06 Mizner in Boca, chilling in the lot listening to about an hour long sound check, fun times. T he sound check was longer then the first set, which was short. Second set Larry and company burned the place to the ground
I was lucky to see a number of soundchecks in my time.
Most were generally forgettable, but there were a few very memorable ones.
One was the time they worked out Days Between in Oakland sometime around '93, the same night they played it for the first time. It was the first time I heard that one.
I didn't like it from the start.
A more enjoyable one was when they were working out New Speedway Boogie, again in Oakland, before playing it that night for the first time in many years. That was great, and they killed it during the show as well.
But the best for me was once again in Oakland, sometime in '91 I think. I was on the floor in front of the soundboard chatting with a friend while the band was noodling around doing nothing, when suddenly Jerry went into Cumberland Blues and they played it all the way through. When Jerry started playing that classic intro I stepped a few feet toward the stage, and with Phil thumping and Jerry even playing a nice little solo, with no one in front of me they were very much playing that one just to me. THAT was damn cool.
And then there was the time when Bob & Brent were playing an acoustic opening set for an afternoon Jerry band show at the Greek in Berkeley. Bob was diddling around doing nothing when Brent came out and sat at his piano and and they went into Cassidy, and played that one all the way through, even with a cool little jam. I sat in one of the stone thrones and again no one was between me & the stage and I got a personal performance of that great song early on a Sunday afternoon at the Greek.
I still get chills thinking about that today, and those are some of my favorite memories of my time as a Dead Head.
4/2/89 Pittsburgh Civic Arena. The show that became commonly known as the "riot show" at the time. This was a weird tour in the aspect that Pittsburgh was the farthest north and east that the dead would go, starting in Atlanta, then Greensboro, Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor, Cincy, Louisville, and onward out west with Rosemont, Milwaukee and Bloomington MN. They didnt hit any of the usual spots like Hampton, Philly, NYC or upstate NY, or the north east like Hartford. I was really shocked at the amount of people looking for tickets, with the area around the Arena surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of fans on the hunt for the elusive extras. During the day we were walking around looking for someone we were supposed to meet up with or something, I dont remember. What I do remember is hearing from inside the building, but still loud enough that pretty much everyone around the immediate vicinity of the Arena could hear it, was the opening of Help on the Way! Alot of people stopped in their tracks, with that "am I really hearing this!?!?" look on their face, some spontaneously broke into dance and there was an an instant buzz of excitement that went thru the crowd outside as the band continued the sound check thru Help on the Way, and into Slipknot and Franklins Tower. When it was over, deadheads were making their way to the various sections of the lot to tell the others of what just happened. These songs hadn't been played live since 85, most of us thought that we were in store for the breakout return of these songs to the rotation. This is one sound check i would love to hear again, but either a recording doesnt exist or has never been released.
I think this soundcheck helped create a perfect storm that led to the desperation of the ticketless masses, the gatecrashing, and ultimately the battle that occurred between the cops and the crowd outside while the show went on inside. Most of us didnt know what happened until we came out of the Arena to a scene of cops everywhere.
A whole soundcheck show the day before Watkins Glen 73. I was lucky enough to be present for most of set II, including THE JAM!!! Available on So Many Roads, and, I assume, the archive.
I had that theory as well about the helpslipfranks soundcheck-Pittsburgh riot connection as well. Also noteworthy the first night of Ann Arbor was supposed to be a Jerry opener, but instead they play back to back Bobby openers...having opened the second night In Pittsburg with Greatest Story, and Instead playing Stranger>Franklins to open the first Crisler Arena show and waiting till the fall to bust it out. Maybe the riots in Pittsburgh prompted the band to keep it on the shelf till Hampton. the biblical implications.
Or maybe they didn't play it because they didn't think the asshole frat touch head fans causing the ruckus deserved it. who knows
Sound Check
1. Rip It Up (Little Richard)
2. Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
3. Tuning
4. Peggy-O
5. Jack Straw, Cumberland Blues
6. Thirty Days (Chuck Berry)
In December of '73 I was 9 years old and roughly 900 miles from this sound check....
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06 Mizner in Boca, chilling
06 Mizner in Boca, chilling in the lot listening to about an hour long sound check, fun times. T he sound check was longer then the first set, which was short. Second set Larry and company burned the place to the ground
It wasn't the Q but damn that night was H-O-T
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Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine soundcheck prior to Tempe bustout
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Just ran across this. Haven
Just ran across this. Haven't clicked yet.
https://archive.org/details/gd1995-03-28.sndchk.fm.GEMS.80018.sbeok.flac16
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https://archive.org/details
https://archive.org/details/gd1978-04-10.bbd.15782.shnf
Track 1
Did they really wait until '95 to break that out? They could have ironed it out by '80
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I was lucky to see a number
I was lucky to see a number of soundchecks in my time.
Most were generally forgettable, but there were a few very memorable ones.
One was the time they worked out Days Between in Oakland sometime around '93, the same night they played it for the first time. It was the first time I heard that one.
I didn't like it from the start.
A more enjoyable one was when they were working out New Speedway Boogie, again in Oakland, before playing it that night for the first time in many years. That was great, and they killed it during the show as well.
But the best for me was once again in Oakland, sometime in '91 I think. I was on the floor in front of the soundboard chatting with a friend while the band was noodling around doing nothing, when suddenly Jerry went into Cumberland Blues and they played it all the way through. When Jerry started playing that classic intro I stepped a few feet toward the stage, and with Phil thumping and Jerry even playing a nice little solo, with no one in front of me they were very much playing that one just to me. THAT was damn cool.
And then there was the time when Bob & Brent were playing an acoustic opening set for an afternoon Jerry band show at the Greek in Berkeley. Bob was diddling around doing nothing when Brent came out and sat at his piano and and they went into Cassidy, and played that one all the way through, even with a cool little jam. I sat in one of the stone thrones and again no one was between me & the stage and I got a personal performance of that great song early on a Sunday afternoon at the Greek.
I still get chills thinking about that today, and those are some of my favorite memories of my time as a Dead Head.
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Furthur - Blues For Allah at
Furthur - Blues For Allah at Coney Island first live version I had seen
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4/2/89 Pittsburgh Civic Arena
4/2/89 Pittsburgh Civic Arena. The show that became commonly known as the "riot show" at the time. This was a weird tour in the aspect that Pittsburgh was the farthest north and east that the dead would go, starting in Atlanta, then Greensboro, Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor, Cincy, Louisville, and onward out west with Rosemont, Milwaukee and Bloomington MN. They didnt hit any of the usual spots like Hampton, Philly, NYC or upstate NY, or the north east like Hartford. I was really shocked at the amount of people looking for tickets, with the area around the Arena surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of fans on the hunt for the elusive extras. During the day we were walking around looking for someone we were supposed to meet up with or something, I dont remember. What I do remember is hearing from inside the building, but still loud enough that pretty much everyone around the immediate vicinity of the Arena could hear it, was the opening of Help on the Way! Alot of people stopped in their tracks, with that "am I really hearing this!?!?" look on their face, some spontaneously broke into dance and there was an an instant buzz of excitement that went thru the crowd outside as the band continued the sound check thru Help on the Way, and into Slipknot and Franklins Tower. When it was over, deadheads were making their way to the various sections of the lot to tell the others of what just happened. These songs hadn't been played live since 85, most of us thought that we were in store for the breakout return of these songs to the rotation. This is one sound check i would love to hear again, but either a recording doesnt exist or has never been released.
I think this soundcheck helped create a perfect storm that led to the desperation of the ticketless masses, the gatecrashing, and ultimately the battle that occurred between the cops and the crowd outside while the show went on inside. Most of us didnt know what happened until we came out of the Arena to a scene of cops everywhere.
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The best thing I heard in
The best thing I heard in this vein was when they did an entire set
the night before the first Cal-Expo show in '92 (5-18-92).
This was a sound check for the new in-ear monitoring system they would
first use the next night. Me, a few friends and not too many others were outside and could hear
everything clearly. It was a great surprise and a lot of fun. I had the sense to
write down the setlist right afterward.
China->Rider
Candyman
Attics Of My Life
Estimated
So Many Roads
Corrina
Baba O'Riley
Terrapin
Baby Blue
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A whole soundcheck show the
A whole soundcheck show the day before Watkins Glen 73. I was lucky enough to be present for most of set II, including THE JAM!!! Available on So Many Roads, and, I assume, the archive.
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Greek Berkeley 99 Wild Horses
Greek Berkeley 99 Wild Horses soundcheck
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I had that theory as well
I had that theory as well about the helpslipfranks soundcheck-Pittsburgh riot connection as well. Also noteworthy the first night of Ann Arbor was supposed to be a Jerry opener, but instead they play back to back Bobby openers...having opened the second night In Pittsburg with Greatest Story, and Instead playing Stranger>Franklins to open the first Crisler Arena show and waiting till the fall to bust it out. Maybe the riots in Pittsburgh prompted the band to keep it on the shelf till Hampton. the biblical implications.
Or maybe they didn't play it because they didn't think the asshole frat touch head fans causing the ruckus deserved it. who knows
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>>> frat touch head fans <<
>>> frat touch head fans <<
Yea, it wasn't the actual dead heads. They would NEVER cause a ruckus.
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Fratboys or not, usually the
Fratboys or not, usually the folks causing the ruckus are not the real music fans.
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The first 4 minutes of this
Regarding Pittsburgh, the first 4 minutes of this video show some of the scene outside and the deadheads getting beat up and harassed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYijSXAyPJ4
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I remember reading in Relix
I remember reading in Relix the band soundchecked 'St Stephen' in London 01-11-1990 for All Saints Day, but...
"...the song was not offered for public consumption."
...or maybe even recorded.
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In my decades of Tape
In my decades of Tape collecting - the Atlanta Omni ('73) was the first really wild sounding soundcheck recording I added to my stash.
https://archive.org/details/gd1973-12-12.sbd.soundcheck-from-2595.3401.shnf
Sound Check
1. Rip It Up (Little Richard)
2. Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
3. Tuning
4. Peggy-O
5. Jack Straw, Cumberland Blues
6. Thirty Days (Chuck Berry)
In December of '73 I was 9 years old and roughly 900 miles from this sound check....
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"Sleigh Ride," and then
"Sleigh Ride," and then "Chopsticks," opens the Atlanta Omni sound check noodle-fest followed by a piano tease of Gershwin's, "Rhapsody in Blue...."