Grateful Dead - 1987-06-19 - Berkeley, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1987-06-19

Greek Theatre

Berkeley, CA

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. Message From BGP

02. Touch Of Grey >

03. Little Red Rooster

04. Cold Rain And Snow

05. Mama Tried >

06. Big River

07. Brown Eyed Women

08. Desolation Row

09. When Push Comes To Shove >

10. The Music Never Stopped

2nd Set:

01. Tuning

02. Bertha >

03. Greatest Story Ever Told

04. It Must Have Been The Roses

05. Samson And Delilah

06. Terrapin Station >

07. Drums >

08. Space >

09. I Need A Miracle >

10. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >

11. Stella Blue >

12. Turn On Your Lovelight

Encore:

01. Black Muddy River

Grateful Dead - 1987-06-19 - Berkeley, 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.Who knew at the time that 1987  would be 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 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 my favorite show ever September 18, 1987 show at Madison Square Garden, a performance that was the first one selected fro the 30 Trips Around The Sun retrospective. Most of all, the euphoria and out pouring of love at each show was unlike anything before or since in the band's career.We all knew that Jerry, the band and all of us had been granted a 2nd lease on life. To celebrate Jerry being back from the near dead (pun intended), we'll bring you 3 shows from one of their favorite venue, the Geek Theatre in Berkeley. We'll start with this soundboard recording from June 19, 1987, 31 years ago today, then bring you 2 more show over the next 2 days.