I was there and agree that there was something wrong with Jerry. You know what it was? It was a 4pm show, the stage faced west, and it was f'n hot. It had to be over 100 degrees in the valley. Very poor planning for a late June show. During my swelter a U of I professor handed me and my friend a bunch of grapes. Eternally grateful as it saved me from being vulture food ;)

The Grateful Dead played stellar this night. The jam in the 2nd set is my favorite all time moment.I remember the sound was deep and thunderous and they had a new modern sound compared to the year before. The jam just stunned me so did the fungus.I never heard music like that before except 12/29/88 jam.Very dark yet spirtual. It was the summer when there was no smoke. Daytime shows. There was a huge gathering of heads dancing like ive never seen since on Phils side on the grass.There was a tree nearby that pulled people around it.This audience sounds great.The 2nd night was not nearly as good except for an amazing and serious Other One. 5 for playing 4 for sound. I trust myself when I say download this one. Ramble on Rose is so kind.

I loved this show. Trippy for sure. The fact that they only played a couple of songs before drums is misleading. They jammed each song so long and the in-between jams were crackeling hot. Some of my favorite shows were when they would only play a few songs and extend the jamming. Bobby had something strange going on because it seemed like he wanted to do playing in the band all night long.

Hot Wisconsin sun, bad mushrooms and an ailing Jerry Garcia all made for a less-than-memorable day. Songs are short, uninspired, and lackluster. Jerry looked bad, sounded awful, and clearly did not want to be there. This was the only show I'd ever been to where the whole thing fit on 1.5 90-min cassettes, including a rare double encore.

I recall, in my naive, youthful, exuberantly high condition, giving my pavilion ticket stub to a guy sitting behind me so he could "sneak his buddy down." I happily complied. A while later, I was further down in the pavillion with a buddy of mine and I started freaking out on the shrooms I'd eaten before the show; stomach was not right, either. Went back to my seat to try and chill out and found a frat boy in it. I said, "Dude, you're in my seat." He said, "Nope, it's mine, and I've got the stub to prove it." He held up my ticket stub and looked at me smugly, knowing he was hosing me out of my seat.

To express my dissatisfaction with his attitude, I threw up on him.

I left him sitting in my seat shortly after that, and hid from him (and security) by literally laying low at my aforementioned friend's seat, lower down in the pavillion. The show went downhill from that point on.

Definitely not one of my better Alpine experiences.

-Sean K.

I love Alpine but despite my front row seats at my 6th show, this one was not too exciting. Nicely played 2nd set but short, picked it up for the overall memories as opposed to the musical ones...

LOL I CAN REMEMBER GETTING MY TICKETS FOR THIS SHOW AND THE 29TH ME AND MY MOM DRIVING IN RENTED MINI VAN FROM ROYAL OAK MI ALL THE WAY TO EAST TROY WIS IT RAINED THE FIRST NIGHT WE GOT THERE AND STAYING AT LAKE GENEVA CAMPGROUNDS THIS WAS THE 27TH OF JUNE THE DAY OF THE SHOW I WAS EXCITED WE GOT TO ALPINE VALLEY IT WAS AWSOME LOOKING AT ALL OF THE PEOPLE SELLING TIE DYED T SHIRTS LOL I SPENT ABOUT 300 DOLLARS IN SHIRTS AND BUTTONS I NEVER WAS INTO THE DRUG THING I JUST LOVED THE MUSIC AND THE SCENE AND COLLECTING TAPES I GOT INTO THE SHOW AND LOOKING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL WAS AWSOME I WAS AT THE TOP DANCEING HAVEING THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE I LOST MY MOM AND FRIENDS I HAD TO HITCH BACK TO LAKE GENEVA I SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT ALPINE AND ENJOY THE MAGICAL SPIRT THAT WAS AROUND THERE I BECAME A DEAD HEAD IM GLAD I FOUND ARCHIVE

There are longer shows, and there are shows where Jerry is clearly more interested in sticking around, but this show deserves a second look.

The first set doesn't do a lot for me, but I really enjoy the second set. The Playin' starts out strong and just gets *bent*. I don't know if the band was too, um, preoccupied to develop much more than two distinct songs before the drums, but the Playin'->UJB->Jam sequence is really, really jangly, with outstanding stuff from Bobby and the drummers. The 7/4 jam in UJB just *rips* -- I wish it went on longer, but it is all good. The Jam after UJB is very distinctly its own entity, as UJB comes to a close and then the band, unwilling to start another song, just begins jamming. Very fluid, very rythmic. Drums is also a lot of fun. The China Doll begins to build in Space and is delivered with a lot of fervor. Jerry's phrasing and approach is outstanding, and he really delivers a fine reading of the song -- much better than the 1990s versions, in which the song had a tendency to become soggy.

The rest of the second set is well played and won't disappoint.

I like this show a lot.

...and I can hardly remember it. I was a little...er...synaptically challenged...somewhere over the rainbow...

...all I can recall, other than the absolute surreal experience of being amongst all those freaks, is that Touch of Grey was perhaps the fastest song I had ever heard. CC Rider was the only familiar song for this novice to the Dead scene. I vaguely remember LLR as well.

As I can recall, the second set went nowhere fast. Jerry bailed the stage early before drumz, and I don't think he was having all that good of a time on stage that day.

Anyhow, I had to start somewhere...atleast I kept coming back...

This was a great show. Stars on the first night and rain on the second. Good sound quality considering it's at an outdoor venue. I went with an old friend who I just reconnected with. Well, we are going to the July 24, 2004 show at Alpine Valley. I had to see if I could find the set list from 1986. I didn't think that I would find the audio. I'm burning a cd to give to him as a suprise. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive.