Living in Ellicott City made this a "Home Town" show . We always went to these , Hampton , Spectrum , wash DC...and many places beyond......please take me back to this time......I will behave , I promise .
Priceless! I was 21 at this show. I'm 56 now. I remember this like it was yesterday. They were on that night. This is so cool someone got this video. Jerry's voice is so strong. This is epic!
This was my first Dead show, out of 100+ throughout the 80s, including an epic summer tour in '87 selling tie-dyes out of a VW microbus to pay for gas! Anyways, I was 19 or so, a friend had given me a 70s tape with Dark Star & Other One on it the year before, so I spent the first set thinking: Is this a Country music band!! :-) But Loser & Looks Like Rain have been a favorites ever since. 2nd set, everybody's dancing like crazy, and I'm standing in the middle like a statue, mesmerized. Then this really, really cute hippy girl shoves me from behind…I look back, she smiles at me with a look that says, 'Come on, Man!' And a switch flipped in my head…I LET GO and have danced like a marionette to GD ever since! Thanks, cute hippie chick…I love you to this day! (And wish I wasn't too shy or stoned to talk to you then.)
We were (are ) so gosh darn lucky to be deadheads. To listen, go travel and see the shows,and now listen and watch on RUclips. Thanks always for posting. Will seek out more ‘83
I remember people mudsliding down the hill like Woodstock in the field ! Great show ,great venue ! Some of the best times of my life! Thank you for the post !
One of my first on a long strange trip of shows! Loved every minute of them all, such great memories ❤️ It's hard to believe it's been 40 yrs upon my head and still rockin like a child
This was second of two shows. It poured rain first show. I was on the hill in the mud, blood and beer. I can remember putting my arm down and a gallon of water ran out my sleeve. This night I was in the seats. A fun pair of shows. The Dead were on a pretty good roll, playing some new stuff (Touch of Gray, Throwing Stones), Jerry in good form. Thanks for the video.
David Oliver was these shows when they played that long ass He’s Gone that imho was the best ever played? And a shakedown of historic proportions?💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀
David Oliver I was there too! We were in the hill and shared tickets to get to seats. Man, that rain! Feels like rain, looks like rain! Oh here come the rain!
I was there for 2 and 3 ! Great shows some of my favorite , I’m lying they were all my favorite !!!! The spectrom, jfk, city island , Hampton row the 80’s dead were rockin!
Poolesvile represented 4th row orchestra pit. EPIC. All shows at MPP were awesome, This was my 1st sons 1st birthday, although presents for Mom and Dad that night, thx Son!!!
Thanks so much for posting. We used to whine about how bad Jerry sounded in 83, but his vocals weren't bad. Second show was easier to take, given the prior nights deluge. The next night, at City Island in Harrisburg, also was good. I caught a lot of shows that year and I'm glad to say they were pretty tight. One of most gratifying decisions was spending as much time as I could touring with The Dead in '83. New Years, Tempe, Vegas, LA, Davis (hardly anybody went and you could get "this close" to Garcia from the floor), this show, City Island (weird setting), and others. Very Good Times.
+phil bucket ,I was at City Island!! Loved it,I remember walkin crossed a bridge,then coming into a Clearing in the woods,to what appeared to be like a baseball field,carnival type atmosphere{Typical Dead}!!!lol,and sitting on a hill looking down,GREAT SHOW!!!
City Island '83 was my first show. That's when I got on the bus. I remember walking across the bridge after buying a $10 ticket at the gate. They were already into CC Rider by the time I walked in.
I was looking for 10 good reasons why TGD were the best band I'm ever likely to hear and in the first hour of this show there must be a hundred! Saw them a couple of times in UK, Bickershaw and the Alexandra Palace. Great memories. Thank you Voodoonola, wherever and whoever you may be, for all the wonderful music you have made available and thanks to all the band and crew and fans that made it all happen, we salute you.
If anyone doubts Bob and Jerry had a special relationship, just watch whan Bob pulls out the mike in Good Lovin.. Jerry has a total look of love witnessing that.
a great four day run sandwiched by Saratoga and City Island. My favorite memory of this day was when an army helicopter came to hover over the lawn to dry it out from the previous nights biblical rains. the helicopter landed in our parking lot. as the pilot was getting out to go check in at the venue, a deadhead asked if he could put a sticker on the helicopter. the pilot gave an very strong no. And threatened arrest to anyone who did it. But then he left to walk to the venue. when he came back there were probably 200 stickers on the helicopter. He was so pissed but I think he realized what a bad idea it was....great shows. great times!
56, 1st Show In 81, Remember This & Way Was Back When !!!! Maannn If Could Blink & Be Back, I Do It In A Second, Kat"s Right, That 4 Day Run, City Island !!! Stay Strong....Peace
So very thankful to have seen the brent years, by far my favorite with 85 being my #1 yr to listen to. Definitely would take that year if i could only have 1.Man Jerry really looks affected this night. i remember someone whose 1st shows were in 83 saying that he was super worried about the fat man that year.
@voodoonola You are the man! I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this. This show was my 4th dead show and it is amazing to hear and see the boys during one of their killer tours. The insane rains the night before with Phil ripping base lines in time with the thunder... lightning bolts dropping behind the band, the entire footbridge under water (yes I walked across the stream locked arm in arm with about a dozen other nuts)
@@cjnav7832 I totally remember the mud sliding otter hippie people! I took a train from New York City to DC and hitchhiked out to the Meriwether, then hitchhike to the Greyhound bus station to go home. I spent about a half an hour as the parking lot was clearing yelling to people passing by “who’s going north, who is going north?“. Nobody was stopping for me. Finally some heads said “where are you going?“ I said DC. They said “that’s south!“ So I quickly started yelling who is going south! I got picked up immediately by two Japanese that has straight from Japan in a rented Mitsubishi. The Mitsubishi had a really good sound system and I had the cassette of the show. I didn’t patching that night but got a pretty fair tape with my Sony Walkman microphone taped to a car antenna. I handed the tape up to the front seat without telling them it was the show we just saw. They were so excited when they realized what they were listening to. They took me all the way to the Greyhound bus station where the bus to New York was just about to leave and they parked behind the bus keeping it from backing up, while I ran inside and got a ticket. After about 30 minutes on the bus I got up went into the bathroom, pried open the tiny plexiglass window and put a wide of toilet paper in there to keep it open a crack. I started to smoke a joint. Suddenly the bus starts slowing down and completely stops. I knew we were past all the tolls and that something was going on. I clipped my Doobie, and open the bathroom door to walk back to my seat. The light from the bathroom was the only light on the bus and flooded me. The whole bus turn back to look over the shoulder at me as the bus driver was coming back to me. He asked me to come with him as he exited the bus and stood yelling at me on the side of 95, At like one in the morning. He was yelling “you were getting high on my bus! You were smoking marijuana on my bus?! You’re so high right now you don’t even know where you are!“ All I could think of was A Maryland state trooper happening by and wondering why a greyhound would be stopped on the side of the interstate. I just looked at him silently, probably looking pretty pathetic. He shook his head and said get back on the bus and don’t cause any trouble. The rest of the trip was uneventful. Do I have to mention that I was tripping balls?
83 was the tipping point for Jerry in terms of his health and his voice. 1982 he pretty much still had for the most part his original timber in his voice but by 83 you could hear the what was to come for 84-85. But this is still kind of the pure unadulterated Dead before they got huge. Phil still pudgy during his Heineken days.
What a great set list man and Voodoonola thanks brother for the memories and the awesome audio quality of MOST of your vids keep it alive brother much love
great video. i was there for what must have been the night before. there was rain, lots and lots of rain. mud, water, rain. lightning caused two power outages during set two- Truckin' and maybe also Space. ruined a friend's dad's blue shirt. good times!
This doesn't seem like same concert from video given my view from lawn. It It It poured. The lightening was spectacular. Really thought people where going to die and amazed the stage electronics weren't impacted. It rain so hard, and I recall looking down at my feet. They looked like boats traveling uphill against a river of water. There were wakes from them because the water was gushing so fast. We laughed and froze. Going back to car, the park ranges had to divert traffic as entrances were washed out or blocked. I remember seeing 4 motorcycles parked near the creek, and all you could see was the mirrors sticking out above the water. We made it to the car and stripped off our wet clothes and marveled.
The first set song selection here is as good as it gets. When I was a teenager in the late 80s, I had a whole bunch of Merriweather shows on tape. What I heard on these tapes was better than average. Obviously whoever was running the place knew how to treat people. For those of you who made it to any shows at this venue, you lucked out, I'm a little jealous. These shows were a few years before my time, but at least we had Knick, Alpine and of course Buffalo. You make me very happy V. thank you!
What a nice show, thanks so much for sharing and thanks to all the folks who helped put this togther. The person who filmed this did an amazing job, I just love how innovative Phil was all throughout here and the camera man seemed to focus in just at the perfect moments. One of the nicest Terrapins I've ever heard.....a rare and different tune indeed.
Thanks for posting, I was only about 10 rows behind, taping the show. Haven't even listened to this show in years, was a let down compared to the night before and even SPAC, but this should great, Phil is on even. A good friend was front row and was her best GD experience. Thanks again
This is awesome, what energy!! They are all playing their hearts out, and enjoying it!! These were the days, so I have been told. Would do anything to go back in time. With these videos it makes it somewhat possible, Thank you so much for posting these.
Attended this show. Drove down from NJ with my bud, the late Alan Fraipoint, with a case of beer in his TR7. Caught up with Mark Birnbaum, enjoyed the show - a great one - and then drove back to NJ afterwards. All in less than 16 hours. Oh yeah, the case of beer didn't make it back. Those were the days of raising hell . . . .
I was there ! Thanks so much. Funny story before the show Phils limo was driving through the gathering area with the window rolled down and someone said “Hey Phil want a watercress and humus sandwich?” And he burst out laughing. We were all cracking up and the tour shemp couldn’t figure out what was so funny.
I made a lot of Merriweathers in the 80's. They all were awesome. My bday is at the end of June, so I appreciated Jehovah's favorite choir doing a show just for me.
I love that "Throwing Stones" was so new that we were kinda calling it different things then. I mean, it hadn't been released, so some of us were calling it Ashes to Ashes, or All Fall Down, or whatever, and it was like the fans finally decided it was called "Throwing Stones", and the band just went along with it. At least that's the way I remember it.
tanks voodoonola!!! and the wook with his feet in watermelons and tent poles for cross country skiing thru the swollen creeks. not on the vid but i sure do remember him!! a truly grate sight!!
Mine, too! My buddy worked at the convenience store. He couldn't make it. I got his tickets to Harrisburg too. My 1st 'miracle' give away at City Island
I remember this Merriweather post series of shows.. one night they did a “he’s gone”, probably the best ever done.. and I believe I remember the Same show was a shakedown for the history books💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀
I was in a sour mood because my car was "totaled" at the show in a flash flood the night before. At this show the mud was like World War 1, they threw some straw out on the hill where the lawn would have been, but we got caked in mud. And my dipsh!t friend was late picking me up so we missed Dire Wolf.
What a show! Who borrowed the time machine? Its my turn, thats where/when im headed! I moved to Columbia the year before this. I was only 8 n my mom is NOT a head so I wasn't even introduced until '95, and never saw "the fat man sing" live. Thanx for sharing such a great show!!!
I said the same in a reply today cause I'm a 1976 model but I was so fortunate to be turned on in '90 by older heads but wasn't able to convince my mom, definitely not Heady either, that it was time for me to see Jerry when they'd get close to us kids. '93 Chapel Hill and 19 more up to Pittsburgh, PA '95 where I was inspired,but just didn't know it yet, 4 rain song 2nd set would lead me to give my first daughter Rain as her middle name. 🎶strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand. Everybody's playing in the heart of Gold band🎶 Listen friend I think it's so Grateful that without ever catching a show you remains a Head brother. Something magical about the marriage of lyrics, musicianship, and the vibrations that were created because of. I'm still drunk off being able to type in a show I listened and traded on analog and POOF they're live on my phone. ⚡Love and Light brother⚡
That was pretty unusual to have Terrapin in the middle of the set. It was firmly established as the song before Drums by 1983, with an occasional throwback segue to Playing in the Band.
Can anyone out there do b and p cdr's? I have bout 2000 hrs of GD on tape but it seems cdr's are digitally cleaned up a bit?? lol Idk,im a kinda tech moron!! Yes 1983 GD!! my first show at the Philly Spectrum
yes lets get it posted on youtube. I want to know if my memory of Bobby leaping and ringing a chord at the exact moment of a huge lighting strike actually occurred. Until that night, I loved the dead as a cool band yet after that lighting concert my perception expanded and some fear was added. I saw a beast revealed as a bone crunching hydra headed monster!!! Slayer of small mind comforts...
@@ericwj7 look for Dean Grabski's audience recording from the lawn in the rain. It's a terrific sounding documentation of the evening. We were standing right near him. I got a copy early on. It's on Internet Archives site. The one time you really need an audience tape. You actually know when the lightning is intense by the crowd reaction. The band fed off it, too. It's still unbelievable the band played through all that. It could never happen in today's world, exposing a crowd to such "dangerous conditions". Imagine the lawsuit potential.
Me + my niece were invited to go b with them in SanFrancisco or Marin county for a week but I met a girl at the Lewiston Maine outdoor show so she gave me her phone number + address ! We stayed for 2 more weeks which made them very happy ! Jerry took me under his arms to meet his family mountain girl plus 2 daughters that was his but still little then ! He made sure the whole dead family knew who I was ! My love for him has never wavered ! I fell inlove the 1 st time we met plus the same happened to him ! I still love him on this date of November 8/2024 ! That’s real love + I thought I knew all about it , but didn’t ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹☠️💀⚡️🎸😘🥰😍🥲😢😥😰🥵I still cry over him but more have died by now ! Phil going was a shock to me but he was 84 years old but being an old hippie I have no idea about age ! I’m 75 now but I don’t feel that old but I’m Swedish a blockhead being that has 13 concussions , 5 car accidents , been beaten up by my drunk husband who I ended in divorce plus many other weird things ! Being an Aries I guess I’m supposed to go through this being the 1 st born of the zodiac !
This doesn't seem like same concert from video given my view from lawn. Somebody said night before 6.20. It poured. The lightening was spectacular. Really thought people where going to die and amazed the stage electronics weren't impacted. It rain so hard, and I recall looking down at my feet. They looked like boats traveling uphill against a river of water. There were wakes from them because the water was gushing so fast. We laughed and froze. Going back to car, the park ranges had to divert traffic as entrances were washed out or blocked. I remember seeing 4 motorcycles parked near the creek, and all you could see was the mirrors sticking out above the water. We made it to the car and stripped off our wet clothes and marveled.
I was only 10 at the time and lived just 40min away in Rockville MD, but my older brother hadn't discovered the Dead yet or he'd have done the right thing and dragged me along to this awesome venue... since renamed Nissan pavilion, or "No-Fun" pavilion... those was da days as evidenced by the tapes
ToGetToTerrapin Its called the Nissan Pavillion? I was just there a few days ago for the Dear Jerry show and it is still called Merriweather Post - logos are all over the place. Did they change the name back or something?
No- Merriweather is still Merriweather. Nissan Pavillion is in Bristow, VA - which, like Merriweather, is in the suburbs of DC, only on the Virginia side. Nissan is truly an awful place to see a show. Merriweather is still nice.
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Living in Ellicott City made this a "Home Town" show . We always went to these , Hampton , Spectrum , wash DC...and many places beyond......please take me back to this time......I will behave , I promise .
Priceless! I was 21 at this show. I'm 56 now. I remember this like it was yesterday. They were on that night. This is so cool someone got this video. Jerry's voice is so strong. This is epic!
same. probably kicked a hackey sack with you at this show.
Was at merriweather 84 and 85. They definitely liked playing there.
This was my first Dead show, out of 100+ throughout the 80s, including an epic summer tour in '87 selling tie-dyes out of a VW microbus to pay for gas!
Anyways, I was 19 or so, a friend had given me a 70s tape with Dark Star & Other One on it the year before, so I spent the first set thinking: Is this a Country music band!! :-) But Loser & Looks Like Rain have been a favorites ever since.
2nd set, everybody's dancing like crazy, and I'm standing in the middle like a statue, mesmerized. Then this really, really cute hippy girl shoves me from behind…I look back, she smiles at me with a look that says, 'Come on, Man!' And a switch flipped in my head…I LET GO and have danced like a marionette to GD ever since! Thanks, cute hippie chick…I love you to this day! (And wish I wasn't too shy or stoned to talk to you then.)
We were (are ) so gosh darn lucky to be deadheads. To listen, go travel and see the shows,and now listen and watch on RUclips.
Thanks always for posting. Will seek out more ‘83
I remember people mudsliding down the hill like Woodstock in the field !
Great show ,great venue ! Some of the best times of my life!
Thank you for the post !
Stellar!! You can never have enough 83!
83-9-10 is my favorite 83 show so far! awesome playin>china doll
Joe Felice no doubt.. I LOVE the early 80s and late 70s dead🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀
83 Ventura were the weakest Ventura shows IMO. But agree 83 overall was fantastic!
Joe Felice Never eva’
@@nikoniko4457 Ahhhhh! My home state.
I made it back home from college in KS to catch one of those shows in my native mts. :)
One of my first on a long strange trip of shows! Loved every minute of them all, such great memories ❤️ It's hard to believe it's been 40 yrs upon my head and still rockin like a child
This was second of two shows. It poured rain first show. I was on the hill in the mud, blood and beer. I can remember putting my arm down and a gallon of water ran out my sleeve. This night I was in the seats. A fun pair of shows. The Dead were on a pretty good roll, playing some new stuff (Touch of Gray, Throwing Stones), Jerry in good form. Thanks for the video.
David Oliver was these shows when they played that long ass He’s Gone that imho was the best ever played? And a shakedown of historic proportions?💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀
David Oliver I was there too! We were in the hill and shared tickets to get to seats. Man, that rain! Feels like rain, looks like rain! Oh here come the rain!
It rained so hard that night. Remember the flooding. Was inside for night 2
David Oliver was another deadhead soaked in liquid on that day.
I was there for 2 and 3 ! Great shows some of my favorite , I’m lying they were all my favorite !!!! The spectrom, jfk, city island , Hampton row the 80’s dead were rockin!
I was there! Best night and memories from this show. Poured rain! Woo!
thank you this show happened 2 months before I was born and I been dead 25 years myself nostalgia
I was in the 3rd row of this show... It was an amazing show. This brought back a lot of great memories
jealous. fuckin a.
I was front row, elbows on stage in front of Phil :-) Most of Randallstown and Pikesville were in the orchestra pit!
Poolesvile represented 4th row orchestra pit. EPIC. All shows at MPP were awesome, This was my 1st sons 1st birthday, although presents for Mom and Dad that night, thx Son!!!
Thanks so much for posting. We used to whine about how bad Jerry sounded in 83, but his vocals weren't bad. Second show was easier to take, given the prior nights deluge. The next night, at City Island in Harrisburg, also was good. I caught a lot of shows that year and I'm glad to say they were pretty tight. One of most gratifying decisions was spending as much time as I could touring with The Dead in '83. New Years, Tempe, Vegas, LA, Davis (hardly anybody went and you could get "this close" to Garcia from the floor), this show, City Island (weird setting), and others. Very Good Times.
phil bucket You must have missed the Roseland shows... 83 was some of the "meanest" Jerry there is.
+phil bucket ,I was at City Island!! Loved it,I remember walkin crossed a bridge,then coming into a Clearing in the woods,to what appeared to be like a baseball field,carnival type atmosphere{Typical Dead}!!!lol,and sitting on a hill looking down,GREAT SHOW!!!
City Island '83 was my first show. That's when I got on the bus. I remember walking across the bridge after buying a $10 ticket at the gate. They were already into CC Rider by the time I walked in.
Mal ain’t no slouch either
Voodoonola you are the Sheppard of my ears friend. Much thanks again and again🎶⚡😎✌
My first show - thanks for posting! Jerry's working a distinct trad bluegrass lick at 21:45 in Cumberland.
I was looking for 10 good reasons why TGD were the best band I'm ever likely to hear and in the first hour of this show there must be a hundred! Saw them a couple of times in UK, Bickershaw and the Alexandra Palace. Great memories. Thank you Voodoonola, wherever and whoever you may be, for all the wonderful music you have made available and thanks to all the band and crew and fans that made it all happen, we salute you.
GD put the stealie circle in the middle. a red g a blue g its so clear GOD
Drove from SLC to see these 2 shows .. arrived in the pouring rain and lightning hitting the back of the stage!! ❤️🍄
Now this is real Grateful Dead.
If anyone doubts Bob and Jerry had a special relationship, just watch whan Bob pulls out the mike in Good Lovin.. Jerry has a total look of love witnessing that.
This show is Hall of Fame. Awesome to see it and hear it!!!
a great four day run sandwiched by Saratoga and City Island. My favorite memory of this day was when an army helicopter came to hover over the lawn to dry it out from the previous nights biblical rains. the helicopter landed in our parking lot. as the pilot was getting out to go check in at the venue, a deadhead asked if he could put a sticker on the helicopter. the pilot gave an very strong no. And threatened arrest to anyone who did it. But then he left to walk to the venue. when he came back there were probably 200 stickers on the helicopter. He was so pissed but I think he realized what a bad idea it was....great shows. great times!
56, 1st Show In 81, Remember This & Way Was Back When !!!! Maannn If Could Blink & Be Back, I Do It In A Second, Kat"s Right, That 4 Day Run, City Island !!! Stay Strong....Peace
So very thankful to have seen the brent years, by far my favorite with 85 being my #1 yr to listen to. Definitely would take that year if i could only have 1.Man Jerry really looks affected this night. i remember someone whose 1st shows were in 83 saying that he was super worried about the fat man that year.
@voodoonola You are the man! I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this. This show was my 4th dead show and it is amazing to hear and see the boys during one of their killer tours. The insane rains the night before with Phil ripping base lines in time with the thunder... lightning bolts dropping behind the band, the entire footbridge under water (yes I walked across the stream locked arm in arm with about a dozen other nuts)
to think these shows got documented........is that not a miracle....?
Mike Wilkinson you asked a yes or no question...yes!
*I ran a $35k Ikegami camera for WNPB at the time, and it's a crime we didn't use it for this*
I need a miracle everyday.
Someone asked if there was ever a bad show at merriweather, my reply to that would be no.
Even the rain didn't bring me down!
+Dennis Campbell i saw so many great concerts at Merriweather Post starting in 1973 ...Too many to list
Gabriel 82 or 83?
@@salmovision8821 Haha. I was there the night AFTER the rain. Hippys mud-sliding everywhere :)
My 1st show (this night)
@@cjnav7832 I totally remember the mud sliding otter hippie people! I took a train from New York City to DC and hitchhiked out to the Meriwether, then hitchhike to the Greyhound bus station to go home. I spent about a half an hour as the parking lot was clearing yelling to people passing by “who’s going north, who is going north?“. Nobody was stopping for me. Finally some heads said “where are you going?“ I said DC. They said “that’s south!“ So I quickly started yelling who is going south! I got picked up immediately by two Japanese that has straight from Japan in a rented Mitsubishi. The Mitsubishi had a really good sound system and I had the cassette of the show. I didn’t patching that night but got a pretty fair tape with my Sony Walkman microphone taped to a car antenna. I handed the tape up to the front seat without telling them it was the show we just saw. They were so excited when they realized what they were listening to. They took me all the way to the Greyhound bus station where the bus to New York was just about to leave and they parked behind the bus keeping it from backing up, while I ran inside and got a ticket. After about 30 minutes on the bus I got up went into the bathroom, pried open the tiny plexiglass window and put a wide of toilet paper in there to keep it open a crack. I started to smoke a joint. Suddenly the bus starts slowing down and completely stops. I knew we were past all the tolls and that something was going on. I clipped my Doobie, and open the bathroom door to walk back to my seat. The light from the bathroom was the only light on the bus and flooded me. The whole bus turn back to look over the shoulder at me as the bus driver was coming back to me. He asked me to come with him as he exited the bus and stood yelling at me on the side of 95, At like one in the morning. He was yelling “you were getting high on my bus! You were smoking marijuana on my bus?! You’re so high right now you don’t even know where you are!“ All I could think of was A Maryland state trooper happening by and wondering why a greyhound would be stopped on the side of the interstate. I just looked at him silently, probably looking pretty pathetic. He shook his head and said get back on the bus and don’t cause any trouble. The rest of the trip was uneventful. Do I have to mention that I was tripping balls?
I LOVED this show. great vid!! I was almost there :) Might & Glory Gonna Be My NAME!!!!!!~
Was on crutches at the show pouring down rain I forgot which way to limp I got dosed awesome awesome show
fuckin a. so funny.
I was there. Cant believe it was 37 years ago. I was asn exchange student in MD back then.
If we could restore these shows us old heads would possibly hold our memories a little longer? This is just beautiful. Thanks for posting this
Was a 2 night run. I just happened to be there both nights. Cool memories!!!😎
great show...I had just moved to Baltimore and took my 13 year old sister...took a puff or two from row behind me ...it was insanely great!
I was there what a party it was good times.
Nice Eyes Solo ... Jerry is realy working the exploration from 1:55 . Blessing the world !!
I remember this Terrapin and the mud slide out in the lawn area...I loved Merriweather shows....
83 was the tipping point for Jerry in terms of his health and his voice. 1982 he pretty much still had for the most part his original timber in his voice but by 83 you could hear the what was to come for 84-85. But this is still kind of the pure unadulterated Dead before they got huge. Phil still pudgy during his Heineken days.
What a great set list man and Voodoonola thanks brother for the memories and the awesome audio quality of MOST of your vids keep it alive brother much love
This show has my favorite Big RR Blues of all time. Only took 30 years to see it again :-)
great video. i was there for what must have been the night before. there was rain, lots and lots of rain. mud, water, rain. lightning caused two power outages during set two- Truckin' and maybe also Space. ruined a friend's dad's blue shirt. good times!
This doesn't seem like same concert from video given my view from lawn. It It It poured. The lightening was spectacular. Really thought people where going to die and amazed the stage electronics weren't impacted. It rain so hard, and I recall looking down at my feet. They looked like boats traveling uphill against a river of water. There were wakes from them because the water was gushing so fast. We laughed and froze. Going back to car, the park ranges had to divert traffic as entrances were washed out or blocked. I remember seeing 4 motorcycles parked near the creek, and all you could see was the mirrors sticking out above the water. We made it to the car and stripped off our wet clothes and marveled.
my favorite year, thanks boys!
The first set song selection here is as good as it gets. When I was a teenager in the late 80s, I had a whole bunch of Merriweather shows on tape. What I heard on these tapes was better than average. Obviously whoever was running the place knew how to treat people. For those of you who made it to any shows at this venue, you lucked out, I'm a little jealous. These shows were a few years before my time, but at least we had Knick, Alpine and of course Buffalo. You make me very happy V. thank you!
What a nice show, thanks so much for sharing and thanks to all the folks who helped put this togther. The person who filmed this did an amazing job, I just love how innovative Phil was all throughout here and the camera man seemed to focus in just at the perfect moments.
One of the nicest Terrapins I've ever heard.....a rare and different tune indeed.
You did it again! One of my favorite bootleg cassettes!
deadheads are such sweet and smart people. this is a great show
The music is great but the picture is to b wondered about ?! ❤️🐇🐰🌹💀☠️⚡️🎸1️⃣👽🪐🛸🚀💥🔥☄️😍🥰😘always love !
Thanks for posting, I was only about 10 rows behind, taping the show. Haven't even listened to this show in years, was a let down compared to the night before and even SPAC, but this should great, Phil is on even. A good friend was front row and was her best GD experience. Thanks again
Seeing Bobby close up doing Estimates screams is always a joy!
Wow, that was one of the best terrapins I've ever heard
This is awesome, what energy!! They are all playing their hearts out, and enjoying it!! These were the days, so I have been told. Would do anything to go back in time. With these videos it makes it somewhat possible, Thank you so much for posting these.
I met my wife at this show, and we are still married, It's a Miracle
Thank you Voodoonola. You are a saint my brother.
Attended this show. Drove down from NJ with my bud, the late Alan Fraipoint, with a case of beer in his TR7. Caught up with Mark Birnbaum, enjoyed the show - a great one - and then drove back to NJ afterwards. All in less than 16 hours. Oh yeah, the case of beer didn't make it back. Those were the days of raising hell . . . .
Terrapin was our highlight . . .
Good gawd, this is awesome. We are truly blessed. Thanks a mill MattMan, Wolfie, Gunnar and Peter. I'm so happy you are here V, CHEERS!
I was there ! Thanks so much. Funny story before the show Phils limo was driving through the gathering area with the window rolled down and someone said “Hey Phil want a watercress and humus sandwich?” And he burst out laughing. We were all cracking up and the tour shemp couldn’t figure out what was so funny.
WOW! what a show.
yeah solid only thing missing was scarlet fire playin in the band lmao (~) :- }
Another terrific upload from Voodoonola, thanks!
I made a lot of Merriweathers in the 80's. They all were awesome. My bday is at the end of June, so I appreciated Jehovah's favorite choir doing a show just for me.
Awesome. A Little Brent in the video gets a thumbs up from me.
one of the first shows I want to. Much fun.
Love a good Alabama Lead! Jerry showcases his fluidity and Chromatics in shifting into different Keys
What a year for The Grateful Dead. Ton's of fungus and California's finest.
I was there!
The day after the deluge. Great show as well - first set Big RR and Loser really pack a punch.
Top notch ! Really top notch !!
I saw The Grateful Dead around this time in Morgantown Coliseum with 70,000 fans. Hard to believe all these people are now at least in their 60s.
Thank you! good work
Awsome showmanship by Bobby during Estimated! :)
I love that "Throwing Stones" was so new that we were kinda calling it different things then. I mean, it hadn't been released, so some of us were calling it Ashes to Ashes, or All Fall Down, or whatever, and it was like the fans finally decided it was called "Throwing Stones", and the band just went along with it. At least that's the way I remember it.
It's All Over Now into Loser.....words can't do it justice
tanks voodoonola!!! and the wook with his feet in watermelons and tent poles for cross country skiing thru the swollen creeks. not on the vid but i sure do remember him!! a truly grate sight!!
I did that tour in a '49 GMC panel truck, and met Phil in Chicago.
Chills from Looks Likes Rain
Ridiculous second set, wicked!!!
Wow! Soo goood!!!!
my 1st DEAD show
Me too!
gregorija1 Same here
not mine!
Me too!
Mine, too!
My buddy worked at the convenience store. He couldn't make it. I got his tickets to Harrisburg too. My 1st 'miracle' give away at City Island
Just dig the soulfulness of Black Peter!! Off the hook!!!!!!
hey Voodoo thank you!!!!
did we not have some awesome fun....
Look how in sync Billy and Mickey are!! Just like a Swiss Watch!!!
What an awesome set list!!
This should be a daves pix!!
I remember this Merriweather post series of shows.. one night they did a “he’s gone”, probably the best ever done.. and I believe I remember the Same show was a shakedown for the history books💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀🇺🇸💀
I was in a sour mood because my car was "totaled" at the show in a flash flood the night before. At this show the mud was like World War 1, they threw some straw out on the hill where the lawn would have been, but we got caked in mud. And my dipsh!t friend was late picking me up so we missed Dire Wolf.
What a show! Who borrowed the time machine? Its my turn, thats where/when im headed! I moved to Columbia the year before this. I was only 8 n my mom is NOT a head so I wasn't even introduced until '95, and never saw "the fat man sing" live. Thanx for sharing such a great show!!!
***** SWEET!
I said the same in a reply today cause I'm a 1976 model but I was so fortunate to be turned on in '90 by older heads but wasn't able to convince my mom, definitely not Heady either, that it was time for me to see Jerry when they'd get close to us kids. '93 Chapel Hill and 19 more up to Pittsburgh, PA '95 where I was inspired,but just didn't know it yet, 4 rain song 2nd set would lead me to give my first daughter Rain as her middle name.
🎶strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand. Everybody's playing in the heart of Gold band🎶
Listen friend I think it's so Grateful that without ever catching a show you remains a Head brother. Something magical about the marriage of lyrics, musicianship, and the vibrations that were created because of. I'm still drunk off being able to type in a show I listened and traded on analog and POOF they're live on my phone.
⚡Love and Light brother⚡
are you still in the City the Rouse built: Columbia?.
How bout space > throwing stones!! Love early 80s Brent shows, even the keyboard synths
I remember the mud and mushrooms.
2 days of flyin' high!
What a gem!
That was pretty unusual to have Terrapin in the middle of the set. It was firmly established as the song before Drums by 1983, with an occasional throwback segue to Playing in the Band.
Can anyone out there do b and p cdr's? I have bout 2000 hrs of GD on tape but it seems cdr's are digitally cleaned up a bit?? lol Idk,im a kinda tech moron!! Yes 1983 GD!! my first show at the Philly Spectrum
Do all the secrets die with us? We that were there for years. Yeah...we keep all the secrets, best that way.
Ok, now who's got the day before on video with the lightning in Wharf Rat?
yes lets get it posted on youtube. I want to know if my memory of Bobby leaping and ringing a chord at the exact moment of a huge lighting strike actually occurred. Until that night, I loved the dead as a cool band yet after that lighting concert my perception expanded and some fear was added. I saw a beast revealed as a bone crunching hydra headed monster!!! Slayer of small mind comforts...
Yes! The lightning and thunder hit right on cue at "I'll get up and fly away"!
I would love to see the 6/20 Show! Or even have a SBD to listen to! it's up there in great shows where the weather played the band.Just awesome!!!!
@@ericwj7 look for Dean Grabski's audience recording from the lawn in the rain. It's a terrific sounding documentation of the evening. We were standing right near him. I got a copy early on. It's on Internet Archives site. The one time you really need an audience tape. You actually know when the lightning is intense by the crowd reaction. The band fed off it, too. It's still unbelievable the band played through all that. It could never happen in today's world, exposing a crowd to such "dangerous conditions". Imagine the lawsuit potential.
All who had this on scratchy TDK 90 upvote!
Nah man...XLII's
GRATE CHANNEL :) XXXX
Me + my niece were invited to go b with them in SanFrancisco or Marin county for a week but I met a girl at the Lewiston Maine outdoor show so she gave me her phone number + address ! We stayed for 2 more weeks which made them very happy ! Jerry took me under his arms to meet his family mountain girl plus 2 daughters that was his but still little then ! He made sure the whole dead family knew who I was ! My love for him has never wavered ! I fell inlove the 1 st time we met plus the same happened to him ! I still love him on this date of November 8/2024 ! That’s real love + I thought I knew all about it , but didn’t ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹☠️💀⚡️🎸😘🥰😍🥲😢😥😰🥵I still cry over him but more have died by now ! Phil going was a shock to me but he was 84 years old but being an old hippie I have no idea about age ! I’m 75 now but I don’t feel that old but I’m Swedish a blockhead being that has 13 concussions , 5 car accidents , been beaten up by my drunk husband who I ended in divorce plus many other weird things ! Being an Aries I guess I’m supposed to go through this being the 1 st born of the zodiac !
The captain was definitely high on this one 😂!!! Still love it though.. God bless the Dead, I can miss em , out.
Thanks to the video person who often panned over to Brent...
This doesn't seem like same concert from video given my view from lawn. Somebody said night before 6.20. It poured. The lightening was spectacular. Really thought people where going to die and amazed the stage electronics weren't impacted. It rain so hard, and I recall looking down at my feet. They looked like boats traveling uphill against a river of water. There were wakes from them because the water was gushing so fast. We laughed and froze. Going back to car, the park ranges had to divert traffic as entrances were washed out or blocked. I remember seeing 4 motorcycles parked near the creek, and all you could see was the mirrors sticking out above the water. We made it to the car and stripped off our wet clothes and marveled.
Full agreement...these uploads are treasures.
Thanks to all for putting them out there.
might as well travel the elegant way!!!!!
I was only 10 at the time and lived just 40min away in Rockville MD, but my older brother hadn't discovered the Dead yet or he'd have done the right thing and dragged me along to this awesome venue... since renamed Nissan pavilion, or "No-Fun" pavilion... those was da days as evidenced by the tapes
ToGetToTerrapin Its called the Nissan Pavillion? I was just there a few days ago for the Dear Jerry show and it is still called Merriweather Post - logos are all over the place. Did they change the name back or something?
Joe Felice they must have. haven't lived in MD for a couple years now...
No- Merriweather is still Merriweather. Nissan Pavillion is in Bristow, VA - which, like Merriweather, is in the suburbs of DC, only on the Virginia side. Nissan is truly an awful place to see a show. Merriweather is still nice.
"come waltz with the stars, the celestial balls!"