GD Oaktown 12-16-92

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Lotta IT factor going around this evening. The band in particularly high spirits and one of the rare latter-day Coliseum shows where the sound was east coast level. Why weren't they all like that. Turn it up and leave it up.

12-16-92

I. Feel Like A Stranger, Brown Eyed Women, The Same Thing, Loose Lucy, Memphis Blues, Row Jimmy, Let It Grow

II. Shakedown Street, Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Playin' In The Band-> Drums-> Jam-> Dark Star*-> All Along The Watchtower-> Stella Blue-> Good Lovin'

E: Casey Jones

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12/17 is not too shabby either (including the 2nd HCS in 3 shows) but 12/16 is the big keeper of the winter run, Denver and Compton Terrace included.

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>>>rare latter-day Coliseum shows where the sound was east coast level. Why weren't they all like that. Turn it up and leave it up.

They had to be louder than the audience and you just never got that roar on the west coast that you got in the east. I blamed the weed. It was just so much more abundant and better back then in the west. 

That West Coast chillax remains in place. Weren't these shows another 'comeback set' of sorts, with Jerry again on the rebound and no NYE run? I thought the '89 NYE run was sufficiently loud, at least by whatever was originating from the stage. I was more than fine seeing shows without that East Coast "loud" factor anyway, particularly that ridiculous clapping in the quiet parts of Morning Dew, Stella Blue, etc.

the last complete show from start to end for me...

Listen to Jerry during Sampson scrubbing during the chorus.

bent my ear to a lot of tape and I challenge a fellow to find Jer doing that since the 70's

 

 

after that it was bits and pieces of the ole magic in and between shows

we had such high hopes for the next night. A new way forward!! Woot!

Jerry seemed on board at Halloween earlier

Then in February we got Ornette Coleman which was awesome but we also got

the debut of Corrinna(which I love now) but you could feel the air leave the room. Esp when they played it again.

"Played it on Monday"

Play it again Tuesday.."

"What the hay"

"CorrrrriiiiiiinAAAA"

either way the people I shared those times with were and continue to be awesome!!

 

 

 

nice reminder 

THANKS!!! 

cool  personal recap joy

Taper section shows from the Col sounded like POOP.   I know - I did a few. Go for the FOB's

One of the better late era shows ~ What I call the "Walking Antique" years of the Grateful Dead, as it seemed to me that's what they had become. They could still open cosmic portals, but mostly stayed comfortably "inside the box."