setlist
Hell in a Bucket
Sugaree
Good Time Blues
Iko Iko
Walkin' Blues
When Push Comes to Shove
Masterpiece
Row Jimmy
Music Never Stopped
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Playin' in the Band
Uncle John's Band
drums
Touch of Grey
I Need a Miracle
Black Peter
Turn on Your Love Light
Black Muddy River
Sugaree
Good Time Blues
Iko Iko
Walkin' Blues
When Push Comes to Shove
Masterpiece
Row Jimmy
Music Never Stopped
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Playin' in the Band
Uncle John's Band
drums
Touch of Grey
I Need a Miracle
Black Peter
Turn on Your Love Light
Black Muddy River
show date
Venue
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China>Rider jam...
The previous month in Laguna Seca they had played a kind of sloppy China>Crazy Fingers>Rider. In Tacoma (my only "hometown" show) it looked like Jerry was trying to do this again because in the middle of the mid-China>Rider jam Weir was violently shaking his head back and forth as if to say "We are NOT doing that again."
I think he was shaking his
I think he was shaking his head becasue he was having some serious amp problems. Very nice Sugaree this night, and the only Touch of Grey out of space!
Good Times Blues/ Bad Times Acoustics
I recall the boys crashing and burning during Good Times Blues, creating quite an opportunity for some wild music. This venue had the worst acoustics I've ever experienced. Fun, though.
bad night
Yeah, my memory was that this was possibly the worst venue ever for any show I attended. And the show seemed "off" most of the night, the band seemed to be clunking around, trying to find their way most of the time. The jams were very uneven and something just didn't seem rightt.
Santana was fabulous. But
Santana was fabulous. But this was the worst of my Dead shows. The sound was terrible and the boys seemed to be disinterested as a result. I always remembered it as a show they cut short, even playing just one set. My buddy set me straight a few years ago, but I seem to recall an unceremonious withdrawal from the stage at the end of the night. Wonder how I coulda misremembered that???
Oh the possibilities
Santana and the Grateful Dead in the NW. Closer than ever for us rusted folk in this corner. But yes, my sights were set on Eugene pretty early in. For having a wooden roof, this dome was stony cold for acoustics.
I'll join the chorus
Worst venue I ever saw the Dead in and probably the worst show I ever saw. Nothing good about that night. The sound was so bad that I remember my ears felt like they were gonna explode during some loud Jerry leads. I think I may have even left early. This was my last show for a while, probably due to how bad it was.
The Aroma of Tacoma!
I was so bummed about the terrible sound quality that it kind of overshadowed the fact that it was Santana and the Dead together in one show. All of that was made better though by an amazing day of sunshine that followed in Autzen Stadium watching Jimmy Cliff, Robert Cray and Good Ol' Grateful Dead as they sprayed the crowd with the hose to cool us all off. It doesn't get much better than that.
passed out
man i got to show right when it started,had to sit down you know!!!!!and i passed out,when i woke up it was the encore song.only time that ever happend,im laughing looking back.
Another Disappointment
This was an awful show, too, and my last Grateful Dead concert. Having seen/heard them many times during the late 60's, 70's, and early 80's it was at the Tacoma show that I finally decided that I'd had enough and that the band's best days were behind all of us. Tacoma was the last in a chain of bogus 80's shows.
Horrible Venue
Santana was great! I think it was some of the members from Santana's Woodstock band and his band he was touring with at that time. The set break was to long and there was a lot of shitty acid going around. When the Dead came out Jerry's hair looked like Don King. The sound was horrible and to loud. They weren't into and it wasn't a very good performance.
I was so glad to have them in Washington
that i thought the show was ok.
BUT i tossed the cassettes a few years back.
Touch out of Space was a good thing to behold, considering they did Way to go home out of Space 6/14/94.
Terrible Sound
Sound was terrible. Tacoma Dome has the worst acoustics.
Bad Show, but Good Friends and Fine Time!!
Yep, the only place to be was right up front and I was glad to get the stage sound and dance my butt off. I definitely had the best part of the show with Santana and luck for me I had a backstage on this tour so I got to meet him with a good friend Randy Hurley, one of the early Diggers who helped Carlos back in the day. Things went downhill fast and at least I enjoyed the ride like nothing you can put into words.
We had a good Olympia, Seattle and Eugene crew of friends there, so that was good and the goods in the Shakedown Street were entertaining. I have had some major good times since with The Other Ones, Further and Dead and Company. When they came to The Gorge two years ago, my mom had just passed and I had a great seat in front of the walkway, so I was spinning and dancing up and down it all show long. A good group of folks, young and elderly if you can imagine it, formed a circle of us throwing energy off each other. The second Oteil stepped up for the second set, our energy synced in what I have always craved and sometimes tasted. I just exploded with the bass, the drums guitar notes and memories of the music my mom brought to me and I bore down on it with everything, closing my eyes seeing beautiful purple mandala's undulating through light, sound, motion- evolving into an all encompassing flow of atomic sparkles of more purple light flowing through, around and without end that I believe is truly the essence of being that is so often imagined, described, painted, but can only be an experience that a death might bring. I have had my share of time standing still and flowing in the cosmos, but this was the best ever, crying, crying tears of sorrow and tears of joy, ecstatic joy.....we will survive, we will get by. Glad I could finally get that out there.....