On this day in live music history: Although it has become cliche amongst Deadheads to claim that the band’s greatest show took place on 5-8-77, I am not one to argue. Other shows from other eras shine as well, obviously, but the band was never tighter than they were in the Spring of 1977, and 35 years ago today happened to be the crown jewel of their crowning tour: a show at the relatively tiny Barton Hall on the campus of Cornell University in upstate New York.

Every song from both sets that night was played beyond, at, or near perfection including the “Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew” which closed the huge second set in triumphant fashion.

Here is the Grateful Dead’s late archivist, Dick Latvala’s vault notes from that night.