SPRING 89

These were like my 5th and 6th shows, I was 18 and even then I was saying to myself damn this must be a lot of people's first show. the first show has a manic energy where the crowd was way overenthusiastic and the band was trying hard to be as eager, even gifting with a fat Scarlet Fire that wasn't top notch but had some cool Jerry vocals in Fire. "The wheel" had that tacky thing where they would do a big wheel type light in front of Weir when they did the last chorus of the song. I thought it was tacky AF. The second show was more to my liking but these early week shows were just a set up for Greensboro

Atlanta>Greensboro>Pittsburg.

2 week paid vacation from work too

Good times

That Pittsburgh second set got a lot of airplay in my car for years...

Here's a 4/2/89 that actually works

https://archive.org/details/gd89-04-02.sbd-matrix.mattman.17177.sbeok.shnf

I actually listened to the second set the other day from this copy. For anything past 1981 I check for the best audience copy, which sometimes they are all mediocre but the band just sounds better mixed through the PA system to me. But yeah this show is such an amped up burner with people gatecrashing and a riot going on outside. Shakedown is just vicious

https://archive.org/details/gd1989-04-02.145673.ots.akg460.ackerman.mill...

With the absence of northeast shows on the spring tour (which was an absolute terrible decision), the crowd energy in Pittsburgh was dialed up to 11. Ravenous. 

>With the absence of northeast shows on the spring tour (which was an absolute terrible decision)

That was a weird time when venues wouldn't book the band but ultimately changed their tune when the $$$ was bigger on the next go around.  Opening the Knick didn't hurt and I think it made the decision a little harder for other venues to pass on the band. 

Headline in the SF Chronicle later that year:

"UC and Stanford say Drop Dead"

What an incredibly memorable Spring Tour!!

We did Pittsburgh (riotville) > Ann Arbor (Amazing, chill scene, great shows, camping in the parking lot at the venue, the moved the stage half way up the floor so it was just half of the UoM field house!) > Cincinnati > Louisville, KY (Super great scene and show)! 

Long drive home to NH but man, what a blast we'll never forget!!

That was a weird time when venues wouldn't book the band but ultimately changed their tune when the $$$ was bigger on the next go around.<<<

They could have played the northeast but made a promoter concession in advance of the summer stadium tour. The thought being to prime the stadium pump by staying out of market in the spring.

However their popularity had reached a point where that wasn't remotely necessary. Poor optics that resulted in too many people being in Pittsburgh without tickets.

Great thread! Thank you for making my Friday wind-down extry sparkly! 

!!!!!!!!!!

     One cool thing that happened in Atlanta '89 is I met Bob & Marie Snodgrass, I scored a "top hat" pipe that turned colors for $10, they couldn't have been nicer.

     "Farewell to you old southern sky, I'm on my way, on my way...on my way!!!!!"

     
     https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0041087/

     ^ tour opener, it was a special moment

     * note: I think Jimmy is playing a Gibson J-200 in that movie poster, Bob Dylan had a J-200 in his hand on the cover of Nashville Skyline, I play an Alvarez copy of a J-200 that was photographed in an old Relix Magazine.

     Atlanta, Georgia March 27th, 1989

     The Omni

     https://youtu.be/RpRJnFjkV0A

     Gibson J-200 Review 

     https://youtu.be/qJ5YghfiJ2w

Oh yeah..... then few out to Irvine for the 3-show run to wrap up a solid April!  What a fun venue that was!!

>>>>>note: I think Jimmy is playing a Gibson J-200 in that movie poster, Bob Dylan had a J-200 in his hand on the cover of Nashville Skyline, I play an Alvarez copy of a J-200 that was photographed in an old Relix Magazine.

What is the significance? 

     "What is the significance?"

     I just wonder if when Hunter penned those lyrics, that he may have been thinking of that film, I've been watching a lot of westerns lately, I imagine Hunter used to watch his fair share of westerns, I should have written "skies" rather than "sky"...it was 2:55 in the morning, I was a bit groggy.  The thought I had when I was at the Omni that evening is the reason they played that tune as the opening song of the tour was the scene bidding farewell to southern skies on our way to a beautiful journey throughout the east coast.  It was a quite the odyssey!

     Edit: "It was quite the odyssey"

     Also...I think maybe you were alluding to the significance of the J-200, I just love the J-200 and rarely miss an opportunity to discuss it

     https://youtu.be/Je4Eg77YSSA

Love the cinci Dear mr fantasy hey Jude.  

Tomorrow get ready for some Brent "Louis Louis - Louisville OOOOH"

We were at Riverfront - 30 years ago today ....YOICKS !

Great show.  As close to an " eastie" show as I ever got.

Missed the 4/15 show at The Mecca. 

My friend's credit card was declined because she was over her limit. Ugh. We found out when we arrived at the box office.

We did find tickets for Sunday outside the show to salvage the road trip. Drove back to Ohio after the show. That was a loooooong day!

https://youtu.be/gemU9M9N_Ug

3/28 Omni Hot Fuckin Lanta

some lit shit there kids

March 89 Built to Last studio footage...

^^^Great find, super inner circle stuff^^^ 

Garcia is bothered by his little girl while warming up, and chases her away with an Itsy Bitsy Spider/Adams Family jam.

The first 48 minutes are just Bob & Bill playing  Picasso, the rest is pure gold

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