Of course, it wasn’t 1978 going into 1979, when the Dead closed out San Francisco’s famed Winterland Arena with an eight-hour concert that included a dawn breakfast of ham and eggs and champagne, the Blues Brothers, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Bill Murray, a rendition of “Dark Star” that has long descended into myth, and so many psychedelics and stimulants that no one involved would remember it had they not filmed the festivities.
You can see it most starkly when he belts out songs like “Loser” and “Sugaree,” which previously belonged to his late collaborator, but now seem to exist in a timeless communal ownership between band and fans. With most of the baby boomer rock gods dead or approaching retirement, Weir has retained a visceral intensity. His only remaining active peers left are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Neil Young, and Robert Plant whenever he decides to gig.
There was also the clear understanding that this is not the Fillmore in 1972. To get close to Bill Walton in the main pit could easily run you a thousand dollars a ticket, meaning that the crowd was largely comprised of well-heeled Bay Area hippies-turned-tech-entrepreneurs and their children. The band’s unvarnished Americana spirituals were sung just underneath corporate suites sponsored by Verizon and Adobe, Pepsi and Google Cloud.
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