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Set 1:
Good Morning Little School Girl
Doin' That Rag
Me And My Uncle
Hard To Handle
Turn On Your Love Light

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I cant believe they played here, I graduated from there
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I love this show!! although pigpen REALLY @$#&'s up the beginning of Hard to handle, this show is sweet. one of the highlights for me is Doin that Rag. why they ever stopped playing that i dont know, one of my favorites. Altogether its not the greatest performance ever, but what i really like about this show is that it's at a high school!! So sit back and imagine the grateful dead in some high school gym, where rumor has it the entire senior class dosed that night, i can just see the psychadelic waves rippling through this gym. Check it out!
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My first concert grew up in Moraga and was going to school there at the time
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Supposedly, this show is where Jerry had amp problems and sat out a song. He also got pissy when told he couldn’t smoke backstage.
-Serious (02/07/2022)

Seriously Mr. Serious? How the fuck do you know that Jerry got pissy about not smoking backstage at a barely known high school show? Anyone that starts off there comment with "supposedly" is a douche bag right out of the gate.
-Jimmy Jack Jones (01/11/2025)

May 16, 1969
Campolindo High School, Moraga CA
Velvet Hammer and Frumious Bandersnatch opened at this high school dance in suburban Contra Costa County. Not the best performance of '69 by far, but it's significantly ahead of anything I heard in a high school gym at the time. (We would have been thrilled just to have Frumious Bandersnatch.)
"I was not only at this show, but as a member of the Class of '69 at Campolindo, I was part of the student committee that put this on.
"We did two concerts my senior year as part of a senior class fundraiser. The "Santana Blues Band" had played in the Fall. Other senior classes did car washes and bake sales. We did rock concerts.
"I had been going to see the Dead for over a year at this point and was amazingly disappointed by this show. The dean of boys (Joseph Anthony) wouldn't let Jerry smoke in the gym and he slammed his guitar into his case and stormed off stage. Most of the set is performed without him. This was easily the shortest Dead set ever performed with the exception of a show they did in Oakland as a benefit for a Black Power group and Bobby got in a fight with one of them onstage.
"One interesting bit of trivia about this show is that it was the first time Phil's father ever saw him play.
~David Mahler, Campolindo High Class of '69 (junglechef, LMA)
From two of the organizers:
"Hey - just found this. Won't vouch to the reviews, seem to be all over the board, but about the concert, Alan Macomber and Scott Bauhofer (this is Scott) came up with this idea for making money for the school, and put on both Santana in the fall and the Dead in the spring. We paid Santana $1250 for the night, based on the sellout of this one, we went searching for the spring show, came up with the Dead, and that one cost us $2000 for the night. And in addition to Jerry not being allowed to smoke, I think when the principal turned the gym lights on at 11 in the middle of a song, they probably were not all that happy with the experience. But regardless, having the Dead at Campolindo was still pretty damn cool."
~spbatchan, LMA
-Anonymous (05/19/2026)

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