A reliable hometown venue that the Dead didn’t outgrow, the 16,000-capacity arena adjacent to Oakland Stadium was a latter-day home for Bill Graham’s New Year’s soirees and other holiday festivities. The December 27 show was the first of four that year, with a plenty big second set featuring Clarence Clemons on saxophone, and Bobby Weir had encored with the perennial “Johnny B. Goode,” but Garcia adds a final statement: his and Robert Hunter’s “Black Muddy River,” written on piano and debuted at the Dead’s first shows after his 1986 diabetic coma, a personal and powerful statement of mortality. Just one more Wednesday night in Oakland.