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    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I agree. Saw a lot of New Haven and Hartford shows. Then there's the epic Dillon Stadium show, too....

    I consider myself very lucky to have lived in Hartford between 82 and 90

    They always seemed to like it there.

    The first night in April 86 had some sound troubles with Jerry's mic, but still a fun show-before the real craziness broke out.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Agree, Jerry looked absolutely terrible in '94 and '95.  There were nights we thought he was just going to die on stage.  (Albany, Spring '95).   He was huge, and spent 99% of the shows hunched over his guitar, no eye contact with the band, not interactive at all.  50/50 he would get the vocals correct even with a teleprompter.  There were a couple of gem shows in there, but the % of great GD shows was way down in those years. The last great run of shows I saw was Boston '91.  Saw all the Boston and Albany shows in 93, '94 and spring '95, there were some good ones, but it was obvious to me that Jerry was in very poor shape and it was effecting the performances.

    I stopped going in 93. Too painful to watch and the whole thing seemed forced.

    McCartney

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Opened his tour in Brazil

     

    WOW

     

    Eight Days A Week
    Juniors Farm
    All My Loving
    Listen To What The Man Said
    Let Me Roll It
    Paperback Writer
    My Valentine
    Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five (1985)
    The Long And Winding Road
    Maybe I'm Amazed
    Hope Of Deliverance
    We Can Work It Out
    Another Day
    And I Love Her
    Blackbird
    Here Today
    Your Mother Should Know
    Lady Madonna
    All Together Now
    Mrs. Vanderbilt
    Eleanor Rigby
    Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
    Something
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Life Goes On)
    Band On The Run
    Hi Hi Hi
    Back In The USSR
    Let It Be
    Live And Let Die
    Hey Jude

    Encore:
    Day Tripper
    Lovely Rita
    Get Back

    Yesterday
    Helter Skelter
    Golden Slumbers
    Carry That Weight
    The End

    The Pearl Jam Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    We are excited to announce two special Pearl Jam live performances to take place in London, Ontario and at Chicago’s Wrigley Field in July 2013. Both evenings will be An Evening with Pearl Jam; there will not be an opening band for either performance date.

    The two show dates are:
    Tues, July 16 - London, Ontario Budweiser Gardens
    Fri, July 19 - Chicago, Illinois at Wrigley Field

    *Fall Tour dates in the US will be announced in the coming months.

    Public Sale tickets:
    Chicago IL – Sat, Feb 9th 10am local time at http://www.tickets.com
    London, ON – Sat, Feb 9th 10am local time at http://www.budweisergardens.com/events, by phone at 1.866.455.2849, or in person at the Box Office or Ticket Outlets.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Man, Garcia's voice wasn't ever much of a factor for me. If they were playing well and he wasn't muffing up lyrics, I was happy. There is soooo much good stuff from the 80s. I always think of the band in stages, anyway. I love the diversity of the different stages, too, I think ignoring 80s (or any era) short-changes the evolution of the band, in a sense. What attracted me to them from the get-go was that they weren't stagnant or stuck in a mode or era but willing and able to try new shit, pass or fail.

     

    Agreed and well said, except that I was not a big fan of the last and final stage. It started to feel contrived.

     

    The amazing part of garica as a musician was the repertoire. That dude could play and sing 100 songs at the drop of a hat without a crib note.

     

    I am a child of the Brent/Tiger era. While I love some of the older stuff, the bulk of my shows were 82-93. I even loved the summer stadium tours. So much fun.

     

    That being said, some of the 90s were good. I had a fabulous time in boston in 1991 when they returned to the garden after a long hiatus. The band and the crowd just brought it. A few other good ones in there as well. MSG run in 93 is when I jumped off.

     

    No doubt the magic was still happening in the 80s and early 90s. You cant really compare it to the 70s stuff-totally different band once brent joined IMHO, and again once he left.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Lame. You have no idea.....

    Why lame? All I meant was that I spent a few years following them around when JG was a shell of his former self. Still had lots of fun, but musically, I am no fan of the rosebud era. I was a lot less interested once Brent died. C'est la vie.

    Wilco — 8/1/12, Hartford, CT (Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell)

    in After The Show

    Posted

    RE: stage-crashing - There were also a bunch of empty seats in the first few rows right up until Wilco started.. So some folks took advantage of that, and then in the 2nd or 3rd song, some dudes showed up, beers in hand, claiming their seats. I remember my first show at Town Hall, 1999 (or was it the 2001 shows?), when some people took their front-row seats well into the set, like 4-5 songs in, and without missing a beat, Jeff included "You're late" in whatever lyric he was singing at that moment. Haha.

     

    It was nice to see the audience standing up and rocking out, it seemed to make for a good vibe. At my previous theater shows, this did not happen. Jeff implored the crowd at Radio City that "You might want to stand up for the next few songs" when they busted into Theologians. Maybe it was a younger crowd than usual last night, who knows.

     

    Too Far Apart was nice, my first time on this tour and 2nd only time ever I think. No other big surprises for me. I rate this show #4 of the 4 I went to, behind Cooperstown, Brooklyn #2, and Brooklyn #1.

     

    The vibe was strong and the crowd clearly into it. I think Jeff was surprised how hype the crowd was.

    Maybe the canary shirt shot was to the guys that showed up late. Ha.

    Wilco — 8/1/12, Hartford, CT (Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell)

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I loved this show. Great venue, great crowd, great sound and of course a great band! Yeah it did get kind of rowdy down front, at first security was letting people just walk up to the front, then they got wise.

     

    Of course the bushnell holds a special place in my heart as I have seen many great shows there going back to the mid 80s, so I am a bit biased. I liked T5 setlist better, but I really loved the reserved seat spectacular sound no hassle free parking tailgate in the rain experience of the bushnell.

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