9/18/87
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9/18/87
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I was at the Providence shows on this tour. Really strong stuff. I think I caught the best ever night for Brent. First, Pocky Way and Devil w/ a Blue Dress. Providence Civic Center was a freak show.
Carpeted hallways, with speakers.
Maybe my favorite place to see them. Crazy energy.
https://archive.org/details/gd87-09-...014.sbeok.shnf
I hit every MSG show in 87' and 88'. Saw them there more than any other place.
Same (minus the 88 benefit show which I got locked out of, only one of 2 in my days with the 2nd being the 1st night at Deer Creek 92) with the Spectrum/CoreStates Center second. Living almost exactly between the 2 didn't suck. 45 minute drive to Philly and an hour express train to msg. 3 hrs to Landover/DC, 4 to Boston and 5 to Pittsburgh made EC tours relatively easy to do most years and still not completely have to bail on school/work.
So New Jersey IS good for something!
Speaking of RI, listen to Pig’s rap on this Good Lovin’
https://archive.org/details/gd71-04-...04-21d2t05.shn
This pnw box set has me more excited than an official release since dozin at the Knick (I know, I know ;)
Unbelievable sound. Totally worth getting lossless, headphones, and full volume. I can’t get enough. What a set of shows. The separation of instruments (yeah there are some vocal dropouts) is unreal. And you can hear every pick and key being hit. I can only imagine what they looked like on stage wailing thru the 5-19-74 Jams in particular.
I've been listening to a bunch of '87 stuff recently. That was such a great year. My next favorite are the shows with Hornsby. Having not been able to take part, in person, in 72, 77 or 78 those are the two periods I enjoyed the most.
hornsby made me cringe. i hated it. especially when he dragged his accordian into it.
Would you have preferred Vince without Hornsby, I think not. I am sure we can all agree a part of the band never recovered after Brent but without Bruce in the band for those 2+ years I don't think there would have been much to keep things going, especially Jerry. I've mentioned this before, listen to some of the 3 man jams (90/91 mainly) pre drums and the constant interplay/dueling licks with Jerry in almost every tune and tell me they werent enjoying the shit out of playing together, it showed on stage and came through on the tapes.
^^^agreed. Hornsby got Jerry through the loss of Brent.
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i didn't say i wasn't grateful he filled a role and let them keep going but the accordian was too much self-indulgence. his keyboard was obviously competent. dec. 90 at mcnichols arena in denver i think. popped open the exits after the show to be confronted with a ring of denver's finest mounted police surrounding the place. think somebody lost it on a trip on one of the days and ended up dying/being killed after breaking into a nearby home.
that was a rough summer. i was working in yellowstone, we booked back to eugene for 3 dead shows in june i think, brent dead a month later, srv dead a month later.
jerry died my next summer working in the park
Clearly the job at Yellowstone wasn't meant to be for you. I was at Tinley for Brent's last 3 shows, other than the gate crashers/fence climbers night one and cops on horseback at the 2nd 2 the shows were very good.
ynp was a better place than most to work it out
Tried to find this one without the watermark without any luck.
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I was at almost all of those MSG and Spectrum shows in 87/88, too. Was going to college in Philly and grew up in NYC so it was a no brainer.
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This is The Dead at their best!
Not fall, not nyc or Boston, but pretty great
Grateful Dead • 1990-04-03 (2:43:26) • The Omni, Atlanta, GA, USA https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1...3?source=97917
Happy Bday Brent
Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away (Orchard Park, NY 7…: https://youtu.be/jkY6ZOx411g
I kinda consider Brent's passing to be the end of the good stuff.
Not that they didn't make some good music after that, but some of the magic was gone.
I quit touring not long after that.
I just came across this and thought I would share. This is one of the better cover GD bands I've seea a vid of in a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOLdBA5ulxI
52 years ago today the Dead played a ski shop. Seems appropriate to acknowledge on TGR.
Fun trivia. No recording exists. Some info however, including a photo of Pig...
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/200...-ski-shop.html
EDIT - better article on it. Coincided with the first North Face shop opening...
https://www.mensjournal.com/gear/nor...l-dead-w446385
Ok that pic of pig with the “ society types “ is a classic!
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Revisiting dp28. The salt lake section is fierce!
Heading down to Northampton tomorrow night for DSO at the Calvin.
Let’s Party
DSO freaking rules. It was their 21st anniversary show. And they sent it. 1/15/79 Springfield. One of Keith and Donna’s last shows. The Passenger in the first set was humongous. Shakedown was insane. They even played some filler at the end of the night, because they still had time. Jeff crushed a Torn Up to end the night.
Go see DSO
I’ve always enjoyed DSO. Oddly enough, most of the times that I’ve seen them, they played original sets. But all of those times, Martin F. sat in for the shows, so it was a pleasant consolation.
Wish they would come back to my area!
Saw them in Lowell, MA last Friday night. Jeff M played the Wolf and they hit it out of the park with an original setlist designed around the Wolf. Seeing them Thursday in Portland too...
I’m going to the Concord, NH show on the 20th. I really like these guys. Rob Barraco is such a great player, and he’s so freaking chill. They sound incredible lately.