Bob Weir Band opened. Here is Dan McDonald's account of this night: How Sweet It Was! What a show! It was one of, it not the greatest moment in Jerry’s playing career, and was the greatest moment in Keith’s career. Yes, I’m serious. No I’m not waxing on about my first show. I’m referring to a tape we’ve listened to for over 20 years. Twenty years as one of the best tapes we’ve ever heard. An audience tape with some hiss, and not enough sound. Even so the music comes though. It was my first Dead experience. It’s not always good to have the best first… I was much too much of a neophyte to completely comprehend what was going on. That’s taken twentytwo years to understand and confirm. The Harder They Come. Whew, what a blow out! Not so much the blow out fanning of Cornell and Mac Court, but sweet butterfly high notes.Jerry and Keith interplaying together on the jams, one leaves off and the other takes over. Flawless music, nothing’s ever been as good. Next came Mission In The Rain. This was religious! I swear the hand of God touched them that night. If you ever get a chance to hear this sell your soul! Then a powerful version of They Love Eachother. Then one of the crowning musical expressions, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. Keiths lovely, subtle, angelic piano playing begins to build into the song. Later the jamming interplay of Keith’s piano and Jerry’s guitar are one and the same. Sometime through the song one notices that it’s Keith hitting the climaxing high note. How many times does this happen? That’s the thing about this show. Jerry and Keith are joined at the brain. One thinks it and the other’s already done it. All of the shows feature jams where they each play, but I’ve never heard anything like this. The other thing about a JGB show that some people fell compels them to Grateful Dead heights, is the obvious, it’s all Jerry. On this night Keith is playing piano like Jerry plays guitar, and Jerry is playing like nobody else can. There were many other songs, all filled with the same unusually symbiotic playing between the two of them. The first set ended with It’s No Use and The Night They Drove Old Dixey Down. That was enough to raise old Robert E Lee from the grave! After a hasty ovation Jerry returned to do the quintessential Jerry Garcia Band tune; Rueben and Cherise. It was awesome. If the first set was an 11 on a scale of one to ten the second was at least a ten. Not that it was any less of a stellar performance; it was just second. I imagine the second set had as many, or more, of those classic, intertwined jams between Keith and Jerry than the first. The classic opener summed it up; How Sweet It Is. From then on to the end it was one of the great shows ever seen. There was Mystery Train, Catfish John, Second that Emotion, Love In The Afternoon, Lonesome and a Long Way From Home. What a great show!