camping out under the full moon, the endless giggle that went from tent to tent all night long, high school basketball gym setting, where all the special effects in use at the time, that
could lift yuo right out of your seat, say, at the centrum,
wouldn't work here, they actually had to come out and play, like actually pick the notes, like bluegrass style. And they did.
did i mention camping out on the c.c.'s front lawn under the
full moon? indian summer, picnic in the pines, and rock
out with the gd. just the top of the heap. the only tapes
i had were horrible even for tapes. ahhhhh, augusta 84

2nd set Morning Dew! I still, to this day, have that show on a cassette tape. What a fantastic night. I'm almost 43 years old, and I remember it soooo vividly.

Augusta is way out in the middle of nowhere, unless you lived where I lived, 60 miles north of way out in the middle of nowhere. To us it was exotic as all get-out..we didn't travel much, or very far, in those days. At the time, the civic center was kind of graduating up from the absolutely horrid (but full of fond memories and plenty of ghosts) Bangor Civic Center.

The night before, after having been to the preceding show, we wound up camping on the shores of Acadia national park. Waking up that morning, it was sunny and beautiful. We then made a little trip up to Bar Harbor, had some lobster, then made our way for the second night of the run. Stranger opener was good, then Roses, On the Road Again and Jack A Roe. It dawned on me then they'd just done three songs off Reckoning i n a row. It's All Over Now, Cumberland and Music Never Stopped. Short set, but just excellent. Finished Playin' from the night before and aside from Brent's buzzkill Don't Need Love, this was just about as good a show as I could have asked for.