Folks, I've had a rough week. I'm good and drunk. I make it a point not to push my hippie music on this site but it honestly does mean a lot to me. There's something about this performance that I love. It's one of the darkest periods the Grateful Dead went through, but you can hear the pain and the music is better for it. Emotional guitar. If you're ready for it there's nothing like it.
I'm normally not into the Dead (although I haven't listened to much of their live stuff past the 60s), but this one got me. You still see Grateful Dead shirts for a reason.
Hell yeah man, glad you enjoyed it!
Is the rest of their 80s stuff like this?
A decent amount. This is actually a really good show for 85, which has a lot of misses because Jerry's health was really deteriorating. There are a ton of gems in 87-89. 89 is actually one of my favorite years. Definitely a unique sound for them, Brent played a much bigger role. They had to kind of make a fuller sound because they started playing stadiums regularly. One of my favorite shows is 10/16/89 which they released as a live album called "Nightfall of Diamonds", definitely worth checking out if you liked this vid.