40 years ago this evening, the #gratefuldead conclude their 3 nights at red rocks in colorado. late summer ’83, show #12.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd83-09-08.set2.sbd.lemieux-kaplan.20536.sbeok.shnf
dr. bob wagner audience tape: http://www.archive.org/details/gd1983-09-08.nak700.wagner.miller.113684.flac16 [1/4]
pick up the early september ’83 issue of the #gratefuldead tour zine MIKEL on the way into the show, fresh from a copy shop somewhere in the denver area. cc @QueenCityJamz https://gdsets.com/magazines/mikel2-3.pdf [2/4]
9/8/83 red rocks: strong RAMBLE ON ROSE for era, cheers for #nyc lyric in colorado, tape-distorting lesh rumbles at last peak. 27-minute SCARLET BEGONIAS > FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN with synth cloudburst during transition that seems to push garcia. unfocused but peaking FIRE. 80-minute ESTIMATED PROPHET > TERRAPIN STATION > DRUMZ > SPACE > OTHER ONE JAM > THROWING STONES > BLACK PETER > AROUND & AROUND > GOOD LOVIN’. brief & rich gong-SPACE by garcia/weir/hart settles around OTHER ONE triplets. [3/4]
memories of the dead at red rocks, 40 years ago tonight. #deadfreaksunite #gd090883 [4/4]