• Pittsburgh Civic Arena - April 2, 1989
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  • Iko Iko
    Little Red Rooster
    Dire Wolf
    It's All Over Now
    We Can Run But We Can't Hide
    Brown Eyed Women
    Queen Jane Approximately
    Tennessee Jed
    Music Never Stopped

    Shakedown Street
    Man Smart/Woman Smarter
    Foolish Heart
    drums
    The Wheel
    Dear Mr. Fantasy
    Hey Jude Reprise
    Around and Around
    Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
    Turn on Your Love Light

    Baby Blue

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  • Charbroiled
    10 years 3 months ago
    What a Day
    My friend Steve and I started the day in Penn Station, NY walking on to the Amtrak train headed for Pittsburgh at 6:30am. As soon as we hit jersey the bar car opened and the smoking car with all the other heads in it and business people turned into a fiesta for the next 5 hours until the train stopped in Altoona, PA. About 10 cops walked on and escorted two heads off the train (we later saw in the lobby of the Hyatt this night, they made the show) for drinking underage, gee who was serving them. Once we checked into the Hyatt, we headed over to the lot to see what was shaken. I bumped into a friend that I rode with from Alpine to Riverbend one year and balloons were free, YIPPEEEEE!!!! We just got in before the mayhem outside started and could see what was going down through the glass, looked at each other headed for the bar and got our minds ready for the show. Brown Eyed - Queen Jane - Tennessee Jed - Music Never set the tone after a slow start to the first set. The Second set was a monster - they had the red stage lights on in a dark arena if memory serves for most of the second set. Shakedown here - Carrier Dome 84 and Berlin were the three best I was in attendance for. Great show with one of my favorite touring buddies.
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    TradBalak
    10 years 7 months ago
    I'm a local to Pittsburgh,
    I'm a local to Pittsburgh, and a young dead head. I was just 3 when Jerry died, and I finally got to see furthur live for the first time two weeks ago. My dad wasn't into the dead, and none of my friends were growing up. The dead fell into me out of no where years ago on a local radio station when I was 13 and I think you know the rest haha. But thank you all so much for writing about this show. Reading all of your comments make me get a sense of feel for this show. And the fact that it was in the iglo makes it all even better. If anyone has any great stories or anything interesting they want to share about this show please tell me!!! I love hearing stories about the dead, but when it comes to the dead and pittsburgh I REALLY wanna hear it haha.
  • OLDSPANKY1967
    13 years 4 months ago
    I loved this show.
    The dear Mr. fantasy & hey Jude reprise was definitely my highlight of the show.
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sound check: Help> Slipknot> Franklin's
setlist
Iko Iko
Little Red Rooster
Dire Wolf
It's All Over Now
We Can Run But We Can't Hide
Brown Eyed Women
Queen Jane Approximately
Tennessee Jed
Music Never Stopped

Shakedown Street
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Foolish Heart
drums
The Wheel
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Hey Jude Reprise
Around and Around
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Turn on Your Love Light

Baby Blue
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Aside from the unfortunate "We Can Run..." this show flat out smoked. After drums in 2nd set was just great run of big ole Dead tunes. No soft ballads. Boys just tore it up.
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The second set of this show was my intro to the Dead. My Dad gave me the tape and I just went nuts! I never heard anything quite like it. This show is still one of my all time favs! And the We Can Run in the first only adds to this already stellar performance, (in my humble opinion).Rock on. "The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean."
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Best Shakedown I ever saw live. Great show throughout unfortunately things weren't proceeding as nicely outside the arena.
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This was my first show, and unfortunately my only 'Shakedown.' I mean, I went to a lot more shows and I never caught it again. But this one was so good, I guess I don't mind. Future versions never seemed to capture the little spark of this one. I love the simple-yet-funky riff that Jerry plays as the 'theme' of this Shakedown.I didn't go in to the next night, but I was outside in the lot getting chased around by riot police when all hell broke loose. I was actually standing next to the guy who got punched in the face by Officer George T. Trosky which precipitated the rest of the violence. For the record: no Deadhead did anything threatening towards any member of the Pittsburgh police. They just sort of broke like a wave and rushed us soon after Trosky struck his handcuffed prisoner. Now, that jerk Trosky is the front-runner for a Commander position in the Pittsburgh police force, even after a domestic abuse charge where he allegedly punched his wife just like he punched that poor 'head. What a jerk.
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Show was great fun, events caused by the police were horrible. They should be ashamed of Trosky not rewarding him. Anyway my best friends first Iko, he was excited to say the least. Great to have you along for the ride Bob! We had some great times!!!!
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I got the tix and TR drove. A ticket agent in New Jersey hooked me up! As it turned out it was a very tough ticket. We had a hell of a time parking, so many ticketless....the band had stayed away from the northeast, so the anticipation for this show was so palatable, it wasn't surprising that some folks didn't know how to properly handle their energy and frustration. Of course the police exacerbated the problem instead of helping to calm things down they reacted with violence. I guess they couldn't handle the vibes either. I wonder if the dude who broke the plate glass in the arena got in through the hole? I hope nobody got cut. That was out of line, for sure. Eternal Consciousness Enjoyin the Ride, Haybrown
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This was also my first show. Guess I'm one of those 'TOUCH-HEADS'. Wish I had better memories... Tennessee, BEW, Shakedown, Fantasy/Jude, Lovelight all still stand-out. Vibe inside was something I've never felt before, but would feel ften in the future. Had no idea about the outside problems. My friend, Uncle Joe, got DUI'd on the way home and I walked all the way back to Sewickley in the rain. We had tickets for the next nite but didn't go. That was the last time that would happen!! 'If the horse don't pull you got to carry the load...'
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I remeber how hard it was to get into this show. Man it was crazy! When we came out it was surreal! Riot police everywhere. In full riot gear with 3 foot batons, and policedogs. But it was the last year where we could stay in the parking lot. I slept in that lot for two nights. Great view of the city from there. When we were inside, we didn't know what was going down outside. The second night was much calmer.
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My first shakedown of two (My last being RFK in lightning storm)Thing was I was outside....But Whooooshshhhhhhhh!
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89 was awesome and this show was a kick ass highlight!riots that night pissed off the cops but still... start to finish rockin in the igloo.
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This was an awesome show, for starters got front row seats thru the GD tickets sales. I just remember the Shakedown was the best I have heard. I may have been impaired but I swear my friend dave and I yelled out shakedown when they were tuning and Jerry looked directly at us and smiled and they just started right into the song. Man it still gives me goosebumps to this day.
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one of my all time favorite shows even though i only caught the second set. things were getting CRAZY outside, walked into one of the rippenest shakedowns i ever heard can anyone hook me up with this tape? deadgord@gmail.com
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The dear Mr. fantasy & hey Jude reprise was definitely my highlight of the show.
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I'm a local to Pittsburgh, and a young dead head. I was just 3 when Jerry died, and I finally got to see furthur live for the first time two weeks ago. My dad wasn't into the dead, and none of my friends were growing up. The dead fell into me out of no where years ago on a local radio station when I was 13 and I think you know the rest haha. But thank you all so much for writing about this show. Reading all of your comments make me get a sense of feel for this show. And the fact that it was in the iglo makes it all even better. If anyone has any great stories or anything interesting they want to share about this show please tell me!!! I love hearing stories about the dead, but when it comes to the dead and pittsburgh I REALLY wanna hear it haha.
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My friend Steve and I started the day in Penn Station, NY walking on to the Amtrak train headed for Pittsburgh at 6:30am. As soon as we hit jersey the bar car opened and the smoking car with all the other heads in it and business people turned into a fiesta for the next 5 hours until the train stopped in Altoona, PA. About 10 cops walked on and escorted two heads off the train (we later saw in the lobby of the Hyatt this night, they made the show) for drinking underage, gee who was serving them. Once we checked into the Hyatt, we headed over to the lot to see what was shaken. I bumped into a friend that I rode with from Alpine to Riverbend one year and balloons were free, YIPPEEEEE!!!! We just got in before the mayhem outside started and could see what was going down through the glass, looked at each other headed for the bar and got our minds ready for the show. Brown Eyed - Queen Jane - Tennessee Jed - Music Never set the tone after a slow start to the first set. The Second set was a monster - they had the red stage lights on in a dark arena if memory serves for most of the second set. Shakedown here - Carrier Dome 84 and Berlin were the three best I was in attendance for. Great show with one of my favorite touring buddies.