Sun Caught Fire

As always, thanks so much for the reporting. Looks like I may only make it to the two Town Hall shows this tour so relying even more heavily on your most excellent reporting. Much obliged!

Very cool. My bet on this one is a return nod for when Wilco on 10/30/2014 ended their three night run at the Capitol Theater in NY with a crowd sung Ripple knowing Lesh was starting a run the next night among the 30 or so shows Phil did at the Cap in 2014. Would love to hear the Misunderstood.

would love a great recording of the SPAC 83 as i was there for that killer Dew and an overall great show! Definitely in the top 5 or so Dews i saw live. MIT was the first Dead tape i ever got in the spring of 77 and still one of the best shows they ever played even though a short free outdoor gig. May 1970 is full of amazing Dead shows.

More likely some multiple nights than larger venues but time will tell. Perhaps a return to Radio City v. The Beacon. My understanding is the year is booked and was by the end of 2018 so maybe before all that pr machine well-deserved additional hype. If they go bigger venues in bigger markets it just becomes that much fun to hit the smaller markets for smaller venues.

Thanks, your review/thoughts always most welcome.

I can't make the show but sure do love to hear JG doing Catfish John!

I started seeing the Dead in '80 and I didn't see a Morning Dew until '82 - and the place went nuts. They were a rare treat during the period when I saw lots of shows ('80-'86). Love the Dew. I was lucky as my first was a massive one 4/15/78 -- the first one since Cornell '77, and did not see my 2nd until exactly 4 years later on 4/15/82. Probably saw about 25 total though as it was played often starting in '87.

Ordered mine yesterday! I did not attend any of these but one of my San Fran touring buddies says the 1987 show was his favorite JGB show and like me he saw quite a few. Of course now i have to make him a copy! Nice bonus disc with the preorder.

Unable to make the show and have a single ticket in the 4th row. Send me a message if interested in the ticket. $42.50 plus fees. Englert Theatre in Iowa City tour opener.

My recollection is the same as Wendy on the focus being the setlist. Since I just got front row tix to see Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley in NY on Saturday, April 20th, odds are very good the Jeff shows will be 4/19 and 20! But hoping for May!

I think I was lucky enough to be on rail or first 5 rows about 75-100 times out of the 209 dead shows I saw. I will have to count. An obsession but it's pleasing and I seem to be repeating that approach with Wilco!

Did the whole fall tour and that Augusta show easily the best of the tour. On the rail right in front of Jerry both nights. Ah, memories...

Heard April but may end up being sooner.

I guess it depends on the Deadheads one encounters. What you describe would have driven me crazy but in the 41+ years since the first of my 209 Grateful Dead shows I can report that I never once had a similar experience.it was always much more about the music and the live concert experience than the lyrics, though there are some really good ones of course. 30 years ago since the only time I saw them on New Year's, 12/31/88, and what a blast that was.

Not at all intended as such, very much just a joke and Mr. Tweedy has poked fun at the BBN requester more than once!

yeah, it's not like you are already well into creepy territory. No not at all....

Another slightly more obscure: Tell me a lie and I will swear, I'll swear it's true...

Listen on the internet archive to the second half of a few you saw and report back!

On Europe 90 tour Jerry's voice was solid until the Halloween show but was great in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Paris (one of those Paris shows was an official release, maybe the 30 disc one for 50th anniversary). Jerry did not sing back up on Lovelight when Weir brought it back out. The JFK show is the only one I saw where he sang and I must have seen 25 or so. Might have done it other time(s) but not that I am aware and certainly rarely at best. I also loved the 10/16 Darkstar but no doubt partial as it was my first. The Miami one is stellar.

9/20/90 was a great show and the final night of the run that year and i had been waiting for China Cat> I know you rider and when they started the second set with Truckin, i was like oh cool start but there goes my getting China Cat> I know you rider but boom they did it right after Truckin'. Saw my first China Cat> I know you rider at MSG in 1979. I beg to differ in suggesting it was the peak of the post Brent years as i dont think it was even the best post Brent show at MSG and one example would be the 1991 show with Branford. I went to 7 of the shows in Europe in October, 1990 and

This festival was announced many weeks ago but nothing else announced since then.

Thanks so much bbop, 3,000 miles away but felt like I was there, or maybe just made me wish even more that i was...