Your Dew List

>>>>12/13/90 McNichols (still unfinished)  5/31/92 Vegas  12/3/92 McNichols

I was at all of those shows.  During the later years, the "sleepy Jerry ballad" was often when he would perk up and deliver.

 doesn't every Deadhead husband have a do list? Honey do this... Honey do that....

( I know I have a light switch to fix... and I need to get some potting soil....)

I was at the Philly CC and the Augusta in 84 (my personal ATF), the Spectrums in 85 and 86, and the Oxford 88. My life is blessed when I look at it right.

11-2-85 Richmond... coming out of space seemed to give the Dew extra power. That, and Phil hitting those super low bass notes at the climax   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJsYFjrG4M

I'll add 6.23.88 Alpine & 4.15.89 Milwaukee. Musta been something going for the band aside from Wisonsin's Beer, Cheese, and Brats! 

>>> 12/13/90 McNichols (still unfinished)

they did the first verse on the first night, played 2nd verse on the third night.

those were great shows. I had the time of my life.

agree with HJK 3-16-88 & Eugene '90, i thought both these runs were fantastic. I consider 3-16 one of the best shows I saw.

^^^ I realized i mixed that up and came back to clear up my confusion. thanks

one every 6th or 7th show is a damn fine average.

It took 25 shows till I got my first Dew and it was my favorite...

04-04-87 - Worcester, MA

07-12-87 - Giants Stadium

09-18-87 - MSG

07-02-88 - Oxford, ME

07-10-89 - Giants Stadium

03-26-90 - Albany, NY

07-18-90 - Deer Creek, IN

09-16-90 - MSG

03-16-92 - Philly, PA

06-14-92 - Giants Stadium

Three Dews at Giants Stadium.  Ha

11/85 Richmond

That show was a HEATER

Oh yea, I almost forgot about that ripper on 7.18.90 Deer Creek! Listen to "Drumz" for some additional supporting details that it was a very trippy evening. I think that was also another one of those shows where they stopped selling beer halfway through the set break too - which was always a good sign (but very rarely due to excessive drinking)

Phil did one in the Cap with Sco that sticks out in my mind......walls breathing, could hear a pin drop...The hair stood on the back of my neck. After the show I ate a disgusting cheese burger in a real long skinny shit hole around the corner....the walls were still breathing

Eurpe 72 album

7/22/84 Ventura  https://archive.org/details/gd84-07-22.pcm-sbd.miller.30650.sbeok.flacf/...

4/6/82 Spectrum   https://archive.org/details/gd1982-04-06.sbd.miller.105237.flac16/gd82-0...

4/13/83 Vermont    https://archive.org/details/gd83-04-13.sbd.sacks.1614.sbeok.shnf/gd83-04...

to name a few.

Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ 8/1/73

https://archive.org/details/gd73-08-01.aud.weiner.gdADT08.9145.sbeok.shn...

1982/4/15 Providence Civic Center

1982/9/17 Cumberland County Civic Center

1982/12/28 Oakland Auditorium Arena

1983/4/13 Patrick Gym

1983/4/20 Providence Civic Center

1983/6/18 Saratoga Performing Arts Center

1984/10/12 Augusta Civic Center

1987/3/27 Hartford Civic Center

1987/9/18 Madison Square Garden

1988/7/2 Oxford Plains Speedway

1988/7/15 Greek Theater 

Don't have weeks like that any more

1988/9/3 Capital Centre

1989/10/8 Hampton Coliseum

Just listened to this last night over shadowed by the next night but what a great show. 

1990/3/18 Hartford Civic Center

1990/3/26 Knickerbocker Arena

>>>To clarify, these are the Dews I saw the GD play live (My Dew List). This is not a list of what I think is "best" or Top 10.

I saw about 100 shows (just under) so I had a 15% Dew ratio.

If it's ones you've seen then here is my list.

82 Frost first one live

84 Ventura next one

87 Irvine next

87 Ventura next

88 MSG next and last Morning Dew I saw. So only 5 times. Stopped going to shows after Germany 1990.

OK, here is my upated list after the clarification:

April 13, 1988 Rosemont

June 23, 1988 Alpine

April 15, 1989 Milwaukee

July 4, 1989 Buffalo

July 10, 1989 Giants

July 19, 1989 Alpine

June 18, 1990 Deer Creek

March 23, 1992 Detroit

March 17, 1994 Rosemont

June 20, 1994 Deer Creek

11-15-87   Long Beach  (Other One>Dew)

12-30-87   Oakland

03-16-88   HJK

10-01-88   Shoreline  (Uncle John's>Dew)

12-27-89   Oakland

02-27-90  Oakland   (Other One>Dew)

06-23-90  Autzen

09-12-90  Spectrum   (Space>Dew)

12-13-90  Denver   (Other One>Dew)

03-16-92  Spectrum

12-03-92  Denver   (Other One>Dew)

12-13-92  Oakland   (Other One>Dew)

02-21-93  Oakland

05-21-93  Shoreline

12-08-93  Los Angles

8/31/81 Alladin Theatre: After close to 50 shows

9/11/81 Greek Theater: Two in a Row!

9/27/81 Aud in Buffalo

4/6/82: Spectrum: Chill Show

8/7/82: Greyhound to Chicago, hitched to Alpine

12/28/82: Last shows at Oakland Aud

4/26/83: Spectrum: Final show of a great tour

6/18/83:Saratoga: Finally, shed shows in the Northeast

4/14/84: Hampton: Only Nug in an off nite

4/20/84: Civic Center: Powerful version, last time seeing the final jam really punched out

6/22/84: Merriweather: Favorite show at the Post

4/7/85: Spectrum: First of '85, Hi Ya Kids

6/28/85:Hershey Park: Favorite first set of the 80's

10/25/85: Hollywood: Close to 150 shows, first one sober.  2nd set opener

11/2/85: Richmond: Cherry on top, what a weekend

3/24/86: Spectrum: One song after drums

3/27/87:Hartford: after Uncle John's

4/4/87: Worcester: Best night of the comeback tour

4/7/87: Meadowlands: Twice in 4 shows!

7/12/87:Meadowlands: Best of the Dylan/Dead shows

8/15/87: Telluride: What a venue

9/12/87: Crap Center: Almost as good as 9/18

9/18/87: MSG, emotion running high

3/30/88: Meadowlands: Still juiced after Hampton

7/2/88: Oxford: Over the top 2nd set

9/3/88: Crap Center: Ripple encore

9/12/90:Spectrum: After Two Soldiers Jam

9/16/90: MSG: Also did SOTM after drums

9/9/91: MSG: As much fun as 9/10 w/Branford

3/9/92: Crap Center: First of the year, also Dark Star

3/16/92: Spectrum: Yawner 2nd set

6/14/92: Meadowlands: With Steve Miller on stage

10/7/94: Spectrum: All covers, Last Time>TWB Something>Dew   JBG

6/21/95: Albany: After Easy Answers??   Final Version, gave his all     

About 11% after a slow start, gotta love the 80's

That's quite the list krab!  I loved the 80's!

Think my favorite in person "Dew" was at the intimate Hult Center in Eugene.  A friend rode w/ Jerry in the elevator before the show, said he had "white pasty skin, looked like death, and not in a grateful way"

https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1984/05/08/morning-dew?source=94465

In attendance for :

William and Mary College 1978

SPAC 83

Greek 85 (I think) 

There may have been others but these stand out. Especially William and Mary. 

12/31/76 (8th show)

11/8/79

4/6/82

4/26/83

6/18/83

4/14/84

4//20/84

6/27/84

4/7/85

6/28/85

11/2/85

4/4/87

7/7/87

8/15/87

9/12/87

9/18/87

3/30/88

7/31/88

9/3/88

9/14/88

9/20/88

2/5/89

9/12/90

3/23/91

6/24/91

9/20/91

3/9/92 (only show since 10/18/74 with both Dark Star and Morning Dew)

3/16/92

3/16/93

10/7/94

6/21/95 (the last one)

31 out of 242 shows, 12.8%

I was actually wondering about this at some point recently, thanks for supplying the impetus to look it up.

Forgot to include 4/7/87

Raises my average to 13.2%

My Deadbase is not currently at hand but is it odd or in line with the stats that many/most seem to ring in around 13% or so (or 1 in 7.5 odds)? My DEW percentage wound up being 13.3%.

6/13/94 

1. 7.64 average. 

Lame out.

'82-'95, over 150 shows, only saw it 12 times.

I think the best I saw were the Crap Centre in '87 (thanks Krab, perfect), 

and Oxford Maine in '88.

   I think the one at Shoreline in 1993 was good also.

Never a Morning Dew at Red Rocks.......

My favorite "late-era" Dew is 6-14-85 at the Greek. Starting the second set with that was pretty balls out.

I was one show short of see them do that in Hollywood, Fla, also in '85. I went to the next show in Tampa 

where they did a space->Comes A Time, which was sick; listen to this show on archive if you haven't.

Deadbase lists 253 performances, assuming 2,300 shows (a low ball estimate) that works out to 11%.

115 of those were performed before 1975, so it was played less often the last 20 years.

i think i'm at around 12.5%, but i'd need to do an accurate show count & dbl check # of Dews.

if you get in during drumz (it's happened to me twice), does that really count as seeing that show?  i don't believe so, i think you'd at least have to have seen the whole 2nd set.

i used to have (still might) a sketchbook where i kept set lists of the shows i'd seen, and i might have counted up totals for each song.

don't laugh.  i had a lot of spare time and am some what obsessed with stats.

Hmmmm

I may have to consult with deadbase myself...

>>>>Greek 85 (I think) 

?

http://www.setlists.net/?search=true&venue=&city=&state=&month=&day=&yea...

257 times played Thommy! 

Top 5 years....

1969: 39   1970: 22   1987: 17   1972: 16   1973:15   

1974>1980: 20   

Fine recording of 9/12/87, boys hit the gas starting with Tom Thumbs, even Ship of Fools shines, best show of the tour.

https://archive.org/details/gd87-09-12.sbd.ladner.31018.sbeok.flacf/gd19...    Source: Healy SBD Ultramix

Tampa '85 was the best night of the 5 Southeast shows, 25th was also a lot of fun, the backwards show, Deal & Dew are the set openers

Perfect placement for Comes a Time, expected NFA/Lovelight after T Stones, Garcia starts GDTRFB while Bob is still singing the refrain.

https://archive.org/details/gd1985-10-26.sbd.miller.33929.sbeok.flac16

Counting the "Every Time Played" list is a challenge for these aged eyes.  And that was from DB10 which wasn't completely up to date.

"best show of the tour."

Meh.  No jams to speak of, high energy but just one song after another.  9/18 and 9/23 were both better IMO.

I wish I saw some Maine shows but this Dew though not as long as other ones is energized and very good imo.

https://archive.org/details/gd1982-09-17.135446.nak300.schley.flac1644/g...

Dave that 73 Roosevelt Stadium one was epic. And being a Jerry's birthday show. 
Actually every Roosevelt Stadium show was epic. Particularly the first one in 72. The 3 setter. 

This was my last Dew but it's Dewsy, pun intended!

Jerry was on something special this night. My favorite of the 3 I saw of that MSG run. 

https://archive.org/details/gd1988-09-20.133539.mtx.tobin.flac16/gd1988-...

And a Johnny B good encore which was rare at the time. Only 2 in 88. But who cares.

A few noteworthy (early) digital audience recordings -- the most accurate technology to capture Phil bombs back then. (The 88 show using the Neumann U89 s sounds pretty good, too.)

The portable PCM unit was relatively large and it fed into a portable VCR -- both needed lots of juice which required several heavy batteries. Then there was the cables and VHS or Beta tape (depending on the unit). And mic stand and mics, etc... Lots of stuff to schlep in.

Jeff Silberman's FOB: Sennheiser 421's > Sony PCM-F1

Grateful Dead Live at Greek Theatre, U. Of California on 1983-05-14

https://archive.org/details/gd83-05-14.senn.fishman.15387.sbeok.shnf/gd1...

Jeff Silberman's (Front Row Balcony) Sennheiser 441 -> PCM -> Dat -> CD -> Dat

Grateful Dead Live at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on 1983-06-18

https://archive.org/details/gd1983-06-18.set2.senn441.silberman.miller.1...

Jeff Silberman's Master Audience PCM Sennheiser 441 mics > Technics SV100 PCM

Grateful Dead Live at Downs of Santa Fe on 1983-09-11

https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-11.senn441.silberman.clugston.2322...

Jeff Silberman (FOB) Recording: Sennheiser 441's > PCM > DAT;

Grateful Dead Live at Philadelphia Civic Center on 1984-04-20

https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-20.139156.FOB.Senn.Silberman.Gastw...

Jeff Silberman Master FOB Recording: Neumann U89 spaced omnis -> Technics SV-100 -> PCM; 

Grateful Dead Live at Oxford Plains Speedway on 1988-07-02

https://archive.org/details/gd1988-07-02.140674.FOB.Neumann.Silberman.Am...

At MSG, some goombah in a King Kong extra large tie dye would inevitably scream out "JERRY!" during the quietest moments of Dew. I remember this more than the playing.