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Set 1: Midnight Hour > Walkin' The Dog > Big Boss Man, Me & My Uncle > Cumberland Blues, Down In The Bottom > I Ain't Superstitous, Althea, Tons Of Steel > Supplication > Might As Well Set 2: Revolution, Hell In A Bucket > Touch of Grey, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad > Stella Blue > Around and Around > Lovelight, E: Brokedown Palace Famous opener. The Spectrum always brought the best out of The Boys. Dougles

I was at this show, what is "Down In The Bottom"?

My memory is not that great, but I thought Bobby was singing Meet me at the bottom bring me my running shoes .... When I go out the window ain't got time lose..... As I remember, I used to think of it as an alternative to Minglewood in the line up.

End of the tour. Jerry is done and so am I. After seing 12 of the 14 shows on this tour it's time to go but the Dead still bust it out one last time on the east coast. This was a great ending to a great tour. "And you know it's going to be, alright!" Need a break until summer tour starts!

The Eyes Of The World? How fast was that? I never got a chance to see the Dead in peson! But this show blows me away!!!!!

This was my wife to be's first show. If I remember correctly after Touch of Grey Bobby said something about seeing more of them by watching MTV. I like long walks, especially when taken by people who annoy me!

This comment is supposed to go in 1987 Sorry for the screw up I like long walks, especially when taken by people who annoy me! I guess I'll take a walk!!!

This was a great show. The energy was high both the band and the audience. One of the best shows I have been to.

Elston64 For Deadheaddave1982 Down In The Bottom / Ain't Superstitious are two songs written by the late great bluesman Willie Dixon. Here are some other songs the Dead covered that were written by him: Little Red Rooster Spoonful I Just want to Make Love To You Wang Dang Doodle Willie passed away in 1992 and was inducted into the Rock Hall Of Fame in 1994

Elston64 ...Oh yeah He also wrote Big Boss Man which was also played at this show and Eternity which enetered into the Dead's repetiore later

What a great show. The first triumvirate of songs set a fun, weird tone. One memory I have is Bobby doing a jump and step back from mic during Estimated and falling on his ass, getting big grins from the rest of the boys and a hearty laugh from the audience. I can hear the big laugh on my old audience tape. Great show to close up the East Coast Spring Tour.

What a way to close a great spring tour. How about the Supplication jams that year. At Saratoga , they toyed with the Lazy Lightening intro.during the jam. I was saying ,"Come on Bobby, sing it......sing it. On 4/7, did anyone else hear Jerry play the first few cords of Cosmic Charlie out of Space right before the launched into Gimme Some Lovin? You can hear it on the tapes.

Took the train down to South Philly without a ticket. Scalped a ticket, went in, met two friends from school, took two blotters. Next, band opens with Midnight Hour, blistering 1st set, Jerry is melting his fretboard into flickers of light, to be honest, too young and too high to know what hit me. Fav tunes are Cumberland and Big Boss Man. Intermission, begin to freak a little, lady at the hot dog stand looks like a hobbit, holding on to side of wall as a descend back onto the floor, open seating, freaks everywhere, pre-1987 no posers, just hard core heads. Just about to lose it, I realize I have no money to get home. I am 15 and alone in Philly for the first time. Friends from school tell me to chill. 2nd set: Revolution opens. Speechless, starting to relax it was so loose and groovy. Touch, Jerry singing directly to me and telling me we will get by, starting to enjoy myself. Estimated/Eyes/Drums/Space. Excuse me? Did you say something? Somebody passes me a blunt. GDTRFB/Stella/ Around/ Lovelight. E.Palace. Parking lot, drizzling rain, can see rainbows in the window pains of the Spectrum. It is Easter Monday. Funniest part, I follow my friends because I am freaking about getting home, I shove into a sedan with at least, I am not kidding 10 Deadheads, we have to drive to the airport because some heads are flying out, finally I get a ride home. I sit up all night listening to Europe 72 and skip school the next day. Peace.

CosmicloyedIt seems like they had to restart Revolution, and Bobby fell,trying to get off of the PA and get back to his mic in time, and he slipped stood up, and said 'don't worry about me no". Remember hearing walking the dog at 16th Street B&G what fun!!! '

Defintiely the best show of the three in Philly in '85. The first set opening songs were great. Very untypical of the early 80's. It was a good way to end the run...

This is just one more of a several, memorable, Spectrum-Life-Experiences or (SLE) that I was fortunate enough to enjoy from our local sweet-spot. Section "O" which is behind the stage, along side of the tunnel to the back-stage area. What a thumping' good time. A show that I was not stationed in with the stealth tapers on the floor. Cheers, Cubby

The final of three shows and the final for the tour did not disappoint, the set list speaks for itself. Midnight Hour, walking the dog and Big Boss Man to start, wow. OPen the 2nd set with Revolution and end the show with Brokedown Palace...what a great run of shows. I feel priviledged to have seem them.

I Loved the old Spectrum No other band had played there more than the Dead

Fantastic show to climax the tour. I went to all 14 shows in those 6 cities, and Philly definitely brought the energy levels up and met the high expectations. I was in the tapers section for most shows back then, and carried a little notebook crossing off songs I hoped to hear which were either in the recent rotation or recently missing. At this show I was going nuts with the trio of openers, rarities galore and the boys were having a blast as was the audience. In all they played 109 different songs on the tour, just a stellar versatility. Jerry was ripping it up. The Big Boss Man, Revolution, Walkin the Dog, awesome. Check out the video at youtu.be/y5qjwcMJnqc - awesome stuff. Trouble Ahead, Jerry in Red! The only bad thing about the show: we knew they weren't gonna be back on the East Coast for a couple of months. I could barely wait....