The Grateful Dead’s “All The Years Live” archival video series is celebrating the new year by looking back at the band’s 12/31/78 gig at the historic Winterland Arena in San Francisco.
The gig was immortalized in the Dead’s The Closing of Winterland live album, wherein this “St. Stephen” arrived in the midst of the band’s third set.
“In and out of the repertoire it goes…’St. Stephen’ was around for a long time, but not always around,” notes GD archivist/legacy manager David Lemieux. “It was played consistently 1968-1971, then gone until its return in 1976, when it was played quite a bit through 1976 and 1977, into early 1978. It then returned for three versions twice, 12/30/78 to 1/10/79, and from 10/11/83 to 10/31/83, after which it was never heard live again.”
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Watch the 12/31/78 “St. Stephen” below:
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Donnie
January 3, 2020 at 9:38 amCause from that comes no more
Widely Available
January 2, 2020 at 5:04 pmThis is sold as an excellent dvd set already. What is the point of releasing already widely owned material???