3/9/26 @ Goodyear Theatre, Akron, OH

[Tea]

5/16/1981
Barton Hall, Cornell University 
Ithaca, NY

 

Feel Like A Stranger-> Friend Of The Devil-> Me & My Uncle-> Big River, Althea-> CC Rider, Brown Eyed Women, Passenger, High Time-> Let It Grow-> Don't Ease Me In

 

Shakedown Street-> Bertha-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Spanish Jam-> Drums-> Truckin'-> Nobody's Fault But Mine-> Stella Blue-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> One More Saturday Night

E: Uncle John's Band

F: White Rabbit

[BillK522]

1981's representative in the 

Thirty Trips Around the Sun box.

As a sidenote this show has

been covered at Basement

Dance Parties.

First set kicked off BDP1.

Pre drums in BDP2.

Post space closed most

recent BDP28.

Sure everyone will be relieved

to know.

 

Praise DSO.

[John A]

Coincidental there were 5 Shakedown -> Berthas, all from '79 through '81, and 2 of them were at the '80 and '81 Barton Hall shows. Hmm...

 

This is a very good show, definitely better than Barton Hall '80 but of course not 5-8-77!

 

The 30 Trips inclusion is both an under the radar gem and a head scratcher. Before Stella the SBD cuts and it's an audience from there on out. The audience holds its own, but the drop-off in sound is quite obvious, and moreover sonicly incongruent.. Bold choosing that show given the partial SDB.  It's not like there isn't a treasure trove of unreleased '81 to chose from. Although many of the vault tapes have issues that year. This was early in the transition from Betty making the tape to Healy doing house sound AND archiving the music. Took him a few years to sort that out.