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Giza Sound and Light Theater, Cairo Egypt, 9-16-78 Bertha Good love Candy man Looks like Rain Row Jimmy El Paso Ramble Minglewood Deal Hamza El Din Ollin Arageed>Fire on the Mtn Iko Iko I Need a Miracle All over now Shakedown Drums Truckin Stella Around and Around Sunrise One more sat nite Jeff said the Sunrise was supposed to be in the middle of the second set but the original set list didn’t show it. I’m fucking glad we got it tho cause there are few things I love more than Lisa singing that song. Another stellar performance from the best band in the land. The Shakedown alone was worth the price of admission.

Much larger crowd Saturday night. Lots of slower tunes in the first set, it got almost lethargic for a minute there. It didn't help that two couples right behind us were having a book club discussion during the set until we politely asked them to either hold their conversation elsewhere or STFU. They moved. I pegged this for 77/78 during the first set but knew it was Egypt the instant the second set started. The Hamza percsussion into Fire was suh-weet. There were some hard transitions in the second set. Sunrise was supposed to go between It's All Over Now and Shakedown. They left the stage after Around and Around (which had both really nice and some flubs in the interaction between Rob and Lisa when they brought it down), and when they came out for the encore Jeff said, "We messed up. We're going to rectify that right now." So we got a two song encore. Cotter and I discussed the Egypt shows a couple of years ago, I was saying if I had a time machine those are the shows I would go back to first. He disagreed, said the music wasn't all that great and rattled off a half dozen shows he'd go to first. He was right - without the pyramids as a backdrop this was a totally unremarkable show. Of course, it was still a Dead show, so that's not a complaint.

That looks pretty tasty. Miss all of you and love each and every one of you. So many memories. So much learning. I know I do like every weekend but I had to miss these. Excited for Jackson hole. Hope to see some of you there. We can bring that old school community feel back. Brian isn't the only one that misses it but it's not gone. It still exist in a big way. It's in each and every one of us. We can choose to express it and live in it. I've always felt privileged and honored to be apart of what is a subset of the GD scene known as the dark star family. It's truly a community. love is real