• Incredible performance at the 'Students Need Athletics, Culture & Kicks') Benefit
• At the Kezar Stadium, San Francisco on March 23rd 1975
• Includes the entire K101-FM broadcast
• Presented here together with background notes and images

The Grateful Dead, live at the SNACK Benefit, Kezar Stadium on 23rd March 1975

The SNACK ('Students Need Athletics, Culture & Kicks') Benefit took place in San Francisco's vast Kezar Stadium on Sunday, March 23rd 1975.

The Dead were supposedly on hiatus at the time, but promoter Bill Graham persuaded them to appear, together with guests Merl Saunders and Ned Lagin. Including material from the work-in-progress Blues For Allah, as well as a superb rendition of Johnny B. Goode, their rapturously received set, broadcast on K101-FM, is presented in full here, together with background notes and images.

TRACKS

1. Paul Kantner Interviews Jerry Garcia
2. Band Introductions
3. Blues For Allah
4. Stronger Than Dirt
5. Drums - Stronger Than Dirt (Reprise)
6. Blues For Allah (Reprise) - DJ Chat
7. Johnny B. Goode