Grateful Dead Live at Hampton Coliseum on 1988-03-27
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- Publication date
- 1988-03-27 ( check for other copies)
- Topics
- Audience, Jon Pasternak, Dave Mallick
- Collection
- GratefulDead
- Band/Artist
- Grateful Dead
- Resource
- DeadLists Project
Set 1
Iko Iko, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Cumberland Blues-> Me & My Uncle, To Lay Me Down, Let It Grow
Set 2
So What, Sugar Magnolia-> Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Jam-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> I Need A Miracle-> Dear Mr. Fantasy-> Sunshine Daydream, E: U.S. Blues
"We want Phil" beginning of Set 2
Iko Iko, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Cumberland Blues-> Me & My Uncle, To Lay Me Down, Let It Grow
Set 2
So What, Sugar Magnolia-> Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Jam-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> I Need A Miracle-> Dear Mr. Fantasy-> Sunshine Daydream, E: U.S. Blues
"We want Phil" beginning of Set 2
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Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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Iko Iko | |||
Little Red Rooster | |||
Stagger Lee | |||
Ballad of a Thin Man> | |||
Cumberland Blues> | |||
Me & My Uncle> | |||
To Lay Me Down> | |||
Let It Grow | |||
Space>So What> | |||
Sugar Magnolia> | |||
Scarlet Begonias> | |||
Fire on the Mountain | |||
Estimated Prophet> | |||
Eyes of the World>Drums> | |||
Space> | |||
Jam> | |||
Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad> | |||
I Need A Miracle> | |||
Dear Mr. Fantasy> | |||
Sunshine Daydream |
- Addeddate
- 2010-06-06 04:01:41
- Identifier
- gd1988-03-27.nak100.pasternak.mallick.107907.flac16
- Location
- Hampton, VA
- Run time
- 141:16.47
- Taped by
- Jon Pasternak
- Transferred by
- Dave Mallick
- Type
- sound
- Venue
- Hampton Coliseum
- Year
- 1988
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Reviewer:
natwashboard
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March 23, 2021
Subject: Great show/great aud
Subject: Great show/great aud
Did we even deserve the 3/27/88 show? Was there some gate-crashing the night before? Yeah. It was crowded in Hampton that day. Hot day, first hot one in a while for people who took the train down to Newport News from Boston, or however you got there. They had speakers at the back of the auditorium for these which provided hairy quadrophonic during drums and space. After the complete blowout the night before where those speakers and my fragile psyche were sorely tested, we get this down home first set followed by the biggest second set of the late 80’s.
First set opens with a relaxed Aiko and once the sound adjusts you realize that this is going to be the source. This aud is well-balanced and well-positioned in the arena. It sounds like it did that night. Red Rooster means business and Stagger Lee is also better than average for a song that could sometimes show a lack of focus on Jerry’s part. The set really gets going with the breakout of the Dylan song which I thought got a somewhat cool reception from the audience. For my part, I was slack jawed and a little amused at Bob’s new snarling voice thing. It’s much more successful than I remembered in retrospect; in fact, it’s a drag they didn’t stick with it b/c Jerry’s orchestral shadings behind the lyrics is masterful and Bob really sell this song. It would have improved the Dylan slot rotation in the 90’s methinks.
What a gift Cumberland one, a surprise to all. And what a great Cumberland! Slow enough for them to develop some good interplay in the jams, nary an error and then they follow a curve ball with another curve ball and transition into Me and My Uncle which ends like it does on SF making it seem like a standalone and or that it’s suddenly 1971. Is it? To Lay Me Down is next and it too is rock solid. Ok it’s not 1971 b/c Let it Grow is next, a dense late period Let it Grow like the one in Albany 1990.
Ok but set two. woah. Bob had some equipment problems and so some spacey stuff emanated from the speakers which got weirder and weirder to the point at which I wasn’t sure what part of the show it was. Well, maybe it was more than just the music. This morphed inexplicably into “So What” which still blows my mind. I listened to this set probably more than any other back in the cassette days but not recently and I was really blown away by how great the show really is. Probably due to the amount of times I listened to it, it also contains several iconic musical stretches for me. (Maybe these are what Dick Latvala calls “primal”.) The Fire on the Mountain is one with its blend of electronic and acoustic drums and a transition into it that I would describe as a “landing”. When Jerry starts scrubbing the strings, I am imagining a plane achieving balance over the tarmac, 30 seconds later, he scrubs just a little again as if to adjust the wings. Then they “land” into Fire on the Mountain. The other primal moment for me is the opening of Sugar Magnolia when Bob’s guitar sounds like the record and bweep bweeps the first two chords. This is a Sugar Magnolia like the one at Winterland 12/31/78 and the one on Europe 72 that, if there was a pantheon of divine Sugar Magnolias this would stand among them.
Estimated>eyes was almost like a bonus after that but I was surprised we got both since the trend at that time would have been to charge us for that Sugar Magnolia by removing an expected pre-drums song like Eyes. (Hey, they did it the previous year in Hampton!). Space wasn’t nearly as harrowing as the night before, almost like an 83 space with Bob and Jerry interplay and not a lot of weirdness. The post drums is celebratory despite the lack of a Hey Jude. This is such a great show.
First set opens with a relaxed Aiko and once the sound adjusts you realize that this is going to be the source. This aud is well-balanced and well-positioned in the arena. It sounds like it did that night. Red Rooster means business and Stagger Lee is also better than average for a song that could sometimes show a lack of focus on Jerry’s part. The set really gets going with the breakout of the Dylan song which I thought got a somewhat cool reception from the audience. For my part, I was slack jawed and a little amused at Bob’s new snarling voice thing. It’s much more successful than I remembered in retrospect; in fact, it’s a drag they didn’t stick with it b/c Jerry’s orchestral shadings behind the lyrics is masterful and Bob really sell this song. It would have improved the Dylan slot rotation in the 90’s methinks.
What a gift Cumberland one, a surprise to all. And what a great Cumberland! Slow enough for them to develop some good interplay in the jams, nary an error and then they follow a curve ball with another curve ball and transition into Me and My Uncle which ends like it does on SF making it seem like a standalone and or that it’s suddenly 1971. Is it? To Lay Me Down is next and it too is rock solid. Ok it’s not 1971 b/c Let it Grow is next, a dense late period Let it Grow like the one in Albany 1990.
Ok but set two. woah. Bob had some equipment problems and so some spacey stuff emanated from the speakers which got weirder and weirder to the point at which I wasn’t sure what part of the show it was. Well, maybe it was more than just the music. This morphed inexplicably into “So What” which still blows my mind. I listened to this set probably more than any other back in the cassette days but not recently and I was really blown away by how great the show really is. Probably due to the amount of times I listened to it, it also contains several iconic musical stretches for me. (Maybe these are what Dick Latvala calls “primal”.) The Fire on the Mountain is one with its blend of electronic and acoustic drums and a transition into it that I would describe as a “landing”. When Jerry starts scrubbing the strings, I am imagining a plane achieving balance over the tarmac, 30 seconds later, he scrubs just a little again as if to adjust the wings. Then they “land” into Fire on the Mountain. The other primal moment for me is the opening of Sugar Magnolia when Bob’s guitar sounds like the record and bweep bweeps the first two chords. This is a Sugar Magnolia like the one at Winterland 12/31/78 and the one on Europe 72 that, if there was a pantheon of divine Sugar Magnolias this would stand among them.
Estimated>eyes was almost like a bonus after that but I was surprised we got both since the trend at that time would have been to charge us for that Sugar Magnolia by removing an expected pre-drums song like Eyes. (Hey, they did it the previous year in Hampton!). Space wasn’t nearly as harrowing as the night before, almost like an 83 space with Bob and Jerry interplay and not a lot of weirdness. The post drums is celebratory despite the lack of a Hey Jude. This is such a great show.
Reviewer:
jonnyb73
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March 27, 2020
Subject: WTF?
Subject: WTF?
just start the second set with Sugar Mag.
"space/so what"? you actually labeled them fucking around on stage as a song.
"space/so what"? you actually labeled them fucking around on stage as a song.
Reviewer:
Deadhead225
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November 17, 2011
Subject: Wedded Bliss on the Floor
Subject: Wedded Bliss on the Floor
Best Qual. aud. here. I can't see payin' $20 for a tape that I had for free for 20+ years. Especially one that was FM broadcast. The music is awesome and the quality of this recording is quite nice. My brain automatically EQs audience tapes after this many years.
One of the most enjoyable 3 days you could possibly have. The mellow nature of the scene here in the midst of the 80s hype was so welcome. Very few hassles that I remember.
My notes from this night indicate that there was more smoke inside the building than at any other show I attended. Made for some spectacular lights. A couple of years later I met an off duty cop from the area at a show. He said that the policy there was the 4 Ms - More Marijuana Means Mellow. They figured the more they let people smoke the less trouble they would have. I would bet they did not have a whole lotta trouble this night.
Pretty sure it was this night. Maybe night before. I bought a shirt in the lot from some heads. It had this cauldron scene on it. The guy said, "And it comes with a wedding invitation." Cool. I did not think much about it, but sure enough they got married in as traditional a ceremony as you could get on the floor of a Dead show. That was testimony to how mellow it was. You could carry out a freakin' wedding ceremony on the floor wearing a tux and wedding gown!
One of the most enjoyable 3 days you could possibly have. The mellow nature of the scene here in the midst of the 80s hype was so welcome. Very few hassles that I remember.
My notes from this night indicate that there was more smoke inside the building than at any other show I attended. Made for some spectacular lights. A couple of years later I met an off duty cop from the area at a show. He said that the policy there was the 4 Ms - More Marijuana Means Mellow. They figured the more they let people smoke the less trouble they would have. I would bet they did not have a whole lotta trouble this night.
Pretty sure it was this night. Maybe night before. I bought a shirt in the lot from some heads. It had this cauldron scene on it. The guy said, "And it comes with a wedding invitation." Cool. I did not think much about it, but sure enough they got married in as traditional a ceremony as you could get on the floor of a Dead show. That was testimony to how mellow it was. You could carry out a freakin' wedding ceremony on the floor wearing a tux and wedding gown!
Reviewer:
grateful phishmon
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April 16, 2011
Subject: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Soundboard!!!
Subject: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Soundboard!!!
Not with three very good to excellent auds available! I forgot which one I downloaded, but I think it's this one. It sounds the best to my ears. Of course, the sound improves once you get the .wav instead of the .mp3. This is the kind of audience tape that puts YOU front-of-board, center -- minus the jostling, people screaming in your ear, balloon tossing, joint passing, and other distractions.
The show itself is one of the most heavily hyped of the 80's, and for the second set up through Fire, it lives up to the hype. The space>So What is one of those fun moments that occurred every now and then at a GD show that loosen everybody up, including the band, even though they fall apart on the first run-through of the So What "head." The Scarlet>Fire that follows is one of the few 80's style S>F's I'll put up there with my personal gold standard, 3/5/81. Jerry teases and tickles your ears through Scarlet and the transition, then wails all over Fire. The drummers drive it all along with heavy play on the toms.
After that, they fall back into standard 80's mode. Estimated>Eyes is fun but typically 80's-short and nothing to write home about. Jerry doesn't quite nail the middle section of Estimated before, as one frequent commenter here would put it, "going off at the end." The post-Space is strong, with a pretty lead-in to GDTRFB and a hot Mr. Fantasy as was typical of this period. The first set is solid, but Let It Grow is a bit of a disappointment, with too much of the standard late-80's lead from Jerry.
Since a typical mid-late 80's show (not counting Fall 89) is 3 stars for me, I'll give this one a solid 4.
The show itself is one of the most heavily hyped of the 80's, and for the second set up through Fire, it lives up to the hype. The space>So What is one of those fun moments that occurred every now and then at a GD show that loosen everybody up, including the band, even though they fall apart on the first run-through of the So What "head." The Scarlet>Fire that follows is one of the few 80's style S>F's I'll put up there with my personal gold standard, 3/5/81. Jerry teases and tickles your ears through Scarlet and the transition, then wails all over Fire. The drummers drive it all along with heavy play on the toms.
After that, they fall back into standard 80's mode. Estimated>Eyes is fun but typically 80's-short and nothing to write home about. Jerry doesn't quite nail the middle section of Estimated before, as one frequent commenter here would put it, "going off at the end." The post-Space is strong, with a pretty lead-in to GDTRFB and a hot Mr. Fantasy as was typical of this period. The first set is solid, but Let It Grow is a bit of a disappointment, with too much of the standard late-80's lead from Jerry.
Since a typical mid-late 80's show (not counting Fall 89) is 3 stars for me, I'll give this one a solid 4.
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