Tower Theater
I had moved to the Philadelphia area only a few weeks before this show and quickly discovered that Philadelphia is a great place for concerts, with venues like the Tower and Electric Factory already familiar to me. I remembered how the Dead played at the Tower right around the time I first saw them at the Beacon in 1976, and was really excited to see my first show there.
At this "Elvis sighting", for the final song of the night, Elvis asked that all of the stage lights and the sound system be turned OFF completely. The Tower is a pretty large theatre, and Elvis invited everyone to come up close to the stage. Steve played an unamplified acoustic piano and Elvis leaned over at the edge of the stage and sang a touching song directly to the audience gathered below him, without a microphone.
