Recommend A Dead Show

for all the archive bums out there, lets start a thread recommending a dead show... hopefully this gets enough momentum and get's sticky'd

ill start with 4/3/88 oxford

 

anything from 68 is great,

 

2/14/68 carosel ballroom is tight

also 10/30/68 is five stars... it wasnt the dead tho, they played as the hartbeats (or, dead without pig and bob) and the jams are top notch (espically dark star)

 

88? barf.

It depends on what kind of grateful dead is your favorite. My favorite shows come from 71-72, and 80. I have way too many to really remember specific ones, and almost all are at home now (moved them from my work pc). October 1980 is fuckin sick though. That's pretty much the the best 80s dead. Listening to 9-3-1980 right now.

 

i like 67-69, 73-74, 77-79, and 88-91

i think that each of those eras have their own qualities that make them great.. is halloween run 80 the shows that deadahead dvd is on? i used to own the dvd, but i lent it to an older head who has some tool that can put the dvd on cd.. then he got really sick and i havnt seen him in a while, and every time i call bout it he says he'll get it too me soon, and i feel bad buggin him bout it cause he like just got a lung infection on a transplanted lung... and he has my truckin up to buffalo dvd, for like 3 months now

 

the dead ahead dvd is from the radio city music hall, they played a bucnh of gigs in a row at the warfield in sf like 12 nights in a row or something ridiculous then went to radio city and finished october into november... the "dead set" cd is taken from those couple of months too. The best samson and delilah ever is on 10-10 i believe or maybe 10-9, it was included (all edited and cut down in length though) on dead set. I am getting this torrent of a 4 dvd set of the halloween 1980 show broadcast on closed circuit tv in radio city music hall... it's a sick setlist too, can't wait to watch that... what makes oct sick too is the acoustic 1st sets, something that they didn't do afaik since 1970. They are really fuckin on during the acoustic songs.

 

i think 88 is totally underrated...i loved so many of the shows from that year: hampton 3/27, 4/1 benden byrne, 4/30 frost, 6/30 rochester, 7/2 & 3 oxford, 10/18 new orleans....i could go on and on....

 

^ 3/27 is pretty good

88 is underrated cause of how good 89, 90, and 91 were ... kinda like how 76 is underrated cause of how awesome 77 and 78 were

responding bout the oct radio city run, yea the acoustic sets make the shows... dead ahead has a great acoustic bird song (but im biased towards bird song, so take that into consideration..) at one point in the dvd, theres a scene where "former seceratry of state kissinger" comes on and is talking to al franken bout how the acoustic sets are the best he'd seen since early fillmore's in the 70's.. and you know he doesnt lie!

 

10-21-83

 

10-17-72 fox theatre st louis

 

06-18-74 Freedom Hall, Louisville, Ky.

love the weather report on this...donna and bobby hold it together beautifully

 

1970-05-15, set one acoustic, set two with NRPS, set three electric.

This one is classic, if you haven't heard it yet, listen now!

http://www.archive.org/details/gd_nrps70-05-15new.shnf

 

Fillmore West Run 1969-02-27 thru 03-02. Four classic shows, each one outstanding. Not to be missed!

 

Everyone's heard of the great east coast run of May '77. If you haven’t' you need to listen to these "inspired" recordings. Specifically 1977-05-08 - Barton Hall, Cornell University. To say this is the "best" dead show is moronic, but many argue the point with success!

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%281977-05-08%29%20AND%20collection%3A%28GratefulDead%29

That Scarlet Begonias> Fire on the Mountain is sooooooo nice!

 

Scarlet/Fire is so amazing. I does not matter from what show but whenever they did that combo, just wow so mind blowing.

 

7/29/94... Buckeye lake Ohio... While a wicked thunder storm came upon this outdoor show.. The Dead played on even with soaked equipment...

 

I cant stop listening to 5-8-77 Barton Hall, Cornell, Ithaca NY

 

just listened to Acadamy of Music, NYC, 3-31-72 and it is amazing.

check out the other one>wharf rat, sugarmagnolia. perfection

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1972-03-21.set2-sbd.Samaritano.32370.sbeok.flac16

 

Dude, sick! TOO and WR are probably my two fav dead songs, this is great

 

04-08-1972- April 8, 1972
Wembley Empire Pool - London, England

Europe '72 was phenomenal. I don't have the exact quote, but Bobby Weir says this was one of the best shows they've ever played.