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Poplar Creek Music Theatre - June 28, 1983
Poplar Creek Music Theatre
June 28, 1983
Hoffman Estates, IL US
Set List:
Feel Like a StrangerDire Wolf
It's All Over Now
Brown Eyed Women
Little Red Rooster
Tennessee Jed
Looks Like Rain
Deal
Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
He's Gone
drums
Throwin' Stones
Not Fade Away
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia
Iko Iko
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I used to play the Dead during my gym class (I am a retired physical education teacher), one of my students came to me one day and said ,"Why don't you play rock and roll?" I felt vindicated when I saw this same student at this show at Popular Creek and he came running up to me to tell me that he gets it now.
I think this happened this night. It may have been the night before. Can't remember for sure.
We had worked our way down in front to a friend's seats and things just started grooving during Sugar Mag(I think) and we were all cutting loose and losing our minds dancing all over. I noticed that my friend Brian had disappeared and then about 2 minutes later, we looked up and HOLY FUCK, Brian was on stage dancing hard pretty close to Jerry. Jerry just sort of looked over his glasses at him and watched to see if he was going to do something more stupid, but just kept playing. We couldn't believe it. He jumped back off the stage before security could grab him and he managed to work his way back to the lawn without getting busted.
I remember asking Brian (who I have lost contact with over the years) what the hell made him do that. He just said that things were just grooving so hard he just felt like getting up to dance on the stage. We were known to go see some punk bands at the Metro and stuff back then and it was more acceptable to get up on stage and dive off, but you just didn't see this kind of stuff at Dead shows.
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will!!
Anyone else remember people parachuting into this venue right before the show began? Can't remember which show....
UncK MicK
Beautiful night,dancing all over the lawn...1st time I ever heard "Throwing Stones" live...everyone called it "Ashes/Ashes". :D
Traveled back into Chicago & partied w/ Heads on North Halstead @ Kingston Mines.
Location
I was on tour most of this year with my buddy Mike Agueros from Camarillo, CA. I am going to talk about him more when I go back and post some more. We saw over a hundred shows together. He was so much fun. I found his obituary from Hawaii last fall (2006). He died 9/5/2000. I had not seen or heard from him since the late 80's and I felt so empty when I saw this. After this show alot of us went up to near Watersmeet, Michigan in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan to the National Rainbow Gathering (Welcome Home). I could write for pages about that. Let it suffice that we had a special time.
Dougles