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  • michihippie
    10 years 4 months ago
    detroit dead
    The Palace became the home for the 90's. Speedway boogie's and railroad blueses. neat treats Jerry's birthday run , my last show ,last encore Lucyinthe Skywith Diamonds>>>>>>thank you for a Real Good Time>>>
  • Anna rRxia
    10 years 4 months ago
    Detroit and the Grateful Dead, 80s Althea
    1980 versions do not disappoint, though it did get progressively better as they built it up through the 80s. Pine Knob shows were usually for the faithful as many didn't like to go anywhere near Detroit. DETROIT GRATEFUL DEAD Grande Ballroom 8/11,12/67 State Fairgrounds Coliseum 3/22/68 Grande Ballroom 3/23/68 Easttown Theatre 10/23,24/71 Ford Auditorium 10/30/72 Cobo Arena 10/3/76 Cobo Arena 11/1/77 Masonic Temple 1/21/79 Joe Louis Arena 4/11/88 The famous Detroit riot started on 7/23/67. 16 days later The Grateful Dead played their first of 13 Detroit gigs. The city was unstable and tensions high. Wonder if many people were tripping the light fantastic those two nights! You bought the ticket, you took the ride. Anybody remember Denny McClain winning 31 games for the Tigers in '68? Never been done since. Anybody have a story of seeing the Dead in Detroit? Anyway, the outside shed at Pine Knob got them out of the city.
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    patrickmartin8…
    10 years 4 months ago
    9/20/74 and stoltzfus' love of '70s Dead
    I too love '70s Dead, and while I get all tingly during Let it Grow, there's still something "stunted" or muted about this '74 clip. During Scarlet they get all confused for a while there. Perhaps this relates to the lack of grass in Europe where the preference was hash, which I've heard others say the Dead really did not like! And I think your feelings about Looks like rain are understandable, not one of my favorites, either.
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Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we'll hear some music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Our first stop this week is at the penultimate show of the Europe '74 tour, in Paris on 9/20/74, where we have a nice bit of the first set, featuring Scarlet Begonias; Black Throated Wind; Friend Of The Devil ; El Paso ; Row Jimmy ; Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1> Let It Grow.

From six years later on 8/27/80 at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI, we have New Minglewood Blues, Althea, Looks Like Rain, Big Railroad Blues, Feel Like A Stranger to end the first set.

Lastly this week, from 11 years later on 6/16/91, we have music from Giants Stadium, featuring the start of the second set: Jack Straw, Crazy Fingers, China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider. These Giants Stadium 1991 shows are better known for the second show on 6/17/91, but this first night also had plenty of fine playing. A few days later, on 6/19&20/91, the Dead would play their final shows at the Pine Knob.

Be sure to join us here next week for more tunes from the vault.

David Lemieux
vault@dead.net

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I attended the Pine Knob shows in '84 (my first Grateful Dead concert, please release the non circulating soundboards!) and the '91 run. I was Michigan's own Deer Creek.
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Pine Knob is Michigan's own Deer Creek, wish I saw a show there. There's a great 91 Pine Knob release in the Download Series. Wonder when we'll see more from this tour released.
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another reason to welcome any and all releases that are in the 70s. I like 85-and-before GD; it's just that nothing compares with the 70s for compelling GD. If 7/13/84 were released tomorrow, I'd buy it, no matter what.
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I too love '70s Dead, and while I get all tingly during Let it Grow, there's still something "stunted" or muted about this '74 clip. During Scarlet they get all confused for a while there. Perhaps this relates to the lack of grass in Europe where the preference was hash, which I've heard others say the Dead really did not like! And I think your feelings about Looks like rain are understandable, not one of my favorites, either.
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1980 versions do not disappoint, though it did get progressively better as they built it up through the 80s. Pine Knob shows were usually for the faithful as many didn't like to go anywhere near Detroit. DETROIT GRATEFUL DEAD Grande Ballroom 8/11,12/67 State Fairgrounds Coliseum 3/22/68 Grande Ballroom 3/23/68 Easttown Theatre 10/23,24/71 Ford Auditorium 10/30/72 Cobo Arena 10/3/76 Cobo Arena 11/1/77 Masonic Temple 1/21/79 Joe Louis Arena 4/11/88 The famous Detroit riot started on 7/23/67. 16 days later The Grateful Dead played their first of 13 Detroit gigs. The city was unstable and tensions high. Wonder if many people were tripping the light fantastic those two nights! You bought the ticket, you took the ride. Anybody remember Denny McClain winning 31 games for the Tigers in '68? Never been done since. Anybody have a story of seeing the Dead in Detroit? Anyway, the outside shed at Pine Knob got them out of the city.
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The Palace became the home for the 90's. Speedway boogie's and railroad blueses. neat treats Jerry's birthday run , my last show ,last encore Lucyinthe Skywith Diamonds>>>>>>thank you for a Real Good Time>>>