• Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre - April 13, 1986
    final "Don't Need Love"

setlist

  • Desolation Row
    Mississippi Half-Step
    Supplication
    Let it Grow

    China Cat Sunflower
    I Know You Rider
    Looks Like Rain
    Terrapin Station
    Don't Need Love
    drums
    I Need a Miracle
    Black Peter
    Throwin' Stones
    Turn on Your Love Light

    Box of Rain

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    Tasfa Potumba
    2 years 5 months ago
    I GOT IT!!!

    This was the the show that I finally, totally got it! I'd seen 2 shows a few months prior: enjoyed them, thought the band was great, but something was missing. Then during "The sun will shine/In my back door some day", I was already dancing, but suddenly I felt those chills of happiness, and I became a diehard DeadHead. I was a happy guy the rest of this show- and the rest of the shows I attended!

  • Tennessee Russ
    6 years 1 month ago
    Don't Need Love
    I seem to recall that in the second set that Terrapin Station was abbreviated when Jerry took his guitar off and walked offstage at the end of the Lady With a Fan section. That's when the rest of the band started playing some blues number I didn't know but I guess is Don't Need Love. Maybe it was a different show I'm thinking of??
  • bajaw kamare
    9 years 11 months ago
    This was where the long strange trip began!
    My brother and I drove our motorcycle from Pomona out to Irvine Meadows without tickets or a clue of what to expect. As we were walking around the parking lot a guy just walked up to us and gave us 2 tickets - bless that sweet brother's soul! He absolutely refused to take any money! I think it was purple turtles we did that night and there was no turning back! We were bug eyed and gasping for breath at the end of the show with no idea how we were gonna ride back to Pomona. Outta the blue we ran into some friends - we had no idea they were into the Dead - and they kindly let us crash in their motel room that night. The following night we waded through the swamp of the Lion Safari Park and scaled the fence! The rest is history. Bless the Dead and all the Heads for the brilliant years that followed.
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final "Don't Need Love"
setlist
Desolation Row
Mississippi Half-Step
Supplication
Let it Grow

China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Looks Like Rain
Terrapin Station
Don't Need Love
drums
I Need a Miracle
Black Peter
Throwin' Stones
Turn on Your Love Light

Box of Rain
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Iko Iko [5:39] ; New Minglewood Blues [7:29] ; Peggy-O [5:54] ; Desolation Row.......
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Yes, it was the first of many! Had to climb the hill and walk in over the back fence, since it was sold out and parked in.
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Wrong post for '85 - this must be the year of the fence-walkers.
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My brother and I drove our motorcycle from Pomona out to Irvine Meadows without tickets or a clue of what to expect. As we were walking around the parking lot a guy just walked up to us and gave us 2 tickets - bless that sweet brother's soul! He absolutely refused to take any money! I think it was purple turtles we did that night and there was no turning back! We were bug eyed and gasping for breath at the end of the show with no idea how we were gonna ride back to Pomona. Outta the blue we ran into some friends - we had no idea they were into the Dead - and they kindly let us crash in their motel room that night. The following night we waded through the swamp of the Lion Safari Park and scaled the fence! The rest is history. Bless the Dead and all the Heads for the brilliant years that followed.
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I seem to recall that in the second set that Terrapin Station was abbreviated when Jerry took his guitar off and walked offstage at the end of the Lady With a Fan section. That's when the rest of the band started playing some blues number I didn't know but I guess is Don't Need Love. Maybe it was a different show I'm thinking of??
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This was the the show that I finally, totally got it! I'd seen 2 shows a few months prior: enjoyed them, thought the band was great, but something was missing. Then during "The sun will shine/In my back door some day", I was already dancing, but suddenly I felt those chills of happiness, and I became a diehard DeadHead. I was a happy guy the rest of this show- and the rest of the shows I attended!