I am listening to every 1994 show in order, mining for gold.

Set 1 Highlights: All well played. Althea, Cumberland.

Set 2: Very nice Estimated>He's Gone>Drums>Space. Standing on the Moon peaks out nicely.

As to the heat at these shows.
Don't any of the complainers do any research on the venue BEFORE they buy tickets?
The Mojave desert is second only to the Sahara of inhabited deserts of the world (besides indeginous peoples are TOUGH).
It is HOT in Vegas that time of year!
I am a western U.S. boy and 'it's only weather' is the rule I live by. If you wait for the weather to be 'tail-gate' weather in the western U.S. (most of it anyway) you will never leave the comfort of your home. You'll never go fishing or camping or...............Update I was at this show in '94......Saw Dead & Co. at the Gorge Amphitheater June 8th...Good Show but feel VERY lucky to have seen ANY of the shows I did while Jerry was still with us (including this one). There's a whole generation that won't get to feel the joy it brought to see Jerry play anything.....Sad........

I sang a little while and then flew on.

After a killer first song, Jerry basically gives up. Worth listening to Drums, as usual in this era.

Garcia in mid-June in Vegas in 1994? Poor guy. What happened to the late April dates, like 1991. It was still bakin' hot for those, but late June?

For the last time, it was hot, and jerry was a junkie and they'd all been playin for almost 30 years and the music was definately not 69, or 85,or 90, but can you believe i still had a great time. And yes, there were definately moments of blinding brilliance in this show. The 2nd night, was my least favorite show of all and i still loved it. One in 10000.

Man that was so hot you could more than fry eggs on the parking lot. I remember sitting on that one piece of grass available between there and Lak Meade, listening to Traffic from outside the doors to the stadium. Too bad the music didn't get going until the third night. I mean those two first shows were rotten. Jerry was so loaded, noticeably after the breaks. You could see him swaying on the big screens. I am willing to accept that GD usually has some kind of flaw happening in the name of expirimentation but Jerry should have given us our money back on this one.

What was interesting was seeing the hard core Deadheads from out West that must still live on communes and on tour. I left a snowball sitting for about 5 seconds and some rats who smelled like the portolets swiped it.

The coolest thing was on one of those nights there was a wedding during the set break and those marshmallows flying everywhere. I seem to recall the World Cup going on during these shows too.

But it was the third night when they broke loose with the music. Then the Shoreline afterward was an ultimate tour experience.

Does anyone remember after the show, that guy on a skateboard being pulled, 'full blast', by his dog as he went down the back parking lot calling 'coming thru'. he had to be going 20mph or more!
That was my 1st GD show, having been asked to go by a NC friend for years. TRAFFIC was the reason i went. Gotta love those drums and Traffic/Windwood songs/voice..

I cant complain, I found a ticket and a half ounce of weed on the ground just as the show was starting. Went to the gate and the women wouldnt let me in, said my ticket must be fake. I was making my way back down the walk to the lot and these two cops stopped me and asked me what happened. I told them and they escorted me into the show. Only time a cop ever did anything FOR me. Yeah it was blazin hot and the show kinda sucked but I still cant complain.

This show has always been trashed ever since I read a review in DDN back in 1994. Not hearing the so-called disaster as described. Not great - sure. But some good stuff here. Very similar to other mediocre nights on this tour.

this show is lifeless... jerry isn't even present.... sound quality is terrible.... and can someone tell vince to shut up??? his vocals are terrible... he sings like somebody is squeezing his balls... bruce should have been the 1 to stay... i mean any keyboard player out there would have been better than vince and his fisher price keyboard... sorry guys... weak 2... if it even deserves that...

i wish there was a better copy of this show! it was my first time to get to see the boys! i agree it isn't the best show, but your first is always good! the dosed mnt. dew made it better! the heat was unreal! thank god for the sprinklers! and for the guy who miracled me and the rest of my "BAMA BOYS"!!

I dont remember much from this run other than it being to freakin hot!! 125 on the field!! and yahoos trying to sell sammy smiths on the dust ridden lot. lol. I coudnt get enough water in my body! van was acting up, troubles driving from eugene, ended up selling our shoreline tickets and driving to vermont early. yea SOTM had alot of heart from jerry but it is far from being the best, second best or probably third best. 9-26-93 & 8-21-93 are better in my opinion. yo yo grateful dead!

Phil Sings Broken "A-Hole" in the verse....It's there

Caught a similar, but better act at shoreline weeks later, at least I didn't have to deal with the heat. Poor set list and very uninspired playing. Night 2 is just as bad

I cannot comment on the recording, because I don't
want a copy of this show. The best song the band
played that night was Don't Ease Me In, which was
the *only* time Jerry showed up that night!

The reprise of Good Times was led by Weir, not
Jerry; who was clearly impaired and ravaged by
his demons -- and not the heat! Cumberland was so
lifeless and weak that I've heard several bar
bands play it better!

After a limp Iko second set opener was my only
live experience of Samba In The Rain, a song so
painfully embarassing that it makes Day Job look
like St. Stephen! Estimated was halfway decent,
thanks to Phil, who literally forced Jerry to
come up with a few lines. However, He's Gone
was so wretched and pathetic that I was
*relieved* when the song ended.

There are a few moments of sustenance in
GDTRFB, but neither Miracle nor the JB Goode
encore truly *rock!* SOTM is interesting for
a guitar solo in the song's middle (after the
bridge), but the playing is disjointed and
never hits the levels of the previous years.

A show with a fine setlist plus many
instances of poor playing plus Jerry's
incompetence in spots equals one very poor
show!

Standing on teh Moon of all time was on this day. (Autzen 93 being el numero uno). Jerry's voice in this version is just priceless...in a hilarious sort of way. Jerry was really looking in fine form on this tour, all slimmed out, had a bit more of a bounce to him, too. Great all around show as well (the whole vegas run was tight). Yeah, what they said about the heat. When you are tabbed out of your mind, the heat was never really an issue, though.

It was indeed 4,000 degrees...from what I remember, this show wasn't too exciting.

I had tickets for the 2nd nite -- decided to split -- too hot -- left a ticket on some green hippie VW bus with Wisconsin plates in the Sam's Town parking lot -- if the owner of the bus reads this, hope you enjoyed the show.

I can recall people droppping like flies throughout the three days....You'd be listening to a tune, then right in front of you, someone would just pass out...bam...I saw that happen at least two to three times a day...it was a steamer!

Pretty Clean Mix here..Although the Vegas shows were easier when they were at the Alladin you had to work for your fun at the Silver Bowl..It was 120 plus...on the field dancin' it musta been brutal...We always sat Dead center in the stands...we had movement on all sides and a clear view of the volcano to the right of the stage...it was a cleansing of the fine layers of shit that had accumulated on our skin...this is a typical fine Vegas show...(Slot's of Fun forever)...we always gave up our seats on the way back so we could fly free the next year...

This is a goodie, with good audience sound. Sounds like the Silver Bowl to me. I saw all 3 of these too. I was surprised they allowed the shows to go on, with the 105 temps during the show. It was too hot. It all worked out great though. First set here is groovin. Second set Iko is of the extended variety.

It was 125 degrees outside at its highest point. The breeze felt like someone just opened an oven door right next to you.... but it still was my favorite weekend out of all the times i saw the GD. They were just totally on top of it, the entire weekend. Some people were disappointed with the middle night because they played so many of their new songs, but it didn't matter at all , because they played them all so *well.* Everything they played actually, I thought, was spectacular. The last night was the longest Terrapin jam I remember seeing live, and still my favorite So Many Roads. One thing about Vegas was, the sound was INCREDIBLE. I remember being right in front of/ below a speaker on the floor for Let The Good Times Roll, then Stranger, and really it was not til the end of Stranger that i 'came back to the earth' and remembered who i was, where i was and what i was doing (A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT). The sound was that amazing. Althea, everyone was so, so, so hot and people were spraying water everywhere, it was beautiful. The weather did not seem to faze the band a bit. I wondered if they were playing better because the audience had to be full of die-hards. It was the best time of my life and I have been looking for this first night forever..... :-)