Musicians Jerry Garcia - electric guitar, vocals David Kemper - drums Gloria Jones - vocals Jacklyn LaBranch - vocals John Kahn - electric bass Melvin Seals - keyboards

Set 1 Let's Spend The Night Together [1] , Stop That Train , Someday Baby , Run For The Roses , Waiting For A Miracle , Mississippi Moon , I Hope It Won't Be This Way Always [2] , Deal Set 2 Harder They Come , And It Stoned Me , Knockin' On Heaven's Door , Think , Don't Let Go , That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) , Midnight Moonlight [1] Last known performance (by JGB) 1976-01-28 (552 events ago) [2] First performance

• Friday, January 27, 1989 finds Garcia healthy and frisky after, I believe, an extended Maui scuba vacation. This is his first public appearance since the New Year's Eve Dead show, and the first Garcia Band gig since early December (2-3), also at the Orpheum. The Dead would play four shambolic Chinese New Year shows at Oakland's Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium starting a week from this night, so 1/27 really does feel like warming up.

• It's hard to listen to any show in isolation, which is what I'd really like to do here - put some fresh ears on a show that has a positive connotation in my head, just listen to it on its own terms. But I can't. I know I am a fan of the next night, and the next Orpheum weekend (March 3-4), which I also really like, and the rest of the spring, which is a peak period for me.

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