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This is the first They Love Each Other in over 1½yrs and the first without the bridge section. An anomaly on the official could have been easily fixed. Donna is good but they are slightly unsure. Matt Kelly then comes out to blow the next bunch (only heard here and there). Franks is picked up later (in the next year they do a Slipknot! into an NFA and one into a Samson). Slipknot! is the third one but the first not going into a Franks - they call a halt when Jer breaks a string, and he's absent on the closing riffs. Jer forgets a verse but it's warm, cozy and great. They played one set Opener Help on the Way is the third one, but just the second with lyrics.

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All four '75 shows were free shows or benefits : 3/23 was ostensibly a benefit, 6/17 was a memorial & benefit, 8/13 was an an industry showcase, and this date was a free park show (an Aug 22 show as Grateful Dead had been cancelled). The Dead played 40-50 free shows - chiefly '66-'70, not counting benefits - but this was the last (they played a set as part of the Graham memorial in the park, in '91).

Jer played Wolf earlier in the day with Diga Rhythm Band, but played his Travis Bean with the Dead. By the set's end, however, he was described as euphoric (albeit most of the band supposedly got dosed, which hadn't happened in years). Weir had joked to friends that 'San Francisco was about to hear the rustiest band in show business' and that 'the audience would probably end up holding torches and pitchforks', a comment that fit the first two shows of the year but not the recent one. Still, the crowd size was estimated at 20k-40k. All low-key, you were unlikely to hear about it if you did not live in the Bay Area or even on the peninsula. The Dead were not announced in advance, and the show was promoted as Starship & Friends. Kantner then asked Jer to open for them at short notice, and said he was surprised when Jer said yes (possibly because the new album had just reached stores - without touring plans).

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The Haight-Ashbury People's Ballroom put on a series of free shows - this one was Unity Fair '75, and they had successfully booked Jefferson Starship. First public show introduced as Grateful Dead in almost a year. Second of only two times in '75 billed as Grateful Dead. First time they played with Jefferson Starship in 5 years.