Grateful Dead 9-24-88 MSG NYC 

I was hit by this unexpectedly. It was 4 am, I couldn’t sleep. I got this thumbnail suggested and randomly clicked on it. The opening hooked me hard! I had that moment that all DeadHeads know about. It was as if time stopped and all things came back to Jerry and the boys. As Jerry’s raspy voice calls out with the dog whistle, “Hey Now!” I melted. This is an incredible band, whose impact cannot be summarized. They produce moments in time that seem to sit outside of time. This opening hit me again, 10 degrees Fahrenheit outside, bundled up to the gills, in the woods, and I can’t help but dance to this. Its unbelievable, even in the moment that the Dead hits you, a special wordless feeling. I am not sure anyone will care about my experience here, but I felt compelled to share for some reason. Thank you to whoever uploaded this and to all the DeadHeads perpetuating what they did! For those who don’t understand, I am sorry, for those who do, let it wash over you and enjoy the moment you’ve been given. Jerry, you are greatly missed and yet your impact continues to transgress space and time, music really is a better language! I am so thankful for this music!

I was at this one. I remember being a little taken aback by Hall and Oats doing Every Time You Go Away with the boys.

I forgot I liked it already.. so I got to like it twice. Thanks man!

Voodoonola you made my Friday...Thank you SoOOO much I needed this.

Bob Weir has been keeping it alive since Jerry passed away 28 years ago and he has probably been the hardest working musician out on the road. Love my Jerry though!

Mick Taylor, goodness gracious! 😮

I was there but don’t have any memorie of hall + Oates ? I must of been busy weighing up some coke for all the guys mostly the workers because I held on to my own for the party but only Phil ,Bobby + Billy were there to share it with plus my niece also , we used to b together all the time but I hardly ever c her anymore for awhile now ? I have no idea why but she doesn’t call or come to c me ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹💀☠️🪽👽🪐🚀🕊️🧚‍♀️🧚🏿‍♂️🧚🏼🌟☄️💥⚡️🥀🤩⭐️love to anybody that’s still out there as old as me ! I’m 74 now but in April I turn another year older but I surely don’t feel it except my knees that were replaced very badly because I have such a hard time walking over that I’m scared I have to have it done over ! I used to dance my body down so bad but I enjoyed every minute of if ! 😅😂🤣😍🥰😘

Hope the neighbors enjoy their 2022 4th of July, backyard soundtrack! Still smokin’ hot!

Stellar show despite Jerry's singing voice crapping out on him.. I was close to the stage and he was visibly angry about it as you would expect..

Awesome! :)

Amen

'87-90 was one long victory lap for the boys....they could play anywhere with anyone and ALL WANTED IN!

After Jerry Garcia died, they did an autopsy. The heart and the buttocks were missing. Conclusion…Jerry played his ass off and sang his heart out. And he did. I witnessed it. Peace Brothers and Sisters (:

This absolutely RIPS!!! worth the price of admission to see Jerry give Mick the over the glasses look when he's playing the West LA riff.

Jer Is one of the hardest working musician ever. Your voice is shot ? Any other singer cAncels the show....jerry lights a camel and straps on his velcro sneakers and gets to work !! My man. Great show

Mick Taylor and Jerry, two rock guitar legends! Rock music wouldn't be the same without their contributions.

I did this 9 show run, deadheads took over the 5 star hotel bar across the street from the Garden. Also there was a 40 foot inflatable King Kong with a tye dye on top the Garden. EPIC.

Iko opener into Stranger! The Dead were a well oiled machine at this point and I'd give anything to go back to those days.

:ove how Garcia gives Mick Taylor the room to solo and is loving the moment, and then Taylor brings the heat. Nice!

I was just listening to dead and co. This put an end to that right away

Boy don’t you miss this! Best days of my life

Great Box! Phil is in the zone, vocally, and he seems a little amazed at it, himself.

Fun to see and hear 3 slides play well together, and Mick meshing well with the boys. And seeing Jerry happily playing with Mick :) Thank you Voodoonola for this one :)

Mick Taylor, Jack Casady, Bruce Hornsby, Suzanne Vega (?), Hall & Oates, a strong Phil vocal, and more cowbell!!! I'm in.

From DeadNet: Benefit for the rainforests: Cultural Survival, Greenpeace & Rainforest Action Network - Bruce Hornsby & The Range opened - FM broadcast WNEW-New York, WMMR-Philadelphia - "West L. A." & "Rooster" with Mick Taylor - "Chinese Bones" & "Neighborhood Girls" with Suzanne Vega on acoustic guitar and vocals - "Every Time You Go Away" and "What's Going On" with Daryl Hall: guitar, lead vocals; John Oates: guitar; Tom "T-Bone" Wolk: acoustic guitar, then accordion, then bass; Mark Rivera: saxophone; without Phil - "River Drumz" with Baba Olatunji & Michael Hinton - Olatunji stayed for the rest of the set - "NFA" with Bruce Hornsby on accordion - Both encores with Hall: vocals & Oates: guitar & vocals; Jack Casady: bass; Bruce Hornsby: vocals & electric piano, then accordion; without Phil - "Heaven's Door" also with Suzanne Vega

Mick Taylor and Jerry Garcia, ridiculous. The show was for a good cause, it was a fun night at MSG. Wetlands after party was a blast!

I was 11. Watched touch of grey video and thought wow this band must throw one hell of a concert and 5 yrs later I went to my 1st show at RFK June of 93 at 15yrs old and this band changed my life and I'm forever grateful .

Mick Taylor learned the Song on the job and ripps straight away a beautiful solo ...

I was here, gotta love the Box of Rain bust out. They are truly a band beyond description.

I miss jerry garcia ever scinse he died to me that was hard news to take. but we still have his music and the gratefull deads music to listen to till the end of time. ....

Warms my heart when Brent jumped in for Jerry on the wheel. That’s a friend.

I hitchhiked from Newport, RI that day to see the show. Somewhere around New Haven we were picked up by a fish truck. Needless to say , once the mushrooms kicked in, I realized I really smelled like fish. Fun adventure for an 18 year old...

Mick is somehow pulling off the ascot while shredding the blues, unprecedented!

What a beautiful show. Love Mick's playing, he blends well. And no offense to Keith and Ronnie, but Mick is on another level.

My god! This show is pure Dynamite! Little red rooster is freaking RIDICULOUS awesome!! fantastic! Sound clear and loud love it (~);}

Set 1 00:10 Iko, Iko 07:23 Feel Like A Stranger 16:11 West L.A. Fadeaway (with Mick Taylor) 24:20 Little Red Rooster (with Mick Taylor) 36:02 Box Of Rain 41:47 Ramble On Rose 48:20 When I Paint My Masterpiece Don't Ease Me In Set 2 57:49 Chinese Bones (with Suzanne Vega) Neighborhood Girls 1:09:25 Crazy Fingers Man Smart (Woman Smarter) Every Time You Go Away What's Going On Drums Space The Wheel Throwing Stones Not Fade Away Good Lovin' Knockin' On Heaven's Door

I love how Mick Taylor advances to a second song. It's like he passed the try out and doesn't know it so he takes a bow. Then Jerry's like "stick around kid that was good".

Wow! Mick Taylor. The best musician to ever be in the Rolling Stones

Drove down from Boston and was able to score a tic for this show. Then drove home with my bud through a beautiful night - both of us feeling grateful

When you go to a Dead show the parking lot becomes a living entity

Just the standard 9-night run at MSG. How many bands in 2022 could pull that off? I can think of 1. Most bands have trouble filling a venue of this size for more than 1 night. If someone plays the Garden for back to back nights, you know they’re big time and have a huge demand to be able to sell that many tickets. Yet the Dead set up shop for 9 nights! The following years they would scale back to just 6 night stays but still, really goes to show how they were a band unlike any other.

Mick Taylor's tone and phrasing are so good. He's one of the few guests I've seen play with the Dead who really added alot. It appears Jerry agrees.

holy crap... mick taylor !!! you can see Jerry really appreciating him... and mick fitting right in... dancing and groovin with the dead ! two great guitarists havin phun...

20 years old and on an adventure in nyc with the dead and the spirit of youth !! One of my most transformative nights of my life .. I think I lived a whole lifetime those couple of days in the big city .. forever grateful

I remember taping this off the radio! Mick Taylor and Suzanne Vega, Fantastic!

WOW! The Little Red Rooster with Mick Taylor is smokin' HOT!!!! Thanks so much for loading this killer show!

2021 New Years I was bored quarantined and depressed Then I stumbled on this gem I sat 1 or 2 row center with my friend Carolynn benefit for the rainforest. Great show Weren’t they all

It was rough tour for Jerry. Saw them at Red Rocks earlier & the laryngitis was wreaking havoc, but he cowboy'd up.

Don't think I've ever heard so much energy pumped into "What's Goin' On". Great fun!

I'm here on the 33rd anniversary of this show for that Philly Soul at 1:24:00

Wow, I was 20 years old and drove into NYC from Albion MI with my girlfriend at the time and some college buddies. Remember sitting at an outdoor chess table passing around a large bottle of Gallo wine at a park in the village before the show.

I was 6 when they played this. It was about that year my friend Caroline (5yo) played me her favorite album on her dad's record player. It was Shakedown Street. She wanted me to hear Good Lovin.

Man I really miss those days. Guess I really am getting old 😕

I was there. My first show.

At this show well played and a lot fun despite Jerry's voice shot

sure as hell wish that all of your other vids were of this quality.But, we still love em all,please keep em comming. Peace

'88 Rainforest Benefit Show. I was there. Holy shit. I'm old.

Possibly the finest Little Red Rooster ever!

Hearing Taylor - one of the greatest blues/rock guitarist ever, play the classic Little Red Rooster with the Dead is a treat.

Mick "Sticky Fingers" Taylor.

I also stayed home for this show. I think it was on WNEW? Lost the tape over the years, They also had Hall & Oates who did A great rendition of "EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY" it was a great show. If I remember it was A RAIN FOREST SHOW. When I watched PULP FICTION And Vincent said he was Suzanne Vega's cousin it reminded me of this show. I think it may have been the one out of so many shows in NY I didn't go too. Being it was on the radio and I could record it. Other then that I don't think I missed many shows in NY, Especially JGB shows. They were the best! The other shows that were mainly from CAL. We were able to record was almost every NEW YEAR'S EVE! From around the early 80's till whenever they stopped doing it.

Just WOW!! Also, I am guessing the best 'West LA' ever.

Anyone talking about Jerry’s voice is missing the point

Saw just about every MSG show in the 80's.. oh how I love it .. :-)

🌟Freaking Fabulous, Awesome Show🌟 Benefit for the Rainforest at Madison Square with multiple guest appearances 🌟Stupendous, They Had Their Mojo Working

I stayed home this night to tape the show off of the radio. I've been listening to that tape for some 17 years and now i get to see it. What great footage. Mick Taylor was a teriffic guest ,and Hall and Oats and Suzanne Vega were alright as well. Do you have the other shows in this run? The Dead were at MSG over a week on that tour.

These guys just tore it apart in Rooster. Totally Awesome.

I was at this show and during West LA with Mick Taylor My buddy saved me from a mushroom meltdown !

Jerry Garcia the California big bear

Jerry is BEAUTIFUL!!!💕💀⚡🐢🌹(~);}

Is that T-Bone Wolke (wearing a hat) to Hall's right (viewer's left) on "Every Time"? RIP to all the great musicians no longer with us. See you on the other side. Oh, "Eyes of the World" out of "What's Goin' On" would've been off the hook, imo. (~);}

You'll never understand if you weren't there and you'll never understand if you're not a real deadhead

I attended, glad I did for this unique "Rain Forrest BENIFIT " GRATEFUL DEAD @ MSG, GOOD TIMES, THAT NIGHT.

I Was there! And at the after party at the Springler Building... What a great night that was, drank vodka and ginger ail with Jack Cassidy. Mickey Heart led some crazy drum conga line at the after party..Does not seem like 27 years ago... seems like just a few years ago... wow don't blink................

I was at this show and when hall and oats joined them, hall and oats family were on side stage and seemed amazed at them with the dead. It was surreal.

I WAS AT THIS SHOW! AND HOW LUCKY WAS I...? I WAS ALREADY A BIG SUZANNE VEGA FAN!! THIS WAS JUST BEAUTIFUL WORLDS COLLIDING FOR ME!!

Gotta love Jerry's killer Tiger guitar and the glorious sounds he emits from it.

Somebody get Jerry some lemon and honey!😁

I seen too many negative comments about the boys at this show. Sure, Jerry's voice is shot, why can't he be human? He gave us his compassion for decades. Give him a break. I wish I had been at this show, but 1988 was my last tour date, at Buckeye, Ohio. Still, I look at the song selections, the boys, and their guests are all tight. Despite Garcia's raspy voice the instrumentals were as good as they ever were. And some of you were worried about the shirt Bobby wore? Wasn't this for charity? Where is your charity? Love my family. Peace. Jerry is God. LSD saves. NFA.

I ate a paper square at a tame impala show and gained completely new perspective on the dead lol. I just had no idea…

Thanks for posting this show. What awesome footage! Jah bless! This was 1 of the 15 shows at MSG. I caught 9 of them. This was a brilliant show. If my memory serves me right, I do believe Baba Olatungi opened this show and also, came in on the drums session. What a mind blowing 2 1/2 weeks that was!

i sadly missed this show..I would love to have seen Mick Taylor whth The GD..and came close to have been at this show. coincidentally my very !st GD show was 1yr before maybe to the day at MSG fall tour...So I remember going to try and score some tickets for these "88 fall MSG shows and fairly naively got burnt buying some 1 or 2 day old NY Yankees tickets from a fairly competent slickster scalper believing I was getting the goods..ha ha well he got me good...only $20 but what a bummer... so me and my friend got beat and had to find our way back home while on some super clean liquid that we thankfully didnt also get beat scoring, maybe 2 mins before getting those 2 day old Yankee tickets🤨🤨....NYC is a tough town LOL🫣 GOD BLESS THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!

I was at a house party during this live broadcast in high school. I found a boombox & put it on. Maybe the only Dead Head there but I had weed so i had people hanging out in the laundry room with the GD. Found out yrs later that the house i was at was my brother in laws Mom's house. He's a metalhead.

The GD was like a big old steam-engine train, lumbering along with all its various gears loosely in sync - sometimes cruising effortlessly at high speed, sometimes slipping off the tracks - but always, always moving forward.

Wife's first show. Still together ❤ 🥀🥀

That bass sounds killer. On point. West LA is a walking dead man, two twisters side by side absolutely ripping up New York City.

Look how happy Jer is w Mick on West La Fadeaway. Does anyone know what the connection is? Great solo by Taylor

I was at this show. Kermit the frog inducted them into the MSG hall of fame and they raised a banner. Holy hell - great times.

I KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE OUTSIDE THE COLISEUM FOR THOSE 7 DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN............... DO YOU? IN 88

Amazon for Amazon now nearly gone playing in the Garden of dreams & delights the Dead are Grateful at least they tried to no avail, treeplanters, the last of the holy men are nearly all gone. Rip Jerry & my Mom.

Only saw two Dead shows. The first was a week or two before they changed their name from the Warlocks to the Dead. The second was the last California concert Jerry did. (Shoreline) Ended up being one of the most bizarre days I ever lived. The two shows, Alpha and Omega.

Thank you to whomever recorded this show and thank you to whomever set this up on you tube. Really like it. . . .

I love this as always thank u very much u wonderful man for what u have done for us old heads because we will never forget those days ! ❤️🐰🐇💜👽🪐🛸🚀rocket in ur pocket as I say ! Will always love this older Dead ! 🥰😍😘

Nice mix Kevin. I snuck into this show ;)

I would be so humbled to have Mick Taylor on my stage. I would be so humbled to be on the same stage with the Grateful Dead!! ☮️❤️☮️

Man- I miss Jerry and all...but looking back....wow. That's a hard 46 right there. I don't feel so bad about how I look now.

Lesh is such an unbelievable bassist. PHIL ZONE.

Great! What IS it that makes one love Jerry so much?

Brent is tha fuckin man nuf said!!p.s. love live the GRATEFUL DEAD!!!!!

John Mayall alumni Mick Taylor deserves his do. He was more than satisfactory and then some, as Brian Jones' replacement. But, he doesn't do much for my ear in the context of this band as doesn't Weir's slide work. Torturing razorbacks. Garcia is boss.