Best of '93

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I've been enjoying various shows from the Autzen and MSG run. The band sounds energetic and revived with that nicely weathered character.    Phil sounds great and Vince even sounds enjoyable through much of what Ive listened to. What are some the highlights of '93? Seems somewhat of an underrated year.  There are certainly many sloppy and off nights, but the ones with Jerry on point seem especially satisfying for the 90's.

Was this the first GD show with the new Bolt guitar?

https://archive.org/details/gd93-08-21.sbd.nawrocki.15035.sbeok.shnf/gd1...

I impregnated my wife

MSG was my first and last encounter with Orange Sunshine.  Good Times   

>>>I impregnated my wife

There ya go!

 

>>>MSG was my first and last encounter with Orange Sunshine.  Good Times   

 

Nice. Was it as prestigious as it's made out to be?

 

https://archive.org/details/gd93-05-16.sbd.herman.11934.sbeok.shnf/gd93-...

Phil is quite robust on this Vegas Cassidy.

 

 

^Great Slipknot! too. Really good show overall.

The RFK shows in DC were my last East Coast GD shows.  They were both solid.  Then I moved to Arcata, catching the Autzen Stadium shows along the way.  Fun times.

The 3-17 St. Paddy's Day show at the Cap Centre was very good, and featured the debut of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.  The 2 shows at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill were high energy and full of solid playing.  The year closing  trio of shows at the Oakland Auditorium were all good.  Some consider those the last decent GD homestand.

Autzen 93' were my first shows.  It was so life changing, that even now I have a hard time looking at them objectively.  My mind is still blown!

 

Cal. Expo. run was pretty smokin'! 

 

 

I came here to post the Cal Expo shows. best late era run of shows i can remember.

What AK dread said.

theres no way listening to the tapes of those autzen shows can capture the absolute insane magic of that weekend. There's still reverberations to this day in Eugene from that weekend. 

 

I got married on 8/21/93.

My two favs of that year are 3/17/93:

Shakedown Street, Wang Dang Doodle, Lazy River Road, Desolation Row, Ramble On Rose, Eternity, Liberty

Picasso Moon, Crazy Fingers-> Playin' In The Band-> Dark Star-> Jam*-> Drums-> Jam-> The Other One-> The Days Between-> Good Lovin',

E: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

https://archive.org/details/gd93-03-17.sbd.ladner.4979.sbeok.shnf

and  9/13/93:

Hell In A Bucket, Jack A Roe, The Same Thing, Stagger Lee, Black Throated Wind, Dire Wolf, Let It Grow

Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Playin' In The Band-> Dark Star-> Terrapin Station-> Drums-> Jam*-> Easy Answers-> The Days Between-> Good Lovin',

E: I Fought The Law

https://archive.org/details/gd93-09-13.sbd.miller-wiley.12096.sbeok.shnf

 

The Spectrum show takes the #1 spot for me, just a great night in my home hall where I saw my first show in '73.  Seats right up by the stage on Jerry's side, and less than a month after I got married.  If they had played The Other One instead of Easy Answers it would have been perfect.  It also had a Tubular Bells jam out of space, the Cap Center show had a Two Soldiers jam in it.

3/24/93 made me wanna go back on tour

https://archive.org/details/gd1993-03-24.akg460.swayne.85795.flac1648

 

 

Grateful Dead Live at Dean Smith Center - University of North Carolina on 1993-03-24

by Grateful Dead


 

Set 1

Jack Straw 
Stagger Lee 
Wang Dang Doodle 
It Must Have Been The Roses 
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 
Tennessee Jed 
Let It Grow 

Set 2

Here Comes Sunshine 
Playing In The Band ->
Box Of Rain ->
Crazy Fingers ->
Drums ->
Space ->
Spanish Jam ->
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad ->
Throwing Stones ->
Not Fade Away 

Encore
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

'93 has some surprisingly good shows. Definitely more consistent than the prior year.

I've always liked the Broken Arrow from the Eugene show.

^^^^Yes!!!  Love that one.

 

I found a bootleg of that show in the bushes of Buena Vista Park in SF

 

 

Last decent year for the Good 'Ol.

Was at all 10 Autzen shows. - The 4 in 90 and 93 were the best.