40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in hartford, concluding their east coast tour & bidding adieu to the unfairly maligned “day job.” spring ’86, show #13, audience tape only, via the oade brothers: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-04-04.schoeps.oade.gems.76152.flac16 [1/4]
4/4/86 hartford: rare 1st set CRAZY FINGERS, 1st of year. besides brief glow-out, kind of a struggle, fam. final DAY JOB, which i’m legit sad about. over-the-top LOOKS LIKE RAIN. after SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING lands, garcia/weir comp with just kreutzmann (some say it’s like GOOD SHEPHERD?) to start 47-minute JAM > DRUMZ > SPACE > THE WHEEL > STELLA BLUE > THROWING STONES > TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT. video shows kretuzmann on Beam while hart does samplers. synth adds drama to STELLA BLUE solo. [2/4]
scene reports from harshford, today in 1986, part 1. [3/4]
scene reports from harshford, today in 1986, part 2. #deadfreaksunite #gd040486 [4/4]