Video of The Grateful Dead New Years Eve 1978 - This is a TRULY EPIC Concert... Filmed by KQED TV for Broadcast to The People of The Bay Area... High Fidelity...

The Closing of Winterland (12/31/78)  It Started at Midnight With a New years Eve Celebration and Ends at 4 AM... Includes a Dark Star/The Other One/Dark Star... GEE, That’s Something You Don’t See Everyday... 

It’s Wonderful to see so many people that Have Passed On... Alive and Healthy... Bill Graham, Ken Kesey, John Belushi, Jerry Garcia, Keith the Piano Player... 

Jerry actually Jumps Up and Down during the Song Johnny B. Goode... 

For Some Unknown Reason The Video of New Years Eve 1978 is NO LONGER Available... It's Marked Private...

As An Alternative... Try This One...
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8rVM8GlD4c&t=220s 
During the Brent Era... Truckin' Up To Buffalo... 

This was During the Keith/Donna Era... So It Has Some Great Singing By Donna and Bob - Like Samson and Delilah... and The Rascals Song Good Lovin'  

The Drums/Space Section Has a Harmonica Player and Three Drummers... and Ken Babbs on Penny Whistle... Ken Kesey inside a Sculpture That Looks Like a Seashell Playing Bells... 

The Concert Starts With Balloons Dropping from the Ceiling Bouncing on the Dancers and the Song Sugar Magnolia... then they Play Scarlet Begonias, Fire on the Mountain, Me and My Uncle, Johnny Cash's Big River, Friend of the Devil, It's All Over Now, Stagger Lee and Then They Finish Sugar Magnolia by Playing the Sunshine Daydream CODA... 

The OTHER Bands on the Show Were The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Blues Brothers... They are not Included in this Video... But Dan Ackroyd Does Do the New Years Eve Countdown and The Announcement of the Giant Flying Joint Float that travels over the Crowd... 

Great TV Concert - Jerry Garcia Symphonic - Warren Haynes and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Red Rocks - PLUS - Original Psychedelic Artwork For Sale Painted onto COFFEE CUPS from my Zazzle Webstore...

AXSTV plays Three Dead Concerts but NEVER "The Grateful Dead Movie" (The one with the Animation at The Beginning) - They Play "Festival Express" and "Dear Jerry" (many Excellent People play Dead songs at Meriweather Post Pavilion) and Symphonic Red Rocks Only...

I guess they Have not Paid the Corporation for Broadcast Rights... I wish they Would...

I have a Fondness for "The Grateful Dead Movie" because I was there... On the night they Played Truckin'... They Did a Rousing Rendition... The played thru the Wall of Sound at Winterland in San Francisco and It Worked! Unlike the University of Reno Concert where the Tweeter Speakers in Wall Blew Up and they had to cut the Concert Short... But we all had a Great time in Reno after the Show... 

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Original ART for Sale!

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Rainbow Colored Peace Sign 15 OZ Coffee Cup for sale:

Peace Sign Rainbow Two-Tone Coffee Mug
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One Mile Recreation Area in Chico, CA Two-Tone Coffee Mug... For Sale... 

 I walked out to the center of the SYCAMORE POOL and took two photographs... one looking Upstream and another looking Downstream... These photographs were selected by UC Berkeley as and example of the WPA Construction during the 1930s...

One Mile Recreation Area in Chico CA Two-Tone Coffee Mug
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Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics 15 OZ Coffee Cup

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics Two-Tone Coffee Mug
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American Indian Coloring Book Art 

Two-Tone 15 OZ Coffee Mug

Line drawing of a Man with Stars in his Eyes 

wearing a Headdress... on a swirly background...

American Indian Coloring Book Art Two-Tone Coffee Mug
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Diamonds and Rainbows Two-Tone 15 OZ Coffee Mug.

The background was designed by a Javascript Program that Calculates the Color of squares in a HTML Table...and a Diamond made out of Circular Rainbows...

Diamonds and Rainbows Two-Tone Coffee Mug
by gregvan

Rainbow Spiral Pyramid Two-Tone Coffee Mug

Both a Digital Tie Dye image- mirrored and Power Beams coming out of Magic Pyramids - the Mirrored script letters say: Rainbow Spiral

Rainbow Spiral Pyramid Two-Tone Coffee Mug
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Flying Saucer over The Rugged North Coast Two-Tone 15 OZ Coffee Mug

Photo of Trinidad (near Eureka, California) and a Drawing of a Friendly Alien waving at YOU from inside his Flying Saucer... Silly Black and White Line Drawing...

Flying Saucer over The Rugged North Coast Two-Tone Coffee Mug
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In 1972 We went to see The Rolling Stones at San Francisco's Winterland... TWICE in one day!

First, I was unable to buy tickets at the brand new "Ticketron" service at Macy's Department store. The computer system was incredibly slow and a huge pile of us teenagers just lay down on the beds in the store for hours, then we were told: All sold out! So I bought two tickets from a scalper I met thru a newspaper ad in the Times Observer.

Then, on the day of the show I drove my Girlfriend Liz and two of her friends... We went to the afternoon concert. I was really bored during the Stevie Wonder performance because I was anxious to see the STONES! It was a truly exciting show. Similar to the record "Get Your YA YAs Out".

Then we went out to dinner at Fisherman's Wharf. Then we went BACK to Winterland and Debbie started crying loudly and told the policeman: "The Black Boys Stole our Tickets!" Amazingly, the policeman believed her and we were all waved into the concert! Another exciting show... and then we went home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_American_Tour_1972

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterland_Ballroom

I was fortunate to see many rock concerts at Winterland and The Fillmore West.

The Youngbloods, Chicago Transit Authority, Lee Michaels, Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Traffic, The Allman Brothers,  David Bowie (on Halloween Night), Peter Frampton, Foghat, J Geils Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Sons of Champlin...

Other Great Shows were: Led Zeppelin/Lee Michaels/The Tubes at Kesar Stadium, SNACK at Kesar, George Harrison/Ravi Shankar/Billy Preston in Oakland, Tower of Power at The Chateau Liberte in Los Gatos, Ike and Tina Turner Review at San Jose Civic, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets at San Jose Civic, The Moody Blues in Oakland, Gordon Lightfoot in a Casino in Oroville, James Taylor in Columbia Maryland, Black Sabbath, Styx, Michael Jackson ZZ Top at the Capitol Center in Landover Maryland, Crosby Stills and Nash with the Grateful Dead in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Loggins and Messina in the Football Field in Chico, Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Boys Gym in Chico, Paul McCartney at RFK Stadium...

and many Concerts in the Park on Friday Nights in Chico... Especially Jeff Pershing... and Concerts in the Park in Arcata... Absynth Quintet, Humboldt Calypso Band, Blue Rhythm Revue, Whoever Bill the Librarian is Drumming For, Darryl Cherney and the Chernobyls, Fickle Hillbillies, Calamity Jane... and the Humboldt Folklife Festival in Blue Lake, California...