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The Gorge Report

Robert Hunter ~3:45-4:45
Allman Brothers Band ~5:00-7:10
The Dead ~8:10>9:20, 10:05-12:30

Uhhh,....well, I'm normally polite you know, but Holy Shit!!!

Hunter was delicious, the Allman Brothers Band smoked, and The Dead, well, you've read about those shows, maybe even been at one. This was one of those times!

It will likely be Monday night before I get this completed so in the meantime here is a bit I wrote during halftime:

The Allmans cooked southern fired rock for two hours. Trucks and Haynes were on fire the entire set, dueling, trading licks, weaving stories...hell who needs fireworks tomorrow. Who'd have thought it possible that the crowd would have anything left for The Dead.

Who'd have thought?

That they would come out, lift everyone off their feet and toss them like rag dolls for the entire set.

This is why people go to show after show!

Yes, it still happens. Set 1 at the Gorge was, to not coin a phrase, a klller! Sure, Boise 2nd set smoked but it was mere warmup for this.

Little did we know at that time that this was not going to be a one set thing.