Grateful Dead - 1987-08-20 - Park City, UT (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1987-08-20

Park West Ski Area

Park City, UT

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. Tuning

02. The Addams Family

03. Big Boss Man >

04. Promised Land

05. Dire Wolf

06. New Minglewood Blues

07. Row Jimmy

08. It's All Over Now

09. Loser

10. Cassidy

11. When Push Comes To Shove

2nd Set:

01. Tuning

02. China Cat Sunflower >

03. I Know You Rider

04. Man Smart (Woman Smarter)

05. Ship Of Fools

06. Truckin' >

07. Smokestack Lightning >

08. Drums >

09. Space >

10. The Wheel >

11. Gimme Some Lovin' >

12. All Along The Watchtower >

13. Stella Blue >

14, Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

01. Encore Break

02. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)

Grateful Dead - 1987-08-20 - Park City, UT (SBD)

For the Grateful Dead, and Jerry Gracia, especially, 1987 was a year of re-birth. In the summer of 1986, Garcia had fallen 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 Jerry and the band during that miraculous year, in Utah on August 20, 1987, 33 years ago today.