Grateful Dead - 1987-08-15 - Telluride, CO (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1987-08-15

Town Park

Telluride, CO

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. Tuning

02. Feel Like A Stranger >

03. Franklin's Tower

04. New Minglewood Blues

05. Candyman

06. Me And My Uncle >

07. Big River

08. Tennessee Jed

09. Desolation Row >

10. Deal

2nd Set:

01. Scarlet Begonias >

02. Fire On The Mountain >

03. Looks Like Rain >

04. Eyes Of The World >

05. Drums >

06. Space >

07. I Need A Miracle >

08. Bertha >

09. Morning Dew >

10. One More Saturday Night

Encore:

01. Crowd & Tuning

02. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Grateful Dead - 1987-08-15 - Telluride, CO (SBD)

For the Grateful Dead, and especially Jerry Garcia, 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, first with a series of solo shows, and then with the Grateful Dead for 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 Telluride on August 15, 1987 38 years ago today. Download this one, then come back tomorrow for a 2nd show from 1987.