Slipped Disc Records The Grateful Dead Farewell To Winterland 3 lp, RARE,EXC. C
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Up for sale is The Grateful Dead’s Farewell to Winterland, a 3 lp (Not Just 2) set released on Slipped Disc Records in 1979! This is an unofficial release from Deadheads, Ltd. Paris, France. Records Made in Monaco. * And all 3 lps still look fantastic and hardly ever played! * Please see my six pictures, Thank You!
SF (San Franciso) Gate.com:
"Bill Graham put a billboard on the side of Winterland for New Year's Eve 1978, the night the Grateful Dead closed the dilapidated old hall, which had an appointment with the wrecker's ball. "They're not the best at what they do, " it read, "they're the only ones that do what they do." On the sidewalk under the sign, a Deadhead waiting days in advance of the show held a sign of his own: "1535 Days Since Last S.F. 'Dark Star.' "
In a news conference two weeks before the event, producer Graham speculated he could have sold 500,000 tickets. Radio advertising executive Jeff Nemerovski, sensing an opportunity, was able to persuade KQED-TV to broadcast the proceedings live, while KSAN-FM would simulcast a stereo soundtrack.
Frank Zamacona was a young floor director on the broadcast that night. It was an evening he never forgot, and when he found himself working on another video project with the band eight years ago, he started digging out the videotapes from that New Year's Eve broadcast. "I'm not a Deadhead," Zamacona said. "I've been trying to put it out there so people will understand what it was like."
KQED-TV will air an 80-minute selection Zamacona edited from those tapes at 9 p.m. Saturday, the first time these performances have been seen since they were originally broadcast, a pledge-drive sneak preview of the nationwide PBS broadcast in November to coincide with the release of a two-DVD set that contains the complete, unedited version of the epic four-hour performance.
"We played all night, till dawn," said drummer Mickey Hart.
"We were pretty on our game," said guitarist Bob Weir. "As the night wore on, I'm not sure we got a whole lot tighter."
A huge banner of the Dead's skull and roses emblem always hung from the rafters of Winterland like the home team's pennant. The Dead played the old ice rink at Post and Steiner 59 times beginning in 1968, including four New Year's Eves. The night Janis Joplin died in a seedy Los Angeles motel room, the Dead worked Winterland with the Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service (another evening, coincidentally, broadcast on KQED). That was also the last night that founding members Marty Balin of the Airplane and John Cipollina of Quicksilver played with their respective groups.
The Dead, who recorded some of their 1971 live album at the hall, took over the place for five nights in 1974 to film "The Grateful Dead Movie." Another five-night run in 1978 celebrated the band's return from Egypt."
Tracklist, 12/31/78, Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA:
Set 1:
Sugar Magnolia
Scarlet Begonias
Fire On The Mountain
Me And My Uncle
Big River
Friend Of The Devil
It's All Over Now
Stagger Lee
From The Heart Of Me
Sunshine Daydream
Set 2:
Samson And Delilah
Ramble On Rose
I Need A Miracle
Terrapin Station
Playin' In The Band
Drums
Not Fade Away
Around And Around
Set 3:
Dark Star
The Other One
Dark Star
Wharf Rat
St. Stephen
Good Lovin'
Casey Jones
Johnny B. Goode
And We Bid You Goodnight
Cover: Strong VG+ (still real strong and sturdy with no seam splits and hardly any fraying on the spine, just has creasing at the opening on the right and light ringwear, please use your ZOOM feature to see it better, Thank You)
< Yes, I'll be happy to ship this album International, please just email me before bidding for your country's shipping rate, Thank You! >
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