"One of the largest crowds to see the Grateful Dead perform live in the 1980s and 1990s, at the last-ever concert at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium, the July 7, 1989 audience was treated with one of the best shows of 1989, a year that's widely considered one of the most consistently great of the Dead's 30 year touring history. Opening with Hell In A Bucket, the band then jumped right into their unofficial party anthem, a song that was always certain to get everyone up and dancing: Iko Iko. This staple of the New Orleans sound at which the Dead were adept at playing was always a buoyant, ebullient entry in any Grateful Dead setlist. As you'll see in the video, the band has much fun playing it on this night as we all had dancing to it." - David Lemieux

@Wolfgasm0414

4 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!!

@bzfgt1

4 жыл бұрын

@@guywoodhouse4684 There's plenty of spark in this sucker!

@pardyhardly

4 жыл бұрын

Blazing hot day, blazing hot show. Crumbling old stadium. Massive crowd of wild-eyed dancing dervishes. Colors, the sound mix eating away at my brain, the stadium's light towers bending and swaying in the boiling sunset like trees in an invisible thunderstorm.

@retriever19golden55

4 жыл бұрын

Iko Iko was one of the highlights of their show in Syracuse NY, War Memorial, '81 or '82, I forget, but it was a blazing show, I thought it was better than the Cornell University show, '77 I think.

@MCreedon34

4 жыл бұрын

I love seeing Jerry smile at one of them n they'll play off each other n then he'll turn to Phil or Bobby or whoever n do it again with someone else love the in the moment live interactiveness of this band like with the improvisation not to just go horribly wrong all the time is amazing in itself let alone it all perfectly coming together as perfectly as it so many times did it's just crazyyyyy

When Jerry smiles I can't help but smile too. 89' was a very special year.

@DawnFrankHundley

4 жыл бұрын

Sure enough and I was at every show coast to coast!

@noogie3784

4 жыл бұрын

... and Brent.

@davidgeisler9713

4 жыл бұрын

down hill from here you could say, eh? '91 was the last real good year IMO

@achiappanza

4 жыл бұрын

I think it was my favorite. Listen to Brent shine on this one!

@jeffmendell4533

4 жыл бұрын

In general 89 was a great year Seen so many bands that year

Jerry and Brent were obviously kindred spirits. I love seeing them play together.

@seanmcdugall1961

4 жыл бұрын

I wish i could like this comment more than once.... its the definition of poetry in motion

@inspirationmovemebrightly9627

3 жыл бұрын

That interplay between them and the way Jerry was encouraging Brent through his smile was wondrous to behold. How lucky we are to be able to access these shows for free! How lucky we are to even have existed on this Earth at the same time as the Grateful Dead!!??

@MrGregFrancis

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely peak Dead when they played together

@karenl668

Жыл бұрын

Loved the 2 of them live and now rewatch shows online just to see their interactions

@johnwickland1825

Жыл бұрын

100 percent.

It is mind blowing how many humans love the Grateful Dead

@user-zf6fv2sg1e

Ай бұрын

Grateful Dead. The best music and fun from the very beginning of the in the feldhouse at uVM

@mariahclaar7915

17 күн бұрын

NFA!

@noraeisenstein4810

6 күн бұрын

GDF got over taken by what custys and trustys so now it's NFA...there I said it shhhh don't tell....while where living and after where "gone" love love love laugh love love....oh wait 🫷 live to seek the truth and continue seeking even when you've found it!!!

@mariahclaar7915

6 күн бұрын

@@noraeisenstein4810 NFA stands for Not Fade Away. You know our love will not fade away. It's a typical saying amongst the family. It has nothing to do with custies (customers) or trusties (trust fund kids cosplaying) If you know, you know... and you apparently do not.

@noraeisenstein4810

6 күн бұрын

@@mariahclaar7915 lmao 🤣😂 i do not know the lyrics to the song I'm gonna tell you how it's gunna be your gunna give your love to me...I wasn't trying to start a debate or a I know you don't know conversation...Im saying I love all y'all and everyone use to say GDF until it turned into a fad where people where just saying it with no love behind it soooo a new resaying was born amongst family. Since alot of people dont see each other anymore because life got in the way or whatever their reason for some we can't just go from lot to Lot but through social media instead of announcing their family their saying their love wont fade away..im sorry if you felt the need to correct a silly statement I made in the moment. Thankyou for all your light and love

I interviewed Jerry before this show -- almost 4 years to the day before my first interview with him in Pittsburgh. What a difference. He was full of energy, upbeat, and of course, sober. The last time I talked to him was June of ''95. Again, what a difference. He seemed so tired. I couldn't help thinking the end was near. And of course it was.

@BreakTheStereoRadio

3 жыл бұрын

That's really interesting! Is there anywhere we can read or listen to these interviews? I'd love to check those out. Peace and love

@STSGuitar16

3 жыл бұрын

Would love to know more about your interactions that gave you these impressions of Jerry. I'm not trying to deny what you are saying about the situation, I am just honestly curious about this topic.

@xavierstrong5437

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreakTheStereoRadio Hey, thanks. Sorry for not getting back sooner. I've been out on the AT the last three weeks -- unwinding and unplugged! Unfortunately, the two interviews I did with him in '85 and '89 were of course long before the Internet made its way into our lives, and the paper I worked for at the time did a lousy job moving their feature desk work from their internal archives to the online archive NewsBank (there was no story in '95 -- I just talked with him for 5 or 10 min. backstage in Albany.) So I've never seen them online, and I've only got newspaper clippings of the stories (and I'm not even sure I still have those.) So anyway, sorry -- I realize that's really unnecessarily long-winded way of saying, "no". (It was a long three weeks -- still trying to get my brain back up to normal speed LOL!)

@BreakTheStereoRadio

3 жыл бұрын

@@xavierstrong5437 Glad you got to have those experiences! Thanks for the response:)

@inspirationmovemebrightly9627

3 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for sharing that!

Phil is doing his own thing over there and it sounds so awesome. That guy is a Master.

@rhythmfield

26 күн бұрын

Phil is arguably the greatest musician of the Dreadful Great

When Jerry looks at Brent, he smiles, and it melts my heart.

I saw the dead for the first time at JFK in the summer of 1987. I was 17 years old and just got my license which opened up a new world for me and my friends. I remember that hot July day as we walked onto the GD lot for the first time and I was like a kid in a candy store. I left that place a different person. So summer of `89 rolls around and I'm certainly not a dead head, I really enjoyed their music and especially their shows. But this time I was staying down the Shore for a week. About 10 or 15 friends rented a place in wildwood and we partied all week. I don't remember how it came about but I woke up that July morning and said I wanted to go to the dead show in Philly. No one Wanted to go or should I say, no one wanted to drive me. I usually drove everywhere but that week I didn't have my car, I went with a friend. So around noon I said, fuck you, to all my friends, grabbed some cardboard and made a sign that said GOIN TO THE DEAD.....JFK, And I just started walking. I walked a while holding up that sign everytime a car drove past. I got a lot of honks but that was it. It was hot and I wanted to give up and just go back. By now I was on the main road heading out of Wildwood to the Parkway. I wasn't standing there more than 10 minutes before this car pulled up, said they were goin my way and asked if I wanted a ride. Perfect I thought until I realized it was a 2 seater hatchback jammed with a bunch of their shore stuff. I remember they made a little spot in the very back where I could lay, scrunched up. But it was better than walking. The only thing that sucked was I couldn't even sit up to look out the window. I was on my back looking up through the hatchback at the clouds. This was hard because I had no Idea where we were going or where we were at. After about 90 mins and a few joints we got there, found parking and I finally was unpacked from the trunk and it was a magical circus. I don't remember much of the day, or I should say this day blended with all the other days I went to dead shows in philly. But I do remember the show itself because this was the last ever event at the historical JFK stadium in philly. This is where they help Live Aid just 2 years earlier. I also remember I didn't have a ticket but in philly you didn't really need tickets. Just wad up some money in your hand, walk up to a busy ticket taker and when he puts out his hand for ticket just shove the cash in his hand. I used to do it all the time for Flyers events and at the spectrum for concerts. The ticket takers were making $3.65 an hour minimum wage. So $20 was a big deal. I would usually get a bunch of ones and wrap a $10 or $5 around it. I never had a person refuse it. So in I went and on I turned. What a show. I loved it and I didn't have any preconceived notions about the dead so I didn't lament about the old days. I wasn't so into them that I could tell the difference between midi, keys or real horns. I didn't know brent used to be background and now he shared vocal leads. It didn't matter. The only thing that mattered that day was my trip, and the good time vibes everyone was rockin. I went on to see the dead a few more times when they came to philly. most of the time I just went to the Lot and was considered "part of the problem", but I was cool about it and didn't cause much of a problem...but I understood what was going on. I never did become a deadhead. I would listen to their music but it never really hit me in the way it did with some people. It wasn't until after Jerry died that I realized how good they really are. I think back to those shows and how lucky I was to be able to go. So now when I listen to these shows some 33 years later and I think back to those days and how young and carefree I was I feel a bit of happiness to know that I had it good, and I still have it good but man those times were special. There will never be another time like those times. The world keeps turning no matter what I feel or what I think. Every time the world turns it changes just a little when it comes back around. All those revolutions add up until one day you look back and realize it can never be the same.

@tenitri5023

4 жыл бұрын

That is my favorite KZread comment I’ve ever read. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

@badtexasbill5261

4 жыл бұрын

Great story, I loved it. Take care.

@geraldoberting9728

3 жыл бұрын

There is so many people who have that amazing story of their 1st or 2nd show where you can tell that it was such an incredible event in their life. I have mine from my 1st show at spac 85.... I would never be the same after! What a band.

@paulbroseman1401

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Simply awesome. You're a grate writer

@JubeProductions

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulbroseman1401 Thanks. I'm not really a writer, but I do read a lot, so I guess it helps. But I am glad you enjoyed it. Sometimes my favorite parts of a video are people's comments.

This show was one of the greatest days of my life. It was pure joy and love.

@christinemott8799

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Sounds AMAZING! I miss the only place I was accepted . At a Dead Show! Amen

@katewilliams8347

Жыл бұрын

Me tooooo , I always say if I had a time machine I'd plug that date in.... There was a lot of magical energy in the air at that show❤️

@Bear2U

10 ай бұрын

Shiner and i listen to this version nearly every day, its 2023 🤩😘

@Bear2U

10 ай бұрын

@@christinemott8799 touching 😢🙂 everyone was welcomed as a brother, was nice feeling safe amongst 10s of thousands 👌👍✌️

Jerry’s voice sounds great and his playing is superb. RIP.

Jerry and Brent... the soul of the Dead for me. Great performance

I was there and the place damn near levitated when the boys played this Gem Simply EXCELLENT!!!

@skirtvin

Жыл бұрын

My dog was named Iko due to this fantastic song.

@laurelrunlaurelrun

Жыл бұрын

My favorite version

Man I miss those days so much Love seeing Jerry and Brent smiling at each other playing off each other. All it does is make me Smile, Smile, Smile

@tomgarfunkel907

4 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Osting Brent Was so on Point here his vocals complete this song

Just fantastic. Good ole Grateful Dead at its finest! My main man Brent flashing that awesome grin and goin crazy, Jer looking happy, Phil dropping bombs, Mickey and Billy being the right and left arms of the same body Bobby rockin his quintessential short shorts, and all the beautiful people in the crowd. I’m getting choked up, this was one for the ages. Nothing like The Boys. Edit: I cannot stop smiling at Jerry smiling at Brent as if to say go ahead man, you got it!!

@skirtvin

Жыл бұрын

Love your screen name. Terrapin.

@Bear2U

Жыл бұрын

The rooster following is even groovier. 🤌

Probably my favorite organ solo of all time. Brent is the man.

Oh how I miss this man

Please let this kind of joy back into this world...

Brent gave every single bit of his soul into every single song that he played with these guys. He is absolutely the glue that holds all of this together with his unmatched playing abilities, as well as his ability to sing high harmony without moving out of his normal chest-voice range. This always injected a bit more power to the harmony vocals of the group at-large than if someone was singing high harmonies in falsetto. Took me a long time to come around to Brent (and I still haven't really came around to his cheesy 80s-90s synth sounds), but these days I am getting him more and more. Any song where he plays B3 like he does in this one is automatically head-to-head with _any_ 70s Dead (an era which I believe to be the best overall in the band's career), in my opinion.

@sirbanjorochambeaux

Жыл бұрын

best keys are the Brent keys!!

@stevec1770

Жыл бұрын

I agree with the B3 and that he gave everything to the band. I also agree that his keyboard patches were cheesy and, to that comment, I'll add that he overplayed on the synth piano. He liked to mirror Jerry too often, as well. Brent's scratchy Doobie Brothers voice was never to my taste and still isn't. Few of his compositions were strong, and several of them were awful. He did his best with what he had, which included excellent technique. As an organist, he really gelled with the band, and Billy has said as much before. In other respects, not so much... in my opinion.

@STSGuitar16

Жыл бұрын

@@stevec1770 I disagree about him "mirroring jerry" too much. He never just sits there and copy every lick exactly as Jerry plays them, he always adds something or changes them in a way that it functioned as a "yes and" to Jerry's playing and helped propel jams forward. He also functioned that way during the times where he and Jerry would trade fours, which can end up sounding like two players just repeating each other without much change when attempted with lesser musicians, but I never hear that between Jerry and Brent since either of them will spit out new ideas and phrases that compliment each other, not just "mirror" each other. And yeah, I'm not a fan of his compositions either, but I could really argue that the whole band didn't write as many great songs later on as they did during the 60s and 70s. His voice really isn't my thing when he sings lead or by himself, but as I said, his range allowed him to sing those high harmonies with power in his chest voice as opposed to his falsetto, which adds a lot imo. But yeah, his voice by itself it isn't great. I'll still take 70s Dead over everything, but late 80s Jerry being backed by an incredibly gifted B3 player is pure bliss to my ears. B3 is ultimately Brent's saving grace. He was just so damn great at it, and it really added so much to their sound.

@leof2497

Жыл бұрын

​@@stevec1770You want to talk about his patches being cheesy? Remember those were the 80's

@Bunbeck-pf9iw

Жыл бұрын

No the 80 s were the very best ! I was there as much as I could get there on plane or bus even sometimes they paid for me + my niece to come to Sanfransanfrisco !

I just loved to watch Jerry smile at Brent while he was wailing away on the keys!!

Brent with the magic keys!

3:10 - 3:50 is pure awesomeness! Jerry and Brent in their element... totally in sync and just showing pure joy playing together!

"I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that." ~ Bill Kreutzmann

@riccardomorettini4641

3 жыл бұрын

You betcha

@deadreckoning6288

3 жыл бұрын

Chinese New years in Oakland....'96 I think with Ratdog & the Nevilles. Hot shows!

Incredible. The Dead at the height of their powers.

The band is so tight. Jerry and Brent feed off each other like I have never seen before.

great version....Jerry looks really engaged and healthy. And Brent, he was the shit man...he just had this psychedelic soul that bubbled up through his organ playing

@b3ckyb33

5 ай бұрын

Yes!!

Wonderfully fun cover version of a classic. If there was ever any band that could take any song and use it to get thousands of people off their feet and into a happy place...it were these guys!

Truly epic show but I love Brent's part on the keyboard and Jerry looking over at him so stoked.... They were all feeling it ❤️💛💚

The day after my 10th birthday and all I wanted was to be there, luckily my mom took me 2 years later and I’m forever grateful!

@ridgemont8832

4 жыл бұрын

All hail your very cool mom!

@thehapagirl92

4 жыл бұрын

Happy 41st birthday oldie☺️

@holliroll8789

3 жыл бұрын

Your mom has good taste

@michaellombard894

27 күн бұрын

Awesome seeing GD at 12 years!😊

Brent tearin' it up. . .Jerry on farr. . . yes!

@PaulDeFelice

4 жыл бұрын

So good! Brent @3:04

@lucianofigueiredo4877

3 жыл бұрын

Amei dms

The Dead was Smokin Hot In 89' !!!!! So many Great shows I have In my collection !!!!! 💀✌🏼❤🙂🔥💎✌🏼🎶☀🌷🌈

They were on fire, high energy, love it

Terrible day at work. This slowed down Iko hit me just right. Still keeping me right Jerry. Miss u brother.

@ChrisBlasczyk573

Жыл бұрын

And still missing BRENT AS WELL

You know its summer when you turn to this great song and it's in Philly at JFK. Live Dead.

never forget this concert....rocked Philly to close out JFK

You can tell how much Jerry loved Brent.

The summer of 1989 when I was able to see the Who, the Dead and the Rolling Stones in concert. I was a lucky man indeed.

@stevenrodriguez1394

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you. At 27 I have to watch a Jerryless Dead & Co. Old Stones, and Old Who. All great shows but damn man to have been there must've been magical.

@stevencastillo8914

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevenrodriguez1394 that's crazy I'm 27 too and seen those exact bands 😂😂

@mikestaber2766

4 жыл бұрын

my best year was '73 saw the Allman bros., Clapton, santana, pink Floyd, CSN.. summer in Saratoga !

@thehapagirl92

4 жыл бұрын

God so many old heads. I’m 28 and wasn’t born until 1992. I wish I was a boomer like my parents so I could’ve seen them live in concert.

@mikeryan9096

4 жыл бұрын

@@thehapagirl92 Plenty non Boomers got to see the Dead.

One the best Iko Ikos out there! Just lush and gorgeous! Good recording too!

@skirtvin

Жыл бұрын

I named my dog, Iko, after this. I only wish that my daughter would have listened and named Iko's sister as Cassidy or Althea. Oh well. I always seem to come back to this cut of Iko Iko.

enjoying those that discover the grateful dead, all over the world, forever 🌹

I was there at JFK with my brother 7.7.89 and this is the last concert ever. I also saw Grateful Dead at JFK with Bob Dylan 7.11.87!! I loved GD and my brother and I saw them plenty of times together. 12 times! I outdid him by seeing them 33 times since 1978. Long live the Grateful Dead! 🎤🎧🎼🥁

Gives me chills ! Fine Art !

Take me back 💀🥲

I love the grateful Dead ❤

This is absolutely fabulous!

I was there, wow so much fun, what a day, man I miss the big guy!

@bunnybeckman8029

2 жыл бұрын

Me just awful I miss all of them !

I have never seen anything more beautiful in my life. 😢

What a concert.

You know jerrys on fire when hes was dancing!!!

The love and connection between Jerry and Brent is very palpable and it's one of my greatest versions ever my first show was UVA Hall 1981 peace out

I hope when I die and go to heaven when the pearly gates open wide this is what I walk into! ❤❤❤

One of my all-time favorite shows!

Love and addiction and hope all beautifully displayed ❤

Can you imagine if Jerry was quasi-sober and he and Brent had the chemistry they had in '89-90 from 1979-1988? The greatest band ever with so much greatness left on the table.

@elmoblatch9787

3 жыл бұрын

Man, you nailed it. Brent would be dead just a little over a year after this show. Why? Why? Anyone who's done psychedelics knows that they don't get you "high" -- nothing like the stimulants. And man those stimulants do their damage, and contributing to creativity? Nope, they do not. Psychs? Yes indeed. I wish Jerry would have stuck with the psychs, but it is what it is.

@danno698299

3 жыл бұрын

@@elmoblatch9787 we put way too much pressure on Jerry.

@skirtvin

Жыл бұрын

Bummer that Jerry chose differently.

@stevec1770

Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of the problem was Jerry's eating, perhaps even more than the drugs. But there's no doubt that the drugs played a major factor in certain periods.

The grateful dead , soundtrack of my youth . How grateful am I still .

Good bless the Grateful Dead!!!

Damn Dave, really making us wait for that "never before seen" footage

@ORDER4STU

4 жыл бұрын

@Something Like Mayer No doubt, my favorite 80s show

@bzfgt1

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they seem to have taken down some full shows when they started the project, too....can't watch all the GD Movie outtakes any more in once place, or the Beat Club...bummer

@cleawox

3 жыл бұрын

89' is the "new stuff" right?

@waynej2608

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just 'grateful' they're here.

i was there and it was a great show to say the least

Sum of the parts, Jerry hell yeah, Bobby's crazed beat rythm and freaking phil just keeps laying it down paving the way

30 years!? Where does it go? I dunno if I gotta cry or laugh...

@jeremybenvenuto8862

4 жыл бұрын

Smile.. with a tear of happyness..and great memories, may the 4 winds blow you safely on.

@sweetiedd

4 жыл бұрын

And Brent 👍

@WigsxD

3 жыл бұрын

31 and counting. They whizz by. Good thing we still have these great tunes to enjoy it!

@peterbetts858

3 жыл бұрын

ya could of had your own seat at the mall foodcourt . IKO .

@timoconnor8520

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, feel free to do both. I frequently when jammin' with the Dead. :-)

I’m from Philly and a huge Dead fan. What a trip to see this! Rock on Deadheads

I must possess over 1000 hours of Dead on tape, but I don't think I'll find a finer performance of this number among them, what a blessing to have not only audio but video of it

So very grateful to have been at this show. Miss seeing the real deal.

Love when Jerry smiles ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Jerry's solos soothe the soul..

Jesus Chris Brent....you revived these guys in so many ways. RIP LEYENDO.......

Simply awesome and amazing It is very touching and watching his facial expressions and saying how much of his heart and soul he puts into the music you can tell he loves every second of it and nothing ever gets old

Awesome!!! Wish I could have at least seen Brent and jerry once. Either way I still love the dead!

Only seen The Dead 30 times or so since I was 13. The music is still with me Every Day. Changed me. This eong is about wariing tribes in Loisiana. I always love Thre Dead’s cover of Folk music. Saw them do tis ar Red Rocks where they played many times. Thanks for the amazing life moments!

I once dreamed that I was at Bob Weir's house. And he gave me a guitar. That was so real. And he was so nice

This was the Dead's best lineup.

Still love the way Jerry and Brent look at each other when one of them has a solo. Such a huge mutual admiration society going on between those two. Musical soulmates, if you ask me.

Pure joy mixed with a little cid a recipe that can't be beat!

Their concerts were always lots of fun, so laid back.

I'm 53 still jamming out with the jfk 89 show. I was 19 almost 20 when I was there. I tell the young deadheads what a great show. I can't wait for dead and company citizens bank park.

No other music hits the soul like the Dead!

One of my favorite Brent solos 💜

I can feel this music from the top of my head to the tip of my toes and everywhere in between.

Damn, Brent knew how to make that B3 sing. How can you not smile and dance with such a fantastic groove as this epic rendition of “Iko!” Pure joy.

& again more 80’s to be Very Grateful for⚡️

Highgate Vermont 1995 what a concert and what a fkn band! Miss you Jerry. Thanks for the tunes and loving vibes you spread amongst us all! RIP

I love this song

Brent & Jerry enough said

I wish I could have went to just one more show

I love this song. One of their best covers for sure. Named my new puppy Iko haha

Nothing left to do but smile smile smile love and miss jerry so much

Fond memories including sunny 😎 afternoons and The Grateful Dead

The sound of happiness.

The show was hot and so was the weather!

This is just fantastic

I Love You. Aloha from Maui. A mix of tears, sadness and joy all in the same moment. Brokedown Palace, Shoreline. Last song I heard from Jerry. Mahalo Grateful Dead And Everyone, and I mean everyone who made decades of dreams come true. "its all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago"

Brent. Jerry. This was IT for me. Good times. I love you guys and the memories. Cheers. IG

Love the dead and would love for other lovers of the dead to hear the work we are doing to keep this kind of music alive in 2020. It isn't as good as Jerry and the boys, but it does have a little something going on. We are just unknown local rockers who march to the beat of our own drum. Please give us a listen; It isn't for everyone, but surely it is for someone.

I was at this show, but I was just a dumb 19 year old kid who was too busy buying acid on shakedown, to realize what I was witnessing. Even years later I never understood the magic of the dead, or Jerry. I liked the dead, but I was more fascinated with the culture of the deadheads than the music. It wasn't until much later that I understood the music and the magic of The Grateful Dead. When I see this, with Brent and Jerry trading licks, it makes me sad they're not here anymore, but then I'm reminded of that hot July summer day and I am grateful for the memory.

So awesome to see Jerry happy and healthy - ‘89 was a great year - Bobby’s shorts...😳

@Mod2ForPrez

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh I love those shorts lol

@ogs1mpson609

4 жыл бұрын

Jerry looks and sounds good here but it’s still crazy to think he’s only 46 years in this video. Looks so much older.

I was at this show, but barely have any memory of it, except for the fact I hitched hiked from Seaside Height's that morning and 2 deadheads in a Datsun 280-zx picked me up and I rode in the back hatchback laying between a bunch of gear. I could only see out the back hatchback window looking up. I had no Idea where we were until I started seeing taller buildings and stuff. I didn't have tickets and about an hour into the first set I walked up to a guard taking tickets at the door, I handed him a rolled up wad of money, about $6, on the sly, and he looked around, grabbed the money and stuck it in his pocket quickly and waved me in. It's a trick I learned from going to Flyer's games at the spectrum. The ticket takers were making $3.35 an hour, minimum wage then, and I figured they either take the money and stuff it in their pocket thinking it's a fortune, or they tell me to get lost. Worked like a charm. This was before they had to scan tickets. But somehow the turnstiles were supposed to count the people and match with the tickets he took. They probably never checked it. It was one of those hot, sunny, philly days and shakedown was shakin. The only other thing I remember was standing on the benches that was the seating and I passed a whippet to the dude next to me, I turned and watched the band for a minute and when I turned around, he wasn't standing there anymore, he had hit the deck and passed out after the whippet. But If I close my eyes and think hard I can still remember seeing them on that JFK stage where 2 years earlier was Live Aid, and I also saw a Pink Floyd show there, sometime in 87 or 88, i guess. The first time I ever went to a dead show was just 2 years earlier in 1985. I didn't miss them coming to town until around 1990 when I went off to college.

@sethie_shots

3 жыл бұрын

So there’s at least SOME memory if it 😂

I Love seeing how Jerry Garcia and Brett Midland always seem to have that Smiling Kid Like Energy when they Acknowledge while Playing the Music 🎶 🎵 Everyone is Dancing To? Love the Energy and BTW I Was There Personally at this Show in Philadelphia and I Gotta Tell You it Was By Far One of Many Shows I've had the Privilege to See and Talk About ❤

I have listened to this one many, many times. If you are ever down and you want to be picked up, put this version on and your mood will instantly turn around. Who doesn’t absolutely love this one? You had FUN that day if you were there!

Happy 70th in heaven, Brent

My first Show... Amazing 🤩

Their having so much fun

Great performance ❤