A friend of mine posted (3 days ago, I guess) 3/16/73, Nassau Coliseum. tasty show.

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Hampton 89 was definitely the best I saw (I put New Year's shows in their own category) but I don't think for a minute that was the boys at their best. 77-78 or 70-72, IMO.

I got off the bus 4 nights before that.

That's funny, I got off the bus in 1990 for the same reason, the scene was too much for me. The Warlocks at Hampton (October 1989) is a memorable one for me (memorable ones, plural, I guess). My...

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That fact has always amazed me.

Listening to the classic 5/8/77, it is still pretty killer https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-08.sbd.hicks.4982.sbeok.shnf/gd77-05-08eaton-d2t04.shn

I went a few years ago. It was fun and nostalgic and pretty manageable from a stadium perspective.

I was there.

IWT

I wasn't really a spinner but spent a majority of my time in the hallways, especially the venues that had speakers out there (Oakland Coliseum and Hampton come to mind).

I blame the gooneybirds.

I know I saw some of those shows, don't think I saw all of them, but I wish I could remember more details.

I also had to bail after Rochester. But I was so pissed that I had to that I went home, quit my job, got a driveaway car from Philly to SF, and drove out for Laguna Seca shows, so not all was lost.

That was one of my last shows.

That's why I added the "maybe", although I have never seen DSO.

Can we at least agree that they are a good Dead cover band?

They're the best Dead cover band I've ever seen. Maybe.

I was there!

This clue is seriously flawed. They were not "the Grateful Dead" in 2015.

The Fall 83 MSG St Stephen show is burned in my brain.

That Death Don't Have No Mercy, oh my!

31 years ago today might be the best show I ever saw.

The next night was even better.

What a first show! I think one of those shows was my 50th, but I'm not sure. They sure were stellar!

LoL

10/11/83 was my second or third show, but the first one that I vividly remember.

Hampton fall 89 was magic.

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I did say ymmv. And I hear ya, there are some fantastic songs that hadn't been written yet. But there's also a bunch of stuff they stopped playing, they stopped playing any acoustic (other than...

on this day in 1970...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52agvsLLnyc

Fillmore East soundboard

Pigpen Grateful Dead is the best Grateful Dead. Ymmv.

Heh, I can imagine exactly what that was like. Because I was there. And holy shit that show was in-fucking-credible. You didn't even mention the Death Don't Have No Mercy, which was my personal...

Nice! 10/11/83 is burned in my brain. I've probably posted here about it before, but I was in high school, it was my second show, was on the floor, and St. Stephen was my absolute favorite song. ...

10/11/83 was a scorcher.

for those who are up on their current memes, this was funny

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I didn't quit in 1990 because Brent died or because the music had gone downhill, I quit before that, because I had gotten really tired of what the scene had become.

heh, don't know any of those songs because my last show was in 1990.

Pretty sure I was there.

I was at almost all of those MSG and Spectrum shows in 87/88, too. Was going to college in Philly and grew up in NYC so it was a no brainer.

Ha, there are only 4 states I haven't been to, and 3 are on that list. Coincidence?

Exactly.

I started listening to the Dead when I was 9 (coincidentally for this thread, in 1977), my 13yo brother came back from a summer trip playing them like crazy. I hated them at first,...

Show bias is rampant. And even within that, it's often bias towards what songs they actually played. The Warlocks shows they played at Hampton in 1989 were amazing, but is that my impression because...

that's some anti-pigpen era bias right there.