage. · ★ 4.00 · 4,025 dl
- gd1979-05-12.set2.nak300.friend.andrewf.106434.flac16FOB AUD: 3x Nakamichi CM-300's > Nakamichi 550 (lead deck) > Sony TC-153SD (Tim's deck) > Maxell UD-XLII's. Set up FOB center aprx sixty feet from stage. · ★ 5.00 · 5,483 dl
- gd79-05-12.glassberg.vernon.18874.sbeok.shnfAudience Recording · ★ 4.34 · 65,066 dl