I was there during this period and whenever I see footage like this I'm surprised at how unwookish the crowd is. I was young too, but they were all just cute little babies!
I would like to point out how kind and supportive the two gentlemen sounded at about the 40 minutes mark when asked about the newer dead fans and paraphrasing said that the newer fans were great and were basically getting the "message" and that the scene in his opinion was "better" it really reminded me how patient,kind and supportive allot of the older tour heads would be to the younger members of the family i was 22 years old in 1988 and was at the least in every city the band played in 87,88,89 and so on and i can assure you that i most certainly raised a few eyebrows in the lot or inside the show and was supported and yep mentored by men allot like them... we talk allot about drugs the partying freedom to travel but I thought i would kinda publicly say thanks to all them "older tour peeps" who I learned allot about life from and try to find the good in the current state of the "lot" weather its phish fans or dead related or any of the many musical choices we have today sometimes , at now 55 years old i can be lil impatient with fans in our scene or less understanding but i need to remember that" they're getting the message" thats all will say though Pittsburgh civic arena shows the year they played it during a summer tour was some of the most vicious police brutality i had ever personally witnessed !!!!those cops wer the worst
Not only do I remember these shows but I made the video cut in ATL on fools day around those poles for the drum circle. Such awesome memories and time of our lives. So lucky we were to have seen Jerry. 💙Be Kind ❤️
I really missed those days. I got on the bus at 17 in 1993. This era of the dead will always hold a place in my heart forever. Hope you are all safe and well today.
This video encapsulates this time and place so well. I saw my first show in 1987 and went to a bunch in Philly area from then to about 1992. When I watch this video I can smell the patchouli and feel the vibes and I think I hear the faint call of, "doses, doses, doses". There was nothing like it then, and there will never be anything like it again. Where did it go?
I am equal parts excited and terrified watching this for cameos by dear old friends and myself...for this scene, it's like the difference between memories and evidence :)
Going to these shows was an event. You didn’t arrive at 6pm for an 8pm show, they’d open the lot at 10am or noon so shakedown street could be set up. You didn’t need to have tickets to get into the parking lot, so many ppl went just to hang out and party all day long. The parking lot scene was as incredible as the shows were. You could find anything no matter your age, everyone was like under a spell to be cool with each other and the cops stayed outside the lot. Then, it started to change in the 90s and there were more scammers and local ppl selling fake tickets and fake drugs, and cops started going undercover to bust kids drinking and stuff. These shows were like another world and it was so much fun while it lasted.
@@jenhasken It's what they call the area for merchants these days in Dead world. I don't remember ever calling it that in the 80s when I saw tons of shows. We just called it the lot, and it wasn't a designated area, it was everywhere!
It changed in 89 at the Civic Arena Pittsburgh when the cops busted almost everybody including people's heads I was close to getting pinched but the cop gave my friend and i a pass.
I live & grew up in Ventura they would come every tear for years for us residents it was very interesting to say the least it was more then a concert it felt like a festival not only inside but outside people came from all over & parked & camped at whit is called Surfers Point. It seemed like a simpler time & I miss that.
This was fun to watch since I was there, but not there. My friends and I were college students- had neither the time nor the money to check out the scene. We went just for the shows!
The people interviewed, although 10 years younger than I, have insight and perspective that makes me proud to have been an active participant in this scene. For about five years my life pretty much revolved around the Dead. There were many rewards in doing so. The woman at 45:51 is so representative of Dead Heads. Whoever you are, I LOVE YOU!!!
I’m glad I came across this, very well done,, I’m so grateful the scene is still going on because that’s what Jerry wanted to accomplish with the Grateful Dead and he did. Sadly, I was just a bit too young to be on tour or have gotten into the scene. I should say at this time, but since the Brent ears are my favorite, these people were extremely lucky!
My niece and her husband met on Dead tours about this time -1988. They were both UBC students at the time, and Mellisa stoped at Tony’s “Juice Wagon” for a fresh OJ. They got married 10 yrs later, and divorced 12 yrs after that! Ahhhh….the Dead. Peace
Man lot was so preppie back then! But I guess makes sense. The band was super popular at that time. Selling out stadiums. It was actually cool to be a deadhead. It just kept growing from around this period until the end. As someone who started seeing lot around 96 irs shocking to see how different the types of people were by 96. Lot more hardcore heads. Way more dreadies. A lot of these interviews look like high school kids who are from in town. Which is cool too. I so wish I was on these tours. God damn the dead was on fire from 87-90 when Brent died. Especially 89 and 90. So Fing good. Wish I was born least a decade earlier. Kills me I just missed out. I was born in 1980.. although I really missed by a lot. Btw all the “Phil love” was such a niche thing. I mean yes Phil is the Fing man as far as talent. I would put him second to Jerry. In Brent years him and Brent were pretty close. But Jerry was by far the real talent. No band or musician has ever touched me even close to like Jerry
I remember going to shows about that time and most of the crowd was younger than me. Now those "kids" are in their 50's, but it seems like just a few years ago.
Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving...Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go...but I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving...I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes?
I thought I was the only one who compared time like that. It's wild to think in 1990, if I looked at video from 1956 it would seem like ancient history, but this video seems like yesterday because I was there.
at 38:50 they interview a person named SKYEAGLE...he was a friend of mine at the 1981 Washington rainbow gathering of the tribes...he stayed my friend when I went to live in Santa Cruz...and on Dec 31 1981, SKYEAGLE was responsible for obtaing a "I need a miracle" ticket for me to see the Dead at oakland collisuem...SKYEAGLE is a very very good person. I should also mention that although I'm not a complete DEADHEAD superfan...I've seen them 6 times...and 2 of those concerts were I need a miracle tickets...what a long strange...blah blah blah...lol
i was there for this, and i was there for that and forever ill remain a grateful trippy hepcat ill always wave that flag as a grateful freakin head, even well after im old & grey, even well after im made dead.
Phil even addressed it at a show later that year on stage. He literally said that there’s rumors going around that he’s quoting the band….and that the rumors are bullshit! 😂
15:06 "why people are coming" That's easy it's like church for people that get high and like psychedelic music and want to be around others with similar interests and there's a kindness vibe that was unmatched… Not to mention the girls with the hairy legs got a love it!
@@darthvegan435 right understood, there was plenty, but it got worse year after year to the point if you weren’t confirming you were looked at Ada custie
Those years were very special you had to be there and I'm glad I was I always remember coming out of the showes and just seeing everyone's eyes so big and the haze and going back to the hotel get up And do it all over again one thing i regret there was this red head i used to see in the hall wvays and never had the balls to grt to know her my high school gym teacher was a head
I was on this tour for 3 weeks( 1990 & @ ¶ittsburg PA 1989 2)! Time of my life! 🥀🤣💕 ''...test me test me! Why don't you arrest me?!" "It costs money to be here so why not make money while we're here"?!!" ⭐🎵⭐💕🥀🌍🥀ps the dood that's saying ' it's the best live show you can ever see in your entire life!' is Ned Anderson...my roommate @ the time! ( his name is NOT Sean!. ...& idk why he even said that!) ❄️🌎❄️❣️😜👌❣️
1988 was sort of the beginning of the end of the good old days and good they were. Those times of freedom chasing the Dead around chilling with all the mellow heads are gone forever. It's so mellow there. No homeless tweakers, head bangers, blue haired ravers, pierced everthing'ers. Just simple times with simple people. I had so much fun back then without a care in the world!
Well, I am in Columbus, Ohio. I am not in the Pittsburgh part 1988 because I don't remember when we got there. We didn't get tickets, but we were at Buckeye Lake the evening before.
the gd boys locked up for doses who got popped in op red dog late 80s early 90s are all out finally, obama let the last of them out of prison in 2018. a couple of them are good buddies from bitd. took a decades long effort to free them all. most of them used the technicality of weighed blotter. Letters From Marion is a great book about that undercover op and a dh going to prison for the weight of the blotter.
Im watching this video and loving it , but once that guy said suicide, I did like it , heads do what heads do , take2 touch on whomever, but there's always another band go phish😊
25:23 "So why is everybody here" this guy keeps asking why everybody is here and then he keeps answering the question himself lol it ain't Rocket science.. It's peace and love and good times for all! A ship of fools led by captain trips himself! No brainer… Pun intended LOL
Dude with beard and boombox is a tool! Tryin to figure out the meaning of it all. Says no one knows why we are here. I do . Cuz of the music. If you dont dig the songs then youre posing.some go to party or make money or scam.i went for the music. Everything else was a bonus experience 🇺🇸✌️
Agreed... They preach harmony, but hippies are the most condescending pricks I've ever met... And they will get over on you in an instant if there's an opportunity to be had.
