Harder Stadium
University of California
Santa Barbara, California
Saturday, May 25, 1974

U.S. Blues
Mexicali Blues
Deal
Jack Straw
Scarlet Begonias
Beat it on Down the Line
Brown Eyed Women
Me and My Uncle
Sugaree
El Paso
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Around and Around

Promised Land
Ship of Fools
Big River
Tennessee Jed
Truckin'
Let it Grow
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
One More Saturday Night

Casey Jones

"My first dead show. Brother passed out, my pal, our ride, busted for indecent exposure. Blonde bikini babe with bag of buds and bamboo bazooka bong. I'm the only memory for this mythic show.I can see,smell,& hear every moment. Purple weather balloon spewing purple gas. Sheriff's mounted on horse back. Clown face speaker stacks smiling in the wind. The twilight zone had opened up and sucked me inside. Haven't been the same since...thank god! Have a board tape of this show. Yeah..opening act was Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen, Maria Muldar, then Blue Grass Band."

shockman, archive.org

"went to this show... girlfriends friend was on ucsb entertainment committee, so we got free ticket for being "crowd control" on the line. we were given cool t-shirts with "no glass, no drugs, no knives" (or something close to that) stenciled on them as well as a blue "steal your face" skull. Got in right before the show, which was GREAT!!!
unfortunately David Ross stole my t-shirt out of my drawer while visiting from Hawaii shortly after....
I was on the Jerry side up front, so maybe saw Teadhead LOL...
this is the show where the huge "wall of sound" central suspended speaker "column" swayed a touch dangerously in the wind before the boys came on, as a toddler played beneath it...
The band wobbled out of the gate with an unsteady US Blues, but from there, it was upward and onward!!!
The show ended as the sun set in the west, and we headed back to my buddies house in SB for a couple of lines and a toke or two...
As to Elvin, one of the all-time great live entertainers, Teadead is right, he didn't play, having played a gig in SB the night before, I believe..."

-srfnson, dead.net
Lineage: DAE/reSHN of MSR - Dick Latvala's cass - DAT - mastered to CD-R on an HHB CDR-850 - .shn