Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on 1985-12-30 (December 30, 1985)
This show is available in streaming format
Collection:
GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful
Dead
Date: December 30,
1985 (check
for other copies)
Venue: Oakland-Alameda
County Coliseum
Location: Oakland,
CA
Source: SBDmc>
DAT> CD> EAC
Keywords: Live
concert
Description
Gimme Some Lovin'-> Greatest Story Ever Told, West L.A. Fadeaway, My Brother Esau, Stagger Lee, Little Red Rooster, Tennessee Jed-> Looks Like Rain-> Don't Ease Me In The Mighty Quinn-> Samson & Delilah-> He's Gone-> I Need A Miracle-> Crazy Fingers-> Jam-> Drums-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Sugar Magnolia, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue
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Reviewer: psiliguse
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- December 12, 2005
Subject: First 72 hours in California
Pulled into town after driving up from LA
with my brother after flying in from Boston. Parked the car, ate some paper with
a beer in some workingman's bar, called home to learn our older brother had just
gotten engaged, called the mother of a friend's friend who picked us up in her
big blue bomber, brought us to Hamburger Mary's (didn't eat much, but shuuure
pretty to look around!)and then a driving tour of the city including a walk up
some hill (not twin peaks and not Tank hill - never found it again even though I
moved to SF the next spring) and then a trip to the ocean as night came on (I
stripped down and danced in the waves much to their amusement) forgot my boots
at the beach, went back and found my boots at the beach, camped in the redwoods
north of the city, slept late, found a little hotel in the Lombard area, hung
out, drove to show in Oakland, scored some paper, ate it, went to the show,
decided to close eyes for entire second set, succeeded (nothing happened - don't
ever miss half of a sound and light extravagnza - my bother saw the heads of
people across the staduim turn into yellow and red balloons and float to the
ceiling) started to drive home, almost drove wrong way onto freeway - with every
other car following me - did a quick dipsy doo and swung through the mess onto
the correct ramp, exited freeway and got lost, asked some cops for directions to
SF, said "all right, thanks again" before they finished telling me and then, so
my brother tells me, drove in the exact opposite direction they told me to,
crossed the 20 mile long undulating Bay Bridge, parked AS SOON AS hit the
streets - wrong way, got ticket, walked to motel, went for walk, got lost, got
propositioned by a tranny,started to crash, friend's friend's mom to the rescue,
took a shower, brother found car, brother found me, drove back to East Coast,
told mother "I'm moving to San Francisio, " and did four months later!
Reviewer: mustabeenthedoses
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- July 26, 2005
Subject: Great Show
The
1st set is good but the 2nd set is where it get's special. The entire 2nd set is
special, especially the Crazy Fingers, this version has been my favorite version
since I first got the tape in 1985. The Sugar Maggs and SSDD are rockin! This is
a must have for you collection
Reviewer: jpinpa -
- March 24, 2005
Subject: Crazy Fingers
First set decent--second set a must have.
Best Crazy Fingers I've ever seen or heard. Solo in the middle is perfect,
totally spacey. Jam at the end keeps on going and going; Jerry just doesn't want
to put down his guitar. Also tightest sounding Quinn you'll ever hear. They
never nailed it quite like this again. He's Gone Xcellent as well.
Reviewer: mhanna6 -
- November 19, 2004
Subject: first Cali show
awesome show........my first Cali show
.first Quinn ever.very hot
Reviewer: Chester
Burnett -
- October 6, 2004
Subject: Decent Show
The
highlights of this show are Quinn and He's Gone. Although this is a SBD I don't
find the sound to be particularly great, at least compared to several of the
other shows that I've downladed from this site. IMHO the first set sounds
relatively uninspired. Just download He's gone and Quinn.
Reviewer: dcain -
- May 31, 2004
Subject: Crazy
Fingers and...
Great
performances in the mid-to-late 80's were few and far between, relative to the
previous decade. But this is one of the great ones. The second set is a fine
place to begin. Garcia is right on top of every note in Mighty Quinn, bright and
melodic. The clarity continues with He's Gone, which is wonderfully low-key and
thoughtful. Miracle is kind of a rude interruption of the mood, but they are
back to a more introspective quality with Crazy Fingers.
During this
version, Garcia invents a four note motif that is truly moving, one of the
handful of classical, Ode-To-Joy type themes he created during the course of his
career (e.g. 1-22-78 inside St. S). He was capable of such tender and passionate
playing. This leads to a sprightly drums, which starts loosely Egyptian.
Magnolia is terrific, a real rocker, with Garcia knowing precisely where
he is going start to finish. He begins uniquely with a nice chord brush instead
of notes. Sunshine Daydream comes around quickly, with some great power chords.
Weir's vocals get the echo device, which really gets the crowd going. The encore
is a soft yet impassioned Baby Blue, with another lucid solo from Garcia. Very
sharp and clear sound. It's hard to find sustained great playing in this era, so
this is a real treasure.
Reviewer: svenkid -
- May 20, 2004
Subject: Rythm
Devils!!!
This 12/30 show
was a personal highlight of my old XL2 collection. The quality of the archive
version is super crisp and very well balanced. In particular, the crazy
fingers>jam>drums is great as well as a very stretched out he's gone
Reviewer: azzie -
- April 28, 2004
Subject: more than solid
great show. the very first and likely the
very best "quinn the eskimo".great 2nd set full of well played standards. wharf
rat
always was a favorite of mine. brent's vocals were so crucial
for
certain songs. better than the following night's new years eve
show
(IMHO)
Notes
SBDmc> DAT> CD> EAC; ripped & seeded by Nick
Georges; d2 tracked for 80 min (see additional tracking notes in pub comments);
final update 8/23- because a couple of online setlist dbs show incorrect setlist
order for set 1, d1 was thought to be misarranged. However, Nick's first seeding
of the show was correct:
My Brother Esau> Stagger Lee>.
-tuning- > Little Red Rooster