DEADHEADS...TOP 5 SHOWS.....

Qdrome,
You're thinking of the '82 US Festival. I know because I was there, pressed right up against the boards in front of the Dead as they came on in the morning. Awesome show! I also know that the event was extensively recorded because there were cameras in my face all day. However, having emailed Steve Wozniak a couple years ago regarding this very topic, I learned that none of the footage is available for release due to legal/contractual snafus with the various parties involved. I've found bits and pieces of the '82 event on ebay (personal video camera stuff), but nothing worth getting, and nothing on the Dead. I guess we'll just have to wait...

Thank you for the imfo. I too was there and yes breakfast with the Dead was great. I remember the keyboard player spooning Granola out of a bowl that was placed on the keyboards and Jerry kidding that he drank his orange juice already.

Englishtown, New Jersey 1977. Special to me because my first show.

But I recently obtained a very good sound quality (HDCD) bootleg of it and was surprised how well it confirmed my memory of the show.

I have the cassette of Englishtown. Obviously haven't listened to it in years, but remember it to be killer. I think it's one of Dick's Picks.I need to get CD. Lehigh Univ back in '81 was pretty awesome. (at least I think it was '81)

I guess I would go with:

Veneta 8/27/1972 (82 is good too)
Portland 5/8/1980 (opened second set with Fire on the Mt and Mt. St. Helens blew...I still remember a bunch of dead heads wandering around in the ash falling and the city being really quiet after the show. Sound is much better on recordings than it was live)
San Diego 8/7/1971 has really good Jerry & Phil synergy
Oakland 2/17/1979 (Kieth and Donna's last show)
Eugene 6/4/1982 My all time favorite has to be a non-dead show...Jerry and John Kahn did a couple of shows at the South Eugene High School Auditorium in June of 1982 and the second show was amazing. At one point they paused for what seemed like a long time and the audience was in a trance, you could have heard a pin drop. Jerry broke it by saying "pretty quiet out there" and people began calling tunes, clapping, etc.