final "Louie Louie"
setlist
Hell in a Bucket
Sugaree
Walkin' Blues
It Must Have Been the Roses
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Ramble on Rose
Desolation Row
Foolish Heart
Louie Louie
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Ship of Fools
Estimated Prophet
Uncle John's Band
drums
The Other One
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Sugaree
Walkin' Blues
It Must Have Been the Roses
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Ramble on Rose
Desolation Row
Foolish Heart
Louie Louie
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Ship of Fools
Estimated Prophet
Uncle John's Band
drums
The Other One
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Louie Louie was really cool.
Louie Louie was really cool.
And Brent's solo during Foolish Heart was one of his greatest moments in the band.
Great night in Kentucky.
What the heck was going on.....
After not seeing the DEAD for a number of years the magnitude of the merry prankster crowd was downright overwhelming, and surprisingly right here, in the heart of the Midwest.
Superfantastic show!!!!!!!
louisville meets the candyman from memphis
FIRST ROW SEAT..... BRENT WAS SPITTING ON ME DURING LOUIE.LOUIE.. THE AROMA WAS AT ITS BEST>> a little splash..oops thats all she wrote..
Costumed Pranksters Galore
I saw a Merlin The Magician in the crowd... I recall a fantastic Other One, a mind-blowing trip, how overwhelmed & trashed the facilities looked as I crawled outta my tent in the parking lot the next morning looking for a porta-john.
Bobby not looking well
If I recall correctly - we were sitting in the center, maybe 15 rows back. Bobby appeared a bit pale...and off. I had a great time...it was an off night..at least for me!
front row show
Mail ordered my tix & didn't look at a seating, so, to my surprise,the ushers kept pointing to keep going......our only front row
after gen ad stopped. Could've sat right there 'til I died :)
ahhhh, the spinners!
my second show. a nice, relaxing evening after a harrowing experience at the cincinnati show.
this night a friend of mine said to me during the second set, "come on, let's go out in the hallway." i was like, "why???". she said she said "just trust me, you wanna see this."
this is when i saw the spacedancers and spinners for the first time. i seem to remember there being speakers set up in the hallway??? i was absolutely astounded by what i saw.
it took me a few more shows to become a hall spinning lunatic, but that was the night i was pretty sure i was going to get on the bus.
A Louie Louie Call
While working at a bar a buddy of mine asked my why I kept going to see the Dead. My response was you never know what they are going to play. He askeld me if they were going to play Louie Louie since they were in Louisville. I told him ya never know...when they opened the second set with it I lost it and he could not believe they actually play it. Still Dead after all these years!
Tug
The drum stick incedent
Say I wasn't so lucky for this one some how "me and my uncle" ended up seated behind the the stage as I remember while they were playing foolish heart Mickey broke the end off one of his drum sticks,as a result it flew over the cymbal or bounced off it and hit good old Jerry in the back of the head :-)After the song was over he turned around and shook his finger at Mickey,I'm sure this is where it happened as I was only able to see them indoors 3 times in my life twice in Chicago in 1987.
We had a perfect view of the back stage area and Phil actually spoke to us (after all we caught him smoking something?)
A show before work
This was part 2 of my 30th birthday present. Drove down from Cincy. I can still remember them doing Knockin on Heaven's Door. I worked 3rd shift, so I had to haul ass back to Cincy after the show and put in 8 hours testing electronic modules, 1 every 30 seconds. When I finally got to sleep Monday morning, I had been up since Saturday morning. I got sicker than a dog. Worth it though. Definitely worth it.
89 sucked but
I got to see two great shows on back to back nights. I was senior at OSU and I majored in skipping classes to see shows my entire college career.. so after a phenomenal Saturday show in Cincy I followed it up with the Kentucky show on Sunday and needed almost 3 days to recover. These were the only two shows I caught in '89.
re: First Show
17 years old...green as all get out! My car had broken down and my mom offered to drive me and my friend 6+ hours from Northeast Tennessee to see this show. She dropped us off at the venue about 2 in the afternoon. We met a couple of very nice guys from Florida who mentored us through the day. The little unicorns on very wet paper were insane. After the Other One, I told my friend that I felt like the bus kinda ran me over. Nevertheless, I held on for dear life and have been on the bus ever since. A great day, that I'll never forget!
meh. a turning point
the setlist makes it out to be pretty poppin', but not a fun show. I'd been gone from the scene for a couple of years and it was a lot different. Too many fucked-up people there only for the party. It had always been a party, but the music was also always front and center, closely followed by the Deadhead ethos. Neither of these things were present in the crowd in Louisville.
first show
made the trip in an old Volkswagen beetle from east TN. I was 19. We were on the front in the balcony. A guy tried to jump off right in front of us - we managed to grab him by his serape and pull him back over the railing. Security guys came and got him and then one came back to thank us. He said in a very serious voice "We think he might be on LSD" ummm... all 3 of us that saved him were shrooming to the moon at the time. Had to sleep in the parking lot - bitter cold that night.
made the trip in an old Volkswagen beetle from east TN. I was 19. We were on the front in the balcony. A guy tried to jump off right in front of us - we managed to grab him by his serape and pull him back over the railing. Security guys came and got him and then one came back to thank us. He said in a very serious voice "We think he might be on LSD" ummm... all 3 of us that saved him were shrooming to the moon at the time. Had to sleep in the parking lot - bitter cold that night.
the setlist makes it out to be pretty poppin', but not a fun show. I'd been gone from the scene for a couple of years and it was a lot different. Too many fucked-up people there only for the party. It had always been a party, but the music was also always front and center, closely followed by the Deadhead ethos. Neither of these things were present in the crowd in Louisville.