Jerry Garcia Leave's LSD's Heights for Ocean Depths, JGB in Hawaii, May 1990

Jerry Garcia may have spent one of the happy weeks in the last five years of his life when he took a working vacation to Hawaii in May 1990.  He book-ended his scuba vacation  on the Big Island with a May 12 show at the Waikiki Shell a few hundreds yards from Dick Latvala's job at the Honolulu Zoo http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/02/dick-latvala.html  Shout out to Dick. And then a May 20 benefit in Hilo on the eastside of the Big Island where Jerry loved to scuba dive.  All those tunes are here     Apparently coming very soon is a Garcia Live volume 10 of the Hilo show. Buy it, its a bargain  for a very special very long Jerry show.  Give Jerry's kids a few dollars for the love he gives you.

May 12

 May 20

Walk a few hundred years at most to Dick Latvala's day-job at the Honolulu Zoo

https://archive.org/post/191215/garcia-band-in-hawaii-earth-day-1990

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9ql9avlfhkhkyr5/AABohtugDRr4klxREsUcJKf2a?dl=0

Nancy, Me and a Shark Hanging Out

Nancy taking me Diving in Moorea in 2009 so I can copy Jerry

Hey Now, Dead Jam with Nevilles and Bangles in NOLA, October 18, 1988

After Busted Down in New Orleans in 1970, and the surprising acoustic show run at Sanger in 1980, the Grateful Dead finally must have known how it feels to miss New Orleans and placed a guest-starred studded strong show for 1988 on October 18 at the Lakefront Arena.

Bangles and indoor-shorts Bobby

From those who were there, the reviews are that this show is one of the most underr rated shows of the year (1988, still). I'm posted the Taping Compendium thoughts by John Cadwell.

Another cool note about this night is that Staff Writer @Daynaharpster, writes an excellent review of the show and even, gets all the song titles correct. Dayna, we salute you for an excellent article on the show, as well as the others you wrote leading up to the night.  I have a sneaking suspicion you are a fan.    Whole show matrix here

By 1988, the Dead were selling out virtually every show in the Deep South, from Florida to Texas, unlike the shows a decade earlier with thousands of empty seats.  The Iko encore was the fifth and last time that the Dead played Iko in the encore slot among the 185 times the tune was played. Even a Kevin Tobin video clip (see below).

Iko is a great version with some extra NOLA oomph to it and it's followed immediately by a great version of Knockin on Heaven's Door as the Bangles back up singing is spot-on and in-tune. Good for Bobby if that  rumor is true.  

The Dead soldout UNO Lakefront with 10,097 tickets at a price of $17.50 almost $160,000.

The same night at the Superdome George Michael and the Bangles sold 24,000 tickets at $21 for $450,555.  All this on a Tuesday in NOLA (and not Fat Tuesday at that).

A band I played in once played a benefit in LA with one of the Bangles (Susanna, i think the one who's mom is a film director) but I digress.

Mississippi Shout Out, Photo taken by me in New Orleans April 2015

LSD Millionaire: 50 Years Since The Dead Took the Northwest By Storm, January 1968

There are going to be some amazing 50th anniversaries coming up in 2018, as the 1968 version of the Grateful Dead start rocking into town.  Owsley gets busted along with some very close friends (why is drug free Pigpen sitting with him on the time-out bench?).  I have found new evidence below that Hunter was starting to think of Ramble On Rose too.

January 15, 1968 Des Moines Register  LSD Millionaire is spreading across the nation

Despite this setback, in a few weeks, the Dead would run up north to Euerka, Portland, Seattle, Eugene and Ashland, some places twice, and some fates unknown. You can read some of the Dead scholars takes below, make sure to read the comments too.  There is a little bonus in the links today too.

We don't even know the exact setlists of the Seattle show which may have been January 23 as Road Trips says or January 26-27.  Don't worry the Dead would be back in Seattle in a just a few months.
I asked Corry, but the dates for the Seattle show I believe are incorrect. JGMF says so too.
This may be the only time in official releases the Dead don't even know what day it is.  I have little in the way of reviews but lots of local color.

50 Years Since The Dead Took the Northwest By Storm

For real info from these dates:
http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/05/gd-at-eagles-auditorium-seattle-wa.html

More late 1960's Seattle Dead
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/search/label/Seattle

http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-1968-redates.html

January 19, 1968 Eureka, CA

January 23, 1968 Seattle

January 25, 1968 Eureka, CA

January 26, 1968 Seattle, Did You Say Your Name Was.....

From deadlists
Band Grateful Dead
Venue Eagles Auditorium
Location Seattle, WA
Date 1/26/68 - Friday posters tickets, passes & laminates
Comments Joe Jupille researched the University of Washington Daily and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspapers and only found an ad for QMS and the Dead on 1/26 and 1/27 in the Friday 1/26/68 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (the weekend entertainment insert, p. 6). He turned up no mention of other Quick and the Dead shows at Eagles Auditorium. Paul Gibian also researched the 1968 Eagles Auditorium shows and came across an announcement in the Friday 1/26/68 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It's contained in the arts section column titled "Off Beat" and reads: "Quick and the Dead - the Grateful Dead and the Quick Silver Messenger Service with Head Lights Co from San Francisco will be playing the Eagles' Auditorium, 7th and Union Street, tonight and tomorrow, 8 p.m.-midnight, with an exciting road show they are calling Quick and the Dead. No age restrictions. A Boyd Grafmyre Productions presentation. Tickets: $4, at Warehouse of Music, Discount Records, Campus Music and in Bellevue at Bell, Book and Candle." DeadBase XI lists: New Potato Caboose > Born Cross-Eyed, Caution (Do Not Stop on tracks)
Recordings None in circulation as of 2/02.
Download Sources
Contributors David Sorochty , "The Art Of Rock" book p249, p287 (two different posters), Adrian M. Johnson , Paul Gibian , Joe Jupille, DeadBase XI, Brian Pollard
Caretaker

January 27, 1968 Seattle

January 27, 1968 Eureka Again !!  keep Those Arrests Coming

January 30, 1968  Portland Oregon

Keep Your Trey Job: Trey Meets Jerry at Dick's Pick 6: Hartford, October 14, 1983: City Welcomes Shakedown Vending

Hartford in 1983 was a city where Trey first saw the Dead, the show was given Dick's Picks 6 status, the City welcomed with open arms a vending Shakedown Street experience and the local ticket brokers offered to find you Dead tickets from anywhere in the USA. 

What a City. What a Country. What a World in 1983 up in Hartford, CT

This is the first Dick's Picks of the 1980's with the Core Four Block of Scarlet Fire Estimated Eyes right up there in your spine. Thanks Phil.

It wasn't just Trey first show but Mike says it's his favorite ever.   So interesting to me since there isn't all that much from 1983 I would consider at the top of my Dead concert lists, although I loved seeing Greek and Marin County shows that year.

Mind Wondrin  says this show has the best Day Job of 1983. I have never heard these ranked before.

From nugs.net As always, this is from the original, raw two-track tape, straight off the soundboard. In this case, the resident technical wizards had to work overtime, because for the first time they were working with a cassette tape rather than the customary reel to reel master. But, being wizards, they've beautifully captured the ragged-but-right essence of things and dragged it kicking and screaming into the digital domain. Among the highlights here are stellar performances of "Althea," "Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain," "Eyes Of The World," "Sugar Magnolia" and plenty more, including the first-ever recorded release of the long-lost Hunter/Garcia gem "Day Job," and the sinuous, exotic-sounding "Spinach Jam".