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Dave Abear brings the goods Steely Dead is funky. Recommend.

What a show to be seen out at the beach! All shows with Smokestack just rock. Thankful for you, Tea, always here to give us the latest and greatest. DD

Zach Nugent Dead Set last night out here in PHX. Smoking. Sugaree and Other One->If I Had the World to Give among many highlights. See this guy when you can.

These guys in PHX coming this Saturday. I’m hydrating in preparation as I type this…

DeadFloyd Colorado peeps. Very good. Learning to Fly was cool, as was Time. The Floyd was better than the Dead overall. Talented band.

February 22, 2014 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Smokin show. First Keep on Growing. Set One: Shakedown Street ; Me And My Uncle > Big River ; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ; Baby, What You Want Me To Do? ; Ramble On Rose ; Black Throated Wind ; Gomorrah ; All Over Now ; Keep On Growing > Deal Set Two: Feel Like A Stranger ; Positively 4th Street ; Estimated Prophet > Uncle John's Band > Unbroken Chain > drums > space > I Need A Miracle > Hey Jude > Sugar Magnolia Encore: The Weight > Werewolves Of London

July 22, 1984. Ventura County Fairgrounds. As most of you may know, this venue is literally on the beach. Skull and Roses Festival takes place there every year. Show has a Dancin opener, I Just Want to Make Love to You, Dew out of Space, and two encores. Also, apparently Jerry thinks that some woman named Bertha should not ever come around there anymore. https://archive.org/details/gd84-07-22.pcm-sbd.miller.30650.sbeok.flacf/gd84-07-22d1t02.flac

Today is July 17. iykyk

Si, 2:00 showtime.

Race Is On for the Derby, as were a few of those that followed. Fantastic show, last time that China/Rider closed a first set. https://archive.org/details/gd89-05-06.dsbd.serifin.5423.sbefail.shnf/gd89-05-06d2t07.shn

I was waiting for the HTH banter to ensue 😂

April 29 = my daughter’s birthday 😊 The GD show for this date is 1971 at Fillmore East. Final Second That Emotion and final Alligator. Killer show, overall. https://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-29-1971

April 15, 1970 is Winterland. When Cold Rain ends, stick around for a young Bobby screaming with joy. Fun stuff, killer 1970 show. https://archive.org/details/gd70-04-15.sbd.kaplan.14354.sbeok.shnf/gd70-04-15d1t01.shn

Sick of Europe ‘72? (said no one, ever) Take a trip to Irvine, California. (a lovely place) April 14, 1985. If you’re looking for mellow Jerry vibes, turn your head, for this ain’t it. (and I ain’t superstitious!) https://archive.org/details/gd85-04-14.sbd.jeffm.3667.sbeok.shnf/gd85-04-14d1t04.shn

April 13, 1983. The boys invade Phish country and play University of Vermont. This is an outstanding show that includes Scarlet->Fire Estimated->Eyes Space->Morning Dew among many other jams get in here: https://archive.org/details/gd83-04-13.sbd.sacks.1614.sbeok.shnf/gd83-04-13d2t02.shn

April 10, 1978 the Grateful Dead played in Atlanta. This has some interesting information about the Fox Theater. The Salt Lake City is soundcheck. https://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-10-1978 Here is a soundboard of the show: https://archive.org/details/gd78-04-10.sbd.miller.18098.sbeok.shnf And here’s a YouTube of Bobby regaling the crowd…

On this day 34 years ago, Brent Mydland brought the goods in Louisville, Kentucky… https://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-09-1989 And on this day 1,990 years ago, word is that a guy named Jesus did something cool of his own. YMMV, but Happy Easter to those who follow such things! 🐰

April 8, 1972. London. Two words: Dark and Star. Meeting over 😎. https://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-08-1972

Spring Tour 1988, anyone? Wister, Mass. (iykyk) Around and Around to close set 1; Box encore. https://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-07-1988

This Eyes out of Space is outrageous; what a fucking party that must have been. It’s like a Vegas version of Eyes lol; must listen…

This one for my guy, Tea. Ann Arbor, 4/5/89. Very kynd “Healy Ultra” mix here. Cumby fake out for Bobby. I bet Jerry knew precisely what he was doing. 😛 https://archive.org/details/gd89-04-05.sbd-matrix.kowalski.1091.sbeok.shnf/gd89-04-05d2t03.shn

April 4, 1985 Lemieux played first half of set 2 on TIGDH today and it caught my ear. Miracle->Crazy Fingers was so fresh and so clean (clean)… https://archive.org/details/gd85-04-04.oade-schoeps.sacks.23848.sbeok.flacf/gd85-04-04oade-d3t05.flac

Funny that I was just yesterday also calculating that it was indeed 30 years ago for those, because I am reuniting with a great friend at the Phish Greek shows that I went “in and out of the Gardens” in Fall 1993, Once I thought for a moment, the math is easy, haha. Right on, Billy - can’t wait until our next show together! 😎 (Get out West, ffs!) 😝🥳 DD

Indeed, the sort of thing that one may normally whistle past the graveyard in knowing that I happened to attend both of those shows. They were both in 1993. And they were both the 7th out of 7 shows in a row for me. 1. March 18 - Cap Center. The Way2Go>Wave horror was somewhat diminished in that they didn’t take the place of songs, i.e. they followed China>Rider and then got Estimated>Terrapin to follow. Make no mistake, I (likely) wasn’t thrilled at the time, but at least they didn’t shorten the set, at least from a song count standpoint. This set had Bruce on accordion. 2. June 23 - Deer Creek. This show was like a trip on the struggle bus (pun intended), until it wasn’t. After the Way2>Wave was a run of music that everyone here should hear. Terrapin> JAM!> Drums/Space> Dark Star> Wheel> Good Love e: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds So while Way2Go was sometimes pretty good by this point, Wave2theWind was never on my wishlist. But these shows had some other things to console us, despite that horror… Here’s the Deer Creek show. Get in there today, that jam is a monstrosity. Terrapin as we know it as well as reality begins to be left behind at around the 12-minute mark. https://archive.org/details/gd1993-06-23.sbd.miller.108984.flac16

Any post coma GDTR is always an indicator of a great show. Anyone can try to test this theory…🤓