re: I am at my 1st Dead Show - it’s really happening!!!

Prepping the VW Van now!!

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or us as we were just raging teens looking for raging scenes

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*Cringe*

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cant wait to be with my people

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Where the hell is the lot!!!

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looking for Shakedown Street ..... just gotta poke around

Seriously, just start asking anyone you see "Where is Shakedown Street ?" They will point you in the right direction. It's usually 1-2 blocks from the venue

it was a good show
Too much Mayer but that’s the tax you pay

great venue

I thought it was great.

People complain too much

Dead&slow
Too much Mayer

Just the chance to still see some of the guys playing the songs 25 years after Jerry died is great

It was a fantastic experience. As you know, this was my first show so I have nothing musically or venue to compare it to but what can I say. Its was the longest single band show I ever saw with the 1 hours break so whoever said t pace myself was 100% right!

The pre-concern atmosphere/parking lot was wonderful accumulation of sights sounds, smells and most important cool people. Dropped about 2 hundred on merchanise that was slightly overpriced but these folks needed the money so it was well worth it. Wasn't eating no cheese sandwich though!!

Music - They played some of my favorite including Here Comes Sunshine to open the 2nd set. TBH my seats in 105 were too far left of the stage and after one song I could tell the sound was off so we ending up renting chairs and sitting dead center in the grass. The moon was out, the cool wind was blowing and the sound was so much better once it was balanced left and right.

Set 1
The Music Never Stopped
Easy Answers
Dire Wolf
El Paso
Row Jimmy
Jack Straw
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo

Set 2:
Here Comes Sunshine
Truckin'
St. Stephen
William Tell Bridge
The Eleven
Drums
Space
Milestones
Days Between
U.S. Blues

Encore:
Black Muddy River

About half way through my wife says "they dont really play songs they play music" I said kind of just song to song to song. She didn't know they didn't have "radio songs" but thought she had heard Trucking before.


I actually loved the slow version of Truckin' live...very bluesy.

I want to go to another show soon so we shall see.

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Not a big Easy Answers fan

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Nothing wrong with Easy Answers. It’s got a solid riff and I’ve heard some good jams in it. In late era Grateful Dead, at least Bobby was still writing jam vehicles. And he was the first member of the band to keep things going after Jerry died.

Wave to the Wind might have the worst lyrics I’ve ever heard. That’s embarrassing. But I caught it live in Atlanta in ‘93 and the jam portion wasn’t all that bad. I like Victim a whole lot more than Jerry did. The “Patience runs out on the junkie” lyric hit a little too close to home for him. But that song jams. Not in a big way and it’s more discordant than a lot of their songs but I’ve always liked it. At least Bobby was writing interesting material while Jerry wrote Lazy River Road which just sounded like a retread of other Garcia/Hunter tunes and then he played it constantly. Sort of like I Fought the Law. Good lord that got tedious.

The funny thing about Days Between is I never really got it until I saw Bobby perform it at “Move Me Brightly,” a celebration of Jerry’s 70th birthday that he streamed live in HD for free from his TRI Studio. That was an amazing show that included a lot of artists. And it lasted for like five hours. And it turned out that I’d heard the song often enough for hat I was able to sing along. I wouldn’t have even expected that I could do that.

Man, that was an incredible show. I know they put out a DVD that includes the highlights and I’m sure it includes Eyes which was dazzling. They get into that Grateful Dead place where the music is playing the band and the young guest musicians are just grinning from ear to ear. Check it out if you can.

That Days Between still brings tears to my eyes.

Move Me Brightly - Days Between