The Dead certainly tore that old building down with a stellar performance of “Samson and Delilah” at the Closing Of Winterland shows in December 1978. | Grateful Dead

“When the Grateful Dead arrived at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the sixth stop of the first leg of the Spring Tour of 1978, they were a well-oiled machine. The expectation was there amongst concert goers that the Dead would deliver an exceptional show; the consistency of excellence was in full force on this tour. And as great as the previous five shows had been, no one could have known that the X-factor would appear in such force at Duke on April 12, 1978.” - David Lemieux ‘Duke '78’ features the