Grateful Dead - 1988-12-31 - Oakland, CA (FM)

Grateful Dead
1988-12-31
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA
Oakland Coliseum Arena
FM Broadcast
320 kbps
Artwork Included

1st Set
01. radio intro
02. Let The Good Times Roll
03. Franklin's Tower
04. Wang Dang Doodle*
05. West L.A. Fadeaway* 
06. tuning
07. When I Paint My Masterpiece
08. tuning
09. Cold Rain & Snow
10. tuning
11. Cassidy >
12. Don't Ease Me In

2nd Set:
01. NYE Countdown >
02. Sugar Magnolia* >
03. Touch Of Grey* >
04. Man Smart, Woman Smarter* >
05. Terrapin Station >
06. Drums** >
07. Space >
08. The Wheel >
09. Gimme Some Lovin' >
10. All Along The Watchtower >
11. Morning Dew >
12. Sunshine Daydream

Encore:
01. tuning
02. .Wharf Rat >
03. .Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad* >
04. .One More Saturday Night*
05. .radio outro

* with Clarence Clemons
** Baba Olatunji, Sikiru Adepoju and Kitaro

Grateful Dead - 1988-12-31 - Oakland, CA (FM)

1988 - In 1987, the Grateful Dead rode a new wave of popularity, spurred by the success of the In The Dark album in 1987 and the Touch Of Gray video, which thanks to extensive airplay on MTv brought the band a whole new generation of fans. As a result, in 1988, the band did something that no artist previously had done, namely sell out 9 nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden. I went to the first 8 of those September shows, only missing the September 24 Rain Forest benefit in order to attend a good friend’s 30th birthday bash. The band was not yet playing at the level that would mark the next 3 years, but if you listened closely, you could hear it coming, The fall/wintwr 1988 shows all hint at the classics concerts that would emerge in 1989, 1990 and 1991. which we’ve discussed numerous times on this blog. This FM broadcast cpatures the Dead on their home turf in Oakland, closing out the year with some help from Clarence Clemons, on December 31, 1988, 34 years ago today.