Wish I could come up with some set list help, friends, since it was my first show, but I cannot help. Mem Aud had a practice of taping performances that occurred there during that period. I hear this night's tape is missing from MemAud's collection, but it might be worth checking with O.U. to see if that era's tapes exist. Maybe a couple hundred Athenian Heads at max since it was night most students had left for Thanksgiving. Lights were on in the fixed-seat auditorium, crowd and band mingling, then I became aware of a beat under the murmuring and chatting and.we were off!
We understood it that an O.U. Philosophy prof - Dick Rickert - had encouraged the Dead at Columbus show to come on down for us heads who couldn't make it to OSU. He left nest year for Chapel Hill and I never got a chance to ask him about it. Only other attendee I might have asked about what was played has Gone Beyond. I do remember an indian rug on the stage and Pig singing unimcumbered by keyboard, going on at great length in a blue mood, so it's likely Constanten's presence had that liberating effect on that particular revered energy source. Was looking for album lists when I stumbled on your site, thought I'd chime in what I recalled in gratitude and appreciation for your work. Onward!
