Damn! Wasn't Brent great? I used to really like Keith Godchaux' (sic) contributions back a few years ago, Brent was certainly more progressive. This solo up here on Iko Iko is just fantastic!
I meant to say how I loved to see them in southern California. I only have a high school diploma. The band toured the entire Us and other various countries around the world to. Please forgive me for my shitty formation of sentences and pour grammar.
Awesome show and fitting as the last to perform at JFK. Favorite one. Miss those days rolling crazy at the NE shows with my best bud Tommy B. RIP Jerry, Brent n Tommy. Nothing like it ever again.
I would have loved to have been at this show! One of my favorites, so cool literally tried to crumble it to the ground. I'm sure those bass lines shook the whole place.
its funny how that we can remember this but forget about every day events, must mean this song still kicks it , 2019 u still kick it , nothing but respect 4 your sound out .
second song set 1 people were storming JFK from the lot , I was infield grass and Jerry's completely focused. 94 degrees and Philly is just getting started. At least I'm enjoying the ride. 1989.
Not only at the show but all over the place. Watched as one chick od'd on something. Was on the floor for a while, Urine flowing down the cement stairs. HOT? I was sweating from the doeses any way. went behind the band for drums. can I honestly say I remember the show? Nope. I remember bits and pieces, the people were just to fun to watch that day. We partied out in the lot for a long time before going in. I did not know it was the last show that place would see but it was, Good thing
well , the grateful dead like the beatles and so many that changed our lives and a culture will, hopefully pass on the spirit of the way music expresses our thoughts and keeps us connected, sadly technology has taken us away from that time. I jumped off when that started,, ill watch and keep that time and those memories and hopefully will live on, im afraid if it doesn't..
He definitely did but seriously... those shorts? I mean they're not as horrendous as Lesh's track suit bottoms but still catastrophically crap. 'Specially when you see how totally cool they always dressed in the 60s.
Mayor Wilson Goode was 'too busy' to let everyone know that JFK Stadium was condemned a few days before this show, but let it go on as planned anyway - glad the show took place - forever in my memory!
photoslum Was always so much crowd noise that I always heard best in front of the mixing console or in the back where the twirlers were stomping around. But what would it have been without the dead heads? The 50th shows are coming up and then it is over for good. Wish i was going.
Remember when this song started. 4 heads made it from the upper bleachers to the floor before the 4th note. Pretty impressive seeing that one was about 8 months pregnant.
Steve MacDonald Yeah but the Dead played so many more shows than any pop star ever could. 2,318 Grateful Dead shows. Imagine the logistics! Mind blowing road experience. Real life human beings and no Vegas.
Actually, there are a lot of musicians that are channelling Jerry and the boys and doing agood job of it. They are keeping it alive! Don't be sad, Jerry wouldn't want that. The Deadbeats from Northern California are just one of the great bands playing the Deads music and doing an awesome job if it.
I don't have many regrets about my life, but I regret not seeing them more than once. However, that one time was so much fun, "Live at the Sundome, Tampa, Florida, 10/26/85." There was a crazy synchronicity that happened. The party in the audience was well underway. Jerry and friends were singing something about the rain (I don't remember the song) and at that moment, someone must have spilled a gallon of beer from rows above and it worked its way down, soaking my feet at the moment they sang about the rain. It was so funny. Makes me laugh to to this day. Well, you had to be there!
I have watched this video maybe 100-200 times. It's by far my favorite live version of any song. Brent is just incredible here and it's incredible watching the chemistry and happiness between him and Jerry. It's hard to find a song that leaves you feeling more happy than this one.
All I can say is Great. When you listen to the DEAD, you are listening to real music, not that crap they play today. RIP Jerry, your music will live forever.
I've had recurring dreams of seeing the Dead playing with Jerry ever since he died. It was a real deep loss that many of us felt. It's so hard for people to understand how our shared experience of the Dead, our connection to Jerry, could have meant so much.
