New Year's Eve at Winterland
On Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 27, 29, 30, and 31, 1977, the Grateful Dead performed at Winterland, in a run of concerts promoted by Bill Graham. Their opening act on New Year's Eve was the New Riders of the Purple Sage. [6] During 1970 and 1971, the New Riders had often opened for the Dead, but this was the first time they had done so in the San Francisco Bay Area, their home territory, since the summer of 1974. [5]
At the time of this concert, the New Riders' lineup consisted of John Dawson on guitar and vocals, David Nelson on guitar and vocals, Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar, Stephen Love on bass and vocals, and Patrick Shanahan on drums. Dawson and Nelson had co-founded NRPS with Jerry Garcia in 1969. Cage had replaced Garcia on pedal steel when Garcia left the band in 1971. First Love, and then Shanahan, had joined the New Riders more recently; both were former members of Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band. Earlier in 1977 this lineup had released the studio album Marin County Line .
Most of the December 29 Grateful Dead concert, along with a few songs from December 30, was released as the album Dick's Picks Volume 10 .
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