Grateful Dead - 1987-01-28 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1987-01-28

Civic Auditorium

San Francisco, CA

Soundboard Recording

256 kbps (vbr)

Artwork Included

1st Set

01. Tuning

02. Shakedown Street

03. Get Back

04. Peggy-O

05. Walkin' Blues

06. It Must Have Been The Roses

07. It's All Over Now

08. Row Jimmy

09. My Brother Esau

10. Bird Song

11. Jack Straw

2nd Set

01. Tuning

02. When Push Comes To Shove >

03. Samson And Delilah

04. Black Muddy River >

05. He's Gone >

06. Spoonful >

07. Drums >

08. Jam >

09. Eyes Of The World >

10. Black Peter >

11. Around And Around >

12. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

01. Crowd/Tuning

02. U.S. Blues

Grateful Dead - 1987-01-28 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

For the Grateful Dead, 1987 was a year in which the band rose from ashes. In the summer of 1986, Jerry Garcia fell into a diabetic coma, and for a while, it appeared he might not survive. When he did emerge from the coma, he had to re-learn how to play guitar. As the Dead song says " I need a miracle, every day" and Jerry got more than his share. By December 1986, Garcia was back where he belonged, on stage with the Grateful Dead for a series of 6 shows in Oakland, including the band's traditional New Year's Eve bash. A month later, the band kicked off its 1987 tour, 29 years ago today on January 28, at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Who knew at the time it would be the start of one of the band's greatest years. By spring of 1987, the song Touch of Grey, with its refrain of "I will get by, I will survive" echoing Garcia's recovery and rebirth, became the band's first and only top 10 hit. By the way, only the Dead could write a song in 1982, perform it countless times in concert, then wait 5 years to release it as a single! The video for Touch of Grey, which was recorded in May (more on that in another post), and featured skeleton puppets of the band playing the song, received major airplay on MTV. In July, the band released In The Dark, their first studio album in 7 years, which also climbed into the top 10. The summer featured a tour with Bob Dylan, with the band playing 2 sets of their own music, then backing Dylan on his tunes for the closing set. The fall tour featured some of the band's finest playing in years, as evidenced in my first post on this blog, the September 18, 1987 show at Madison Square Garden. The year ended with an amazing New Year's show with special guests the Neville Brothers. Stop back tomorrow and the next 2 for two more from the run that kicked off this amazing year.