# Your favorite grateful dead show? RIP Jerry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-grateful-dead-show-rip-jerry/762376 "2016-08-10T19:26:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-grateful-dead-show-rip-jerry/762376/21 "2016-08-12T11:29:23Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Me too, except that my show was exactly eight years later, to the day, at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. I had a great time, although looking back at the set list it seems less than stellar: > Set 1 > > 1. Bertha \> > 2. Greatest Story Ever Told > 3. West L.A. Fadeaway > 4. Queen Jane Approximately > 5. Row Jimmy > 6. Let It Grow > > Set 2 > > 1. Iko Iko > 2. Estimated Prophet \> > 3. Truckin’ \> > 4. Smokestack Lightning \> > 5. Drums \> > 6. Space \> > 7. I Will Take You Home \> > 8. The Wheel \> > 9. All Along The Watchtower \> > 10. Touch of Grey > > Encore > > 1. U.S. Blues Same encore! And a couple of other matches: Greatest Story Ever Told (also played 2nd in the 1st set) and Let it Grow ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-grateful-dead-show-rip-jerry/762376/22 "2016-08-12T14:04:57Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > When Jerry died, I spun about 10 copies of that show and a few others and took them up to the memorial service at the Polo Field and gave them away to people there. “Do you have a copy of this show? No? Well you do now.” Very cool. I was at the St. Patrick’s Day show at the Rosemont in 1994 and all we heard in the lot was that they had played Dark Star the night before, it was still a great show. On the way down to Chicago for the show we stopped at a Big Lots store and I saw they were selling cases of bubbles (soap solution and bubble wands, kids toys), 144 bottles of bubbles for something like $3. We bought two gross and just handed them out randomly to people in the parking lot. It wasn’t long before bubbles (many of them filled with smoke!) were filling the air in the lot and it continued into the venue. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-grateful-dead-show-rip-jerry/762376/23 "2016-08-12T17:12:23Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > My favorite show remains my first. July 1989 at Alpine Valley. I recently discovered that the show was released as a concert video called “Downhill From Here”, I have to find that. … > > I was also at the last two shows (Soldier Field 1995). Watching Jerry close out Sunday with Black Muddy River was _powerful_, it makes you wonder if he knew something we didn’t. August, I was at that show, and the night before: 07/17/89 Alpine Valley Music Theater - East Troy, WI Set 1: Let The Good Times Roll Feel Like A Stranger Built To Last Me And My Uncle Cumberland Blues It’s All Over Now Row Jimmy When I Paint My Masterpiece When Push Comes To Shove The Music Never Stopped Set 2: China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Playin’ In The Band Uncle John’s Band Standing On The Moon Drums The Wheel Gimme Some Lovin’ Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad Not Fade Away Encore: And We Bid You Goodnight Johnny B. Goode Being (at the time) from central Illinois it was a great road trip. I also made the reunion shows in 2003. I have a copy of “Downhill from here” PM me if you want me to burn you a copy, I would be more than happy! Of the shows i was blessed to see I had two bad experiences. One self induced, the other “fans induced”. 6/24/91…Sandstone Amphitheater, Bonner Springs KS took a wee bit more “blue gelatin pyramid” than I should have…ended up “detained and shackled” in a holding area laughing my ass off. As it turns out i could see the whole show through the chain link fence. Somehow i can still remember the vivid details of that trip. The “detaining authorities” turned me loose after the show was over… 7/2/95…Deer Creek Noblesville IN This was truly the beginning of the end. In the middle of _Dire Wolf_ the fans that were outside the venue stormed and broke down the back fence. The crowd swelled to about 30-35,000 in a venue designed to hold 20k. The next nights show was cancelled (I had 3rd row Bobby side tickets) Then came my “home shows” Riverport in St louis. i had pavilion seats but the venue left the house lights up the whole first set. there was a LARGE presence of LEO as Jerry was under some sort of a death threat. My turning buddy and I were going to drop off the bus but THANKFULLY decided to do the last two shows of the tour in Chicago. August 9th 1995 was a sad day to say the least…that day I also received GDTS mail-order tickets for six show at the Boston Gardens. These were to be the last events ever to take place at the venue. the last nights ticket September 19th 1995 says “We’re gonna tear this old building down”… RIP Jerry, and thank you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-grateful-dead-show-rip-jerry/762376.md?page=1)