I did see a lot of debuts and returns……. “Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues” - 3/27/85 - my 2nd show. Phil’s return to lead vocal. “Visions of Johanna” - 3/19/86 “Box of Rain” return - 3/20/86 “Roadrunner” - 3/21/86 and only other version 3/31/86 “Willie & The Hand Jive” non-Neville Bros - 3/23/86 “Desolation Row” - 3/25/86 “Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues” - 3/27/86 “When I Paint My Masterpiece” - 6/13/87 “All Along The Watchtower” - 6/20/87 “Knockin On Heaven’s Door” - 7/6/87 “Queen Jane Approximately” - 9/8/87 “Hey Pockey Way” - 9/9/87 “Detroit Medley” - 9/9/87 “Fever” - 9/13/87 “Maggie’s Farm” - 9/19/87 “Stir It Up” - 3/26/88 “Ballad of a Thin Man” - 3/27/88 and only other version 4/1/88 “Louie Louie” - 4/5/88 “California Earthquake” - 10/20/89 “Hey Jude” return 3/22/90 “The Weight” - 3/28/90 “Casey Jones” return - 6/20/92 “Easy Answers” - 6/5/93 “Tubular Bells” - 9/13/93 “It’s All Too Much” - 3/18/95 “Unbroken Chain” - 3/19/95 “Rollin’ and Fumblin’” - 6/15/95 and only other 6/25/95 Dylan listings post 86 are debut Grateful Dead versions……though some started as Dylan & The Dead (saw the 3 east coast ones)
Debuts and Resurrections: Bob Star aka. Little Star - 15 April 1983- Rochester St. Stephen - 11 October 1983- MSG (Resurrection- I saw the previous performance at Nassau 10 Jan 1979)) Revolution - 12 October 1983 - MSG (Saw the first 3 performances: MSG, 17 October- Lake Placid, and 22 October- The Carrier Dome in Syracuse) Only A Fool - 23 April 1984- New Haven Coliseum (only performance) The Frozen Logger - 7 September 1985- Red Rocks (Resurrection) Hey Jude Reprise - 7 September 1985- Red Rocks Let The Good Times Roll - 30 April 1988 - The Frost I'm A Man - 10 December 1989 - LA Forum (Spencer Davis on lead vocals and guitar) Rain - 2 December 1992 - McNichols Arena {Big Mac}, Denver Barney The Purple Dinosaur - 1 April 1993 - Nassau I Want To Tell You - 1 July 1994 - Shoreline
I remember Garcia pumping his fist when he walked out the first night...a moment of optimism, and a good show...
Sometimes when Vince comes in on backing vocals I think its one of my kids crying upstairs and turn it down for a few seconds to check.
The only bustout I saw was Smokestack Lightning on 10/9/84 at the Centrum (in walking distance from my fraternity - they did do a Smokestack jam prior to this, but I saw the bustout vocal version, albeit a very short version). Midnight Hour on 6/27/85 was perceived as a bustout by me, but it wasn't. I did like it, for what that's worth.
Finally getting around to spinning the RSD vinyl of Boston Garden 5/7/77 for the first time. Fantastic “Deal” and “Jack Straw” in that first set!
"Only the second East Coast Midnight Hour since Pigpen, man" Yeah, the 'historical' or statistical status of many of these doesn't necessarily correspond to the experience. A few on my list I didn't perceive significance of at all, at the time, or were just not great. Several not on my list were effectively bustouts for me and my friends. In pre-internet times you had to be a little obsessive to even know for sure, sometimes. Once or twice we heard rumors of bustouts that hadn't actually happened.
6 June 1970- Fillmore West This run at the FW gets better as it goes along, as in the music goes deeper.
I'd trade my whole list to have been with @Zafu and Uncle Albert in Boston for the first stacked Wall of Sound shows in late '73. I don't remember seeing either you or @bzfgt at the Barney show.
These Jan '79 MSG shows are so good. Man oh man I wish there were SBD, but the aud tapes are very nice with a little EQ.
