Spring Tour 90

Yep

^^^Saw the 4/7/88 Worcester show, played Around to close the 1st set, last time probably was '74^^^

Love a good Round and Around.  The first show I was given was 10/14/77 and second set has a rockin' Round and Round.

Those were the last great shows that I saw. It was never that good again. 

The last real tour for me. I managed to see plenty more shows, but my touring days were over after Spring 90. 

After getting booted out of school for being away so long on fall tour, I was fortunately able to catch much of Spring '90. I've always considered it to be a divine intervention. 

http://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/03-29-1990?fbclid=IwAR1nhkByQk5odYoL...

I still remember how fucking cold that lot was before the shows. I was happy to find a nice dive bar near the Knick that had mostly local alcoholics in it. The cheapest bar drinks I ever got near an arena before a show. The gentrification the arena was supposed to bring hadn’t kicked in yet.

The Atlanta shows were good but I distinctly remember that sinking feeling after seeing the setlists of what they had played in Hamilton, Albany and especially Nassau, and hearing it from one of my buddies who saw the whole tour. I had only made it to Landover and Hartford, and knew Atlanta was not going to come anywhere close to what came before it.

That Nassau run turned the tour from a great one to an extraordinary one.

Drove from Amherst. MA to the Albany shows. If my memory serves, the "lot" was more like a 5-10 square block area of downtown Albany that was cordoned off for Deadheads to hang out it. Was very cool.

I did the whole tour except for the Atlanta shows. Was the last really great run of shows that I saw. 

If that were true, why so many threads with so many other shows that aren't as good? 

3/26/90 Dupree's is great. I never listen to the Dead anymore, so when I do it's always a treat. 

Some real highlights pretty well documented in these two releases, "SPRING 1990: So Glad You Made It" and "Wake Up To Find Out"

Spring 1990 was the first and only time I made a complete  (all 16 shows) Spring Tour by the Grateful Dead. I was in Hamilton, Ontario, and I spoke to a Road Crew guy  (Henry?)  who was wearing a laminate that had 3 song titles on it. One of them was Dark Star, which I had yet to ever see. I knew then they would play it on this tour and I decided I would not miss a show on this run. It payed off brilliantly when Branford Marsalis was the unexpected guest sit in at Nassau Coliseum on 3/29/90. I got my first Dark Star, and Candace oozed red colors through the room for it. It was magnificent!

Can't leave this set out....

Thom,

 what set is that?

It's the other half of the spring '90 tour that wasn't included in the first box.  "Spring 1990 The Other One'

>>> It's the other half of the spring '90 tour that wasn't included in the first box.  "Spring 1990 The Other One'>>>

Thom,

is it still available? What's it called?

Those first Knick shows were pretty fucking fun.

That is all.

From spring 90 wiki 

"The combination of the tracks from the March 24 concert at the Knickerbocker Arena with those from the same date released on Dozin' at the Knick, Postcards of the Hanging and Without a Net represent that concert in its entirety."

So it appears the whole show has been released but you need to have Spring 90, Dozin, Without a Net, and Postcards to have all of it 

This was a great run I caught Hartford Nassau and Albany We had quite a bit of liquid too We had a week in between shows Spring break from high school and someones parents were away just a great couple of weeks 

I like the last Nassau show better than the Branford show which I was at. The X factor was on all night. It was broadcast on the radio. WNEW.102.7

Best Tiur Eva

Branford on Jerry & The Dead:

https://youtu.be/GnnoHPFMs3U

I thought HSF from with without a net was 3-30-90 Nassau 

Greg, who shot/edited that Copps Coliseum Video?

BlackPeter​ ose25 on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 – 10:33 am

I thought HSF from with without a net was 3-30-90 Nassau <<<<<

It was.. Killer version and show.

Recording dates[edit]

"Feel Like A Stranger" recorded at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia on October 9, 1989

"Victim or the Crime" recorded at Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ on October 15, 1989

"Cassidy" recorded at The Spectrum, Philadelphia on October 19, 1989

"Bird Song" recorded at Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California on December 9, 1989

"Let It Grow" recorded at Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland on March 14, 1990

"Walkin' Blues" and "Althea" recorded at Capital Centre on March 15, 1990

"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" recorded at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario on March 21, 1990

"One More Saturday Night" recorded at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York on March 24, 1990 (see also Dozin' at the Knick)

"Looks Like Rain" recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York on March 28, 1990

"Eyes of the World" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 29, 1990 (see also "Wake Up to Find Out")

"Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 30, 1990

"China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" and "Dear Mr. Fantasy" recorded at The Omni, Atlanta on April 1, 1990

the first hartford show was my first show

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