Terrapin Station The Grateful Dead live @ Englishtown NJ 1977

Recorded September 3, 1977 at Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ. Download the entire concert @ Dead.net.

[@Moreoff]

Dude, it was insane! I found my car, don't ask me how, after sunrise parked on the "wrong" side of the street like three feet from the curb. I can't believe it wasn't towed! It was covered in dust and dirt and looked like it was left and abandoned in the Sahara desert and camped upon by roaming nomadic Tuareg's. Two summons's were tucked under a wiper blade. LOL! I had a great spot during the show, smack dab in front of Phil Lesh. So much other great memories of those days!

[@edhuydic2387]

Truly one of the best concerts I ever attended. A happening.

[@joepisciotta2269]

This was the best Dead show I ever saw. Drove out with car loads of Friends from Long Island just turned 19. What Great time to grow up.

[@ELKWILDLOVE]

I had that stub for 30yrs!! the ONLY stub I EVER KEPT in all the shows I've seen!!

[@anomaalii5546]

I'm L0VIN the authentic 0le school ArTy tic kid...

[@briancashman7616]

I grew up in Englishtown and was only 9yrs old at the time and too young to attend the show; at least by myself. I had no idea who or what the grateful dead were but my folks did and we're pretty much against the idea of taking us but when my dad realized this was a peaceful crowd with no marauding gangs of bikers, he loaded us in his a WV wagon and took us to the show. Well, not inside the show but as close as I e could drive; we lived about 2 miles away. He let a bunch hippies sit on the hood and took a back road to pension rd where we stopped and parked at a friend of his then we walked to near the entrance of Raceway Park and hung out for 20 minutes or so listing to the music and people watching. I remember the music sounding so good and people were all so nice, it branded a permanent groove in me that marked the beginning of a long journey of well over 100 dead shows and at least that many post Jerry. I regret not being able to go into the show but was eternally grateful to my father who took us their, my sisters as well to experience this wonder and most amazing event that this small town had never seen and to this day has nothing coming close. What an amazing experience for a 9yr old kid.

[@briancashman7616]

Thank you Giacomo, my favorite Grateful Dead song

[@Floridapirate1]

+Delicious Toast cool... I was there... had a great time, glad you did too.... the spice must flow!!

[@tombstone1841]

Brian Cashman you're not going to believe this but I was also at that show,I was 19, had long hair and my friend and I rode about 2 miles on the hood of an orange VW wagon,talk about DejaVW.....

[@stephenmahon6714]

I was 16 , we seen Lynyrd Skynyrd in July of 77 at the mid Hudson civic center , Poughkeepsie NY .. hell of a summer ! Summers end show was the close to one crazy summer ✨💫✨⚡️❤️⚡️❤️

[@stevenherkomer]

One of the best shows I ever saw

[@jperryfan]

First Dead show, Took bus from Port Authority and got separated from our other friend who couldn't get on the bus. Believe it or not we actually found him right before the Dead went on. Only at a Dead show!

[@trustyetman1678]

All roads lead to the show

[@tombstone1841]

Next morning, woke up behind an abandoned fuel station on Rt9, walked all the way to that spot and passed out. Stepped out in the road, stuck my thumb out, 2nd car stopped, turned out to be a close friend from my home town, took me right to my crib, only after a Dead show.

[@gwensperling7098]

I was there an it was a treat that someone recorded it. The He's Gone was unbelievable. I met some guy, we hung, he helped me find my car, even wondered if I had one. I recall him saying are you sure you have a car. We found it and I drove him. Lot's of great memories. Great guy. Wouldn't mind if he found this a dropped a line. It was so much fun.

[@joepisciotta2269]

19 at the time 30 of us came in from the Island to see this show. Great times Great friends and one big party !!

[@davemo65]

A rare and different tune indeed. My favorite '77 show. Yes, even more so than the much venerated Cornell gig.

[@gwensperling7098]

Hey Mike, Thanks so much for putting this up. I completely forgot they played Bertha!

[@danrea8188]

I graduated HS in 1977, My girlfriend Ann, her brother and i were about the first 50 People in the night before the concert. We slept about 20 feet from the stage and enjoyed the concert there the next day. Some thoughtful roadie put a garden hose with running water into the crowd. The only water we got that day, turned everything to mud. I abandoned my sleeping bag. Didn't see Ann's brother until the show was over. Don't know what he got into, but he wasn't quite the same after that. Now here I am Jamming with the Dead on KZbin some 40 odd years later.

[@3681pokey]

Quite possibly the best stadium show I've seen the Dead play...

[@tundratunes]

very cool! i was 16 and had already seen Johnny Winter, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc in NYC but this was only my 2nd of an eventual 40-50 Dead shows. the crowd was so big i was scared to leave where we were encamped as i'd never find my way back. we had a small arsenal of comestibles with us, all put to good use. we left while Terrapin was playing to drive back to upstate NY and although we had parked WAY far away (we arrived maybe 6 a.m.), we heard the the final chords loud & clear at the car.

[@edhuydic2387]

One of the finest concerts ever...thousands of people and fun and peace.

[@idahoolson]

fun and peace, so true!

[@stevenherkomer]

@@idahoolson Yes it was a great show was with my girlfriend .

[@jameskelly5781]

Concert in my hometown got me on the bus

[@edderengowski5003]

Great show. Hitched from first day as a freshman at Rutgers all my myself but never felt alone.

[@scotmoser8716]

After seeing clips from last night show in Santa Clara I went back to this show as it was an amazing experience to say the least but looking back to being 22 years old is enjoyable now at age 60

[@3681pokey]

I was 24 when I saw this show, I'm now 63 and I'm still blown away listening to this show over the years, The Dead were like no other band..

[@LIPA516]

I was there also,... bought a skate board from a kid watching hundreds of people walking to the concert all we had in there was beer and peanut butter sandwiches.. great concert... we found our selves sleeping in the parking lot of a diner the next morning...

[@wharfratable]

Changed the course of my life

[@wharfratable]

Then we all just left 😉🤷‍♂️

[@danielcallahan5404]

Grateful Dead for ever

[@timflynn2136]

Drove up to concert from Beach Haven NJ in 1973 Yellow VW bug. Great Concert

[@Newtonian40059]

Gotta be top 25 Dead shows ever....

[@deaddog707]

Great to read all these stories. Didn't make this show but did many others and these tales make for wonderful reminscing. Thanks to all for keeping the spirit alive...

[@antimurphy8212]

I grew up only 10 miles from Raceway Park. Unfortunately I was only 2 when this show took place.

[@be7484]

Me too, but I was 11 months old.

[@mark07421]

Drove from north jersey at 18 following a friend who was speeding almost flipped a vw beetle with 4 people trying to make the exit but landed it the night before camped out in some field were some of the first ones in got about 50 feet from stage what a show !

[@ELKWILDLOVE]

What an Experience,Barely made it back to Boston!! WELL WORTH IT!!

[@idahoolson]

what a trip it was, the gang from middletown south was there and had a great day and night, WAY cool of a show!

[@robertbergstrom7029]

Thanks for making this available. I remember Trucking, Eyes of the World, Casey Jones. Fantastic.

[@3681pokey]

One of the best "Eyes of The World'" ever..

[@kennyhuchko1834]

Casey jones was not played

[@ELKWILDLOVE]

We slept in a parking lot and the cops were so COOL with wakeup TIME!!LOL

[@BigRray]

drove from LI with my friend Jimmy Kishanuk, spent the day/night best concert ever, I remember a couple of people pushing from the front going back and a few mins later they had one more guy with them heading to the stage he was saying im going to have a baby as he went past me, I rember seeing a heliocpter leaving and an anouncement that a baby was born at that concert, pretty cool.

[@susieq8924]

I remember the Baby! I think they named him Gerry!

[@chefbo297]

We were there, Jerry playing his new Travis Bean guitar..

[@smokynmonkee5054]

we got to Englishtown late Friday night in a red Willies w/no top, parked on the side of the road, saw an overturned Good Humor truck. They let the crowd in around 4am Saturday morning, we put down a blanket and had a cooler, I fell asleep and when I woke up there were thousands of people behind us ! we tried to find water, people were sinking in the mud near the port a johns, it was so HOT...I saw a stand w/cyclops posters and HELLS ANGELS were on top of the trailers that surrounded the concert

[@fredbrewer8282]

Was there Bro!

[@hockeybich13]

wow... its great reading all your old head comments about experiences... i was only born in 92 so i missed out on actual GD stuff but I have some phil lesh n friends and further a couple times.

[@idahoolson]

this trip was one of the best

[@anomaalii5546]

0hhhhhhhh my my my what a spellish time in space... well we always have this...

[@mohammedguketlov5619]

Best show unbelievable

[@robertnickse3091]

Can you even grasp how bill Walton attended over 2000 events , what one song did he hear only played once ? It truly is amazing considering the help might not have seen that many

[@andreweable]

Yepp and Indeed to all comments ......this was my 1st Dead show as well,,,,,superb concert/show/event/experience ! ! ....New Riders began @ 1pm or so,......followed by Marshall Tucker round 3:00-3:30.......and then da DEAD played from late afternoon/early evening until 11:30 pm.......i was with a group of bout 10 people ,we took 2 cars and got stuck in either Lincoln or Holland tunnel for an hr or 2 due to an accident.and we,like most had to park a loooong way from Raceway park after the slow procession thru the streets of Englishtown,Though the locals began letting concert goers park on their properties for a fee.we went the nite before and got a campsite at "Turkey Swamp" park,lol.To this day i still cannot believe we found where we had parked after thee show ended.

[@idahoolson]

i hear you bro! what a day -night it was! i walk around for hours after the show it was a trip i will never forget i too went with a gang of freinds from middletown-red bank it been near 40 years now and i still think of that day .happy trails !!!

[@idahoolson]

so true the parking was crazy after the show!

[@joeryan1369]

Enjoy it!

[@mkwilson38]

The real mind blowing meat of this show starts after this song

[@littlepuebla]

I worked Back stage at this concert..I worked in the heliport. I saw jerry garcia drop a bag of qualudes will he WAS TAKING OFF ON THE HELICOPTER, 10 Minutes later Jerry radioed his security people and they asked me if i found a bag. I gave them to him and he gave me a handful of ludes I remember it being really hot the weekend...I still have some good pics..

[@TheRollingStony]

Great story lol I was there also from mid day the day before

[@3681pokey]

40 years ago....

[@KurtKnutsen]

WAS hot day,but cool show.

[@Moreoff]

That is an absolute classic story! Break out those photos! Do you have them posted anywhere? Or will you be? LOVE to see them!

[@littlepuebla]

I sold my grateful Dead backstage Shirt about years ago on ebay for $372 to some dude in japan..wish i still had it though

[@StoneHwendge]

That sure beats a Day Job encore. 😂

[@jackstraw721]

i was there and it was hot they watered down the crowd and after it was over went to look for my van and it was towed it was mass kaos nobody could find there cars ahh goodtimes

[@DavidGreifer]

Great concert. I don't remember it well :D other to say I was there..walked up to the stage from the back....1 hour there and back from the back of the crowd. And it was hot. And it was hot. Did I mention it was hot? I don't remember :D

[@DavidGreifer]

oh and it was my first large outdoor concert...I was 18

[@andreweable]

TERRAPIN COSED THE SHOW @ 11:30 PM,THEE DEAD FIRST WENT ON @ BOUT 5:30 PM ! OF COURSE THEY TOOK COUPLE OF 30 MIN BREAKS

[@AndrewSmith-fm7vs]

Wow! I found my 17-year-old self in one of the pics on here! At 2:41 there's a still shot that contains my friend Mike with his red shirt on his head and me to the right, jeans and no shirt. It's taken from exactly where we were that day. I first noticed it in the "Bertha" clip and see it's used in a few of these. GottMike, any chance you could send me a digital copy of that photo? Let me know, OK? Thanks for the memories!

[@RJs_CC]

Anyone know what guitar Jerry used in this. Gibson?

[@douglasnorris109]

travis bean

[@NebulizerChi]

Yup. Pics: www.dead101.com/etown/etown.htm

[@DaveandKimGarrett]

I was there too, came up from Seaside with a cute hot hippie chick that bought me a ticket,beer and free weed :-)

[@littlepuebla]

I will try to find them my girlfriens took the pics and shes not a good photographer LOL

[@richardnaronis2852]

I was 16 years old . It helped shape my whole life.

[@ELKWILDLOVE]

A peaceful takeover of the town!! I agree the best!!

[@joefelice5062]

Best show of 77. Better than the run in May…. Sacrilege to say, I suppose, but just my opinion.

[@andreweable]

OOOPS,CLOSED THEE SHOW KNOT COSED,LOL

[@robertgrateful5016]

I Love this Music.....But....NYC in 1977 Sucked....Summer of Sam and Riots...This was my escape ....Running with the Dead....

[@jumpers3]

Coneheads!