Shakedown Street http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/shak.html http://home.frognet.net/~scott/Shakedown.jpg http://www.ju-jutsu-bedburg.de/shakedown%20street%2002.JPG Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia miracle>shakedown from 1/15/79 is a nice one 11/29/79 Cleveland Public Auditorium Shakedown into Samson especially the end of Shakedown where he pulls some heavy stuff out the funk bag. I love shakedowns.My current favourite is from an odd show ...March 13th, 1981, Utica. I am not claiming it is the best but it is totally worth a listen or two. 8/3/82 Kansas City sssssmmmmmokin' Shakedown to start Set II. This is my favorite Shakedown of all time, known by me as the Starlight Shakedown. The licks traded by Jerry and Brent toward the end will blow your mind. 4-26-84 Providence RI the Merriweather Post Pavillion in 6-30-85 is tremendous. 11/24/78 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 1/15/79 Springfield Civic Center Arena, Springfield, MA 5/7/79 Kirby Fieldhouse, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 10/25/79 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT 10/31/79 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/24/81 Rainbow Theater, London, England 7/5/81 Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK 12/5/81 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN 12/31/84 San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (So Many Roads box set) 6/30/85 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD Honorable Mention: 12/28/78 Golden Hall, Community Concourse, San Diego, CA 10/7/80 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA (Beyond Description box set version of Dead Set) 9/12/81 Greek Theatre, U. of California, Berkeley, CA 4/6/82 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 7/6/87 Pittsburgh Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA Historically Significant: 8/31/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (First) 9/16/78 Gizah Sound and Light Theater, Cairo, Egypt (Egypt) 9/10/91 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (w/Branford Marsalis) 7/9/95 Soldier Field, Chicago, IL (Last)