The Closing of Winterland is a four-CD live album by the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert performed on December 31, 1978. The concert was also released as a two-disc DVD. The title derives from the fact that it was the last concert in San Francisco’s Winterland Arena, which was shut down shortly thereafter. The Dead celebrated the closing as an approximately five-hour-long party (complete with breakfast with the audience at dawn) and invited some guests including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown. It was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA on December 15, 2003 under the category of longform video, selling 200,000 units. The New Riders of the Purple Sage and Blues Brothers opened the show.
12-31-1978 – Casey Jones
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“Another well-known and much-loved tune from Workingman’s Dead, Casey Jones was played very sporadically after 1974, until it was finally retired on 3/27/93 in Albany, NY. This performance from the Closing Of Winterland was the opening song of the encore, which they followed by Johnny B. Goode and We Bid You Goodnight before sending people out with breakfast into 1979.” – David Lemieux
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Other December 31, 1978 Videos:
- 12-31-1978 – Around And Around
- 12-31-1978 – Big River
- 12-31-1978 – Casey Jones> Johnny B. Goode
- 12-31-1978 – Complete Show
- 12-31-1978 – Fire on the Mountain
- 12-31-1978 – From The Heart Of Me
- 12-31-1978 – I Need a Miracle
- 12-31-1978 – I Need A Miracle
- 12-31-1978 – It’s All Over Now
- 12-31-1978 – It’s All Over Now
- 12-31-1978 – Me And My Uncle> Big River
- 12-31-1978 – Midnight Countdown> Sugar Magnolia
- 12-31-1978 – Not Fade Away
- 12-31-1978 – Partial
- 12-31-1978 – Partial
- 12-31-1978 – Playin’ in the Band
- 12-31-1978 – Ramble on Rose
- 12-31-1978 – Ramble On Rose
- 12-31-1978 – Samson and Delilah
- 12-31-1978 – Samson and Delilah
- 12-31-1978 – Scarlet Begonias
- 12-31-1978 – Stagger Lee
- 12-31-1978 – Stagger Lee
- 12-31-1978 – Stagger Lee
- 12-31-1978 – Sugar Magnolia / Scarlet Begonias / Fire On The Mountain
- 12-31-1978 – Sunshine Daydream
- 12-31-1978 – Terrapin Station
- Interview – 12-31-1978
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