Set 1

Shakedown Street Me And My Uncle -> Big River Peggy-O Beat It On Down The Line Stagger Lee New Minglewood Blues Brown Eyed Women From The Heart Of Me I Need A Miracle

Set 2

Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain Estimated Prophet -> Eyes Of The World -> Drums -> Jam -> Not Fade Away -> Black Peter -> Around And Around -> Good Lovin'

Encore Casey Jones 

 

The Story of This Soundboard: This SBD comes from Vince Perrotti who gave it to Peter Hedeman with following notes: "This was my 18th birthday and a friend of mine was allowed to patch in. He gave me the boards on the 18th. It was a great show, especially for those of us who made the trip up on 11.25.78 when Jerry fell ill." Vince also mentioned that "I noticed as time went by that no one had these boards. I know January '79 boards are rare and I caught 8 shows that month and they were all smoking." So, thanks, Vince!

Notes: The beginning of Shakedown Street is marred by soundboard glitches and adjustments. At about 45 seconds, it finally gave out until 1:25 or so. The 0:40 gap was patched with gd1979-01-17.fob.glassberg.motb.0023.85101.flac24. Another gap of about 1.8 seconds a 10:33 was patched with the same source. 

 

Reviewer: thebone - Subject: Top 5 of '79This is a legendary show for good reason. Great tunes, and great sound quality thanks to Barry G!

 Blogs, Featured » Throwback Concert: Grateful Dead at New Haven Coliseum 1979

 

Capacity 11171 The New Haven Coliseum was a sports-entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Construction began in 1968 and was completed in 1972.

The arena's formal name was Veterans Memorial Coliseum, but most locals simply referred to it as "the Coliseum."

The Coliseum was built to replace the New Haven Arena, New Haven's prior indoor sports and entertainment venue. The Coliseum, as well as the neighboring K of C building, was designed by the architects Kevin Roche / John Dinkeloo & Associates. One interesting aspect of the arena's design was that the parking garage was built on top of the actual Coliseum structure; this was necessitated by a high water table in the area which made it overly difficult to construct sub-surface parking facilities. Though an interesting solution, this design was not very popular in the marketplace because of the quarter-mile helical ramps required to access the parking. Other features of the design, such as street storefronts and an exhibition hall, were never completed.

During the 1980s, the structure of the parking garages had deteriorated to the point where large canvas panels had to be attached to the outside to catch pieces of concrete that would occasionally drop off onto the sidewalk below. Renovations were made to correct that problem. The city shut down the facility after concluding that it was a drain on city coffers. However, the city did not hold any public hearings, referendum votes, or conduct any surveys, and several groups, local stakeholders, and the Coalition to Save Our Coliseum mounted a campaign to save and renovate the Coliseum, to no avail. Others in the community supported the plan to demolish the arena. Despite Mayor DeStefano's plan to close and demolish the building within six months, it ultimately took more than four years. Actual demolition work began in late October 2005 with removal of most of the arena area.

 

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