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21 - Winterland Arena, San Francisco, DECember 27, 1977

3/27/2017

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  • Winterland was promoter Bill Graham's home arena. It closed on New Year's Eve with the famous "The Closing of Winterland" on New Year's Eve, 1978. Demolished 1985. 5,400 capacity.
  • Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, The J. Geils Band, The Who, Queen, Slade, Boston, Cream, Yes, Kiss, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, Van Morrison, The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, The Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company w/ Janis Joplin, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Ten Years After, Rush, Electric Light Orchestra, Genesis, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Golden Earring, Grand Funk Railroad, Humble Pie, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Robin Trower, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Sha Na Na, Loggins and Messina, Lee Michaels, Heart, Journey, Deep Purple, J.J. Cale, Spirit, Chambers Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Foghat, Mountain, B.B. King, and Elvis Costello. Led Zeppelin played at Winterland.

Brown Eyed Women    5:23           341 plays
Cassidy                          4:26          340
                          9:49

Candyman                     6:39           271
Friend of the Devil      7:54            306
                          14:33

Estimated Prophet      10:15           390
He's Gone                    10:10           327
                          20:25

                          44:47
  • Dead played Winterland 59 times beginning in 1968.
  • In 1977, Jerry Garcia appeared in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as an extra during the crowd scenes in India.
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20 - St. Louis Arena - May 15, 1977

3/27/2017

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Notes:
  • St. Louis Arena (known as the Checkerdome from 1977 to 1983) was an indoor arena located in St. Louis, Missouri, that stood from 1929 to 1999.
  • Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent, Sammy Hagar, Michael Jackson, ZZ Top, Pink Floyd and others played there.
  • Now a Hampton Inn, some office buildings that house, among other things radio stations sits there.
  • This was a Sunday night show following a Friday night at the Auditorium in Chicago and in front of a Tuesday show at the University of Alabama. 
  • Rolling Stone called 1977 "The Grateful Dead's Greatest Year."


St. Stephen                      5:15            182 plays
Iko Iko                              3:54            185
Not Fade Away               9:38            661
Sugar Magnolia              9:17             593
                                        27.04

Funiclali Funicular           .41               19
Dancing in the Street   18:35​             127  
                                        19:12

Samson and Delilah       6:20             365
Jack-A-Roe                      6:01             116 
                                        12:21

Total                                58:37                
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