Grateful Dead 11-8-85 Rochester War Memorial Rochester NY 

I drove there from Mass. without a ticket. I tried walking around the War Memorial the afternoon of the show, but I was 1 of 100s of Heads looking for a ticket. It wasn't looking good. I came up with my most brilliant idea ever for finding a ticket. I drove my car out to the NY Thruway and parked beyond where cars were paying their toll at the exit closest to Rochester. I had a small sign that said 1 Ticket. 5 minutes later, a car pulled over and sold me a ticket at face value. This was still hours before the show, and it was a freezing cold day in Rochester. I remember standing on a bridge with the wind blowing at me and I thought Rochester was the coldest place on earth. Sure was nice to be inside later watching this show!

I went with a bunch of people wearing Uncle Sam top hats. When we got down closer to the stage I suddenly noticed that I was with a different group of people wearing Uncle Sam hats.

WHAT A CRYSTAL TREASURE this show is.....Just when you think it can't get any better .....it gets EVEN BETTER......

Back in the days when the crowd appreciated a song like She Belongs to Me and listened. Now about half the audience would be talking, taking selfies, recording with their cell phones in the air :(

Oh the Brent years and the sound of the '85 fall tour. I was in 11th grade in '85 but didn't get into the Dead until college, first show in '90. Oh the 80s shows I could have attended, will always be a huge regret.

bLISTERING ROOSTER...OH MAN...'85 IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVS

these late '85 shows are hot and have a unique sound. thanks

everything about this show brings back memories.......thank you n God Bless Jerr I'm an old dead head....have not seen Jack Straw played in 25 years...thank you voodoonola................g mac y

absolute one of the best shows I ever saw!! I'll never forget the whole night... Visited a friend at RIT, saw the show, then hit the dorm parties afterward...We still laugh about all of it to this day!

80's DEAD. That was the stuff! I love this crowd, they're so happy to see their band! :-)

I remember these shows very, very well. We set out from Hartford CT by putting a half sheet of Gooney Birds in a bottle of Vodka. When we hit Albany we made Electric Screwdrivers and arrived in Rochester high as kites. Both shows were KILLER. 2nd set Touch>Sampson>High Time>Let It Grow! Amazing! We repeated the Electric Screwdriver routine for the second show the next night. Overall, the 2 best shows I ever saw that were back to back. The Gooney Birds were quite good too!

I love this show voo....i listen to it over n over......it reminds me of the good ole days..thanks for the memories!!!!!!

Thanks to Mr. Smith, my 9th grade english teacher for filming this. Hope you are doing well. I'll never forget running into him at a local bar, asking him what he thought of the show, etc...and him telling me he filmed it (my jaw hits the floor).He said he'd dub us a copy. I told my buddy who was still in school to go look him up and he'd set us up, which he did. We must have made 100 copies of it for friends. So cool to see it here so many years later. We used to try and synch the sbd cassett tape on the stereo up to the VHS playing on the TV.

this is still happening. forever.

My 2nd show was 11-1-85 Richmond. I still remember theCold Rain and Snow, and the Bob and Jerry slide duet during Red Rooster. The guy next to me "Matt", mentioned that Jerry taught Bob how to play guitar, and he gave me my first taste of opium. Didn't get off, but I was already tripping on Musical Notes (?) and had been smoking pot and drinking beer all evening. I was 19.

I was starting my freshman year at Rochester Institute of Technology and when I enrolled there I checked the box that said it didn't matter if I was moved into the regular dorms or a fraternity..well I got moved into AEPi which was a DEADHEAD FRATERNITY!!! The whole house was into the Dead!! The problem was I was into Metallica and heavy metal!! In due time I was a Jerry fan and loving their music!! But that night the house was empty cuz the entire brotherhood was at the show!!! I unfortunately wasn't but with the help of guys like Voodoonola I can relive that moment in time!! That was honestly a moving time in my musical 'career'! The brothers at AEPi would have bands at the house like The Park Avenue band and another Dead cover band called Resurrection.. those bands would absolutely love coming to play at our frat!!! I would be amazed at some of the guys in the house saying they've been to 40-50 Dead shows!! being an 18 yr old metalhead I truly had no clue..I certainly know why now!! they would laugh at me when I said Kirk Hammett from Metallica was a better guitarist than Jerry!! haha I'm laughing at myself now!!

Contrary to popular Grateful Dead themed satellite radio stations, there were other shows on the 85 fall tour. Both Rochester shows were great. Thumbed up from Holyoke Ma, 2 rides later we were there. Rock n roll Bobby- MVP!

1st show, we where 15 and my wife got miracle'd, drove up from Bingo town in a 77 vega. Good times. 46 now, let the good times roll :).

It was such an honor just to be in the same building with these guys. You knew that whatever was going on in the world that day, you were with the Grateful Dead. And, this audience appreciated that. What a great show! Estimated prophet is PHENOMENAL!

This recording sounds wicked good, to whomever is responsible I love your work. Thank you for contribution to our community. Great!

Crowd reactions are epic - cheer & sing on every verse and solo !

voodoonola comes thru when times are tough & lifted my vibes again.. thankyou

good sound. i love these "she belongs to me's" from this tour.

I love seeing people cheer when Brent starts singing!!

I was at this show and it was awesome.The boys had this place rocking!!Gotta love a loud east coast crowdThanx voodoo for bringing back the 85 Dead it was great year !!!Also look at how much fun the boys were having you didn’t see that towards the end.I am just glad I got to see the band when it was fun

I was there..!! This was my 3rd show..19 yrs old.. me and some friends drove from NF Canada without tickets to Rochester on the 7th in hope of the "I need a miracle" thing..a few of my crew scored for the 1st night..I didn't..had to hang outside/in the car/in the cafes etc etc in the cold rain as my friends rocked out..Next day, whole new ball game..bumped into a chic who suddenly had to split town and voilà..ticket at face value for that evenings show..crazy the things we did when we were young..came totally ill prepared with only a bushel of apples in the trunk of the car to last us all for 2 days, a thin pair of socks in sneakers and couple of nickels scraped between the 4 of us..mind you, would do it all over again if I could..-)

I Was at this show was not even a month old yet thanks Mom for raiseing me right!

Was at this show too, and remember the same People's Express flight from Newark to get there that Robbie W mentioned. We stayed in Buffalo each night since my sister was going to school there, drove back and forth in a $12/day Rent-a-Wreck. This was a really solid, fun show as well as the next (previous?) night. Bobby had his rock-star on. He was cautious because he tended toward klutzy, so each foray to the stage edge was with a light tread. We were just praying for him to fall. A couple of times he stumbled (not at this show) while walking backwards and I thought he'd buy it, but he regained his footing if not his grace. Anyway it's a pretty solid show. Love the Estimated, you can see Garcia looking over at Brent like he would, and grooving and dancing. The prettiest song of the show is She Belongs to Me, slowed down to where you could hear every note of the solo, so melodic. Other One is good too.

Saw many shows in 1985 20th anniversary shows saw both war memorial shows pure energy 🙏✌️🇺🇲

Got arrested trying to buy a ticket and missed the show - 😔 Glad there's a recording with video 😁

Weir "perpetually sweating through a purple Izod.."

My first show got in for free hit the ground running and never looked back! Thank you for a real good time!

Pure fire in 85

Thank You!! Brilliant Two Night Stand in Bricktown!! Drove up from Lansdale,Pa

Can't believe this is here. My buddy and I were in the front row right in front of where Bobby sat down for his guitar solo during Little Red Rooster. Never got to be so close again. This was a great show from start to finish. Thanks so much for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST OF THE BEST LOVE PURE DEAD

This is beautiful... love the crowd 🎉🎉🎉

She Belongs To Me - does it get any better than this? Jerry plays so beautifully and his voice sounds so damn good. No one can sing with a guitar quite like Jerry.

The bus went by, and I got on in '83 at the Carrier Dome...and luckily it was well in time for catching this show. I truly believe the decade of the '80's with Brent were the best years of the Dead musically (and not just because I saw most of this decade), although let's face it; bad Dead shows are way better than most of what the music scene has offered us since 1995. Thanks so much for the upload.

Yo Voodoonola You put another notch in my bucket, so very kind! They sound so sweet, how bout it!!

This was my birthday show which occured 27 years ago today! I remember like it was yesterday - Bob, remarked at the opening "Tonight is a very special night because it's NOBODY'S BIRTHDAY" - apparently a reference to wishing others (bill walton, etc) a happy birthdy during the previous few shows of that tour.

I was at this concert as well as the night before. I was also very fortunate to catch both of those incredible Richmond Coliseum concerts on 11/1/85 and 11/2/85.

Thanks again , Voodoonola!!! Last time I listened to this show it was on a cassette tape of iffy quality.

everything about this show brings back memories.......thank you n God Bless Jerry

one of my first tapes...really enjoyed it...first time i heard esau and the song turned out to be a closet fave of mine bc of this tape

Jerry taking THREE lead guitar solos in She Belongs to Me. Gorgeous. The reason I kept going was for moments like this. You could hear a pin drop.

Nice shout out from David Lemieux of SiriusXM the other day on this day in Grateful Dead history. Talked about this epic satisfaction and how Bobby had the crowd eating from his hand. So true. So epic. What a memory!!!

i was there, i saw dancing skeletons on stage at one point. i did. oh and during jerry's guitar solo in stella blue the hanging PA rained down emeralds and diamonds. it did.

Grate show. Everything really is grate but the Satisfaction......Wow....

was here...great show...bobby doin mick impersonation during satisfaction..priceless

Garcia looked so huggable in 85

Place is rocking thanks so much for sharing you rock

The "She Belongs To Me" still brings a tear to my eye.... Final version ever.

Nice surprise listening yesterday to XM , this show was on TIGDH ..Other one > satisfaction. Was the soundboard but I prefer this audience mix. Great Show!

ahhhh this is so fun to see, thanks for posting... such fond memories of the winter shows in my hometown... when it was over, out of the heat and magic in that place and out into the cold rain and snow, trompin over the bridge to gaze at the rapids and semi frozen Genesee river..sooo lucky, lucky, lucky we were

iwt, did this whole east coast tour, the day before was my 20th bday ;)

So sweet, you me rising up like sunshine! Right, I'm missing you Scott and Shannon ! My love, Andy!

First show. Never got that Satisfaction again. See you in Chicago!

The girl with the bee’s on her hair band, such a sweetie. First time I wept from music- she belongs...

Really nice. I saw the Fox Theater shows and the Halloween show in Columbia, S.C. this tour

Awesome! Thanks for the posts. Brings back so much for me

awesome! thanks for sharing. these were my 2nd & 3rd shows College freshman, had a full length leg cast on, lol great energy

I was at this show, but never saw it.

Phil's bass is mesmerizing during Eyes Of The World. That, coupled with the frantic tempo makes this one of my favorite Eyes...ever. I actually believe it's Jerry who sets the crazy pace!

love love LOVE '85 shows...there are so many incredible shows!!! LOVE the energy!!!IMHO I believe they slowly went down hill from 85 on culminating with the passing of Brent. They are showing the effects of a lot of touring this year !!

Loved this show, especially Satisfaction - almost didn't make it, couldn't find a hotel/motel after driving from Toronto.

Thanks for posting.

Ooooch!! So good. Love this ! Thanks bro!!!

The Dead always played their best in Rock Chester!

F'n DELICIOUS !!! Haven't seen this video or any other ... Gonna bring back some misplaced memories of that night 😀🤓😋🤤😶😜😇🤪✨🌈🎶💖🎶🌹🎶🎈✨🍀✨✌️

I got in on the 7th, but I couldn't get into this one (long story!)...bummer because this was one of my first tapes. BTW the first night was awesome too!

Amazing!!

I remember heading up there from NYC to meet my college room mate and missing my plane from Newark to Rochester. I hopped one to Buffalo instead and hitch hiking to Rochester in the Cold Rain and Snow. Well worth it for the two shows we saw up there

First show...never got to see Satisfaction again.

And if there was a night where the boys should have played America's favorite game"Take a step back" this night was it. Mad human crush on the floor

Rock-n-roll Bob! Awesome!

Fantastic show. age 17 flew People's express from Newark for like $29 each way. Got tickets at Jacks Music in Red Bank after he intially told us couldn't sell out of state tickets. He caught us out on street and had a change of heart. That was # 1 magic of this show. Met couple on flight from Boston who me drinks on flight :). These general admission shows were so energized. Landed Brent side couple rows off floor close to stage. Still blown away from energy of this show. Blues for Allah back drop during Satisfaction. People always thought I was just tripping when I told the story, well this video is proof! 2:01:40.. Hit airport after show only told by Police go find a hotel, well 30 heads later they let us sleep on carpet in closed airport! GREAT TIMES!!!!

Wuzz there, front row on Phils side...could of sworn I saw myself..Thanks for posting!

These were the two shows I always regretted missing. I had the bootleg cassette of theses two shows about 1 week after they happened and played them in my Toyota Celica Supra until they wouldn't play no more. I did see both shows in Richmond VA on this tour, about a week before, so, we can't have it all ! Dare I say, Fall 85 tour is second best to Fall 89 tour?

I attended this show. So cool to finally see it. Thanks for posting.

very very nice was there, visiting from Boston

Estimated Echofest 1:00:00 Satisfaction Rock Star Weir 2:04:03

This was the day that Rubin Carter was released from prison, Bobby made mention of it before the Iko kicked off, I wish his comments were on this tape.

Great show. Had this tape since the show in 85.. Only bad part is it's missing the Might as Well after Jack Straw to end the first set. Awesome footage though. How people could ever record some of these whole shows on video still amazes me. The Satisfaction is sick. Love it!!

Another show I forgot I was at.

Thanks for posting these! I was front row on crutches for these two shows :-) :-) :-P

I'd like to take a moment to thank all of the peace warriors that risked their freedom for my mindspace. Not Fade Away!

In an otherwise tremendous show: pretty Peggy-o.

I was still d*sed from Richmond a few days before 😂 talk about a long strange trip.. Let It Grow was great on fall tour.

Trouble ahead Jerry in red! 💥

I watch a lot of these old shows that Voodoo puts up in their entirety. I will admit I often skip the Drums/space jams in a lot I f the shows not that I don't like it they just are long and I prefer th he songs with lyrics. I reminds me a little bit of how Tool Used To Do Triad At Every Show during the Laterals era, but they would have a guest drummer from the opening band which made it more interesting plus I love the song. I am 37 now and never got a chance to see the Dead or any of the post Jerry bands, but I do plan on catching the Dead and company show this summer when they come to NC. I missed them in Greensboro last year. I love seeing/hearing them w Mayer. He is a great fit imo on most of the sings he plays on though sometimes I wish they had added another vocalist who can do the Jerry parts of songs. Anyhow I think it is the coolest thing that there is so much video footage that has been preserved and now presented by Voodoo and I think y you and the other fans/taper for making this a reality. I had listened to my 8 or s ok Dick's pics cds in the last 19 yrs, but never really got hooked to their music til about a yr and a half ago. I love all eras, but I am really loving everything from the 80s and a lot of the nineties shows, but I esp love what Brent brings to the band. Love his voice. Sorry for the long post, but I love reading the post by you other fans expressing your memories of attending these shows and your continued love of the band.

Very cool. I was there that night.

Im usually an 85 hyper speed Eyes naysayer but i dug this one

That's what it's all about.....gtimes.....gtimes.....and vibes......rhythm section killin it as (almost) always...when this occurs magic happens....

If I could ever go back 40y

Man is it great to see the whole show. Put it up on your big screen, surround sound and you're at the show❣👏👏👏 It still is funny, as the East Coast shows were roaring 1985 and up, that Massachusetts almost didn't allow THE GRATEFUL DEAD to perform there and JERRY GARCIA was not allowed in the State of New Jersey - and the MEADOWLAND shows were always kickin'. The best band playing THE GRATEFUL DEAD now is, JOE RUSSO'S ALMOST DEAD, in my not so humble opinion.

thanks..

Trubble Ahead Jerry in Red!

Bobby in Estimated is always the best

Sound quality and separation is exceptional! Thanks again, voodoo!