Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 26, 1984
Columbia, MD US
Notes:
"Funiculi Funicula" tuning into "Casey Jones" - last "Casey Jones": 08-03-82 [125] - sound check: Casey Jones, Lovelight
Set List:
Casey JonesFeel Like a Stranger
Althea
Cassidy
Tennessee Jed
Looks Like Rain
Might As Well
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
He's Gone
drums
Don't Need Love
Truckin'
Wang Dang Doodle
Stella Blue
Around and Around
Good Lovin'
Day Job
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Merriweather Post Pavilion - June 27, 1984 »Attendees of this show
Good bet Douglas. Hard to forget this opener as it was one of the few times it came out from here to the end. Tapes bear out the strength of this version and the crowd is way into it. Merriweather is a great venue for sure.
keep your character, enjoy living, share your fortune,
OXOX Merple Reddin
keep your character, enjoy living, share your fortune,
OXOX Merple Reddin
took my girfriend to her first show here and left her out frnt.found only one ticket freakin out hearin casey jones. Told her I was goin in and she was fine, was diggin the general scene. hour later she got in. rippin show, bobby fallin on the drum kit durin good love I believe
One of my very favorite Grateful Dead Memories
Not that I needed it, but I was a sophomore in high school and this was my 3rd show. I was dosed by a kid my age who obviously had been raised on tour, and I was never the same. I was on tour by the next year and saw easily two hundred by 1990 at MSG where I saw my last. Though not entirely song savvy yet, Oh do I remember the Estimated, W.D.W.D.I.T.R., Morning Dew and Throwing Stones. If there was one show that flipped my for good, it was this one.
Part one:
We would party in Philly and then drive to Jerry Weather just before showtime. Our 1984 tour crew just pulled into the parking lot, exited the cars and made a BEE-LiNE to the stage-right entry gate. As soon as we got inside the band was on-stage. As the first notes of Casey Jones undertow were picked-up'd by our ears, we immediately, all headed back to the picnic table area. We laid-out some giant Rail-Road rails of 80's U of Miami white in celebration.
What a rush, and what a treat.
"We could have us a high time
Living the good life
Well I know"
Location
I made a bet with a guy in the parking lot of the Spectrum (renamed the F U Center) in 2002 at a "The Dead" show. I remember that Susan Tedechi was singing with them at that show. The bet was that the Grateful Dead played Casey Jones in 1984. He swore that it hadn't been played since 1982. He just knew it had been twenty years. We went and found a Deadbase in the parking lot and he couldn't believe I remembered that tidbit. It was easy. I knew the answer because I was here at this show and it is something you don't forget. Very hot. Merriweather is a great venue.
Dougles