By David Gans

Week of October 16, 1989

Grateful Dead 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
IKO IKO

Where in the Greek Are You?

Grateful Dead 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
LOOKS LIKE RAIN
TERRAPIN->
PERCUSSION
JAM->
CRAZY FINGERS
LOVELIGHT
I BID YOU GOOD NIGHT

Post-show interview with Phil Lesh

The Greek Theater, on a hillside on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, directly across from the Golden Gate, was a spectacular place to see a Grateful Dead show - or any performance. I saw almost all of the latter-day GD shows there (not the '67 or '68 shows, alas), and it was never less than a splendid experience. (See this article for more on the Greek Theater, which opened in 1903.)

The music in this week's GD Hour is from the second-to-last Dead show at the Greek: Friday, August 18, 1989. That run of shows was slightly off-kilter - the usual Friday-through-Sunday sequence was moved up a day after the tickets went on sale due to a scheduling conflict with the University of California, which owns and operates the Greek. So the Sunday show was moved to Thursday, and this Friday show was the middle night of the run.

After several years of attending shows there, many Deadhead tribes had settled into favorite spots and could be found in their usual places at every show. I took my portable tape recorder with me one day and asked some folks why they were where they were. "Where in the Greek Are You?" is a three-minute montage of the responses.

You'll also hear a brief excerpt of a post-show interview with Phil Lesh, talking about the return of "I Bid You Good Night after an 11-year absence from the repertoire. Several Greek shows (6/22/86, 7/15-17/88, and 8/17-19/89) were broadcast live on KPFA, conveniently located just down the hill from the UC campus, so we usually had a band member or two stop by for a chat before, during, or after.

The '88 and '89 Greek shows were also benefits for the Rex Foundation, which continues to do good works in the world - please visit their web site.

Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, http://www.gdhour.com. Let me know if there's a particular program you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net

Thanks for listening! David Gans
gdhour [at] dead.net

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