• Manor Downs - August 31, 1985

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  • Mississippi Half-Step
    El Paso
    Dupree's Diamond Blues
    Mexicali Blues
    Big River
    Althea
    My Brother Esau
    Jack-a-Roe
    Let it Grow

    Terrapin Station
    Estimated Prophet
    drums
    Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
    Stella Blue
    Throwin' Stones
    Not Fade Away

    She Belongs to Me
    One More Saturday Night

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    JetS165101
    2 years 6 months ago
    Only time I saw them in Austin

    Recently transplanted from IL. Skipped Willie's picnic the summer before because I had decided I was not yet acclimatized enough to endure it. This was hot, and dusty. But it wasn't an all day and night affair like the "Picnic" at Southpark Meadows was this year. And then the day of the "Picnic" it rained all night and half the day and was cool and really muddy. Then, 2 mos. later, this. Rode my motorcycle and met two friends in the parking lot; one a dead head (same one who was late to the '81 show at the Assy. Hall in Champaign), one not. They were amazed at the community in the parking lot ;-). Enjoyed the show. "El Paso" and "Not Fade Away" are nice in TX. Agree about "She Belongs to Me"; nice.

  • Amy from New York
    7 years 5 months ago
    I totally remember this
    So I know it's been nine years since the post about the airplane jumper, but funny I was just telling someone about this a week ago. There were parachuters nearby, and the last jumper I saw, well, the chute NEVER OPENED! So what happened? It's been a question in my mind for over 30 years. Maybe it was a dummy tossed out of the plane to mess with our minds! I don't recall any emergency vehicles, and it remains a mystery. Anyhow, what a great tour this was. Always grateful!
  • hockey_john
    8 years 6 months ago
    Listening to this now.
    I have only listened to this maybe 3 or 4 times in entirety. Not sure why that is? Maybe cause the 1982 show was so much better to me. That said though one thing I remember from both years was the way the locals and us heads were allowed to buy so much beer at the concession stands. Still blows my mind. Another funny thing that happened to me was late after the show I was walking threw the cornfields and found A 20 dollar bill it was so out of place my friend and I both thought wow this is crazy... Happy Labor day all
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setlist
Mississippi Half-Step
El Paso
Dupree's Diamond Blues
Mexicali Blues
Big River
Althea
My Brother Esau
Jack-a-Roe
Let it Grow

Terrapin Station
Estimated Prophet
drums
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Stella Blue
Throwin' Stones
Not Fade Away

She Belongs to Me
One More Saturday Night
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Man it was so hot at this show. I had just moved to Austin when I found out the Dead were coming. I was pumped up. But man, I thought I was going to die it was so damn hot. Second set seemed really short. My friend had a theory at the time that Jerry probably needed to take a shit (although I am reasonable sure that it had something to do with other less productive activities).I was stoked because I thought the band would come around every year or so. Sadly, this was the last time they ever played Austin and the second to last time for Texas.
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Yep it was extremely hot, felt like standing in front of a real hot oven when you open it up, hot. Good Cowboy feel to the set list, and the second set was short, maybe due to the heat and Jerry's condition at the time.
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The most memorable moment of this show for me was before the show, a small airplane flew around overhead and the PA announcer told the crowd some guy would parachute out of the plane...well, he jumped out and never opened his chute and "landed" over behind some hills and that was that...noone remembers this but me. Am I going crazy? It was funny and yet wierd. I bought doses from a guy in a green hat and fried my way through the show. It was hot, but Estimated and Terrapin were raging as only a mid 1980s show can do. I loved this show, what a great time.
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I don't remember how hot it was or the guy in the green hat. I do remember being amazed at the blue flames shooting out of Jerry's head.I also remember being really pissed off at this helicopter hovering over my right shoulder shining a spot light. Somewhere during the drums I realized it was only the full moon. Man...it was a LOUD moon.
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Yes I remember the plane and the jumper....although I forgot about it until just reading this. It was very hot indeed. Best song was Jerry singing "She Belongs to me" One of his best versions. I have a low quality video of the show.
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You could drive your truck to the beer stand and purchase a half case with ice........never saw that before. A big dustbowl it was. The setting sun was great, It was surely hot and the bugs, I've never seen roaches that big, like 3 or 4 inches. What a weekend.
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yeah, it was pretty hot at the show. i remember melting by a hill and looking up, there was a cop on a horse right behind me! freaked me right out. going in there was a big sign that said abandon hope all ye who enter here, and some guy with a big hat on telling us "once you go in, you cn't go back" how true..the next day went swimming at barton springs, that's how to cool off in the summer.
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it ALWAYS IS HOT IN TEXAS IN AUGUST xoxoxo like a never ending sauna bath......think only the Texans are used to it....xoxo Gypsy Cowgirl
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by this time were ever jerry picked up a guitar to play i was there and was not going to stop i was truly engulfed in to the dead scene and lovin ever second of it. thanks mk
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This was the second leg of our journey from Dallas. Houston the night before. Slept on top of the car about 10 miles east of Manor Downs in some farmers loooooong driveway until he chased us off with buckshot! Gobbled some fresh shrooms and sat in the back of a pickup with a keg the whole show. The traffic line leaving was unforgiving considering I had to take a dump on a rumbling shroom stomach. I pity that gas station restroom I found relief at! Anyway it was not a bad show and we tubed the Guadalupe the next day and wound up on tabltops dancing on 6th Street the following night. Man I'm glad I got older and quit those undesireable ways. However I would not change a thing if I could do it again.
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Recently transplanted from IL. Skipped Willie's picnic the summer before because I had decided I was not yet acclimatized enough to endure it. This was hot, and dusty. But it wasn't an all day and night affair like the "Picnic" at Southpark Meadows was this year. And then the day of the "Picnic" it rained all night and half the day and was cool and really muddy. Then, 2 mos. later, this. Rode my motorcycle and met two friends in the parking lot; one a dead head (same one who was late to the '81 show at the Assy. Hall in Champaign), one not. They were amazed at the community in the parking lot ;-). Enjoyed the show. "El Paso" and "Not Fade Away" are nice in TX. Agree about "She Belongs to Me"; nice.
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left this comment on another page-the venuewas there for the sf convention -- northamericancon took my two little daughters -- 2&3 so they don't really remember it but they like the dead still -- their favorite is knocking on heavens door .......ck
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I have only listened to this maybe 3 or 4 times in entirety. Not sure why that is? Maybe cause the 1982 show was so much better to me. That said though one thing I remember from both years was the way the locals and us heads were allowed to buy so much beer at the concession stands. Still blows my mind. Another funny thing that happened to me was late after the show I was walking threw the cornfields and found A 20 dollar bill it was so out of place my friend and I both thought wow this is crazy... Happy Labor day all
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So I know it's been nine years since the post about the airplane jumper, but funny I was just telling someone about this a week ago. There were parachuters nearby, and the last jumper I saw, well, the chute NEVER OPENED! So what happened? It's been a question in my mind for over 30 years. Maybe it was a dummy tossed out of the plane to mess with our minds! I don't recall any emergency vehicles, and it remains a mystery. Anyhow, what a great tour this was. Always grateful!
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Recently transplanted from IL. Skipped Willie's picnic the summer before because I had decided I was not yet acclimatized enough to endure it. This was hot, and dusty. But it wasn't an all day and night affair like the "Picnic" at Southpark Meadows was this year. And then the day of the "Picnic" it rained all night and half the day and was cool and really muddy. Then, 2 mos. later, this. Rode my motorcycle and met two friends in the parking lot; one a dead head (same one who was late to the '81 show at the Assy. Hall in Champaign), one not. They were amazed at the community in the parking lot ;-). Enjoyed the show. "El Paso" and "Not Fade Away" are nice in TX. Agree about "She Belongs to Me"; nice.