Grateful Dead - 1987-12-30 - Oakland, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead
1987-12-30
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

1st Set:
01. Tuning
02. Hey Pocky Way
03. Big Boss Man
04. Greatest Story Ever Told
05. Friend Of The Devil
06. Mama Tried >
07. Mexicali Blues
08. Althea
09. Cassidy
10. West L.A. Fadeaway
11. Let It Grow

2nd Set:
01. Scarlet Begonias >
02. Samson And Delilah
03. Ship Of Fools >
04. He's Gone >
05. Drums >
06. Space >
07. I Need A Miracle >
08. Gimme Some Lovin' >
09. Morning Dew >
10. All Along The Watchtower

Encore:
01. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Grateful Dead - 1987-12-30 - Oakland, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead 1987 - Back To Back - #1: 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 at Madison Square Garden, a performance that was the first one selected for 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. This soundboard recording captures the band on the penultimate night of that historicc year, in Oakland on December 30, 1987, 31 years ago today.  Download this one and turn it up loud to help you ring in 2018!  Happy New Year everyone!