Grateful Dead - favorite photos of the band

The rainbow at the end of Viola Lee Blues during the first of the Fare Thee Well concerts.

 

4/13/71 ~ Catholic Youth Center, Scranton PA
Scranton PA...

 

Who's with Weir, here?

 

An arm wrestling champ?

 

I don’t think it said but I forget now where I came across that one. So arm wrestling champ it is.

 

Joe Smith eh? He was funny in the documentary

 

Wall of sound and Jerry with the Wolf.

 

Is that a second grand piano on the right?

 

Lagin's set up maybe?

 

funny to see Keith there holding a gold record he doesn't play on.

That is probably Keith's Fender 88. There's something in the background that makes it look longer than it is.

 

Zooming in on Phil; he looks deranged

 

6/21/71 Herouville, France

 

1/7/79 MSG

 

I bought this photo at a show, in the parking lot, when I was in college. The front is a picture of Jerry as I knew him in that era, and the back I believe is all the prior year's shows. I highlighted the ones I went to. A lot of you I'm sure when to a lot of the listed shows. @Crispy Rob could probably highlight a bunch of these. I scanned these at 600 dpi so should be zoomable into infinity.

 

There were photos I took out of a Grateful Dead wall calendar, probably 1988 or 89 edition. They're scuffed up because I had them up with tape in my college room.

 

I used to

I used to buy those every year. Let's see, 1988. Spring tour I went to Brendan Byrne 3/31 and 4/1, Hartford 4/5 and Worcester 4/9 (was also at 4/8 but got shutout and listened to the FM broadcast in the lot outside). Summer went to Buckeye, Pittsburgh, Saratoga, Rochester and both Oxford shows. The last four of those were the highlights of those I saw up to that point. Fall went to the middle two Spectrum shows and first four MSG, 9/16 being the best of those. Then saw the new Year's run in Oakland, my first trip to California. Liked all of those shows but 12/29 was probably my favorite.

 

Ranch Rocks '86?

 

Thanks, I didn’t know where that was from. Looks like you’re right - just found this one checking for photos from that event:

 

Zero with Cipollina and Kimock...nice

 

Geez, Weir not only has to worry about whether Garcia will recover from the coma, but he messed up his arm.