1978-December-31 Grateful Dead The Closing Of Winterland Winterland Arena San Francisco, CA DVD 1 1 Sugar Magnolia > 5.51 1st Set 2 Scarlet Begonias > 11.46 3 Fire On The Mountain 12.36 4 Me And My Uncle > 3.07 5 Big River 5.54 6 Friend Of The Devil 9.44 7 It's All Over Now 7.15 8 Stagger Lee 6.51 9 From The Heart Of Me > 3.44 10 Sunshine Daydream 2.52 12 Samson And Delilah 7.24 2nd Set 13 Ramble On Rose 8.07 14 I Need A Miracle > 11.21 15 Terrapin Station > 11.45 16 Playing In The Band > 12.56 17 Drums > 19.23 18 Not Fade Away > 19.14 19 Around And Around 8.33 DVD 2 1 Dark Star > 13.38 3rd Set 2 The Other One > 2.40 3 Dark Star Jam > .57 4 Wharf Rat > 11.14 5 Saint Stephen > 7.52 6 Good Lovin' 9.43 7 Encore Casey Jones > 5.18 8 Johnny B. Goode 4.17 9 And We Bid You Good Night Bonus Material: 10 "Winterland: A Million Memories" documentary film 11 Blues Brothers: "Soul Man" and "B-Movie" 12 New Riders of the Purple Sage: "Glendale Train" 13 "Making of the DVD" featurette 14 2 AM Interview with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Ken Kesey Interview with Bill Graham by Scoop Nisker 15 Detailed Chronological history of Grateful Dead at Winterland 16 Alternate Camera Angle Option (Wharf Rat, St Stephen & Good Lovin') Special Features: * Visible Lyrics Option * DTS 5.1 Surround Sound * Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound * Dolby Digital 2.0 * Mixed from the original 24 track analog master tapes * Video from the original 2" Quad master Comments I found about this show at The Setlist Program site: I have no new information about the sets, but it was a really cool show. The last night of Winterland, the night started with the usual volleyball game, and at about 6pm a movie screen lowered in front of the stage, and we were treated to a showing of "Animal House". When that was over, the screen was raised, and there on stae was, unaccounced, The Blues Brothers. They played a full set, tore it up, did backflips, the whole deal. Very cool. They were followed by the New Riders, then the Dead. After breakfast, we stumbled into the cool misty air of a new year at about 5am. Great stuff. -Tim Curley, MrTim2U@aol.com Get this show from Furthurnet.com. Download furthurnet. It's the fuckin shit man!!! -Heny, bighany@aol.com To open with Sugar Mag is exciting but when they went into that beautiful, long, jammed out Scarlet > Fire for their SECOND song it was obvious that this was not going to be an ordinary night by any means...this is one New Year's eve shows that really delivers the goods! -Row Jimmy, jim.heitbrink@fedgroup.com Released as 2 DVD due Nov 2003 as "The Closing Of Winterland" -Andy Black The Closing of Winterland is really a must have for any dead fan. Most of this entire night is chronicled. It includes performances by the Blues Brothers and NRPS, as well as interviews with some band members in between sets. This would have been a really amazing show to have been at, and the entire three sets of the Dead show are here. They came on at midnight, opening with Sugar Mag, and the energy didn't quit all night. The opening of the third set with Dark Star was an amazing moment, as it hadn't been played at Winterland in more than five years. The crowd went nuts! It was a dang good Dark Star as well, and everything is great here. The rythym devils section is incredibly unique and a treasure to see. And the whole place seems like it might just come down when the Dead come on for an encore, doing a great Casey Jones and then a Johnny B Goode to die. The crowd is really going nuts and so is Jerry. End it with We Bid You Goodnight and it doesn't get much better than this. -westley, uwsugarbwl2002@yahoo.com The last show at Winterland is one of the best gems the Dead have ever played. Every single song is absolutely perfect and they are in a tremendous groove with each other from the first notes of Sugar Magnolia to the end vocals of We Bid You Goodnight. The Closing of Winterland could be the best live release put out by Grateful Dead productions. If you don't have it and you consider yourself a Dead head, get it now, or else shame on you. One of the best shows they've ever done. -anonymous Great show man, the best Scarlet/Fire I ever heard. -andrew, deadhead189@aol.com I believe it was mentioned before, but this has been released officially as "The Closing of Winterland", with great sound. A kick ass show... Love the Sugar Mag > Scarlet Fire and of course the Dark Star > Other One > Dark Star. -Adam j