Grateful Dead 9-12-85 Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center Oakland CA
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2013
- Setlist:
Set 1
Greatest Story Ever Told
Bertha
It's All Over Now
Row Jimmy
My Brother Esau
Big Railroad Blues
Looks Like Rain
Might As Well
Set 2
Help On The Way 59:09
Slipknot
Franklin's Tower
Playing In The Band
Drums
Space
The Other One
Black Peter
Video assets courtesy of Russ C.
Audio synchronization by Kevin Tobin
Brokedown House Production
America produced the "Grateful Dead", no other nation on earth has done better! The sound, the tone, the rhythm the singing and lyrics!
Love me some '85. The band just improved all year.
Steven Lafler Alpine 6/22/ 85 second set is in my top five.
Garcia sounds so crisp. 85 was a great sounding year for the Dead. Thank you V, keep smilin'.
Brother Esau is still one of my favorites. Love the version from the Greek 85. Big RxR blues to follow. Nice.
Man, I love that Greatest Story Ever Told! SO much energy and musical talent going on there. RIP Jerry.
Killer version !!!
Jerry wore red a lot in '85. What a great year for playing. Probably my favorite guitar tone that he ever used - so massive sounding but still with that biting high-end he was famous for. '84 and '85 both have really interesting and unique playing.
I find it so amazing that Jerry, even it terrible health at this point, on the verge of the coma less than a year from this date, belts out a fucking GORGEOUS and COMMANDING performance, leading the band through one of the best setlists of 1985, and that's saying a lot, more than any other year, I think for the 20th anniversary, they dove deep through the catalog night after night, I would rank 6/15 Greek Theatre, 6/30 Merriweather, and 9/12 as top 5 shows easily, maybe the three best, 11/1 is also good, but this is an amazing 2nd set
my first bay area shows and my birthday too !! we flew peoples express ..from boston.
well after that next fall tour I came back and made the bay area my home , I'm still here and going to see Phil play all the time at TXR ...and it 2016..!!
Conversely, this run kicked off day after my birthday. And conversely I left the B.A. when Jerry died. Headed for the hills, for refuge in Tahoe. At his memorial, while standing next to Donna watching Jerry's daughter speak I thought to myself, "Well I guess I'm free to leave now. He's gone." It was like gravity released me.
This is DVD box set I want. HJK so many good memories.
Long overdue! ❤
Jerry is on it!!!
Look! My brain melting in the background! Cool!
This was a killer show with the excellent light show! One of my favorite Kaiser/Oakland Aud shows. A few days after this, we went to see Camper Van at the Starry Plough in Oakland/Berkeley and the same guys were doing the same (sort of) light show in the small bar. Good fucking times in 85. Thank you
This was a great run. 85 was a great year in general. The 85 Greeks and Frost preceding this run were epicly awesome, just no other way to describe them. They might be some of the most memorable shows of all time to me. Both venues were soooooo so special. I worked the Greek when I attended Cal so it holds a special place in my heart and seems so archetypal in its ambience (once thought the Dead should play wearing togas and olive wreaths in their hair, haha), but Standford was so much smaller and with the lawn tiers ensconced by the oaks on a Spring day...Nothing in the world beats that place for a GD show. I considered those 2 venues The Twin Temples of the Grateful Dead. HJK was also a great venue, with better all around sound than the Berkeley Community Theater, which was so small it was just ridiculous.
Ventura 82-86 were so great!
This run was my first on the West Coast and this show fell on my 25th birthday. Such a long, long time to be gone...
Thanks for keeping the good times rolling, voodonola.
wow!,these were my first west cost shows and birthday shows too!
9/12...I soon moved out here to the bay area...been here so long I got to calling it home!!!
always choose love!
P-
85’ is sneaker year... jerry on the brink; forgetting lyrics, looks like shit, gets busted in GG park, ends up in a coma. Still, his guitar playing is on point and fierce. Bobby using a more aggressive tone, Brent bringing the high notes, Phil bouncing and bobbing... don’t forget Mickey and Bill... god bless The Grateful Dead...
I use like hanging in the seats behind the stage, on the Garcia side. I loved the sound of his guitar coming out of the back of his speaker cabinet. That didn't work with Bob or Phil really. Obviously drums stood out, but the raw tone of Garcia's guitar back there was different than out front through the always awesome sound system. Not better or worse but different.
'85 is one of their best years... Jerry's on cause he's high as a kite on smack.
Love 85 opiated Jerry! He moves his hands and fingers feriously as his body slightly wobbles side to side basically standing in one spot.
This was pre-coma. Summer of '86 is when Jerry collapsed. This run of shows followed a month after they played really bad at Boreal Ridge. Bob apologized for the Tahoe show on M Dung's KFOG radio slot a week later, he claimed hat his amp had a demon in it. This run was 100 times better (No demons) and they really knocked it out. That was a great time.
Lovely Bertha. Vibrant stuff, Garcia hitting his stride.
So well said! the stride hits it!
Thank you Voo for all you do bringing this awesome music to everyone ..... I can't thank you enough !!!!!
Dozin at the HJK! The scene outside was almost as good as the uber cool basement bar. Thank you Green Pyramid.
I thought it was purple pyramid...or maybe that was the following year. The guy with 1 deformed hand who used to walk through the crowd, right?
@Jeff Rogers Those black pyramids were so speedy it was great.
Nobody plays guitar like jerry...the whole band follows his lead...he went deep into reality from his trips and comes out saying life is joy
A Gem Voo Nothing Less than a Rare Gem, thank you bud
as Dylan says, " you know what they say, its all good" !!! and that is the truth.. love all the sharing, which began for me in 74.. keep on keeping on...
I was there, last show i saw before I moved to Japan.
I like the way Jerry starts cranking it out from the very beginning!
Loved Brent's "woody" keyboard sound during this period. Almost reminded my of jungle sounds or like the resonance tubes were made of bamboo. Evident in LLR and others. And what a LLR it is, with Bobby belting at full steam! 85 was a very good year. Little did we know that only 11 months later....
What a show!! Lead in to Black Peter and Jerrys' guitar sounds like a vi o lin. Another one of the great shows the boys give night after night. No one ever heard a tighter band!! QUICK! RUN and SEE!!!
Lizzie Sangi One of the best shows I ever saw had a short second set like this one. The middle night of Alpine 89.
Dennis Campbell I remember that Wisconsin show, my sister lives in MN. Somebody posted Alpine Valley with a comment, "Downhill from here." I dunno if you've seen it. Glad I don't see it az much az I used to! Take care.
OMG, thanks for posting! I was 15' in front of the board, center and still have my stub! (There was a FOB crew who became friends because it was always the same folks showin up there.) Funny, on weeknight shows you could pick your spot on the floor 20 minutes before showtime. I was concerned at one point before a show at Kaiser that the Dead would stop playing because nobody was showing up! LoL!! But by the 2nd tune, it was always pretty full.
A real upbeat performance, late-era brilliance for sure.
I was at all three HJK Oakland shows in Sept. 1985. All three were awesome. Of course.
So soooo classic, love it, oh, and there are hippies freakin out in the halls.
IWT Kaiser shows were the best! 😊
Perty awesome stuff Voo, thank you so much!
thank you vood. one of my favorites
Trouble ahead, Jerry in red.
Or 11-1-85? Glad to watch everything already available. Thank you for posting all that you already have.
All I can say right now is, "I love the Grateful Dead!"
What a time to live in Berkeley and hop on the BART cut through Oakland China Town and walk on in primed.
Thnx. This link takes me back to this page.
THANK YOU VOODOONOLA2!
My Brother Esau!!!
Lesh! On fire during HelpOTW! Love it.
Anyone remember when Voodoonola used to upload Grateful Dead videos?? Those were good old days. Nobody has heard from him for years. I guess there are no more GD videos left to see. What a drag...
Wow, pretty hot Bertha!
Pretty good space leading into The Other One.
Thanx Voodoonola.
thank you kind sir
really really grate show! ...
however and who ever did the video splicing and layering (you know, .. I know you all know..., ha ha ,..). nice video edit😎☇ is a genius too!. nice work!
I miss jerry....,😓☇
This show is so incredibly off the hook, from the first notes played, forkin' awesome. Directly after the first (1st) notes....shadow in the alley blacked out all my lights..
thorough man, don't think i've heard 85 but maybe once
thanks
OMG, the solo in Slipknot! Fastforward to 1:02 and turn it up!
was there - had so many problems with 85 - mostly that Jerry's voice was so eaten away by smoking heroin it was sometimes too painful to hear....but there were nights/days where his playing sure tried to make up for it and I tend to forget that. All in all....I'd go back in a heartbeat if I had a chance. HJK (orig the Oakland Aud) was where I first had my mind blown by these freaks in 79. Always in my heart. (Bobby's guitar waaaay down in this mix....could be Healy - there were times he'd disappear Bobby's guitar)
Please post more Kaiser shows.
I was there!
Kick ass drums on Greatest Story Ever Told
Excellent Jerry Jam on Bertha .. especially for post-Coma years.
Good Show!!!
One of only 2 1985 Help On the Ways.
these were the liquid light shows for the anv of the acid tests. great fun and spacey lights
This is just about the spot I stood for these shows. All other Kaiser shows we were all down on the right side in the hallway near Jerry. I remember Exctasy was still semi legal.(semi because if cuaght with it the were running ya) And many of us it was our bread and butter till the next year when the DEA made it illegal. Funny because in the Deads early years Acid was still legal how the world turns. Now completely sober.
I was a 10 year old boy on this day.
I think I was there.
Trouble ahead, Jerry in Red.
I was definitely somewhere.
I was there, too. Somewhere, somehow, sometime. They rocked that night!
Hell Yeah!! No doubt! Holy smokes capim.
My favorite year except my 1st 77', wish some had the Greek shows!
Epic Row Jimmy
LUVOODOI...!!!!
This space is gettin hot.
Why not observe the band during the long jams ... always strikes me as strange . Great show !
to plunder green gold on a pirate raid, and to bring back to camp the glory of old.
So wonderful and crisp so tight! Hey VEE K are you out there?
Esperanza Spalding is an awesome jazz musician.
Ah yes, the cocaine years!
Boogie, boogie, boogie!
another Jerry night.
I'm astounded at the amount of video shot of the Dead, is it the venues or commissioned by the band ? thx Voodoonola2 !
Any chance of video posts from SPAC from the Summer '85 Tour.
83-86ish...this was THE venue! was such a bummer when the dead couldn't play kaiser anymore (Neighborhood complaints) I think I spent half of these shows in the hall. There was a large truckin emblem on the floor of the hall where it had collapsed one night from every body dancin so damn hard to the song. good memories
The sound is weird, but I think I like it.
Voodoo, lots of '85 shows any chance you have the 6-27-85 SPAC show?
I believe this is the concert Joseph Campbell attended
Who is he?
Probably like Denny's brother or son maybe uncle, I have no idea but this should give you a start. Peace and Love Ya'll!
power and myth . . search
That hit me sideways.... interesting
@@andylopus3162 no relation.
If I remember correctly, the show ended with NFA.
... and Bassnectar!
he's an Ultra fellow, Jerry (not) in neon yellow.
👤
There's not a better audio recording of this show?
Good but short show that I was at. Too bad it cuts! But why the ridiculous video distortions, that's not what psychedelics are like at least most of them, most of the time or are they for the person who wrecked this recording, apparently so?
If I remember correctly speaking of psychedelic, this show was one of the very few that I went to that had the old Fillmore and other such places type oil droplets in water light productions, so why can't we see that or have I not been watching enough instead of typing this? Yes indeed apparently I was just typing too much, since there it is after I wrote the last sentence before this, oops!
Augy, San Diego
yguaray Totally agree.
+yguaray yes but most of it is other stuff, not the oil. This show is 2 hrs. there are no words to describe this performance
Every show I listen to just gets better. Whether iz a later show or a newer show every performance has a new high
It was a weeknight show Augy. We had to go to work the next day, and this was the end of a 3 night run as I remember. Damn, good thing we only had 1 more day of work to make it through before recuperating over the weekend! Holy smokes, my wife about had it with me by that point! (She didn't go.) LoL
I stand corrected it became illegal in may of this year so was the year before that it was bread and butter. sorry
Any idea who ran the light show on this run?
Most likely Candice Brightman. She did all of the lights in the 80s and 90s to the best of my knowledge.
jerry was pretty down then huh
Still is.
those are some badarse cartoons
If this is from September, why does the marquee say New Years??
being my first.shows then back for November, new years was in the big stadium, back to the Kaiser for 5 more shows in.Feb the light show was a 20 yr anniversary. Hog Farm did the lights then there was some event after the shows my.friend reported Robin Williams being there and.green to the gills. gowed on.the noddy stuff. at.the end.of this.run of shows at.the Kaiser I remember.throwing stones it was a uniquely Dead s style of slam dancing where.we.we're all rolling around on MDMA which.of course exploded after becoming illegal in July. it's like being illegal triples demand and profits. LOL.
Interesting you mentioned the MDMA...I have friends at Stanford who apparently were in on making some of it...well at least they always had the line on it and were electrical engineering and chemistry students. I remember one of them splitting his beer with me which was laced at one of these shows.
I bet it was Sunday open with Samson
Sloppy but good. Basically the mantra of the Dead in the 80s.
Go to:
bit.ly\PEDRmS
'85 was also the year of whack setlists. They really mixed it up that year. Lots of ups and downs. There could be a sloppy, uninspired show followed by an intense smoker the next night. Of course it was always that way with the Dead, but it was especially pronounced in '85
Lost Sailor band, for a Lost Sailor audience.
This is not right date go to deadbase
Man this is sloppy. And short.
Trouble ahead, Jerry in red.