Memories of Seeing Garcia on Halloween
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Seeing the Grateful Dead or the Garcia Band on Halloween was nearly as fun as New Years Eve, maybe more so.....
A bunch of dosed out, dressed up freaks just happy as hell to be there.....
And of course there was always the possibility of something Strange happening....
Only saw the GD show on 10-31-91, but as you know it was an insane one....
I saw 4 JGB shows, and Jerry was in top form and mood at all of them.....
Too much damn fun......for $20!!!!!!!
How can you not have fun seeing and hearing Jerry play Werewolves of London???
"And his hair was perfect."
So sorry to have missed the Marin Civic and BCT Halloween gigs....
Anybody with funny fond memories??
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I saw a few Halloween shows,
I saw a few Halloween shows, 87(JGB) 91(GD) 93 (JGB) and 97(Ratdog). They were all nuts.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry
I saw a couple of the JGB
I saw a couple of the JGB shows in Oakland and they were fun, but I missed the GD shows. I couldn't get tix for the Marin & Berkeley shows, and in '91, because of all the chaos surrounding Bill Graham's death it was an all-hands night and I had to work a fucking Morrissey show.
Believe me, my mood that night was as dark & gloomy as Morrissey's was.
And that's pretty damned dark & gloomy.
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Halloween with FZ...
Halloween with FZ...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry
Frank Zappa?
Frank Zappa?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline
An unlikely double bill of
An unlikely double bill of Zappa and the JGB.
UIC Pavilion, Chicago 10-31-84
That had to be a scene WALSTIB.......
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we didn't have GD for
we didn't have GD for Halloween on the east coast
Frank supplied the weird...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: treat island
just happy as hell to be
just happy as hell to be there.....
GD - Marin CIvic 1983, BCT 83 or 84
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
10-31-85, the only GD show
10-31-85, the only GD show ever in South Carolina. The folks taking tickets had never seen anything like this, and a lot of folks got into the Columbia Coliseum free that night. They opened the 1st set with Space>Werewolves Of London>Music Never Stopped and played a solid 1st Set and a blazing Shakedown Street to open the 2nd Set before things kind of fell apart. The next two nights at the Richmond Coliseum were epic.
The next year my girlfriend and I flew out for the 10-31-86 show at the Kaiser, where JGB opened for Kingfish as Jerry had just returned from his coma earlier that month. Lots of great costumes at that show. The Bay Area people know how to put on a good costume party. Jerry played great. It was the first time I saw him play It Stoned Me. My girlfriend was more excited to see Bobby fronting Kingfish. I enjoyed Big Iron and Jump For Joy, but was wiped out from the travel, and passed out at some point, I think it was during Festival.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: frenchiethetickler
Did Jerry/GD have a set of
Did Jerry/GD have a set of body doubles? I'm confused. I saw the GD at the Berkeley Community Theater on 10/31/84 but LocalCountyLine appears to suggest he was with Jerry in Chicago on the same date?
I like the JGB 92 Halloween show better.
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Halloween shows I remember
Halloween shows I remember (more, or less)
10/31/1976 ~ The Tubes @ Concord Pavillion
10/31/1980 ~ The Police @ Oakland Auditorium
10/31/1983 ~ The Grateful Dead @ Marin Civic Auditorium
10/31/1984 ~ The Grateful Dead @ Berkeley Community Theater
10/31/1986 ~ Kingfish with Bob Weir/Jerry Garcia Band @ Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland
10/31/1991 ~ The Grateful Dead @ Oakland Collesium Arena (In memory of Bill Graham. The moment when Kesey came out on stage during "Dark Star" dressed like an undertaker, still gives me shivers)
10/31/1992 ~ Jerry Garcia Band @ Oakland Collesium Arena. Vince and The Affordables opened. (Jerry's last comeback show)
10/31/2022 ~ Phil Lesh and Friends @ the Capital Theater, Port Chester, New York (Philoween!)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline
Sorry, I don't know why I was
Sorry, I don't know why I was thinking that Zappa/JGB gig was a Halloween show.
The correct date is 8-18-84, and no, I wasn't there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goQJlywAM8 10/31/85: Go to 2 hours & 1minute, Weir takes the mike off the stand and totally hams it up, walking from one end of the stage to the other,then sitting on the front of the stage during the 2nd verse of NFA. Missed him climbing the speaker stacks at Kaiser a couple weeks later.
They opened the 1st set with Space>Werewolves Of London>Music Never Stopped and played a solid 1st Set and a blazing Shakedown Street to open the 2nd Set before things kind of fell apart.>>
I was surprised that the jamming before and after Ship was so good after hearing the tapes, but after the drums/space, maybe the worst I saw. No Hey Jude Coda on Mr. Fantasy, just 15 minutes of music including Not Fade.
One other, JGB delivering the goods 10/31/93. Deep jams during Lay Down Sally & the upper level at Brendan Byrne Arena was shaking during Tore Up.
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10/31/79 GD Nassau Coliseum
10/31/79 GD Nassau Coliseum
10/31/85 GD South Carolina
10/31/86 JGB HJK
10/31/88 JGB HJK
10/31/89 JGB Concord Pavilion
10/31/91 GD Oakland Coliseum
10/31/92 JGB Oakland Coliseum
All of these shows were spectacular! Halloween was a good night to see Jerry. He loved all those old horror films with Boris Karloff abd Bela LuGosi - not to mention Abbot and Costello. Perfect holiday for ol' Jer!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: frenchiethetickler
> Sorry, I don't know why I
> Sorry, I don't know why I was thinking that Zappa/JGB gig was a Halloween show.
The correct date is 8-18-84, and no, I wasn't there.
All good as at least my memory would seem to be intact. The question now is for how much longer :D
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Joe Buck is Back
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Joe Buck is Back
Remember this video that was
Remember this video that was linked on Dead.net years ago? It was produced by Justin Kruetzmann. I haven't seen it since.