Sunday, March 31, 1985

This is a 5 Star Audience source bootleg. Great ambience to this recording; put me right back there. A very high energy show, but some struggling to get through songs with the words and tempo intact. It was G.A. seating, so you could go anywhere, but it was too crowded on the floor for me after a while. I spent the intermission looking for a place to spend the second set, but I left for the aisle as soon as they opened with my first Aiko.

This is the favorite of all the dead shows I attended. Drove up from Oswego State College in Upstate NY on spring break after a night of partying in Boston on the way. Had a great Lobster dinner on the Warf with a salad and steamed clams appetizers and beers all for under $25 that afternoon. Downtown Portland is small enough that it was wall to wall deadheads. I think the vast majority of those attending had partaken in the purple gels that were available in abundance.