Grateful Dead Live at Brendan Byrne Arena on 1984-10-17
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- 1984-10-17 ( check for other copies)
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- Live Concert, Soundboard, Charlie Miller
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Set 1
Iko Iko ->
The Promised Land
West L.A. Fadeaway
My Brother Esau
Brown Eyed Women
New Minglewood Blues
Row Jimmy
Looks Like Rain ->
Might As Well
Set 2
Help On The Way ->
Slipknot! ->
Franklin's Tower
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Terrapin Station ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Other One ->
Truckin' ->
Stella Blue ->
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Encore
Brokedown Palace
Iko Iko ->
The Promised Land
West L.A. Fadeaway
My Brother Esau
Brown Eyed Women
New Minglewood Blues
Row Jimmy
Looks Like Rain ->
Might As Well
Set 2
Help On The Way ->
Slipknot! ->
Franklin's Tower
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Terrapin Station ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Other One ->
Truckin' ->
Stella Blue ->
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Encore
Brokedown Palace
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Compilations - Other albums which feature this performance of the song
Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists
Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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Iko Iko -> | |||
The Promised Land | |||
West L.A. Fadeaway | |||
My Brother Esau | |||
Brown Eyed Women | |||
New Minglewood Blues | |||
Row Jimmy -> | |||
Looks Like Rain -> | |||
Might As Well | |||
Help On The Way -> | |||
Slipknot! -> | |||
Franklin's Tower | |||
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) | |||
Terrapin Station -> | |||
Drums/Space -> | |||
The Other One -> | |||
Truckin' -> | |||
Stella Blue -> | |||
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad | |||
Brokedown Palace |
Notes
Notes:
-- Thanks to Mike Shoun and Jim Powell for their contributions.
-- Seamless transition between Discs 2 and 3.
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- 2008-02-24 17:01:53
- Identifier
- gd1984-10-17.sbd.miller.32057.sbeok.flac16
- Lineage
- Set 1: Cassette (Sony TC-WE475/Dolby C) -> Sony R500 (Pass Through w/ SBM On) -> SEK'D Prodif Plus -> Samplitude Professional v8.01 -> FLAC // Set 2: SHN -> WAV -> FLAC
- Location
- East Rutherford , NJ
- Run time
- 157:33.26
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- Charlie Miller
- Type
- sound
- Venue
- Brendan Byrne Arena
- Year
- 1984
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Reviews
Reviewer:
capsgd
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October 17, 2022
Subject: your foot's in door- another misplaced sermon
Subject: your foot's in door- another misplaced sermon
Jesus save us from boring half-assed/full-assed
sanctimonious rhetoric
sanctimonious rhetoric
Reviewer:
grateful phishmon
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June 6, 2021
Subject: Sloppy fun
Subject: Sloppy fun
This show is everything 84 was all about. A lot of sloppiness and loose play, but high intensity and plenty of jams. Sure, they fucked up the words on nearly every single song. Bob messed up first verse of The Other One so bad he made up the last line, "That's when I got off, and I left the human race!" TOO funny. Then he threw in the sex change line on Truckin' and forgot the "I'd like to get some sleep before I travel," line completely. Jerry screwed up the words on Stella, put in a hacked ending to GDTRFB, and even messed up on Brokedown Palace.
Yet it was a thoroughly enjoyable show despite all these mishaps, particularly the 2nd set. The first was kind of lacking, though my first Row Jimmy certainly floated my boat. This was a show of firsts for me, being only my 6th. Help>Slip>Frank, Terrapin, and Stella were all firsts that I was stoked for. Slipknot! wow! Almost 7 minutes of sheer awesomeness go by until the transition into Franklin's starts. Franklin's is good, not great, so the whole medley falls short of the incredible 4-17-83 version, IMHO the best of the 80's/90's. Terrapin is a strong performance (the one song Jerry seemed to get right) and leads into one of those "jams out of nowhere" that were still common at that time.
"Drums/Space" is misleading in two ways. First, Drums are completely cut out. Second, the last 2 minutes or so is actually the opening jam of The Other One. The tracking here puts the start of TOO at the Phil bomb, but they're clearly playing it well before that. It's an Other One that probably shouldn't be played for anyone with a heart condition, so high is the intensity. An odd little transition follows, where Jerry tries to start up Truckin' but Bob isn't ready. He has to do his whistle thing first. Also catch the Smokestack Lightning tease at the end of Truckin'. Stella is pretty, but I've been to several shows with better versions, including, surprisingly, 3/19/95.
The sound's pretty good on this one, although there's some distortion on Space>TOO. I'm not sure whether it's from the performance or the recording.
Yet it was a thoroughly enjoyable show despite all these mishaps, particularly the 2nd set. The first was kind of lacking, though my first Row Jimmy certainly floated my boat. This was a show of firsts for me, being only my 6th. Help>Slip>Frank, Terrapin, and Stella were all firsts that I was stoked for. Slipknot! wow! Almost 7 minutes of sheer awesomeness go by until the transition into Franklin's starts. Franklin's is good, not great, so the whole medley falls short of the incredible 4-17-83 version, IMHO the best of the 80's/90's. Terrapin is a strong performance (the one song Jerry seemed to get right) and leads into one of those "jams out of nowhere" that were still common at that time.
"Drums/Space" is misleading in two ways. First, Drums are completely cut out. Second, the last 2 minutes or so is actually the opening jam of The Other One. The tracking here puts the start of TOO at the Phil bomb, but they're clearly playing it well before that. It's an Other One that probably shouldn't be played for anyone with a heart condition, so high is the intensity. An odd little transition follows, where Jerry tries to start up Truckin' but Bob isn't ready. He has to do his whistle thing first. Also catch the Smokestack Lightning tease at the end of Truckin'. Stella is pretty, but I've been to several shows with better versions, including, surprisingly, 3/19/95.
The sound's pretty good on this one, although there's some distortion on Space>TOO. I'm not sure whether it's from the performance or the recording.
Reviewer:
mcgrupp216
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November 3, 2020
Subject: Fall '84 N9
Subject: Fall '84 N9
I share the general sentiment: solid, enjoyable, perhaps even above par ‘84 show. More than typical share of missed lyrics. At any rate, this is a good SBD, though echoey at times. Love these early West L.A. Fadeaways. The song was written for this vibe. Slipknot! is ridiculous. Like c-freedom writes, this is primal dead. Yes, it’s ‘84 but listening it’s easy to get lost and think you’re somewhere in ‘68.
Reviewer:
JamsOnly
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February 25, 2018
Subject: Solid Show
Subject: Solid Show
For the most part well played, enjoyable spin.
Highlights: West L.A. Fadeaway, Help On The Way
Highlights: West L.A. Fadeaway, Help On The Way
Reviewer:
kbmill
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December 15, 2016
Subject: bread crumb
Subject: bread crumb
Well, the previous night is remarkable, so it's hard to live up to that, but I'm not sure that I agree with all of the criticism that has been leveled. As 1984 shows go, I'd say this one is still above par.
Nice little Smokestack tease at the end of Truckin'.
Nice little Smokestack tease at the end of Truckin'.
Reviewer:
c-freedom
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November 28, 2016
Subject: Hey Now!
Subject: Hey Now!
Well this is my very first show. I have been meaning to get back here and give this an objective listen. But hey it is my 1st show- how objective can I really be?
Aiko-Aiko- What a great way to start my Dead head career.
Promised-Almost always remember this when it was a 1st set closer but i did catch a few Promised Land coming out of Alabama before that tune got shelved.
I spent the summer of 1984 getting turned on to the Grateful Dead up at Sleep away camp. I went upstate listening to Ronnie Dio and came home swaying to the Grateful Dead.
If it had just been tapes I am not sure I would have gotten it but we pulled a road trip to see Jerry at a Community College that summer and that literally sealed the DEAL.
I don't remember a whole lot from this show in particular I had been to the Byrne to see a few other bands because it was an easy commute by Jersey Transit from Port Authority,
West L.A. Fadeaway- Not sure I even got this tune for a long time but the more I heard it live the more it grew on me which I can't say for many of the Touch of Grey era tunes.
Any way Time Square and Port Authority used to be its own West L.A. Fadeaway. Hunter had that line "Those downtown chippies know your weight to the once"
This was also my 1st semester at Q.C.(Made the freakin Dean's List) I had been gobbling up any Dead I could get my hands on and my friends had some very sweet tapes.
At this time it was pretty easy to get a set list of the tour usually Dupree's and a few other good souls. I really didn't know all the material yet. We had something called the Well at the school computer lab. All DAS stuff.
I was always kinda amazed that there always seemed to be another tune I had never heard before.
The other thing I couldn't get over with the set list thing was how the sets were so different. I can remember seeing bands like Aerosmith or Black Sabbath and if you saw one show you saw the entire 18/20 song tour. Maybe Joe Perry would break out RED HOUSE.
Here were the Dead playing these very varied and diverse sets of 20+ songs a night that they were not doing any repeats for 3 or 4 nights and even once i started going to more shows they tended to mix up the order of tunes and when they were played in the set.
Plus I have these tapes i am listening to from the Grateful Dead going back to 1965 with all kinds of freaky stuff and the stuff from 68-74 being almost other worldly in intensity.
So for this show looking back I can tell you I fell really hard for Brother Esau. I had a pretty strong connection to the Grateful Dead and my love for Israel. So this tune fit right in with the parallel to Zion that I felt thru the Grateful Dead. It had a Messianic feel. The music was alive in a way I did not get from other music of the day.
B.E. Women- This was absolutely one of my favorite tunes ever. I just have a hard time sharing how this song hits home for me. I don't know why? It reminds me of some old Nat King Cole song or I don't know what.
But I would get inside the song it was going down in front of me in much the way El Paso would but with not as much tragedy and more a kinda historical snapshot of America. (When they played this at Red Rocks in 1985 and I was standing in that ravine over looking the Continental Divide. It broke me up something fierce.
Almost like I had left my body and was outside of time.)
Pretty sweet B.E. Women!!!
MingleWood- Funny thing about this song is I used to sing the original version. for whatever reason it resonated with me and I would sing it to the local kids in Saugerties, N.Y. and I had a following
they would say sing us 'Born in a Desert'
I was born in a desert, raised in a lion's den
I was born in a desert, raised in a lion's den
And my number one occupation
is stealing women from their men
If you're ever in Memphis, better stop by Minglewood
If you're ever in Memphis, better stop by Minglewood
Well take a walk down town, the women sure look good
If you can't believe me, don't make it hard to believe in you
If you can't believe me, don't make it hard to believe in you
'Cause we all need each other, well you know it's true.
You know I don't think i had clue one that Brent was the keyboard player.
I had tapes with Donna and Keith and of course their was the legend of Pig Pen.
Again a pretty rockin' Minglewood.
Row Jimmy Row-This song was always nice over the years and the more I heard early versions of the tune the greater my fondness for the tune.
It seems to me they would play this when they wanted to build momentum but not in an over the top kinda way. It has that nice little rhythm kick to dance in.
LLR- Hey I am glad they were still playing this in the 1st set at this late date in GD History. I know many people have a strong connection to this tune but to me it is a couples song and that was not my Grateful Dead thing.
"They say into each life , some rain must fall"
>Might as Well-They dropped this tune sometime in 1985, I know it was a tough song for them to pull off but I really liked the bop to it, it extended out just a little farther then Don't Ease.
Jerry Garcia singing, You might as well, you might as well
just what I was thinking...
Set Two
Help>Slipknot>Franklins
No clue how many versions I had of this tune. I did have a
1975 tape but I am not sure i had it already. I could have heard it from 76-77 but I am not 100%.
This version sounds a little bit out of step especially like Dan is messing with the vocal levels. But i am not sure I would have noticed anything like that. One of the nights at the Byrne I wandered around in the halls between sets and that might have been more than my fragile mind could absorb at the time. I do remember thinking this is getting more and more intense. No matter how many tapes you listen to there is nothing live seeing it live.
That is why I am sure that people who got on the bus in the 1990's still have a leg up on those who never got to see Garcia live. Now I bet there are folks who saw the Dead with Pigpen who can probably say you don't know the half of it.
The Slipknot jam is actually pretty solid. By the time I started looking to hear this live they shelved it again.
My take on this is it primal Dead. The Help >Slip usually causes the >Franklin's to be that much more intense although a good argument can be made that Franklin's Tower can go very well with a bunch of tunes.
Women are Smarter- Not sure they played Aiko & Women in the same show very often outside of Mardi-Gras. This is a pretty standard version of this 80's tune.
This tune Looks Like Rain and Ship of Fools could Monkey wrench a decent 2nd set.
Terrapin from a stand still. again the vocals seem to be getting a push from Dan. One thing we can certainly say is Jerry's voice sounds pretty good when Healy isn't modulating it.
Nice sweet jam leading into Space not a BIG Drumz and quickly into Space.
A very brief Other One not a lot of depth . Almost sounds like MIRACLE but I prefer the brief Other One.
The jam to the Other One does get some traction but WEIR goes for the vocals right away. Bobby is bringing his own lyrics. This is when sound modulation can be pretty trippy. Somewhat frantic and 3 minutes in Bob goes for the second set of lyrics
"The bus came by and I got on
that is where it all began"
I am a pretty big fan of TRUCKIN so it is cool they played it for my 1st show. Hey there is Weir with the Marching band Whistle jump-off.
With the way Healy is messing with the reverb you just know this is going to be tricky waters for the boys to navigate. "Lately it occurs to me , W.A.L.S.T.I.B .
and being ever ahead of the curve Bob throws in the alternative -Sex Change line.
>Stella Blue- Closing ballad slot. I had no idea what Garcia was singing about but I do remember this was the moment most like the J.G.B concert i saw in Orange County, N.Y. (Sounded like they considered going for Spoonful but Garcia steps up with Stella)
ALL THIS LIFE IS A BUT A DREAM....
G.D.T.R.F.B.- This seems kinda out place to close the show unless it was like 1973. But really here is that connection that the Grateful Dead helped nurture in me. I was drifting and dreaming. It wasn't until GOD confronted me that I was NOT going to Heaven based on any works or deeds of my own that a song like G.D.T.R.F.B started to make perfect sense. I was Going Down the Road Feeling Bad and I didn't want to spend the rest of my life feeling that way. I also found based on reading the Bible that i could NOT change my fate. God's standard was perfection and one thing I was painfully aware of is that I was NOT perfect.
But then I learned that JESUS came to Earth lived a perfect life (met God's standard) and then made a sacrifice of His life to redeem for Himself a people.
It went back to my love of Israel. A Jew was right by the keeping the law of God but I knew living among Jewish People that no one could keep the law, yet Christ did keep the law and He then conquered Death because He was raised from the dead.
So when you hear G.D.T.R.F.B just think it is the story of how life beats each one of us down because despite our best efforts we come up short but in Christ there is hope, There is Freedom. As close as i came to paradise at a Dead show it was not until I sang the great hymns with a broken heart to GOD that I really got a taste of Heaven.
Kinda a strange ending to the set.
e) Brokedown-on the 1st night of a two night run. how about that! Lyrics almost fall apart mid song.
A quirky show. i think the Women are Smarter was the big clunker but who knows they may have played it by request. Anyway 1st show -4 stars. That seems about right to me.
Aiko-Aiko- What a great way to start my Dead head career.
Promised-Almost always remember this when it was a 1st set closer but i did catch a few Promised Land coming out of Alabama before that tune got shelved.
I spent the summer of 1984 getting turned on to the Grateful Dead up at Sleep away camp. I went upstate listening to Ronnie Dio and came home swaying to the Grateful Dead.
If it had just been tapes I am not sure I would have gotten it but we pulled a road trip to see Jerry at a Community College that summer and that literally sealed the DEAL.
I don't remember a whole lot from this show in particular I had been to the Byrne to see a few other bands because it was an easy commute by Jersey Transit from Port Authority,
West L.A. Fadeaway- Not sure I even got this tune for a long time but the more I heard it live the more it grew on me which I can't say for many of the Touch of Grey era tunes.
Any way Time Square and Port Authority used to be its own West L.A. Fadeaway. Hunter had that line "Those downtown chippies know your weight to the once"
This was also my 1st semester at Q.C.(Made the freakin Dean's List) I had been gobbling up any Dead I could get my hands on and my friends had some very sweet tapes.
At this time it was pretty easy to get a set list of the tour usually Dupree's and a few other good souls. I really didn't know all the material yet. We had something called the Well at the school computer lab. All DAS stuff.
I was always kinda amazed that there always seemed to be another tune I had never heard before.
The other thing I couldn't get over with the set list thing was how the sets were so different. I can remember seeing bands like Aerosmith or Black Sabbath and if you saw one show you saw the entire 18/20 song tour. Maybe Joe Perry would break out RED HOUSE.
Here were the Dead playing these very varied and diverse sets of 20+ songs a night that they were not doing any repeats for 3 or 4 nights and even once i started going to more shows they tended to mix up the order of tunes and when they were played in the set.
Plus I have these tapes i am listening to from the Grateful Dead going back to 1965 with all kinds of freaky stuff and the stuff from 68-74 being almost other worldly in intensity.
So for this show looking back I can tell you I fell really hard for Brother Esau. I had a pretty strong connection to the Grateful Dead and my love for Israel. So this tune fit right in with the parallel to Zion that I felt thru the Grateful Dead. It had a Messianic feel. The music was alive in a way I did not get from other music of the day.
B.E. Women- This was absolutely one of my favorite tunes ever. I just have a hard time sharing how this song hits home for me. I don't know why? It reminds me of some old Nat King Cole song or I don't know what.
But I would get inside the song it was going down in front of me in much the way El Paso would but with not as much tragedy and more a kinda historical snapshot of America. (When they played this at Red Rocks in 1985 and I was standing in that ravine over looking the Continental Divide. It broke me up something fierce.
Almost like I had left my body and was outside of time.)
Pretty sweet B.E. Women!!!
MingleWood- Funny thing about this song is I used to sing the original version. for whatever reason it resonated with me and I would sing it to the local kids in Saugerties, N.Y. and I had a following
they would say sing us 'Born in a Desert'
I was born in a desert, raised in a lion's den
I was born in a desert, raised in a lion's den
And my number one occupation
is stealing women from their men
If you're ever in Memphis, better stop by Minglewood
If you're ever in Memphis, better stop by Minglewood
Well take a walk down town, the women sure look good
If you can't believe me, don't make it hard to believe in you
If you can't believe me, don't make it hard to believe in you
'Cause we all need each other, well you know it's true.
You know I don't think i had clue one that Brent was the keyboard player.
I had tapes with Donna and Keith and of course their was the legend of Pig Pen.
Again a pretty rockin' Minglewood.
Row Jimmy Row-This song was always nice over the years and the more I heard early versions of the tune the greater my fondness for the tune.
It seems to me they would play this when they wanted to build momentum but not in an over the top kinda way. It has that nice little rhythm kick to dance in.
LLR- Hey I am glad they were still playing this in the 1st set at this late date in GD History. I know many people have a strong connection to this tune but to me it is a couples song and that was not my Grateful Dead thing.
"They say into each life , some rain must fall"
>Might as Well-They dropped this tune sometime in 1985, I know it was a tough song for them to pull off but I really liked the bop to it, it extended out just a little farther then Don't Ease.
Jerry Garcia singing, You might as well, you might as well
just what I was thinking...
Set Two
Help>Slipknot>Franklins
No clue how many versions I had of this tune. I did have a
1975 tape but I am not sure i had it already. I could have heard it from 76-77 but I am not 100%.
This version sounds a little bit out of step especially like Dan is messing with the vocal levels. But i am not sure I would have noticed anything like that. One of the nights at the Byrne I wandered around in the halls between sets and that might have been more than my fragile mind could absorb at the time. I do remember thinking this is getting more and more intense. No matter how many tapes you listen to there is nothing live seeing it live.
That is why I am sure that people who got on the bus in the 1990's still have a leg up on those who never got to see Garcia live. Now I bet there are folks who saw the Dead with Pigpen who can probably say you don't know the half of it.
The Slipknot jam is actually pretty solid. By the time I started looking to hear this live they shelved it again.
My take on this is it primal Dead. The Help >Slip usually causes the >Franklin's to be that much more intense although a good argument can be made that Franklin's Tower can go very well with a bunch of tunes.
Women are Smarter- Not sure they played Aiko & Women in the same show very often outside of Mardi-Gras. This is a pretty standard version of this 80's tune.
This tune Looks Like Rain and Ship of Fools could Monkey wrench a decent 2nd set.
Terrapin from a stand still. again the vocals seem to be getting a push from Dan. One thing we can certainly say is Jerry's voice sounds pretty good when Healy isn't modulating it.
Nice sweet jam leading into Space not a BIG Drumz and quickly into Space.
A very brief Other One not a lot of depth . Almost sounds like MIRACLE but I prefer the brief Other One.
The jam to the Other One does get some traction but WEIR goes for the vocals right away. Bobby is bringing his own lyrics. This is when sound modulation can be pretty trippy. Somewhat frantic and 3 minutes in Bob goes for the second set of lyrics
"The bus came by and I got on
that is where it all began"
I am a pretty big fan of TRUCKIN so it is cool they played it for my 1st show. Hey there is Weir with the Marching band Whistle jump-off.
With the way Healy is messing with the reverb you just know this is going to be tricky waters for the boys to navigate. "Lately it occurs to me , W.A.L.S.T.I.B .
and being ever ahead of the curve Bob throws in the alternative -Sex Change line.
>Stella Blue- Closing ballad slot. I had no idea what Garcia was singing about but I do remember this was the moment most like the J.G.B concert i saw in Orange County, N.Y. (Sounded like they considered going for Spoonful but Garcia steps up with Stella)
ALL THIS LIFE IS A BUT A DREAM....
G.D.T.R.F.B.- This seems kinda out place to close the show unless it was like 1973. But really here is that connection that the Grateful Dead helped nurture in me. I was drifting and dreaming. It wasn't until GOD confronted me that I was NOT going to Heaven based on any works or deeds of my own that a song like G.D.T.R.F.B started to make perfect sense. I was Going Down the Road Feeling Bad and I didn't want to spend the rest of my life feeling that way. I also found based on reading the Bible that i could NOT change my fate. God's standard was perfection and one thing I was painfully aware of is that I was NOT perfect.
But then I learned that JESUS came to Earth lived a perfect life (met God's standard) and then made a sacrifice of His life to redeem for Himself a people.
It went back to my love of Israel. A Jew was right by the keeping the law of God but I knew living among Jewish People that no one could keep the law, yet Christ did keep the law and He then conquered Death because He was raised from the dead.
So when you hear G.D.T.R.F.B just think it is the story of how life beats each one of us down because despite our best efforts we come up short but in Christ there is hope, There is Freedom. As close as i came to paradise at a Dead show it was not until I sang the great hymns with a broken heart to GOD that I really got a taste of Heaven.
Kinda a strange ending to the set.
e) Brokedown-on the 1st night of a two night run. how about that! Lyrics almost fall apart mid song.
A quirky show. i think the Women are Smarter was the big clunker but who knows they may have played it by request. Anyway 1st show -4 stars. That seems about right to me.
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Donna_Sucked and We All Know It
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October 15, 2013
Subject: average
Subject: average
I saw this whole tour, this was one of the weaker nights. the next night was pretty good. I thought the real hot nights were Augusta, Hartford, and Syracuse. I liked Richmond a lot too but am probably in the minority. Great transfer, weak show with a few decent moments. And no it had nothing to do with Weir's birthday, some of the things these kids say on here are ridiculous. No, the real reason is unfortunately Garcia was in very bad shape that year and it was a pretty inconsistent year. 1984 gets a bad rap, I saw most of the shows they did that year and 20-25 of them were scorching hot - the Fall shows I just mentioned, the Greeks, some of the summer shows like Merriweather, Saratoga, Indianapolis, Alpine, Hampton and Philly in the Spring, Red Rocks, the BCT run - but it was inconsistent, unlike 1983 and 1985 that were solid all the way through.
Reviewer:
swami80s
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October 17, 2012
Subject: Nice 1st Set
Subject: Nice 1st Set
Nine songs in both sets not including Drumz & Space, so they clearly aren't "mailing it in." Some sloppiness and mediocre intensity level, but fun setlist with some high points throughout. Solid renditions of West L.A., Brother Esau, Brown-Eyed...if you're into that kind of thing (which I am). 3.0-star Swami rating.
Reviewer:
Slarti
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June 28, 2012
Subject: scratch that, reverse it
Subject: scratch that, reverse it
the band wasn't listening to Jerry, was the problem! LOL
Reviewer:
DooDahDan
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October 22, 2011
Subject: Hungover From Bobby's Birthday
Subject: Hungover From Bobby's Birthday
As always, Charlie did a great job with the tapes; unfortunately, the Grateful Dead did not show up on 10/17/84; some other Alien semi-pro musical ensemble playing their instruments did. This is a pretty bad show. Healy screws around with the delay pedal too much, Bob, Jerry and Brent struggle with the vocals all night, and there are a number of places where Jerry is clearly not listening to his compadres (to wit, Slipknot!). Plus, you get Bobby flubbing the lyrics on Truckin' (of course). The only thing I found remotely intriguing about this set was the last 3 minutes of Terrapin. I think the boys had too much of a good time the night before celebrating Bobby's birthday and should have called in sick.
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