Listened to this tonight on June 26th, my late husband's birthday. Stereo headphones on my tablet set Loud. Let It Grow, still like musical sex, with two orgasms, You Know Where. Great great show. All Along the Watchtower blew my mind. I miss you, babe. Gone at 48 in 2005 I'm going on 15 years without you this year!! Sometimes I forget what great medicine the Dead are. I know you were with me this evening, your cousin in California, a brand new Facebook friend, sent me at message at precisely 11:11, which made me look at the clock...OUR time... First sign I've had in years... I love and miss you so much!! Happy Birthday babe. Hope you're sitting on a back porch with Jerry...
I met Jerry and the band in 3-21 - 71 . He was singing on the stage with his legs hanging over the side. I was maybe the tenth person in line and looked over and saw him and just walked over and asked him if I could sit behind amps and he was smiling at me and he said no problem.He waved at Ramrod to let me get on the stage.So Ramrod pushed the equipment cases apart,they were blocking people from getting to the stage. I helped him push the cases back in place and got on the stage and went between the first set of amps and the first person I meet is BEAR dropping liquid acid on wands the back of peoples hands and then they licked it off. I put my hand out and he put four big drops on the back of my hand and I licked it off. It kicked it in by the third song and I went over where Pigpen was and sat there for the whole show. Pig played Lightning Hopkins and I loved Lightnings songs, after the first set I was wandering around and Jerry walked over and passed me a big fat joint which we passed back and forth until other people saw what was going down and came over to get in on the action. By the time the second set began I was tripping my noodles out. I asked Bear to hook me up with his local dealer and I started getting a regular supply from him. The dude also had DMT which is like a huge amount of of acid and it lasted less than an hour but you definitely was really not like LSD. The first time I was going to take it, my new best friend said hey this is about twenty horsepower. I sold Bears goods for on tour and to all of my friends and everyone interested in taking it. The money was going to Bears Masterpiece The Wall Of Sound. I asked Bob why nobody blinked an eye at me being there and he told me that they all knew I was home. I met my wife at a three day run in at the Spectrum in Providence Rhode Island. I had many years of experience at shows and I worked with an offshore lobster boat, and spent about 10 years doing that.This was about the time that coke was popular. The captain and crew were all into it themselves. in those days you were able to make 2 thousand dollars on a good trip and 9 or ten thousand dollars in about 5 days at if we filled the lobster tank right to top with maybe two feet of water just above the bugs. it was a practice to give each of the crew five lobsters at the end of the trip. We also took a couple of heavy duty fishing poles because we crossed the area where blue and yellow fin tuna were. I was first one to take the wheel for two hours while everyone else was sleeping. The boat ran about 10 knots an hour which is a bit faster than you would do on a sport fishing boat but I must have caught one or two every trip. The biggest one I got on board was about sixty pounds. I is a rush to pull one in. I lobsters catch was in a study drop. I was married in 1988 and a guy that I had worked with had gotten a job running a wastewater treatment plant and I got a state license to work there and did that for several years and my wife’s parents had bought a house in Florida and we were really to leave the cold winters behind. Worked several interesting jobs before I retired. A mechanic at a Saturn dealership. I was into cooking and got a job a fancy French restaurant and after that I worked running the cheese department in an Italian deli. I learned how to break down an eighty pound wheel of cheese into the different sizes we sold. It went out of business and I then got hired as a painter in the wastewater treatment plant in town,Because of having done the wastewater treatment plant thing All the heavy work I had done over the years caught up with me and I became partly penalized for several months and had the first of many back surgery. I got Covid before the red asshole didn’t want to look bad When I left the hospital I was unable to walk without a walker. I got my left leg back but my right leg still doesn’t work well because of scar tissue. I looked into having an other operation and I had both knees replaced. I am working on it at my house.i have all the machines you use in a rehab center. I have been buying lefty guitars because the guy running the business had the largest lefty guitar shop in the country. I have about 28 rare and custom guitars. I paid over two thousand dollars and up to four thousand dollars. I started buying vintage amps from a local tube amps dealer who is an electrical genius. I bought a 66 Bassmaster and a 67 Bassmaster in the gray covering that I have always loved. Of course I have an eighty’s super twin reverb .Two digital amps I payed 100 dollars for one and sixty dollars for the other. I have about eight or nine amps now and I have them setup so I can play through all them. Put earplugs in and crank them up it’s so loud, So of course I have about forty of them. And I thank the Dead for the inspiration to play and because Jerry let me sit behind their amps in 1971. I can never repay them for my great life. I am 72 now and I traded a tricked out Toyota Camery for an Alfa Romeo Stilvo bright red. The execration is amazing. Thanks Grateful Dead. ⚡️🎸⚡️Roll Away with The Dew.
SWEEEEEEEEEEET!!!! ❤ They can only share what is in THEIR vault. The only reason they have the shows that they do is because they started using video screens for the fans at the summer tour shows, beginning in the late 80s. These are those video feeds. It's why we see the now cheesy graphics that were used at times during the shows. Let's try to be GRATEFUL that we get what we get. I know I am. Shoreline 10/2/87 is an absolute barn burner!!! 🔥
Would there be any video from 80-85? The Radio City run was videoed as was the Warfield I believe. There's gotta be more late 70s thru early 80s in the vault.
The music lives on. Just want to say thank you Grateful Dead Productions, or whoever is responsible for providing these classic show streams from the vault. They are helping us get through these tough COVID-19 days, and it's great we could give back through the donation link to those who really need it. The music will never die!
Shoreline my fav place!!! So much fun and family of deadheads everywhere!!! I listen to these shows over n over n over!!!! Luv it!! Peace Love to ya'll☮💖
Neat, this is the only time I've ever seen the camera capture Garcia's pick-palming this clearly. (in the solo on stagger lee). (a few seconds after 18:30)
I totally saw that and thought, "oh, that how he does that. So smooth." It didnt occur to me that I hadn't really seen it on a close-up shot. Nice call out.
good call! winterland was a moment for this song but you never tend to see his fingerpicking really displayed, eh? i mean, why would it? it's not like he should be treated an differently? BUT THE BEAUTY of it is that he's so goddamn good that he uses his pinkie finger! you don't usually, right? he has to! i wonder if poople intentionally use their pinkie in finger picking and if it's shamed on hahahaha
Vincent H. That is your perception but it is wrong. Just because the evening shown here is the first night back after being off a couple weeks and the band is not exactly firing on all cylinders does not mean Jerry is ‘musically in trouble’ from substance. The Dead were a ‘momentum band’. Opening nights back can have a feel like this where they need to sync up more and gain some energy; easing in to a run, if you will. But jerry was not f#@ked up... The Dead were plagued through their career being judged by people that do not and can not hear the true state of their playing OR know the bigger picture of where they were coming from.
CHEESY GRAPHICS? NO! I call them video technology of the day. The "day" being the late 1980's and 90's. Someone in the production and video recording of these shows thought it would be interesting Or cool to see this art. I am very grateful that these shows were video recorded because I didn't see too many shows in the 1988 - 1995 period. Now I get to see this show. I will deeply appreciate it. I was a mere 31 years old at the time of this show.
I was at this show, and it speaks for itself! Rolled into the Bay Area October 2nd, and it was 102 degrees in Oakland. Hottest temp ever recorded up to that point. Phenomenal show. Look at Bobby's attire. It was effing hot that day!
Yes first I've heard someone else say it. 1987 is my personal favorite year of shows that I saw (On the bus from 84-94) for especially Jerry's guitar tone, his tight melodic soloing and his soulful vocals. Brent's organ and playful keys in general were great as well. Bobby's vocals here are really good as well. Post coma Jerry is electric!
Jerry's voice on Row Jimmy--even with the lyric flub--is so rich and emotional--methinks the word is "timbre"! (It always struck me as beautiful weathered wood...) Haven't made it far into the set yet, but I had to put that out there. His voice, when it was good, was SO, SO, SO good
There was just something about the way Jerry sang, even as it changed as he got older. That, combined with his huge repertoire and the way he played guitar made him the total package of entertainment. The fact that he always went deep was the icing on the cake.
woah...this is the Watchtower that converted me. It was back in 2001 and I accidentally downloaded this version of it, thinking it was Jimi Hendrix. the next song I downloaded was a '73 Eyes. needless to say, that sealed the deal.
it waz meh b-day show - i remembers - "i married meh a wife" - "let it grow" - (bobby lit a match) - (plus bobby wearing that "madonna" t- shirt - she played shoreline a few nights before - guess bobby was there - might as well get the pink guitar out) - second set was typical "smoking" dead - plus a smoking "watchtower" - in the bay area - life waz beautiful . . .
Funny people thought the place wad a dump and didnt return. Google thought otherwise and they put their campus right next to it. I feel blessed to have seen shows there.
well, technically, it was built on a dump. my only gripe was how steep the hill was/is- you start dancin at the top and after a couple spins you're like down in the seats
I saw a BUNCH of shows there - like this one. I loved the place. GREAT acoustics, but it was completely off the hook before the towns nearby complained about being serenaded 10 miles away and they turned it all down from 11 to about 4...
I have to chime in with a dissent, Shoreline was a big acoustic step down from the Greek and the Frost Amphitheaters, both of which had no roofs. Shoreline was a bummer compared to those venues. Now of course, it looks like Heaven - the last station on the line.....
The Grateful Dead has an arsenal of concert archives. I would be happy to donate once "they" decide to break into the stash and pull out the real gems. ;-)
Set 1: Cold Rain And Snow Little Red Rooster Stagger Lee Me And My Uncle Mexicali Blues Far From Me Row Jimmy Let It Grow Set 2: China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Man Smart-Woman Smarter Ship Of Fools Truckin' Drums The Wheel Gimme Some Lovin' All Along The Watchtower Don't Ease Me In Encore: Black Muddy River
@@007KrausBean Stop the non-sensible stance of telling another head what they can & can't say / comment. Simply put, why read comments (& then click "show full comment," no less) if you wan't to be surprised? Simply put, "stay in your own movie, mang." And _never_ be a comment cop! You're better than that, Karen.
I was at this show and it was the first one ever at the shoreline amphitheater. It was a great time and I thought the highlights were stagger lee, let it grow, truckin', the wheel and give me some lovin'.
Lucky you! I didn't hit my Deadhead years until sometime between 2014 & 2016... It was a gradual process, but now 90% of all the music I listen to is GD shows!
The Heinekens had caught up to Phil in 87 and he was packing on some extra pounds. Early 80s to around 87. And look at Phil now in 2023 at 83 and still playing shows and looking as healthy as ever! Lesh is an outstanding, original, unique bass player.
Isn't this the first show ever at Shoreline? I remember when it first opened there was a report that there was a small fire due to the gases escaping from all the trash this place was built on. I took the train down from the city, trying to find it on foot. It was the only thing built in the area then, so not that hard.
Don't know about the fire, but I always wondered why Weir, on the next night during Minglewood sang; t right here in Anaheim...garbage heap, where the little girls know....Thanks!
@@semmelatanc No this is the first GD show at Shoreline. Rosanne Barr was the first performance at the venue. Jerry was in his diabetic coma in the summer of '86 when it opened.
@@andyroberts8892 Thanks. But I hope you realize that I assumed we are talking about Grateful Dead show here. I was at this show and the next night, but never saw the fire in the grass. But that story is true.
We were driving in and looking for the backstage lot to try and sneak in, we took a wrong turn and ended up in the Mars-like wasteland. It was wierd AF. It was the "very new" part of the dump. Shoreline Amph was built on the "old(er) part" of the dump.... A far cry from the Greek or Frost for acoustics, but what can you other than enjoy the ride.
@@2112CO I forgot why I was asking this question but to me it was definitely an important question at the time I apologize for not being able to follow through why I asked this question
Eric Nelson unlikely. No video screens I don’t think. There was a Garden show on that run that got professionally videoed - a lot of it I think - because they used Maggie’s Farm for Farm Aid. 9/19/87 I wanna say
I think I am Jerry when I read a letter from "that UK astrologer" because all the words "mean something" kinda good and bad etc. Stagger lee. song thought. drinking wine because of the primaries and you know Paris was a quiet place 1976.
I thought immediately of the LRR in the "Dead Ahead" video, from the 15th Anniversary run at Radio City: "Well, seven years and he hadn't progressed, had he? At least, not in the direction of improvement." A while back, I read somebody calling this phenomenon, "Bob teaching himself slide guitar onstage."
Setlist Cold Rain and Snow Little Red Rooster Stagger Lee Me and My Uncle Mexicali Blues Far From Me Row Jimmy Let it Grow China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Man Smart/Woman Smarter Ship of Fools Truckin' drums The Wheel Gimme Some Lovin' All Along the Watchtower Don't Ease Me In Black Muddy River
Come on people, seriously?...decent recording equipment, and VHS for the most part, didn't come out till the 80's...how can people record the shows without video cameras and such?...I'd still go back to 67' if it was possible...stay Grateful my friend...✌💀💨🎸🏟⛺🍄🎙⚡🎹🎫🕯📹🌹🇺🇸🎶
