Grateful Dead • 1/12/79 • Philadelphia Spectrum • Winter Fireplace Vibes 🔥🎄 Vintage AUD Yule Log

Grateful Dead — January 12, 1979
📍 The Spectrum — Philadelphia, PA
🕰 Friday Night • Rescheduled from 11/28/78

Step into a cold January night in Philadelphia with the Grateful Dead at The Spectrum, presented with cozy winter fireplace visuals and circular stained-glass art inspired by classic Dead iconography.

This audience master was recorded 12th row, front-of-board, dead center, capturing a clear, balanced room sound that puts you right inside the Spectrum. Warm analog character, strong vocals, and excellent stereo image throughout.

Set One leans into storytelling and motion — Jack Straw, Candyman, El Paso, Peggy-O, and a confident Deal closer.
Set Two opens with power (Samson and Delilah), blooms into beauty (It Must Have Been the Roses), then explodes into communal release with Dancing in the Street → Garcia Jam → Drums → Not Fade Away, before a joyful run home and a patriotic U.S. Blues encore.

🎙 Recording Info:
Audience Master • 12th Row FOB Dead Center
Sony ECM-280 → Sony TC-158
Transferred via Nakamichi Dragon → Sony PCM R-700 DAT
Mastered in the 32-bit float digital domain

🔥 Best enjoyed: late night, headphones or speakers up, fire glowing.

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⏱ Grateful Dead — 1/12/79 • The Spectrum (TIMESTAMPS)

Set One

00:00:00 — Tuning (1:26)
00:01:26 — Jack Straw (7:37)
00:09:03 — Candyman (7:32)
00:16:35 — El Paso (5:30)
00:22:05 — Tennessee Jed (10:33)
00:32:38 — Beat It On Down the Line (3:54)
00:36:32 — Peggy-O (10:19)
00:46:51 — Passenger (5:59)
00:52:50 — Deal (7:14)

Set Two

01:00:04 — Samson and Delilah (8:55)
01:08:59 — It Must Have Been the Roses (9:06)
01:18:05 — Dancing in the Street → (17:22)
01:35:27 — Garcia Jam → Drums (16:11)
01:51:38 — Not Fade Away → (14:49)
02:06:27 — Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (6:41)
02:13:08 — Sugar Magnolia (10:16)

Encore

02:23:24 — U.S. Blues (6:05)