Conference rdvax::grateful

Re: ken's comment about JGB tapes


I'd love to get more tapes that sound like the Grate Shaft DAT tape we got
from that DAT Dude reb (?) ....

That is one f'n hot tape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great show!!  Most of the songs were characterized by very sweet long jams,
especially towards the end of the sets.  I'm not sure about the "C'est La
Vie" song.  That's the chorus, but maybe not the name.  The Mission, Dear
Prudence, and Tangled in the 1st set were just IN$%##*CREDIBLE!!  Really
wild!!  Second set was just as sweet.  The Lay Down Sally and Evangeline
would've gotten a standing ovation except everybody's already standing/
dancing wildly already, so we couldn't, but the joy of the cheering after
one especially long jam just about sums it up.  I couldn't figure out what
the last song was, so you'll have to get that from someone off the net 8-}.
I may have said this before, but if Jerry plays for the Dead the way he
plays for JGB, we'd be floating in seventh heaven till kingdom come 8->!!

peace,
t!ng

RE:           <<< Note 23.2 by SKYLRK::TING "Give Peace a Chance!!!" >>>


>especially towards the end of the sets.  I'm not sure about the "C'est La
>Vie" song.  That's the chorus, but maybe not the name.  The Mission, Dear


Never can Tell?  Old Chuck Berry tune, which Emmy Lou Harris also did I
believe...Love the Piano in Chuck Berry's version





Jim sitting in his office noting cuz he got called into work because of
a real hot customer situation in California but by the time he got into
his office the problem was fixed :^/

I had the pleasure of catching the Jerry and David Grisman acoustic show on
Saturday, and I'll just have to say it was THE BEST ACOUSTIC SHOW I've EVER
seen!!  8-)  As I'm not quite caught up with the Bluegrass scene, I can't
tell ya all the songs that were played.  It was just Jerry and David for
a few songs, and then the bass player and the drum/fiddle player from
David's band joined them.  Jerry played banjo for two of the songs.  David
played the mandolin most of the time and switched to guitar and banjo for
a couple of tunes.  Obviously Jerry wasn't very familiar with the tunes
either since he was using sheet music.  At one point, he stopped in the
middle of a tune to flip the sheets and David said "We're really prepared
for this" 8-).  I guess it kind of brings Jerry down from diety-status ;-).
They opened the second set with a bluegrass rendition of "The Thrill is
Gone" - AMAZING!!  8-)  There were some Miles tunes thrown in, a kind of
bluegrassy-ish jazz.  The highlight was the encore - RIPPLE!!  David's
mandolin fits into the tune like a charm!!  It was just incredilbly special!!

peace,
t!ng

>The highlight was the encore - RIPPLE!!  David's
>mandolin fits into the tune like a charm!!  It was just incredilbly special!!

makes sense t!ng - grisman played mandolin on Ripple on American Beauty...
Debess

WOW Ting!!!  What a treat you got!!!  I'd love to see Jerry play acoustic.
What it in a small place ?

What a treat.

JC

re:  <<< Note 23.6 by BIODTL::FERGUSON "Is it just a waste of time?" >>>

>WOW Ting!!!  What a treat you got!!!  I'd love to see Jerry play acoustic.
>What it in a small place ?

It what pretty small ;-).  I think the Warfield maybe holds 8000??  (dont'
quote me on that).

re:  Debess

Hey, I didn't know that.  No wonder David fits so well into it!!  It was
quite a treat!!  I love David Grisman!!  (maybe Jerry will come out and
play with Grisman at the Paul Masson Winery this summer 8-)

peace,
t!ng

         Has anyone been to Buffalo '90?
    
       Outstanding performance by Crosby,Stills,and Nash! I must say
    I'd rather travel 12 hrs. of driving time to see an opener like
    C,S,&N insted of Los Lobos (summer '89)! Of course I would travel
    anywhere to see the Dead!
    
                                  Scot

                      <<< Note 23.8 by JUPITR::BARROWS >>>
                                  -< BUFFALO >-

>         Has anyone been to Buffalo '90?
>       Outstanding performance by Crosby,Stills,and Nash! I must say
>    I'd rather travel 12 hrs. of driving time to see an opener like
>    C,S,&N insted of Los Lobos (summer '89)! Of course I would travel
>    anywhere to see the Dead!

    I was at Buffalo '90, in fact it was my first show.  From that you can 
probably gander a wild guess as to how old I am... 8-)
    CSN was pretty good as an opener, but I must say that they were NOTHING
like they were when I saw them in '89 all acoustic at the small Palace Theatre
in Albany, NY.  What a killer show that was.  After seeing that, the Buffalo
set was rather limp, although Stills on the "flying V" was a sight to see!
    The Dead sets were OK, but not superlative.  At the time I was completely
blown away (given that is was my first show and all), but now that I have the 
tapes, and can compare them to the other 70+ tapes in my collection, that show
was rather weak.  We did get a nice Loose Lucy and Mama Tried in set I,
Truckin' (up to Buffalo) in set II, and a nice Brokedown encore, but in general
I thought the energy level was a bit low.  Compare it to Foxboro from 2 days
earlier to see what I mean...
    Just my $0.02...

    
    I saw my first Jerry band show at the Palace Theater.. grate place!
    
    

    I didn't think the Palace was still open.  The first show I ever saw
    there was . . . Triumph.
    
    --Cathleen_a_native_New_Yorker_who_has_been_living_in_New_England
               _for_over_several_years_now.

I'm pretty sure the Palace was where the Dead scheduled their first Albany 
show.  This was back in approximately '68-'69.  After a bomb scare forced 
evacuation of the theater before the show started, the Dead split with the 
kitty.  Capitol district heads were bullsh!t!!  Can you imagine being the 
guy who had to go on stage and tell everyone that the Dead had split?

Bill

What a show!!  Bruce did not play with them, which was just as well, since
I had really wanted to hear Vince better.  It got off to a slow start, but
boy, did it get up to speed!!  Excellent Althea!!  The crowd went into a 
"We Want Phil" chant right before Picasso Moon, and Mickey made gestures
like he's saying "You want him??"  8-)  I thought it really started picking
up with Peggy-o -> Jerry seemed very soulful.  The Cassidy was great (one
of my favorite Bobby tunes).  The New Speedway Boogie was just incredible!!!
I don't think anyone really believed it until Jerry hit the chorus (we hate
disappointing ourselves 8-).  Then a giant cheer and just sheer joy followed.
Thank you, Jerry!!!!

The second set also had a slow start.  It wasn't one of the better Riders
I've seen.  There was a bit of indecision before Truckin', but it was
rendered with spirit once they decided on it.  The Crazy Fingers was made
even better by an incredibly looong jam with Other One teases weaving in
and out.  Drums was good.  It sounded like Mickey got himself a new drum.
I couldn't really see what it was though, but it sounded great.  We were
glad to get The Wheel after expecting the Other One (predictability always
seems to taint it a bit).  The Watchtower was *very* energetic.  I guess
you can say the crowd is flying pretty high towards the end with the energy
buildup.  Jerry must've sensed it, and went into Black Peter to rope us
down 8-) (He does that quite a bit, doesn't he??).  The Black Peter was
really well-played.  The U.S. Blues was appropriate, I guess, for these
times.  No complains about this show except for the fact that the ticket
person ripped my ticket in half 8-( -> I hate it when that happens!!

peace,
t!ng

    as alwasy T!ng, I look forward to your Calif. reviews
                            THANKS!
                                   rfb

Thanks, Randy!!  I always wonder if anyone reads them, but I like
sharing my experience 8-).

peace,
t!ng

>I always wonder if anyone reads them...

	are you kidding!  t!ng, that's the closest I'm going to
	get to a Dead show for a LOOONNNGG time...thanks for
	sharing!

	Debess

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>Thanks, Randy!!  I always wonder if anyone reads them, 

 Yea, I always NEXT UNSEEN over that boring drivel, who needs it. 

;-)

Just kidding

>but I like sharing my experience 8-).

and I rilly like reading them 8-) another Grate review t!ng.

Shawn

Well, here is another one who reads them ... heh heh, if I hadn't I
may have thought parts of NYE were just a dream.  :-)  Keep 'em coming!!!

I feel accomplished as a reviewer already!!  8-)

peace,
t!ng

  i always look forward to your reviews, some of the best stuff in GRATEFUL.

  thanks,

  john

    Any words around why no Hornsby?  (although I think its good that
    Vince got a chance).
    
    rich

    <<< Note 23.21 by WFOV11::BUTZE "Do the trouser press baby" >>>
          -< still don't think he is a permanent member.. >-
    
    
    >Any words around why no Hornsby?  (although I think its good that
    >Vince got a chance).
    
    Wasn't he at the Grammy Awards last night? I heard he was but I didn't
    watch them.
    
    Mike
    
    

Wow, I like the looks of this show!!!

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SKYLRK::TING "Give Peace a Chance!!!"                  14 lines  21-Feb-91 13:38
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Oakland Coliseum - 2/20/91
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Hell in a Bucket           Scarlet Begonias
Sugaree                    Fire on the Mountain
Walking Blues              Estimated Prophet
Friend of the Devil        He's Gone
Mexicali Blues             Drums (w/ Olatunji)
Cumberland Blues           Jam
Masterpiece                The Other One
Birdsong                   Wharf Rat
                           Around & Around

ENCORE:  The Mighty Quinn

The show last night was good.  Hell in a Bucket was a good tune-up song
;-), paving the way for a great Sugaree, which included a long and
inspired jam with Jerry bouncing around on stage 8-).  The Walking
Blues was really good (it's one of the few Bobby tunes that I can hear
for the billionth time and still like 8-).  After FOTD, there was a
pause during which Jerry and Bobby ran around the stage conferencing
between themselves and with the drummers and Vince on what next (Phil
seemed left out of the discussion).  Anyways, they all seemed to have
come to an agreement and went right into Mexicali.  The big secret,
I guess, was Cumberland, and it was an excellent rendition!!  Bobby
started into Masterpiece, but right after the "ancient footprints"
verse, he stopped and said "Wait a minute!!" (I still couldn't figure
out why), so the rest of the band stopped too.  After a short pause,
they did the verse again and continued the song.  The Birdsong closer
was sweet, with the jamming pretty much sticking with the tune instead
of going off in all directions like they sometimes do with Birdsong.

Scarlet -> Fire was great, especially the Fire!!  That song always
leaves so much room for improvisation, and the great thing is that the
band takes advantage of it (something I wish they would do more with
The Wheel).  The Estimated was ok.  Bobby ruined it by doing a few eagle
screams.  We were talking about Bobby screams during set break, and how
we can probably digitize it and replace the bell on the computer with
a Bobby squeal (I think the idea first surface on the net a few months
ago -> something to think about anyways 8-).  The transition into He's
Gone was very smooth.  They may have been deadicating this to Jeff
Davis, one of the folks at GDTS who committed suicide last week 8-(.
It was very sad when we heard about it.  Olatunji and 2 other drummers
came out and joined Mickey and Billy for the drums segment.  The sound
was rather cacophonous.  I think it had more to do with the way Healy
was mixing it more than the actual rendition.  Olatunji's mike was
turned down, so we couldn't hear the chanting very well.  What we
did hear was synthed too much.  I guess it must be hard to get the right
mix with 5 drummers up there (it looked pretty crowded back there).  
Jerry came out before the drummers were done and there was a nice little
space/jam with everyone involved before the drummers took off.  The Other
One out of space was great.  I didn't remember Healy playing around with
Bobby's voice during the "Spanish Lady came to me and lay on me this rose"
verse, but I could've just spaced it.  Around and Around was marked by a
very nice jam toward the end.  Quinn was a highlight for an encore.  I
love that song.  Of course, the crowd just had to cheer for "everbody
wanna doze/se" part 8-).  Great ending!!

peace,
t!ng

    Jeff Davis suicide???

	I wrote this just now after listening to the tape of 18-Mar-90
    BTW I never finished my review of this show, which I figured out after
    looking for it in Grateful_old for about an hour ! I added this part to
    Julie's review so it starts where hers never ended :')

	Well that was my Daughter's review now here's mine....

Shakedown was a nice opener (I hadn't heard Shakedown for some time) and the 
crowd let the band know, thanks for the surprise guys we loved it ! Sneaking in
a few shows was such a nice treat, and it turned out to be special alright.
Rooster was fine and so was Stagger Lee but the 1st set was just about to start.
Me & My Uncle was played clean and the flow into Mexicali Blues was so natural
it all made sense ! The MIDI horn bit was great, it made my blood boil !!!!
Friend of the Devil was slow and had this punching effect on the mind ! Just
A Little Light was clean cut note for note to the studio track. Brent sang so 
soulfully you could feel his sweat trickle down your face. Masterpiece
was a Bobby norm but done with meaning as noted at the end of the piece
when they all sing. Ramble on Rose was bouncy as always a great sing-a-long.
The set ender was just a reminder of what the 2nd set would contain, Music
Never Stopped ! Such a joy for all, bouncing in your shoes clapping like a fool,
OOOOOooOO, were they ever here at all ?

	IKO IKO ! What else can ya say ! IKO IKO ! Julie's smile was ear to ear,
such a pretty sight ! Looks Like Rain was sweet and played with just the right
touch, I play this part of the tape over and over. Phil you listening ? I know 
its not the one on With out A Net but it should have been ! :') He's Gone is 
always a deep personal song no matter what or who you might be thinking about 
at the time. Truckin' into Spoonful, Whoa ! powerful is the only way to 
describe this double punch of classics ! Drums can be fun or you just aren't 
in the mood for them but this night I was just waiting for it to start 
(maybe 'cause I was sitting on the side of the stage and had the great view of 
Mickey & Billy) Billy went crazy playing the set of 5 or so Toms and Mickey
can hold everyones Heart and make them beat together as one ! He can reach into
your soul. Space into The Wheel into Watchtower was just as mind altering as it
sounds, Jerry played off into another world at times, Bobby sang Watchtower 
with grit as Jerry proceeded to tear the roof off the each powerful thrust of 
his guitar likewise Phil shook the floor with the same ripping movements.
Morning Dew was a cool rain shower we all needed, sweet but not to 
easy as it slowly burned into the bright hot sun filled world.

	US Blues ended this 1st night of unexpected joy, sending all the happy
people out into the streets for the trip home.......


		Just what I needed.......a Dead Show ! Amen !

The show last night for the Chinese New Year's celebration was HOT!!!  It
was without doubt the *best* of the run (even in light of New Speedway)!!
YOWZA!!  Last night reaffirmed the reason why I like the Dead so much.
If they play like that all the time, I think I'll quit my job and go on
tour!!  8-)

The show opened with the San Francisco Chinese Symphony orchestra playing
traditional Chinese music, very melodious but not quite rock-n-roll 8-).
The band came on after a long intermission and we knew we were going to
get the H->S->F from the tune-up.  And it was one of the best HELP->SLIP->
FRANK's I've seen!!  Simply incredible!!  The Slipknot! transition was
longer than any I remembered and very smooth and just seemed to roll like
a wave into a Franklin's that just swelled and enveloped the audience with
musical ecstasy!  Little Red Rooster featured Bobby on slide, as usual.
Loser was intense!!  Vince and Jerry kept trying to surpass each other
by building onto each other's notes.  Vince was very aggressive and took 
the lead in the jamming time after time.  He was very prominent in the mix
all night.  I could see why the band picked him to replace Brent.  The
guy is just incredibly talented!!  He sounds so natural to the band's
improvisational style.  Jerry just went way out for Loser!!  Memphis Blues
and Tennesee Jed were good, although not highlights, and gave us a break
from the mounting psyche that started with the H->S->F.  Promised Land
was a really good closer to an *amazing* set (I always relate to this song).

If we thought the first set was amazing, the second set just left us with
our jaws dropped!!  *All* the songs were marked with long winding jams
that led us in and out of the tune and into the next.  The Playin' was
filled with promise for the rest of the set.  The jam at the end led into
a musical argument between Bobby and Jerry, with Jerry trying to pull the
band into a Terrapin, and Bobby loudly insisting on Uncle John's.  Bobby
won 8-)!!  And how sweet it is!!  Playin'->Uncle John's is one of my
favorite segues!!  Aierto joined the drummers during Uncle John's and
flitted in and out throughout the set.  Aierto really adds well to the
drums, not quite creating a new dimension as much as enhancing what's
already created by Billy and Mickey.  The Terrapin was great!!  The
musical crescendos leading into the "Inspiration" part reached the kind
of heights the song was designed for.  Just beautiful!!! 

Then the drums!!  I love drums at Chinese New Year's more than any other
time, because Mickey brings in his special Chinese drum that booms with
power at every beat, and you just *have* to dance to it!!  The parade
came in on Jerry's side from the upper tiers towards the back of the
coliseum.  There were a couple dozen flag bearers carrying traditional
Chinese war flags and 3 giant Chinese puppets dressed in ancient costume
and each donning a long black pigtail followed by a gold-headed ram.
They danced down to the floor and surrounded the soundboard.  Then the
dragon came out on Jerry's side from the front of the coliseum in the
upper tiers.  It followed the silver ball and danced along the aisle
between the middle and upper tiers until it reached the back of the 
coliseum and started dancing onto the floor.  At that point, a reddish-
gold phoenix trailing golden tassles rose in front of the stage and flew
around over the band.  All this time, the dragon had been making its way
to the floor amid a rainbow of clouds (with people carrying "clouds" on
poles).  It danced around the flag-bearers and puppets and alongside the 
crowd and eventually exiting up to the upper tiers on Phil's side with
the puppets, flag-bearers, cloud-bearers, and the golden ram following
closely behind.  That was the best CNY's parade I've seen.  It seems
like the dragon gets longer and longer every year.  The puppets and the
phoenix really added to the festivities (usually they only have a dragon).

The space that followed wasn't much of one, but it was great!  The
drummers never left.  The Eyes followed the night's pattern of
incredibility 8-).  The energy build-up from the parade never left
the band or the audience!!  Again Vince was *very* there, right
alongside and sometimes surpassing Jerry.  Awesome!!  Even Throwing
Stones was great.  And Not Fade Away was one of the best I've seen!!
The crowd was so psyched by that time that you can almost feel the
energy zapping through the air like lightning bolts and hitting the
band square in the face.  YOWZA!!  The audience continued clapping
and stomping and singing after the song was over (as always, but with
so much energy!!).  I saw one guy up front who seemed like a first-
timer getting converted during Not Fade Away.  He had the most amazed
look on his face when the crowd was stomping to the chorus, and 
suddenly, I saw a smile light up his face, and he started singing
along with the rest of the crowd 8-).  I love it when that happens!!
And Knocking was just a beautiful closer to an unbelievable night!
At times, I really did feel I was "knocking on heaven's door" last 
night!!  8->!!

peace,
t!ng

ya know I _rilly_ am becoming a T!nghead.  rfb is right i love
your reviews.  I wish I went to as many shows as _you_.

 john 

    as always T!ng....GRATE!
    
    how can I get these tapes? 
                               rfb

    
    Yeah.. really grate review!  How do you remember so much??  :-)
    
    

     Way to go, Ting. :-)

re:  <<< Note 23.28 by OURGNG::RYAN "but Momma. that's where the fun is ..." >>>

>ya know I _rilly_ am becoming a T!nghead.  rfb is right i love
>your reviews.  I wish I went to as many shows as _you_.

T!nghead??!!??  YIKES!!!!!  Thanks, John, but I think you should stick
with a Johnhead!  ;-)  8->!!


re:  <<< Note 23.30 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "Wake, now discover.." >>>

>    Yeah.. really grate review!  How do you remember so much??  :-)

I don't know, Phyllis.  I think I tend to remember the details of a 
great show a lot more vividly, because it adds to my collection of
good memories (which the Dead contributes to a lot 8-)  I treasure
good memories because they make me happy (even during rough times).

I think you folks are in for *such* a treat with the tour coming up!!
GET PSYCHED!!  8->!!

peace,
t!ng

    
    JGB show March,1
    Note 63.9
    
    Anybody know the last time Jerry played Postitively 4th st..! It is 
    by far an all time favorite of mine....
    
    Jerrybase?
    
    Don

re:       <<< Note 23.33 by BPOV04::DMITCHELL "Went to see the Captain.." >>>
   
>   Anybody know the last time Jerry played Postitively 4th st..! 
    
    I seem to recall 1988. Maybe not, though.

I moved this after I realized that I put this into a "NO DISCUSSION"
note....and then someone replied to it....whoooooops!

sorry bout dat!
:)

           <<< NECSC::SYS$SYSDEVICE:[NOTES$LIBRARY]GRATEFUL.NOTE;1 >>>
                 -< Take my advice, you'd be better off DEAD >-
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LANDO::HAPGOOD "Leroy says, 'keep on rockin'"        19 lines  18-MAR-1991 08:41
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    <<< Note 62.6 by OCTOBR::GRABAZS "listen2 the river sing sweet songs" >>>
>                             -< Landover 3-17-91 >-
 
Set I
Hell in a bucket
Walkin' Blues
Peggy-o
Queen Jane
Rubin and Cherise
Let it grow
 
That's a sort of wierd 1st set....4 wier tunes and 2 jerry tunes....

and is the Rubin a 1st for the dead as a whole??

I'll  take mine with sauerkraut...
:)
bob

    I attended the 3/21 show at Landover. The M.O. gods granted me 7th
    row Phil side seats. What was most interesting was that 3,4,5th
    row Phil side seats were full of deaf people. A person was signing
    the words to the songs, they were holding onto baloons - feeling
    the vibration.
    
    During break, two more came out from backstage, with Press badges
    on, and they joined the crowd.
    
    When the band came out Phil seemed to take a long time adjusting
    his equipment. Then during Victim, I knew why. He just blasted out
    the vibrations to that area. (I didn't mind sharing that by the
    way). During Victim, Mickey played the beam, also adding to the
    "buzz". Space was also very low frequency. I saw the band 
    looking over at the area a lot. My guess is that they were interviewed
    by the two Press Pass people, and reacted accordinginly.
    
    	Also, during Fire On The Mountain, these people were joining
    in on the "Fire" chant. They would wiggle their fingers up like flames,
    and then point their hands up - like a mountain. It was quite a
    sight to see 15-20 people doing this together. 
    
    	They were also dancing up a storm!
    
    	Mystery

    Hey thats cool Jimbo, it must have been a sight to see :'))))))))))
    
    Chris

re:  deaf people at Landover

Now *THAT's* really cool!!  ...to know that the Dead can be appereciated by
vibrations alone 8-).

peace,
t!ng

Looks like a hot one last night!  So much for a H>S>F or China Cat>Rider for 
tonight!  I won't hold it against them though  8^)

Outta here in 2 hours....

Scott_making_no_predictions

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MR4MI2::REHILL "Call me Mystery Hill"                  32 lines  25-Mar-91 09:10
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        Grateful Dead without Bruce Hornsby
        Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY
    
        set I
        -----
        Help On The Way->
    	Slipkot->
    	Franklin's Tower
    	Wang Dang Doodle
    	Jack A Roe
    	BIODTL
    	Brown Eyed Women
    	Desoaltion Row
    	Deal
    
    	Set II
    	------
    	Samson & Delilah
    	Chinacat Sunflower->
    	I Know You Rider
    	Looks Like Rain
    	He's Gone ->
    	Drums->
    	Space->
    	The Wheel
    	Miracle
    	Standing On The Moon
    	Good Lovin'
  	----------------
    	E: U S Blues
    

	Mystery - that is indeed a neat experience to have been
	witness to - thanks for sharing that...

	I once went to an matinee play for children and sat in
	back of a couple of rows of deaf children.  there was a
	women crouched down in front of them, between them and
	the stage, and she signed the whole play to them.  To me,
	watching her was at least as entertaining as the performance
	on the stage.  

	I find it wonderful that the whole group in front of you signed
	along with Fire on the Mountain :-)

	Debess

Mystery

  I want to meet you.  I have always felt good experiences await those that
open themselves to them.  You seem to observe some touching momnets.

  Imagine, you don't have to hear to be able to feel the music.  ;-)


   john

For those into sign language, I recommend an evening with the Body Language
Dancers.  This is a jazz dance group in Boston who sign the words to the 
music as they dance.  To give you an idea imagine Ray Fosse-type dancing to
Ray Charles singing "Hit the Road, Jack".  Very entertaining whether you are
hearing impaired or not.

Jim

    That must've been quite a site indeed Jim :^) I can fondly remember
    at one show in Providence when the boys exploded out of a jam, along
    with hearing them explode I also felt the air like push against my
    face! It left me totally awestruck cause I felt it more than heard
    it!
    
    I also had the pleasure of watching someone signing to another at
    a Robert Hunter show.  To watch them it was rilly incredible at how
    she didn't miss a beat and you could rilly see how she went along
    with the storytellers' songs :^)
    
    peace,Andy

	This is the first time I've penned a show review but I'll try to live
up to the high standards of T!ng and others.

	My first impression was," wow, they're starting early!". I thought the
start would be slowed by the awkwardness of trying to get in out of the rain
(I heard on guy say, "take a step back, take another step back.") but the boyz 
came on about 7:40. They opened pretty quickly with Jack Straw followed by a
hopping Bertha. Bobby seemed in good form and kept the pace going with a fine
rendition of Walkin Blues. An average FOTD (MHO) followed but the energy soon
climbed back with a fine Masterpiece. After Loser came what I thought was the
highlight of the first set, a smoking Cassidy. From where we were it seemed 
Vince's playing was increasing in the sound mix as the set progressed. He
really seemed comfortable and got Jerry (some grate solos throughout the night),
Bobby and Phil to push it up a few notches and this song showed it. I was 
surprised a bit when they closed with New Speedway Boogie which was very good
but which had the unenviable task of following Cassidy.
	After a 50 minute intermission, the crowd was dancing again with Aiko
as the set opener which set a feverish pace. Next was a hot St of Circumstance
with some fine jamming and especially good playing by Bobby :-). Ship of Fools
slowed the pace down. This is a favorite tune of mine so any time I catch it at
a show it's a bonus. Playin followed with a pretty quick slide into some free-
form jamming that lead to drums. Bill rilly seemed inspired and cooked through
a fine solo. Space had a wandering, kind of serene feel for me. They then 
moved onto Dylan #2, Watchtower to get everyone on their feet. a Grate %-) 
Morning Dew followed with Jerry taking off and pulling the rest with him. A
predictable Saturday Night closed the set in rocking fashion. Knocking on
Heaven's Door, #3 Dylan for those scoring at home, ended the night in a satis-
fying, mellow way. I tend to like this song more upbeat, akin the the version
JGB did at Grate Woods 2 years ago but I left more than happy.
	A couple of requisite comments on the scene. Security seemed pretty low
key, usually just trying to move people from the aisles or to tell people to 
stop smoking. Except for the Chicago stockyards look of the entrance, which got
a bit pushy due to the rain, I thought things went smoothly. Nice to see the
storefront signs welcoming us :-))))))))). Hope the actions of a few don't
close this venue for us too!!


jeff

    Mystery...grate note and experiance.. made me smile!%^)

                                         
    Jeff Strobel.....DEADvurnugen???????? "a Mrs Amada from Hoboken
    New Jersey writes , 'Dear Jeff Strobel, what exactly does DEADvurnugen
    look like?' 
    
    Man, can ya SEE the commercial this could make?!
                                           %^) ;^) :^)
                                                      rfb

Deadvurnugen - I saw this on a t-shirt Saturday and got a chuckle. Had the
seleton in place of the VW stick figure. I believe a translation might be the
exhilarating feeling one gets only at a Dead show.

   j

    
    ... driving hundreds of miles to meet friends from work.
    
    ... eating falafel in the rain while checking out the bazaar and the
        bizarre.
    
    ... old guys in tie-dyes, and young flirts in long skirts.
    
    ... the anticipation of knowing they'll play just what I wanted to
        hear, regardless of the set list.
    
    ... chuckling at all the clever T-shirts everybody was wearing.
    
    ... the world's largest aerobics event.
    
    ... sing-along, clap-along par excellence.
    
    ... strange sounds coming from the percussion section.
    
    ... concerto for guitar and acid.
    
    ... correctly guessing when they'd finish "Playin' in the Band".
    
    ... relaxing with friends; before, during, and after the show.
    
    		and most importantly:
    
    ... just exactly what I needed, when I needed it most
    
    
    			O   O
                          ^
                        `---'
    
    					... Bobbb
    
    

	Thanks for the review, Jeff!!  Is anyone going to review the
	other nights??  You're supposed to be the eyes and ears and
	dancing feet for those of us who can't be there, ya know??

	;-)  8-)  8->!!

	peace,
	t!ng

	yes, YES!  I ditto what T!ng says...I am in need of a Dead
	show as much as y'all but I'm not going to be making it
	to any in the near foreseeable future...I am living it
	vicariously thru your reviews...keep 'em coming!!!! (please!)

	Debess

    Did anyone see Saturday's show??  It was my first show ever and
    everyone I was with told me it was a bad first show.  I'm curious to
    see what others thought of it.  I thought it seemed like they really
    weren't into it, but what do I have to compare it to??  Unfortunately,
    I didn't get to go to the other shows.
    
    Anyway, it was cool being there.  I've never seen anything like it!!
    
    - D

  There is no such thing as a bad first show!!!!!!!

  Welcome to the bus my friend, see you at a show.  ;-)

  john

Well I'll give my nimble fingers a workout with a quick review of Monday 
(didn't make it Saturday or Sunday), no promises of greatness though ;^) 

The scene outside....
Let's see, went with a buddy from Albany and we parked a few blocks from the 
Knick in a nice garage for $2.50 (!) for the night.  The scene outside the Knick
seemed pretty mellow.  The streets were blocked off and filled with heads of 
all sizes, shapes and colors who were doing their thing without any problems 
that I could see.  I noticed a few people who were having a few brews that 
actually made the effort to throw their empties in trash barrels - good to see 
that.  There were some police on horses but they were basically just there 
looking around and making a presense.  The line getting in wasn't too bad - 
they had a system going that someone obviously had thought out ahead of time 
where they let in a bunch from the right side of the doors, then a bunch from 
the left.  This was checkpoint number one.  We got stopped at the front of the 
line when it switched to the other side and started talking with the dude 
controlling the flow there.  He said the scene Saturday was a real mess 
compared with Sunday and Monday.  He thought Saturday's ugliness (his word not 
mine - was it that bad??) occured because there were about 5000 counterfeit 
tickets sold, which is at least 1/3 or more of what the place holds.  I guess 
turning those 5000 away made things a little tough.  Anyway, when he let us by 
we were funneled up the stairs passing checkpoints 2, 3, 4, and 5 (show ticket,
show ticket, searched, show/give ticket).

The scene inside...
Where I was in Sect. 211 (high side stage, Phil's side) security types were 
non-existent and didn't appear in the sections around us either so as far I
could tell that aspect was really mellow - I just decided to stay there and 
not move around at all.  I'm not going to go into a LOT of detail on the show 
itself, only because I was too busy dancing and hopping and bopping and 
weaving and twirling and just having  F U N  to commit much to memory!  I will 
say though that the Shakedown opener with a hoppin' extended jam was definately 
hot and got the blood pumping!  The feeling stayed with me through a very nice 
first set, even though Bob seemed to spend as much time fiddling with his amps 
as he did playing ;^)  On a personal note, this was only my 2nd show and the 
first set had 4 repeats from my first show (MSG 9/16/90).  Greatest Story to 
open the second set was a little sloppy with Bobby missing a line or two (or 
was it technical difficulties?) but I thought Crazy Fingers was really sweet 
and though I sometimes don't get into this song on tape, this one really pulled
me in as it seemed to weave in and out of the rafters over my head.  Truckin' 
seemed to just come out of nowhere and it took me a second to figure that's 
what it was, but as soon as my ears connected with my brain, my feets got 
connected up as well and did their thang!  Real nice jam after Spoonful into 
Drumz which was amazing not only because of the sounds Bill and Micky were 
making, but also becasue I had an awesome view of them and could see clearly 
what was going into it.  Some of the lows seemed to make the air inside my lungs
vibrate - it was a totally cool sensation!!!  After Space the rest of the set 
kept me on my feet, even for the soulful Black Peter which Jerry seemed really 
into, reaching way down inside for the lyrics.  The Lovelight encore was full 
of energy and drive and really picked up a crowd that was hungry for more but 
alas, this evening was at an end and more will have to wait until summer or 
fall for this happy traveller.  

Geez, I guess I remembered more than I thought, how'd I do...

Scott

      Hey -D,
    
     I know you could find people who hated Saturday's show and you could
    certainly find people who loved it, IMHO, Sat.'s show was very hot and
    I thought it was the best show I've seen in a while until I saw
    Sunday's show! Not having seen a show for 6 months probably influences
    my veiwpoint alittle, but I've seen enough shows to know when the boys
    are jammin' and to me, I'd rate the weekend very satisfying!
    
    I'd have to say:
    
       Sat: HOT   Sun: HOTTER  Mon: HOT
    
    I enjoyed Albany alot, it reminds me sorta like Providence.  The only
    thing that could have made it better was to have seen the SUN (just for
    a little while).  All problems and bad weather and a few disappointed
    people aside, I had a GREAT time....
    
       Bring on the Summer Tour!   :-)  DaveB.

>Some of the lows seemed to make the air inside my lungs
>vibrate - it was a totally cool sensation!!!  

	i LOVE when that happens!!!!!!!!!!


>Geez, I guess I remembered more than I thought, how'd I do...

	GRATE!!!!  Thanks!

	Debess

RE: Albany.

	Thanks, I rilly needed that!

The Stress Meister.

    Well, I just found out that my project's been cancelled, so now I can
    spend some time writing up my impressions of Saturday and Sunday night
    in Albany.
    
    Saturday evening got off to a wet start, as we stood in the rain for
    about 30 minutes waiting to get in.  It was very reminiscent of last
    year, when people started getting impatient and suddenly you found 
    yourself squeezed into a space smaller than your body was meant for. 
    This was the least fun part of the night.  We finally made it past the
    first two checkpoints, then the security folks were separating the men
    from the women for the frisking lines.  The guy who frisked me asked me
    to empty one of my pockets, in which I had a cigarette lighter and a
    tube of chapstick.  I've never been frisked quite so thoroughly before,
    and I admit it made me a little nervous.
    
    Finally, about 7:20 we made it into the arena.  There weren't many
    people in yet, and we were wondering if the show would start on time. 
    But it didn't start till around 7:40 and by then the arena was fairly
    full.
    
    The first few songs were a little disappointing because neither Jerry
    or Vince were turned up loud enough.  The rest of the band sounded fine
    on Jack Straw->Bertha and Walking Blues.  But with a weak lead guitar
    and keyboards it was disappointing, particularly Walking Blues which I
    thought sounded pretty weak.  Finally, Dan Healy must've realized that
    you can't make FOTD work without turning Jerry up, and that problem got
    fixed.  By the end of FOTD the mix was pretty good and Masterpiece
    sounded really fine.  Loser was so-so, but Cassidy is one of those
    songs that I think has improved since Vince joined the band, and this
    evening's version was sweet.  Then came my highlight of the evening ...
    New Speedway Boogie.  They sounded a little loose on it, but I was so
    psyched they played it.  After that song, I really didn't care what
    they played in the second set ... my night was already made ... ;^)
    
    Second set started with a very hot version of Iko Iko, followed by a
    very ordinary St. of Circumstance and a so-so Ship of Fools.  Then they
    did Playin' in the Band, with a verrrrrry nice jam at the end.  But
    they never finished it ... Bob just kinda walked off the stage.  So
    they kinda jammed their way right into drumz, which was hot ...
    followed by a loooonnng Space (at which point I coined the term
    "concerto for guitar and acid").  Just about the time I started feeling
    the need to dance some more, they accomodated with a spirited version
    of Watchtower.  Then they did one of the nicest Morning Dew's I can
    remember hearing.  And closed the set with One More Saturday Night
    (predictably).  The encore, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, was nice.  But
    I'd have preferred something with a little more pizzazz to close the
    show.  Overall, I'd rate it a good, but not great, show.
    
    Sunday night was different ... there was no hassle getting in, no
    frisking at the door, and the show was smokin' hot from the first
    note to the last.  I don't think anybody sat down the whole first set
    (which was perhaps the hottest first set of any show I've been to). 
    
    The crowd went bonkers when they started into Help on the Way.  This
    version of Help/Slip/Frank was (I think) hotter than last year's
    version (which incidentally happened on the same date).  I figured
    they'd do a cool-down tune after that, but they surprised us with a
    very nice version of Wang Dang Doodle that just kept everybody dancin',
    then followed it up with Jack-a-Roe and BIODTL.  By then I was ready to
    drop from exhaustion.  Things cooled down a bit during Brown-Eyed Women
    and Desolation Row, although both songs were very nicely done (damn I
    wish I could just once hear Bob sing Desolation Row without forgetting
    some of the lyrics).  Finally they closed the set with a hot, tight
    version of Deal.  By now I think the audience was emotionally and
    physically drained from all the energy emanating from the stage during
    the first set.
    
    And the second set was no let-down either.  They started with a hoppin'
    version of Samson & Delilah, then went into China/Rider.  By now the
    building was getting very warm from the exertion of 17,000+ dancing
    Deadheads.  The band must've noticed it too, 'cause then they cooled
    things off with a very nice version of Looks Like Rain, followed by a
    slow, sweet, He's Gone.  On the refrain, it sounded like Jerry really
    wanted to slow this tune down but with all the singing and clapping
    going on, the crowd kinda took control of the tune and the band kept
    playin' on. 
    
    After Drumspace they launched into The Wheel, followed by I Need a
    Miracle.  By then the crowd needed another rest, and they obliged with
    beautiful rendition of Standing on the Moon.  They closed the set with
    an energetic Good Lovin', which left us all clappin', stompin', and
    screamin' for more.  The band didn't wait long to come out for the
    encore, and kept the energy flowing with U.S. Blues.  
    
    Overall, Sunday night's show was perhaps the tightest, most energetic 
    that I've ever been to.  I seriously want tapes of that show.
    
    And tonight I'm off to Lawnguyland for Thursday and Friday night's
    showz.  Hope to see some of y'all there ...
    
    							... Bob
    

    
    Whelp, I thought I would put in some comments about the weekend at
    Albany........
    
    Driving to Albany on Saturday we hit some of the worst weather I have
    ever driven in - and I am from Chicago.  We had rain, sleet, snow, ice,
    wind, and various mixtures of all of the above.  Every time I changed
    lanes the back of my car had a mind of it own and wiggled around. 
    Pretty scarry.  I saw a lot of accidents - people in the ditch and
    people hitting the guard rails - everyone seemed alright - they were up
    walking around.  We stayed at the Central Motel on Central street.  The
    room had two twin beds in it - real nice for $50 + $5tax.  Right
    outside the motel there was a bus stop.  We hopped on the bus for .75
    and rode it straight to the Knick.  We then grabbed some muchies.  I
    was with a friend Sat who had never been to a show before so I took him
    to deadland which was pretty mellow considering the rain.  We stopped
    by the Hill St. Cafe and saw Gerry and Fog.  We didn't stay long cause
    my friend wanted to go.  We then stumbled upon a bar that was running a
    drink special - $5 all you can drink until 6 o'clock.  We went in and I
    ran into some people I knew - humm does say anything about the people I
    hang out with:-).  In there was a keg flowing with may pitchers to help
    yourself.  The owner also made us some tasty pizza's for $7.  Pretty
    good place.  Then about 5:45 we headed over to the Nick to check out
    the scene.  I remembered the mess getting in last year and was not
    going to let that happen again.  So we stood across the street
    protected from the non stop rain.  When the crowd started moving in we
    walked across the street and got in rather quickly.  There were 4 check
    points - 1>show ticket/get rid of cans and bottles. 2>counterfeit
    ticket check - they checked very closely.  They had some ticketmaster
    representatives to double check any tix the security were not shure
    about.  3>body cavity search - na just kidding - but they did search me
    pretty good.  Almost did not let me in with blanks that I was going to
    give to Gerry.  4>give tix and your in.  On Saturday I sat in 108 Phil
    side.  We were directly on the side of the stage with a pretty good
    view of everyone.  The show started out great with a nice Jack
    Straw>Bertha - played pretty well - got the sweat glands open and
    ready.  Friend of the Devil was real sweet.  It was played (I thought)
    slower than usual and was real long.  Loser was nice but did not
    compare the the incrediable 3/24/90 version from last year.  Cassidy
    was the highlight of the first set for me - the boyz were really on for
    this one.  It just got pushed further than before - very hot.  NSB was
    a surprise - I was glad to hear it.  I called the Aiko set II opener
    and it was a good way to get the set bopping along.  St. of
    Circumstance was also very nice - my second.  Playin went into a real
    long jam - I thought we were going to get a Dark Star there but no such
    luck - I also heard a China Doll tease - I heard this a couple times
    over the weekend.  Watchtower in my opinion was the weakest part of the
    show - it just seemed to be falling apart the whole time - like they
    were struggling to get the tune over with.  The Morning Dew was the
    highlight of the run for me - this version was amazing.  Jerry took me
    to emotions I have not experienced in a while.  The tune just kept
    building and building and it seemed long also.  My favoite Dew until
    this one was Alpine 6/23/88.  Maybe it was just me but this blew me
    away.  When Sat nite started I could barley get into it cause I kept
    stopping and putting my head in my hands shaking it in disbelief at
    what I just heard.  Thanks Jerry!  (ok I will stop raving about this
    Dew:-))  The encore of Heaven's Door also had that extra emotion in it
    like the Dew.  Jerry really seemed into it.  It was a great way to end
    a good show.  After the show we went to the Hill St Cafe to meet up
    with Gerry.  We then grabbed a cab back to our motel and crashed.  
    
    I awoke on Sunday to the sound of rain on the roof - well it was either
    that or a stampeed of mice - I was hoping for the mice but when I look
    out the window - I was brought back to reality - it was STILL raining. 
    My friend took off home and I got in my car and drove to the Nick and
    parked in the lot next to the Nick for $10.  (a mistake as I would
    learn later)  I got some munchies - all the stores in Albany had signs
    in the windows welcoming us to town.  I felt very welcome and was never
    harassed in any way all weekend.  Due to the rain almost everyone hung
    out in the parking garage.  I decided to walk around so I headed for
    the tunnels under the Egg.  I was wandering around when I heard someone
    say "Jerry".  I turned around and there was Dave, Geoff, and Paul(I
    think that was his name).  We hooked up and went out to visit the
    parking lot scene - the rain had now let up.  We then ran into Adam who
    they had lost earlier in the day.  We decided to go to the Hill St Cafe
    and shoot some pool.  We got there about 2 o'clock.  There we also saw
    Lisa, Phyllis, and others.  I left about 4 to go to my car and change
    into some dry socks and get ready for the show.  The opened the gates a
    half hour earlier than they did on Sat.  The opened up at 6 o'clock.  I
    got in no problem - no body cavity search this time.  I almost got ran
    over by a security guard as he was running after a ticketless person
    who was trying to run in.  The caught him and escorted him off.  Tonite
    I was sitting in the 5th row center with Gerry Gladu.  We were sitting
    in the exact middle of Bobby and Phil.  WOW these seats were amazing -
    the closest I have ever been.  In fact I have never been on the floor
    before.  I knew from the opener of H/S/F that we were in for a hot
    show.  The Franklin's was really long and hot.  Jerry was here to play
    tonite.  Wang Dang Doodle also seemed really hard and hot compared the
    the version I got at New Years.  BIODTL was a treat for me - I don't
    think I have ever heard this one before - sorry I don't remember how
    many beats.  Brown Eyed Women was also a treat for me - I like this
    song.  The Deal set closer was AMAZING - they kept peaking over and
    over again.  I thought the song was going to end multiple times but
    they just kept pushing it harder and harder - it was like this all
    night - they just pushed each song a little further than they ususally
    do.  Samson & Delilah quickly took over where Deal left the crowd.  The
    China>Rider surprised me since they just played in Landover but hey
    what a pleasant surprise.  Jerry was really into this one.  During
    Rider Jerry belted out with more emotion and vocal strength than I have
    seen in a while the lines "I wish I was a headlight, on a North-bound
    train" multiple times.  WOW.  LLR was real nice - this is a special
    song for me cause it reminds me of someone special.  Bobby was really
    into this one - at the end he did his Peradictaly mating calls.  I
    usually laugh at this but I liked it this time - it really hit me
    right.  Thanks Bobby.  He's Gone was also real sweet and emotional as
    always.  The Wheel out of Space lifted us up and got those feet movin'
    again. Bobby seemed to really like the way the crowd was belting the
    lyrics back to him during Miracle.  Standing on the Moon was a perfect
    choice as far as I am concerned.  We needed to slow the dancing pace a
    bit before we all collapsed.  Jerry was really into this one also - I
    love this song and with the War and all it seemed to really hit home -
    lyric wise.  Good Lovin' quickly got us all dancin' at a fevorish pace
    again.  I figured since the show was so *^%$^%$@ hot and foot staping
    good that they would mellow us out with a mellow encore like Black
    Muddy River or Brokedown Palace but no the boyz were here to rock
    tonite - the US Blues encore was rockin'.  What an amazing show - best
    I have seen in a while!!! as far as pure rocking and foot moving tunes. 
    They really pushed each song to a new level all night long.  After the
    show I ran back to my car cause being a lowly coop (aka slave:-)) I had
    to come to work on Monday.  When I got to the parking lot it was mobbed
    with people which made it hard to get out but I evenetually made it
    home - but it was not easy - very long drive and after a show like that
    I was EXHAUSTED.  
    
    Monday I left from work to drive back.  This time I took a suggestion
    from Adam and took 90 to 787 which took me to a parking lot right under
    the Egg where the price was $5.  This is the best way to go if you ever
    go back to Albany - easy exit to the parking lot and very fast way out
    - right on 787 to 90 no problem with people or traffic.  I got there
    about 5 o'clock.  I wandered around the parking lot again - I bumped
    into a couple people I knew but then I headed in about 6 - I rather
    wait inside dry then be caught in the last minute crunch and miss part
    of the first set.  No body cavity search tonite either.  Tonite I was
    sitting in 4th row center right between Bobby and Phil again - WOW
    these seats were incrediable.  It seemed like you were at a private
    show - being so close you don't see all the other people unless you
    turn around.  It was wild making eye contact with the boyz - I will
    never forget it.  Once I was making drumming motions to Bill and he
    looked at me and smiled.  I heard a lot of people saying Hell in the
    Bucket opener - I was hopping for a Shakedown (Hell is not one of my
    favorites I have heard it enough)  Whelp, we got the Shakedown so I was
    off again dancin'.  I was a little sore tonite though after Sunday's
    show.  The Shakedown was real long and well played.  The Rooster was
    real bluzy with both Bob and Jerry on slide guitar.  High Time was real
    nice also - I like this song and Jerry was really there again with good
    vocals - I love it when he has the full strength of those vocals.  10SC
    Jed was hopping right along into Promised Land which figured would end
    the set but Jerry did not move off the stage....more?  Yep Touch of
    Grey.  It was a real long first set.  The second set got off to a
    rockin' start with Greatest Story Ever Told but Bobby forgot his lyrics
    to this one back in dressing room.  He really botched it multiple time. 
    It was great to be so close to watch him forget the words and see Jerry
    look over at him with a scolding look.  It was hilarious.  Crazy
    Fingers was nice.  It seemed that they couldn't decide what to go into
    next so eventually they gave up and went into Truckin'.  Spoonful
    seemed really scary like - I like it.  Kinda mystical in a way.  Then
    coming out of space Bobby looked over at Phil and raised his eyebrows -
    as if saying ok Phil do your thing.  Phil then belted out the into to
    the Other One.  Wow Phil shook my whole inside with that intro - being
    that close it was amazing - thanks Phil - his bass ripped right thru me
    there.  Black Peter was played with a lot of emotion from Jerry again. 
    Throwing Stones was nice - Bobby enjoyed the crowd singing Ashes Ashes.
    The first time we got to that part he started singing it but then heard
    the crowd and stood back from the mike and motioned out with his hand
    telling us to go head and do it.  I was expecting Lovelight after
    Throwing Stone but what is this Playin' (reprise) WOW this is weird. 
    It caught me completely off guard.  I guess they felt they had to
    finish it since they never did on Saturday.  For the encore I figured
    Brokedown but we got Lovelight after all and I was pleased.  I think
    Bobby could do a little more with the Rap part but no one could do it
    like Pig Pen used to.  Bobby enjoyed yelling "Do ya feel good" - he 
    seemed to enjoy the audience reaction.  I saw one of Bobby's daughters
    - she was talking to the guy behind me - she was pretty cute if I do
    say so myself.  I also say two of Jerry's daughters on stage - one was
    young - I would say 4 or 5 and the other one was probably in her 20's
    they both had the Jerry body build.  I also saw Bear on stage.  I
    watched most of the show from the left side of the stage.  It was a
    great show - I had a fantastic time - I don't think I can ever top that
    weekend - being so close.  
    
    If I had to rate the showz I would say Sunday was the best followed by
    Saturday and then by Monday.  The drive home was long but all the
    police that were out kept me alert.  All in all it was a fantastic run
    of showz - they were there to play and play they did.  Jerry's voice
    sounded great.  WOW.
    
    Happy Cheese-
    Jerry Vauk

Sat @ the Knick:

	We arrived at the scene around 4:30 pm.  Parked for $5, which I though
was very reasonable compared to prices found at other venues.  We ventured to
the Hill St Cafe and met up with Bruce Susel, Adam, Geoff, and a couple other
people who's names I forget.  The beer there was quite fine:  Bass Ale on tap
surely hit my spot.

	After the Hill St, we ventured out in the pouring rain to grab some
pizza before the show (dinner).  Then, we headed to the front of the Knick
into the vast sea of rain-soaked people.  Like others have said, getting in
was a real pain in the butt.  Luckily, I stood under one guy's unbrella for
a while, which kept off some of the moistness.  After a few more checkpoints,
we were in.  We chatted w/ a few decheads we saw then made way for section
240... 

	We decided not to sit in our assigned seats that were behind stage.
Section 240 is straight back... there were plenty of open seats that we
used and never got hassled for.  For some reason, I just was not into this
show.  I thought the sound was really lame; everything seemed muddled, I
could hardly hear Jerry, Bob or Vince.  Walking Blues was really
bad... hardly any Jerry at all...  this, compounded by the fact that I was
uncomfortable with my seating arrangement, made for a somewhat lackluster
first set. The highlight of the first set for me was Cassidy, then New Speedway
Boogie.  By the time Cassidy rolled around, Healy finally fixed the sound!

	Second set was better.  Iko was good, but not nearly as hot as
other Ikos I've heard in the past.  St. of Cir. was also pretty good...
Deb did not recognize this song, so she kind of spaced out and wanted to
distract me from listening (that's ok though).  Don't remember Ship.  Playin'
was very nice!  I think Bobby might have messed the words up once or 
twice -- not sure though.  Jerry really, really, really wanted to finish
Playin' off but Bob wasn't going to let it happen.  Bob walked off stage
while Jerry continued winding down the jam.  For a while, I though they
were going to pull in Uncle John Band -- seemed like Phil wanted this.  Also,
the thought of Dark Star occured, but never formulated.

	Drums/Space was normal.  Watchtower was pretty good.  Dew was ok.
I thought 1 Mo Sat Night was very hot!  Finally, I thought, they got things
going... I knew it was going to be the set-ender.  Heaven's door was
normal.

	The last show I saw before this one was in Denver, CO.  The first
thing I noticed was the LOUD LOUD LOUD New England crowd.  Some people like
this, some don't.  I don't care for a loud crowd.  I like to dance, listen
to the music, and keep my mouth shut until the song is over.  At times,
the crowd was so loud that it was hard to hear the music.  During the quiet
moments of a song, or during a jam, it was easy to hear lots of chatter in
the arena.  People love to talk, talk, talk while the music is playing.  This
was a very sharp contrast against the quiet Denver show.  They played Dew
in Denver also.  At New England shows, people talk, clap and scream during the
song.  In Denver, we could not believe the restraint people had.  Nice and
quiet compared to Albany... 

	Gerry Gladu came by on Sunday after the show with some tapes.  We
listened to Set I from Saturday and Set I from Sunday.  The tapes reveal the
loudness of the crowd pretty well, compared to my Denver tapes.  Also, FWIW,
the Saturday tapes sounds a lot better than what I remember!

	Sunday review forthcoming...

	

 
    > Also, FWIW, the Saturday tapes sounds a lot better than what I remember!

    IMO, this is because part of what made the Saturday show so mediocre
    was the lack of energy/synergy/cosmicgoo:-) between the band and the
    crowd.  I think that contributes as much to the show as the actual
    music does.  I know I've come upon this idea a lot when listening
    to/discussing tapes with folks.  We'll have show A and show B from
    somewhere, and show A's tape will sound much better even though you
    know.. cause you were there.. that show B really blew it away.  Blame
    it on the cosmic goo. :-)  Maybe this is why I prefer audience tapes
    for shows I was at and really loved.. captures a little of the crowd 
    energy that you can't get from a soundboard.
	
    

    some quick hits on mondays show.....
    ....found a side street parking spot that cost zippppo good way to
    start the evening
    .....found the R&R bar that had a sign welcoming Deadheads...was the
    only white person in it but thats ok...however it did not seem they
    wanted to see to many Deadheads and all the other patrons spent much of
    the time gawking out the window at all the goings on outside..this 
    offered a new perspective..
    .....no hassles going in 
    ....Shakedown blew me away...great way to get that fix .... that was
    well needed.
    .....Liked the first set except that it seemed the band stumble in one 
    way or another in every song (cept shakedown) but made up for it as the 
    song progressed.
    .....Second set was the same stumbling but strong jams made up for
    it...highlites included the sweeeet begining to Crazy Fingers, the
    great jam at the end of Spoonful (I've heard this before maybe at a
    Jerry show) and the jam going into Other One (and the entire song)
    plus the Playing refrain
    ....BIG SMILE at the end of the night 
    ....bumping into Gerry G and Dave W near the drums during break
    (I might have been grumpy if so sorry I was in dire need of the
    facilities)
    ....downer was hearing rumors that jerry is misbehaving again
    ....wish I was going to Nassau.
    
    rich

       > Jerry sang Estimated?  Wish I could have seen that - Did he do any
       > eagle screems? :-) :-)
       >
       > Btw - What is the VERY sick Jam, and what is the SICKEST loose lucy?
       >
       > Looks Like a excellent show, WOW!! Box of Rain Encore!!!
       >
       > Scott g
    
    Hey Now Scott, I got the set list from Dead-flames.  Now that I think
    about it think that it is higly unlikely that Jerry sang Estimated - I
    don't think Bobby would pass up his chance to do some Peradactial(sp?)
    mating calls.  Can anyone out there who went to last nites Nassau show
    verify what the show was like?  I think we will have to wait for the
    tapes to verify the "SICK" songs and jams:-)
    
    Happy Cheese-
    Jerry

    
    
    
    
    First of all....
    
    thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
    thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
    thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
    for playing ruben & cherise wednesday and not friday!!!!!!!!!!!!
    thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
    thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
    
    :-)
    
    Yes, Bob sang Estimated.  Although I have to admit chuckling at the
    image of Jerry doing eagle screams. :-)
    
    It was a very hot show.. especially second set.  1st set really wasn't
    all that grate, although you'd never know it from the list.  They played
    good songs.. but there just wasn't that much intense jamming.  Except
    for Loose Lucy.. that was very hot.  Phil's verse in Maggie's Farm was
    the best/strongest he's ever sang!  And he kept it up for the Box
    encore.. didn't even forget one word!  :-)  Ruben & Cherise was alot of
    fun and Cold Rain was good too.
    
    The whole second set was incredible... Fire on the Mt. blew me away..
    and one of the best Uncle John's ever..  But the best was the jam after
    Estimated... wow!  
    
    Nassau rumor for the day:  Isn't it interesting how they've saved Eyes
    and Bird Song for the night Branford's rumored to show? :-)
    
    Get tapes!
    
    Phyllis
    

    
    >Nassau rumor for the day:  Isn't it interesting how they've saved Eyes
    >and Bird Song for the night Branford's rumored to show? :-)
    
    And Dark Star for that matter.

    
    :-)
    
    I didn't wanna say it and jinx myself but you can.. thanks!  :-)
    
    

    I've heard "sick" being used among the "younger set" to mean AMAZING,
    GRATE, etc.
    
    Personally, I like:
    
         
    	- lowgen = very good
    
    	- lowgen soundboard = excellent
    
    	- lowgen DIGITAL soundboard = truly tanscendent
    
    Man, that was a lowgen DIGITAL soundboard experience, don't you think?
    
    	~dave
    
    

    
    It's not just age, it's regional.  In NY, if you say, that set was
    really sick, you mean it was really amazing.  
    
    

    
    Well, last night's show was incredible!  It was very short.. I bet it
    ended a good 45 minutes earlier than Wednesdays.. but the playing was
    unbelievable!  There wasn't one soft spot all night.. no throways.  Not
    even one bathroom song! ;-)  Friends who have seen the whole tour so
    far thought it was the best show yet.  If I were writing the set list,
    there's be ! everywhere!!! :-)  Especially by Foolish Heart.. truly
    a spectacular version.  And the Terrapin encore.. :-) :-) :-)  Wow!
    They didn't do it like an encore.. it was a soaring version that
    built to a great climax and then gently brought us back down to earth.  
    Towards the end it sounded like they were going into something else..
    we thought maybe they'd start a new era of Grateful Dead.. three mini
    sets. ;-) But then they turned it back into Terrapin and brought us
    home.  Truly something. :-)
    
    Shows like last night make you realize why you love the Grateful Dead.
    Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
    
    :-)  :-)  :-)
    
    Phyllis
    

    
    One thing I forgot to mention.. they were playing riffs from China Cat
    in the middle of Goin Down The Road!  It was pretty weird.. :-)
    
    

	Back from my travels to Albany and a work trip to Cincinatti...

	I loved Saturday's 3/23 show the best of the 3 because of the jamming 
	that took place in Saint of C and Playin'.   This is what I 
	reaaaally like,	and got it to an extent.   After hearing about an
	interview with Healy about how good the sound is at Albany, I was
	wondering why noone could hear Jerry or Bob the first night.  After
	the first few tunez the sound got much better!   

	Sunday's first set was hotter n' hell!  Some really nice playing,	
	and a rocking set!   2nd set ChinaRider was nice, but I was mildly
	disappointed to get Looks Like Rain and He's Gone, again.  Seems like
	I get this combo constantly.  But I'm not complaining about getting
	another Dew, and a great one at that!    Hung out with an old college
	friend and Doug Moog, who claimed an unexpected extra ticket.

	Monday nite I called the Shakedown opener, which made me 3 for 3
	for predicting the JackStraw->Bertha, HSF, and this one.  My friend
	from Albany was impressed ;-)  It was a nice long Shakedown, like it
	should be...

	Is anyone else wondering about that jam Jerry tried to get going 
	before space ?   Seemed like noone in the band could figure out what
	he was playing, which sounded like a Russian Lullaby type of melody.

	Sure was wierd seeing Vince up there.  I really like what I heard!
	Most especially when the going gets wierd and the jams start. He's
	right there and seems to open things up.

	Ken

    My 2 cents or the view from the 1st row....
    
    Anticipation fills the air.  You look around and see thousands of
    people looking down, waiting for the show to begin.  Then the lights go
    out and you realize that the band can only see the first five rows, but
    they can see you.  People milling around the stage, a very beautiful
    little blonde boy is in his mother's arms, smiling while he watches his
    daddy play bass guitar.  His daddy meanwhile keeps two pictures of his kids
    on the amp!
    
    First set is just sooo right.  A rockin' Bertha to open, energy
    abounds, the sound is crystal clear.  The boyz are clearly having a
    fine ole time.  Jerry wailin' away, smiling, having a fine time.  Vince
    (who I could hardly hear) is concentrating so hard, looking very
    intense but seemingly he's getting used to being there.
    
    I totally agree with Phyllis about the first set.  Not a throwaway at
    all.  Great music, great enery.  Just so on. (Highlights - the whole
    set!)  Second set opens with a great VOTC into Foolish Heart.  The songs 
    just build and the jamming on VOTC reverberated throughout your body.  
    Good Women are Smarter.  Then into drums, we're thinking what's going 
    on?  (Now it's bathroom time)  When I came back to my seat during drums, 
    passing by the speaker banks was just incredible - you feel the sound 
    coming out of the speakers, a very unusual feeling.  Then I felt the 
    show fell apart, an OK China Doll, short Good Lovin' and short Goin' 
    Down the Road.  We look at our watches and it's 10:30PM, this can't 
    be right!!!.  Guess the boyz thought it wasn't right either, because 
    they came back with Terrapin for an encore.  Good guitar work, they 
    started to go into Gimme Some Lovin' but suddenly they looked lost, 
    Bobby kept looking at Jerry, Jerry looked at Vince, Phil looked at 
    Bobby and then they stopped playing.
    
    Fashion report....Bobby wore a black silk shirt, jeans, moccasins (w/o
    socks).  No more pony tail.  Jerry had on the usual black
    t-shirt/sweatpants.  Vince had a nice Atzec style print shirt.  Phil
    had a multicolor sweat shirt.  The Vulcan had a black t-shirt.  I
    couldn't see Billy at all.
    
    I only hope that mail order will bless everyone in this file the way
    we were blessed last night.  Having those seats just one time was truly
    an experience of a lifetime.  No scalper scum, just plain luck to get
    those seats.
    
    And lastly a Happy Easter and Passover to everyone!!!!
    
    Fredda                                           

    ...ref jam after SPoonful ..Monday in Albany...Russian Lull. or
    Positively 64th st....??????
    
    rich

    
    I think it was definately Russian Lullaby.
    
    

    re: last night's show
    
    Wasn't that the first post Brent era "China Doll"?  Does Vince have as
    good a harpsichord sample as Brent did?  It really blew me away in
    Hartford last year - now I just want to hear "Comes A Time" again.
    
    Jamie

When I was in Denver, CO, they did a VOTC then Foolish Heart.  I really do not
care for Victum, but the Foolish Heart was wicked, killer, smokin' hot! :-)

Sounds like y'all got a similar taste!

JC

    I guess Unkle Spikey didn't show up last night, huh? :-)

    
    	No Ger,.. no spike
    
    	Folks,.. you can flame me to high heaven for saying this, but
    the Thursday and Friday Nasswau shows were pretty lame by my book.
    I don't mind too much when they blow the words,.. but when they start
    blowing their guitar parts, as I heard Jerry and Bob both do, I gotta
    wonder what the hell I'm paying $25 for and travelling across three
    states to see. I mean,.. what happened during Wharf Rat? Bobby didn't
    play the wholoe song. It fell apart,.. Jerry had to let it die because
    he couldn't carry it off himself. What happened to extended intricate
    tight jamming? WHy do I hear the same old jams,... only trunctaed
    
    	Also,.. the crowd,.. oy. Why does everyone have to start screaming
    every time Jerry starts soloing? WHy can't everybody shut up and
    listen for once. I don't know,.. maybe its just NY. But Jerry can't
    even hear himself play whne everyone is screaming the way they do. I
    guess I shouldn't expect any excellent jamming when he has to drown out
    the crowd (which he can't do anyway) to be heard.
    
    
    						/who_heard_better_music_
    						listening_to_his_tape_deck
    						on_the_way_home
    
    

    /, Bob had guitar problems throughout Wharf Rat. Parrish was in front
    of Bob's rack for most of the song. We couldn't hear anything from Bob
    which was why Phil and Jerry were doing all the jamming.

    
    	Yah Mike,.. It just seemed toi me that he decided to have
    equipment problems because he couldn't quite get the right MIDI
    sound out for the chord riff he usually plays in that song. Then,
    having missed the intro,.. he just wallowed... he could have
    shut down the MIDI and played some guitar (what a concept) for
    a change.
    
    	bout those equipment problems.,... what the hhell was that
    anyway? A speaker blowing? an amp? Anyway,.. true to form.,.
    the crowd cheered for the blowing speaker...
    
    	I guess music appreciation is not part of the scene anymore
    
    							/
    
    	PS Sorry folks,.. I must be in one of those ruts everyone is
    talking about. And I just saw two shows :-/
    

    
    Hey Slash.. ya gotta know by now that if you're looking for a nice,
    mellow crowd, Nassau's the last place you should go.  It's always like
    that..
    
    It's like, if you didn't *know* you were at a deadshow, you wouldn't
    know you were at a deadshow.
    
    Know what I mean?  :-)
    
    

re < Note 23.78 by STAR::SALKEWICZ "It missed... therefore, I am " >
                                    -< ... >-
>    anyway? A speaker blowing? an amp? Anyway,.. true to form.,.
>    the crowd cheered for the blowing speaker...

I don't know; the people around me sure seemed bummed out when the speaker
started crackling ... I think the cheer was because it seemed to recover.

- Dave

    ...ahhhhh / good to see some of your old form ...thought you had lost
    it for a while....as much as I enjoyed Albany (monday) I still thought
    it was missing something....maybe the whole run is a tough effort for 
    one reason or another...btw any more rumors about Jerry and old bad 
    habbits???  sorry to hear you had a bad time/
    
    rich

    
    I heard the same rumor also (in Albany) :-(
    
    

    hey /, isn't going to see a bad Dead show still better than 
    a good day at the office? ;^)
    
    peace,Andy

    
    	No rumors Rich,.. but from the way he played (or rather didn't
    play) I would tend to believe such rumors.
    
    	re Dave Clark (which one is it?)
    
    		Well,.. I was pretty bummed out too,.. especially
    when they cut the set short for it,.. wondering to myself if
    that would be able to get fixed for the second set. But the cheers,..
    I mean they were loud raucous cheers that seemed to me to say ..
    
    	" Wow,.. what an awesome sound,.  really $%^&* my head up man,..
    do it again"
    
    	rather than 
    
    	" Oh good,.. they fixed it ..."
    
    	I mean,.. of the folks who felt the second way,.. like myself,..
    it was more like a heavy sigh of relief,.. than a scream of joy..
    
    	eh?
    
    								/moody
    

    I was also a bit disappointed with the Nausea Colliseum shows ... but
    perhaps for different reasons.  I stayed at my brother's house in
    Joisey, and Thursday night we took the wrong exit 22 and ended up
    getting lost.  After a harrowing half-hour, we finally got back on
    track and arrived about half-way through Bertha.  I thought the show
    was good, but really short ... like the boyz just weren't into it that
    night.  Friday we got to the show in plenty of time, then did a classic
    "what do you mean do I have the tickets, don't YOU have them ???!!!". 
    Now, the tix are at my bro's house, two hour's drive away, and the show
    starts in a half-hour.  So we called his wife who was nice enough to
    race up to the V-N bridge to meet us with the tickets.  We ended up
    back at the show during intermission, having missed the entire first
    set.
    
    But aside from all that, I thought the two Albany showz I saw were much
    better than the 1.5 Nausea showz I saw.  Somehow the boyz just didn't
    seem all that much into it down in Lawnguyland.  Perhaps they just miss
    Hornsby ... I know I did.
    
    ... Bob
    

    re Andy Burns
    
    	Oh yeah Andy,.. I guess you got me there. Its true,..A bad day
    at a dead show still beats a good day at work,.. or rather,.. 
    A bad day at a dead show still blows working out of the water.
    
    
    						/getting_some_perspective

    We've mentioned it before ..but maybe it is time for a change...
    Phyllis mentioned 3 mini sets that could be neat...I doubt the band
    has grown that dependent on Hornsby that it could effect them that 
    much....they also could use a dose of NEW MATERIAL...not just 
    bringing in old tunes (even though thats fun)...very few new
    tunes have shown the endurance for jams etc as Scarlet>Fire
    or Eyes or The Other One etc......maybe a years sabatical
    would help....jit seems that the second sets have shown minimal
    change over the past 5 years...not flaming just got some energy
    since / made his observation.

>        BTW, if anyone wants to come down tonight, people were BEGGING to
>        trade Monday nights for Tuesday.  Apparently, there are plenty of
>        Tuesday night tix available.  ;^}
 
Hey now to you folks in NC!

I talked with my sister'n'law who was at the show last night with
my brother and they are gonna watch DUKE play as well as everyone
they went with....

I mean where else in the world would priorities change from Dead shows
to basketball....?

Why the answer would have to be North Carolina and Indiana.....

:)
bob who'd be at the deadshow with a vcr in the hotel room taping
the game for after show consumption....

3 cheers to DUKE for beatin' the overaged college kids from UNLV
(ahem...after getting smashed by UNLV last year...)

    
    I heard that Bobby and Jerry were sick with the flu during the Nassau
    run.....did anyone else hear this?  That might account for the short
    sets and the sloppy playing that has been talked about.
    
    Happy Cheese-
    Jerry

    I'd believe it ... I dunno about those guys, but I'm still sick with
    it.  Damn thing's gone from a chest cold to a sore throat to an ear
    infection.  If those guys felt as bad as I do, I'm surprised they played
    at all.
    
    ... Bob
    

    Didn't the Boys play last night?  Has anyone seen a set list yet?

Who *didn't* get sick in Albany?

adam_on_erythromycin

I thought I didn't ... nor in Nassau ... but it snuck up on me this morning!

- Dave_having_entered_another_dimension_via_decongestants_and_throat_lozenges

>Who *didn't* get sick in Albany?

I didn't.


Fog_who_was_already_sick_when_he_arrived_there_:-/

    
    Well that's cheating. 
    
    ;-)
    
    

    he started it !

    I also thought that I had escaped the bug both in Albany and Nassau
    but now I have a sore throat and various other cold symptoms.
    
    Heidi

I had something after coming back from Landover that kicked my butt for a week. 
I'm still fighting residual symptoms.  Hey, maybe there's a CIA conspiracy to
infect Dead crowds with new viruses! ;-)  Stranger things have happened I guess.

		Dave

RE:      <<< Note 23.76 by STAR::SALKEWICZ "It missed... therefore, I am " >>>
                -< OK,.. where's my falme retardant underwear? >-

>    	Also,.. the crowd,.. oy. Why does everyone have to start screaming
>    every time Jerry starts soloing? WHy can't everybody shut up and

I wonder the same thing mon.  Try taking in a show 2000+ miles west of the
Stress Coast (east coast that is) if you want quietness.

>    listen for once. I don't know,.. maybe its just NY. But Jerry can't
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Having seen the dead in NY, CT, RI, MA, ME, Colorado, NY is, BY FAR, the
loudest crowd every time.  Maybe all NYers are releasing their pent up
stress, who knows...  

Another observation.  I have several tapes from 71-90 ... many of the
NY ones you can hear the band asking people to take a step back, or mellow
out...  I guess history continues to repeat itself.

The loudness of the Albany show was the FIRST THING deb and I noticed, in
comparision to the show we saw in Denver, CO.  And, when we saw the Denver
show, the quietness was the first thing we noticed compared to the east
coast shows...

If you want quietness Bill, go west mon.

	JC

	Speaking as someone who has ween more shows in the Henry J. 
	Kaiser Auditorium than any other single venue, and as someone
	who didn't make an effort to go shows an hour and a half's drive
	from home but who ordered for and hopes to be at Shoreline
	in May -

	West Coast crowds aren't as rowdy as East Cost crowds, but that
	doesn't mean they are quiet.  There's still lots and lots of
	talking and BS'ing during the show.  Very annoying.  I weirded
	out some folks (at Shoreline last June) who were obviously not
	mentally at the show by reminding them that this was a concert 
	and would they mind being quiet.  And to their credit, they 
	generally behaved after that.

	I guess I am way spoiled by going to lots of lovely folk and
	acoustic shows where the audience shuts the f*** up and listens
	to the performer...

	Bob

re:  <<< Note 23.102 by GR8FUL::WHITE "Without love in a dream..." >>>
>                     -< The old West vs. East controversy >-

>	West Coast crowds aren't as rowdy as East Cost crowds, but that
>	doesn't mean they are quiet.  There's still lots and lots of
>	talking and BS'ing during the show.  Very annoying. 

Yes, it's very annoying when you're trying to enjoy the show.  I have
to admit though that I really appreciate the reduction of "JERRYYYYYYY!!"
yells in west coast shows.  There's nothing worse that can ruin a good
Dew than a "JERRYYYYYY!!" scream 8-).


peace,
t!ng

    OK
    
    I'm selling the house
    
    here I come Ting,.. got a job for me?
    
    :-)
    
    							/
    
    PS Thanks people (JC, Bob W., and Ting) for taking away this "Am I all
    alone" feeling. Its nice to hear that someone else still appreciates
    the music over the sound of their own voice(s).

	There is no doubt in my mind that I go to the shows for the musical
experience vs. something else.  I really enjoy the music and seeing it live 
is the best it can get.  Sure, you can have a killer stereo playing a boot
loud .. but it just ain't the same.
 
	All throughout the Albany shows, I kept commenting to Deb:  "Get ready,
the NY crowd is about to got nuts!"  Sure enough, everytime, they'd go nuts.
I took a freind from work for the first time to a show.  Right before they
went into Franklins (sunday's show), I told him that the place was about to
go batty... sure enough, the crowd did go nuts.

	I tried not to let the loud crowd bother me.  Instead, I tried my
best to concentrate on the tunes and laugh when the crowd went nuts.  Deb now
knows that I like listening to the music and she'll either wait until the
song is over to tell/ask me something, or ask it quietly and quickly.  I
really anjoyed Denver; noticibly more quiet that NY, especially during
morning dew...

	Bill, sometime, treat yourself to a show out west.  Going to Colorado
is a good start (I've never seen a West coast show)... and, it really does
not cost a whole lot to go out there (rentals are cheap, eating out is cheap,
etc)... and, those COLO DECheads sure love to PARTY !!!  (thanks rfb, john,
divide dave, etc. for a real good time!)

	JC

    Well I've been quiet of late, a lot because work is pretty busy - 
    especially when you're commuting from NJ to Nassau for shows!
    
    / I appreciate greatly your comments about people screaming and 
    talking during the Nassau shows - you get to the point where you 
    play "air screams" at times rather than "air guitar"!  I do try 
    to keep the spirit, though it is at times difficult.
    
    I got to see Albany and Nassau, and my favorite two shows were 
    the Thursday night in Nassau and the Sunday night in Albany.  I 
    haven't left a show like the Thursday night Nassau in quite some 
    time - nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)  The first set was really 
    nice but the second set blew my mind - they had me from start to 
    finish, which is the way I like it and then to come out and do a 
    great Terrapin encore, my cup was full!
    
    Then I went to Friday night - all pumped up and no where to go - 
    boy what a disappointment!  When people cheered for the blown 
    circuitry you really have to wonder, and the number of f***ups 
    during Friday's show just blew my mind.  
    
    A friend who hadn't seen the previous shows was with us on Friday, 
    and I found it so difficult to talk to him during the show because 
    I thought they're playing so badly - I didn't want to ruin his one 
    show.  This may not sound possible but the St. of Circumstance (and 
    I can be pretty forgiving about this because it's such a great tune 
    with lots of wonderful memories) they played Friday was even worse 
    than the one they did in Albany, though I do think the New Speedway 
    was better than in Albany.  
    
    I guess I feel pretty satisfied - two great shows out of six is 
    still fine with me.  At times I must remind myself, even when they 
    play "badly" there still no place else I'd rather be!
    
    Annie  
    
      
    

    
    Hey Annie!
    
    I'm glad to hear you say that about Thursday Nassau.. I was blown away
    also.. and from most of the replies in here I got the feeling noone
    else thought it was anything special.  Well, they can play like that
    for me anytime!!!  :-)  I'm also glad I couldn't go on Friday.  With
    what I've heard from folks in here, and friends in NY.. I'd much
    rather end my tour with the Thurs. Terrapin! encore.
    
    ps..
    
    I'm PSYCHED for you about Europe!!!  :-)
    
    

    I thought the Thursday Nassau show was good ... it's just that it was
    so short I was a little disappointed.  Terrapin was a fine encore, but
    it woulda made the show so much sweeter if they coulda stretched it out
    a few more minutes with a nice sweet jam or something.  People are so
    used to long shows I think some of us left kinda feeling shortchanged.
    
    ... Bob
    

    
    Yeah, it was definately short.  I think that bothered you all a lot
    more than it bothered us commuters though.. I was kind of psyched to
    get home early enough to make it in to work with both eyes open on
    Friday. ;-)
    
    

Please will someone who attended the Orlando shows give me a sense of what it
was like?

A friend of mine was at her first Dead show last night (9-Apr) and I'm dying to
know if it was a good show.  I liked the set list!!!

	~dave

    Hi Dave,
    
    I went to all three shows.  IMHO, Monday was the hottest of the three,
    but then I've been known to be 'different' in the past.  Last night
    featured a very nice China/Rider.  Must Have Been the Roses was neat to
    hear too, and they finally did The Other One (Cryptical?), after
    doodling with it during space for the past few shows.
    
    I'd be curious to hear how your friend enjoyed the show.
    
    The Orlando Arena is a gorgeous venue.  Lots of space in the concourse
    area as well as above the floor level seating.  It's also brand new,
    and well kept.  I had a real problem with the staff people, though, and
    I didn't even have any kind of conflict with them.  On Sunday night,
    they were so tight letting people past the outside barracade before
    taking our tickets, they were all but frisking us.  They also didn't
    have enough lines, so it took forever to get in.  Then, once inside and
    the show begun, they couldn't handle the crowd.  They had no clue as to
    how to keep the aisles clear, and they basically didn't know what they
    were doing.  Monday they had more people, more lines and more
    organization, but by Tuesday they were outright obnoxious.  Last night,
    sitting in my own ticketted seat (seventh row or so), I had one
    particularly rude *sshole ask to see my stub fourteen times.  He
    harassed and terrorized everyone around him - not just people hanging
    in the aisles, but also people six or eight seats into the rows. 
    Just before intermission, he was trying to stub and reseat our whole
    section, only to then have the lights come up and everyone left. :-)
    
    The man was rude, obnoxious, unnecessarily agressive and physically
    abusive.  And he was a supervisor!  Can you tell I'm pissed?
    
    I'm thinking of writing a letter, but this jerk didn't have any
    identification except his blue security shirt that said 'Jack' on it.
    He was the only one I saw that didn't have a number on his shirt.
    
    I think that sometimes the problems at a venue can be self-induced. 
    Orlando needs to go down the street to Disney and learn more about
    crowd control.
    
    tim
    

    I saw the same things in Denver tim, but afterthe first nite they
    mellowed a bit...one guy asked me why I wasn't on the floor where
    I belonged...I said "Too hot, man"...he looked around and said "OK,
    dance over there". that was the 2nd nite...the first nite I saw
    "THEM " beat some guy on the floor for not supposed to be there.
                                                                    rfb

    Yea, rfb, I remember Denver started out kinda hostile.  Orlando started
    out with security virgins, and ended up rather nasty.
    
    Still, Monday night was a hot show, no matter what security did.  I
    don't enjoy squirming through over-crowded aisles, and I can certainly
    see where it's a fire hazard. But this one blue-shirt jerk pushed past
    me and three other people to drag the guy next to me out into the
    aisle, take his camera (no flash), open it and rip out the film.
    
    I still may write that letter.  We did spend a little time talking with
    some of the other security people after the show, and for the most part
    they were pretty mellow - I think they got a little nervous when they
    got overrun by the hordes on Sunday night.  We offered to 'advise' them
    on security (vs. terrorism) for the next shows -- hopefully soon.  They
    definitely had the impression that we'd be back, maybe next year!!
    
    tim
    
    
    tim
    

    The Orlando Arena is now one of my favorite places to see the band.
    It's intimate for it's capacity (~15K) and the acoustics are pretty
    good. Unlike Tim, I had no problems with security. The parking lot
    scene was loose and there was plenty of vending. Outside there were
    fountains, a lake and palm trees everywhere. A really pleasant site.
    Deadheads were well received by the locals and the press.
    
    The shows were so-so with monday, 4/8 being the best of the three. They
    had technical problems with Bob's transmitter - it would crackle every
    now and then. Probably due to radio interference from the FBI building
    2 blocks away. :-) Hornsby was there but the rest of the band blew him
    away. He had a noticably hard time trying to keep up with them.
    
    Bummer of the run was someone drowned in the lake out front when he
    and 2 of his friends were attempting to shoot up through the middle
    of one of the fountains. He got stuck under the plumbing and it took
    about 1/2 hour to extract him. I expected a lot of ranting from the
    media about this but it didn't happen. 
    
    All in all, Orlando is a great place to see the band but can be
    expensive if you do the MGM/Disney/Epcot/Cape Canaveral bit like
    we did. My friends and I are already making plans to go back should
    they ever return. 
    
    Gerry

Vegas turned out to be quite an adventure.  We got to the airport a couple
of minutes late and ended up missing our plane Friday night, and knowing
that the next 2 flights were sold out did lots to add to the stress factor.
We had no luck getting on the next plane, altough we *did* get to visit 
with some friends in the terminal who were on the flight 8-).  We waited
around a couple more hours for the last flight out (if we didn't make it
on this one, we were going to hit the road -> not a pleasant thought).
It turned out we knew about 1/2 the plane on this flight 8-), so all our
friends crossed their fingers for us and kept saying they'll see us in a
couple of minutes *on* the plane.  Well, all that good vibes did the trick,
and we were called up to board 8->!!  After we got on, they called a few
people off that got on on standby since some of the regular passengers
showed up at the last minute.  Boy, were we sweating 8-/.  I felt better
once the plane pulled out of the terminal (WHEW!!)  I think that incident
probably made my lifespan a few days shorter 8-/.  But we were glad we
ended up on *that* flight since it was like having a private party in the
air with all your friends on board -> it was fun!!  Even the non-Deadheads
on board were having fun and said they wish they were going to the concerts
too 8-).

The show Saturday ws the better of the two.  Santana opener was just fine,
to say the least 8-).  He played a couple of riffs from Schoolgirl which
psyched up some of us, but he didn't keep going and went into something
else instead 8-(.  I'm sure I wasn't the only one that was hoping he'd
pick it up again during the Dead set, but no such luck 8-( (well, at 
least I caught it in Calaveras).  First set was good.  They had a lot of
sound problems during Touch of Grey.  Maggie's Farm featured the multi-solos
again with Bobby on first, then Jerry, then Bruce (yes, Bruce Hornsy played
at both of these shows), then Vince, then Phil (with lots of cheering when
Phil got on 8-)  Loose Lucy was better than the other one's I've caught.
Might as Well was a definite highlight!!  I'll take a Might as Well over
Don't Ease anyday.  Thet're both one-riff tunes, but MAW just has so much
more to offer, IMHO.

Second set was heavy!!  Sugar Mag was sweeeet into a nice looong Scarlet ->
Fire (Jerry got all the words mixed up).  It was just one long jam after
another with Playin' -> Uncle John's being no exception 8-).  Even Black
Peter was just heavy!!  When you hear a Black Peter like this one, you
can really feel how much Jerry really likes this tune!!  Saturday Night
was ...well, Saturday Night 8-).  It rocked, and I can see some of the
security folks rocking out too.  The Weight was nice and always a welcome
encore 8-).

Saturday night, we hit the casinos (what else).  We stopped off at the
Excalibur Hotel and Casino to meet some friends.  People looked kind of
taken back by all the tie-dyes.  I lost a grand total of $4 (I guess I
was one of the "lucky" ones 8-/ ).  The Excalibur was quite a trip.
It was shaped like a castle on the outside.  When you enter, you get
wafted in by an automatic walkway (I notice they don't have an automatic
walkway going out) and a loud dramatic voice comes out of the loudspeaker
saying "WWWWELCOME TO THE EXXXXXXXXXXX-CALIBURRRRRRRR!!".  I felt like
I was in Disneyland.  It looked like Disneyland inside too.  I thought
the tie-dyes blended in nicely with the medieval costumes and the suits
and the pattern on the carpet (the trippiest you can imagine ;-).  It
was pretty wild.  The local stations made a big deal out of the Dead being
in town.  A couple of stations made Saturday Night the "Night of the Living
Dead" 8-).  It's nice to be able to flip between channels and get a string
of Dead tunes.

Sunday, we went in early to get a spot.  The weather was just beautiful.
It was 80's with a 45 mph wind outside the stadium both days.  Inside,
there was no wind, so it got hot.  The venue was well equipped though
for the weather with drinking water stations and showers provided. 
There was also people walking around selling sodas and flavored ice.

Carlos came on for a sweet opener again.  He deadicated a tune to the
memory of Stevie Ray Vaughn.  Before the show started, Bill Graham
came on and welcomed everyone to Las Vegas again (like the first night)
and told us about the proper etiquette so we will be welcomed back in
the future.  He also mentioned an incident where he was at a restaurant
or casino and was talking to a waitress.  The waitress asked him where
all these tie-dyed folks came from, and the only thing he can think of
to say is "They're...well..from EVERYWHERE".  8-)  Sunday's first set
was nice.  I liked it better than the first night's.  Wang Dang Doodle
is one of my favorite Bobby tunes (yes, I *do* like a few Bobby tunes
8-).  And Althea!!  I don't think anyone other than Jerry can do Althea
such justice!!  8-) (but it'd certainly be interesting to see another
artist try to do it).  And Birdsong was such a treat with Carlos playing
along (once they turned him up, that is).  The whole band was grinning
from ear to ear and all looking at Carlos during one of those famous
inspired Carlos jams (they seemed pretty psyched).  Just incredible!!

Second set started off with the sound of dropping coins (like someone's
playing a slot machine backstage 8-).  Then the band came on with 
Foolish Heart.  Saint was nice (when *will* they bring back Lost
Sailor??)  The highlight was Deal!!  It was characterized by heavy jams
like the second set of the first night.  Some guy jumped on stage (quite
a feat considering it was 10 feet high), and was promptly escorted off
by Harry.  We started out after Deal 8-(.  It was the first time I ever
walked out of a Dead show.  We had to catch the last flight out.  From
talking to our friends this morning, it didn't seem like we missed too
much.  I *would've* liked to see the Box of Rain encore, but just because
it'd be different.  We weren't about to miss another flight though 8-}.
As it turned out, it was worth it to catch that flight out.  Carlos and
the rest of the band caught the same flight out too 8->!!  They sat in
coach with the rest of us.  We caught up to Carlos when we landed in San
Francisco and thanked him for the music.  I gave him another "No Time to
Hate" button (I gave him one at a Miles Davis show once before when we
saw him in the audience).  He looked at it and said, "Oh, *you're* the
one that's responsible for this."  and he promptly showed off his button
to the rest of the band 8-).  I also gave him a bunch of stickers (wonder
where he's gonna stick 'em 8-).  Was I nervous??  Hell, yes!!  Did it stop
me??  Heck, no!!  8-)  Maybe I should've invited him up for dinner 8-).
He's so down-to-earth and so easy to talk to 8-).

Ok, a few long days before Cal Expo.  I can't wait!!

peace,
t!ng

    Just GOTTA put this in.....want a long strange trip to Vegas!!!
    Thursady morning I talked my sweetie, Patty, into going to Vegas!
    Left COlo Thursday nite, BIG storm over Vail Pass, esp. with T.
    Lawlors one-headlite jeep! Stayed the nite in Grand Junction Colo.
    with other heads. Got up early Fri and hit another bad storm in
    Utah in the Fishlake Nat. forest....deadheads were runnin off the
    road left and right, but since no one was going over 30, it was
    easy to just motor back onto the highway. Gas stations in the middle
    of mowhere in Utah were FUNNY! Attendants conversation went something
    like this   "HEll, I wuz gonna take the rest of the day off! Where
    the hell did all these people come from lookin like this?? Who the
    hell is the dead? I heard of Santana, but never headrd of the dead."
    They noticed me laughing at them and the conversation became a huddle,
    so I exited stage right....back on the road with all the other colo
    and calif heads....heads at every rest stop...pulled into vegas
    bone tired. Hooked up with my sistr and bro-in-law who have lived
    in Vegas 15 years, ate, partyed, crashed.....
    
    Patty and I had a sat. tic and a Sun. tic...so we arrived at the
    Silver Bowl at 8AM Sat to search for tickets....just in time for
    one of the worst sand storms any local could remember in a LONG
    time!! we were standing on the road holding up our fingers like
    all good deadheads were, the wind whipping at our faces, legs, filling
    our ears and eyes and hair with Vegas desert..I was holding patty
    in my arms trying to shelter her thinking, "one hour more and we
    blow this OFF!" traded my sat for a sun so we were both in sun.
    This head walks up to us, says nothing, starts taking his shirt
    off, hands it to Patty and walks away...never said a word. You should
    seen the smile it put on Patty's face!!!! WE WERE BEING SLOWLY WHIPPED
    TO DEATH by he wind and this guy saved us! THEN! a van drove buy
    with other friends of ours from Colo in it...another life saver!!!
    We jumped in and procedded to the parking lot. Found a scalper with
    a fist full of tiks for $40.00 each....lost him for a half hour,
    found him again...he had 2 tiks left...my karma said "they MUST
    be yours!" I'd a just spent that money on gambleing anywaqy!!!
    
    So WE WERE IN!!! Carlos was good sat. the last 2 songs were ROCKIN!!
    the boyz ToG opener was a little lame, I didn't think it picked
    up until Maggies. Loose Lucy was GRATE!!! I liked Cassidy and MAW
    WAS A KILLER!!!! and fit right into the Vegas (and my) mentality
    for the weekend. The second set was...what can I say!!!!!
                        %^)   :^)    ;^)
    Sugar MAg, Scarlet, Fire PLAYIN, UJB... ALL had long jams...
    The rest of the set was rockin too! the yellow shirts were out in
    the crowd DANCIN with us!! (I don't think they REALLY could believe
    it!) we set with  the tapers a most of Sat, they were all REALLY
    cool! Many were from down the road in Colo somewhere. We stayed
    in the parking lot until they threw us out....FUN TIME!!!
    Mexican food and bed was all I could handle that evening.
    
    Sunday was a GORGEOUS DAY!!  Went late, got seats up high this time
    and BOOGIED ALL DAY!!!! The first set was good, but long stops between
    each song.Jack Straw and Althea did it for me %^) BIDSONG WITH CARLOS
    WAS GRATE! Set 2 was good too. Crazy Fingers and the Other one were
    favs for me. SUNSHINE DAYDREAM was really good too. We missed the
    space that had Frank Sinatra mixed in with slot sounds (eating)
    I'd had enough of Frank during the 45 min intermission anyway !
    BOX was grate!! During intermission some one 'bout 20 rows in front
    of us stared a marshmellow fight (there's a MM factory in Vegas)
    soon half the stadium was involved!!! TOO FUNNY!! Security had a
    grate time pelting the heads with marshmellows and viceversa. 
    Parking lot party again afterwardas. HIGHLIGHT!!!---->THE FULL MOON!
    Picture 30,000 heads alll howling like wolves at the moon in a vegas
    desert!!!!! The cops were cracking up!!!!
    Too tired for the strip again Sunday nite...my nephew and Bro-in-law
    said they'd never seen anything like it in 15 years!
    Got up monday and went site seeing, ;lake mead, Excaliber (still
    lots of heads) then that nite I went and lost all my money like
    a foolish heart! Stayed up till like 3 gambling and drinking and
    eating. Left early Tuesday for a 14 hour drive back to colo.
    
    All in all it was a grate time.........my next shot will be the
    Jerry shows and red rocks and then DENVER
    Sure wish I'd I won some bucks!!!!!!!
    
    rfb                                                     
    
    
    
                                                  
    
    
    Went to ENZOS pizza, the dude was from San Fran and wanted a shirt!
    but he was about 300 lbs heavier than me, so my medium TEL0
    
    
    

                      <<< Note 23.117 by CLOSUS::BARNES >>>

>    BOX was grate!! During intermission some one 'bout 20 rows in front
>    of us stared a marshmellow fight (there's a MM factory in Vegas)
>    soon half the stadium was involved!!! TOO FUNNY!! Security had a
>    grate time pelting the heads with marshmellows and viceversa. 

DARN!! I missed the marshmallow fight Sunday!!  8-)  They had one on
the floor during intermission on Saturday too.  We started throwing
around pieces of bread for ammunition.  Boy, that was great!!  Someone
wacked me real good on the side of the head with one.  I was so glad
the marshmallows were not melted 8-0.

peace,
t!ng

    
    Remember the marshmallow fight at SPAC?  :-)
    
    

re:          <<< Note 23.118 by SKYLRK::TING "Give Peace a Chance!!!" >>>
>                      <<< Note 23.117 by CLOSUS::BARNES >>>
>
>>    BOX was grate!! During intermission some one 'bout 20 rows in front
>>    of us stared a marshmellow fight (there's a MM factory in Vegas)
>DARN!! I missed the marshmallow fight Sunday!!  8-)  They had one on


aka Cream Puff War ;-)   I remember engaging in one at SPAC in '85,
it was one of the most hilarious, electrifying experiences in recent memory *-)

Happy Trails,
Ken ;-)

re: Phyllis

	Notes Collision! ;-)   I sure do!  We were in the lawn on the right,
	about 100 feet back.  Howsabout you ?   Was the whole place engaged
	in a Cream Puff War ??  ;-)

	Ken

    
    We were on the lawn, not too far back, but towards the left. 
    Near where the left ramp is I think.   Definately a Cream Puff War! 
    :-)  I've had a blast at every SPAC show..
    
    

    anyone have any review information for this weekends shows???  hmmm????
    nice looking set lists...  i'd like to hear more!
    
    				da ve

    I heard they were great.   Maybe it enough people plead, someone
    will post a review.  Looking over the set lists, I felt I missed
    three outstanding shows in Sacramento.  People I talked to who 
    attended, spoke of the continuation of the marshmellow attacks
    and the fun that could be had watching the reactions of deadheads
    at Denny's resturaunt as they discovered Bob Weir was sitting
    nearby.
    
    If you saw Bob Weir at Denny's after a show, what would you
    say to him?  What do you think he would say?  Please reply in
    the digressions topic.
    

re:  <<< Note 23.124 by WLDWST::BLAKKAN "Let it shine." >>>

>    attended, spoke of the continuation of the marshmellow attacks
>    and the fun that could be had watching the reactions of deadheads
>    at Denny's resturaunt as they discovered Bob Weir was sitting
>    nearby.
>    
>    If you saw Bob Weir at Denny's after a show, what would you
>    say to him?  What do you think he would say?  Please reply in
>    the digressions topic.
    
Hey, Ken!!  You weren't supposed to tell!!  We saw Bobby at the Denny's
in Placerville after the Sunday Sac show.  Did I say anything to him??
No.  I couldn't think of anything intelligent to say to Bobby 8-/.  I
thought about asking him if I can get my picture taken with him and a
Denny's menu (but I'm glad I didn't).  He was with his girlfriend (?)
and a bunch of people that looked like they were fresh out of a college
frat (only one of them even remotely resembled a deadhead (ponytail).
We could not for the world figure out who these people are and what the
heck Bobby is doing in a Denny's in Placerville.  We saw some heads
walk in and sat down close by, and the looks on their faces were just
hilarious when they saw Bobby when he turned his head looking for a
waitress (it was first a look of recognition, then surprise, and then
a bit of confusion before the reality of the situation sat in).  We
were waiting sround to see who would be the first head with the gall
to go up to him and say AHA!!  8->!!  (no one did while we were there)
I think it'd be different if it was Jerry, but what the heck does anyone
have to say to Bobby (especially after he messed up the words to Throwing
Stones, for God's sake!!  It's not like he didn't get enough practice on
that song, ya know)??  I mean, really, what would you say??

peace,
t!ng

p.s.  Sorry I haven't had time to put together a review, but I'll write
      one up tonight (if I get my lab done).

     From the crowd noise, Sunday, after the last notes of
    'It Takes a Lot...,' "Play anything!"  
    
    I sure wish for tapes of this weekend's shows.
    
    KenB
    
    

Yes, the only thing I can say about Sunday's show is it's the hottest of
the tour and the HOTTEST OF THE YEAR!!  The show was just *incredible* from
the first note to the last!!!  Picasso Moon opener was great!!  They really
improved on this tune since its conception.  Althea was sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!
CC Rider was really good (I was glad that I hadn't heard it in a while ->
it really builds up the appreciation -> I guess I would probably react the
same way if they ever bring back Day Job 8-).  The segue from CC Rider into
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry was smooth to the point of
imperceptible.   What a treat!!  The last time they played this was 6/10/73
with the Allman Brothers.  Jerry can do Dylan tunes in my book anyday!! 8-)
YOWZA!!!  Well, Bobby wasn't going to be outdone.  He whips out El Paso ->
one of my all time favorites!!  They've been practicing!!  It was well-played.
High Time was well...high and flying!!!  Hey now, I guess when Jerry and 
Bobby really wants to outdo each other, they *really* try pretty hard!! No
complains from this gal!!  8-)  I love it!!  Black Throated Wind was just
long overdued!!  I've been holding my breath for this since they brought
it back.  Thank you, Bobby!!  (I don't think I've ever said this in my life
8-).  And Deal just burn!!  It was hotter than the one in Las Vegas!!!  The
jam was long, loud, and although at times cacophonous, it slides and
blends nicely as only an incredibly-inspired Deal jam can get.  Beautiful
and the perfect closer to the perfect set!!  I think I had melted from CC
Rider on.  Time to gather my brains for the second set (good thing I had
about 45 minutes to do it 8-).

The second set started out just too sweet with a beautiful Help -> Slip! ->
Franklin.  Perfect!!  Looks like Rain looked like a good time to rest my
weary bones 8-).  And Terrapin!!  Again, the musical crescendos built and
bursted, reminiscent of the splendor of a national anthem (yes, a Dead
national anthem ;-)  Drums was great.  I thought Bill seemed to be the
prominent player this time -> he was going nuts on those drums!!  It must
be that fever that had been spreading throughout Shoreline all night 8-).
Now, what can they pull out to just top it off.  GDTRFB seemed like an
excellent choice, except they *knew* that most of us was going to be going
down the road feeling great!!  8-)  I refuse to review another Throwing
Stones, so you can just use your imagination 8-).  Lovelight was alright.

The Weight encore left us smiling (not that we've ever stopped).  The band
traded off verses again.  There were lots of cheering when it got around to
Phil's turn.  Bruce was sitting in with them again.  He and Vince play well
together.  I notice that they switched instruments during Space for the
Friday show.  I guess Space is as good a time as any to try it out.
They switched back when the latter-space set started though.  All in all,
the Sunday show was very inspired.  I guess that when Bobby gets psyched,
he really does a great job.  I just hope he gets psyched more often 8-).
After this show, it seems rather pointless for me to review the other shows
of the tour, so I'll leave that job to someone else.

The scene was very mellow.  As soon as we walked through the entrance, a
blue coat handed me a bundle of flowers to celebrate Mother's Day.  They
had boxes of flowers near the entrance to hand out to everybody.  I don't
know who thought of it, but it sure made all the moms and some of us
non-moms feel special!!  There were vending booths everywhere.  It was a
regular carnival or a Dead Mall 8-).  Being the only place that official
vending was allowed, it seemed all the vendors were bursting with merchandise
to sell, and all the buyers were just bursting with the will to buy.  I
really do miss the vending scene.

What a way to end the tour.  Eight shows in 3 weekends can really wear
you down.  Maybe I'm just getting old...8-)

peace,
t!ng

    Sunday's show was very, very, very, good.  I feel like 
    I want to write about how it was, but I'd say the Dead did 
    something with the music and the lyrics forgot.
    
    When they started 'It Takes a Lot...' I had to ask
    the person standing next to me, "What's this?" I love
    it when that happens!
    
    Saturday, Bruce and Jerry cudaben driving each other nuts.
    I'm not familiar with the musical terms, but it seemed
    like they were dancing around two chords at once.  Parts
    of one chord, parts of another.  I think Jerry was 
    teaching Bruce.  Bruce kept rolling his eyes around
    as if he was saying, "How did we do that." 
    
    [when was the last time they opened the 2nd set with OMSN?]
    saturdat's sho was ok, but it seemed like they were
    ready to let loose and never did.  I thoroughly enjoyed
    the encore though... 
    
    Quinn, seemed short, but hot.  Definately felt like a forshadowing
    of Sunday's show.
    
    Sunday, I felt there was nothing wrong with the 1st set.
    
    After LLR, Jerry put his head down and... 
    Terrapin went on and on and on and on and on...
    It was great!  At one point, Phil, Bob and Jerry
    were on one side, plucking their hearts out,
    and Mickey, Vince and Bruce were on the other,
    pounding tomorrow.  
    
    Before that, Bill kept the boys going with some
    lonely drumwork that I didn't know he could do
    and must have suprised a few other folks in the house. 
    
    

re:       <<< Note 63.14 by DASXPS::HENDERSON "Seems a common way to go" >>>

>Anybody have a Bobby/Rob setlist from last night (Houston)?

    See 63.12, chances are he pretty much played the exact same set. :-/
    
    - Ger

    Someone asked if Hornsby played in LA with the Dead. I though it might
    have been in this note, but of course, that would be too logical. :-)
    
    The answer is, yessereebob (as opposed to yessereedave ;-), he did
    play. I haven't read my rumor mail lately so I don't know what shows,
    if any, he'll be doing on the summer tour.
    
    Ger_who's_still_waiting_for_word_on_his_Denver_tix.

    
    
    >   Loomis says they played Big Railroad Blues, not Big River, and that
    >   the last Railroad Blues was Albany, 1990.
    
    I would be sooooooooooooo psyched if they played Big Railroad!!  Is it
    true???
    
    It's definately been a long time since I heard that.  I would've said
    more than a year ago, but if they played it in Albany last year I guess
    I heard it then.
    
    

6/12/91 - Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC

Feel Like A Stranger, Pretty Peggy-O, C.C. Rider, Althea
Desolation Row, Loose Lucy, Hell In A Bucket-> Don't Ease Me In
 
Touch Of Grey-> Saint Of Circumstance Ship Of Fools
Man Smart, Woman Smarter-> DRUMS-> SPACE-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad->
All Along The Watchtower-> Morning Dew.  E: Brokedown Palace
 
owow this looks like it was a GRATE show!
love it all except for i'm sure a lot of fols were looking for lost sailor
......

whew!
bob
so if any of you all went - how was it?

    Was anyone at the 6/11 (?) show where they opened the second set
    with Victim->Jam->Eyes
    
    	I'm just real curious if those '->'s really belong there or not,,
    	and if they really didi transition from Victim->Eyes (via jam of
    	course) Musically speaking,.. I'd be real interested to hear how
    they pulled that one off. Any opinions?
    
    							/
    

    it should be noted that the 6/14 Dark Star was only the 1st half
    of the song. Perhaps they'll finish it at Giants.
    
    - Ger_who's_at_work_today_tweeking_databases_whilst_the_Users_From_
      Hell_(tm)_aren't_around.

how was last night's GIANTS STADIUM show???

anybody have the scoop - was their weather like ours....drizzly, foggy
and cool.

bob

                          
            RFK Stadium-6/14/91
      
            Cold Rain+Snow                    Help On The Way
            Jack A Roe                        Slipknot
            Big River                         Franklins Tower
            Maggies Farm                      Estimated Prophet
            Row Jimmy                         Dark Star
            Black Throated Wind               Drums 
            Tennessee Jed                     Space
            Music Never Stopped               Stella Blue
                                              Lovelight
    
    w/ Bruce Horsby                                          Baby Blue
                                               
             
             Very hot show!!!
             Cold Rain and Snow was quiet but good, Wang Dang Doodle was
    great especially Vince's heavy Hammond organ sound, Big River was
    interrupted by multiple charges on the floor as well as Maggies farm.
    Row Jimmy was fine but I am getting sick of it. Black Throated truely
    was unbelievable, best I've ever heard!!! During Tennessee Jed the
    whole place was shaking and it was visible by the way the light posts
    were bouncing, the boys wouldn't leave the stage!!! I couldn't believe
    they stayed on to do the most rippin Music Never Stopped that sent the 
    taping section into kaos because of the length of this first set.
    Second set brought an expected Help/ Slip / Frank. Slipknot was truely
    tied up tonight, a slow and spacey version with Bruce's well timed
    Keyboarding. Estimated caught me off guard all on it's own and then a
    short and unexpected Dark Star that they couldn't let go for a long jam
    into Drums. I then noticed that Jerry's shirt was light blue and to
    back this up Space- Stella Blue!! I shed a few tears on this one, it
    was so beautiful, Jerry's voice is good and not too worn out this tour.
    Lovelight was great, we all grasped the moment as the song climaxed and
    ended... but wait...they are playing Lovelight again and ending it
    again....Did it even end the first time???? I guess I got to get a
    tape!!! Baby Blue was the color of Jerry's shirt and with Bruce on
    accordian they closed with this Dylan classic as I could personally
    relate to it's lyrics from some recent experiences. Thanks Boys for
    a heartwarming adventure.

I don't have the scoop on the show, but from what I understand the weather
was HOT...90's, and according to the weather channel thunderstorms in the
area.



Jim

Phyllis called at lunch and said they wished they had rain at Giant's, it
was hot and humid (I know someone else also said this a couple of replies
back but I thought I'd lend it some credibility!)  :-)

    
    Well, here's a short review of the Giants showz.  First off.. I managed
    to have fun! :-)  AND stay dry on Monday (no small feat!)  Wish it had
    rained a little on Sunday.. we were HOT!  Someone was constantly
    running up the steps to the fountain to refill the spritzers.  (Folks
    in our section were very psyched to be sitting behind us! ;-))
    Sunday night almost everyone I knew ended up in section 111!  We had 3
    seats in the 4th row, 5 in the 14th, 3 or 4 in the 18th and 5 in the
    36th!  Lots of fun just walking up and back!  Both shows had lots of
    strong points.. Sunday night's 2nd set Jack STraw, Crazy Fingers, China
    Rider was a blistering combo.. grins all around.  I heard lots of China
    Doll in the space but got a Miracle instead so needless to say I was
    pretty psyched when it showed up on Monday.  The Eyes to open the show
    last night was simply beautiful!  About 20 minutes long.. made you
    forget where you were.. when Walkin' Blues came next I was like ..oh
    yeah - this is first set. :-)  Another hot hot Loose Lucy although I
    was a little disappointed since I was hoping for the Big Railroad and
    knew that was the slot for it.  Might as well!!  Might as well!!  
    Might as well!! Might as well!! Might as well!! Might as well!! :-) :-)
    :-)  
    
    The stage set up was really beautiful and they kept flashing and
    holding these cool pictures of people on the sheets themselves (below
    the video screens) like Janis and some others.  The borders were all
    held up by this metal arc (sort of) that encircled the band that was
    lit in rainbow lights.. nice!  The best stage prop, though, was the fan
    blowing on Jerry.  Made all his hair blow out from his head (straight
    out!) all night long.  "Look! The Flying Nun!"  "No.. I think it's
    Bozo!"  :-)  
    
    Thanks to Eddie on the net for setting up the 18E mtg place.  It was a
    perfect spot for us (near Gate D which is where NYC busses come in) and
    made for an easy reference point for a lot of my friends to meet also.
    Unfortunately, didn't get too see too many DECheads - only 1 in fact
    (Adam!).. where were you all, huh?? ;-)
    
    They fiddled around with finishing up the Dark Star from RFK here and
    there both nights so anyone bound for Pine Knob should look for it.
    
    I didn't see any hassles w/security and there was a lot of vending, but
    I was also in the same area both nights and don't know what went on on
    the other side.
    
    One thing that could be improved on.. if they're gonna have an opener,
    they should start earlier.. like 5:00.  These shows were late!  Over
    around 12:30 both nights.  Last night we booked out of there.. To the
    bus.. sit up front.. grab a cab... and still, I couldn't make it to bed
    before 1:38 and NYC is about as close to the Meadowlands as anyone
    gets.  
    
    Giants Stadium tip for the day:  If you are parked at Gate D.. DO NOT
    go out Gate A.. JUST DON'T DO IT!  NOT EVEN IF THEY MAKE YOU!  (Sunday
    night we got home at 3:00am! partially due to the
    Gate_A_error_from_hell_;-)
    
    *yawn* only another couple hours before I can go to sleep!
    
    the boyz sound grate!  Start saving those $ for fall mailorder..
    
    :-) Phyllis
    

Giants Stadium, June 16, 1991


	As we journeyed from Littleton, MA to East Rutherford, NJ the humidity
and temperature went up in equal respect to the mileage we traveled.  We
arrived on the scene around 3:30 pm and chose a parking space near one of
the exits.  We had a drink then shoved off into the sea of deadheads under
the hot, 100 degree New Jersey sun.

	The vending scene was rather minimal for the amount of people present.
Not too many folks selling t-shirts.  Many folks were selling cold beverages
and occasionally people were selling food.  I did notice teams of "blue shirts"
going around taking away goods from the "bigger time" vending folks.  I did 
not see anyone get hassled for selling beer or food.

	Just before 5:30 pm, the clouds were starting to thicken.  People were
praying for rain to fall to cool things down.  You could see lightning in the
distance (people cheered as hit pelted the land) and hear thunder echoing
through the land.  We went into the Stadium early, around 5:50.  They were not
letting anyone on the floor, where our seats were located, because if the
storm (lightning threat?).  We had to get wristbands for the floor.

	So, Deb and I went upstairs and managed our way into section 123 to
wait and watch Little Feat.  Little feat started out sort of rough.  The
sound was not quite right and at times, it seemed like the band was not
together.  After 3 or 4 songs, they finally got it together and started putting
out some rock 'n' roll.  I was hoping for Willin', and I got it.  Deb was
hoping for Fat Man in the Bathtub, and she got it.  After a brief pause,
Little Feat came out and did Dixie Chicken for the encore.  Chicken ended
up being very nice -- excellent trumpet solo at one point.  

	After Feat, we took to the bathroom and then headed to the floor,
section 12, row 2, seats 4-5.  These were on the Jerry side close to the
railings.  Not bad seats.  After about 1 hour, the boyz finally hit the
stage with Picasso Moon.  The video really added to the show.  You could
see Bobby literally spittin' out the lyrics!  Then, Bertha.  Heally was
off in space because more than half of Jerry's solo was not audible.  The
video of Jerry singing was very amusing!!  Apparently, there was a large
fan on the floor blowing at the boyz to keep them cool.  Well, with Jerry's
silver hair as long as it is, the fan blew the hair outwards!  He kind of
looked like bozo the clown!  It was really funny looking, and, it looked
like he was keeping cool.

	Rooster was just ok.  Candyman was good -- the crowd noise during this
Jerry song was loud compared to shows I've seen in the West.  Memphis blues
was just ok.  Stagger Lee was very good.  I thought they would end the set
here.  I was happy to observe the boys trying to figure out what the play
next rather than exiting the stage.  I started to hear hints of Let it Grow
and finally it became reality.  Jerry really, really jammed on this one. 
At one point, I think Hornsby kind of messed up by playing the wrong part
of the song during Jerry's jam.  Finally, the quiet part of the song came
and and re-builded as Bobby's lyrics belted out "What shall we say...".


	After a bit of a break, the boyz were back on stage.  During tuneup,
I heard hints of Jack Straw but discounted them because Jack Straw is
mostly heard in first sets.  Despite my thoughts, out came Jack Straw.  
The video fired up and draw a picture of a 'new' american flag.  Basically,
the same colors, except in place of the stars was a SYF (I think).  Then,
"Grateful Dead" was spelled out across the flag in two lines using bones.
The crowd really appreciated this and I mentioned to Deb how ironic it would
be if the Dead were to "save the world" and change our flag.  Great job on
the video!!  Since this was Hornsby's tune on Deadicated, we could expect 
some good stuff.  They finally got the vocal changes under control:  bobby, 
jerry, bruce, bobby, etc.  or something like that.  The "pump" in this song 
was delivered very effectively.  Crazy Fingers was nice, but, the crowd noise 
made it difficult to enjoy thoroughly.  I figured that we may get a 
China->Rider, but after Crazy Fingers, I was thinking more along the lines 
of a nice Playing->UJB.  Well, we got the China->Rider.  China was ok, 
Rider was better.  Some great jamming...

	Drums.  The video made drums, if you were straight or not straight.  
Drums was long and well done.  The video portrayed scenes of the rain 
forest: monkeys in trees, snakes in the river, various birds and other 
creatures living in harmony in the rain forest.  Then, pictures of destruction
were shown.  First the axe, then the chain saw, then skidders (log haulers),
then trucks taking away the logs, and finally, the remains burning.  What was
once lush and peaceful was now destroyed.  VERY POIGNANT VIDEO.  Literally
sent chills down my body in the 100 degree heat.  Very sad.  Crowd cheered,
but I can't guess why.  Portrayed Mikey Hart as an angry man trying to solve
a difficult problem.

	Space continued the scenes of a destroyed rain forest and eventually
changed to something else (I forget what).  Eventually, Bobby started belting
out the lyrics to I need a Miracle.  The video was great: you could see spit
flying all over the place!!  Black Peter was good (noise level was too high
though).  Hornsby was the protagonist for Throwing Stones.  When I heard him
lay into the Throwing stones beginning, I groaned.  NFA was normal.

	After NFA, we started for the door and hung out for the encore.
Box was nice... and pretty normal.

	All in all, the highlight for was DRUMS and the video system in
general.  The folks who design/run the video do a great job.  A stadium
show would not be the same w/o the video.  Through all this, I kept my
sanity... I missed seeing my good uncle in that huge crowd...

	This had to be the most politically charged Dead show I've seen in
all time (out of 21 shows or so)....

	I'd like to hear impressions from other people about the video and
the rain forest stuff.  Have they been doing this all summer? 


	Monday, back to Mass... we left Joisey, the temp was 90.  We got to
Mass, the temp was 63....

re: .141
    A big Thank-You to all of you who take the time to punch in these 
    show reviews, aka next best thing to being there.  

    >...the fan blowing on Jerry.  Made all his hair blow out from his head 
    >(straight out!) all night long.  "Look! The Flying Nun!"  "No.. I think 
    >it's Bozo!"  :-) 

    When I first read this, I missed the "..best stage prop was.."
    that proceeded this.  Taken out of that context, this conjured up
    a vision in my mind of some fanatical person in the front row
    who persisted in blowing on Jerry.  Then I got to the "made all
    his hair blow out from his head..." part and figured the fan
    must have jumped right up on to the stage and, "wwwwwwhhhhhh'ed"
    right in Jerry's ear.  Then I got to the "all night long" part.
    My next reaction was, "No way."  Next I considered the possibility
    that there had been some sort of contest where the lucky winner
    could "do anything you please on stage with the Grateful Dead."
    Incredible.

    8*)
    KenB 

	
		We're ALL Bozos on this Bus!

    
    HAH!  :-)  That'd have to be one BIG fan!  We kept wishing they would
    turn the air on the crowd.. we were all hoping for a breeze like that!
    
    

    For me, Monday night's show was the ultimate Grateful Dead experience.
    The gods of GDTS had smiled on me, and after nearly two decades as a 
    perennial bleachers bum at Dead shows, I found myself sitting fourth 
    row from the stage, on the keyboards side.

    Little Feat was a great opener ... there weren't many people there yet
    and we could practically touch the stage while they were playing.  But 
    I couldn't wait for them to end and the Dead to take the stage.  I was 
    really psyched when I realized I'd be sitting (standing, dancing) about
    20 feet from Bruce.  I'm a big Hornsby fan, and here I'd be able to 
    actually watch his fingers while he played.

    It started raining just before the band took the stage.  It came down 
    pretty hard for a few minutes.  But finally the boys took the stage and
    it didn't matter anymore.  They opened with an extraordinary version 
    of Eyes of the World, and within minutes I was totally lost in the music.

    It wasn't just the music, or the amazing way the sound penetrated every
    pore in my body, creating harmonic oscillations in every molecule of my
    being.  It was being able to watch the expressions on their faces as they
    played ... seeing the boyz as real people, rather than performers on a
    distant stage.  Everybody around me was caught up in it ... this was pure
    Essence of Dead, served in megawatt doses.  We were indeed the Eyes of the
    World ... floating somewhere up there with the music.  
    
    Did it really go on forever ... that Eyes of the World ???  There was 
    just too much to follow.  Bruce's fingers flying around the keys, the
    expression on Vince's face as he joined in the harmonies (he does have
    a nice voice), the interplay between the drummers ... then I'd look up
    at the big screen a hundred feet over my head and they'd be panning 
    around the audience.  One time, during Loose Lucy, I actually picked out
    my brother on the big screen.

    After Eyes, it all just kinda ran together.  The whole set seemed like
    just one long song.  What else did they play ???  I know they followed
    Eyes with Walkin' Blues.  And after a bit of fiddling, did a real nice
    Brown-Eyed Women.  Masterpiece was beautiful ... from where I was I 
    could hear Bruce's accordian really well.  Loose Lucy was hot ... Jerry
    played the audience with as much skill as he played the guitar.  I don't
    know if he could really see us with all those lights in his face, but he
    sure gave me the impression he was looking right into my eyes at times.
    Cassidy wasn't as tight as usual, but the jammin' was memorable.  And the
    set ended with Might as Well, well played, energetic, and long.  

    And when it finally ended we were all emotionally drained, anxious for 
    more but needing a rest.  As the band started to leave the stage there
    was a split second when the crowd noise died down, and so I jumped up 
    on my chair and bellowed "THANK YOU" at the top of my lungs.  From the
    other side of the stage, Phil looked my way ... it may have been my 
    imagination, but it seemed like he looked right at me, so I said it 
    again ... THANK YOU.

    During the set break the usual crowd started coming over the wall, and
    the front of the stage started getting rather packed.  By the time the
    second set started, seats were coming down and people were packing in 
    pretty tight.  
    
    They started set 2 with a hot version of St. of Circumstance.  Then a
    long, sweet Ship of Fools.  After a bit of fiddlin' and diddlin', they
    broke into the Dark Star reprise that everybody in New Jersey was 
    expecting them to play (they never finished it in RFK), then suddenly
    took a sharp turn right into Truckin'.  During Truckin' the crowd really
    started jammin' and packing in close to the stage.  Soon I realized it 
    was moot to worry about where my seat was ... it wasn't there anymore 
    anyway.  So I decided to just go with the flow and relax to the tunes.
    Within seconds the same people who I had found annoying with their 
    pushing and shoving had just become a part of the scene around me ... a
    part of the music, as I had become.  By the time they were into New 
    Speedway Boogie we were all dancing together and playing guessing games
    about what would come next.

    Well the first notes were the hardest notes, but once the boyz all found
    the same key, they did a beautiful rendition of Uncle John's Band.  I 
    got a kick out of Bobby turning around and mouthing the words to Jerry
    before each chorus.  Drumz was awesome !!!  Talk about redefining my 
    entire concept of Dynamic Range ... Mickey and Bill literally shut down 
    the power grid for a few seconds with one tremendous blast.  And I 
    thought PHIL was a power monger.

    They ended the set with the Playin' Reprise and then a terrific, 
    energetic version of Sugar Magnolia.  The encore was The Weight.  Once
    again, the whole set just kinda ran together for me ... it was a total
    sensory experience.      
    
    Overall, Monday was an awesome experience.  Being up close to the stage
    sure makes ya feel like a part of the show.  It's easier for me to 
    understand why so many people risk life and limb coming over the wall 
    the get there (although I sure wish they'd quit doing that).  But I 
    think I'll be content to go back to sitting in the high seats, where the
    crowd's a bit more mellow.
    
    But if I ran into one of the boyz tomorrow, I know what I'd say to him
    now ...
    
    
    		THANK YOU, for a real good time.

								... Bob
    

RE:     <<< Note 23.146 by BOOKS::BAILEYB "Let my inspiration flow ..." >>>
                     -< Monday, June 17 - Giants Stadium >-


>    It wasn't just the music, or the amazing way the sound penetrated every
>    pore in my body, creating harmonic oscillations in every molecule of my
>    being.  It was being able to watch the expressions on their faces as they
>    played ... seeing the boyz as real people, rather than performers on a
>    distant stage.  Everybody around me was caught up in it ... this was pure
>    Essence of Dead, served in megawatt doses.  We were indeed the Eyes of the
>    World ... floating somewhere up there with the music.  
    
Doncha _hate_ when that happens???		:-)   :-)   :-)

	thanks bbb...reading that gave me a REAL good feeling...
	lucky you!

	Debess

re:  <<< Note 23.146 by BOOKS::BAILEYB "Let my inspiration flow ..." >>>

>    ... seeing the boyz as real people, rather than performers on a
>    distant stage.

Sounds like you folks can use some GA shows out there ;-).
    
>    I got a kick out of Bobby turning around and mouthing the words to Jerry
>    before each chorus.  

Maybe Bob was checking with Jerry to see if he got the words right *this*
time ;-).

Nice review, Bbb!!

peace,
t!ng

      It looks as though Bruce Hornsby is hip on the tour this summer.
      Does anyone know if he played at Pine Knob. I loved how Vince and
      Bruce sounded at RFK.
                                 -Deane

    >> I loved how Vince and Bruce sounded at RFK.
    
    I second that emotion for the Giants Stadium showz.  Sunday night I was
    thinking how well they seemed to be playing together, and how Vince was
    finally asserting himself and being a bigger part of the act.  Monday
    night I could see their faces while they were playing, and those two
    guys were having FUN !!!  You could tell from the look on Vince's face
    as he was singing that he's really into it.  However, I wish he'd quit
    smokin' so many cigarettes.  He musta gone thru a pack during the show. 
    Doesn't he know the band has a bad history with keyboard players???  
    I mean ... why tempt fate ????
    
    ... Bob
    

    I might have missed it but did anyone who was at the sunday Giants
    show mention anything about John Scher announcing they were filming 
    that show for ABC's In Concert? Too bad it wasn't the monday show.
    
    - Gerry

>    I might have missed it but did anyone who was at the sunday Giants
>    show mention anything about John Scher announcing they were filming 
>    that show for ABC's In Concert? Too bad it wasn't the monday show.


Yes, they made this announcement before Little Feat took the stage... the
crowd was psyched...

I'd like to know where they split Throwing Stones into whatever they went into
and how they got back into it at Pine Knob.


Anybody know?

re:   <<< Note 23.154 by DECXPS::HENDERSON "Thinking a lot about less & less" >>>

>I'd like to know where they split Throwing Stones into whatever they went into
>and how they got back into it at Pine Knob.

    Most likely they split it at the usual "mini-jam" point - the part that
    sounds a little like Sampson. That's just a guess though. Easy enough
    space to jam into or out of. This last point was a lively discussion in 
    here a few years back around the time when Soapbox Boris (tm) came
    ambling through here.
    
    - Gerry

   Pine Knob review of June 19 and 20 showz
    
John Shep and I drove from NH to Michigan to see the Pine Knob shows. We drove 
all night - very interesting bunch on the roads, folks! don't worry about the 
country going to hell in a bucket :-) :-)  

We left Keene, NH around 6 pm Tuesday the 18th; crossed into Canada around 
earlyearly a.m. wednesday along with many humongous trucks...stopped for 
breakfast around 4:30 at a place populated by people with loud grating 
voices ;-).  Then back on the road driving driving driving. 

Arrived in Clarkston, MI (home of Pine Knob) around 8 Wednesday a.m.  slept 
about 2 hours, got a shower and some tour_food (TM) and headed for the 
festivities ... what else!   John's daughter lives in that town and she went 
with us both nites.  Her b'day was thursday - a great b'day present, huh? 

Pine Knob looks and acts just like Great Woods in some ways.  It holds about 16K
and the same parkinglot genius laid down the parking in/out strategy.  You 
could get into the parkinglot without a ticket - unlike at the Great Woods
JGB shows.

Security was very cool - it was like they already knew what to do with us.  
For example .. at one point during the first set first nite...a large 
number of ticketless people tried to come over a perimeter fence.  A mounted 
officer went over to the group and said 'We want you to move over there' 
and motioned to an area back of the fencing.  and they said 'sure' and they all
moved slowly in that direction.

We met people from all over; on both nights - people just kept stopping by 
the truck to hang out.  lots of good clean fun and refreshments :-)

Both nites were very warm temp_wise with the additional thing of the sun not
setting until almost 9:15 due to whatever.  We could see Jupiter/Mars/Venus
very clearly once the sky darkened a bit.  A plane flying over the stadium was
leaving a jet trail and we could see the plane seem to 'crash' into Venus.  

But oh wow what wonderful shows!  I've never seen the boyz this far west before
(furthest I'd been was Pittsburgh) and it is a major treat.   Once again the
crowd is different - how many times does it get pointed out that the East Coast
shows are really the craziest ?   

The shows totally cooked with Wednesday the 19th being the hottest for us.  
Jerry was actually doing the Dead_bop on stage - absolutely wonderful.   
The set list left out the -> 's .   The list may look ordinary to some of 
you but they jammed on most everything.  Vry very spacy all nite long.  
Bruce AND Vince were there ... I don't think I'de seen Bruce before this show
so this was a treat.  He really does add to the overall richness of the 
music.  Vince sounds really strong too.   Did I already mention that the
wednesday show was on the edge?  It was one of those shows where it feels 
like they aren't going to pull it together at every juncture but then they do 
and you are pulled along in the careening wildness of it.  Jerry was doing 
an earnest bop most of the night.  He knew it was good.  Somewhere along during
Victim ... outside forces kicked in for me which made the rest of the set 
scorching unbelievable.  Scarlet ->fire-> got in my head like you wouldn't 
believe.  a long awaited Stella Blue was sweet as usual..and The "Johnny B. 
Goode" was just plain FUN .  We could feel 'quinn' start before it started.  

Thursday nite began with TOG which was a crowd pleaser....again the ->'s 
were hot_hot_hot.  Maggie's Farm was a delight to hear.  Bruce sang on 
'Watchtower' - very very nice touch.   'Standing on the Moon' was very very
trippy...Jerry's voice very strong.  It helped the atmosphere that the half 
moon was like only three feet away from us in the sky !  Just hanging out there 
... whew.  The 'He's Gone' was heartwarming and sad at the same time.  See, 
I've decided they mean that for Brent now...and someone (Vince?) was singing 
the falsetto 'he's goooone, never gonna bring him back...' lines and sounded 
a lot like Brent would when he got into that mode.  truly wonderful bit.   
brought tears to my eyes .... and it was appropos that they went into 
Drums/space .... 

Another wonderful whimsical bit (hope this answers your question, Jim) was 
to have the 2nd set start with Throwing Stones ... not finish it ... slide 
into 'Iko' and later near the end of the set go finish 'Stones' ... just the 
kind of whimsy you'd hope for.  When they went into 'Stones reprise' near the 
end of the 2nd set... John and I were going - 'wait - wait - what night 
did they start it ' !!!   welllll you know...sometimes it is hard to 
reach back and pull it up.  which is why we rely on setlists :-)   We all did
the NFA clapping routine ... and then they came back with Brokedown. 

Just a wonderful time all around.  as usual the show before and after the shows
was tremendous.  Thanks, boyz, for a real good time. 

Carol
                                           

    grate review!! makes me itch for Denver even more! THANKS!
                                                              rfb

    Chicago 6/22/91 
    
    Alan (a former DEChead) and I left Minneapolis at 9:00pm friday night
    and drove all the way through to Chicago that night in the VW bus
    (about 8 hours). We arrived in Chi-town at about 4:30 at a friend of 
    Alan's who was going to the show with us.  After the long drive we were 
    so happy to be done driving we couldn't fall asleep, so we went for
    breakfast and decided to get down to Soldiers and set up early so we
    could get a good camping spot.  We arrived downtown at about 8:00 am,
    where there were already a good number of campers.  We drove up to the 
    gate and the attendent wouldn't let us in - the lot was only 1/4 full,
    but he wouldn't let us in so we went across the street and parked at a
    meter and were able to stay there to camp.   This was great because we
    only had to pay 25 cents for the meter once when they came around to
    ticket, while everyone in the lot had to pay $10 just to get in :-).
    
    Once we where parked we slept for a few hours and then prepared for the 
    show!!  The day was very cold for mid summer but it didn't rain so we
    were happy.  Vending and camping was very lively and we didn't see any
    hassles from security all day or all night.  The balloon's looked like
    they were the big thing - and suprisingly enough no one was busted for
    these.  We spent the rest of the day grilling and dringking a beer or
    two.  
    
    It was show time!! getting into the stadium was very smooth.  security
    checked everyone before you reached the stadium and were very nice.
    Soldiers Field is a great venue!!  The stage was huge with three video
    screens and sails infront covering the speakers.  Because of the wind
    these sails would move around quite a bit and with the different
    designs that where flashed on them made the visual effect increadable.
    Our seats where about 18 rows up from the floor on Jerry's side with
    one smaller speaker out in the crowd about 15 ft. from us and the large
    stage speakers pointing directly at us - this made for unbeleavable
    sound. :-) Phil's base was wired to the smaller speaker and we had 
    a great time listening to him all night.:-)  Vince and Bruce were GREAT!!
    
    We were expecting a Shakedown opener when the boys came on stage, but 
    what was this - Hell in a Bucket. Oh no!! NO shakedown we thought, but
    then Jerry came back at gave us Shakedown:-) This Shakedown smoked!!!!
    very long and rockin'.  I thought I heard a Help on the Way tease
    before Shakedown. Anyone else hear this. Wang Dang Doodle had everyone 
    dancing and Soldiers Field was setting sail out to lake Michigan. 
    Friend Of The Devil mellowed everyone out and we got some good close
    ups of Jer - his hair is very long these days and he looked as healthy
    as ever.  Masterpiece was a nice follow to FOTD real smooth.  Then I
    thought I heard  that Help Tease again, but Brown Eyed Women was great
    and everyone was dancing and singing.  Let It Grow was long and I got
    lost in this closer so it must have been good :*)!!
    
    The break was pretty mellow we just hung out and let everyone else
    move.  they were playing James Brown loud on the speakers it was great
    made for a fun break.  Then THe WAVE started - Soldiers is a great
    place for the wave and it got faster and faster as it went around. Lot
    of fun.  The light went out again for the second set and they started
    to flash on and off the lights around the stadium stairs. If this was
    the break what is the second set going to be like?!?!
    
    Foolish Hearts has really matured into a Dead classic very long and the
    song has so much feeling in it when they play it.  The video was really
    neat with hearts all over the screen.  Looks like rain was apropriat
    because of the weather - it may have look like rain but it never did
    rain :-).  At the end of this song they had a close up of Bob with
    lightning flashing around his face.  Crazy fingers was real sweet - the
    last three times I have seen the boys they have played this gem. NO
    complaints here! :-).  Playin' was rockin'. it seemed like they had
    played forever and we still haven't got to drumz.  It wasn't going to
    stop at playin though the Jam went into a Dark Star tease but Jerry
    wasn't ready for a Dark Star so we get the next best thing Terrapin!!
    And what a Terrapin. The boyz were tight and feeling good.  Terrapin
    lasted forever and then went into a post terrapin Jam Phil was really 
    leading this one.  DRumz was the best I have ever heard Healy kept
    moving the sound around the stadium so the drums where spiraling around
    and around the stadium - Thanks Bill Mickey and Dan!!  Space seemed
    short but the reason was because of the Long Dark Star Jam!!!!!  Just
    when we thought Jerry might break out into the second verse to finish
    what started in RFK Playin' reprise came back.  Black Peter was nice
    and Sat. night was ... well sat. night.  The weight Encore was real
    nice way to end the night.  But it wasn't over yet.  BOOM!  everyone
    looks up and fireworks are going off!!!!  They had a huge fire works
    display for us that would rival anything that was on the 4th of July.
    It made that $30 ticket price worth it.   Wow I am tired from just
    thinking about this night!!  A good time was had by all.  Thanks
    Chicago, Soldiers Field, and The Grateful Dead.   
    
    BTW Soldiers field  had great Aucoustics for a Stadium. Hopefully there
    will be some good sounding tapes of this show.  
    
      

    WOW! nice review Jerry!!  This was a great show for romance.  During
    Foolish Heart, Looks Like Rain, and Crazy Fingers I really found
    myself thinking about my wife and daughter who where 500 miles away
    in Minneapolis - I missed them alot at that point.
    
    Looks like a show you will remember for ever. :-) :-) :-) 
    
    Scott  

    
    It definitely was a show for romance - FOTD, Masterpiece, LLR, Foolish
    Heart, Crazy Fingers, Terrapin.  If we had only gotten a Morning Dew
    or a Standing on the Moon.  It was a wonderful show.  I have been to so
    many showz by myself (most of my friends back home don't like the Dead)
    that it was really special to share the experience with someone that I
    really cared deeply about.  Nuthin Left to do but :-) :-) :-)
    
    Happy Cheese-
    Jerry 
    "Believe your dreams, never let go,
     Keep the faith, and let it grow....."
    

    Nice review Jerry.  Now, if you were so send me your home address (or
    even post it in here) I'm sure we could arrange to make sure you get
    tapes of the show when they come around.
    
    Leaving Digital doesn't mean you haveta lose touch with the folks
    you've met since you got here, ya know ...
    
    							... Bobbb
    

    
    Good point Bobb.  I hope that I will not lose touch with everyone - I
    am sure going to miss GRATEFUL when we part in August.  This is my last
    coop term and who know I might be back someday.......I will definitely
    pass my address etc. on when I leave.
    
    Happy Cheese-
    Jerry

    anyone have any words on how the show was last night??  anyone at
    Cal Expo??  hmmm???  
    
    looking at the set list that Ger posted in 62.56, i'm underwhelmed...
    the first set leaves me a little cold (though high time is a fav)...
    second set looks better but still not amazing...  any comments from
    folks that were actually there?
    
    					da ve

    I'm told Bruce and Vince switched positions for a couple of songs.
    Might have been the first night though. 

    Did they switch just positions?,.. or did they switch instruments too?
    
    						/
    

    judging by the fact that it was "for a couple of songs" i would say
    they switched instruments too...
    
    i would lover to see the big ol' grand piano on stage at every show 
    (regardless of who is playing it-though i do luv Bruce)...  i know
    Keith was never really regarded as a "grate" keyboard player but i do
    miss that aspect to the sound....  besides, that side of the stage
    looks so empty still when only Vinnie is there with his electric
    keys...
    
    					da ve

re:     <<< Note 23.166 by STAR::SALKEWICZ "It missed... therefore, I am " >>>
   
   > Did they switch just positions?,.. or did they switch instruments too?
    
    They changed position for a couple of songs and took their pianos with 
    them. Then they put them back when they were done.
    
    
     :-) :-) :-) Obviously, they switched instruments. :-)

    FWIW, switching stage positions *and* instruments such as a large grand 
    piano is extremely dangerous without a properly tuned discombobulator. 

    Hey man,.. don't pick on me!!!
    
    I missed the part about "a couple of songs"
    
    And da ve,... I always thought Kieth was a d*mned good piano player
    but what do I know,... 
    
    I know thi is what I get for picking on a dave in another note.
    People,. never forget the golden rule...
    
    Do unto daves,...
    
    							/
    

    There were "times" when Keith was a good piano player ..... but
    there were many more times when Keith was visiting the planet
    Uranus and it looked like they had a puppeteer pulling strings
    to move his hands....I remember one show that Keith had his
    head resting on one of his arms laying down kindof plinking away
    with the other.....rest his sole.
    
    rich

RE:      <<< Note 23.171 by WFOV11::BUTZE "Quick beat of an icy heart..." >>>
                                   -< fwiw >-

   >    with the other.....rest his sole.
    
    What's his fish have to do with it? ;^/





Jim

    A little known fact that Keith, knowing he would get "sleepy" during a
    show, would keep a little kipper in his pocket and let it flop around 
    just to keep him awake....take your pleasure where you find it, eh?
    
    rich

    still, it is a way to keep him PERCHed on his bench!
    
    				da ve

While practicing scales :^)

    hmmmm...  no comments from Phyllis yet?  i'd expect her to be getting a
    little green around the GILLS by now! 
    
    				da ve

More puns ... holy mackerel ....

RE:  <<< Note 23.177 by ROULET::DWEST "Dont Overlook Something Extraordinary" >>>
                                    -< :^) >-

   > hmmmm...  no comments from Phyllis yet?  i'd expect her to be getting a
   > little green around the GILLS by now! 
    
    
   I think she jumped out the window and headed for Cape Cod :^) 





   Jim

Oh cod, are you guys doin' this just for the halibut or are you reeling us in 
for something bigger.

Hey, get off Phyllis' bass.

    mebbe she went out for a few drinks and is in the process of getting
    
    	(ahem)
    
    			PICKERELed!!!!!!  :^) :^):^)
    
    				da ve

So much for keeping digressions to a "minimal level."  Hee hee, GOD I love
this notesfile.

    
    But not quite as goos as getting HAMMERHEAD?  Sounds like a WHALE of a
    time...  The next mornin' we'll be asking "Who's that we SEA LION on
    the floor?"
    
    But really, what's the PORPOISE of this drivel?  Are we jeopardizing
    our friendship with Phyllis just to make ANEMONE out of her?
    
    <ouch>
    

    
    That's right!  I forgot.. we have RULES now, don't we.  And I'M a
    moderator.  HAH!  Stay tuned for mass deletion!!!
    
    hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha!
    
    

    Hey will you guys cut this Punning to a Min-O-Mim, I can't keep up with
    it all while on Vacation ! Geessss two weeks ago this place was about
    as quite as a beach during shark warnings, but NOOOOOOOO once I take a
    week off this place gets a busy as a school of blues of the cape in
    mating time !
    
    
    Chris

RE:      <<< Note 23.188 by MSHRMS::FIELDS "Up The Wazoo Without A Gizmo" >>>


   Chris. log the hell off of here, will ya? yer on vacation ferchrissakes.

Sheesh. 	:-)

Cal Expo is a fun venue!  Jerry was in shorts all 3 nights.  Not only that,
but he was wearing official Grateful Dead shorts with a Steal-Your-Face
and everything.  Fancy!!  ;-)  The scene was relatively mellow unless if
you were in the front of the line with the railers.  There were some
extremely uptight folks up there.  No wonder I never go for the rail!!
I saw security confiscate one vendor's goods outside while we were waiting
in line, but I think that's because he was selling sodas and they wanted
some 8-/.

First night was good, although the sound seemed turned down.  Bruce was on
accordian for Iko.  Jerry forgot a lot of the words during Althea.  First
set ended well.  China/Rider rocked as usual.  Terrapin built with a
vengeance - crescendos from hell!! 8-)  Bruce and Vince switching during
Miracle.  Vince walked over to Bruce and tapped him on the shoulder and gave
him an "Outta that seat!!" look 8-).  I didn't see if Bruce did the same to
Vince or not during the switch back, but it was pretty funny.  Vince *rocks*
on the piano!!  I think he should get a chance to play it more often.  During
Lovelight, Jerry stood back and let Bobby do his thing.  It looked like he was
clapping during parts of Lovelight instead of playing (maybe he was tired or
maybe he was just giving Bobby the spotlight).  The Weight was good, but
Bruce's mike was turned way down so it was hard to hear him during his verse.

The second night was better.  The sound was a lot better and turned up
louder.  Sugaree featured Bruce on accordian and Jerry on slide.  Bruce
was also on accordian for Memphis Blues and the Black Muddy River encore.
Highlight of the first set was of course High Time - always one of my
all-time favorites (I think I've only seen about a dozen High Time's).
Let it Grow was very sweet.  Second set seemed a bit on the short side.
It was well-played though.  During Sugar Mag, Bobby did his rock star
act and ran up to the front of the stage to do his high hand jamming.
When Jerry saw that, Jerry did his Bobby imitation and ran up to Bill and
Mickey and did *his* high hand jamming 8->!!  Uncle Jerry does have a
wonderful sense of humor!!

Third night was great!  It was well-played and the choice of songs was
excellent!!  As you can probably guess from the setlist, it was cloudy
and sprinkling a little during the third night, but it never got bad.
It sprinkled enough to get maybe the top part of your hair wet.  This
was good since I don't think anyone inside was prepared for rain.  It
had been sunny and almost 90 degrees before the clouds moved in.  As
soon as the Dead started playing Touch of Grey, the drizzle subsided
and the setting sun in the back of the venue lit up the stage with an
orange glow.  It was gorgeous!!  Black Throated Wind was a treat!!
Bobby was on slide for Rooster and Jerry was on slide for Don't Ease.
Cold Rain and Snow was an easy call (even though it didn't really get
cold - thank God!!)  Bruce was on accordian for Cold Rain, Box, and
Uncle John's.  Box of Rain was a surprise position-wise, although the
content was again quite appropriate.  I don't really remember if I've
ever seen Box appear in the middle of a set before.  I don't think so
though.  It kept drizzling off and on until Looks Like Rain when it
stopped after Bobby did his "Rain, rain, go away!!" bit to the crowd's
cheering. (Good job, Bobby!!).  Crazy Fingers described perfectly the
silver streaks of rain shining against the stage lights.  I'm not sure
how Estimated fits into all of this, but it was good.  Bobby didn't
scream, but Vince's synth did some imitation Bobby screams 8-).  The
Supplication jam was such a tease.  People had been yelling for Lazy
Lightning, but I guess Bobby was just not up to snuff on the lyrics 8-(
although he *did* seem like he wanted to play it.  I would've loved to
hear a Lazy Lightning again!!  Maybe Jerry didn't want to play it cause
it was his turn, so they went into Uncle John's and it was as sweet as
ever.  The Phil intro to the Other One just shook me to my bones!!  YOW!!
Wharf Rat and Around and Around were nice (Around^2 was *much* better
than the expected Throwing/Away).  Bruce was on accordian again for the
Knockin' encore.  Nice show!!

And now onto Shoreline ... 8->!!

peace,
t!ng

RE:          <<< Note 23.190 by SKYLRK::TING "Give Peace a Chance!!!" >>>
                                 -< Cal Expo >-


 >And now onto Shoreline ... 8->!!


  Hey! My 15 year old son is going to his first show tonight with my sister!!

  If you see him (a remarkably good looking young man [like his father] posses-
  ing a rapier like wit [also like his father] with hair to his a** [mines not
  that long] say hi and give him a hug!!




 Jim

     THANKS T!ng!!! 
I always look forward to yer Calif. reviews
That 3rd show's set list sure looks good
                                         rfb

    yes thanks T!ng!!!  i was needing some words to go with the lists...
    
    			da ve :^)

    Just got back from the Friday night Shoreline Show, and wanted to get
    this in before I forgot what they played.  Definitely a show where they
    went for quality instead of quantity!
    
    It was a typical Shoreline summer evening, warm, and a bit breezy, and
    there was a pretty half-moon hanging up in the sky.  Traffic was
    amazingly light driving up, considering it was about 5:30, and in the
    middle of rush hour.  I didn't hit any slow ups, and breezed all the
    way there.  A nice beginning for a nice night.
    
    Beth's gone off to Alaska for a bit, so I had an extra ticket to play
    miracle man with. (I'm still split on that idea.  I know giving tickets
    away just encourages people without tickets to show up, but the smiles
    you get makes it worthwhile for me).  So, anyway, I cruised through the
    parking lot, taking in the scene, and looking for the right person to
    give it to.  While walking near the drummers, I happened to pass a lady
    in a tie-dyed body suit who was looking for a ticket.  At least, I
    thought it was a body suit, until I did a double take, and realized
    that it was body paint, and not a suit at all.  That seemed to be
    deserving of a ticket, so I kept my eyes locket on hers, presented her
    with the ticket, and was rewarded with a beautiful smile.  The ticket
    given away, it was now time to head into the show.
    
    Took a quick scan of the merchandise on one side, decided too take a
    closer look at intermission (key-z had a booth there I wanted to look
    at), and then headed for a spot about half-way up the lawn, and just a
    shade into the Phil zone.
    
    The boyz were a bit later than usual coming out (I didn't have a watch,
    but I think it was after 7:30, and the "official" start time was 7:00).
    But they finally wandered out, Bobby in his usual cut-offs and a purple
    shirt, and Jerry wearing his usual black shirt, and a pair of purple
    pants. A bit darker than Bobby's shirt, but quite purple none the less.
    
    After tuning up, the first set started out pleasantly, though nothing
    really special.  Jack Straw started it off, followed by Bertha, and
    It's All over Now.  (By the time the show was over, I had forgotten
    that one, and had to ask people in the parking lot which one it had
    been. I think I got every other song they had played, both first and
    second set, until I finally found someone who had written down the set
    list.)  Jerry followed that up with Ramble On Rose, and that's when I
    realized that drinking lots of water at work, followed by a beer at the
    show, was a mistake, and headed off to answer nature's call. 
    Unfortunately, so did a a large number of other people, so I didn't get
    back until Bobby was starting Desolation Row.  After this was a longer
    than normal break, and I let my attention wander and started looking
    around at the crowd. They got my attention back quickly with a familiar
    four-note series, and I got to see my second Dark Star, and first in
    the first set.  Very Nice!  But I always want the jam to go on far
    longer than this one did, though they did segue very smoothly into a
    hot Promised Land to close the first set.
    
    Now it's time to wander about and see what was going on.  Shoreline has
    added a new toy over by one of the consession stands since the last
    time I was there.  Basically, there were 6 or 8 upright pianos, with
    boards that had the innards of other pianos (sorta like harps nailed to
    plywood) behind the pianos.  Lots of people were having a wonderful
    time playing with the keys, and hitting the strings with hammers, etc.
    
    They also had a sort of a stage show going on near the entrance.  I'll
    do my best to describe it.  First, picture a giant white water bottle
    type thing which is maybe 6-7 feet tall, and 3-4 feed in diameter.  Now
    mount a drum set on top of the bottle.  Take that, hang it inside
    of a large metal-frame box, and put somebody behind the drum set to
    play the drums and bounce it around.  Now, take some bass, and some
    other drumming (I couldn't see if it was live or tape), and get them to
    put a nice rhythm down.  Finally, take a few people, dress them in
    puffy sleeve like things, or a cape, lots of black-light paint, and not
    much else, and send them out to dance in front of black lights and
    strobe lights, and you end up with quite a spectacle.  Which took care
    of much of my wandering time (oh well, there's always tomorrow).
    
    Hmm. This is getting a bit long, so I'll try to cover the HOT second
    set quickly.  Started out with a rocking Scarlet Begonias, which flowed
    very smoothly into Victim or the Crime.  That song is growing on me
    more and more, though this one seemed  more sedate than most.  Victim
    flowed into the missing Fire on the Mountain, which in turn flowed into
    an energetic Truckin', both of which were great.  Drumz followed
    starting with Billy doing some nice work on his set, and ending with
    Mickey doing something which reminded me somewhat of Native American
    Drumming.  Space was it's nice, spacey self, and it moved into a pretty
    Playing jam, with Bruce (yes, Bruce was here, too) doing some beautiful
    work on his grand piano. (For a second or two, I though they might
    wander into the Wheel, but they stayed with Playin.  Bobby finally came
    in, and sang just the Playin' reprise.  (Was this a leftover from Cal
    Expo?)  Jerry took it then, and did a sweet Standing on the Moon.  His
    voice really sounded strong to me, especially at the end.  Finally,
    Bobby rounded out the second set with a real energetic Good Lovin'.  At
    the end, Bobby started improvising stuff, throwing out lines like "Who
    here needs good lovin?  I know I do!", and various screeched and
    squawks.  Jerry & Bruce gave each other looks and smiles which seemed
    to say "He's at it again!".  Come to think of it, Jerry and Bruce had
    smiles just about everytime they had closeups on the screen. And
    everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves a lot.  The encore was a
    rockin U.S. Blues, and, though I had gotten tired of that song for a
    while, I really enjoyed this one.
    
    All in all, a real good show!  One thing I forgot to mention.  The
    decoractions on the sides of the stage seemed a bit more subdued than
    normal.  After it got dark, I saw why.  They also used them as
    projection screens.  A nice picture of the earth surrounded by stars
    went up during Darkstar, and a couple of beautiful cloudy-red sunsets
    were up during Fire on the Mountain.  And, of course, lots of
    interesting effects on the normal TV type screens, too.
    
    I'll leave it to someone else to post a set list, since this is from
    memory, and I may have left a song out.  And I'll leave it someone else
    to answer a question, too.  I have to admit, I was getting into the
    flow of the Dark Star, and didn't listen that closely to make sure they
    had sung the whole thing, but I thought they had.  But I later heard
    someone speaking as if they hadn't, so who knows, maybe we (or someone
    further on down the line) still has the closer to come.  Who knows? 
    Maybe this will be the first bi-coastal Dark Star!

    re: 8/16 Dark Star
    
    I'm told that they only played the 1st half of Dark Star.
    
    Tour notes:
    
    Also, it seems they've had no repeats in the 6 shows between Cal Expo
    and Shoreline for a total of 96 different songs. That's comforting
    since the East Coast is looking at runs of 9 MSG and 6 BG's.

    I guess the Calif. crowds are as tired of Picasso Moon as we are. 
    (   just a joke %^)  )
    
                rfb

Marvelous, just marvelous!!  That's all I can say about the incredible
set of shows at Shoreline!! (besides INCREDIBLE!!, that is 8-)  They
only repeated one song from the Cal Expo run (Promised Land).  Jerry
was again in good spirits.  He was wearing purple pants on Friday (as
John already mentioned).  It's actually almost lavender.  The stage
was flanked by screens lightly painted with an earth splashing into
a sea of clouds (same decor as Cal Expo).  The screens were used during
the show for projections to highlight the songs.

Friday was without doubt the best of the run (of course, fueled by the
Dark Star and Jerry's purple pants ;-)  It was definitely a Bruce night.
He was in the lead all night.  The Jack Straw/Bertha opener laid the
groundwork for the rest of the evening.  It's All Over Now was fun!!
Bobby seemed emotional for Bobby, but it's hard to tell.  Desolation Row
featured Bruce on accordian.  Then Bruce got back on the piano and
started playing the first few notes of Dark Star.  Jerry looked at him
with a giant grin on his face as if he's saying, "Sure, I'll play that!!".
And was it SWEET!!!  They only got through playing the first verse before
Bobby started into Promised Land (a bit impatient, eh, Bobby??)  Dark
Star was about 10 minutes long.

We had wanted Scarlet so we got it.  Nice!!  Bruce led the band into
Victim and Bobby jumped in with the lyrics before the groove really got
going.  I notice Bobby does that a lot (patience is a virtue, my dear
boy 8-).  The crowd went wild when the boys went back into Fire.  I've
seen a Victim>Scarlet>Fire before, but I think I like the Scarlet>Victim>
Fire arrangement a lot better!  8-)  Truckin' rocked and stretched into
a nice jam before drums.  After space, Bruce led the band into Playin',
reprised from the first night at Cal Expo.  Bruce led the band again
into Standing on the Moon.  Unfortunately, Jerry messed up the words
and looked a little lost for that last verse.  Good Lovin' ended the
set nicely.  Boy, I haven't heard that since December '89!!  U.S. Blues
was energetic, but I think I would've appreciated it a lot more if the
guys next to me were not yelling out the words (#*$%@&!!)  I sure am
glad they weren't there during Dark Star 8-).

Saturday's opener was just unbeatable!!  Beautiful Help>Slip!>Franklin!!
Then Bobby rocked into the Willie Dixon classic Wang Dang Doodle, setting
the mood just right 8-).  Bruce was on accordian for Queen Jane and again
later on for the Baby Blue encore.  The Music Never Stopped came across
more like a message, but it stopped and ended the set (I always thought
this is kind of funny that way).  I don't think I've ever seen a Man
Smart/Women Smarter opener for the second set.  That was a nice one.
The He's Gone Saturday was dedicated to Rick Griffin (as I found out
today 8-( - I didn't even know about his accident then).  They jammed
for a while after He's Gone.  Jerry left first and the rest of the band
kept jamming for a while before the drummers took over.  During drums,
someone dressed as the Grim Reaper came out and slowly made its way
across the stage.  It sank down in a heap and rose ominously with its
arms out.  Mickey had a giant grin on his face and kept throwing
drumsticks at the Reaper until it decided that the battering was too
much and went back to the dark recesses of the stage where it came from.
Out of space came the ultimate Dark Star tease.  The crowd roared.  We
were disappointed that it didn't take off, but the Morning Dew that took
its place was just as much of a treat.  Jerry did not smile for this one.
This was a heart-felt Dew.  Yes, Uncle Jer, it doesn't really matter
anyway.  Rick is a lot happier where he is now.  Saturday Night closed
the set early.  The Baby Blue encore was a really soulful one too, high-
lighted by the blue projections on the sides of the stage.

Sunday was an early show.  First set was nice and long!!  Again, the
C.C. Ryder into It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (this
title is too long!!) rocked - a repeat from the last set of Shoreline
shows 8-).  Eighteen beats started the band into Beat It on Down the
Line - well, almost.  Bobby didn't start when he was supposed to and
they had to stop until Bobby was done laughing at himself before they
started again.  The song ended abruptly the way it always does - well,
almost.  Bruce decided that the song should go on, so he kept playing.
The rest of the band looked at each other and played another verse
before finishing the song - well, almost.  Bobby pointed at Jerry to
say "What d'you do that for??"  and Jerry said "It wasn't me!!  It was
him!!" and pointed to Bruce, at which point Jerry made a gun with his
hand and "shot" Bruce.  The crowd started a Bruce chant, and the band
finished the final bars of BIODTL.  Lots of goofing around on stage.
Bruce played accordian for Masterpiece.  The Johnny B. Goode closer
was a long-time coming.  I haven't heard that one for a while (I think
the last one I saw was during the New Years run in '89).

I've never seen a Deal opener for the second set, but it guess it
happened a couple of times before in the 70's.  It smoked!!  Samson
had a long drum intro before tearing the whole building down ;-).
Half-Step was slow and mellow.  Stranger before drums was unexpected,
but I like it that way.  I was very psyched for the China Doll out of
space.  I thought I heard glimpses of it out of space and before the
Playin' reprise on Friday, so I had been looking forward to that since
then.  Beautiful!!  Bobby was ready to go into Throwing Stones after
China Doll, but Jerry wanted to go into Going Down the Road, so Jerry
got his way.  It was a fine one too!!  Then of course, Bobby got his
turn with the Throwing Stones when Jerry was done.  Bruce was on
accordian again for Not Fade Away and the Brokedown encore.  Brokedown
was a nice closer to the best set of shows I've seen in a while!!
You folks are in for a treat in the upcoming Fall tour!!  Get psyched!!
8-)

peace,
t!ng

My 15 year old son called me Saturday morning after his first show Friday
night...he was psyched.  I answered the phone and he said "well Dad, I guess
I'm a Deadhead now...can you get any Boston Garden tix?"  




:^)   JIm

    re-.198
    
    
    happens to the best of us......

    Re: Cal Expo. Just to add one point to T!ng's review.
    
    I'm not sure if its mentioned, but during Monday Night, first set,
    Graham Lesh was on stage playing a toy guitar, along with Dad. He
    even had red, white and blue wrist bands on. 

    
    :-)  That's totally adorable! :-)
    
    

    re:23.200 (Graham Lesh) :-) :-)
    
    Saw him in Orlando last April - what a cute kid!! (My daughter Jessie
    was very impressed)...
    
    

    From what I've heard, the 9/10/91 show with Brandford was as good as it
    looks. He apparently played both sets.
    
    - Gerry

Well, I hope Healy got a good copy (good enough for the next live dead CD).

Fog_who_wouldda_been_there_if_he_haddn't_gone_off_and_done_something_silly_
last_year_like_get_married,_buy_a_house_in_the_burbs,_impregnate_his_wife_
and_then_turn_30_..._(Yikes!)_:-)

so now for all you lucky folks so far...

Has Hornsby been playing all nights in MSG?

How's Vinnie sounding?  How's the overall keyboard sound?

Are you as glad as I am to see Dr. Filth er I mean Tom Thumb make a 
reappearance?  

What's the scene outside the doors like?  Mellow?  Lot's of "miracle" people?

hmmm what else?  Did King Kong get a ticket for this years run?  

Is everyone right on the money...tight...in control and in fine form?

questions!  boy ya ask a lot a questions....
foghorn leghorn w/ apologies to Father Fog
bob

    
    Hi!  I'm finally back after no net access all week.  I got tired of
    answering mail messages so I thought I'd come in here and talk to you
    all for awhile! :-) 
    
    Tuesday was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We had seats way
    up in the 300's somewhere but managed to scam a whole section in the
    90's right next to the tapers.  We got about 8 seats together without
    one stub!  Branford rumors had been flying for months, ever since the
    ad came out in the NYTimes and we knew he'd be in town the 11th ->. 
    But it was still a surprise when he came out right from the beginning
    of the show.  We were just hanging out celebrating, and the lights
    go down, and the band walks out and starts toodling around, and Gary
    says - "aren't there a lot of people up there?"  :-)  GerryG... PLEASE
    get some copies of Reb's tapes!!!  The first set was so hot, we were
    almost scared to hear the second! ;-)  Branford does this loooong solo
    during CC->Takes a lot.. that is pure bluez heaven.  And then after that 
    Help Slip 2nd set open.. I seriously could've gone home then, never heard 
    another note of Grateful Dead and been happy forever.  Really.  It was 
    that good.  But I'm glad I stayed ;-).  
    
    Drumz Space Darkstar Space Darkstar Space.  Through the transitive 
    nightfall of diamonds indeed. :-)  
    
    The whole run's been pretty solid, with last night as the weekest link. 
    Although FINALLY hearing that Big Railroad was grate!  And the Terrapin
    was beautiful.  First night was probably 2nd best, and the Attics
    encore was certainly a nice touch.  Hearing the Last Time again was
    pretty weird and made me think of Brent a lot.  The Dew second night
    was wonderful.  We were all really psyched they broke it out so early
    in the run when Gerry's voice is still strong and sweet.
    
    And now it's on to Friday the 13th and 8th row seats!  
    
    :-) :-) :-),
    Phyllis
    
    

    
    Some logistical stuff..
    
    Getting in has been no problem, any night.  We've been going in around
    7 each night, though.  I don't know what it's like closer to show time.
    
    Security has been very mellow.  Minor bag checking.  Basically just
    feeling for bottles and cans.  Wine sacks are fine.  Once you get in, 
    you can basically go anywhere you want.  Here and there you'll find a 
    gate blocked by a guard who's checking stubbs, but then you just walk 
    down to the next one and go on in.  Even with the renovations, the whole 
    place is still connected so you can get from the worst seats to the best 
    without climbing or jumping anything.
    
    They've been selling beer inside each night.
    
    No King Kong.
    
    Yes, Bruce has been there every night.
    
    Jerry wore bright blue pants last night. :-)
    
    

   How much is the ice cream?




     :^)


   Jim

$2.50

    
    with or without whipped cream?
    
    

RE:         <<< Note 23.209 by DEDSHO::CLARK "the funk of 40,000 years" >>>
                           -< still have some left >-

>$2.50




 $2.50?????  HA HA HA HA HA HA :^) :^)

RE:          <<< Note 23.210 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "Wake, now discover.." >>>

    
   > with or without whipped cream?
    
    

    Obviously, you're not in on the joke.   :^)





   Jim

    
    Well!  Last time I try to help you out with a friendly answer.  Geez.
    
    ;-)
    
    

 Its one of those you had to be there things that only happen at showz.





  Jim

Yeah, we're IN on the joke, and you're OUT!!  Ha ha ha!  Pretty clique-ish
of us, ey?

	;^)	;^)

Please note all read-onlys out there ... this is only humor ... not an attempt
to shut anyone out ... get in here and enter a note NOW ... we know you're
out there!

- Dave

    re 9/14 setlist
    
    another "good times"!!!!!!   i think it's safe to say that this tune 
    is back in the rotation... :^)
    
    				da ve

	I've been listening to a very nice SB copy of 3-18, and 3-19-90 
Hartford CT (thanks dave l!)... brent sure added a lot of positive to the
music, imo....

    
    I think there's something missing from the Sat. nite 1st set list but I
    can't figure out what.
    
    Anybody out there who was there?  Fredda?  Lisa?  Bob?  Ger?  Didn't
    Jerry sing something btwn Little Red and Desolation Row?  
    
    Phyllis_who_seems_to_have_left_her_set_list_at_home..sorry.

          <<< Note 23.218 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "Wake, now discover.." >>>

>    I think there's something missing from the Sat. nite 1st set list but I
>    can't figure out what.
 
yea,  a jack a roe i think....

    
    Yup - that's it.  Thanks.  
    
    

Had a real good time in MSG this past saturday night - something about
NYC that I just *love*!  It's got alot to do with the incredible amounts
of energy in and around those parts.  Say what you will but....

My fave parts of the show were a great rocking Promised Land and same
goes for Saturday Night.  There I said it - I didn't think I ever would
say that about at least one of those tunes.

Oh yeah, I ended up camping out about 35 minutes north of the city in
Harriman St. Park.  Only problem for me is navigating out off that island
and over the gwb bridge at 2:30 in the morning....

bob

ps.  JC was right - there are 2 blarney stones unless of course anyone
who was supposed to be there didn't make it.  I asked and there are 6 in
manhatten alone.

	Boston Garden, 20 Sep 91

	Description of the show - workmanlike.  They took the stage,
	they played some tunes, they left.  A very laid back show
	that did have its moments.  I thought the Globe artiicle
	reviewing the show was kind - I expected a real blast on 
	the band/music.

	Black Throated Wind was a treat for me (my first) but was
	hesitant and awkward.  Bird Song jam tended to go nowhere.
	Help -> Slip -> Fire was definitely a surprise.  Truckin'
	was the hot spot of the show and was followed by an
	extended Other One jam  that left Bob Weir, Bruce Hornsby,
	and Vince Wellnick on stage with the drummers for a while.

	The averageness of this show was a key factor in my deciding
	to accept a ticket for tonight (Saturday), hoping that
	they'll coming out smoking to make up for the so-so show
	last night.

	Bob_jaded

	Boston Garden, 21 Sep 91

	A much better show than the previous night.  Lots more energy.
	Bob Weir was back from wwherever he had been the night before.

	Personal highlights: They Love Each Other, Fennario.  Cassidy
	was good, nice jam that lead into a hot (but not incendiary)
	Deal.

	The whole second set was very good to excellent.  Uncle John's
	was well done with lots of crowd singing.  I was expecting them
	to go into Playing In The Band, but Saint Of Circumstance was
	a real crowd pleaser.  I realy liked the Eyes Of The World.
	It didn't seem to the frantic, heavily drum driven version of 
	recent times.

	Eyes went into an extended and energetic jam.  It finished up 
	with Bruce Hornsby pounding out a solo whlle Bill and Micky
	get up rhythm.  There were definite snatches of a song here
	but the title escapes me.

	Drums and space were drums and space :-)

	The Other One was one the best I've heard recently - very 
	throbbing version with Phil thundering away.  Wharf Rat was
	good and the crowd bopped heartily during One More Saturday
	Night.

	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue is a personal favorite and
	was nicely done.

	All in all, I give this show four stars.

	Bob

	P.S. The crowd both nights was considerably mellower than I
	had expected.  Generally well behaved and an almost tolerable
	amount of loud talking and war whoops directly to the ear...

     So how was Boston ??
    
        What's new what's hot,  where did you people eat or drink?
    how many shows did you go to ?  what  are some of the songs they
    played this time around? Let's here some good times... 
    
    also the parking lot sceene ??? any merchants around town or was that
    put to an end??? 
    
       J

    Re.-.222 and 223
    
    Thanks for the great reviews Bob.  I've never been to a show and
    desperately hoped Boston would be my first, but couldn't get tickets.
    Your reviews help me share the joy.
    
    Rose
    

re: bob white's review of saturday night:

>	Drums and space were drums and space :-)

I thought two interesting parts of Saturday night's space were
a little jam on Bach's "Ode to Joy" and then Hornsby playing out
a line of "My Favorite Things" from Sound of Music.

tms

RE: 62.82 (or so)  Jamie Ide

Yah, after I logged out, I thought I had forgot at least spoonful when entering
the set list (my piece of paper had it written down)...  i didn't feel like
re-dailing, etc.................

9-22-91, quick review.

Musically, from what I could tell, I thought the show was excellent.  The
first 3 songs were done perfectly.  We sat behind stage -- the sound was
very muddled (when I sat behind stage at Albany, the sound was much better).
Whenever Jerry sang, it was practically impossible to hear what he was
saying.  Bob's singing sounded much better.  Maggie's FaHm was cool -- 
starting w/ bob, each person (minus the drummers) sang a verse.  I'm not 
sure who drew the largest crowd surge; my guess would be Phil...  Let it grow
was good, however, the song was spoiled by some stupid alarm horn blaring
behind us ... finally, the correct folks turned the stupid thing off!! What
a disturbance!!

Samson->Iko was really hot!!  The temperature in the Gahdin must have rose
10 degress after these two.  I think the boyz picked up on this as they
slowed it down with a LLR, which I'm not too hot on.   Jerry continued the
mellowness with a nice he's gone drawing much crowd noise at the typical
places ("nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!").  he's gone progressed
into some bluezy vocals which led to a could of bluez tunes.  Drumz was long;
I think mickey and bill were waiting for the boyz to come out and finally
said, lets split!!!  There was actually a pause between drumz and space; about
35 or so seconds of "dead air" ...  last time was very nice, stella was ok
and sugar mag smoked!!!  bob played rock star in a big way by jamming on the
edge of the stage!!

heaven's door was a nice close.

    Did anyone else pick up the Little Feat riffs Bruce kept doing at the
    end of He's Gone ? I kept saying to myself "Now that would be something
    to see !" 
    
    Chris

RE: Chris Fields


YUP!  I heard the "Fat Man in the Bathtub" riff as well as Hornsby's own
"The Way It Is" riffs... I tell ya, from behind stage, I could really see
Hornsby well.  He is one HOT piano player!!!

    Thanks TMS for entering the note to the space "ODE TO JOY" I was 
    trying to figure it out for the rest of the night....I thought
    it was great.
    
    rich

in the last two nights I heard Little Feat, I heard some of his own songs, I
heard Danny Boy, I heard Favorite Things, I heard Jerry doing Bach (tms, I
think the song was Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring although), I even heard Nobody's
Fault and called it (and then felt silly until they actually did play it).  But
most of all I heard wonderful sounds - and still can hear it!!!  WOW!  is all i
can say right now, maybe later I'll be functional enough to actually right a
review.  But then again maybe I won't.

Lisa

    right after Ode to Joy,. Jerry was tinkering out the melody to
    the song from Casablanca,.. I think its titled "As Time Goes By"
    (You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss)
    
    Trucking definitely led into the space that Watchtower later came
    out of.
    
    I agree with Bob Whites reviews pretty much,.. but the Dew was my
    personal highlight. For once,. and East Coast Dew where everyone shut
    up lopng enough for Jerry to sdo some nice quiet pristine guitar work.
    He took his time,.. ane he "got there" :-)
    
    Sounds like Sunday was a cool show,.. too bad I missed it.
    
    							/
    

So, am I wrong about the title of the Bach tune?  Because I was really    
sure I was right.  I meant to listen to it yesterday morning but forgot.
Or is "Ode to Joy" and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" the same song?  You
know, it's the one that goes; do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do 
do do do do do do do do do do do do do 

:-)

    It's funny how people view shows...I enjoyed both Friday and Sat.
    but felt that Saturday was more of the "doing a job" type show..
    I felt that there was more energy on Friday as well ..... it also
    could have been the excursion into the North End on Saturday
    with Bob H and spouse that did it ....goood sambooooca and rocket 
    fueled expressssso.....I really enjoyed the Help-Slip-Fire and
    Dew on Friday...wish I was at Sunday and am looking forward to
    Wed.  

    "Ode to Joy" is Beethoven, the last movement of the 9th symphony.
    "do do do do do do do do do ...  do do do" does sound more like
    Jesu Joy. 
    
    Either way I wish I'd been at Saturday's show to hear that. Still,
    I got to see Sunday's so I don't feel I missed out on too much!
    
    ..Robert
    

Garcia for president?  I dunno - check out the piece on the editorial
page of today's Globe....

That's for all you folks who looked in the living/arts section for 
show reviews - OR looked in the sports page to see if the Patriots really
did beat Moon and Co...

this ones an editorial ....  neat drawing of Garcia but other than that .... 

ahh well 
signed - 
one burnt bob
:) but he's still smiling...
it's gonna be rough - school tonight/tomorrow.....
ouch!

so chalk it down - I won't be in Boston tuesday so pull out the stops and 
have a good one!  :)   (they play everything you've be dying to hear :)

    
    
    Friday was very enjoyable. I was bummed about the Touch opener, but my
    mood soon changed. I loved Black Throated Wind and Masterpiece. Song of
    the night: Morning Dew. :-)
    
    Saturday was nice. I think Cassidy was my favorite. That was the best
    Wharf Rat I've heard: really nice vocals! (Vince!) I just wish we had
    better seats for this one. We were in "Stadium," with the overhang
    above. It was noisy in there, (not to mention smokey), so the sound was
    crummy. But I still had a blast!~
    
    Sunday's show couldn't have been much better. I definitely think this
    was THE show of the series. Start to finish, all smiles :-) :-) :-) ;-)
    Maggies Farm was SO fun! Song of the night: I can't decide. I LOVED
    THIS SHOW!!!  The fact that we had GREAT seats and sound probably had
    alot to do with this. I've got similar seats Wednesday, so I'm psyched.
    
    Well, well, well, you can never tell..... :-)
    
    Steve-O

Lisa -- I don't know which it was, "Ode to Joy" or "Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring".  I'm not really too knowledgeable about classical -- you can
tell...I thought Ode was written by Bach!

tms

    not a lot to add but i will anyway! :^)
    
    for my part, i enjoyed saturday's show best, but i felt sunday's
    was a little better played...  friday was sweet but riiiiilllly
    mellow...  a very nice run indeed... :^)
    
    i love the banner in the ceiling celebrating the triumphant return!
    i have no problem seeing a tie died dead banner up with all those
    championship flags! :^)
    
    					da ve

Well, I've had a WONDERFUL time!

Friday was sweet...Alan (my 10-year-old) had a wonderful time.

Saturday...what can I say?  9th row in front of Jerry and Bruce.  Drums/Space
was the spookiest and scariest I've every heard.  Definitely heard a 
"Shenandoah" in there.  Hornsby is superb.

Last night, IKO was really sort of scary.  I looked up at the balcony and the
whole thing was bouncing up and down at LEAST 6 inches.  "Tear this old
building down" definitely came to mind!!!

One night to get some rest, and then back at it!!

	~dave

Is there a note in here about venues ;^)?  I went to Friday's show and was so
bummed out by the garden; crowd seen getting in (partially my fault for getting
there so late), dungeon like, the worst acoustics, very very smokey (my eyes
were burning!), poor ventilation, so many obstructed view/sound seats...etc
that I sold my tickets for Saturday!  Maybe I was spoiled by the GRATE time I
had at MSG last Friday and Saturday (my first time there, I was really impressed
by everything about MSG).  Then, to top it off, they played like six repeats 
from last Friday's and Saturday's shows as MSG.

Oh well, I did go to O'Briens (sp?) pub Saturday and saw the Candles.  Had a
grate time there!

Chuck

(PS I really did have a good time at the show despite the Garden :^) but what
does everybody think of that place?  Did anybody else get bummed out by the 
venue?)

	I'll have to listen to a CD I have with Jesu,... on it.
	I definitely know the song, it's one of my favorites
	(I become a classical_head in the Fall).

	Lisa


	PS tms - I heard on the radio that a Mark from Londonderry
	won tickets to a show this week and I got so excited for Exit_10,
	I was gonna call and tell him to call in but then I decided
	that it wasn't him (don't remember the last name but it wasn't his).

    Chuck....I was more "anxious" before going into the Garden than when
    I was in there....mainly past memories of other Boston Garden shows.
    Once I was in there I had a great time and was impressed with the 
    improvement of the sound..(I did have good seats..dead center floor
    infront of the sound board fri..4or5rows off the floor on sat.). What
    upsets me is that Boston should have a new indoor arena..and doesn't.
    Once you get in there with all the history and banners etc. you got to
    get excited.  The smoke and ventilation sucks...but thats the Garden
    and Boston does need a new one...but when it gets down to it I still
    had fun and all the negatives were miles away.
    
    rich

re:  <<< Note 23.241 by ROULET::DWEST "Dont Overlook Something Extraordinary" >>>
       
>    i love the banner in the ceiling celebrating the triumphant return!
>    i have no problem seeing a tie died dead banner up with all those
>    championship flags! :^)
    
    Well, I think they should've shown a little courtesy and not covered
    up Dit Clapper's retired number. I mean, there *are* empty spots up
    there.
    
    bruins_fan_G
    
    ps - anyone notice the SYF flag fying on the roof outside the garden?

What a grate weekend!  3 shows, 2 sox games, and lots of good vibes!  I enjoyed 
Saturday's show most, but I thought Sunday's was better.  Friday was grate to, 
mostly because it was the first one of the run ;^).  The problem for Sunday 
was that we were under an overhang where is was HOT and smokey and lots of 
crowd noise.  Not that I didn't enjoy myself 8^) but I had more fun in the 
balcony on Saturday.  

RE: The Gahhden

In the balcony on Saturday something felt weird under my feet, so I stopped and 
and just stood there AS THE FLOOR UNDERNEATH ME SHOOK ALL OVER THE PLACE - the 
Dead and Co. were rocking the Gahden in every sense of the word!!!!!!  I was a 
little nervous being directly under that same spot the next night, especialy 
during Sampson and Iko!  Being a Boston native (and sports fan) who 
"appreciates" some of the history of the place, part of me would hate to see it 
go.  But actually being in there and having to deal with the place, I would 
love to see a "new" Garden, and one has been on the table for several years now.
Problem is politics and $$ (like who is going to pay for it).  I will go out 
on a limb and predict that the Boston Garden in it's current form will not 
exist in 10 years (maybe less).  So when the boyz are in here the year 2000 
we'll have a new venue!!!!!!!

3 DOWN 3 TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott

So how was Nobody's Fault but Mine??

peace,
t!ng

    
    >>So how was Nobody's Fault but Mine??
    
    a Led Zeppelin tune??
    
    :^)  Hogan

    
    >So how was Nobody's Fault but Mine??
    
	oh T!ng, it was sweet!!  It really just flowed in from He's Gone
	so well which is hard to imagine but Bruce definitely jazzed up
	the jam in He's Gone.  I know it probably isn't realistic but I
	kinda think Nobody's Fault was an accident and they just played 
	it because it fit so well with where they happened to be at that
	time.  Last night was one of those shows that .... well just one
	of those shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	Jim Henderson and I were having such a wonderful time just smiling and
	laughing because we were so happy!!  It got so surreal that during
	space when we were trying to predict the rest of the set we decided
	they'd play "St. Stephen and a couple of Dark Stars, throw in a 
	Hard to Handle for good measure - maybe the encore"  :-)

I am still smiling - very LOUDLY!!  :-)

re:           <<< Note 23.249 by SKYLRK::TING "Give Peace a Chance!!!" >>>

> So how was Nobody's Fault but Mine??

Great but short.   A nice finish to He's Gone went into a slow steady blues 
jam, and after a bit Jerry steps up to the mic and starts up with NFBM.  Big
surprise!   From my perspective (behind the stage in the corner, actually
decent sound) it was cut WAY too short when Bob started Spoonful.  Same
melody, same everything basically in those 2 tunes except for the words.
I'd much rather have seen them continue NFBM and jam it out a bit...

re: friday nights show

I didn't go, but my brother got the extra pair for his first show ever, and
man was he *psyched* beyond belief afterwards.  Ecstatic + amazed! ;-)
It was all he could talk about when I saw him yesterday.  "I've never seen or
experienced anything like it", "I had no idea it would be like *that*..."
"People were so nice", "Listening to the music I'd sort of go off in a trance"
(ayup ;-) "Words can't describe...".   I think he got on the bus!!!!   
[tapes needed]

re: sunday's show

Sunday was my only show of the run and tour (unless Hannankid #2 is born
tonite and I can score tix ;-).   I must say I was VERY happy with a great 
1st set!  Shakedown was obvious from the tuneup, and it was great to hear that +
Takes A Lot to Laugh, Maggies Farm, BE Women, Let It Grow!  Wow!!!  For
the 2nd set, things looked good with a real cranking Sampson and IKO, which
scorched.  Reminded me of a GREAT show from MSG 9/16/90 with an identical
lineup for the 1st 4 tunes.  For me though things went downhill with 
LL Rain->He's Gone, something which I seem to get more than enough lately.  
[Solution: see more shows which I hope to do ;-)]   He's Gone was nicely
done though, and NFBM was a treat but too short.

I really enjoyed The Last Time (first time for me) and man, did they *crank*
out Sugar Mag!  I love it when it gets to that level.

Ken

had a fine time all three nights. Saw Jim and Lisa as Treemon and I searched for
some place we could see from. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who picked up
on Bruce playing a bit of Oh Danny Boy. I started signing it and got a few
strange looks. My only complaint was the ventilation, which has nothing to do
with the Dead. Now if only I can figure out that piano jam Bruce did with Mickey
and Bill Saturday night. My brother commented after Iko that he thought the 
balconies were going to drop.

the scene - pretty mellow after Friday. Did spot a couple of guys getting cuffed
by 2 undercover cops last night before the show. The undercover duo were 
poorly disguised (she had short blond hair with a wide woven headband, he had
a "don johnson" beard and a black backpack that said "save the chimps"). If
that's your scene, be wary of their presence.

sign me up for the tape tree, si vous plais


that's it for this run. Don't want to miss kinder #1 being born. Maybe I see Ken
at the delivery room tonight (some statistic about increased birth rate during 
full moons) tonight and we can skip off to the run looking for infant tiedyes!! 

jeff

    re Dave Levy
    
    	Yah,. it was Shenendoah (I long to hear you..)
    
    	Scratch rthat comment about "As Time Goes By".... It was
    Shenedoah I was thinking of and put in the wrong title.
    
    	That Shenendoah melody is one that my mind/fingers always
    wander tyo when I'm doing my version of SPACE,... It was a real
    trip to hear/see Jerry do the same thing,.. I could feel it before
    he played it, ... and as he played it I was thinking to myself "He
    can't be playing that,...can he?",. and then he did! 
    
    	I guess you had to be there (inside my head that is)
    
    							/Bill
    	PS The ants are good
    

So did anyone hear who *started* into Nobody's Fault but Mine??  My theory
is that it was Bruce ;-).  Was it??

Ok, who's running that tape tree ;-)

peace,
t!ng

>So did anyone hear who *started* into Nobody's Fault but Mine??  My theory
>is that it was Bruce ;-).  Was it??

    Jerry started it. Bruce was still playing Dixie Chicken.
    

    RE .253 & .255
    
    I'll be setting up a tape tree for the BG1 series ... GerG is providing
    the tapes.  Should be ready to roll in a few days.  I'll post a notice
    in the "Tape Trades" note sometime later this week ...
    
    								... Bob
    

>>    Jerry started it. Bruce was still playing Dixie Chicken.
    
and bob thought it was Spoonful until Jerry started to sing....

bob h that is....
:)

>>So did anyone hear who *started* into Nobody's Fault but Mine??  My theory
>>is that it was Bruce ;-).  Was it??
>
>    Jerry started it. Bruce was still playing Dixie Chicken.
    
	I agree.  From where we were sitting, corner backstage, we could
	see Jerry and the kbds clearly.   Bruce was playing Dixie Chicken
	licks here and there, while a bluesy beat developed/continued.
	
	During the bluesy jam Jerry steps slowly up to the mic and starts
	singing NFBM....

	Ken

digression alert.

hey bob hapgood, i could have sworn that i heard your named called on 101.1
last week, on friday, around 1 pm... they said that the following people had
something like 30 mins to call in;  Bob Hapgood from Milford.  don't remember
what the prize was... did you call in?  did you hear it?  is there another
bob happygood in milfid?

-----------

On sunday, I too was behind stage.  When jerry went in to NFBM, I couldn't
figure out what he was singing because the vocals were so mudddy.  i'll be
psyched to hear that one on tape....  at any rate, i was totally diggin' the
bluez jam that were on... i wish they stretched NFBM much, much longer...

      <<< Note 23.260 by BIODTL::FERGUSON "the rainbow is growing a beard" >>>
                             -< what did ya win Bob? >-
>hey bob hapgood, i could have sworn that i heard your named called on 101.1
>last week, on friday, around 1 pm... they said that the following people had
>something like 30 mins to call in;  Bob Hapgood from Milford.  don't remember
>what the prize was... did you call in?  did you hear it?  is there another
>bob happygood in milfid?

WOW JC, I didn't win anything!  Oh shit - at the riverfest I entered
some drawing in the rock 101 van ..  for a new car. no shit - 
so I don't listen to 101 (don't tell them) :)  They probably wanted me
to call back so I could enter a 2nd round like they sometimes do.

Was the prize a new car JC?  that would've been nice considering I'm 
looking at buying one now...

No other BOB hapgood's in Milford,  there's a David ... and there is
a Dr. Robert Hapgood at UNH...I get calls from his grad students every
now and again....	them:    well, how was my paper?  
			me:      I'm not the one you want to talk to.
	what I really wanna say: you call *that* a paper?

So JC,  remember that prize so I can say I almost won a car :)

bob

RE:      <<< Note 23.242 by NECSC::LEVY "In & out of the Garden they go!" >>>
                              -< Iko scared me! >-


>Saturday...what can I say?  9th row in front of Jerry and Bruce.  Drums/Space
>was the spookiest and scariest I've every heard.  Definitely heard a 
>"Shenandoah" in there.  Hornsby is superb.


 I *knew* I heard "Shenandoah" in there Saturday night..thanks Prob!




 Jim

RE:     <<< Note 23.251 by LEDS::MRNGDU::YETTO "child of countless dreams" >>>

    
   >	Jim Henderson and I were having such a wonderful time just smiling and
   >	laughing because we were so happy!!  It got so surreal that during
   >	space when we were trying to predict the rest of the set we decided
	
      
        A wonderful time indeed :^)   Space was a little hairy (all I could say
        was YIKES!!

        Stella Blue was beautiful.






 Jim

Unforetunately Bob, I don't recall the prize because I did not catch all of
it (I was in the middle of changing tapes).  I would have given you a ring,
but I was not heading to work w/in the time-frame that you had to call back.

Your name was listed with 3 or 4 others...

I freaked when I heard "Bob Hapgood from Milford"

JC

Jim and Lisa were together, and they were *happy*?

I guess ol' Beelzebub must be pulling on the woolen undies right about now ....

    re Beelzbub and his undies
    
    	:-)
    
    		very clever
    
    						/
    

Who's ol' Beelzebub??

    Re: Beelzebub
    
    Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, the Ultimate Bad Guy, Bad News, Hell's
    Angel, etc...
    
    also, in some circles, Tony Orlando, and whoever it was that did "Tie A
    Yellow Ribbon".  :-)
    
    As in 'When Hell freezes...'
    
    This is really my week for trivial pursuit! :-)
    
    tim
    

Well well well you can never tell!

But I told ya so!  I was using the / method of set prediction -
This method is:  "If you ain't gonna be there then list what you
would want to hear....they'll play it!"

:)

new speedway	(I wanted to hear this and haven't yet..)
*Dark star      (ditto - maybe I'll get another verse or jam in the next 2 
		 nights).

so / ole buddy!  your method works!
:) :) :)
and to think - as I sat in school in Lowell last that they were 
playing new speedway and as I was driving home listening to 'zlx
talk radio that they were playing dark star....

and MIKE!  I thought you were gonna tell em to hold off for me till
wednesday!  

:)
bob

          <<< Note 23.269 by LANDO::HAPGOOD "now we play for life" >>>

>and to think - as I sat in school in Lowell last that they were 
>playing new speedway and as I was driving home listening to 'zlx
>talk radio that they were playing dark star....

and to think - I had tickets and let em go so I wouldn't have to 
skip a class.....

whew!  I better quit thinkin'
bob

    
    
    
    
    I'm glad that I skipped class last night.  ;-)
    
    
    Steve-O

Boston Garden, Septemter 24, 1991

	We got into the Garden without much of a hassle at all.  The guy
frisking people at checkpoint #1 asked what was in one of my pockets.  After I
showed him the pens and paper I had there, he let me by.

	The show opened with a rather weak Let The Good Times Roll.  This
song just does not seem to get the show going like it used to back in the
Brent days.  The next 4 songs, Feel Like A Stranger, Althea, All Over Now, 
and High Time, just never seemed to materialize.  No musician seemed motivated
to lead the band.  It seems as if the boyz were just doing their job 
plodding through the songs.  BIODTL had more "umph" than anything up to this
point.  This song cooked right along, but, not as hot as times past.  BIODTL
lead into Big RxR Blues which cruised right along also.  For me, I think
this song was the high light of the first set.  There were some nice jams by
Jerry and Bruce.  To quiet things down a bit, Bob chose to play Desolation
Row.  Not knowing this song by heart, I'm not sure if he forgot or messed
up the words.  They just plodded through Desolation Row, waiting for it to
be over.  The set closed with New Speedway Boogie;  Jerry made a good effort
to end set I on a good note -- something, I feel, did not happen.  Crowd
participation during this song was high, as expected.

	Second set opened up with an OK China->Rider.  The band was still
not completely together, which doesn't really matter for this pair of tunes
because of the way China->Rider just tends to cook by itself.  Jerry belted
out a nice jam in during the transition between songs.  Woman Are Smarter
really had some decent momentium and had the crowd in a frenzy.  There were
times when the crowd noise over-powered the music.  Things mellowed out with
an OK Ship Of Fools -- again, I think the band just sort of plodded through
the song.  After a bit of fooling around, Dark Star was next.  I thought
the Dark Star should have been saved for a night when the boyz were on.  I
thought it was a rather un-inspired rendition;  only 1 verse was sung, I
expect them to finish it on Thursday.  

	Drumz/Space was decent!  This is when the show started getting better.
Drumz/Space was not too long, but long enough to entertain folks ... Mikey
really pounded on the big drumz in the back generating these huge bass 
sounds that shook the Gahdin.  Space was interesting; during space, A guy
came on stage and tuned/hooked up a different bass for Phil.  I thought we
might get The Wheel out of space early on, but I proved to be wrong.  Foolish
Heart came out of space.  Jerry DROVE this tune from start to finish.  It
seems that he was not happy with the earlier parts of the show and finally
decided to lead the band.  And, a fine job he did!  Foolish heart was played
with detail and much smoothness.  Jerry did not give the opportunity for
others in the band to even think about taking a solo.  Foolish Heart was
the high light for me and clearly showed that when the boyz get it together,
they can really put out some fine music.  Miracle followed.  Bob did a great 
job belting the song out.  The light show really complemented this song well 
and the crowd was quite excited.  Standing on the Moon was really beautiful.
Jerry delicately played some wonderful guitar with the appropriate intensity
at the optimum moment.  Again, with precision, Jerry led the band all the 
way through a very fine rendition.  The Boston crowd even gave Jerry a little 
more respect than usual by keeping somewhat quiet during this slow, delicate, 
song.  I can't decide if I liked this better or Foolish Heart; in either case, 
both songs were led with determination by Jerry.  The set closed with a 
hoping, bluesy version of Around and Around.  Bob was a bit more mellow than 
usual on the vocals (probably due to so many shows!) and Jerry delivered some 
great bluesy licks during the jam.  In away, Jerry drove this song similarly 
to Foolish Heart and Standing On The Moon.

	The encore was The Weight.  A nice way to end the show with Bruce,
Jerry, Phil and Bob each taking a verse and the last verse sung by all.

	All in all, the show never seemed to materialize until after drums.
The band just did not seem together or really into playing.  I'm not sure
what Jerry said during the drumz break, but whatever it was, it sure had a
large impact on the music.  After drumz was tight, energetic music in the
style mastered only by the Grateful Dead.

	JC

 Did anybody else feel the floor vibrating from Phil towards the end of 
Standing on the Moon?  Yowza!!






Jim

    wow...  i guess it just goes to show you how different people can have
    totally different shows...  if not for the setlist, i would swear that
    JC and i were at two different shows! :^) :^) :^)  personally, i liked
    mine better...  :^)
    
    my comments for this show could best be summed up in one word...
    
    				wow.....  :^)
    
    
    i liked the Good Times...  i thought vocally that they were on it and
    that it was a very happy tune...  (of course, i am the one who was
    really psyched in here to see it in set lists again so that shouldn't
    be a surprise)...  it's different now without Brent but that's because
    Brent was such a strong presence with his organ and voice that his
    impact couldn't be denied...  different yes, but no worse off now that
    we have new faces there...  it ended kind of funny i thought-kind of
    off key or something (it seemed like Jerry thought so too-i thought he
    was laughing)...  Feels Like a Stranger was one i had been expecting
    since Friday...  i figured it has been so long since they were at the 
    Garden that we would definitley get that one...  for me, it was worth
    waiting for..  Althea seemed really sweet to me...  it's one of those
    song i don't tire of easily...  All Over Now didn't seem as tight as
    the preceding ones but it was fun, and again, i thought Jerry looked
    llike he was enjoying this one...  High Time was also really sweet... 
    not the best i'd heard but very nice...  biodtl and rrbloooz smoked!
    biodtl just started suddenly and it was like Jackie Gleason had done
    his trademark "and awaaaaay we go!" cuz we were off in a big way...
    Desolation Row was long and pretty...  i kept thinking that the tapers
    must have been going nuts with it due to its length...  anyone get
    caught by the flip?  (i think this is my fav Dylan tune that they
    do)...  nooo speedway boogie was fun!  the ending got a little screwey
    and once more i thought i could hear Jerry laughing a little while
    singing...  a long, and imho, monster first set....
    
    i was very psyched to hear the opening strains of China->rider... 
    kudo's to the boys on the bridge fron one to the next...  very nicely
    done i thought...  Women Smarter was a definite crowd pleaser...
    Ship of Fools i thought was beautiful and loved every second...
    then Dark Star!!!!!  my first one and i was thrilled!!!  did anyone
    see me floating gently above the crowd on this one?  for all i know i
    may have sailed right out of the arena for a few moments!!  it would
    take me a week to describe the places i visited...  :^)  :^)  :^)
    Drumz was nice but ended abruptly...  Mickey lost his stix and that
    pretty much brought it to a halt...  no drums->space last night.,... 
    drums ended and then silence and then space...  i decided that dancing
    would be easier if i re-entered my body for foolish heart so i did! :^)
    i been feeling the need for miracles lately-both making them and taking
    advantage of them, and i got it!  :^)  Standing on the Moon got me that
    warm-all-over feeling again and then a round and round closed things
    out...  (not one of my favs...  i get that one a lot and it doesn't
    impress a lot anymore)...   the weight was a wondderful close to a
    grate show for this boy...
    
    bottom line???  i think this is the show i have been looking for this
    trip!!!!  i'm still high from it today in spite of my lack of sleep...
    first comment i got from my co-workers today? "you look like you had
    fun last night!" :^)  :^)  :^)  i was going to skip tonight and
    thursday...  after last night i think i am changing my planzzzzz...
    (i'll still miss thursday cuz i already gave my ticket away so someone
    else could go to at tleast one show this trip...  i thik i'll keep my
    tonight though! :^)
    
    				one happy da ve :^)  :^)  :^)

    Oh man... I was at YOUR show Dave and it was GREAT.
    mary

    Me too...  I had an excellent time! :-)))
    
    /bruce
    
    I woulda liked a faster biodtl, though...

    I had a grate time ... but I agree with JC's show review. I thought
    it was a well played concert, but it was fairly low energy.   IMO, the
    boyz are tired ... especially Jerry.  At times I thought he was just
    going thru the motions ... the notes were right, but the energy level
    just wasn't there.  There were some high points ... for me those were
    Desolation Row and Chinacat/Rider.
    
    ... Bob
    

    
    great grate grate ... so far I've loved it all.   Sunday nite ..
    Bobby's body and voice moved from center stage to center of the room ..
    pretty good trick!  It was during "LLR", did any one else see
    that???!??!!  
    Last night I heard Bruce play Sounds of Silence somewhere late in the
    second set - not sure where as I've lost my map of reality. Also heard
    Johnny B Goode around that same time.
    
    too much of anything is just enough
    
    carol

	the show -I- was at last night was just PURE BLISS...
	I felt it was heavenly and that I wanted to stay in
	that state forEVER...my soul feels full...aahhhhh...
	I needed that and it feels so good...

	I'll try to comment more later...words kind of escape
	me this morning...but one thing, last night we had
	excellent seats, we were right down there with them,
	we could see their faces and see their hands and I
	have to say they looked HAPPY, energetic and completely
	on the same plane as me!

	Debess

DA VE!!!!!!!!!!

>    fun last night!" :^)  :^)  :^)  i was going to skip tonight and
>    thursday...  after last night i think i am changing my planzzzzz...

don't do it buddy!  look what happened when I played hookie from the dead
to avoid playin' hookie from school...stewpid me.

:)
bob

           <<< Note 23.278 by CIVIC::ROBERTS "Solyent Green is People" >>>

>    Bobby's body and voice moved from center stage to center of the room ..
>    pretty good trick!  It was during "LLR", did any one else see
>    that???!??!!  


I'll bet /man saw it :)

hey now / I'll never forget the nose story!
:)
bob

I was at your show da ve!!  Not the high point of the run for me (Sunday is
definitely my tops) but a very fun show.  Where we were sitting we had
excellent view!!  We were in the first row of the balcony.  It was a little
frightening at times (like when you didn't have to dance but moved in beat with
the floor) but definitely a wonderful spot ... despite Jim's theory that short
people would be bounced right off.  :-)  Anyway the point of all this is to
mention what I could see on stage ... and that was the boys HAVING FUN!  Jerry
(in his sweats!!) was laughing at Bob at the beginning of BIODTL and then spent
the rest of the evening looking over at Bruce and smiling.  Damn, he loves
playing with Bruce!  Bruce will do something and Jerry will smile which fires
Bruce up and causes him to bolt out his music which in turn fires Jerry up and
very soon the whole band has the fever!  And I love how Bruce just sits back
and pounds on that piano, so relaxed looking!  He must have long arms!!!  :-) I
am definitely liking Bruce more and more this tour!!  Then Drums ... who else
saw Mickey dancing in the very beginning when Billy was playing solo?  He
wasn't just bouncing - he was DANCING (flailing arms and everything!)  :-) 
Then when he stopped he transferred that energy into his music.  ;^) 

They were having so much fun last night!!!  And watching it all, I could do 
nothing but have a blast myself!  

	I too like Bruce.  He fits in very well.  Sometimes, I get the feeling
that Vinny is somewhat neglected; perhaps he is still trying to cut a groove
for himself.  BUT, Bruce and Jerry -- they definitely get each other excited.
Jerry will jam, then Bruce hams it up, and then Jerry has to jam again! 
During Des. Row, I think bruce was playing the accordian; he did a jam on the
accordian, then, moved to his piano and did a jam there!!!  He is a very
good musician...

	It is interesting to different viewpoints, especially when the
experiences vary by a large margin, as in this case.  There are many variables
that make or break a show I guess -- sometimes it is the music, where you
are sitting, whether or not security is telling people to move the whole time,
you state of mind (a biggie), your expectations, etc... 

	I thought sunday was a great show -- even though I was sitting behind
stage where the sound was terrible (very muddy).  from what i could tell, the
show was really nice -- sure wish I would have had seats that were in front.
But, that is the way that show went... last night, I had very good seats.
Straight back, section 46, row H.  No obstructions, and the sound was OK.
but, I did not think tuesday's show was as nice as sunday's show.  just goes
to show that some bad variables (behind stage, poor sound for sunday) don't
have an effect on a show's outcome....
	
	geez, psychologists must have a tough time figuring out what makes
this machine tick!!

	JC

    The best Dead show is always the one you're at!
    It certainly didn't seem like a "let's get this over with" show to me. 
    As the first show I've seen with Bruce and Vince, it's nice to see them
    both adding their own styles. Not the same as what Brent would have
    done, but change keeps the band young. I'd still like more Vince in the
    mix, both vocals and keyboards. Desolation Row was definitely his song
    though. Jerry's voice was in fine shape, and it was nice to see him not
    lighting up between songs. My appreciation for Bruce has really gone
    up, the grand piano is as nice as the Keith and Donna days without
    Donna (but Vince could probably hit her notes and actually be in the
    same key as the others).
    
    Lots of treats for me: New Speedway Boogie, China > Rider, DARK STAR!,
    Standing on the Moon, and a perfect ending with The Weight.
    
    I'm glad I don't see more shows, it makes me appreciate shows like this
    even more.
    
    Scott
    

I know what you mean JC - there is no right or worng when you are dealing with 
opinions and feelings anyway.  Lots of personal things can make a big influence
on your good time.  For example, despite the fact that I was sitting with Jim
had a good time both nights.  :-)  Go figure,............

;^)

RE:     <<< Note 23.285 by LEDS::MRNGDU::YETTO "child of countless dreams" >>>



>on your good time.  For example, despite the fact that I was sitting with Jim
>had a good time both nights.  :-)  Go figure,............


 What better company could there be?




 Jim

    I enjoyed last night but I can agree that I thought the energy level
    was low but the actual music was beautiful.  I was all the way back
    on the balcony (along the hallway) the sound was loud and the visuals
    were great, I could see so well considering I was far from my assigned
    seat.  Of all the four shows so far, SUNDAY was the most energetic,
    incredible performance I have seen the band belt in this past year.
    The bluesy stuff, the country stuff, the Bobby stuff, It just really
    torched.  That was the second time I've seen Last Time and that version
    was so bluegrassy, I loved it, I have to agree waith Lisa there.  
    I enjoyed Standing on The Moon so much.  There wasn't a dry eye around
    me, is that song sorta sad or is it just my imagination?
    
    If anyones seat is so incredibly sucky they can't stand it, just head up
    to the rear of the balcony, no one is going to kick you out of the
    isle and the dancing up there is usually very energetic, the view
    and the sound is superb.  
    
    
                                                Deane
    
    						

    Short and brief.....BOY LAST NIGHT WAS FUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...
    gotta agree with Lisa (hope I was not rude last night) and da ve
    Jerry was smiling and havin a good old time and yes he did drive
    them at times but it did create the right affect which I think 
    he was looking for for those two tunes.....I can't wait for tooonite
    I normally am a shuffler and not a big dancer ...last night I was 
    bouncin and groovin and was all over the place..along with everyone 
    else near me...I did not see the floor move but watched the balcony
    jump a few inches (nice).......
    
    see yall 
    
    rich (who has been in meetings since 8:30)

	the last time I saw the Dead before last night was Foxboro
	July 90.  I haven't seen them in person since Brent died
	and Vince and Bruce joined the band.  Last night was my own
	personal mourning again with the band there to help me AND
	it was my own personal welcome to the new band...and, it's
	been a very rough year for me with the war still hanging 
	heavy on my heart so I felt a deep need for some illumination.

	and I got it!  I got it all!  All the emotions and more.
	I could feel the music and see the band and hear the sounds
	that speak to me so well...and taste the sweat on my lips
	from dancing in that sweat pit!  It was all very cleansing
	on every level.

	The banners hanging in back of the band were beautiful and subtle.
	Clouds which took on different moods depending on the lighting.
	The lighting was phenomenal.  Just excellent.  I wish I could
	remember today some of the combinations and which songs they
	went with.  Early on they were using pink and yellow and it
	gave this very surreal effect to me of being in a comic book!
	The sound was excellent from where I was sitting...crisp, clear,
	sometimes I would just face the speakers to let the sound enter
	my body more fully...

	The last thing I wrote here yesterday before leaving for
	Boston was "Let the Good Times ROLL!!!!"...I told the folks
	around me that I felt that would open the show.  A cosmic beginning!
	"...if it takes all night long"

	With "Feels Like a Stranger", I too felt that it was about being
	back in Boston...it seemed like another welcoming song to me for
	the evening ahead..."long, long, crazy, crazy night"

	"Althea" was the first of Jerry's VERY soulful renditions of the
	evening...the mood put me in mind of Brent, not the words so much
	but the mood...my own little personal mourning you see...

	I got my Bobby fix from "All Over Now".  Bruce was just banging
	away on this one.

	THEN, it started sooooo sloowwwly...what are they playing?
	"You told me goodbye..." "High Time"!  Phew.  That tugged a few
	of my heartstrings...no that's not accurate...it was a religious
	experience!

	Then, BOOM, RIGHT into "Beat it on Down the Line"...no introductory
	beats, just RIGHT into it.  Talk about jostling you out of a mood!
	They just carried me right along with them...from slow down 
	introspective to rock out shake your bones...this place I was in
	last night was indeed my happy home...

	"Big Railroad Blues" was FUN!  

	"..the circus is in town..." "Desolation Row" is such a great
	song with so much imagery...I love it.  Last night I was more
	caught up in the sound than the words.  I had trouble focussing
	on the words...it seemed to me that Bobby's voice was all
	distorted (was it just me ;-} )...it was very spacy...Bruce
	brought out his accordian here and it just swirled and lifted
	me...Vince was also playing swirls on the organ, kindof carnival-like.

	"New Speedway Boogie"!  Fun!  Great!  Dance and sing!


	"Chinacat Sunflower  ->  I Know You Rider" set my expectations
	up high for another intense set.  Ever since Europe '72, this
	has been one of my favorite combos.  From space subtlely switching
	to what? rock? gospel?!? ;-)

	Then for that "southern hemisphere" beat we were treated to
	"Woman are Smarter"...that's right...sometimes it would seem to
	me like the chairs would disappear and the floor would turn into
	one huge dance floor...this was one of those times...

	"Ship Of Fools" really answered my "What the f*ck are we doing,
	People of the World" questions...it just all made perfect sense 
	to me right then...let's stop fighting, let's stop polluting, let's
	start loving one another...yep, it all made perfect sense to me...
	I felt it...I felt that everyone around me felt it...I felt the
	whole Garden felt it...I felt all of Boston felt it...!

	"Dark Star"...this is my aaahhhhhhh I've been feeling ever since.
	I actually thought that there would be no way to put into words
	what happened last night...but here I am doing it.  This felt
	very very good inside...

	Drums was funny, yes, funny!   Mickey was dancing to Bill's
	frenzied beats and then they started banging away on their
	hanging set.  At one point, Mickey turned to the crowd with
	his "banger" raised in the air with a look on his face of
	"okay, I'm waiting for you out there to let me know when to
	hit the drum" and we sent the message to him and he smiled,
	turned around, BAANNNG, and we were making the music too!
	I thought he threw the stick up in the air at the end and then
	danced off the stage...

	Space was truly intense and wonderful for me.  Most folks on
	the floor sat at this point.  I couldn't.  I was, through some
	force, MADE to keep standing.  This was great.  I was so close
	to the stage and this was the only point where there was no
	one standing between me and the band.  The feeling I had
	as I took a quick look around was...remember in "Close Encounters"
	where a select few people are DRAWN to the site?...I felt like
	one of the select few being DRAWN in...could they see me?  I don't
	know.  I felt like we were looking into eachother...

	"Foolish Heart" brought me back to earth with some good ol'
	Grateful Dead music...dance, dance, dance....release that energy...	
	again.

	"I Need a Miracle" was GREAT...usually it's not a song I'm
	especially fond of, but last night, well, the energy was intense.
	I think they stopped singing in the choruses to let the crowd
	sing instead.  And WE DID!

	Oh, "Standing on the Moon" was soooooooooooo beautiful.  We
	hugged and swayed and kissed and cried...

	"Round and Round" ended the set with some good rock'n'roll.
	We had a good view of Bruce...I think this is really his element...
	But the whole band was all smiles on this one...they left the
	stage kind of reluctantly it looked like to me ("should we stay
	or should we go!"), smiling and bopping as they went...

	waiting for the encore, I couldn't imagine what way they would
	end that beautiful intense evening.  "The Weight"...perfect.
	The crowd sang the chorus in parts and I think they could hear
	that.  They stood there and sang their hearts out to us.  It
	felt so good.

	I couldn't sit down on the subway back and I couldn't stop
	smiling for hours (my cheeks hurt!)

	Debess

    Wellllllll
    
    	My show was cloiser to JC's version. It seemed to me that
    Jerr was sleep walking through the first set. Check your tapes,
    he didn't take any extended solo in any of the first set tunes.
    He blew 1/2 a verse and the complete bridge to Althea (you all
    remember teh bridge part right?: There are things you can replace...
    this space is getting hot) That is the climax of that song and he 
    didn't even try to play it. It was also his first "soulful" song
    	as Debess said,.. but to me it didn't jive. It was also the point
    	in the show where Ifelt it was time for them to either start
    	jamming good,.. or else...???
    
    	Anyway,. after blowing that,.. Bob did some stuff,.. Jerry did some
    stuff,. but still didn't take any solos. I thought maybe they'd wake
    	up with BIODTL (yeah,.,.. absoluitely zero pre-beats,... is that
    	a first?) and it did show signs of flashing,,.. if not quite
    	"on fire yet,.. and my hopes were rising,. and when Jerry didn't
    	hetate to start was it Big RxR,.. I can't remember now,.. it was
    anoter rocker whatever it was ,.. and I thought to myself "Aaah here we
    go,.. Bobby showed him the light and now Jerry knows that some nice
    easy Rock and Roll will get the flames going,.. but still ,.. again
    	showing onily flashes,. bigger flashes,.. but still not catching
    	fire,.... Rest of set went by without anything that blew me away.
    	It was nice to hear New Speedway Boogie,.,,,
    
    	Second set,.. China Rider,. what an improvement over the first
    	set. Finally they seemed to be playing! rather than sleep walking.
    	Good sold rendition,.. I agree with JC,.. not the hottest,.. but
    given the first set I was very pleased and started getting hopeful
    	for a much better second set. Then IKO,..oops,.. make that Women
    	are smarter (same tune,. different words :-) This was the first solo
    	Jer really bit into,.. and the song didi cook. I was pleased.
    	Then what? ,,, well moving right along to Dark Star,.. I would have
    	expected thme to save that for a "hotter night",.. but what the
    	hey,.. my first Dahk Stah,.. and it wasn't bad. :-) Drums was
    	cool,.. yes Mickety was dancing ,... looked like a little kid who
    	just got his favoriute toy for Christmas. While the thought is in
    	my head I just gotta say that Mickey is the "steadiest" of the boyz
    IMHO. He always seems to do a decent show,,.. regardless of what else
    	happens around him. The fourth quarter was better too,.. Foolish
    Heart had some nice moments. Standing on the Moon is not a personal
    	favorite,.. but one of the best moments was the ending of that
    tune. What next I forget... anyway,.. Round -n- Round "didn't,.. 
    and "the Weight" did :-)
    
    	All in all,,,. I give it a 4.
    
    							/
    
    	Jerry really bit into,.. and it 

re .289

Debess,

Thanks for the soulful sharing.  I was an avid fan of the dead twenty years
ago, and your words made me remember every show -- and why this band has 
its unique bond with its fans -- even though I haven't seen them since '76.

My 17-year old is going to her first show on Thursday.  She's worn a deeper 
groove in all my old LPs, and she'll soon know what the band is really all
about.  

I always thought it would be impossible to convey the experience to her, 
but your words do it justice.  I'll print her a copy, and maybe one for 
myself too.  My cheeks remember...
					--djc-- 

RE:     <<< Note 23.290 by STAR::SALKEWICZ "It missed... therefore, I am " >>>
               -< Take two grains of salt, then read this reply >-

   >    He blew 1/2 a verse and the complete bridge to Althea (you all
   > remember teh bridge part right?: There are things you can replace...
   > this space is getting hot) That is the climax of that song and he 
   > didn't even try to play it. It was also his first "soulful" song
    


     I thought this part of Althea was missing, but I thought maybe I just
     spaced it out while wondering about the wobbling thing we were standing
     on..



     I thought I missed the "circus is in town" line in Desolation Row too..




Jim

	Here are some breif comments from the deep recesses of my own mind's 
experience of last nights show, sorry if they can't elicit as much feeling as 
Debess's comments.  :-)  (btb, Hiya Dave Crowley!)...

	Yes, general levels of energy were low, and if thats what you go to the
shop looking for, you were likely to be disappointed last night. However, I
felt that there was a general "tightness" to the band in the first set. Not a
high quality of performance-type tightness, but more of a "paying attention"
-type tightness. This is in comparaison to shows I've seen over the last year
or two, however, and since last night was my first dead show since spring, its
hard for me to tell if the "band cohesion" I sensed was a show-specific
phenomenon, or that the band just seems to be working better together in
general-like. Specifics: LTGTR always get me psyched, I think its a superb set
opener. Stranger really propelled me, and the balcony where I sat rocked more
strongly for this tune than any other song played last night. Althea was a
little weak, but Jer's voice was very strong. The rest of the set had a solid
performance consistence to it, a settled-into-playing kind of space where it
seemed as iff the boys could just keep playing and playing forever. Desolation
is a song which Bobby seems to want us to learn. He really seems to be
emphasizing the lyrical delivery like "I'm trying to get across a message to
all you people, so listen up, y'hear".  Last night got me curious about those
lyrics, maybe I should take a look... 	From my seats, I could clearly see
Healy's new toys. He's got a full blown 30 or 40 LED spectrum analyser which is
quite hypnotising to his left rear side. I noticed he has still got some
getting used to work to do, particularly in the vocal mix. 	

	Second set was less impressive than the first for me. I guess I was
getting tired and I noticed Rachel was getting a bit tired too, and that
affected me a bit. China was standard, rider was excellently delivered, with
agian, very strong lyrical delivery from Jerry. Bobby seemed to get caught up
in that as well. Or it might have been vice versa, I wasn't paying that close
attention to the stage. Woman smarter was a welcome dancing tune, but not
delivered with a lot of energy. Hornsby's accordianating just didn't jel like
it could have and has in the past. Ship of fools followed then a Dark Star
which to me, was predictable. The set lists have been showing an awful lot of
jamming and noodling-type stuff pre drums lately, thats all. It never ceases to
amaze me how Jerry so controlledly leads the whole band in and out of
constructive and destructive improvisation, which he did several times before
the drums segment. 

	Mickey did a grate job whaling on the Big Drums last night, I always
love when you can catch the lights making patterns off those big drums; truly a
psychadelic experience. Space was very mellow and sweet, one of the most
melodically pleasing space explorations I've heard; just plain relaxing with an
occaasional Beethoven noodle and the ever-so-slightest suggestion of Uncle
John's. Foolish was surprise for me and miracle was dissappointment, only
because miricle is so damned over played. The embellished flourish at the end
of Standing on the Moon was a nice treat which said to me "Jer really likes
this ballad" and reminded me of the kind of extended endings sometimes given to
a Terrapin, I don't why, it was very different than that. Round & Round was
also a surprise, I figured the boys had payed enough, but again, it just never
got me to "rise outta me seat", too bad, such a high-energy type tune wasted on
the kind of more "methodical" performance that was played last nite. A Promised 
Land, or even (dare I say it) a U.S. Blues would have been more appropriate.

See Y'all tonight!!!

    Well whatever else happened,... this show has gottne the most
    reviews. I know she wasn't there,.. but maybe we should ask Ting what
    she thought of this show to get the official score!!!! :-)
    
    	Seriously though folks,.. lets get psychde!!!!!!
    
    	The boiyzezezezsss takesseses the statttatsgeggegsge again
    	in like 4 hours :-) ;-) :-) :-)
    
    				/
    

    	>The boiyzezezezsss takesseses the statttatsgeggegsge again
    	>in like 4 hours :-) ;-) :-) :-)
    
8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^)

I wrote a review but temporalily lost it (my brain is still in the Gahden) but 
personally I'm on the WOW!!!! side of the fence.  Definately my favorite show 
of the first four, whether it was the best played or not!  8^) 8^)

Scott

PS - Only took me 6 tries for a Dark Star (hopefully we'll get the rest of it 
on Thursday)!!

>    I know she wasn't there,.. but maybe we should ask Ting what
>    she thought of this show to get the official score!!!! :-)

	I saw T!ng there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	And I've never met her so how did I know it was her ;-)

	Debess

>	I saw T!ng there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>	And I've never met her so how did I know it was her ;-)

I *was* there in spirit 8-)!!  Also don't forget the other possibilities:
1) All chinese people look alike ;-) or 2) it was my evil twin sister
playing twicks on all my deadhead fwiends ;-) or 3) Debess, come down!!
Come down from wherever you are!  Hello??  Debess?? ;-)

peace,
t!ng

p.s.  Have a good time, y'all, and please do some dancing for me too 8-).

..don't remember too much at this g*d-awful hour. "that would be something" is 
the blues standard that Paul McCartney once covered. Jerry only sang about 
half a verse of it.  The jam into it was the same "mystery jam" that was played
last spring as a jam after Terrapin, only with frequent suggestions of GDTRFB 
throughout. 
	Funny thing was, I was thinking about that Albany Jam as the boys came 
out terrapin just before drums. Guess I willed that little new song intro! :-)

See ya tonight if I can survive this all day meeting from hell...

well i guess if paul could do it, so could jerry !

baby im amazed,
lew

I knew I heard GDTRFB in there somewhere last night...big conversation on the
Orange line last night was that McCartney tune (and the door from hell that
wouldn't close) and what was the name of it..the verse was so short that Jerry
did I forgot what he sang :^/




Jim

>(and the door from hell that
>wouldn't close) 

Jim, I was on that T too, along with tms...did you hear us laughing
hysterically!?!  That ride was TOO MUCH!

Debess

	last night was not quite the spiritual experience that
	I had on Tuesday ;-)... but, nonetheless, I have to say
	that I have this happy happy feeling to be so lucky to
	be someone to whom Grateful Dead's music speaks to
	my soul... I just LOVE that feeling of being there in
	that huge room with them pouring out their souls to us
	and having it flow right into mine...

	last night was very, very different from the night before...
	lots of experimentation...weird wonderful stuff...

	my favorite part of the show was the opening of the second
	set...VICTIM OR THE CRIME!!!!!!!!!!!...it was intense it
	was dark it was out there...and the light show...beautiful!

	Debess

RE:   <<< Note 23.301 by MANANA::GRABAZS "she had ribbons,ribbons,ribbons..." >>>
                      -< get your hair out of the door! >-


>Jim, I was on that T too, along with tms...did you hear us laughing
>hysterically!?!  That ride was TOO MUCH!


 Didn't hear ya laughing, but I bumped into tms and exit 10 who indicated it
was a fun ride for y'all :^)  Sounds like youse had fun up in sec 99!  





Jim

    last night's show was incredible. The best show I've seen in a 
    long time. seamless transitions and great jams. Lots of energy.
    TS/NFA was hot. Crazy Fingers was pretty and twisted all over the
    place. Terrapin was hot. Great after a pointless 8- hour offsite.
    
    - Dave

One thing I noticed missing from the setlist in the setlist note --
Set II didn't *start* with "Victim or the Crime" -- it really started
with Bruce playing around with the love theme from West Side Story
("Maria"?).  Bruce played with it for a while ("Oh Maria, Maria...")
and then the whole band picked it up and jammed it into "Victim".

Twisted! ;-)

tms

Well, so far these shows have just been getting better and better!!! And longer 
and longer too!!!  I never would have guessed the opener, it was such a nice 
surpise!  It seemed to me that they blew through Help->Slip quickly to get 
into Franklin's (to make up for not playing it on Friday) and Jerry was 
bouncing all over the place!  It cooked!  I'm short of time (and brainpower ;^) 
right now so quickly let me say the first set was very hot.   Every song was 
played with energy and emotion and had a jam thrown in somewhere!  Definately 
my favorite set of the run (geeeez, I've been saying that after every set 8^)!

VoC to open the second was very dark and moody, which helped to get the meaning 
of this song across.  The lights this tour and fantastic and really lend a lot 
to the overall "experience"  of each song.  The rest of the second set before 
space was somewhat on the mellow side (that is NOT a negative comment!!!!) even 
with Playin' in there and somewhat long with lots of experimentation.  Then the 
jam coming out of space had lots of hints of GDTRFB (like already pointed out)
but Jerry stepped up and started singing a song I never heard (found out this 
morning it was a Paul McCartney song).  He only sang about 1 verse of it 
before the jam continued into the Playin' reprise.  China Doll was sweet.  The 
Tossin' Rocks>NFA at the end was probobly the  most smokin' music of the run 
so far!!!  The Gahden balcony realy got bouncing on that one, and the "U know 
our love will not fade away" chant kept going until the first notes of Quinn, 
which was a jumpin encore and seemed to fit well with the mood created from NFA.

A grate show, maybe the best of the run so far for me!

Side note - at intermission just walking around in the hall outside the seating 
area I ran into and shook hands with none other than Bill Weld, Govnah of Mass!!
He (and his 2 bodyguards) looked pretty funny in his suit amoung all the 
tie-dyed heads!!!  As people recognized him they yelled "hey bill, what's 
up?!?!" and he'd smile, wave, and yell back "How are ya?!?"  8^)

5 down, 1 to go!!!
Scott

9-25-91, Boston Garden

	Wednesdays show showed marked improvements over Tuesday's show.  I do
not have the set list in front of me, so I'll comment on what I remember.

	I was surprized by the h-s-f opener.  I was sure that they'd choose
something different as they have already done the help->slipknot segue.  When
they we tuning, it became quite obvious that h-s-f was going to be it.  I
was figuring on a Jack Straw -> Bertha;  maybe tonight. At any rate, the band
seemed to be together again vs. the disjointedness displayed during Tuesday.
The energy was there and the will to crank out some fine music loomed near.
I don't think Wednesday was quite a fine as Sunday, but, it did come quite
close.  I was surprize by Roses->Dire Wolf - 2 Jerry songs in a row!  That was
my first time hearing Dire Wolf live and I enjoyed it thoroughly, although
I could have done w/o the crowd participation which often sang the incorrent
words.  Queen Jane really cooked!  I'm not really one for this song, but
this version provided otherwise.  The band was together making music here!
Music Never Stopped *REALLY* cooked, as if the music was not going to stop!
Lots of energy, etc... 

	VoC was expected.  I sort of loathe this song, but, as Scott W said,
it was done better than other times I remember.  Crazy Fingers was OK; lots
of crowd noise prevented me from hearing it enough to enjoy it.  PLAYIN moved.
The jam was nice, although it did not really go too far.  Phil was really
cranking BIG TIME on his bass -- he was being quite a bit more experimental
than the others.... and Mickey!!! WOW!!! He was pounding those drumz with
a vengence!!!  Terrapin was delivered with decent energy, again, the
fine, loud east coasters showed the boyz who is louder....  after terrapin,
back into a jam.  I thought they would polish off playin' but no go.  Phil
again was jammin' like the dickens!!! he was all over that bass like "ugly
on an ape"  Jerry walked off first ... then bob.  Phil and Bruce continued
to crank a bit longer; finally, phil left and bruce finished up shortly.

	Drumz was longer than previous nights.  Space was ok;  coming out
of space, jerry was giving hints of the "heaven help jam" (aka mystery jam
from albany) as well as GDTRFB... i wasn't sure what they were going to do!
The McCartney tune was new, refreshing... but too short... the TS->Nfa was
no better than average.

	Quinn was fun; the crowd got excited when the song came to "When
Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna dose!" (or something
like this)...

	all in all, better than tuesday, not quite as nice as sunday.

>PLAYIN moved.
>The jam was nice, although it did not really go too far.  Phil was really
>cranking BIG TIME on his bass -- he was being quite a bit more experimental
>than the others.... 

	last night my seat was almost on the floor, the promenade section,
	first row...I was actually right where it starts curving around
	in the back...anyways, I could lean my body out over the divider
	and feel the sounds from the speakers entering my body...
	Phil WAS intense...both in Victim and in Playing...the Playing
	jam got sooooooooo looooooowww...yes!

	Debess

    Aaaaaaaahhhh
    
    							/
    
    	:-)
    

>Side note - at intermission just walking around in the hall outside the seating 
>area I ran into and shook hands with none other than Bill Weld, Govnah of Mass!!
>He (and his 2 bodyguards) looked pretty funny in his suit amoung all the 
>tie-dyed heads!!!  As people recognized him they yelled "hey bill, what's 
>up?!?!" and he'd smile, wave, and yell back "How are ya?!?"  8^)

Really??  So is he a deadhead or is the election coming up ;-)??

peace,
t!ng

    
    
    Wasn't there a "Dear Prudence" tease before the McCartny (sp?) song?
    I SWEAR that I heard it...this is not my brain on drugs  %-)
    
    Steve-O
    

RE: T!ng

I wondered the same thing, but other people spotted him earlier in the run and 
when I saw him it looked like he was trying to where he was going, not stopping 
and chatting like he was gathering votes.  I think he's a head!!!!  8^)

RE: Dead Prudence

A couple other people were talking about that last night in a bar after the 
show, they heard it and thought it was coming.  I didn't pick it out though...

Scott

There definitely was a Dear Prudence tease ... I think I heard both Jerry and
Bruce playing parts of it.  I was surprised when they went into That Would Be
Something instead.  

Maybe they'll play "She Loves You" tonight :^)








Jim

    I loved last night... Terrapin was GREAT!  ... and I've been waiting
    for it for so long. :-)
    
    Our seats were next to the taper section and ... although I love tapers
    (doesn't everybody?)... I hate sitting there... it's so crowded and I
    have to control my natural exhuberance beyond my capabilities :-)...
    so we moved up to the highest balcony behind the stage and let
    clautrophobia ebb away.
    
    What a great show it was... can't wait for tonight.  
    
    Mary

    Jim,
         I was on the orange line too trying to figure out that song,
         
    
    					Deane

    
    
    re: taper section
    
    
    My seats for tonight are directly behind the tapers, first row of the
    section (25). I know the sound will be great there, but all we'll see
    are mic stands. How is the sound from the balcony? I was thinking of
    going up there for viewing purposes, but if the sound vacuums, I don't
    want to waste time...
    
    
    Any suggestions?
    
    Steve-O_who_just_can't_stop_smiling_from_last_night :-)

re:                <<< Note 23.318 by CSLALL::SMARTIN "Dead Sox" >>>

Balcony side stage had grate sound and the view was perfect.  There are
speakers facing the side that are at the height of the balcony.  We'll be there
again tonight.

		Dave

    the "dear prudence tease" that people picked up on is that "mystery
    jam" or "heaven help" jam from albany...  they sound a lot alike...
    
    no lenghty review for this kid today...  ust some tired smiles...
    another real fine show...  just to be contrary though, i still liked
    Tuesdays better! :^)  i will admit that from a technical standpoint,
    the performances were probably a little better executed... 
    
    series 1...  my favorite was saturday, then sunday (i thought sunday
    performance was better than sat but i had a better show saturday) and
    friday was the third...
    
    series 2...  i loved tuesday...  last night was probably better
    executed...  i'll miss tonight...  :^(   :^(   :^(
    
    					da ve_the_tired_but_happy_camper
    
    							:^)

	So, here I sit in my living room after seeing 4 shows in 5 daze.
I had a really good time and I could not help but wonder what all the folks
that helped make the scene work will do tomorrow night?  I wonder if they'll
miss channelling us into the Garden, searching us for cans & bottles, makin'
sure we're staying out of the isles, and channelling back to the outside?
I wonder if they were getting used to the daily show process?  I wonder if
we were really a pain in the butt?

	I had to laugh at the announcer_dude, you know, the one you hear at
the first checkpoint.  He said something like, "Ok folks, this is the sixth
night we've been doing this and some folks are still having troubles with
the rules.  I know the rules are difficult to remember so we're going to
take it from the top again.  No cans No Bottles!!  No food stuffs.  No liquid
containers of any sort."  Have to hand it to the Garden for having a 'live'
person vs. a monotone, repetitious recording.  That announcer_dude made me
laugh... :-)

	Once you were in the Garden, it was time to find the seats.  I
usually walked around a bit mumbling something about cans and bottles and
eventually made it to my location.  All during this time, I wondered what sort
of obstruction I'd have tonight.  Was it a rafter?  Was it the balcony above
me?  Or, will I have the unobstructed view?  Yah, yah, I thought.... then I
wondered how the sound was going to taste... all these things darting in and
out of my mind as I slowly made way to my location...

	Then the lights went down.  Showtime.  The place filled with excitement
and smoke as folks got ready for another delight.  The music controlled the
energy.  The energy was created by the music.  The music was created by the
boyz.  Too much fun to have at one time.  So different than other music.

	After the last song, it was time to journey home to grab some rest
for the next night.  Channelling out of the Garden ranks pretty high in the
fun department.  All those corners, stairs, heavy merges, barnyard noises, 
etc. made for an interesting experience.  Causeway St. would be packed with 
dazed folks relaxing after yet another show...
	
	That's it for the Other One, until next year(?) ...

Not being skilled and translating cerebral musings into the written word,
I'll simply say what I said with quite some volume, several times, in
the ears of everyone within 18 BostonGardenSections of me ....


WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There.  That's my review.  Oh yeah ... that had to have been one of the
best Attics I've heard in a long time. 

Now I'm off to print out directions to OGO for an all-day meeting 
that starts in seven hours.  No problem.

Many thanks to all my good friends ... these shows have really been
special for me.  8^) 8^) 8^)

- talk to ya Monday
  DCzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...

Geez JC, you beat me to it!!

GET TO SLEEP!

;^)

- happyDave

....mmmmmmmmmmm.......that looked very VERY tasty..............
......wish I had been there :-{.....happy for you that were :-)!!!!

Debess

	Brokedown Palace!  HA!  I get it!

Well, I'll try to get reviews for the two last night's shows written up, but, 
like when I was writing my review for tuesday night, I keep getting interrupted 
by work. here are some snippetts...

   o	Being reminded at 4:30 on Wednesday that I had an all-day staff meeting
	at the headmasters house that started "promptly at eight". Getting 
	there on time, calling in to check my voice-mail to find out that the
	systems assembly line in Albequerque had been stopped and I was
	the only one on the planet who could get it started again (kinda
	reminded me of the movie: The Jetsons). I don't think I've ever been
	so stressed in my life. By 4:00, I was so upset I considered blowing
	off last nites show. Man was I exhausted!

   o	Thinking to myself during setbreak last night that I'm getting way too
	old for werk->werk->dedsho->werk->deadsho->werk->dedsho->werk and than
	chiding myself for feeling that way after such a wonderful set as that
	last set of the run last night. My God, I haven't been as relaxed as I
	was after this run in a long time! If there ever was a time when I 
	rilly needed a deadsho, last nite was it. Boy, am I a lucky guy.  :-)

    
    
    I can't remember who said it, but someone in here said that since the
    Dead only sang one verse of Dark Star on Tues. that they would finish
    it on Thursday, and you were right!!!!!!!  Good prediction!
    
    Kim :-)

re                       <<< Note 23.327 by VIA::MORAROS >>>
                            -< Dark Star again... >-
    
>    I can't remember who said it, but someone in here said that since the
>    Dead only sang one verse of Dark Star on Tues. that they would finish
>    it on Thursday, and you were right!!!!!!!  Good prediction!
    

I maintain that they did not finished Tuesday's Dark Star yet.  Probably
never will.  Thursday's Dark Star started fresh, w/ the first verse.  After
drums, they finished it w/ the second verse.  On Tuesday, they only did the
first verse -- never finished it... i was surprized to hear the 'full'
dark star... ... as well as Eyes, which is always nice!

i was hoping for a scarlet.... maybe next time!

    Geez, I got goosebumps just reading last night's set list (well, except
    for Picasso Moon). So somewhere out in the cosmos there's an unfinished
    Dark Star hanging around? What will this do to the cosmic continutiy?
    Is there an interruption in my reality? Has success spoiled Rick
    Springfield? (to paraphrase DC)
    
    Scott_awaiting_tapes_of_series_II
    

    >> somewhere out there in the cosmos there's an unfinished Dark Star
    
    Actually more than one I think ... did they ever finish the Dark Star
    they started at RFK Stadium this past June ???  I don't think so ...
    
    ... Bob
    

	WOW!

	Last night was intense.

	Last night of teh stand,.. last night of the tour,.. the boys
	was saying "goodbye" for a while,.. but not without a party
	first!!! :-) :-)

	It seems that everyone else is too tired to enter their review.
	Hell,.. after the last two nights,. I'm like reborn here,.. ready
	to hum through this workday,...

	Anyway, about Tuesday nite,.. two many dave/da ve's have pointed out
	to me that I can't expect them to play their axes like madmen every
	nite,.. and they're right. So, in fairness, and to complete my 
	otherwise uncomplimentary review of Tuesday, I must say that
	the vocals were on Tuesday,., and there was some very sweet singin'	
	goin' on,.. and if thats your thing,. you were liable to have a great
	show kind of like a semi-well know vocalist dude :-) :-)

	Short review of Wed follows:

	:-)

	Now on to Thursday. 

	Woah! Ok,. so JC gets his Jack Straw to open,.. and from the first
	solo I ***KNEW*** this was going to be an excellent nite. I was already
	well out of my chair and vibrating sporatically for this opener.
	And the jammed on it good,.. Jerry built it up and then the band
	b-b-b-b-anged it ou "Jack Straw from Wichitaw (Sp?)..." the
	sound was "right" and this line about blew me back into the
	next row. Jerry does Cold Rain with a lot of dropping of bombs
	here and there to get the boyz "back in line" for a verse.
	Bobby's harmonies were very nice here too :-). Wang Dang,..
	No sh*t Bobby,.. By this time,.. things were sufficiently
	warmed up to start testing the bounds... and like a warning
	almost,. Bobby was yelling at us telling us to get ready for a long
	nite of high energy partying,.. well,.. I was ready :-) During
	Wang Dang I loved the way Jerry was sort of sneaking around with his
	guitar,.. poking his nose into the jam here and then jumping
	over there,.. and then moving again over there :-) :-) It was like
	he was on a secret mission trying to see if he could play a
	whole bunch of interesting licks without being noticed too much.
	Like a theif in the night,. he was there,. and then gone,...
	Of course,.. lets play Candyman next "Here he comes and hes
	gone again" ,.. I know this is one of my favorites when done
	right,.. and last nights wasn't the best,.. but it was coooooool.
	Again the harmonies :-) Isn't it amazing da ve how much more I
	appreciate the singing when the other things (like the axe werk
	for example) also "happenin'"?... So after everybody stoppped looking
	out for the Candyman,.. Bob jumps into Mexicalli,..which jogged
	along nicely,.. but it seemed like they really wanted to play something
	else and just whipped this out because ??? :-?,.. then Cumberland,..
	and man,,...da ve ,. did you hear those harmonies? :-) :-)
	Anyway,.. Cumberland gave Jerry the platform he needed again
	since Jack Straw to wow the crowd with some geetar slingin'...
	and I think I was wowed preety good,... the lines "A lot of
	fellas making nothing at all,.. and you can hear him cry"
	were unexpectedly strongly belted out and sort of shook me
	over the top on that one. Again,.. had to depend on the folks
	in the next row back to hold me up :-) :-) 

	OK,.. so this fiorst set has already got us sweating pretty good and 
	everybody is smilin,.must be time to calm down,.. OK ,.. lets play
	everybody's favorite Picasso moon :-},.. but as they started the
	chorus after the first verse,.. I still hadn't recognized the tune.
	Did they play thi hdifferently than usual? I mean,.. I never really
	noticed this tune before as something I was diggin' on,.. but they
	cranked on this. Wasn't this supposed to be the calmer downer boys?
	Wow,.. that aint no way to be calmin down,.. they were into it and
	if they can play ity like that everytime,.. I'm into that tune!
	Phil,.. Box,.. words fail me. 'twas beateous... magnificerable

	BREAK!

	Thank the good Lord they took a break. It seemed like they didn't
	really need one as they walked off,.. butu I know I did. Time to
	wring out my clothes :-) :-)

	Second Set

	Is that Dark Star I hear??? Couldn't be..... Oh my God,.. IT IS
	DARK STAR!!!!! OPENING THE SET!!!!! YEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHEESSSS!!!!!

	How does one describe beauty? How does one relate to others the
	musings of ones own subcouscious that seem to bubble through
	the protective barriers installed by modern civilization as
	they experience the absolute virtuosity of the phenomonon known
	by the name "Grateful Dead". Swooning,.. Sliding,.. climbing,..
	falling,... flying up again,.. what a ride. First verse only,,.
	with plenty of ***relaxed*** playing,.. the kind that just makes
	you go "Aaaaaahhh :-)" Wandering aimlessly,.. the band takes
	a musical walk through several possibilities,.. no rush to play
	the next tune,... nobody (not even Hornsby :-) :-) trying to
	take the lead,.. just an egoless relaxed cooperative spacy
	kind of jelloey thing happening,.. that finally orbed its way
	over to St. of Circumstance. Well,.. I can say for sure that
	after 10 or 15 years of singin this tune,.,. Bob and Jerry still
	don't know whet they're goping for,... but THEY"RE GONNNA GO FOR IT


				FOR SURE!

	Good high energy delivery on this tune,.. sort of woke everybody up
	a bit, Great contrast with therest of the set. So now that the tempo
	is warmed up good,.. what ya gonna do next Jer?,.. Hmmmm,..NO,..
	Jerry don't do it,.. not Eyes,.. oh no,. I can;t take it. At this
	point,.. folks, ... I'm sorry to report that I lost all ability
	to remain objective. Yes,.. /mon,. your deadhead reporter live
	on the scene experienced some technical difficulties. I believe
	all rational thought processes were put on hold and I just had
	to experience it. I know it was good,.. Actually I know it was 
	excellent because I can remember fleeting momemnts of actually0
	having the ability to critique,.. there was nothing to critique.
	Like why bother trying to figure out why this is so excellent,..
	IT JUST IS.,.. and we just were,. and Jerry just kept weaving
	this tapestry of cosmic mystic stuff up there,.. at severla points
	cloaking himself in a whirlwind of colors that just intensified
	until it exploeded and covered the whole scene. Yes folks,.. musical
	orgasm comes to mind as perhaps the best words with which to
	attempt to describe what went on here...

	Drums => Space was actually less than ot had bneen other nights.
	Less lengthy,.. but just as intense iof not more intense. It was
	like not a quiet tinkering kind of drums and sapce of days prior,..
	but a more resoudnig,.. pounding kind of powerful make your
	stomach shake inside you kind of thing,... Space too seemed
	short,.. although I wouldn't be surprised to hear it was long.
	Like I said,.. I kind of lost it back ther eon Eyes,.. and was
	by this point just cruising the astral plane thinking about maybe
	coming back to the planet to hear the rest of the second set...	oops
	whats that I hear.. Dark Star again,.. Hmm,.. maybe I'll
	just stay up here a while... :-) :-) Hey look at that,. Jerry, the
	boys, and half of the Garden crowd decided to join me up here for
	a Dark Star. Now folks,.. I don't really pretend to know what was going
	at this point... you know,.. that grateful dead things was just
	happening and it was an ever present,.. sort of oozing emeinance
	of good vibes amoing everybody that we all try to put into words
	when trying to convert somebody,.. but we all fail miserably
	at describing that,.. that ,.. je ne sais quoi that makes these
	guys true modern artists...Then a ROUSING Other one,... YAH
	why dontcha just take out the big hammer Bobby and hit over the head.
	The band can rock folks,.. and the showed us how,..:-),,.
	Another Dark Start tease (it was like Jerry coiuld have played that
	one tuine all night) Now,.. justy to be sure, Tuesday,. they played
	Dark Star,.. but THURSDAY,.. They 

	#################### PLAYED ########################

	Dark Star,.. if you catch my drift. Attics was well sung and moving.
	Almost to the point of tears (When there was no soing to sing...)
	Reallly liked this. Good Lovin was HOT,.. building the crowd to one
	of those frenzies where Bobby is up there just losing it on tyhe
	lyrics and teh corwd is flailing their bodies about and ,.. hey,..
	did that nose just pokle out qa little bit there or what....
	Debess? Ting? Whose turn was it to watch Bobby's nose anyway?

	Brokedown was appropriate for BG after having held the dead
	for a week,.. I think I heard the Garden sigh in relief
	when Jerry sang (Gonna leave,,.) like the Gardenm was sayin
	its a good thing you're leaving because I can't take another
	night like this. Wwe Bid yoiu goodnight is THE WAY to close
	a sho0w,.. a run,.. a tour,.. that I won't forget for a long time.

	So I hope there were others who enjoyed this show,

						/

What a treat this Boston Garden run has been!

It started out really good,
and just got better,
and better,
and better,
and better!!!,
and  a.*..a.*..a.*..a..*.a.*..a..*..........!.!!....


Now do you see why I've been wanting the Dead to come back
to Boston Garden for the past couple of years??

It's not because it's such a nice place. :^)
It's because of how they play when they play there!

I've still got that Dark Star floating through my head!!!

:^):^:^):^):^)):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^)

Hey, /, I think Bobby's nose would be the last thing I'd be watching at
that point in the show ;-)!  Sounds like a good time!!  Anyone running a
Bawston Series II tree??  Inquiring minds wanna know...8-)

peace,
t!ng

Great Nite!  I got to take a fellow DECie from Dublin to his first show.  He
had a great time.  He really enjoyed Bruce, and he wants tapes.

For me, Cumberland Blues was the highlight.  After Mexacali I thought they were
going into Big River which was what they did in Denver when I thought they were
going into Cumberland Blues, but it turned out to be Big River.  (That does
make sense if you study it.)  In any case, Cumberland is a song I've been dying to
hear, but have never seen.  Last night as the boys were opening for Big River 
(or so I thought), I was thinking, "wow, I didn't know this song when I first 
heard it in Denver, and now I recognize it before they start singing."  Then,
I heard, "I can't stay much longer, Melinda..."  Wow!Wow!Wow!   And the jamming 
and intensity of the song was everything I hoped Electric!ElectricElectric!

What a nite!

Whenever I feel totally beat today, I just turn on last night in my head, and 
the tiredness is gone!

Bill

    
    
    Tuesday was a good show, another night on the floor! (19th row) Nice
    and close, and with our binoculars, we could see them sweat- yuck!  :-)
    I noticed Bruce wears earplugs. He and Jerry are fun to watch. It
    was a good night to watch Bruce. He JAMMED the first set-> accordian
    solo right to piano solo! I loved the first set, but was totally
    bummed that they missed the climax in "ALthea." I REALLY love that
    song, and couldn't wait to hear it. "New Speedway" was my highlight of
    the set. The second set was really nice. "Standing on the Moon" caused
    my goosebumps to "Stand on Each Other" ;-) "Around and Around" took
    a while to get going... "The Weight" was heavy...
    
    Wednesday: WOW WOW WOW WOW!! I couldn't have been more excited.
    My favorite first set of all time! "Dire Wolf" and "Queen Jane" flipped
    me!!! 
    ...."The Music Never Stopped" (no words needed. Okay, just one:
    CHILLS_and_SMILES!!!!!! (that's one word)
    
    Second set picked up where it left off. :-)  Smoked right through..
    Highlights: "Terrapin" and  "China Doll." I almost couldn't take anymore
    after China Doll, it blew me away....
    I think this was the best show ever! I was in the greatest mood :-)
    
    Thursday was a great ending show. Tight, clean, jamming. We stayed in
    our seats, which were in the first row behind the tapers. We were
    worried that we wouldn't have a good view. View? Who needs a view?
    The sound was absolutly INCREDIBLE!!!! Every song was played well.
    No "Bertha," or "Greatest Story," but that's okay :-) 
    "We Bid You Goodnight" was warm!!! Good feelings. And GREAT harmonies.
    (if you could hear them over the crowd). 
    
    I'm sad that it's over, but I'm still fuzzy and smiling :-) :-) :-)
    
    Steve-O

Just made it to Wed show. IT FELT GREAT!!!!! BETTER THAN S..!!!

Dance and Sang every song. Dead really sounded like they were having fun
and they really got the crowd into it, especially when they turned it up
in the second set...

Brought a friend to the show that never saw them, but just heard a few
tapes in my car at Siggraph this year going out to and back from Zion Canyon. 
He asked me to bring him to the next time I saw them. We got tickets on the 
floor 27th row. Blew him away... especially the Drum Solo with Bill and Mickey.

Just an indescribable experience... Got to find the time to do this more
often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Just one of the infrequent readers...

 Kim

                <<< Note 23.335 by CSLALL::SMARTIN "Dead Sox" >>>
                           -< Series II thoughts... >-

    
    
    Tuesday was a good show, another night on the floor! (19th row) Nice
    and close, and with our binoculars, we could see them sweat- yuck!  :-)
    I noticed Bruce wears earplugs. He and Jerry are fun to watch. It
    was a good night to watch Bruce. He JAMMED the first set-> accordian
    solo right to piano solo! I loved the first set, but was totally
    bummed that they missed the climax in "ALthea." I REALLY love that
    song, and couldn't wait to hear it. "New Speedway" was my highlight of
    the set. The second set was really nice. "Standing on the Moon" caused
    my goosebumps to "Stand on Each Other" ;-) "Around and Around" took
    a while to get going... "The Weight" was heavy...
    
    Wednesday: WOW WOW WOW WOW!! I couldn't have been more excited.
    My favorite first set of all time! "Dire Wolf" and "Queen Jane" flipped
    me!!! 
    ...."The Music Never Stopped" (no words needed. Okay, just one:
    CHILLS_and_SMILES!!!!!! (that's one word)
    
    Second set picked up where it left off. :-)  Smoked right through..
    Highlights: "Terrapin" and  "China Doll." I almost couldn't take anymore
    after China Doll, it blew me away....
    I think this was the best show ever! I was in the greatest mood :-)
    
    Thursday was a great ending show. Tight, clean, jamming. We stayed in
    our seats, which were in the first row behind the tapers. We were
    worried that we wouldn't have a good view. View? Who needs a view?
    The sound was absolutly INCREDIBLE!!!! Every song was played well.
    No "Bertha," or "Greatest Story," but that's okay :-) 
    "We Bid You Goodnight" was warm!!! Good feelings. And GREAT harmonies.
    (if you could hear them over the crowd). 
    
    I'm sad that it's over, but I'm still fuzzy and smiling :-) :-) :-)
    
    Steve-O

re:  McCartney's "That would be something"

You can find this on the MTV unplugged show and the album that 
got released from it...it's good too (the lp).  And I don't believe 
it's an old blues standard but rather a McCartney original...least
I think that's what the lp label reads (it is possible that he re-vamped
it though ...)- best to look again but I don't own it....my friend Jim does.  

all I can say is ditto to what Andy Nourse said:

it just kept gettin' better and better and better and and and!

:)
whew!

And Jim I heard that Goin down the road too! 

all rested back up now....and being worn out again by a new puppy we 
got this past friday ....

apologies if this is all discussed elsewhere (like the what did you 
eat for lunch note).....:)

bob

ps.  Nice meeting Sean And Rachel and seeing all you other *SMILING* 
folks...especially those smilin' folks a few rows behind us for the
last show...SMILE SMILE SMILE
	

That Would Be Something was also on Mcartney's first solo album..




Jim.





Anybody for a meeting at 5:30 at the Commonwealth Brewing Company? :^)

>             -< hmmm now how am i gonna wean myself from 6 shows? >-

>...especially those smilin' folks a few rows behind us for the
>last show...SMILE SMILE SMILE

	Hey Bob, I CAN'T stop smiling...just CAN'T!!!!!!!
	DON'T go back to reality...keep the feeling ALIVE!!!!!!!!!
	I have this incredible feeling that I can change the WHOLE WORLD
	with my happiness and I don't want the feeling to end!!!!
	My soul has been opened and I feel the good just pouring in!!!

	Debess

    Yes, Debess... :-)

re: MSG series II

This is something I forgot to put in a while ago.  After the Saturday night MSG
show, my entourage hooked up with another entourage to create a group of 10 to
eat at the world-famous Carnegie Deli.  We were waiting for our food when I
heard people behind us whispering "Bruce Hornsby".  I looked up to see a man
standing next to our table who had been there for about 30 seconds.  I looked
at him and thought "he sure does look like Bruce Hornsby".  After another
second or two, I concluded that it really was him.  We all gave him a
collective "Hey Bruce, Hi!", etc. to which he replied something like "Hi, how's
it going?".  Then he turned around and left.  He had entered the deli, scanned
around apparently looking for someone, then left when he didn't find
him/her/them.  What a thrill.  He was wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

re: BG series I.

The quality of shows (for me) increased day by day, with a peak around Saturday
or Sunday.  I think I liked the song selection Sunday best, but the music
itself was best on Saturday.  The H->S->F was great on Friday, though.  I was
glad to see them replace Franklin's with somnething else, although they could
have picked something other than Fire.

re: BG series II.

A death in the family caused my tour to come to a sudden stop.  I was glad they
didn't pull out a St. Stephen, though!  I was also glad to have seen a show
similar to the last Boston show (Byrne Arena, 10-16-89), so I wasn't nearly as
bummed as I could have been.  I did miss a Terrapin, Candyman, and a Playin. 
Oh well, it's not like I've never seen them.

adam

    I just wannna say I told Fog that it was an old blues tune because I
    could not think of where it came from (shame on me) it didn't come to
    me until the next day when I looked at the Unplugged CD and releyezzzed
    it was a Paul tune......double shame on me !! :'( so sorry Fog for miss
    leading you plus about 50 to 100 others I told on the way out of the
    show !! :')
    
    Chris

I guess you all may have guessed that yesterday's show was very emotionally
played, from the first note to the last.  I didn't remember anyone screwing
up any words.  The Jerry tunes were especially somber.  Two large wreaths
flanked the stage.  David Graham came out and said a few words about his
father at the end of the first set.  The gist of it was that we should all
keep having fun because Bill would've wanted it that way.  The highlight of
his speech was when he said, "He f**kin' loved you all, man!!" while choking
back his tears 8-(.  The lump in my throat got bigger. 

Second set highlight was, of course, Iko and the old Cippolina tune, Hey
Bo Diddley, with Carlos Santana and Spencer Davis showing up to pay tribute
to Bill.  If you've ever heard intense jamming, it'd be nothing compare to
the jamming you get when you put Carlos and Spencer Davis on the same stage
with the Dead.  YOWZA!!!  My mouth hung open through it all.  It was
incredible!!  At points though, Carlos and Spencer Davis seem to completely
overwhelm Jerry.  Jerry, Carlos, Spencer, and Bob sort of formed a semi-
circle on the stage watching each other's finger works and smiling at
every new twist someone introduces. After Iko, Spencer first whispered to
Jerry, then Bob and lots of smiles and nods later went into Hey Bo Diddley
(my first and it was great!!)!  There was the longest and sweetest jam after
Hey Bo and before drums.  Ear-piercing at times with 4 guitarists up there
but SWEET!!  After the jam, there were more whisperings and nods and smiles
and a general consensus was reached that they should all go backstage and
party 8-(.  We were hoping they'd come back out, but no such luck (Carlos
did leave his guitar on stage, but it was just a tease).  The Knockin' encore
was very heartfelt.  We all know that's what Bill's doing right now, and
probably demanding to know from St. Pete when he opens the door what the
h*ll he's doing there!!  Maybe St. Pete will know it's a mistake and send
him back.

peace,
t!ng

    
    I would love tapes of this show if anyone has them.  Thanks for the
    review, t!ng.
    
    

    why do i have a sneaking suspicion that this tape will be the next
    tree?  :^/
    
    					da ve

Poignant review T!ng ... must have been quite the emotional show.......

I never got to see Father Time...

:-|

    Correction of sorts for 10/27:
    
    It was Gary Duncan from QMS joining Carlos and not Spencer Davis and
    what they played was Mona although it seems it started off at first
    as Bo Diddley. I'll check some QMS tapes tonight to see if that's how 
    Mona normally starts out.

Hey Mona starts out amazingly like NFA.  


hey hey mona gonna build a house right next 2 u!
:)
bob

    Good one Bob...years ago we always hoped they would fool ya and go
    into Mona and not NFA..and I think the tease was always there..alas
    they finally did it...Hey Bo Jackson could start out very similarly,
    IMHO,.
    
    rich

>    they finally did it...Hey Bo Jackson could start out very similarly,
>    IMHO,.
 
hey bo jackson >
just dew it.

:)

From a net.head, an account of Ken Kesey's appearance at last night's show
(anyone know more about what happended to his son ?):

The Grateful Dead assisted by Gary Duncan had just finished the
opening verse of Dark Star.  Jerry Garcia and Gary Duncan were
trading off lightning powered licks and out on to the stage
walks a man dressed in a tuxedo and top hat.  He moves up
to Bob Weir's microphone and the unmistakeable voice says:

"I was in DC and when I got the message, I thought of two things.
I thought of my son going over a cliff and Bill Graham sending a
thousand bucks to put a thing up on the hill that points in all
directions in Oregon so that you can always find your direction
on the top of that hill.

"And I thought of one more thing.  It's a little heavy, but that's
what it's about! Nobody else reaches across the distance and put
their hand on your shoulders about this shit.  And this band ()
a long time reaching across.  When you guys played _Brokendown_Palace_
and I knew shit! this is the Grateful Dead telling me about my son!
This is as friggin' real as it gets. We all knew it! We knew it! 
We knew it!

"And the other thought, the second thought, the warrior thought,
the violent thought, which is that we ain't (kidding). 
in any given situation, there is always gonna be more dumb people
than smart people! We ain't (kidding).

"The second thought was this poem by e.e. cummings, a simple old
poem that goes:
	'Buffalo Bill is defunct!
	 Jesus, he was a handsome man.
	 He used to ride on a white horse
	 and shoot clay pigeons,
	 1 2 3 4 5 just like that!
	 And what I want to know is 
	 how do you like your blue eyed boy now, Mister Death?'"

The man in black was Ken Kesey.

------------------
words in () may be incorrect.  The crowd was VERY loud during
this part.

In reference to the on-going debate of Bo Diddley versus Mona, I listened
to my friend's tape and it's actually Hey Bo Diddley -> Mona.  Jerry
started off with Hey Bo Diddley, sang a few lines and forgot the words,
so Bobby picked it up as Mona.  The two songs are so similar that it's like
trying to figure out if they did Ain't Superstitious or Meet Me on the Bottom.
The special guest on Sunday with Carlos (and the one on Halloween) was indeed
Gary Duncan from Quicksilver Messenger Service as confirmed by Howard at the
soundboard when I asked him on Halloween.

Monday's show was ok.  It certainly had some hightlights like an incredibly
sweet Birdsong, a rocking Loose Lucy, and a very emotional Crazy Fingers and
Stella Blue (!).  The WatchTower was very low-energy though - one of the
slowest WatchTowers I've seen.

Wednesday's first set was really good, especially the M&MU -> Maggie's Farm.
I always love the individual solos in Maggies's Farm, especially Vince's!!
Let Vince sing!!!  8-)  Eyes -> Estimated was different.  I really like it.
The Black Peter was very emotional.  Still no He's Gone and I think it's on
purpose (the Coliseum would be flooded with tears!!)

Then Halloween!!  WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWYOW!!  I would have to say it ranks in my
top 10 shows!!  Help->Slip->Franklin rocked us into what will prove to be a
most memorable night!!  My viewpoint is probably very biased when it comes
to this segue since it's got to be my all time favorite every time I hear
it.  Tom Thumb's is another highlight for the first set even though Phil
has almost the same vocal attributes as Jerry ;-).  Let it Grow was a really
good closer (I do like *some* Bobby tunes, Gerry ;-)

At the beginning of the second set, a float of some kind dropped halfway
from the roof of the coliseum.  I couldn't really see what it was from where
we were (center 15 people from the stage) since it was right above us.  I
think you have to be as far back as the taper section to see it (the back of
the coliseum).  I think it was a ghost.  I could see arms sticking out, but
I couldn't see the eyes.  The lights were spiraling around the stage.  This
is really hard to describe.  It looks almost like someone had put one of those
laser disks with the spiral patterns on a projector and spun the the disk to
get it to project in spirals on the crowd on one side of the stage.  The stage
think you have to be as far back as the taper section to see it (the back of
the coliseum).  I think it was a ghost.  I could see arms sticking out, but
I couldn't see the eyes.  The lights were spiraling around the stage.  This
is really hard to describe.  It looks almost like someone had put one of those
laser disks with the spiral patterns on a projector and spun the the disk to
get it to project in spirals on the crowd on one side of the stage.  The stage
decorations, a bunch of wire sculptures, were also accented by the spiraling
light.  The top center of the stage had a wire witch on a broom and the back
of the stage has 3 wire people in horizontal positions.  It looks like they
were swimming.

The Scarlet -> Fire opener for the second set was predictable.  Was the Fire
played for the fire in the Oakland Hills??  Who knows??  The version was
nice and long (or so it seems) with a nice smooth jam transitioning Scarlet
into Fire.  The Truckin' weas good (certainly a lot better than the one
played at the Sunday BG Memorial at Golden Gate Park).  We were very
psyched for Spoonful.  Gary Duncan joined in in the middle and really
jammed.  He fits in really well with the Dead style.  Then Dark Star!!
Were we going to get only half again??  No, it turned out to be the whole
thing, and it was great - one of the most inspired versions I can recall on
tape or live.  Ken Kesey came out in top hat and tails to make his speech
at the end of the first verse of Dark Star with the jamming going non-stop
while he was talking and fitting in perfectly with the mood of his words.
The only thing that occurred to me when I heard Kesey's words was "Right
on!!" although I could not remember for the life of me what it was he said
that was so right on.  I'm glad Reno transcribed the speech.  Gary Duncan's
jams in Dark Star was just perfect, by no means weak and not too imposing,
but certainly very much there.  After Kesey, there was more jamming before
the drummers took over.  Dark Star came out of space.  The tunes weaved in
and out and held onto the part of us that still grieved over Bill and pulled
it into the cosmos where it reunited back with the energy that emanated from
the crowd to once again let each of us rejoice in being alive and being there
at the moment to live the magic!!  YOW!!  What a special moment!!  The Last
Time was equally unbelievable!!  None of us felt it will ever be the last
time!!  We did *not* want to see Gary Duncan go!!  He psyched up the Dead
so much - it was pure heaven!!  But he did not stay for Standing on the Moon
and it was a soulful rendition.  How good was the show??  It was so good that
I even liked the Throwing Stones!!  Yes, it was *that* good!!  8-)  We all 
knew the Werewolves was coming and boy did we howl!!  Oww-ooooooo!!  8->!!

peace,
t!ng

RE:       <<< Note 23.352 by SKYLRK::TING "Give Peace a Chance!!!" >>>


	Thanks for the grate reviews, T!ng.

	For many of us, your reviews are the only glimpses into whats' 
	happenin' with the Boys that we can afford...


Fog

    
    	So before everyone gets all excited by it, Bob Weir sang Same Thing
    on Dec 28, Bruce is not with the band for this run, and Vince got a
    chance to shine on that  "cheesey" organ sound.
    
    	All of this is from phone calls and all, no tapes or first hand
    reports.
    
    	Also, The 27th show was not one of the better, the band kept losing
    the time on the songs, and no one really seemed to want to take the
    reins and lead the band. MY reporters felt that either JErry or Vince
    should have, but neither did.
    
    	Lastly, there are screens behind the band, and they are projecting
    slides relevant to the song being played. During Watchtower, they
    showed a slide of Hendrix, which seemed to igninte Jerry for the end of
    the set.
    
    	The 28th was a much better show, and the future looks good for the
    30th and 31.
    

    I'm assuming that Bruce joined the band for NYE..was he there for 12/30
    as well?  I tried staing awake for NYE but never made it so I recorded
    from BCN...sounded like an average show..second set picked up a bit...
    still think they need to take a break...one old song being revived but
    all in all very predictable showz.
    still wish i was there tho!
    
    rich

	who was Father Time?

	Debess

    
    	I don't think Bruice was there for any shows this New Year's.
    Rich - Why do you think he was?
    
    
    

    I could be wrong but I thought I heard piano (not to be confused with
    organ or keyboard) in the mix...especially during several of the
    intros to songs.....maybe I've finally lost touch with reallity and
    my hearing is shot.  Anyone else think they heard piano???
    
    rich

    
    
    	I did hear the piano, but I assumed it was Vince. Those
    synthes sure can sound like a lot of different instruments.
    

    ...could have been the synth.....speaking of which ..nice effect during
    Estimated.
    
    gotta listen on the way home
    
    rich

    Bruce was not there. Vince really showed his stuff during the entire 
    run, too. Best I've seen him play and most I've heard him sing. 
    
    There was no Father Time per se, unless you count Mickey dressed in
    some sort of white tunic pounding on the screen drum that was dragged 
    onto center stage. It was definitely a drummer's greeting to the New Year 
    as Olatunji's percussionists and dancers joined in on the countdown.
    
    Instead of FT coming down they had the old Winterland mirror ball rising 
    up to the rafters. Then a large Lightening Bolt (tm) came down part way
    and settled above the stage. They used the mirror ball for the rest of the 
    evening. No float coming thru the crowd and everything took place on
    or above the stage.
    
    The highlight was between sets when they showed a 45 minute video of all 
    of Bill Graham's Father Time's from 1978 thru 1990. Virtually no one
    wandered the halls during the break.
    
    12/28 was far and away the best show of the run, followed by 12/30. New
    Years was a typical show but you don't go to NYE for the show, you go
    just to *be there*. ;-)
    
    Gerry

    Thanks Gerr...It sounds like Vince is starting to get the feeling 
    of things..thats good news ...what I heard sounded great.
    
    rich

 I really enjoyed hearing the band without Hornsby...Vince did a heck of
a job from what I was able to hear..





Jim

re < Note 23.361 by SCOONR::GLADU >

>    Years was a typical show but you don't go to NYE for the show, you go
>    just to *be there*. ;-)

	Does it matter what you wear???      ;-)    

re:   <<< Note 23.364 by BARFLY::BELKIN "the slow one now will later be fast" >>>
   
>Does it matter what you wear???      ;-)    

    only if it's a laminate. :-)
    

Yeah, I have to agree that the 27th was kind of average.  The 28th was great,
especially The Same Thing.  Bobby messed up the 1st and 3rd verses (maybe he'll
study up on the lyrics before the Mardi Gras run ;-).  Great jam leading into
it.   The transition from Saturday Night into Jack Straw was abrupt.  The
Saturday Night reprise ending the second set was nice.  Standing on the Moon
was sweet.  Jerry and Bob both messed up a lot of the lyrics throughout the
run.  I thought the 30th was really really good.  Lots of great jams!  Really
inspired!  I didn't see Airto up there until Ship of Fools, but I may have
missed him during Samson.  Bobby took what would've been Bruce's turn on
Maggies's Farm, but he sang the exact same verse that Vince did - not sure
why he did that.  The Last Time was really nice.

NYE was fun!  Baba Olatunji opened.  I recognized some of the tunes like "Dance
to the beat of the Drum" and "Jewe" from Planet Drum.  Baba had a bunch of wild
black female dancers with him - reminds me a lot of Fela.  Bela Fleck and the
Flecktones came on next.  I went to see them on the night off at the Catalyst in
Santa Cruz, and they did pretty much the same thing, but compressed.  I guess
it's hard to have a lot of diversity when you've only been around for 2 years.
A highlight was the God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Little Drummer Boy.  I love
Bela!  Then the Dead came on.  The first set was excellent.  Right before BIODTL
when it was clear that it was what they were going to do, someone shouted "Do
it 92 times, Mickey!!", but Mickey only did 9 beats 8-).  The Black Throated
Wind was really good.  I loved the Help->Slip->Franklin closer.  The buildup
to midnight included a video called "Ghosts of New Years Past" which showed
the countdown to the midnight spectacle from 1978 (closing of Winterland) to
last year.  Reliving some of those moments was fun!!  Maybe we should all
write to GD Merchandising to get them to sell copies of it 8-).  The midnight
spectacle was not anything like the BG spectacles.  It may have been intentional
The "spectacle" started with Airto coming out in a brown-hooded chanting his
"Pigs in Space" rhythm from "At the Edge".  I always thought that's one of the
weirdest songs I've ever heard.  Then Mickey came out and pounded on the square
kong drum from the Planet Drum shows.  He was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt
and a multicolored jeweled mask (really strange looking).  On either side of the
stage were set up stages that held Baba's band through it all.  Flares came down
from the ceiling and the countdown began.  At midnight, there was a big bang
and more fireworks.  Some huge flame jets shot up at the front of the stage.
A picasso moon (disco ball ;-) came up from behind the kong drum and traveled up
to the roof of the arena.  A lightning bolt with the edge outlined in lights
went up.  The balloons didn't come down at the stroke of midnight.  It was
really weird.  We kept looking up and nothing was happening.  Finally at about 7
minutes past midnight, the balloons came down.  I grabbed one and stuck my pin
through it.  It didn't pop.  I poked it a few more times and it still didn't
pop.  Boy, was that weird!!  The balloon from hell!! ;-)  I love NYE's no
matter what happens!!  Second set was good.  During Sugar Mag, Mickey's 2 sons,
Creek and Taro came out and played drums with dad.  The Sugar Mag and Knockin'
were for Bill and definitely the Not Fade.  It's not the same without Bill!!

peace,
t!ng

    >Bela Fleck and the Flecktones came on next.  I went to see them on the 
    >night off at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, and they did pretty much the 
    >same thing, but compressed.  
    
    Same thing except for the audience participation part (ooohhh, aaahhh ;-)
  
    re: baloons from hell
    
    They were tough to pop. If you poked holes in them, they still wouldn't
    burst. Weird. 
    

	Bruce Hornsby was not at the show becsue the Hornsby's are 
	expecting the arrival of twins a bit later this month...

	Bob

I'm too damned tired to write a review ;-), but here's some comments...

The first night's show got a rocking start with the Bertha/Promised
Land opener.  Other highlights of the first set (for me) was Wang Dang
and Loose Lucy - a very fine and jamming rendition.  I'm not going to
try to describe the new songs.  I heard they have 10 new ones.  This run
won't cover them all, so I'm sure they'll break out the rest during the
east coast tour.  I like Phil's "Wave to the Wind" more than Jerry's
"So Many Roads".  It was quite obvious that Phil was incredibly psyched
to do the song.  I thought he was going to leap into the air any moment
the way he was pumping his arm before the tune.  We could alwways tell
when a new tune's coming up because Jerry would walk up and flip the
sheets on his music stand ;-).  Phil was a lttle more subtle about it - he
had a little cheat sheet attached to his mike.  I guess Jerry is never
one for subtlety, is he?? ;-)  Second set was excellent.  The Mississippi
1/2 Step was a sweeper (swept me off my feet, that is 8-).  The He's Gone
was good, but I think they left out something (a phrase?? a note?? - who
knows??), but it didn't feel complete.  Is this the first He's Gone after
B.G.'s death??

Last night was good too.  Two more new tunes.  I really really really like
Vince's new tune "It's a Long Long (Long Long Long Long) Way Back Home"
(Yep, 6 Long's in the chorus, so I don't know why they settled with 2 in
the title 8-).  The crowd went wild when Vince took the lead vocals.  Jerry
and Bobby sang backup.  Vince had been very prominent in the mix these two
nights.  He was definitely *on*!!  There were a lot of "Bruce" type tingle
notes in his jams.  I'm sure Vince can do most of what Bruce can!  His only
setback earlier was Healy turning him down when Bruce was around.  The Black
Throated Wind was a highlight.  Corina was good (I think).  It's really hard
to comment on something that I've heard just once.  Most of the time, I'm
busy trying to figure out what the lyrics are 8-}.  We all thought Bobby was
singing Maureena.  We kind of figured out it might be the new Mickey tune
Mickey was talking about during the KPFA Dead Marathon last weekend since
both Bobby and Jerry consulted with Mickey before the song.  Well, so far,
it's one new tune per singing member.  Now if they would only make Mickey
and Billy sing too ;-).  Second set highlight was the pre-space segue
and of course drums...ummm, I mean *DRUMS*!!  8-)  Terrapin was beautiful!!
The notes building up to the chorus swelled like a wave!  <insert sigh of
satisfaction 8-)>  Hamza El Din came out to play the tar with Mickey
during drums.  Both Mickey and Hamza El Din played tars while Billy
continued on the drums.  Hamza El Din is really a master at the tar.
Accompanied by his chanting, the combined sound can only be described as
hypnotic.  I love the tar (not to be confused with the UNIX tar 8-/ 8-}).

Anyways, onto the Lundi Gras show tonight!!  I love Mardi Gras!!  Festive
parade, colorful costumes, mandatory Iko 2nd-set opener...  8-)

peace,
t!ng

    I've heard Mickey sing,..
    
    Be happy with what you have :-) :-) :-)
    
    						/
    

    nice review T!ng but I got one question....
    
    
    
    
    	we east coast 'heads haveta ask this ya know
    
    
    
    
    		TAPES !!!!!!!????????
    
    Chris :')

    Oh T!ng... some day I'm moving to San Francisco... 

rom: William Kimmerly <ipanema@ccb.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Mardis Gras set list
Reply-To: ipanema@ccb.ucsf.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 15:17:02 GMT

24 Feb. 1992
Oakland Coliseum

Touch of Grey
Feel Like A Stranger
Friend of the Devil
Masterpiece
Althea
Cassidy

Iko Iko >
orina >
The Other One >
A Long Long Way >
The Same Thing >
Drumspace >
Wave to the Wind >
The Other One >
So Many Roads >
Lovelight

Mighty Quinn


Well, a very unpredictable 2nd set IMHO.  Not the sort of night where one
would have much luck calling songs :-) !  I thought it was a real fresh
touch to break up The Other One into two parts (one verse each).  Phil
lowered the boom but good to lead into the first part.  After two
llistenings, I'd have to say that Weir's new song is called Morina (or
maybe Maureena).  I'm still not 100% sure, but I just couldn't hear any
other name that fit.  I did get the impression that this was an awful lot
of new stuff to throw at the crowd all at once.  Therefore it seemed to me
that, other than Iko Iko and Lovelight, the crowd was prety subdued for
most of the 2 second set.  The Mardis Gras parade was spectacular!  The
lead float was a Dead locomotive leading a Rock Med ballooned freight car.
The locomotive was labelled "99 WALSTIB".  Lots of other giant caricatures
and puppets.  My favorite item was a "Steal You Face" box out of which
popped Bart Simpson.  For sheer decadent hoopla, I'd say that Mardis Gras
surpassed this year's NYE celebration.  A lot of creativity went into that
parade.  A great set of shows, all in all.  Enjoy the new stuff back
east everyone.

Article        44020
From: djd@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. Dasaro)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Oakland Coliseum, Sunday 2/23/92 (new tunes!)
Date: 25 Feb 92 00:51:28 GMT
Sender: djd@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. Dasaro)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
 
 
	"Danny this is Nick, it's Saturday evening.  I can't use my
	ticket for Sunday because I have too much work to do.  Call me
	back if you want it.  Beeep."
 
So started my journey to this show.  New songs are described at the end.
First things first, what was played:
 
     I (lights 7:07, music 7:11-8:07)	     II (lites 8:56, music 9:02-10:50)
Hell In A Bucket			China Cat Sunflower
Peggy-O					-> I Know You Rider
Walkin' Blues				-> Playin' In The Band
Ramble On Rose				-> jam -> Terrapin Station
* It's A Long, Long, Long, Long,	-> jam -> Drums (Hamza)
	Way To Go Home			Space (no -> from Drums to Space)
Black Throated Wind			-> I Need A Miracle
* Maria					-> Stella Blue
					-> Throwin' Stones
					-> Not Fade Away
				Encore:	Box Of Rain
* First time played
 
First some general comments.
1) Hornsby is not there for this run.  
2) Jerry had a music stand in front of him for the new songs.  
3) I've either found the place in the Coliseum where all of the sound
   from Bob's guitar goes or he's up in the mix.  His guitar was loud
   and sporting a raspy, sustained sound, sort of like Garcia's guitar
   work in "Far From Me".
4) A low energy show, at least for me.  Yet I'm not saying this was an
   "off night", it just felt like they wanted to play a clubby, low-key
   show, not a dance-your-socks-off extravaganza.
 
I felt the show was sparse musically, relying more on strong vocals
than heavily layered playing.  The music was tight and seemed to have a
bright, lightweight, airy sound, not heavily orchestrated, sort of like the
coming of spring that we've been experiencing for the past few days after
16 days of rain.  The new songs are not yet developed musically, the band
stuck to basics on these numbers.  Over time the envelope will be
pushed but for now we get a skeletal image of these tunes.
 
Jerry's voice was strong for Peggy-O and Ramble On Rose, although a few
lyrics escaped him on the latter song.  As the setlist might indicate,
the whole first set was slow in tempo, except for the opener.  I
found myself seated until the beginning of China Cat, which is rare for
me.  China Cat was real fun though.
 
After Rider, Playin' started up without a pause, it flowed into a
growling jam that showed off Bob's harsh guitar sound, mentioned above. 
The flow into Terrapin was smooth, and just when you thought Terrapin was
done and Drums was to start, a new lick appeared and the band went into a
melodic jam that may sometime appear in one of the new songs.  Hamza and
Mickey chanted for the second part of drums, and Hamza left with a
"Thank you" that was greeted by a big cheer.  This left the guitar players
to start Space from a dead start, which they managed to do with
aplomb.  From there, we went into Miracle and then a not-too-smooth
transition into Stella Blue, which recovered quickly from its shaky start
and featured more great vocals by Jerry.  Standard closure songs followed.
 
"Box" was in my mind when they came out for the encore, perhaps because
I had read that Hunter thought one of the new Phil songs was even better
than Box Of Rain.  In any event, I was thrilled when this one started.
The vocals during the last "verse" of this song were great, all four
vocalists chiming in without discord.  It left me with a great
feeling.  
 
Overall, an average show in my mind, perhaps due to the fact that I was
much farther from the stage than normal.  I hope to read an opinion
from someone closer to the floor, maybe the energy was higher there.
 
Now, the new songs.  Like most of Set I, they were of a slow tempo.
 
"It's a Long, Long, Long, Long Way To Go Home" (Hunter/Welnick) starts
out with a keyboard introduction (I thought of Mydland's "Far From Me")
and falls into a steady rhythm from there.  It has about 4 verses, sung
by Vince, and a repeated chorus, sung by all four non-percussion
players.  The chorus is low, sort of like Wang Dang Doodle without
Weir's highs, and was within everybody's range, creating a pleasant
sound.  There is room for a guitar solo, Jerry gave us one that
was rather controlled.  I'm sure both songs will stretch out with some
time.  I didn't catch enough words to transcribe the verses, but I'll
try to give a description, maybe you can get the feel.  As far as I
could tell, a verse might go like this (was San Francisco mentioned in
one verse?):
 
You're walkin' around, doing this, doing that.  (About 10 syllables/line) 
Wonderin' what __ __ __ __ __ __ __		(fill in as you please)
Well I'll tell you that __ __ __ __ __ __ __
You'll find the road can be __ __ __ __ __ __ __
 
Chorus.  The "/" are beat marks, which are evenly spaced in time.   So
the word "long" is sung in the same amount of time as "It's a".  As for
tempo, lines are delivered in a normal conversational mode, about 4 beats
in a second (set your metronome to about 180-200 and do each of the first
two lines in about 4 seconds).  In the last line, the word "way" is held
about 5 beats.  The chorus somehow sounded like something CSN would do,
like in "Wooden Ships" or "Long Time Gone."
 
/    / / /   / /   / /   / /  /   /  /  /
It's a long, long, long, long way to go home
It's a long, long, long, long way to go home
It's a long, long, long, long, long long way, to go home. 
 
 
"Maria" (Weir/???) is interesting.  It starts with a military-march-ish
drum intro, and the drums continue in that same rhythm throughout the song.
 Maybe they'll vary it a bit later.  Then Jerry went into a little
introduction that sounded a bit like they might attempt Santana's
"Black Magic Woman" or maybe even "White Rabbit".
 
Then the front 4 started the chorus, which looks something like this...
Front four:	"Ma-ree-ah" (stretched out over 2-3 seconds)
Weir: 		Single line, one of which I think was "I am true to her"
 
The harmonies needed some work on "Ma-ree-ah", someone was off.  This
one too is sung low so it shouldn't be out of range, but maybe it was
too low for Vince.  The beginning of each 4 line verse (sung by Weir)
somehow reminded me of the first half of the Beatles' line "Wouldn't you
like to be one of the beautiful people."  The lines of the verses are in
2 parts, sort of a rise and a fall, such as "I do this, she does that."
 
The song has an underlying guitar riff that shows up often.  It's four
notes, the first three being short (and the same note), the fourth
longer and a little higher.  If you're counting the beat (1 2 3 4,
quick tempo), the first three notes fall in the 1 2 and the fourth note is
held for the final two counts.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if I heard someone say they found this song
monotonous, the verses go by quickly and we're back to the chorus chant
quite soon.  But it held my interest for some reason.  I especially liked
the end of the song, which dissolved into a jam that was simple, mostly
chords bouncing back and forth, and lots of Weir's growling guitar
(power chords), not quite as harsh as "Victim" but in the neighborhood.
I'll probably have fun playing along with tapes of this part since the
chords are probably within my limited playing ability.
 
There, now that I've put my thoughts down I can read what everyone else
wrote about this show and the new tunes.  Hope tonight is a fun one!
 
-DannyD.

>Well, a very unpredictable 2nd set IMHO.  Not the sort of night where one
>would have much luck calling songs :-) !

Hey!!  That's not true!!  I called Iko...I know, I know - that one doesn't
count ;-)

>3) I've either found the place in the Coliseum where all of the sound
>   from Bob's guitar goes or he's up in the mix.  His guitar was loud
>   and sporting a raspy, sustained sound, sort of like Garcia's guitar
>   work in "Far From Me".

I think Danny was referring to Vince's organ sounds, not Bobby's guitar.
Vince was turned up everywhere in the arena, not just the nosebleeds where
Danny was hanging out ;-).

My personal impression of this show is that it was the best of the three.
The opening act was D'Cuckoo.  They are a all female electronic percussion
band.  During the first few songs, they had a guest musician playing a
digiredoo (sp?).  They did a rap/new wave song on democracy that was very
poorly received, but most of their music has sort of an electronized African
beat to it.  Mickey was invited out to jam with them toward the end.  He
seemed to be having fun.  I wonder what his wife thinks of him running around
with these chics 8-).  Anyways, toward the end, they threw some kind of 
percussion ball into the audience which would make a sound every time someone
hits it.  It was pretty fun - kind of like arena beach ball.  It wreaked havoc
in some sections when people fell over each other trying to hit the ball,
but it was mostly fun if you didn't get fallen on top of (I didn't - WHEW!!)

The first set was well-played even though it was short.  The song selection
was really good.  Jerry had his music stand in front of him still, but it
seems he was using it for more than just the new songs.  During FOTD, he
had to glance at his music sheet to see where he left his wife ;-).  

The second set started off with the mandatory Iko for the parade.  And boy, 
the parades just get better and better every year!!  I was about 10 feet
from the stage (Jerry-side) and we had to stand up when they cleared a 6-ft
aisle for the parade, but there wasn't too much of a crush.  I just had to be
on the floor for the parade though.  You don't get any Mardi Gras souvenirs
hanging out in the seats 8-).  I don't remember all the floats that went by.
I certainly remember the Bart Simpson.  There was a stilt-walker leading a
dinosaur.  There were a lot of giant heads on sticks painted with all sorts
of colors - I think there was a few Chinese sages and warriors.  There was
a float with a belly dancer.  I hope the roll of film that I shot comes out!
That ought to jolt my memory a little!! 8-)  Some of the souvenirs that got
thrown out included the traditional beads, some plastic animals, lots of
flowers, some GD baseball-style trading cards.  I got a Bobby/The Other One
card (anyone up for a trade?? ;-)  There were also boxes of King Kondoms being
thrown with a picture of King Kong on the front.  What King Kong has to do
with condoms is beyond me unless if they're referring to his size ;-).

The second set was excellent.  I had been thinking that I need a second
listen to get more used to the new songs.  Well, I got it.  All 4 new songs
broken out so far crammed into second set!!  Zowie!!  So if you want to 
hear them all, this is the tape to get (besides the fact that it's the best
of the run 8-).  "The Same Thing" was very nice.  This one was planned as
opposed to the last time they did it accidentally.  It was SWEET!!  The Other
One split was nice.  The pre-space Other One segment was a lot stronger than
the post-drums one.  Jerry wasn't doing much of anything during the second
half of TOO.  The new songs seem to flow in and out of the other songs much
better and the band seem much more comfortable doing them than the first time
they did them.  Before "So Many Roads", Jerry fumbled with his music sheets
which did not seem to want to stay on the stand.  He finally grabbed them and
folded them in half.  I kept feeling like I was at a rehearsal ;-).  Anyways,
the music sheets managed to fall to the floor during the song despite his
valiant efforts.  Ramrod ran up and picked it up and put it onto the stand
the right way for him while the crowd cheered 8-).  Bobby glanced sideways
at Jerry and smiled.  The Lovelight was energetic.  The Quinn encore was a
welcome way to end the run.  It, of course, got the usual cheer during the
appropriate lyrics (Everybody's gonna want to doz/se 8-).

Overall, the show was strong and musically very tight.  I plugged into a
friend of mine in the taper section the last two nights of the run.  I'll
have to check the quality of the tapes tonight to see how they are.  If they
pass the quality assurance test, I may offer them up for a tree if there's
any interest.  By the way, Joel Finkel flew in from Chicago to help usher
the show.  He said he's back at DEC as a consultant so look for him at a 
notesfile near you!!  8-)

peace,
t!ng

Sorry, someone hasta take rich's place...

    comments on 3-2-92
    
    Drums sequence included Bill on, this is no lie, the Jack Hammer.!!
    
    Bill suddenly showed up behinnd (I had 14th row so I could see this)
    Bobbys rack with a Hydrolic Jack hammer.  He had some sort of plate
    on the floor hooked up to a mic..... he was having a ball doing it and
    it made some pretty intense noise....  Mickey got pretty psyched too
    and started jumping up in the air and using the heal of his foot 
    on the rebound against his large drums..... making this crashing
    sound to go with the rat-a-tat of the jack hammer.... very unusual !
    
    Out of space they did a rockin' other one, with Phil doing some major
    thunder to start it off like a storm from hell !!  Lights by Candice
    some of the best I've seen during OO.  
    
    Got to run, already wrote this in once and Modem crashed...
    
    
    Randy
    

RE: 62.108  3/5/92

Same Thing??  Is this new?  Old?

Scott

    
    re: Scott .378
    
    It's new in the rotation, but I think it goes back to the '70's..
    Bobby pulled this out last fall and twice since..It hadn't been
    played for 18 years or something like that..?
    
    Does this make since?? Deadbase..
    
    Don
    

    re: spring tour
    
    Geez, I'm already sick of the new songs and I haven't even heard 
    them yet. :-) :-) :-)

	So I guess tonight's the st steven->other one->Cosmic Charlie show

Gee, If I leave now, mebbe I can make it down there for the second set....


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

    same thing was a pig song...thanks to Mrogers for a 67 tape that has a
    GRATE version of that plus death don't have!!! %^)
                                                      rfb

RE;       <<< Note 23.381 by SPICE::PECKAR "Shadow skiing the apocalypse" >>>


>	So I guess tonight's the st steven->other one->Cosmic Charlie show

>Gee, If I leave now, mebbe I can make it down there for the second set....

	Seems I've heard this before .... Chris, Bbb - have you heard this?  :-)

Lisa_who_is_one_of_the_people_Fog_tried_to_convinve_to_take_off_for_Hampton_
yesterday

	anyone else reading the Hampton setlists with as much
	anticipation as ME!  When it came up on my screen my
	eyes tried to absorb every word at once!

	Debess

>	So I guess tonight's the st steven->other one->Cosmic Charlie show
>Gee, If I leave now, mebbe I can make it down there for the second set....

Take a plane, fog.  8-)

    If we leave right now we can make the opening chords, but we must drive
    rilly rilly rilly RILLY FAST !!!
    
    Wake me when we get there :')
    
    Chris

> T!ng, I guess you've never gone for a drive with Fog ! 

Yes, I count my blessings everyday!!  8-)  ;-)

peace,
t!ng

    I hope Landover is having lots of fun extracting miles of duct
    tape from the taper seats because of the mic stand ban. :-)

    I saw the tapers up and running on Sunday, I thought there was a ban?
    I also will never go to the Cap Center again for a "show". I am
    tired of being treated as an animal. It took 45 minutes to get into
    the doors, as two people completed search's. The system was broken
    so bad on Sunday, we did not go back on Monday. It was our worst
    concert ever!!

    re: -.1
    
    Ban on mic stands in the rows, not a ban on taping. They were allowed
    to duct tape the stands to the seats.

So where's the review for Landover from last night  That post-space
seg look great!!  Dark Star *and* Morning Dew *and* a Satisfaction
encore.  YOWZA!!  How's their playing??  Did Jerry remember all the
words??  Did Bobby scream and did he spit (this one's rhetorical 8-)??
Inquiring minds wanna know!!

peace,
t!ng

Saw on the Net as a name for the venue in Landover, MD

Capital Punishment Centre

;^)

    
    
    From Philly, opening night.
    
    I gotta agree with re .-n about the searches and the amount of time
    it takes to get into the Spectrum, Cap Center, etc.  But, the scene
    is fine once you get in.
    
    I know I don't often participate ...

    This was the best DEAD concert I've seen in at least 4 shows, ~ 6 years
    (I'd like to get out more).  I enjoyed the show greatly, perhaps for
    reasons not of the norm: they were not "tight", they fooled around,
    Bobby lost his monitor at one point, Jerry's amp/midi went into
    sustained feedback mode for ~10 minutes in a jam when they were comin'
    into Morning Dew and everyone was gettin' a little pissed, it was
    GRATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This equated to a 10 minute guitar solo for
    Bobby...its been years since I heard him play a lot. Phil sang on two
    songs, whatever and whatever (the first song, a Stones cover and
    Bobby's new one), Hornsby was with them (first time I've seen this) and
    with all five singing Bob's new song, the vocals were very powerful (a
    little rough on the middle 8, but hey...it's a new song!!).  They
    played some Dylan and a two song blues slide.  A little eclectic
    (finally) and just some plain old fun.
    



    
    With the upcoming politcal stuff, I just gotta say
    
    Never give up hope, cause the amount of tie-dye is always a clue as to
    the strength of the flow... 

	"How shall we say it, shall we call it by a name?"


    
    Dave Comfort
    
    
    Vote for Jerry Brown, he's the only one who got a clue!
    

Did anyone notice some guy launch into a rant during the Wed. 3/11 Nassau
show break?  He was on the 2nd tier, on the far end of the stadium from the
stage, waving his arms and yelling for a good solid 3 minutes, at least.  I
was kinda concerned that he was going to announce his discovery of the
possibility of unassisted flight, then demonstrate it ... but the people
around him who were listening were laughing and clapping.  Anyone know what
this dude was laying down?

- Davester

    A rather large guy with a beard? That's probably "hinging" from
    the well (Abdul Jamar something-or-other). He's been around for a 
    long time, always ranting about something. During the sets, he rants
    quietly on a laptop. :-) My personal favorite was the "Greatest Show
    On Earth" spiel he did next to the taper's line in London. I wish I 
    taped it for filler, it was unbelievable!
    
    - Gerry

I think he was kinda tall and lanky, with black curly hair and a beard,
yeah.  What a riot ....

re:  -< 3/24/92 >-

WOW!  When was the last Greatest Story?  

And 3 new songs in a row to end the 1st set.....

Now where did they stick that Lost Sailor?  Maybe they'll find it....

bob

>WOW!  When was the last Greatest Story?  

I don't know about '92, but they played it 11 times in '91, the last on 10/28.  
Interesting that 9 of those times it was in the same spot in the setlist (set 
1, song 2) and most of the time followed Bertha.

This according to the setlists in note 65.*

Scott

I think they opened one of the recent Philly (or was it Nassau) shows recently.





Jum

    
    Yeah I just heard it somewhere.  Either Nassau or the 2nd night Philly.
    
    

well, thanks to the last few replies my memory jogged.  It was played one
of the nights in Nassua two weeks ago.

Lisa

    Does anyone know if Bruce played at Hamilton or Detroit??
    Sounds like they played some nice shows in both places.
    
    :-)
    Thanks,
    Scott

re:  <<< Note 23.402 by ANGLIN::GEBHART "Met her accidentally in St.Paul, MN" >>>
>                             -< Was Bruce there?? >-
>
>    Does anyone know if Bruce played at Hamilton or Detroit??
>    Sounds like they played some nice shows in both places.

Bruce played at both Hamilton shows.

adam

    so, uh, Adam...  how can we twist your arm and get you to do a little 
    hamilton review for us???  hmmmm????
    
    			da ve_jonesin'_cuz_he's_missin'_this_whole_toooor

re:   <<< Note 23.404 by JUNCO::DWEST "Dont Overlook Something Extraordinary" >>>
>                                    -< :^) >-
>
>    so, uh, Adam...  how can we twist your arm and get you to do a little 
>    hamilton review for us???  hmmmm????

Well, I'll try... I can't offer the quality and detail of a T!ng_Review(tm),
though.

We got over the border with no problems, even though we mentioned we were going
to Hamilton.  The other car in our convoy did get flagged for secondary
inspection, but they got through that.  Coming back over was equally smooth for
us.  I did not see or hear any horror stories about the border crossing.

These 2 shows were claimed, by my housemate, to be better than the Nassau
shows.    There is a fairly large parking lot across the street from the arena,
and a large food-vending scene was in action.  Didn't see too many shirts for
sale.  The Hamilton/Wentworth cops were very cool.  No problems as far as I
could tell.  I even saw a pair of cops dancing to a drum circle!  The first
night we got in around 7:15 with no problems.  The arena looks pretty new (how
old is it?) and is well laid out.  For the first night we sat straight back in
the lower tier.  The sound was excellent from start to finish.  My housemate
had a friend running his deck in the taper's section and the audience tapes
came out excellent.  Security seemed non-existent.  People were partaking in
this and that with no intervention from nearby guards.  As for the show itself
(you mean there's a show, too? :-)) I can't remember too much detail except to
say the songs were great.  The Same Thing was slow and bluesy.  Maggie's Farm
elicited the usual crowd roars, especially for Vince and Phil.  Promised Land
was one of the more rocking versions I've seen.

The Shakedown in the second set wasn't quite up to snuff, IMO.  Women Smarter
doesn't do much for me anyway.  After Women Smarter, they started up Dark Star
without too much tuning beforehand to tip it off.  The second verse was played
through, but no vocals.  Phil shined on The Other One.  Standing on the Moon
had Jerry belting out some soulful "rather be with you"'s.  US Blues was fun to
hear considering which country we were in.

For the second night the entrance was crowded and I missed Help->Slip but did
arrive to hear them start up Franklin's.  I wish it were the other way around! 
While walking to the concession stand for some juice during Franklin's I bumped
into Sean O'Connor and his friend Noreen.  I spent the rest of the set talking
with them in the hallway, and thus can't offer much here.

The Vince tune in the second set is pretty good.  I used to think Vince wasn't
a great singer, but I realized he is much better than I thought.  Corrina has a
funky beat, good potential here.  I like this better than I did Victim or the
Crime when it first came out.  Terrapin was about as good as it gets. It led
quickly into drums.  Black Peter was very sweet.  A lot of people dislike this
tune but I like it.  Saturday Night was *extremely* rocking, one of the best
I've seen.  The Box of Rain encore was welcomed (I'm glad it wasn't Heaven's
Door or Baby Blue).

The vocals were very good both nights.  No screw-ups or cracked notes.

Throughout the weekend, I was trying to tell the canadian heads from the
americans, but I couldn't.  Except for the ones who said "eh" a lot!

Back next year (hopefully),

adam

    I normally don't care for black peter live, as it tends to kind of
    drag, but with Bruce at the keys keeping Jerry on his toes, that tune
    rocked! Very bluesy. Best black peter I eva hoid, live or dead (?)! ;')
    
                                    Jason-who-was-luckey-enough-to-make-two 
                                    -shows-this-time-around

>After Women Smarter, they started up Dark Star
>without too much tuning beforehand to tip it off.  The second verse was played
>through, but no vocals.  

How long was the Dark Star??  Did you remember or guestimate??  So they *did*
do the second verse musically and just didn't sing it??  Inquiring minds really
wanna know!!  8-)

>For the second night the entrance was crowded and I missed Help->Slip but did
>arrive to hear them start up Franklin's.  I wish it were the other way around! 
>While walking to the concession stand for some juice during Franklin's I bumped
>into Sean O'Connor and his friend Noreen.  I spent the rest of the set talking
>with them in the hallway, and thus can't offer much here.

Sounds like you only saw half a song in that whole set, Adam 8-/.  I'd kick
myself for missing H>S>F, but that's just me, so please don't feel obligated
to kick yourself when you read this note ;-) 8-).

peace,
t!ng

	Adam - let me get this straight - you drove all the way to 
	Canada and then stood out in the hallway talking to someone 
	for a whole set?!?

    really Ad,.. Ting is right,.. don't kick yourself for driving all the
    way to Canada and missing the set becasue you were late and then
    decided to talk in the hallway for the resdt of the ste,..Yes,...
    you shouldn't kick yourslef,.. come over to my cube and *I* will
    kick you...:-)
    
    							/
    

Holy moly Adam, what if Jerry had moved or something?!?  ;^) ;^)

	Heck, I've been late for for a show or two in my day: No other reason 
than to savor one last marquirtia and some good company, right Ger???

:-)

    To each their own I guess,..
    
    You'll never catch me going late intentionally to stand out in the
    hall...
    
    							/
    

    i can vouch for that...  the only time you'll catch / in the hall
    is when he's complaining about how Jerry's letting him down with his
    performance that evening...
    
    			:^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)
    
    						da ve

    
    Adam.....don't let 'em bother you!!!!
    
    Hogan who has left 2 Dead shows before Drumz/Space on more than one
    occasion (by my own choice), and does not regret doing so.....but then
    again didn't drive all the way up to Canada either time ;^)

    
    OK da ve,.. choose your weapons! :-) :-) ;-)
    
    YAh,.. OK,..so you saw me once in thehalls  ***BETWEEN STES*** ragging
    on Jerry,. but hey,. he *was* LAME that night ,.... Oh,.. I don't
    forget that he could sing and sang well that day,. .but the guitar
    parts for that showed could have been mailed in,...
    
    Anyway,... Now that the ball is in my court,.. I can also tell you Adam
    not to feel bad because having seen da ve in the hall I can tell you
    that what he does there is suffer from delusions that hes seeing a good
    show
    
    :-) :-) :-) :-0 :-0
    
    						/a_bad_day_at_a_dead_show_
    						still_blows_doors_on_a_good
    						_day_of_reality...
    

    ok /!!  i accept your challenge...  
    
    of course, being the non-violent kind of guy i am, for my weapons i
    choose linguine (al dente of course) at 30 paces...  first one with an
    empty plate is the winner...  :^)
    
    					da ve

    Oh no,!!! NOt the dreaded linguine wars!
    
    Sounds cool,.. can I get clam sauce with mine?
    
    							/
    

    yes...  any seafood products are permissible...  personally i think
    calamari is pushing it a little though...  
    
    but no meat products!!!  no meatballs...  no meat sauce...  no
    sausage...  
    
    and only wimps use parmigiana...  i'll take romano on mine!
    
    					da ve

Ok, guys, lets move this to the "What did you have for lunch" note,
ok?  Reviewing linguinis and calamaris don't belong in a Grateful
Dead Review topic ;-).

peace,
t!ng

Geez, I don't feel bad, so stop asking me not to! :-)

The first set didn't contain my favorites.  If they started up Loose
Lucy, maybe I would have at least gone through a gate and hung out in an aisle
for the duration of the song.   After missing Help->Slip, that pretty much
ended the set for me.

If only they did Let the Good Times Roll before it.  That would have given me a
few more minutes to simmer in the mob outside the arena.

adam

Re:   <<< Note 23.420 by EZRIDR::SIEGEL "The revolution wil not be televised" >>>

> Geez, I don't feel bad, so stop asking me not to! :-)

	well HUH!  *I* felt bad for you but no more!!

	Come over here .... so I can kick you!!  ;^)
Lisa

    Aah, Adam, Have you ever missed the first song of the first set before?

    Did they play "nobody's Fault But Mine" anywhere besides Boston last
    year?
    
    Jamie

The David Grisman Quintet opened the show.  I've seen David's band a
few times and I think if Garcia and Hornsby plays with them, I'd quit
work to follow them around the country ;-).  As I don't know the titles
to the songs, I can't provide a setlist (sorry!), but one of the highlights
of their set for me was when they were doing solos in turn on the same tune,
sort of reminds me of a musical conversation or argument - a lot of back and
forth between the different instruments (one instrument at a time).

The Dead had some new toys for this show.  Instead of monitors, they each
had some kind of receiver strapped to either their guitar or (as in Jerry's
case) their leg, wired into a pair of earphones.  The receiver is a square
box about the size of a walkman.  It picks up signals from an antenna next
to Harry's board on stage. The antenna looks like a jack on the top - really
funky-looking.  The contraptions obviously worked really well since the show
was extremely tight and well-played.  The improvisational segues were long
and inspired.  I think another good thing about using these receivers is that
they get to hear the music better without the crowd noise and they can adjust
the volume so they don't go deaf (monitors can get pretty loud!)

First set highlights were Cold Rain and Let It Grow, although I really should
say the whole set (or show!) was a highlight with the incredibly tight jams.
I think being really able to hear themselves without the usual distractions
must've play a big part.  The China/Rider opener in the second set smoked!!
OW!  8-)  During drums, the volume went out for about 5 minutes.  It was
weird seeing Bill and Mickey up there drumming away and us not being able to
hear anything.  Obviously they were oblivious to the situation since they kept
on drumming in spite of the silence (perhaps a bad side effect of the receivers
and earphones??).  After a lot of encouragement from the crowd and a bit of
scurrying around on stage, they got the volume back on (WHEW!!).

The encore, as you may have well guessed, was just IN<expletive>CREDIBLE!!
8-)  The first notes of Baba O'Reilly had us picking our jaws off the floor.
Then, even more so than the reaction to the first Dark Star, the crowd went
wild!!  And I mean WILD!!  I couldn't stop jumping up and down throughout
the encore and yes, I *did* do some Pete Townsend imitations 8-}, although
Jerry didn't 8-( ;-).  Vince sang lead and Phil and Bob backed up.  Vince
just shone!!  That guy can sing!!  I think Roger Daltry might have some
competition.  The playing was tight and you can tell the band was as psyched
as the crowd!!  Jerry and Mickey both looked over at Vince and grinned
throughout the encore.  You can imagine the reaction when Vince sang "THEY'RE
ALL WASTED!!" 8-)  Teenage Wasteland indeed!  My mind certainly feels like
one after that encore!!  (although I should probably leave out the "teenage"
part 8-)

So much fun 8-) and so little sleep 8-( ;-)!!

peace,
t!ng

Life is  so tuff, eh t!ng!

thanks for the review!!!

bob

    >> thanks for the review!!!
    
    For sure ... and if you happen to get a tape of this show, I'd like a
    copy ... ;^)
    
    			... Bobbb
    

Peter Applebaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble opened up the show.
They also opened for the Dead NYE 3 (?) years ago.  The Hieroglyphics
won the Rex Foundation award a few times.  The band consists of most
of-the-time 12 (this number varies depending on when you see them)
members.  The instruments represented include saxophones, trombones,
bongos, grand piano, drums, guitars, and guest violin.  They play
mostly original jazz compositions with some poetry thrown in.  Can
you tell they're Phil's choice??  8-)

The show was overall ok.  Good choice of songs for the first set and
I loved the pre-drums segue.  There was a very noticeable glitch in
Promised Land.  The band tried to cover it by slowing down to get
back into the song, but it came out like a broken record player for
a few seconds.  Box of Rain was very nice.  Phil's voice sounded
excellent!  Bobby forgot the words 3 times during Truckin' (maybe
he needs more practice??  YIKES!!  Like he doesn't get enough 8-/
;-)  The Around & Around was very sweet.  They went from the in-your-
face jam to a slow and long cool jazzy jam and built back up to the
in-your-face jam to finish up the tune (sorry I can't describe it
better than "in-your-face" but you know what I mean ;-).

peace,
a_very_tired_t!ng

Pharoah Sanders opened up the show last night.  I missed part of it 8-(,
but the part I did hear sounded really good.  That ought to teach me not
to go through SF during commuter hours 8-/.  It took us more than 3 hours
getting to Sacramento going through SF as opposed to the 2 hours going
through Livermore, but that's probably irrelevant to east-coasties 8-).
Just moaning...  I won't attempt to comment on the music since I'm not
very familiar with Pharoah Sander's music, but I heard so much about it
that I was really looking forward to it.  The music was cool jazz and
very quiet!!  I found out later that it might have been because the
sound level was turned down 8-/.

The show was much better than Wednesday's show.  The sound was kind of
messed up in the beginning.  That's probably one of the quietest Touch
I've ever seen.  The levels picked up during Wang Dang, but it wasn't
until Row Jimmy that the sound system woke back up for real.  The ender
part of the first set was excellent!!  Maggie's Farm was HOT!!  And
Birdsong was REALLY HOT!!  Jerry got in the most incredible and coherent
jam instead of one of those cacophonous numbers that wanders off into
God knows where!!  Not that he didn't explore - he did indeed, but with
a purpose and a vengeance!!  8-)

The second set opener with Scarlet/Fire picked up where Birdsong left off.
It transformed the audience into a rippling mass of bodies swaying to the
hypnotic rhythm as if in a magical and fulfilling trance.  Who needs drugs
when you've got this music that can bring your mind up to that level of
enlightenment without the distortions!  YES!!  Coming out of space, we
heard a few bars of Gimme Some Lovin', but that quickly eroded to the first
notes of Watchtower.  We were really hoping they'd pick up on those Gimme
Some Lovin' notes too!  8-(  It seems like forever since I've heard it.
Jerry forgot a whole verse to Standing on the Moon resulting in some
catcalls and hoots from the audience.  I hope his earphones really drowned
out some of that audience response.  I think that was kind of rude.  Give
the guy a break!  He's allowed to get senile ;-).  I mean - really!! ;-)

And the encore??  Look, I don't want to talk about it, ok??  These killer
encores are just getting way too much!!  I might die from having such a 
great time!!  ;-)  Just beautiful!!  The crowd sang along to every word
(aka taper's nightmare 8-/).  What a special run!!

I was checking out the new monitorless setup some more last night.  It
looked like Harry had 3 antennae next to his board instead of just one
like I thought.  They stood in a line back so you couldn't see the other
2 if you're too close to the stage.  I also checked out the sides to see
if there was perhaps any hidden monitors flanking the stage.  There
weren't any. The whole setup kind of leads me to believe that Healy is
setting up the shows like a giant studio. The mix in the speakers are
really well balanced (instead of hearing too much Phil (if that's possible
;-) or too much Bobby on any one side).  The band members have little
switches on their mikes that they turn off when they're talking to each
other on stage.  One time Bob messed up and we heard him say something
about whatever not working (didn't quite catch it) - I forgot which
night that happened.  I think maybe Healy is trying to avoid the hassles
he went throught to produce Two From the Vault.  Monitor bleeding into
the mikes??  Get rid of the monitors!!  What a simple and elegant solution!
My hats off to Healy!!  What a guy!  Another thing we discovered is that
the signal coming out from the set of antennae are low-FM, so you can
pick it up with a Walkman if you tune into the right frequency!  Can you
say instant boards!??!!  8->!!

Off to Shoreline this weekend!!  8-)

peace,
t!ng

FM Internal broacasts back???  Whooopppiieeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jerry jamming coherently?     Double whoopie!!!!!!!


:-)

    Sound like my kind of Birdsong,... Thanks for the review Ting!
    
    Sf during rush hour,.. yeah,. we can relate,.. we have rush hours
    out here too...
    
    					/Bill
    

	I'm now getting psyched for the shows!  New songs, and the pressure
is off @ work (first time in 6 mos)........

There were a lot of sound problems during the first show (5/23).  It
sounded ok where we were in the lower level, but people in the upper 200
levels said the levels were very low there.  The first show was distinctly
comatose energy-wise ;-).  The Stella Blue was good though.

The second show was really good - better than any of the Cal Expo run
(even with the amazing encores).  Incredible jam during Shakedown paved
the way for the rest of the show.  The whole show was tight and well-played.
The energy level was back up (seemed like they got some sleep since the
previous day ;-).  All the new songs clustered together in the second set
didn't so anything to wane the energy of the show.  I have to say though
that even though So Many Roads is getting better, it still seems like it's
trying to find its niche.  Post space was just intense (short, but intense)!! 
The Last Time built up the incredible momentum for that heart-wrenching Dew!!
(AAAAAHHHHH!! 8-)  The Johnny B. Goode was a nice change.

And last night's show was by far (and I meant by *FAR*) the best of the
tour!!  The only thing that will describe yesterday's show is ZEEOWIE!!!
8->!!  That show eclipsed every other show on the tour so far!!  YOWZA!!
From the first note to the last, our feet didn't stop moving!!  The song
selection was good.  The second set was beyond description!  It was Jerry's
night!  Every song was rendered with much conviction and soul.  The Iko 
rocked.  Bobby's Spoonful wailed away into a New Speedway that sent the
crowd up in a roar!  During drums, Mickey did the locomotive whistle with
his drums (someone here mentioned he did that at Nassau, is that right?)
It *was* hilarious!!  He seemed like he was having a good time 8-)  I think
it was Mickey anyways.  It could've been Billy.  Hearing the first notes of
Throwing Stone out of space, we felt cheated out of a song.  During the
"Samson" jam in Throwing Stones, Bobby did his rock star thing with running
towards the front of the stage and back and almost missed his queue when he 
was supposed to go back to the mike to pick up the lyrics.  He got back just
in time, but he forgot where he had left off.  DUH...  He laughed at himself
for the goof-up.  Then the first notes of Attics hit our ears!  We can't
believe that they will actually bless a west-coast show with an Attics!!
;-)  Gee, Jerry, we've only been waiting for 2 years!!  And we were not
disappointed!!  What a way to break up a Throwing/Away!!  No NFA ever sounded
better to these ears after that!!  And Vince did the only thing he knew to
top that kind of a show.  He started off into Baba O'Riley (or is that
O'Reilly?)  It was even better than the one at Cal Expo and just as much
fun!!  During Baba O'Riley, Bobby leaped into the air and attempted a midair
split.  He donned a very sheepish grin afterwards like he was saying that
he had to at least *try* it ;-).  I'm just waiting for Jerry to at least try
a pinwheel and maybe a leap if the stage doesn't collapse during the attempt
;-).  All the other band members cracked up when Bobby did his Townsend
imitation 8-).  I think this encore is here to stay.  The whole band just
seemed to have had so much fun both times they did it!!  8->!!  You folks
will be in for a good time in the upcoming east-coast tour!!

peace,
t!ng

One other thing I forgot to mention is that some folks had a crane
set up outside the amphitheatre for bungee-jumping.  I'm pretty sure
this was not a BGP idea.  They were charging between $49 to $79 a
jump.  The more expensive jumps are the higher jumps and the ones where
they tie you around the ankles 8-/.  I somehow couldn't come up with
$50 to have someone throw me off a crane 8-/.  The funniest bungee-
jumper was someone dressed as the red dancing bear.  The whole place
must've been cheering when he was ready to jump 8-).  He did it by the
feet 8-)

peace,
t!ng

Thanks for the review Ting ... I am getting so psyched!!  And yes, it was
me who mentioned the train whistle at Nassau -> it was definitely Bill and
it definitely looked like fun (and sounded LOUD)!  :-)

I am glad Bobby got the Townsend thing out of his system (or did he?)  Anyway,
just the though of a Townsend jump makes me hysterical at the memory of a
friend from college who did that in a (low-ceiling'd) fraternity house party
room.  As he hit the ceiling he looked like a cartoon character whose head and
upper body folded up into an accordian shape, in slow motion.  :-) 

>I am glad Bobby got the Townsend thing out of his system (or did he?)

Well, he *did* get in a midair split for someone that doesn't quite know
how to do a split, so he's not as elegant as a gymnast, but definitely
more flexible than most guys I know 8-).


                           O          <--LIKE THIS!!  8-)
                           |
          PHIL        ____/ \____         JERRY
          HERE         SIDE-VIEW           HERE
                        OF BOB

	:-) :-)  I'm dying!!!!  :-) :-)

    here it is... 3;30AM on a CHILLY Colo Monday Morning, 47 Degrees...
    JUST in from the Vagas Shows..."If yer lookin to be silly, you've come
    to(make that FROM) the right place"...it feels good to be cold again...
    drinkin a "Looks Like Palm Sunday Ale"...half in one gulp
    
    5-29-92 
    was a slow but COOKIN show (baked on the inside as well as the
    out) 1/2 step was slowas was Walkin ...long break then PEGGY-0 that was
    SWEEEEEEEEEEEET..BTW and a TLEO that WAS WHAT IT SAID for me and Patty....
    Memphis
    and a JAckaRow and a PROMISED LAND clsoer taht was GRATE. 
    
    _____________lot's a crazyness here____________________________
    
    THE HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT CHINA CAT that I had been hearin 
    teases of all first set wore my new
    berkinstocks INNNNNNNNNN the Rider was OK
    looks like Bob was goodCRAZY FINGERS was SWEEEETinto playin that was a
    good dancer...D/S Patty and I left the craziees were were with and hit
    the grasssy "recoop" enclosure....WATCHETOWER and Stella/china doll ( I
    say it was China Doll All the time but there's an agrument) was
    REEEAAAL good SUNSHINE DAY DREAM was the best tune ALL
    DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Weight oncore got blown off the satge by the wind
    storm that came out of the desert
    
    5-30-92
    saw us hit the parking lot with my sister that lives in that
    godfrosakinplace for her second show the previous daybeing her first
    and after a smooth mellow indoctrenation decided to let her experience
    something extra-ordinary.....and then went shoping in the scene
    ...our summer roadrobe is complete
    jackstraw was good-->SUGAREE %^) %^)-->wangdang,,a Hightime follwed then a
    MAGGIES, CUMBERLAND was COOKIN...!!!!!! Cassidy went--->Dough Kness
    that kicked!!!!!!!
    ___________some REAL craZIENSEESSSS HEEEERRRRR---------
    
    I WENT TO MEET ALL YOU DEC-HEADS AT THE GRENNPEAce booth but only ran
    into Glenn and Danyell, who had grins and t-kill-u rewfreashers....
    I held up NTTH stickers and yelled DEC - HEADS  a coupl of
    times---soryy we missed each otheer,,
    
    EYES.. and i saw my friend Dan there, like I new I would ...........
    LONG WAY Home I LIKE A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's part of the secopnd set as far
    as I'm concerned TRUCKIN made us boogie! (remember my sister is here on
    firstt shows/run) Smokestack had me thrown.I had calld every song the 2
    days except this on the first notes....TERRRRAPIN %^) %^) %^) %^)
    and the jam that went with it %^)  D/S--> Spanish mircle or Spainish
    jam????? not surebut it went into Miracle Standing on the Moon made
    areal tough friend of mine cry...he told me the next day..OMSN of corse
    but a good one!!!!!!!the Knocken encore we left quick so we could get
    out fast and of course spent he next 3 hours ina line , moving the car
    every 10 feet every 30 minuites..but be did a BUNCH more shopping for
    t-shirts and jewewly too %^)
    
    
    My "Looks like Palm Sunday Ales" are stertin to kick in so please
    excuse the previous ...and following typos....  
    
    
    5-31-92
    
    OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! we stayed up and walked the strip all nite before... 
    ate at Dennys at 5AM and it will take a LOOOONG time for me to ever eat 
    there withgout
    laughing for along time :" Too many colors on the menu" from acroos the
    place "Amen to that!!!" Our older waitress Lucy (guess what she became
    to us) LOVED us....she wasn't used to told THANK-YOU.....
    
    H-->S-->F was OK and called all aaround us  Mingelwood wa good Roses 
    was good Queen JAne BIRD SONG Picasso Moon
     -----------some REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL craziness here
    
    SCArLET--->FIRE was callall around us and was GRATE!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Women are Smarter Patty LIKED  %^)   SO many Roads  I Thought was
    EXCELLENT--->  ST o Circum--->HE'S GONE %%%%%%%^^^^^^^)))))))
    ---> D/S-->  A sweet Attics %^) a spoonful THE OTHER ONE where the
    lyric "the bus came by and i got on" healy screwed with and it was
    timed warped (but was it us someone asked me later at he airport???"
    into a DEW that made me cry
    (but I'm no tough guy) The DEW was the best song of the day...
    
    BABA ORielly couldn;t leave us alone and noone wanted hinm to...the
    beatles tune "Relax yer Mind" is all I can think of was SOOOOOOOO
    COOOOOOOOLLLLL...I'mn not even sure if thats the name of the tune.
    
    We escaped quickly that nite, this nite, last nite (pick one)
    and he i am in cool colorado again 
    
    All in all the second day was the cooker...the first day was a grate
    break in though  and the 3'rd  days second set said "have a good time" 
    ............and I said "Thank-You!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Adios, Lost Vagas........next year..............
    
    
    two more swallows of "Looks Like Palm Sunday Ale" it;s 4:30AM
    AND THERE"S ANT"S CRAWLING ALL OVER THE SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
    
    
    
    
    

    Ok ,.. so like did you enjoy yourself??? :-) :-)
    
    							/
    

rfb: get some sleep! :-)

Vegas has got to be the only other city besidess NYC where deadheads don't
even make a dent 8-).  I guess that's why I love going back there!

Friday's show was riddled with equipment problems associated with the new
monitorless system.  The first set was a major disaster in this respect.
Jerry forgot to flip the switch on his mike and we heard him saying to
Harry "Wait a minute!  Wait a minute!!".  The he looked around some and
seemed to have lost his place.  By Walking Blues, we guessed that he must
have not been able to hear himself in his earphones because he stopped
playing altogether with a frown on his face looking around for help.  It
was strange seeing Jerry standing there with his hands idle.  I've never
seen an unhappier Jerry.  The end of Walking Blues seemed to have caught
Jerry off guard as he looked puzzled and seemingly undecided (or maybe he
forgot) as to what to play next, and it was *his* turn!  Peggy-O started
off with just Jerry and no Bobby providing the rhythm guitar, then picked
back up once Bob got *his* equipment working 8-/.  The BTW was good,
although Jerry still seemed to pause every so often to find his spot again
in the jam.  This pattern hung on throughout the set.  At another point
in the set, Bobby forgot to turn off his mike and we heard him say "Too
much Garcia", then a little while later, "Now I can't hear him at all".
Of course, if Bobby had bothered to look over, he would've seen that the
reason why he couldn't hear Jerry was because Jerry wasn't playing ;-).
During TLEO, Jerry had to start a verse over again.  I felt like I was at
a practice session 8-/.  I think the equipment problem was a big factor in
throwing Jerry out of synch, so I don't blame him.  The second set was
better.  There were no obvious equipment problems.  The Rider was pretty
hot.  Jerry and Vince exchanged licks during a jam.  Jerry was looking at
Vince the way he used to look at Bruce 8-) and he was grinning (a sure
sign that the equipment must be working right again 8-)  The sky had been
covered with a thick cloud cover (much to the delight of the smoldering
fans 8-) all day, and got a lot darker and thicker by second set, so the
LLR and Crazy Fingers and the "cool colorado rain" reference in Rider was
appropriate.  The China Doll was very sweet and full of conviction.  I
almost thought Jerry was going to break down in tears 8-).  The Weight
was greeted with much enthusiasm.  I notice that Bobby sings Bruce's old
part, so the verses were sang by Bobby, Jerry, Bobby, Vince, and Phil
respectively.  I think they should let Mickey take over Bruce's old part
;-).  The wind picked up during Saturday night and we were almost literally
blown out of the arena 8-).  A female voice heard yelling "Aunty Em" during
the frantic exit out of the arena summed up hilariously the strength of
the hurricane-force winds 8-).  I spent a couple of hours picking stuff out
of my eyes.

Saturday's show was a lot tighter.  There were no equipment problems that
we could detect.  Jack Straw was a great opener to a beautifully rendered
set.  We *knew* Jerry could hear himself just fine during the Saturday
show!!  Sugaree should be changed to the Garcia Sugar Jam 8-).  The High
Times was hot and so was the Maggies Farm -> Cumberland!!  The weather
the second day was much like the first.  The sky was covered with a thick
layer of clouds.  During the second set, the clouds got a bit darker.
The Eyes opener smoked and the set kept smoking ;-)!  During Smokestack
Lightning, the real lightning started happening.  The arena seemed to be
in the eye of the storm.  There was lightning all around the arena and
some really close!!  During drums, Mickey and Billy had some help from
Bill Graham with Bill on "thunder" ;-)  There was a long hot jam after
space and then Miracle.  And Miracle indeed!!  Suddenly the sky cleared
up just over the arena and the sun shone through.  A rainbow appeared
on the horizon which later turned into a double rainbow.  One of the
rainbows later reached into the arena!  All this time, the skies around
the arena stayed grey (like there's a hole in the sky above the arena
through which the sun shone) and the lightning kept going.  What a vision!!
I think BG is playing with our heads ;-).  I got a feeling Jerry must've been
thinking the same about Bill when he sang Standing on the Moon.  A beautiful
and heart-wrenching rendition indeed!  And Heaven's Door seemed to describe
well our miracle hole in the grey sky.  Was it a Heaven's Door??

We were not blessed with a thick cloud cover the last day of the run.  The
sun was shining in full strength and it was hot and muggy 8-P.  This of
course effected my enjoyment of the show.  We expected the Help->Slip->
Franklin (after not pulling it out all tour) so it was no surprise.  The
first set didn't do much for me, but I think it had a lot to do with my
mood.  The second set picked up.  A thin layer of clouds moved in to shield
us from the burning sun.  I was at least psyched for the Scarlet->Fire.
The So Many Roads (which we nicknamed Too Many Roads ;-) was a much better
rendition than the Shoreline version.  Jerry had a music stand in front of
him during the second set, but I didn't see him looking at it.  Mickey and
Billy did the train whistle again.  I looked this time to see who was doing
it and they both were.  Billy was doing the train whistle and Mickey was
doing the bells, so they were both driving that train (but not H.O.C ;-).
The Attics after space was totally unexpected and more beautiful than ever.
Steve Miller joined in on Spoonful till the end of the show.  I had my
doubts about Steve Miller being able to hang in the jams with the Dead, but
my doubts quickly dissolved to wonder 8-).  Not only did he hang in there,
but he led in some of the jams to Jerry's obvious delight.  If any musician
can hang in during The Other One, they've more than gained my respect!!  ;-)
And that Dew has got to be the hottest Dew I've ever seen!!  That whole
segment with Steve Miller was just incredible!  During Baba O'Riley, Bob did a
a midair split again and Steve Miller tried one too, although Steve's looked
more like a straight-leg jump that had gone astray ;-).  Then Bobby did some
Townsend pinwheels 8-).  We were waiting for Jerry to respond, but no such
luck 8-( ;-).  I got a feeling Baba->TNK may be the new Brokedown, but who's
complaining when both the band and the audience can have such a good time
every time!  8-)

peace,
t!ng

Thanks, Ting!

>At another point
>in the set, Bobby forgot to turn off his mike and we heard him say "Too
>much Garcia", then a little while later, "Now I can't hear him at all".

I just listened to the tape again.  Bobby did this during Walking Blues,
and he said "And now he's gone" the second time instead.

>During TLEO, Jerry had to start a verse over again.  

This happened during Jack-A-Roe, but Jerry was out in space (not the good
kind ;-) during TLEO.

peace,
t!ng

    some other things come to mind, now that I've gotten it back....
    
    after the 3rd day, in the area the rythmdevils were hangin out in, a
    black guy did some AMAZING in place cartwheels to the delight of the
    audience, he mustve done a hundred before he quit....also, some heads
    weren't quite through with makin music after the 3rd show so they
    started playin the picknick tables, garbage cans, whatever they could
    find to beat on in the walkway...and it sounded DAMN GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    I heard all the stage chatter Fri. but we were in the PhilZone so
    couldn't see very well. 
    
    Patty saw the Townsend arm swings Sun...I had my
    eyes closed and a smile on....
    
    The guy asking for spare change to continue maryjane research was
    funny.
    
    STEVE MILLER settin in with the boyz!!!!!!!!
    
    all the venders !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and all the t-shirts I bought %^)
    
    and there's more snow on the Peak now than before I left!!!!
    The vegatarian burito with the dime in it...the dime is going on a
    chain. 
    
    rfb

>    The vegatarian burito with the dime in it...the dime is going on a
    
Good thing you didn't break a tooth on it.  Did the vendor tell you that
there might be a dime in the burrito when s/he sold it to you??  Or maybe
it was sold at a 10-cent discount ;-).

peace,
t!ng

    actually it was Patty's burrito (and she WAS lucky!)
    and no we were not informed of the bonus prize %^)
    It was in the parking lot after Sat. show, we were starving and most of
    the food vendors had packed it up by then we were stuck in the exit
    line for 3 hours, but WHAT FUN!!!!!!
                                              rfb

A quick trip report....

If y'all remember kerrectly, I had bought tickets to the Vegas shows fer
myself *assuming* my SO wouldn't be into it...

WRONG!!

I scrambled for tix for her too and...
We had a GRATE F*^%IN TIME!!!!  I'm so glad we went together!!!

We drove out from Co.Springs on Wed. night thru the rain and mixed snow only to
set up the tent in Grand Junction just as the stars started to break thru ;^)

Drove thru Utah with the top off on thurs and hit rain again as we started
getting close to Zion -- but by the time we arrived at the south end to camp it
cleared and we had a beautiful evening/night to romp under the stars! 

Drove the rest of the way to the show friday...

Checked out the strip Sat night 8^)  Ceasar's Palace is simply amazing, the
fountains were just awesome and the smiling dolphins had us giggling 8^) -
inside, the statues of the gods were so life-like 8^), and at one point we
turned a corner and I thought we stepped outside and then "WHOA!!" -- the
ceiling was painted with clouds in a sunset type lighting  8^)   What a GRATE
night! 

Can't really add much to t!ng's reviews 
(how DOES she remember all that detail!!!  Amazing!! :^) 

Also thought Fridays show was kinda slow/low_energy -- probably had a lot to do
with the equipment probs...  Highlights in second set: China-rider at the
beginning and  and the wind storm at the end!  We were standing at the very top
in the very back of stadium and the wind was-a-HOWLING!!!  Had a grate view of
some lightning happening in the distance too!!

Saturday's show was simply fantastic for us...  Got well prepared before the
show  8^) walked around and checked out the vendors etc.. went inside and after
visiting with rfb and Patti by the Greanpeace booth, Danielle and I wandered
down onto the floor to see if we could find t!ng.  Found our way through the
crowd (no small feat) and found ourselves standing in a one-by-one patch
looking around aimlessly fer about twenty minutes... finally, I said to myself
"might as well had back out, ifwe were meant to bump into each other, we would
have"  -- just as I turned around to say "let's go" to Danielle -- THERE SHE
IS!!! Said HIGH T!NG!!  Was invited to stay (THANKYOU - THANKYOU - THANKYOU 
T!NG 8^)  The whole show was a HIGHlight!!! 8^)  Cumberland and Cassidy were
HOT, Eyes opener really cool, I REALLY liked Long Way Home, Terrapin's always a
pleasure, thunder during drums followed by the rainbow,  and I'd never seen
Alhambra 8^) 

Sunday's show was really nice...  but reeeeeeaallly hot out in addition to
being VERY spent from day/night from before... highlights: Help->Slip->
Franklin (one of my favorite jams anytime), Birdsong, Scarlet-Fire,  Drums
was awesome, Attics (another first seen fer me), The Other One jammed with
Steve, and Bob and Steve playing Pete T. during Baba was really funny 8^)

Til' next time - 

Enjoy-'

Glenn

It was nice seeing you again, Glenn, and meeting your beautiful
friend, Danielle.  Sorry I missed you and Patti, rfb, but I *did*
walk by the Greenpeace booth a couple of times and didn't see anyone.
In fact, I had just gotten back from the Greenpeace booth when I ran
into Glenn and Danielle.  BTW, has anyone seen hide or hair of Phyllis
since Vegas??  I think she was wearing her invisible cloak.  No one
saw her over the weekend.  Maybe she'll come out if we start off a
string of really bad puns ;-).  Just kidding!  8-)

peace,
t!ng

> BTW, has anyone seen hide or hair of Phyllis since Vegas??  
		               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

well, if you don't see "hair of Phyllis" then she *must* be cloaked.
I bet the Romulins (sp!) are behind this!!  :-)

    so i guess that means shes HIDE-ing  :^)
    
    					da ve

    Hey Da ve!!!
    
    	PABA: Puns Are Bogus Anyway
    
    		:-0
    
    		:-)
    
    		:-?
    
    							/
    

    
    Puns won't be necessary!!!!!!!! :-/
    
    I'm here!  Just a little slow catching up on notes.  I did go to the
    Greenpeace booth too.  Saturday, btwn Steve Miller and the Dead.  (Was
    that the wrong time?)  Anyway - we had a blast as well..  and I thought
    NYC was a crazy town!  I didn't quite make $750 but I did come home
    with money and spent much less than I anticipated so I feel like I won!
    :-)
    
    Did any of you find the grassy areas outside the stadium where you
    could hang out during the show?  These were way cool..  Two of them,
    one in each back curve corner.  They were little areas with grass and
    trees.. perfect places to lie down in the shade during break (or
    Picasso Moon ;-)).  
    
    After the shows were over, on Monday, we took a drive up to Red Rock
    Canyon.  Really beautiful place and nice to relax with nature after a
    week on the strip.  What a difference!  It felt like a different
    planet.  There seemed to be lots of hiking trails and rock climbing and
    stuff but we were pretty burnt by then so we took the scenic overlook
    route. ;-)  Real nice way to end the vaca.  On the way driving back
    into town a group of 6 or 7 burros strayed out into the road.  They
    were really beautiful, gentle animals.  Lots of cars stopped and they
    just hung around the people and let themselves be petted and
    photographed and stuff.  One came right up to our car as we stopped and
    stuck his head right in the window at me!  I tried to get off a picture
    really quick.. I hope it came out!
    
    As far as the casinos go.. Caesar's is definately the classiest and
    nicest place to hang out, but the table limits are a little high.  Not
    too easy to find a $2 bj table, and the roulette tables are $5 minimum
    (as opposed to $2 most other places).  The Mirage is cool.. looks like
    a rainforest inside, but very crowded.  They have the best outside
    though.. complete with a volcano - fire on the mountain!  The Excalibur
    was a real trip.. heads everywhere!  "paging.. Lady Queen Jane and August
    West.. please meet your party at the reservations desk" :-)
    
    As you've heard from everyone else.. the shows were great!  Lots of
    highlights.. the whole after drums part on Sunday just blew me away.
    
    I'll definately do it again next year!!
    
    

 I heard somewhere that because of a ticket screwup, they were giving away 
tix to the first night at Vegas...anybody else hear/see that?






Jum

    
    I don't know about a ticket screwup, but there were certainly many
    tickets to spare on Friday.  Lots of folks ate extras.
    
    

    Patty and I hit the grass every day during space....prob saw you there
    Phyllis and didn't even know it!
    
    Our group ate some Friday tixs...saw 'em for 10$ down to free.
                                                                  rfb

I forgot to mention that Jerry was wearing flashy baggy pants all 3 days.
The first day he wore a pair of blue (various shades in the pattern)
baggies and the 2nd and 3rd day he wore a pair of bright red and blue
baggies (or is it baggie because it's on him?? ;-).  I had to put on
shades just to look at those red and blue pants ;-).

peace,
t!ng

    Jerry  had on new shoes too i think...orange
          rfb

>    Jerry  had on new shoes too i think...orange

Someone mentioned this to me, but I couldn't see his feet from where I
was.  What do they look like??  Are they high-tops ;-)?? 

peace,
t!ng

    yep, reebok type style, w/ laces  (it looked like) , orange.
                                                                rfb

    Obviuosly they were Air Garcias. :-)

    :-)  :-)
    

    
    Hah! :-)
    
    

      Did anyone notice the stunt plane on Saturday behind the stage (in
    front of the mountain). Probally not if you were on the floor. I was
    in back of the floor about halfway up and had a grate view of it. It
    was going straight up and then killing its engine, and also doing some
    killer high speed nose dives, it was grate to watch especially during
    space. 
      The lightning shows were cool (i didn't do friday's show but heard
    there was one then too). I was hopin' for a lazy lightning! And then
    the double rainbow after! The Bush stickers with the swastika for the
    S were interesting. Saw a lot of Garcis in '92 shirts. I got a lot of
    compliments on my grateful bruins shirt. Sorry I missed you guys on 
    saturday, we got to the arena a little later than we anticipated.
    
                                          Can't wait till next year...Dave
    

    yep on the stunt plane ...as well as the ultra-lite that buzzed Sundaze
    show...although it appeared closer in real life than the photo shows,
    for some reason...
                      rfb

6/6/92--Buffalo, NY Rich Stadium 

It was a *long* drive from New Hampshire to Buffalo but well worth the 
trip. It rained the entire trip until we got west of Rochester and 
then turned into a beautiful day! Rich Stadium is huge. It must seat 
80K for a football game. We heard there were over 65K there for the 
show. The first thing that hit us as we walked into the stadium 
parking lot were the number of vendors. I've never seen so many 
vendors at one venue. 

We went into the stadium early and security was essentially hassle 
free and almost nonexistent once we got down to the field.

The setlist looks pretty standard but everything was extremely well 
done. The "Greatest Story" in the first set was one of the stronger 
versions I've heard in a while. Vince had some real nice fills on this 
and has definitely come into his own. He did not sound like the same 
keyboard player I saw on the fall tour.

The highpoint of the first set had to be the "All Over Now." They've 
redone the intro so that it matches the opening riffs that the Stones 
used to play. At first we didn't even recognize what they were going 
into! This version rocked! Vince again almost stole this one from Bob 
with his solos. There were a couple of spots where he sounded a lot 
like Keith when he was in his prime. Bob Bralove seems to have found 
the solution to the missing B3 sound, too, as the second solo from 
Vince almost had me convinced he was playing a Hammond.

After FOTD, Bob started the take a step back routine until he was interrupted 
by Jerry telling him that he had it all wrong. Jerry said everyone had 
to move sideways and that no one could move until the people in the 
back took a step back!

The second set started fast. They came onstage and launched right into 
Aiko without going through the usual tuning routine, which has to be a 
first! Near the end of "Estimated" Bob muttered something about "give 
it some gas, Healy" and went into a hot version of "Same Thing." Bob 
was obviously having trouble with the new monitor system as you could 
clearly hear him talking to Healy during several of the songs.

The "Baba O'Reilly>Tomorrow Never Knows" encore was not expected! 
While we waiting to get in we heard them soundcheck "Casey Jones" a 
couple of times, and throughout the show after the video monitors came 
on there were several train images going across the screens during 
"He's Gone" and "The Wheel." Vince does sound like Roger Daltrey on 
this one! Near the end of "Tomorrow Never Knows" he also teased us 
with a couple of "same as it ever was, same as it ever was" from the 
Talking Heads song!

	- Car fire/explosion across from rest area near Syracuse

	  A car headed East stopped across from a rest area and
	  two people escaped from the car as it burst into flames!!!

	- Incredible amounts of trash in Rich Stadium area, trash
          everywhere more than I have ever seen at a show :-(

	  The trash cans had steel tops over them (real useful)

	- No Bruce!!! (If I saw that much trash at my show, I wouldn't
	  show up either!!!) 

	  I guess Bruce has officially left the band, but this has made
	  no negative impact on the music.  Seems as though the whole
	  band is counting their beats alot better than when Bruce was
	  there.

	- Quiet first set (sound) could hear Bobby saying things after
	  and before each song

	- Great 2nd set, Vince is excellent!!!! (looks like Bozo the clown)


	- Niagara falls, loads of Heads there on Sunday

	Grate time as usual,

	I read in the net that there were two show related deaths, that
	really bummed me out this morning.  That news, combined with the
	amount of trash I saw, really makes me wonder if I would want a 
	Deadshow in my home town.  Maybe the people of Veneta have a good 
	point. :-/

	nothing to dwell on though :-)   

Thanks, Mike!  Was the vending scene more extensive than shoreline's??

peace,
t!ng

    it was my first buffalo show and i find good and bad to say about it...
    
    more good than bad though...
    
    first little bummer of the day was when the security people in the
    parking lot told us we were not allowed to sit on the ground... 
    "excuse me, but could you say that again???   we aren't allowed to sit
    on the ground????"
    
    "that's right...  you can sit on your cooler but you can't sit on a
    blanket on the ground..."
    
    that didn't last long...  rebels that we are...  :^)
    
    i did't think the trash situation was as bad as i had seen elsewhere...
    there were precious few receptacles for it aound too...
    
    lots of vending...  i got some cool stuff!  pretty mellow overall...
    
    most mellow securitty people on the planet... even though they told us
    we couldn't sit on the ground...  :^)  inside the arena was pretty much
    GA...  it was my first show on the floor...  during Steve Miller (who i 
    really enjoyed btw) i managed to get up in front of the board... 
    progress stopped when i hit a vast array of in-front-of-the-board-tapers-
    from-hell...  i can understand needing to protect your equipment and i
    can undderstand wanting the best tapes you can get, but these people
    were almost a safety hazzard in that they inhibited any and all motion
    in and around that whole area...  there were people who wanted to sit
    on the floor and couldn't just because there were too many heads
    crammed into too small of a space...  it's hard to leave to make space
    when you have half a dozen large people saying "don't even think of
    passing through here-it's NOT a good way"...  i would be willing to bet
    that there were almost as many tapers in front as most indoor shows
    have at all...   i tried on several occasions to get out of there and
    back to my stuff (i wanted water and room to sit) but couldn't move...
    the "take a step back" routine was a joke...  taking a step anywhere
    meant walking on someone...
    
    for the show itself, i thought Vince and Phil were on it all night...
    Vince was beautiful and Healy should be slapped for not putting him
    higher in the mix vocally...  his keys are there but his grate voice
    could come formward a lot more...  the first couple of lines to Baba
    O'Reilly were almost non-existent, and even after he turned him up
    some it was too low for my tastes...  Phil was a happy camper pretty
    much all night though...  lots of big smiles and happy little
    movements...  :^)  i don't know if i've ever enjoyed Phil more...
    
    Bobby has to either learn this new sound system better or shut up...
    i found his little comments to Healy to be somewhat annoying...  Bob
    and Jer put in good performances...  Drums were way cool...  Mickey
    seemed to be getting a chuckle out of BIlly through a lot of it...
    the train whistle stuff and those huge air-horns were pretty neat!
    i was hoping for some of the new songs but no such luck...
    
    as usual, not enough bathroom space too...  the few outside
    portopotties were overflowing...  the mens room that i went to inside
    got pretty well trashed as well...
    
    we camped at Darien Lake State Park, about 20 miles from the stadium...
    pretty nice little park for our purposes...  surprisingly quiet from
    all the rangers and folks on constant patrol...  first time i was ever 
    given a police escort to my camp site!  not a good place if you want to
    get rowdy and make noise all night, but if you want a quiet place with 
    decent facilities it'll do nicely...
    
    						da ve

    Re -.1
    
        We stayed in a campground that was exactly the opposite of the one 
    da ve stayed in...It was called Colden Golden Pond and was basically a
    big field on the shores of a tiny pond but it was hoppin' from the
    second we got there to the second we left.  Friday night, the party 
    went all night, making it very hard to get any sleep whatsoeva.  They
    had a little restaraunt there with an all-u-can-eat brunch for $3.50
    which was great.  They had geese families to feed, a nice little
    general store,  warm showers(if you were lucky enough to get there
    before the line formed) and they even handed out directions to the
    show.  This was my first trip to Buffalo and even with the serious lack
    of sleep and the occasional rain and the 1000 miles I drove round-trip,
    I had a great time and if the Dead go back to Rich Stadium again, I'll
    be there....  :-)
    
    P.S.  My favorite part of the show was the Estimated> Same thing
    part... Estimated is a great "stadium" song!!!!
    P.S. part II  Can't wait for those Giants Stadium shows...
    
                :-) DaveB.
    

    Hi there,
    
         Did anyone happen to have taper tickets for the Buffalo show? 
    Is there going to be a tape tree for this show? If anyone could offer
    any information it would be much appreciated.  I would really like to
    get a copy of the show, it waw my first trip to Buffalo and I had a
    really good time.
    
    						Shawn
    

    keep an eye out in the file...  a buffalo tape tree is in the works...
    
    					da ve

    :*] Thanks da ve
    
    
    Shawn

    I take it there WAS a SPACE  after DRUMZ and before WATCHTOWER on
    6/9/92 Richfield Colosium????
                                 rfb

the weather the last few days has been just phenomenal - real
typical June weather - hot days, blues skies, big puffy clouds.
The ride to Albany and back driving through the mountains of
Vermont and the farm country of New York was most enjoyable.

We got lost in Albany, lost getting to the campground, lost
getting back to Albany - got into the show about 20 minutes 
after it began - missed Bertha :-( and Minglewood...came in
on Row Jimmy.  I hate when that happens cause I'm all pumped
up about getting in late and then it takes me a long time
to get into the groove.  It took me almost the whole first
set to wind down.  Around the time they played Loose Lucy,
well, I was starting to e n j o y ........

The second set was so warped and so calming that by the
end of the show, I was feeling totally relaxed.  I think
the highlights of the show (for me) were space and the jam
after Playin' - we were located way up in the second tier -
the light show seen from above was just totally amazing.
I don't know if you could sense the effect if you were
on the floor, but from above it was really a show by itself.
Lights spirally around, shining down on the crowd, shining
up towards the ceiling, zooming around the whole arena, 
random flashes of light zipping throught the crowd.  Hard
to explain, amazing to see.  Both of these extended musical
spaces were some very good stuff.  Felt good to me!

I wasn't that thrilled with the location of our seats
because I really felt like I was observing the scene more
than being a part of it - I like to be right in the thick 
of things.  It was a good perspective for the light show but
the way the speakers were set up, it didn't seem like the 
music was being played to us.

Thursday's show got me in the mood - I came in frazzled and
left feeling quite alright - but it still didn't fulfill what
I came to Albany for...

It ended up that our campground was pretty much filled with
deadheads.  Fun to see all the colors and to share knowing
smiles with folks you pass wherever you walk.  Late in the
afternoon, a woman that works there came by to see if we
were selling t-shirts - she said they loved having us there.
Actually, it seemed like all of Albany loved having us there.
I got very good feelings from that place.  Security was pretty
cool.  Lots of welcome signs on business establishments.
Good scene.

We got a surprise visit from slash and tree during the afternoon.
They were camping in the same place.  We spent the rest of the
day hangin' out in the sun, partying, playing music, eating,
LAUGHING!  We all drove into Albany together and scoffed some
seats in the first tier directly out from the stage.  Much better
sound there.  I was looking forward to a high energy show and
we got it - right from the first note of Jack Straw.  It was ripping.  
The whole first set seemed to just move right along - unlike the
night before which was very choppy.  The vocals were right on.

During the set break we got kicked out of our seats.  I wanted to
stay there cause I was hoping to get some good drumz effects with
the speakers pointed in our direction (squatters' rights!) ... we moved
to the back row.  The break was long and towards the end the crowd
started getting pretty restless.  They started the wave around the 
arena - on all the tiers - it was so funny ... and then it got
faster and faster and louder and louder ... you could feel the happy
energy!  The lights went down and the band came out and noodled for
what seemed like 5 minutes.

Scarlet Begonias was great!  The space it entered went out and threatened
to not return!  I think the whole arena was drenched after this one!
Fire On The Mountain had a mambo-like beat which I thought was great.  
I was pretty excited to hear Vince's new song - I was hoping to hear it 
and kind of figured we might because there were alot of blues strains 
throughout the show.  His voice is great.  I really like this song.  

During Truckin' we got kicked out of our seats again :-( by a very
angry security guy.  Why they decided to clear the aisles in the middle
of my dance I'll never figure out ;-)... oh well... but I didn't want
to go to my seat which was on the side of the stage - I wanted so much
to be in front of the speakers for drums.  As soon as I got out in the
hallway I ran up the next set of stairs to the 2nd tier but still in
front of the stage...  just in time for Smokestack Lightning!  
And DRUMS!!!!!  When I saw Mickey and Billy being left on stage I
slid down to the railing and leaned out into the arena.  They were
WAILING on the drums and then when they stepped away to "the toys"
I finally got the treat I was looking for.  Again, the lights were
great.  They turned the sound up it seemed - when the beam's vibrations
were spinning around from speaker to speaker, a spotlight went with
it.  You could tell when it was coming around to you - and I could
open up my arms and let it go right in my body.  The whole drums
section was so healing - that's the only way I can describe it.  You
could feel how good it was and when I looked around at the people around
me I could see they were feeling it too -- ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Space was very very ... weird.  Just a lot of notes.  Playing with
the toys.

Into The Last Time...the whole place was swinging.  Into China Doll...
the whole place was listening... the vocals just a preview of what was
to come...

When they started Sugar Magnolia I knew it was the last song.  But the
energy!  The lights were pretty bright and you could see the whole
audience.  The whole audience was moving!  Fast!

After they left the stage the crowd started a Not Fade Away clap.
If that means that "our love will not fade away" to the band, that's cool.
If that means we want to hear NFA, no, that's not what I wanted.  I wanted
to hear Baba O'Reilly.  But what we got was better!  Attics was
SO SWEET!  Their vocals were right on.  I had chills and I walked
(or should I say, floated) out of there with a completely contented feeling.

Ran into slash immediately - kinda cosmic!  We weaved through vendor village.
Saw Jum, got stickered by dc, hugged by Phyllis, hugged by Phyllis again,
and THEN, a scene which I am not too sure I didn't just envision, but the
AMAZING slash! the human slinky!  We're walking to the car past this
grassy park on a hillside.  There's little groupings of deadheads sitting
in the dark.  slash empties his pockets.  And THEN he starts doing 
handsprings down the hill - one after another after another.  Oh!  It
was SO funny!  The crowd was clapping.  He put all his stuff back in
his pocket but we begged him to DO IT AGAIN!  He did.

Good time in Albany!

Debess
 

    Yah! Sometimes I wonder when I'm heading out to a show whether
    I'm too old for this anymore. But they ALWAYS prove me wrong!
    I really wanted to sit down at points in the second set of friday
    night's show but THEY WOULDN'T LET ME! What an awesome Sugar Mag
    that was. I was digging Bobby winding up to hit those big power
    chords that kept kicking it up to a higher level. Great Scarlet/
    Fire!
    
    Hung out in Da ve and Gerry's rather, uh, odiferous room after the
    show. 
    
    Hey / mon, that was ME honking at you on the Pike on the way home
    saturday! 

>    Hung out in Da ve and Gerry's rather, uh, odiferous room after the
>    show. 
    
	oh, did those guys have bean burritos before the show too? ;-)

    re .-1
    
    no, it was more to do with wearing the same socks too many days
    in a row :-)

    One of the things I like about being up close is being able to
    really see some of the interactions between the boyz...
    
    During Maggie's Farm on Friday (Albany, 6/12/92), it went 
    something like this...  Bobby sang a verse, then Jerry...
    during the jam that ensued, Jerry kept looking over at Vince,
    who pointed toward the other end of the stage...  Bobby sang
    another verse, then Vince...  meanwhile, Mickey is banging
    away, and looking over at Phil with an ever-growing smile 
    on his (Mickey's) face...   finally, Phil starts to sing,
    the crowd cheers, and Mickey breaks into one of the biggest
    grins I've seen on his face...
    
    
    /bruce

>                        -< one vignette from Albany... >-

	more! more!


	so, bruce, did you bring your camera afterall...
	did you get some good shots...
	didja get some nice ones of, uh, Bobby's, uh, *shorts*!

	Debess_who_would_be_interested_in_seeing_THOSE_up_close ;-O

    :-) Debess,
    
    Well, the shots looked pretty good through the viewfinder;
    we'll have to see how they develop...  I haven't done
    any serious picture taking lately, and I really wanted
    to boogie during that hot, hot, show!!    Bobby does have
    some great legs, though...  they look real strong.  We'll see
    whether I caught that in the pix...
    
    /bruce

    speaking of Bobby,
    
    He kept screwing up the lyrics in _Truckin'_, and then shaking
    his head each time, 'cause he was really angry with hisself...
    but I thought he really redeemed himself with a *smokin'*
    _Smokestack Lightning_!!
    
    I also thought that he didn't look very happy during the
    first songs of the first set.  Seemed to me as if he was scowling 
    a lot during the early going...    
    
    /bruce
    

    hey, let's be fair...  that smell comes with the room...  in fact, we
    paid extra for it...  it's the "econo-roma"!!!  :^)
    
    Albany is definitely my favorite place to see a show...  friday night
    solidified it!!!!!  thursday nights show was ok...  not great but still
    quite good...  Ger and i went in early hoping to upgrade our seats...
    both nights our seats were up in the rafters behind the stage...  we
    never sat there...  :^)  thursday night we just walked in and sat a
    section away from MJ and co...  (our "econo-roommates")...  we got to
    stay there for the whole show too!  lots of empty seats in that section
    for some reason (Jerry's side, close to the stage)...  
    
    so, for thursday, the first half of the first set was sort of
    "standard"...  nothing exceptional...  i enjoyed the Dire Wolf (usually
    do)...  BIODTL was a good one...  then got my first Loose Lucy and dug
    it a lot! :^)  closed with Music Never Stopped which i always enjoy...
    we stayed in our seats during set break since the halls were ridiculous
    and we didn't want to lose the seats...  set 2 opened with a pretty
    Foolish Heart...  not a great one, but nice...  Playin' and the
    subsequent Jam were real nice and the UJB was pretty fine too...  then
    d/s, a good Miracle and Wharf Rat, and a round and round that got a
    little screwed up...   the Quinn encore i found unremarkable... 
    highlights for me were Lucy, and Playin'->Jam->UJB...
    
    then back to hill st again and home to the econo-lodge to meet the rest
    of the econo-crew and crash out in front of the econo-vision...  
    fortunately we saw MJ and Christine in hill st before the show and got
    our econo-key cuz the econo-cop didn't want to let us in without it...
    
    the next day, after an econo-shower we were greeted with requests to
    "come outside and play!" so we did!  :^)  we checked out the lot scene,
    went up to the observation deck in the tower (cool, bootiful voos)
    and then went and ate...  hung out for a while at the hemp rally...
    the tunes there weren't very tuneful though so we didn't hang out
    long...  back to the room for some econo-partying before heading to
    hill st and the lots again...  seems like i met everyone at hill st
    EXCEPT for the people i was supposed to see there...  Don? /??  Tree??
    did you folks ever make it there??  before or after the shows???
    
    Ger went in earlier than i on friday and it turned out to be a bummer
    for me, cuz even though i improved my seats again (Phils side at the 
    back corner just off the floor) i didn't doas well as Ger and Billetier
    and crew...  oh well...  didn't matter...  amazing show!!!!!  it just
    don't get any better than that!!!!!  they were on from the minute i got
    in (which was late unfortunately due to a mob scene outside)... the
    second half of Jack Straw was fun as was the nice Sugaree that
    followed...  very nice Mexicali->Maggies!!!  Brown Eyed Women was a
    good one followed by one of only two slow songs all night...  Black
    Throated Wind was pretty but New Speedway Boogie and Promised Land
    CRANKED!!!  i thought i was going to get bounced from my new seats but
    the usher just wanted to make sure we weren't smoking...  :^)  after
    all, the boys were about to smoke enough for all of us!!!!  yikes!!!!
    Scarlet->Fire was hot and L,L,L,L Way to Go Home was fantastic!!!!
    Truckin and Smokstack were way cool too...  nice d/s and then a Last
    Time...  i wasn't looking for the last time but i liked it a lot...
    China Doll was really sweet and Sugar MAg->SSDD was a fantastic closer
    that caused one of my neighbors to scream himself hoarse (i personally
    wish he had done that BEFORE China Doll but you can't have everything i
    guess)...  as Debess said, Attics was totally sweet and a wonderful way
    to cool us out for the trip back outside...
    
    back to hill st for more revelry and yet another in the growing string
    of silly-rules-for-dead-shows...  in Buffalo we were told we couldn't
    sit on the ground...  in Albany we were told that we couldn't play with
    balloons in the bar...  it's a safety hazard you know...  of course,
    they encourage drunken fools to throw pointy objects (darts) around the
    room, but balloons are dangerous...  :^) :^) :^)  oh well, it gave us
    an excuse to go back to the econo-room and share our econo-experience
    with our friends... :^)  econo-vision was very entertaining that night
    ("he's a hero-that's his job!" :^)...  after an hour or two of actual
    sleep, we had an uneventful trip home to the Northampton Brewery...
    well, it FELT like home there anyway...  :^)
    
    					da ve_the_econo-traveler :^)

    Little bits keep dribbling back into my brain...
    
    Thursday,  _Quinn_ seemed to me to be a perfect encore...
    it just *felt* completely right to me as a song choice...
    But to me, it sounded off, like there was something missing
    from the middle of the sound spectrum...  either Jerry lost
    his voice a little, or someone forgot a musical line, or something
    got lost in the mix;  but the sound felt very incomplete to me
    during _Quinn_.
    
    /bruce

I have to agree that Bobby has very nice and muscular legs.  It must
be from all that mountain-biking he does (non-mountain-bik<ers take
note!! 8-)  But Bobby redeeming???  Nawwww!!  ;-)

peace,
t!ng

    
    
    	My Albany trip report
    
    		Thursday was just an OK show. Yes,. I am a critic,.. and
    I'm sorry but Jerry's guitar playing was a bit off and he mis-cued
    badly on several leads/jams... the most notable being Round 'N' Round
    (such an easy song too!!!). Highlight was the Playin' jam and the
    jam at the very end of the first set for MNS. It seemed that right
    after they say "the music never stoppped" where they go into that
    looser spacier kind of groove,.. than they're supposed to all "snap"
    back into the basic gorrove and jam out,.. well,. at the "snapping
    point",. it seemed like Bob was the only one who snapped. Jerry was not
    ready to leave the spacy groove yet,.. and Bob caught Jerry by surprise
    and for a couple beats there the sound got,. um,. plreety ugly :-/,..
    but then in tru Jerry fashion,.. our man Garcia took the "screw up"
    and went with it,.. when he joined Bobby for that jam,.. WOW! I love it
    when Jerry gets a little kick in the butt and alll of a sudden he
    starts-a-jammin' !!!! :-)
    
    	Still though,m.. Fridays show was better played,. altghough not the
    hottest,. .I only saw one or two minor miscues early in the first
    set,... and after that everything was nicely played. But the singing
    Friday night!!!! China Doll and Attics both brought a tear to my
    eye,... Attics alomst got me balling it was so beautifully rendered
    with sweeet sweet emotion and harmony,.. aaaaaahhhhhhh :-) On the
    Hot/interesting side,.. Bobbys laid back approach to the Smokestack
    vocal really gives the band a great groove,.. sounded awesome,.. and 
    I thought only Pig could sing Smokestack,.. Vince really shined on the
    Long long way,.. great job Vince! Phil did a lot of backup singing
    which was great to hear as well... the band always seems to get psyched
    when Phil sings,..
    
    	After show Thursday we smoked a few beers with dc and Jum and
    passed my acoustic around,.. good times at Jeremy's that night,.. ended
    up outside drinking and strumming with some friendly strangers and in
    between a flurry of broken D strings we had some fun wondering if I
    had locked the keys to Treemons car in his trunk :-},. but,. hooray!
    I spaced out and they were right inthe guitar case !!! (whew he said
    wiping the econo-sweat (tm) from his brow.
    
    	da ve,. we were late both nightgs getting into Hill St/Albany.
    Both nights after the show I ran into Phyllis to find out that she had
    just seen you "two minutes ago" pointing in the direction that we had
    bascially just come from???? I think we were on mutual cloak this
    weekend?!?! I do still want to touch base with you on certain things,..
    you coming Saturday?
    
    	We (Tree and I) owe a great debt of thanks to Debess and Guntis for
    "adopting" us for the day Friday. What a relaxing gorrvon good time we
    had just doing nothing,.. and,. oh yeah,.. LAUGHING!!!! Highlights for
    me were hearing Guntis say "May the tent be warm tonight" as he
    reached for another pre-show bean burrito :-),... then there was
    Debess trying to drink seltzer from the bottle :-)... then there was
    the gazillion "stories" Guntis kept telling,.. it seemed like the
    stories just kept coming,.. sort of blending into one :-),..After the
    show Friday I think I cracked up everyone I talked to,.. there was the
    one guy handing out religous stuff,.. so I took some of it,.. then came
    to another guy also dolling out religous stuff,.. so I say to this
    second guy "No thanks I got it right here already",. and he stares into
    my hands for what seemed like an eternity,.. even thoughg it was only
    a few seconds,. I felt something coming out of him sort of trying to
    mezmorize me and make me hold my position,.. but I was too high on my
    own energy and broke his spell and as I walked away,.. he was still
    stuck there p[eering into the space where I had once been,..???
    Eventually somebody came by to revive him ( I hope!)...Everybody loved
    the hand springs,.. but I got the biggest kick out of the three guys
    (one driving and two directing) trying to parallel park on this hill.
    I became the third director immediately and proclaimed that the car
    was now close enough to the curb and could not get any closer without
    becoming part of it,. which the three of them suddenly agreed was the
    case and gave me a hearty thanks and were then able to proceed with
    their lives. The two doods in the Volkswagon (Philverneugen) took the
    cake though. One was semi-comatose in the driver seat,.. I think he
    muttered something like "Are we there yet?" (they were parked) (smack
    dab in the middle of vendor village where there is really no hope of
    moving in a car after the show) while I was talking to the other,.. very 
    cosmic dood who had erected a sail and a mast on the VW bug form hell and
    was wearing what looked like a skippers hat but it had a cops badge on it,
    .. I instructed him to arrest his friend for imagining to be driving while
    obviously under the influence of ...??? :-),.. to whcih he assured me that
    the situation was well under control,.. YAH RIGHT! :-) :-) The Treescam 
    for our camp sight was great,.. but I really should let Treemon tell it,..
    he was great,... a complete multi faceted scam and I didn't even have to
    think it up! :-)
    
    	Anyway,.. I had fun,...I'm back,.. and I can now wait for the
    fall run without Jonesin too bad this summer. Thanks to Treemon
    for getting this whole venture started for me..!!! And a big Thanks
    to Debess and Guntis for getting me rolling on the ground at the
    camp Friday,.. and I thought I was too sick to make this trip.!.!?!?!?
    
    
    	BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
    
    									/
    
    PS They're not the best at what they do.....
    
    

 Well, I had a grate time...We got to Albany about 3 Thurs, hung out with 
 John Shep and Carol, et al preshow, then headed off to the scene.  Once we
 found our way around town and parked it was great.  Headed to Hill St for a 
 quick cold one and saw Phyllis and met Jay Jollimore and friend.  Then out into
 the sun for the parking lot and a couple more cold ones and a bite to eat and
 into the show.  Thurs night we were on Phil's side in the second level towards
 the back (same section as Debess and Guntis)..I thought the sound kept coming
 going, but I wasn't about to complain.  Bertha was a welcome opener, Minglewood
 while not my favorite tune, was nice..loved the rest of the set, particularly
 Dire Wolf and Loose Lucy..during the break I decided to head out and try to
 find my brother's roommate and got hung up in the centrifuge (thanks Tree) and
 after an orbit of the arena, returned to my seat and a welcome visit from 
 Debess :-).  I enjoyed Foolish Heart, Playin was real nice, and Uncle Johns'
 band made my night.  After the show it was off to Hill street to make an 
 attempt to hook up to my brother's roommate (which didn't work out) but we
 bumped into / and Tree..so off we went foraging the parking lot for food and
 beer and a lot of fun conversation and back to Jeremy's for more fun and music.
 Thanks / for bringing the guitar...there was lots o' partying going on at 
 the motel..think we finally called it a night about 3AM..Oh yeah..loved the
 Around and Around...my throat hurt from yellin' with Bobby :-)


 Next day, off to the show a little earlier..hung out in the lot, on the lawn
 for food and fun and stickers..in to the show and sat directly (almost) 
 opposite from where we were the night before.  I was expecting Jack Straw and
 was pleased...Sugaree (which I predicted) was sweet..the whole first set was
 wonderful..second set was great..Scarlet->Fire seemed to go on forever and I
 loved it..I might add that at this point or shortly before I was witness to
 a phenomenon that few humans have the opportunity to witness...2 Dave Clarks
 in the same section seated right next to each other!..Oh, yeah, and a far too
 brief, though pleasant visit from a famous short person 'tween sets was 
 welcomed..back to the music..I loved Vince's tune (in fact allow me to say
 that I was verrrrry impressed with Vince's playing throughout the 2 shows)..
 Drums/Space was a killer for me..it all came together there..the lights were
 incredible...the rest of the set was nice, the Sugar Mag made the 2 shows 
 for me, but alas, my throat hurt again from yelling with Bobby :-)  Was hoping
 for Baba O'reilly as the encore, but Attics was perfect.

 Oh, yeah...the wave 'tween sets had me laughing so hard I thought I was gonna
 pass out :-).


 A fun time, which had me wishing I hadn't turned down the Giant's tickets I
 could have had :-(



 Jum

RE:     <<< Note 23.485 by STAR::SALKEWICZ "It missed... therefore, I am " >>>
                 -< They're the only ones who do what they do >-

    
    
>    	We (Tree and I) owe a great debt of thanks to Debess and Guntis for
>    "adopting" us for the day Friday. 

	well, you know, once a mom, always a mom ;-)

>    then there was
>    Debess trying to drink seltzer from the bottle :-)... 

	I may not be too good with water, but you didn't see me spill
	one drop of champagne, didya!


	Debess

    
    Allow me to Deja reView (since / and I were siamese twins for the
    Albany shows).
    
    Wednesday night sponsored a phone call from / saying "don't know if I
    can make it Tree, I feel pretty sick..."  after hanging up and leaving
    it at I would call him tomorrow to find out fer sure, Tree-wife dubbed
    the /man a whimp!  Rare for Stacy to break out in such hostility...
    
    But alas the / pulled through.  We scored Friday night tix in trade for
    a giving /'s sister in law's roomate a ride to Albany, and were quite
    psyched about it too!  The ride out was a winding up-down and all
    around for the show, we finally found Thompson Lake State Park at
    ~5:30pm and there were "possibly one or two sites left" as Ranger Rick
    told us (I must say that though these campground folks took a while to
    do business, they were all more than hospitable to the flocks of heads
    that arrived).
    
    Well, off to the sites (via a map given to us by Ranger Rick).  First
    one taken, we drove across the map to the other one.  Now for the
    confusion...  The site on the map that he circled was #113, and on the
    map it was five sites past the washrooms on the left.  Well, we got
    there, and it was labelled #115 and it was occupied, but the one next to 
    it (labelled #114) was open.  Well, the labels on the actual sites did
    not correspond to the sites as they were listed on the map, and site
    #114 (as listed on the map) was actually labelled #113.  So we played
    the shell game with the rangers, and sufficiently confused them into
    agreeing that we were o.k. where we were and that site #113 was
    unaccurately labelled...  So after going back to the site / and I
    pulled a quick switcheroo of the signs and we were in #113...
    
    Thursday heading in, we got split up (/ needed O.J. before heading in)
    but he quickly rejoined me after Bertha...  good seats, straight back
    in the last row of the lower section, so we were backed up right to the
    boxes.  Sound was distant but good.  The show was there and I enjoyed
    it, but it never REALLY launched me...  First set highlights were
    Vince's build during Queen Jane INTENSE! and Music Never Stopped...
    
    We were seated next to Adam and Geoff S. and enjoyed, enjoying
    together.
    
    Second set, I enjoyed playin' and UJB was decent...  Drums as always
    was a highlight for me, though no train whistle was to be found either
    night.  
    
    Afterwards, a cool vendor scene awaited us, and a mellow evening at
    Jeremy's with Jum, Dave Clark, / and me.  Driving back to the
    campground for a nice evening's sleep... 
    
    Friday during the day was the MOST relaxing day I've had in a while...
    First we saw Paul Walker at the campground and stopped in.  He was with
    his friend Rick, then we motivated on to where Ranger Rick told us
    Debess and Guntis were...  We stopped in for a bit (the rest of the
    day), and we had a GREAT time hanging out, Debess and I enjoyed the
    swingset nearby (Picture ME swinging!)  That brought a few laughs...
    
    Having dinner with them (THANKS Debess!)  and driving in to Albany
    together.  Again, late, we must've missed the Hill St. Cafe crowd. 
    Friday's show was (I concede with popular opinion) much better than
    Thursday's, and I just rode on through the whole show intently
    listening to the music.  At set break I went to the lower level behind
    stage to do the drummer thing (watch Mickey and Bill).  What a treat! 
    I couldn't have been more than 50 ft. away, but I STILL used my
    binoculars!  / laughed at how intensely I was focusing in on the
    drummers, but he related...
    
    Vendor scene afterwards again, lots o' fun, the two intrepid travellers
    in the orange VW bug ( a hilarious site to behold), and / being a human 
    slinky were the after show highlights...  I didn't want to go to sleep
    that night because I was SO relaxed and into what I had just seen, so
    we built a campfire, and just when it was really getting nice, I got
    too dang tired and fell asleep...
    
    What a wonderful world... If only I could capture those feelings at
    will...  I'm still happy from it all!
    
    Tree
    After the show

    :-)
    
    Cherish well your thoughts,.... 
    
    I know I do,.. especially the ones form the Albany trip!
    
    						/Soko
    
    

Re:     <<< Note 23.479 by OCTOBR::GRABAZS "where I, dreaming, lay amazed" >>>
>                                  -< *blush* >-

>	did you get some good shots...
>	didja get some nice ones of, uh, Bobby's, uh, *shorts*!


	Hey Debess, and anyone else who may be interested.....

in Giants Bobby not only had shorts but a muscle shirt!!  :-)  What's more
is I saw Adam right up there in the third row with a camera!!!!!!!!  ;^)  ;^)

Certainly helped cure the disease I toted around tour!!!  ;^)

more in general later,

>in Giants Bobby not only had shorts but a muscle shirt!!  :-)  What's more
>is I saw Adam right up there in the third row with a camera!!!!!!!!  ;^)  ;^)


	oh, aaaaadammmmmmmm...

    Hey waht are you women trying to do,.. turn this into some kind
    of sexual rock star thing?!?!?!
    
    Remember what others have said,.. they are NOT rock stars (dammit!)
    
    :-)
    
    						/Soko
    

re: my pictures

I didn't notice his shorts/legs (I'm not really much of a leg man :-)), but I'm
sure his muscle shirt will appear in a *few* shots!  Who knows, I may have
gotten his shorts in a few pix.  You'll be the first to know (I'll have the pix
back tomorrow evening).  From where I was situated, the edge of the stage
blocked the lower torso from a lot of pictures.  I did stand on my seat a few
times for some elevation, though.  I was mostly interested in the area from the
guitar *upwards*! :-)

ansel_adam

    YA did good Adam,, ya did good,,.
    
    Don't let these females with their leg/hip/thigh/calf/knee/shorts/
    muscle shirt/muscle fetish's get to ya,. ya did good!
    
    						/:-)
    

>I didn't notice his shorts/legs (I'm not really much of a leg man :-)), but I'm
>sure his muscle shirt will appear in a *few* shots!  

	oh, forget it then!

>Who knows, I may have
>gotten his shorts in a few pix.  You'll be the first to know 

	alright, I'm interested again ;-)...


>ansel_adam 

	:-)

    I finally have a few minutes to add a few words about
    my Albany/Giants excursion!!!
    
    Arrived in Albany early Thursday afternoon, checked into
    the ever popular econo-lodge, dropped our stuff and headed
    out to where the fun was!!!  Took a swing by the Hill st
    but it was sooooo crowded we couldn't even move and just 
    as we were about to give up in walks da ve and Ger!  Good
    timing!  We also happened upon Adam and Geoff, said some
    quick hellos and headed back to pickup others at another
    bar before heading into the show...  should've left earlier
    because we got caught in the massive crunch and ended up
    missing the first line or two of Bertha :-(  Our seats 
    were real good though - lower tier, real close to the stage.
    Highlights were direwolf, and Loose Lucy!  Second set was
    good, and I liked the Quinn encore...  but I think the whole
    night could've used a little bit more energy.  Friday's show,
    IMO, was grate!!!  From beginning to end!  Promised land
    smoked!  We had upper level seats this night but luckily
    we were in the first row on the level - even had a little
    terrace to dance on!  Made fast friends with our neighborhood
    security dudette and she let us go nuts the whole time!  :-)
    2nd set definately had me smilin, and a boppin all over th
    place!  Scarlet Fire,Long way,smokestack, sugar mag!!!  whew!
    What a night!  Lots-o-fun!  After the show a bunch of us
    headed to Bailey's pub and enjoyed some post-show brews,
    laughter and fun!  Finally headed back to the econo-lodge
    to find our neighbors still awake - well, at least 1 was!  :-)
    The ride home from Albany was less than fun!  Our convoy of
    2 cars split up about 1/2 hour into the trip and our car broke
    down about 1 1/2 hours later!  AUGH!  not fun!  There we sat
    on the side of the mass pike....with a big chunk of the car
    in the cooler ;-/  we made the best of it though, set out our
    blanket, got out the radio, a few tapes, went up on a grassy
    hill and played 20 questions!  I think we were actually in
    denial!  ;-)  About an hour into our game, a nice bunch of
    heads in a bus stopped and offered a ride - THANK YOU!  Next
    stop, strubridge village visitors center.... called my wonderful
    sister (to whom I owe lots-o-favors now) to pick us up!!!
    
    Next trip....  Off to New Jersey on Sunday am!  (No thanks Rick,
    I'll drive.... ;-)
    
    Arrived at the Days Inn (great place to stay - even if it is 
    in New Jersey!)  1 mile from the stadium, mid-afternoon, once
    again, dropped our stuff and headed for the fun!  Did the 
    parking lot thing for a while, ran into Lisa & Dave and Phyllis
    and Linda(?).  Headed into the show a while later, good seats
    again, sec 131, lots of cool people around us as well, that's
    always nice - although there was 1 mega-screamer right in my
    left ear....  He eventually calmed down which was nice!  ;-}
    I was disappointed in Dough Knees!  Seemed to me like they just
    quit on it.  Not much energy at all...  
    Learned a new statistic during intermission.... they only play
    Sampson on Sunday's... can anyone confirm this?  According to
    the guy behind us, it's true, and sure enough, they opened the
    2nd set with it...   I liked the footage of Neal during The
    Other One, pretty wild....  and I just can't help but laugh when
    they play Baba O'Riley!  :-)  It's grate!!
    
    Monday....  Front Row!  Yeeehaaa!   Goin in early tonight!  Saw
    most of Steve Miller, he really put on a good show.  We sat (or
    rather stood on our chairs) in seats 4&5 of sec 1 (Phil side)
    from the middle)  Had a grate view of Phil and Mickey, fairly
    good of Bobby, only Jerry's head most of the time, good view
    of Vince if I leaned on the guy to my right, and no Billy, except
    when I looked straight up and caught them on the screens... but 
    that hurt my neck!  ;-)  This show was really grate in my opinion
    but I'm no sure I could feel any other way being so close for 
    the first time...  I was hysterical when Mickey and Billy were
    doing the train horns during drums....  Did everyone catch that?
    Mickey walked right out to the edge of the stage and blasted the
    thing back and forth, bouncing it on his hips, it was so funny!
    He was definately getting a kick out of himself!  And so were we!
    
    Being right in front of the speakers on Phil's side was grate!
    I thought I would be deaf forever - especially after Terrapin!
    Whoa!!!  No complaints from me on Monday nights show - except
    for the people sitting behind us - what a sin for people who
    have absolutely no interest in the band at all to have such good
    seats!  They were 4 teenagers (2 couples) and they just pawed
    at each other through the entire show!  it was disgusting!  I
    don't think they even opened their eyes once.  Not something I
    enjoy having in my peripheral vision all during a show!  blech!
    
    But anyway.... I had a grate week, I wish it wasn't over... 
    and I can't wait til the next shows I can go to...  
    
    Oh, 1 comment about Giants Stadium....  DISGUSTING!  I have never
    seen such disrespect for property in my life!  There were alot 
    of slobs in East Rutherford this week...  sad  :-(
    
    MJ 

    Samson (deadbase spelling) only on Sundays?  Not true.  Deadbase shows
    a number non-Sunday Sampsons.  However, there do seem to be an 
    inordinate amount of Sundays that have Samson as a 2nd set opener
    or within the first 3 songs.  Hmmm, sounds like a task for 
    Eric Simon at Harvard and his Useless Dead Statisitics! ;-)
    (because I'm not looking through the whole thing!)
    
    4 teenager's pawing each other?  Reminds me of last September's Boston
    run.  Sitting behind the stage both night I went, I got to see 
    the boys head backstage during drums.  They have these little enclosed
    areas they hang out in, Phil behind his side, and everyone else 
    apparently on the other side.  It seemed a bit odd that Phil was
    by himself, but he was also warmly greeted by a woman I assumed was 
    his wife (it was a bit too warmly to be his mom or sis ;-)  I've always
    enjoyed seeing happy couples, but after a while I felt a bit like 
    a voyeur, so I tried to focus my attention back on the drums ;-)
    
                                                   Later,
                                                   PeterT
    

 A famous short person pointed out the Samson/Sunday phenomenon and I think if
 you look at the last 3-4 years Samson shows up on Sundays quite a bit.


 Pawing..we were behind the stage during a couple shows at BG and during one
 there was a couple in front of us and I tell ya, they weren't just pawing each
 other :-)




 Jum

    Were they making love, not war? :-)

Pawing?  They have Paws?  Oh yeah right and Maws too!
:)

One time I went with the Lone Rhino (NOT Adrian), tms, miz patti and myself
down to Great Woods to see Weir and Wasserman and Tuna.  Well there was this
couple in front of us and they weren't interested in the show either.  I 
couldn't believe it.  I mean they weren't trying to hide it one bit.  I 
finally had to move in front of them because they were quite distracting.
And superhuman too ....

:)

ahh well,  

I did the Albany friday show thanks to JC.  Had a great time.  Ran into
all sorts of DECheads.  Bruce L,  Jay Jollimore, JC and Debby and JC's 
younger bro,  Mike R, Lisa, Dave, Giamem::I_fergot who just put in a note
so you';d think I'd know bny now:),  and his buddy the painter, Bill P and 
his bro Bob whom I haven't seen since Oxford, Carol and Shep, Dave Clark, 
another Dave Clark confusing so that makes vmpire::clark and demming::clark 
I think,  Jim Henderson who was speechless :) and probably some others I 
forgot. whew!  

The music was exellent!  Scarlet > Fire clocked in at something like 32
minutes or so I was told.  Jack Straw was great!  I was hoping for the
Baba O but attics was fine fine fine.  

back to it!
bobo

RE:   <<< Note 23.499 by VERGA::STANLEY "what a long strange trip it's been" >>>
                                    -< ex >-

   > Were they making love, not war? :-)


     Well, they weren't making war, I'm pretty sure :-)

    
    They were making me *sick* - luckily my seat wasn't right
    behind them - I felt for those whose were!  I need to point
    out that this was not just some happy couples showing a
    little affection...  I would describe it in detail but it's
    lunch time and I don't want to ruin my appetite!  
    
    here's one hint though... at the end of the show one of the
    guys had a huge purple hickey on his neck!  you could just
    about see his pulse in it!  blechhhhhh!!!  
    
    

    That nothing... once at a show in foxboro a guy relieved himself right
    where he stood in the middle of us all... talk about disgusting!

re Mary, what a contrast that must've been to the beautiful, friendly scene
that IS Foxboro .... ;^)  ;^)

Re:    <<< Note 23.498 by CSLALL::HENDERSON "Gonna get there? I don't know" >>>



> A famous short person pointed out the Samson/Sunday phenomenon and I think if
> you look at the last 3-4 years Samson shows up on Sundays quite a bit.

	in fairness I must point out that Dave and Phyllis first mentioned
	this to me.

> Pawing..we were behind the stage during a couple shows at BG and during one
> there was a couple in front of us and I tell ya, they weren't just pawing each
> other :-)

   You mean before or after the guy was done throwing up all over the place.

	;^/

    Life... nothing like it, huh guys? :-)

From the NYTimes, June 18,1992

Even during the most flaccid Grateful Dead show, there are
moments worh waiting for.  At Giants Stadium on Sunday, in
the first of two sold-out shows, the band spent most of the
time playing soggy, waterlogged music.  Then, during the
rest of the show, the rhythm section and the lead guitarist
Jerry Garcia arose from their deep sleep, and those moments
came where improvisiation, the group's distinct sound and
the audience all melded.

The Dead's two drummers, aided by synthesizers, had just
performed a duet.  Using speakers placed all around the
stadium, the pair, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, moved
chunks of sound around the stadium, phasing it from side to
side.  Lights coming from the stage sent patterns swirling
randomly against the human backdrop.  It was like coming
across a lighthouse spinning away mindlessly on a dark
night;  the music and the lights created a mechanical
atmosphere where the machine, once started, wouldn't stop.

Then the rest of the band joined in.  Mr. Garcia, who hadn't
been audible for much of the show, picked up his tempo a bit
and his guitar lines, shimmering and cool, seared through
the group.  Mr Garcia swings, and his momentum drove the
band on while the members carefully picked their way through
a group improvisation.  The band, joined by the guitarist
Steve Miller, who had opened the show, launched into
"spoonful," then "The Other One," then finished with and
emotional version of "(Walk Me OUt in the) Morning Dew,"
with Mr Garcia evincing a bit of passion as he sang.

Through it all the two screens above the band had been
chattering away with imagery.  The Grateful Dead may be one
of the few groups from the 1960's not afraid of aging; where
Rod Stewart, for example, trades in his model wives for
younger versions, the Dead not only show close-ups of their
grizzled faces on the video screens, but project clips of
themselves dating back to the 1960's or early 1970's.  When
scenes of the Merry Pranksters flashed on, the crowd,
mostly in its 20's, cheered, and when the band finished its
set with the Who's "Baba o'Reilly," connected with the
Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows," it just went to prove that
rock, and the 1960's, have drifted into a sort of
classicism.  And it showed that in some circles, the signs
of age, which signify a certain type of outlaw cultural
experience on the face of the band, still have power.
                                    Peter Watrous
    

    Nice review...Thanks,
    
    tim

	Excellent show!  Got to DC at 8:00 Friday night after a 
	long, traffic congested drive.  Stayed at Cherry Hills 
	Campground right off of 95 outside of DC, very nice place.
	Left for the show at 10:00AM Saturday morning where I was
	able to get a choice, shady spot on the green grass along the 
	river.  

	The general scene was very relaxed and trouble free all day.
	They brought in lots of dumpsters and there was a trash barrel
	around every corner, the place was kept very clean!  There is 
	a bridge that passes over part of the parking lot where the 	
	bongo section set up, they were so good, they even had a trumpet
	player in the back....what a blast!!!

	After Steve Miller I arrived in the stadium to some really nice
	seats.....Bruce Hornsby was on stage with the accordian and he 
	remained there for the entire show.  The first set started off 
	with a quiet Cold Rain and Snow, things picked up alot around 
	Maggies Farm and then an incredible Picasso Moon....WOW!!!  
	Bobby smiled after the crowd went completely nuts when they 
	ended the song.  Good Tennessee Jed, excellent Promosed Land 
	with great Vince solo.
	
	Second set began with Corina, the crowd seemed to be enjoying it.
	Very mello Crazy Fingers and then a spacy Playin.  Drums was great!!!
	I couldn't stop moving.  Then came the massive, long, loud, train
	whistle.  On the screens I could see both Micky and Billy with a 
	massive rack of horns around each of their necks....laughing
	hysterically, tooting the horns as the camera's panned in and out
	on them very quickly and made things look very goofy............
	The crowd went ape-shit and I couldn't stop laughing at the whole
	dang thing.  Space was very odd as if the band was preparing for 
	something.  I heard the first notes of Casey Jones and I knew what
	was going to happen thanks to Ger ;-)  Jerry was grinning for the 
	entire song as he stood there in a very relaxed position and hung 
	his belly out....he was the engineer and the crowd was the	
	passengers.  The song was played exactly as it was in the 70's 
	except it had a more snappy drum beat.  The remainder of the show 	
	was highly energetic.  Grate Saturday Night with Steve Miller and
	a member or two of his band.  Excellent show, very good scene, good
	music, grate to see Bruce Hornsby on accordian for the whole show.
	Southern Deadheads are a riot to party with.  I would love to 
	get a tape of this one.

    I agree, grate 1st set, mellow security, nice weather(little cold),
    one of the best "Saturday Night" I have heard, RFK was rocking.
    
    Looking forward to Shoreline late August.

	Was it just my condition...or was that "Whistle scene" really
	intense.....They both looked so funny with these horns around
	their necks and the facial expressions were priceless.....the 
	whole thing seemed to last about 2 minutes...funny funny :-)

I have seen the train whistle thing three times now, Nassau, Buffalo and
Giants (Giants being the first where Micky joined in as well).  In each 
case Billy and Micky were definitely getting an enjoyable rush out of the
whole thing!  Heck, I'd be pretty psyched too if I could make my belly sound
like a locomotive!!  What fun meetings would be!!  ;^)

>>whole thing!  Heck, I'd be pretty psyched too if I could make my belly sound
>>like a locomotive!!  What fun meetings would be!!  ;^)

What fun driving would be :-).....I'd like to put that setup on top of my car

I like seeing the
drummers continue to
to funny and wierd 
things. 

Wow!  Those Star Lake shows looked HOT. Especially 6-22 second set.
Althought the first set must've been nice too! (musta been the roses
and loser and deal!)

But that 2nd set looks like a killer!  I wonder if they played it good!
Anyone know?  The last time I heard a Spanish Jam was, I think, the last time
they played Portland and also the only time they did Revolutionary Hamstrung
Blues ....  

WOW!  

whoops,  sorry to talk about the Grateful Dead :)
now you call can get back to whatever ails ya!  Like Taxes, and Work woes
and and and 

:) :) :) x 1000
bobo

    spainish jam (Alhambra?) was played in Vegas...sounded better there
    than on the tapes, but tapes are good too. What album is/was Alhambra
    on?? 
         rfb

    In Buffalo, everyone but Jerry was bent on Spanish Jam out of Space.
    Jerry insisted on the Other One - which would have sounded just fine
    after Alhambra. :-/
    
    - Gerry

    Bob definitely toyed with the Spanish jam in Albany noe night,...
    but Jerry out bid him with,...???
    
    I love the Spanish jam (Is it really called Alhambra?) in the space
    section when they do it. Its not on any album as far as I can remember
    right now,...
    
    							/Conquistadore
    

    So....IS Alhambra and Spainish Jam the same thing?? or am i con-fused. 
                                                                          
    rfb

    re: <<< Note 23.518 by CXDOCS::BARNES >>>

    >So....IS Alhambra and Spainish Jam the same thing?? or am i con-fused. 
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        
    Nope. The Same Thing is a blues tune that they've recently started to
    play again (boy, you're *reeeely* confused :-). However Alhambra and 
    Spanish Jam usually refer to the same musical piece :-)
    
    - Gerry

    "what makes rfb go crazaayyyyyy?!?!?!?"
    
    					:^)

    whew!!! I feel better!
                          rfb

Who sang Schoolgirl in Chicago??  Was/is anyone there to give us a personalized 
review?

Curious...

	Here's the topic I was looking for!!!  Thanks Scott.  :-)

    
    re-1 schoolgirl.
    
    I would say Bobby. I've got a tape from '87 and he sang Schoolgirl.
    
    Don
    

Last Schoolgirl was with Carlos, 8-22-87, before that:

9-19-70, Fillmore East. DBV doesn't say if Cotton played that Filmore show, but 
it does say that NRPS opened...

Wow, they did Schoolgirl again!  Was there any special guests this time??
Last time it was with Carlos at Calaveras County Fairgrounds.


peace,
t!ng

    
    	Yea, Bobby sang School Girl, and a mighty fine job of it !
    at least I thought so anyway... James Cotton played some really bluesy
    harmonica on the tune too ! I think Steve Miller might have jammed on
    it also but I cannot say absolutely for sure. I guess the song was
    originally done by Sonny Boy Williamson, an old Chicago blues man, so
    it fit the bill. This whole show was very well done, with James Cotton
    playing on quit a few tunes, and Steve Miller too. Pretty neat place,
    that Soldier Field, for a big stadium show the sound was not bad at
    all ! I'd go back there again anytime...
    
    TL 

    RE: -1
    
    I have to agree about soldier field being a great place to see a 
    show if it has to be in a statium.  I made it down last year and 
    had a great time.  Did they do the fireworks either night?  I 
    could of had tix for both nights but I had two wedding to go to and 
    this is my last two weeks of school - I will have a BA!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Glad you had a good time - did you happen to talk to any tapers? ;-)
    
    :-) 
    Scott g

	Scott,

	Congratulations on the B.A., I am also an evening student
	and I'm almost to my associates.  Going to school nights
	and working full time is the toughest job there is.  :-)

    RE -1
    
    Thanks!!!  You got that right about a tough job.  The thing that makes
    me the happiest about being done it that I will be able to spend more
    time with my wife and 2 year old daughter and the next baby that I just
    found out is on the way!!! :-) :-) :-) 
    
    :-)
    Scott g

>    ... and the next baby that I just found out is on the way!!! :-) :-) :-) 
    
Wow, congrats to an expectant dad!  8-)

peace,
t!ng

	Congrats Scott!!  ;-)   

	Better start planning what yer gonna do with yer remaining 
	free time, which will totally cease within, oh, I'd say 9 months 
	or so  ;-);-)

	Ken

    how can anyone work 8 hrs a day, go to school at nite, do homework AND
    find the time to do the things necessary to impregnate their
    lover!!!???!!!
    
    ya'll have my utmost respect   (but just WAIT till they're teenagers!)
                                rfb

    RE: rfb
     
    ;-)
    Some things are just more important that homework.
    
    :-)
    Scott g

    RE: rfb
    
    now that I am done with school I might also find some time to try
    homebrewing.  
    
    :-)
    Scott g

    Man, that's a hard decision...to brew or to (rhymes with brew)
       rfb   %^)

    I know I know....another bad joke ;-)
    
    :-)
    Scott g

>    Man, that's a hard decision...to brew or to (rhymes with brew)
		   ^^^^
No pun intended, eh, rfb!?!?!  :-)

No decision necessary...just do both!!!! :-)

A certain Jimmy Buffet tune comes to mind! (with, of course, no pun intended!!!)

:-)

Dave

><<< Note 23.538 by TLE::WEISS "Where's the keg? It's at the bottom of the lake!" >>>
>        -< If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice! >-
>
>>    Man, that's a hard decision...to brew or to (rhymes with brew)
>		   ^^^^
>No pun intended, eh, rfb!?!?!  :-)
>
>No decision necessary...just do both!!!! :-)

I can't wait to read the string of puns that might ensue here!  

>A certain Jimmy Buffet tune comes to mind! (with, of course, no pun intended!!!)

Why don't we all get drunk and .....

(I just saw Buffet in Nashville, TN)

	A brief review of the shows I saw.  I went to Friday Albany, both
Giant Stadium shows, and the first Charlotte, NC show.  A lotta miles of
driving, that is fer sur!

	Out of the 4 shows I saw, I thought Albany was the highlight.  
Concurring with many here, I too like Albanyt both as a venue and as a
city to host shows.  It seems like the city prepares for the shows and
executes them well by closing off streets, etc.

	For Albany, I sat in the 11 row on the Jerry side thanks for Mr Bruce
Laru!!  This is the closest I've ever been in the 30+ times I've seen the
dead.  It was really different seeing them so close.  And, I also brought my
binocular to get an extra close-up veiw.  One bummer of this side seat was
the loudness of the music - it was really loud, too loud for my comfort range
(I guess I'm getting old!).  That new communication system they have was
interesting to watch - occasionally bob would mess up and part of his talking
would come over the PA system.  I even saw them use it _during_ a song - in
the middle - I wonder what they were talking about then? Seems like they
are still working the bugs out of the system.  The show was the best of
the run, as I mentioned before, the highlight for me being S->F and Attics.
That was my first S->F since Saratoga in '88 ... needless to say, I was
quite excited.  The vending scene outside Albany BOOMED compared to recent
years.

	Next was Giants.  I found both shows to be rather mediocre - low
energy, few jams that did anything for me, and the amount of idiots that
trashed the scene by piling onto the floor.  The first night I was with
an old friend from my hometown and we sat in sect 130 or so on the Phil
side.  SOund was ok.  The normal jamming down the isles symdrome was as lame
as ever as disrespectful deadheads continued their quest get the best
possible seat everytime.  The scene outside Giants was very nice - the
weather was just right (not unbearably hot) and the vending scene was
tremendous.  I did not see anyone being hassled for selling their junk.

	On Tuesday, I drove from NJ to NC (Durham) - 520 or so miles.  Decent
ride, jammed lots of tapes, saw lots of heads on the road also.

	Wednesday I went to Charlotte around midday and got there around
3pm or so.  The scene at the coliseum was a bit more regimented - the
parking people directed cars to park in specific spots w/o any leeway.
The vending scene was ok - i did see 2 grateful dead personell busting
people selling their stuff.  The scene inside the coliseum was pretty good.
Charlotte is a nice, new, well-laid out coliseum (this is the new place).
Inside, all the seats looked good.  I had a seat straight back.  The
crowd in the south was noticbly more respectful compared to the NY/NJ/NE
crowd - once again, I had a seat close to the isle and did not have to deal
with a bunch of idiots cramming down the isle.  And, security to let people
down into sections was pretty mellow and non-existent during break.  I do
not remember much of the show - probably because it was a middle-of-the-road
show with no highlights coming to mind.

	Summer tour is really fun - the weather was fantastic, which really
makes a difference I think.  And, I saw what I considered to be the strongest
showing of vending since '87.

	JC

    
    
    Did anyone go to the Buckeye Lake show?  I ended up having to cash in
    my tickets, and would like to torment myself by hearing how wonderful
    it was.  
    
    A friend from my nearby hometown said the local papers were 'rampant
    with shock and titillation' over the 'heads, and also that it made quite
    a stir when our own Licking County Sheriff was dosed in the eye
    with a squirt-gun.  
    
    
    					Carl

Licking County.  :-)

Ya gotta love a place with a name like that.

tim

  Here's my review of last nights show:
 
  First off, the incredibly intelligent McNichols folks had the thought
that trying to funnel the southwest parking lot crowd through 3 doors
would be a great idea.  Maybe they we trying to save some cash by employing
less friskers, but they created one of the longest lines I've been in in a 
long time, on a 20+ degree night to boot.  Granted, I did decide to get in 
line 20 minutes before showtime.  Luckily the band started a little late.

  The security folks near us were pretty cool, no hassles. 

  Jerry looked good, not that much thinner, but still looked good.  Bob
was sporting a pretty short hair cut.  Phil looked like the same.  Vince
reminds me a lot of Ian Anderson looks-wise, mavbe its just me. 

  The band started with a nice mellow Stranger.  I felt it preety much set 
the tone for the night.  They generally sounded excellent however, pretty 
mellow.  They Love Each Other followed and sounded great!  Same thing, 
Jack-A-Roe, and Its All Over were all fine, however mellow.  Then Jerry seemed
to burst out on So Many Roads, he sang as strong as I've ever seen. It was a 
true joy. It brings a smile to my face just thinking about it again. They 
finished the set with a beautiful Let It Grow.

  They seemed to take a longer than usual intermission.  Then they opened
with a nice China Cat into Rider.  Truckin was quite mellow.  Jerry did it
again on He's Gone. Man, there is nothing left to do but Smile when that 
man sings like that.  I loved it.  Drums was nice.  Mickey was playing some 
string type instrument that is layed out vertically and stroked and beaten
with some type of bar.  I don't know what it was but it produced some trippy
sounds.  Anyone know what the thing is.  He had it layed out behind them under
gong type drums.  Space seemed very mellow again.  Bobby played the rock star
on Miracle.  Wharf Rat was wonderful.  On Lovelight, they seemed to be having 
a ball.  It came off well.  

  For the encore the did Here Comes Rain.  I think that's the name.  What ever
the name it was GRATE!  Really psychadelic sounding and just beautiful.  Phil
was super.  I couldn't believe how well it sounded.

  Overall,  Vince sang grate on some tunes.  He seems to fit great.  Jerry
seemed happy and healthy and sang super.  Pretty mellow show, but just plain
fun.
                                                   
 Now on to tonight!  

    I suspect this might be a collision but what they hey ;-)
    
>     Mickey was playing some string type instrument that is layed out 
>     vertically and stroked and beaten with some type of bar.  I don't know 
>     what it was but it produced some trippy sounds.  Anyone know what the 
>     thing is.  He had it layed out behind them under
    
    This is the infamous Beam.  Basically a steel I-bar fitted with piano
    wire and then through an amp setup.  Interviews I've heard with Gans
    bring to mind that no signal processing is involved, but I could
    be wrong (it's happened before ;-)
    
    And I think Vince does look a bit like Ian Anderson.  At least in the 
    scraggly haired wild-eyed look!
    
    PeterT

Ahhhhhhhh..

How very very veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery VERY

nice it is to read a show review again!

Heck, they were only on hiatus for 5 or six months, imagine how hard retirement
would be. We'd all be at each others throats for eternity!

:-)

    Thanks for the reviews everybody... it reminds me why I got into this
    notes file to begin with.
    
    Hey rfb, where are you?  How did you like the show?  Do you remember
    any of it? ;-) ;-)
    
    God I'm jealous.
    
    tim
    

   
   >>  <<< Note 23.546 by NAC::TRAMP::GRADY "Short arms, and deep pockets..." >>>

    
   >> God I'm jealous.
    
    That makes two of us.
    
    On another note, regarding the Denver shows, this morning on Good
    Morning America they were talking about people "boycotting" Colorado
    because of No. 2.  I thought for sure that they'd show the NTTH sign,
    but much to my and Chris' chigrin (is that how that's spelled?) it
    wasn't!!!!!!
    
    It's a billboard -- how could they not give it national attention??
    
    
    Harumph.
    
    sparky

  Here's my review of last nights (thursday) show:
 
  The McNichols folks must have learned something because the opened up
more gates and things flowed alot better.  The snow was blowing but was 
actually sort of nice.  It was pretty cold out though.

  The band came on about 25 minutes late again.  They opened with a pretty
laid back Touch Of Grey.  I had the feeling that it might be the start of 
another mellow night.  They sort of picked it up with Red Rooster. The
sound volume was low enough to talk comfortably with out straining.  
PeggyO was really nice and things continued to grow.  Queen Jane was fine
and Bobby sounded great. The volume kept creeping up. Ramble on Rose was 
excellent with Jerry smilin away.  I could tell we were really in for a 
fun night.  They cranked on Cassidy and finished with a really hot 
Don't ease. The place was rockin!

  2nd set picked right up were it left off with a great Playin into Eyes.
It was a fabulous Eyes. It just felt great.  I heard my first Corrina. It
has a very different sound.  Fun and sort of high tech sounding.  I am 
not entirely sold on it, but will listen to it few more times before I 
can make up my mind. Then came a thundering Terrapin!!!!!  The place was 
rockin.  I loved it.  Drums space and were nice but not overly exceptional.
Picked it up with a nice Other one and finished with a beautiful Morning
Dew.  Jerry was fabulous.   

  The encore was a hot version of Gloria.  real high energy and a lot 
of fun. 

  Vince did not sing as much did Wednesday but played some great keyboard.
Bobby seemd to be having a lot of Fun.  Phil was hammering that base and 
Jerry was excellent.  Mickey and Bill kept it driving.  Incredible Synergy
This was definitely the type of show that you come out and are completely 
reaffirmed that this is why you keep going back.  
  
  What a great Time!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

>It's a billboard -- how could they not give it national attention??
    
    The billboard and a few comments by David Gans made it on CNN (CNN is
    known to have more than a few deadheads on it's wolrdwide staff. ;-)   
 
    ger

    Well, I gotta say the new version of Here Comes Sunshine is something!
    They really brought out the Beast for this one! Just rolls right along
    making it's presence known. Not as textbook as prior versions and that's 
    fine with me. The vocal harmonies are really, really tight and Jerry's
    voice nowadays is as good as you'll ever hear it.
    
    Between the soundchecks on saturday and sunday we got treated to three 
    versions of it with the sunday's opener clearly the best. Unfortunately 
    Mr. Healy was asleep at the switch and didn't turn the mic's on soon enough
    so the vocals start out with "...Comes Sunshine". Thanks Dan. Nevertheless
    it's quickly fergotten. What a great opener!
    
    All in all the band is playing great! Jerry looks good and lost about 30+
    pounds. Bobby is on on a new Grunge Rock guitar kick which can get annoying
    at times but adds a sort of freshness to their style for the most part.
    Compton is a great place to see a show. Great sound with a terraced lawn.
    Not a bad seat in the house.
    
    ger

Ah Arizona!  We were worried all week that it was going to rain.  The
forecast said 100% chance of rain Friday, 70% Saturday and Sunday.  This
was supposed to be the desert!  We flew in Friday night to a crying sky,
but our spirits were not dampened in the least.  We brought all our rain
gear, trusting enough in Murphy's Law to know that it would not rain if
we were prepared.  Our faith did not deceive us.

Saturday, it was overcast when we awoke, but soon the sun peeked out
through the clouds.  He must have liked what he saw because he stayed
all weekend to our collective delight!  Saturday's show started off with
a rocking Let The Good Times Roll, a seeming rarity since the death of
Brent.  It took a couple of songs before the sound optimized.  Sleeping
on the job, Healy?  After that, the show rolled along like clockwork.
Some highlights for me in the first set were Tom Thumb's and The Music
Never Stopped.  Phil's rendition of Tom Thumb's was beautifully done.
The Music Never Stopped ended in a nice but seemingly unfinished jam.
It could have gone further.  Yes, it is true the set could have been
even more spirited, but who is complaining after 6 months?  I am just
glad they are playing again!  It was even as much a miracle that they
were ever there at all!  A lot of the folks road-tripping from Denver
to Tempe never made it because of the snowstorm.  New Mexico closed
off 200 miles of highway leading into Tempe.  The Ultrasound equipment
barely made it in at 5:30 Saturday morning.  Maybe the sound problems
in the first set was due to lack of time to set up the equipment
properly.

Second set started off suddenly with a beautiful Scarlet->Fire.  The
band did not tune up at all.  They walked on stage and went into Scarlet
almost right away.  I have an eternal bias for Scarlet->Fire's -> never
get sick of them!  Mickey's congas gave it a very refreshing twist. The
first thought that crossed my mind when they rolled into Estimated was
"Gee, Bobby's voice must have gotten better!"  I heard he almost lost it
in Denver.  Well, not even Bobby's eagle screams could ruin the Estimated
for me this time.  Maybe the 6-month hiatus has dulled my judgment?  The
Wheel ranks up there as one of my favorite out-of-spacers.  How many times
must I hear some of these lyrics before their profundity finally strikes
me.  "Small wheel turns by the fire and rod, big wheel turns by the grace
of God, every time that the wheel turns around, you're bound to cover just
a little more ground!"  I can relate!  I am ever amazed by the poetry of
Robert Hunter.  I love The Wheel!  Watchtower built as it ever does only
to come down into the soulfulness of Black Peter.  Saturday Night should
have been expected, but for some reason it caught me by surprise.  It has
been too long!  What a rocker!  The Weight closed off a most welcome show.

Sunday's show was better.  Perhaps this is an understatement.  Here Comes
Sunshine!  Wow!!  It is the first since '74.  We knew they had been sound
checking it, but they sound check a lot of stuff they never end up doing.
We were psyched!  A little rough at spots, but nothing that cannot be
polished with a little more practice and maybe more attention on Healy's
part.  Friend of the Devil caressed us gently with its melody.  Jerry
sings often with conviction.  Bobby messed up the lyrics to Me And My
Uncle big time!  Well, for someone who couldn't even spell Gloria in
Denver, I shouldn't be surprised ;-).  Maybe Bobby knows Dan Quayle?
8-)  The band sprang into Althea - very well-played.  Deal was an extra
sweet closer to a short set, an hour-long set with only about 50 minutes
of music, the rest of the time was filled up by pauses between songs!
At some point between songs, an ultralight flew over the amphitheatre.
Bobby said "There goes one of those whatever they are!  And Jerry said
it's a Texas dragonfly."  Whether Jerry really said it, only Bobby or
Jerry will know.  The ultralight looked like a rainbow-colored flying
go-cart or a motorized hang glider.

The Samson second set opener was very well done.  Hot!  And the Denver
crowd in the audience finally got their Uncle John's.  Even though they
didn't bless the Denver shows with it, the "Ain't No Time To Hate"
billboard became a reality.  The Ain't No Time To Hate design for the
sticker and billboard is not one of mine for those of you wondering.
The design is a Steal Your Face with a pink inverted triangle in place of
the lightning bolt.  The pink triangle is a symbol of gay solidarity.  I
enjoyed being stickered at Tempe with a different NTTH sticker 8-)  Many
thanks to rfb for stickering Denver with my version of NTTH!  I heard you
did a good job!  8->  And the Playin' reprise finished off the Playin'
from Denver.  My friend tc, who missed Saturday's show because he got
stuck in New Mexico coming from Denver, said he was glad they waited for
him to finish Playin' *and* to do Here Comes Sunshine.  I was glad too.
Ain't nothing like listening to a disgruntled deadhead who missed *the*
show of the run (even if it's only 2 shows 8-).  It ain't pretty, trust
me!  During drums, a couple of roadies took turns slamming a huge sledge
hammer (I'm talking about one as big as they were!) down on the steps
leading down from Mickey's side of the drum set.  Then Bobby came out and
swung the sledge hammer.  He escaped backstage when Mickey and Billy
fought back with a flurry of drumsticks and other paraphernalia flying
through the air.  Space was much more experimental than the day before.
New depth and broader unknowns grew from a few musical seeds.  The Last
Time this time had a new meaning.  They did not do The Last Time at the
Vegas run in May, but for me, that was "the last time" for 6 months.  Any
show can be "the last time."  This thought keeps me cherishing every note.
The China Doll was a surprise treat!  The bells of heaven rang!  Much
indecisiveness at the end of Throwing Stones - in fact they came to
a full stop.  They gave in to routine anyways and started off into
Not Fade Away.  Oh well!  Brokedown Palace was a wonderful closer to
a much needed and appreciated set of shows.

Jerry looked thinner and sported a dark green long-sleeved crew-necked
top and the familiar black sweats both days.  Bobby was in leather
jacket and mirrored shades the first day and back to the old polo shirt
the second day.  His hair was short!  Don't go back to that barber again,
Bob!  Yikes!  No cigarette smoke clouds in the Jerry section.  He looked
good!  Today's SF Chronicle featured a Jerry interview in which he
mentioned that he plans to have his last cigarette on New Year's Eve and
that he had lost 60 pounds!!  Don't turn sideways, Jer, we might not
be able to see you!  NOT!  8-)

I am looking forward to this weekend!

peace,
t!ng

    Wah.. (sniff, sniff)... I miss the boys.

    goin' on 4 years since my last show . . . 
    
    8^'(
    sparky

    re: ultralight
    
    Pretty funny. I'm listening to Jamie's tape with headphones and I noticed 
    you can hear the ultralight orbiting clockwise over the venue in between 
    FOTD and MAMU. 

 Speaking of ultralights...years ago when I lived in Phoenix, we had a hell of
 a rainstorm one winter, and the dam (name of which I forget) high up on the
 Salt River was reaching its max levels (and they spotted some weaknesses in 
 the thing which was always kept at 95% full anyway) so they had to release 
 some water.  There were at the time 5 bridges crossing the river at different
 points and 4 of them were washed out.  So some folks who lived in Tempe and 
 Mesa who worked in Phoenix, to avoid the massive traffic pileups, took to 
 flying to work in their ultralights :-)




 Jum

    the same thing happened on the west side of Phoenix several times in
    the 70's...it was on the Auga Friea (sp) river though...we'd drive out
    and watch the bridges wash away....
    
    rfb

 Hmmm...maybe that was the river then..I'm pretty sure the Salt did the same
 thing though...this was in 78 or 79.  




 Jum

    the Salt did the same thing to the east side of Phoenix, more than once
    in the 70's...i moved in 77...
    rfb

    
    
    Ok Ger...  Seriously, can you really tell that the Ultralight is flying
    clockwise over the Terrace?  If so, I am VERY impressed with the aural
    capabilities of the mics you use (and their positioning of course)...
    
    anyway...  I was going to enter a Tempe review from 12/5, but it'll
    have to wait.  Stay tuned.
    
    Tree

re: Note 23.559 by LJOHUB::RILEY     
    
    >Ok Ger...  Seriously, can you really tell that the Ultralight is flying
    >clockwise over the Terrace?  
    
    Yep, except when it reverses direction and goes counter-clockwise. :-)
    
    >If so, I am VERY impressed with the aural capabilities of the mics you 
    >use (and their positioning of course)...
    
    You can tell with headphones but it's pretty faint. No big trick. 
    I could have even picked it up with cheaper split Nak shotguns. Cardioids 
    on axis at 110deg ORTF will usually give a decent stereo representation. 
    Split omni's would have given an even more accurate aural representaion 
    of the orbiting vehicle and a few tapers switched to this configuration 
    on the second day after we learned the repeater speakers behind the pit 
    were also used for quad during Drums. We didn't go that route and opted
    for direct stereo.
    
    The less expensive Schoepps mics you saw on top of our stand came out
    better than the much more expensive Neumanns I patched into. The large
    foam windscreens on them dulled the sound a tad.
    
    ger

    What's an ultralight?
    
    :), danielle

    really weak beer.
    
    Lorax
    

    If you asked me I'd tell you it was a very lightly built racing
    sailboat with too much sail and barely enough ballast to keep it up. 
    They are popular on the west coast and the transpac is a sprint to 
    Hawaii from SF. 
    
    But I think they're talking planes
    
    Geoff
    But an ultralight planes

    It's basically a go-cart with hang glider wings. It's a very light
    plane, hence the term ultralight.
    
    ger

    I want to ride in one of those!
    
    /danielle

    I believe that you can take lessons and even solo in one on
    the first day. Alternatively, you could go for a ride in a 
    tandem. Bit chilly nowadays. :-)

Ultralights require no licencing, training, or structural certification.

Sure is a good idea, though...

    Hey, I'm glad you guys have digressed here!  Now I don't have to
    go searching through the file to find the note for reviews.
    
    Here's my impressions of Friday, 12/11/92, Oakland Coliseum.
    
    I got to the show late, since I was feeling guilty about slipping
    out of work TOO early (I'm a late arriver type), and then I got stuck
    in some miserable traffic.  So I missed a good chunk of the first
    set, not settling down on the floor until the middle of Cassidy.
    I'll skip my impressions, but others said it was good, with
    Wang-Dang-Doodle as hot as Wang Dang gets.
    
    I ran into t!ng during the break.  She told me I was handing out the
    wrong color NTTH stickers.  Oh well, it was the only color I had.
    I also saw Andy Nourse and Bill Pelletier and talked with them for
    awhile.
    
    For the second set, I tried something new.  I went up into the stands
    just to the left of the tapers section (At Oakland, the tapers section
    is directly in the rear, about halfway down from the top.)  I was
    really impressed by the sound there, though in the next couple days I
    realized that the sound in general seems to have improved.
    
    Iko started things out bouncy and fun.  Then they immediately changed
    the mood with a beautiful Looks Like Rain, probably one of the best I'd
    heard.  It almost brought tears to my eyes.  Even the screams at the
    end had the right tinge of anguish.  Eyes was nice, but for some reason
    didn't catch me the way it usually does.  Since others sounded like
    they liked this version of Eyes, maybe I was still coming off the LLR.
    After Eyes came a spacy transition into Corrina.  It almost reminded me
    of that spacy solo in the middle of The Chambers Brothers "Time has
    Come Today".  But they finally settled into a high energy version
    of Corrina.  For a bit, I thought they were going into something
    else before drumz, but the stage was soon left to the percussion pair.
    Some interesting sounds I hadn't heard before popped up during drumz.
    One sounded like a girl screaming in terror (in fact, I thought it was
    someone screaming the first time I heard it, but after hearing it
    many times, both in drumz and space, decided it was just something
    new).  I'm not good at describing drumz or space (words just don't
    seem appropriate for something like that), so we'll progress forward
    to the sweet Wheel following space.  Again, a real nice version, and
    just the right thing to play at the time.  Bobby had to lead hand
    gestures during the "small wheel turn..." (small hand circles) and
    "big wheel turn..." (big hand circles), but even that seemed like
    the thing to be doing at the time.  The wheel turned into another
    sweet one, Stella Blue.  Again, Jerry's voice sounded real nice, with
    it only cracking during points where it should be cracking (the sad
    "Stella Blues" near the end).  Then they brought the energy right back
    up again with a hot Sugar Magnolia/SSDD.  Bobby got to play rock star
    again, running back and forth across the stage.  For an encore, they
    did your basic US Blues.
    
    All in all, a real good show.  I think the layoff did them good, since
    they all seemed to be in good voice and good spirits, really enjoying
    themselves while playing.  And they must have done some tweeks to the
    sound system, as there was a noticable difference in clarity for
    other shows I've seen at the coliseum.
    
    And this one was just the beginning!

    
    
    I know it's a little late, but better late than never:
    
    12/5 Chandler, Arizona, Compton Terrace....  The BOYs.
    
    Being my first show west of Albany, I was quite pumped for the day
    ahead...  It was a long night, playing out the night before, getting
    home, unloading my drums, showering, and immediately hopping into the
    limo to catch my 6:00am flight to Phoenix...  But sleep deprivation
    would be the last thing to slow me down for the day ahead.
    
    I landed in Phoenix 20-30 minutes late but there was still two hours
    before the 2:00pm start time.  As I walked into the gate, I immediately
    saw Mystery who was happy to see me on the right flight, and anxious to
    get going...  The poor guy would have to live with me for the entire
    following week (another story)...
    
    We got my bags and hopped into the rental car (who begged for us to
    rapidly depreciate it) and left the airport to head South and West
    toward the Indian Reservation where Compton Terrace is located.  During
    the drive, I asked about the Denver shows, and Jim update me on the
    snow storm that hit the night or two before...  the result being
    thousands of folks driving from Denver to Phoenix who were stopped
    midway due to closed roads and bad weather  :^(  Jim even mentioned
    that the equipment may be in trouble to make the show start time.
    
    Well, we continued to pick the wrong traffic lanes as we approached the
    venue, but I started to unwind from the flight anyway... We saw the
    Terrace coming closer and closer and finally could see the parking lots
    crawling with VWs, flying recreational projectiles (aka frisbees),
    shirtless smiling people, and color adorned clothing that will someday
    be displayed in the Smithsonian... 
    
    The Nobel Traffic Directing Prize award winner was clearly responsible
    for the configuration of the routing and layout of the venue, we
    spanned out into 5 lanes while they collected $3 for parking, then
    crammed back into one before being allowed to proceed into the parking
    lot...  If traffic patterns were ever to emulate those patterns found
    in nature (as my mind tells me often is the case) we certainly did one
    hell of a rat swallowing snake impression during that episode!
    
    Anyway, Jim was directed into the parking spot by a free spirited young
    woman who decided port-o-potties weren't quite as convenient as open
    car doors, and we continued on foot from there.  It was quite a trek
    from the lot to the venue...  and during the trek I was reminded by
    seeing my surroundings that white man was indeed kind to his native
    brother in picking such a *choice* location for a reservation :^(  Flat
    open space engulfed the Terrace and though we were in desert climate,
    the earth's surface was constantly peeking up through 1 inch of swampy
    presence...  so we built a castle, but it sank into the swamp, so we
    built another castle...  uh, <snap> sorryI was distracted for a second
    there.
    
    We herded into the Terrace and decided we should find our seats before 
    finding food and drink.  
    
    Well, my first west o' the mississippi show started to dawn on me as I
    looked around at all the folks gathered around in general happiness. 
    What struck me was how quite it was, even before the show started! 
    People were content to just lying down on their blankets and staring up
    into the sky, or closing their eyes to watch the movies on their inner
    eyelids... This surrounding had quite a relaxing effect on me as a
    result.  We tiptoed and tap danced through the crowd to arrive at the
    taper's pit (very loosely defined as that area in the terrace where the
    greatest density of 10+ft metal poles w/ synthetic ears at their tops
    were to be found).  And there we connected with GerG, Tim Dalton, and
    T!ng & Randy, as well as other netheads and tapers I had not yet met.
    
    Well it was nice to meet T1ng who proceeded to immediately sticker me
    with this strange NTTH peace sign thingy with two hearts on it, any of
    you ever seen this before?
    
    Then quickly settled after getting some hot dogs and soda...
    
    Before I get netscrewed again, let me enter this and come back for the
    show review...
    
    Tree  

 so, did Jerry sing "50 years upon my head" during Ship of Fools?  if I'm not
mistaken this is the first time they've done the tune since his 50th bday.




Jum

    re .569
    
    nice story, Tree. You write pretty well for a manager :-) :-)

    RE: .570
    
    To be honest, I don't know about the "50 years upon my head" during
    Ship of Fools.  I don't always listen to the lyrics that closely,
    and didn't notice.
    
    I know t!ng was at the show, maybe she'd know.
    
    j

    
    I think he sang 50 years once before, a few weeks or so before he
    turned 50.  I remember seeing someone's notation that way on a setlist
    anyway.
    
    

    re: last night:
    
    Lazy River is a new Garcia ballad
    Eternity is a Weir song that he played with Wasserman last summer
    Liberty is a new Garcia song that appears on a Hunter album

someone on rec.music.gdead referred to Bobby's new song Eternity as
"Let's Make Love in a vat of Cheese" in his setlist.  Someone else 
equated Bobby with Frank Sinatra.  ;^)

I know I am psyched, now I can scream "Oooo Bobby" and "Oh Frankie" 
simultaneously.  :-) :-)

    are all new bobby songs about cheese?? Velveta and now Love in a vat of
    Cheese?? maybe he needs some new inspiration other than cheese-whiz!
    
    rfb

    Everyone knows that *nobody* is cheezier than Bobby. :-)

Guda one! Edam I wish I'd been sharp enough to munster up that thought ;-0

jeff