No stand-out show from this overlooked, yet fantastic, 3-night Atlanta run to close out the monumental sp90 tour. And certainly nothing that compares to the stand-outs from the other 3-night sp90 runs (think 3/15 Cap, 3/24 Knick, 3/29 Nassau). I ranked each night at 4-stars- the sum of its parts might just equal 5. I particularly enjoyed this night and either way you cut it, you can't say they took the night off for the tour finale.

Solid Shakedown opener. Fired up hell in a bucket -- Bobby going for it -- segues into a sweet and bouncy Sugaree (dang, Phil). Otherwise, I like this Estimated (7:25 nah nah) a lot and the roughly 25 minutes of post-space jamming is a blast (d/s->i will take you home->gdtrfb->stones->nfa). We bid you good night encore- that also closed out the Knick run (3/26/90). This one -- like so many during this era -- returned in the summer of 89 (7/17/89) after more than a decade (last played 12/31/78) in semi-retirement. In the next couple of years, it was played nearly a dozen times. After Atlanta, once more on 7/14/90 and the last time in Boston, 9/26/91.

This was the last show of one of the greatest tours the Dead did in any era. This was also the last spring tour for Brent. The sound is the best I've heard of this show(especially for the venue). I remember Phil and some others teaching his son to walk backstage.

The highlight of this show was Brent singing, "I Will Take You Home." The Space/Drums seemed especially chaotic to me that night. When he started that song it was just purely beautiful and brought tears to my eyes. At that time my little girl was only 3 years old. It really struck a chord with me. Good show!

A decent sounding tape from The Omni without 10 layers of "mud" and Dolby on it ?

Could it be possible ?

"IF I had my way"... There'd be a boxed set of all the Omni shows from '88 thru '94... The boys often had moments of greatness there, but Omni shows are treated like bastard children at a family reunion through most trading circles.

I'm not sure why this is...

But, perhaps the "Dead never played well in the South" myth remains.....

It's NOT true.

This is the legendary Grateful Dead that we've heard of, not the burned out jumbly version people joke about. If you've ever experienced the vibrating rainbow machine in your own head, you know what I'm talking about. Listen to this tape loud with headphones! This is one of the best sounding recordings on the archive...thanks Hans! Great work!