Sometime in 1982-1983, I found an LP in the KZSU Stanford library: "Make Believe Ballroom", by The Grateful Dead, a radio-broadcast bootleg of their 13 August 1975 concert at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall (fifty years ago today). They were on a touring hiatus that had begun in October 1974, but the GAMH show featured all the songs from their forthcoming new album, "Blues for Allah", released that September. The show's highlight for me has always been the triptych "Help On The Way / Slipknot! / Franklin's Tower". As I loved that tape, I was thrilled when the show was officially released as "One From The Vault" in April 1991. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 13 August 2025)

Fifty years ago today: The Grateful Dead at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall on 13 August 1975