jesse jarnow4d ago
40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in philadelphia, concluding 3 nights at the spectrum, an up/down show with a fun debut. spring ’86, show #6.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd86-03-25.sbd.braverman-munder.9880.sbeok.shnf
audience: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-25.139773.FOB.Schoeps.Oade.Bryant.Gastwirt.Miller.Noel.t-flac1644
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXPjuq_u8E [1/5]
Show threadjesse jarnow4d ago
3/25/86 philadelphia: weir debuts DESOLATION ROW, with the dead’s 1-is-where-it-thinks-it-is groove meeting where-weir-thinks-it-is phrasing. gets most of the words, though. a metronomic but very satisfying alternative to slow blues or C&W. 2nd set opens with final 13-minute SCARLET BEGONIAS > TOUCH OF GREY with pregnant lyric slip, “strangers stopping strangers, just to break their hands.” sweet transition, though, weir’s co-leads covering a smooth crossfade. [2/5]
Show threadjesse jarnow
kinda paltry 31-minute GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD > DRUMZ > SPACE > JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES. garcia bails immediately after the BID YOU GOODNIGHT section & weir tries/fails to get something going. SPACE hovers in garcialogue zone before 1st not-very-together JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES of the year, lesh’s vocals crossing from the good-ridiculous of earlier versions (& great BOX OF RAIN previous night) to bad-ridiculous. econo-absurdist 4-minute TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT. [3/5]
Mar 26 at 1:29amWeb
Show threadjesse jarnow4d ago
memories of the dead at the spectrum, tonight in 1986, part 1. [4/5]
Show threadjesse jarnow4d ago
memories of the dead at the spectrum, tonight in 1986. part 2. #deadfreaksunite #gd032586 [5/5]