Grateful Dead 4-7-85 Spectrum Philadelphia PA
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Setlist:
Set 1
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Mississippi Half Step
C.C. Rider
Birdsong
Dancin' In The Streets
Deal
Set 2
Shakedown Street
Samson and Delilah
She Belongs to Me
Woman are Smarter
Drums
Space
Gimme Some Lovin'
Truckin'
Smokestack Lightnin'
Morning Dew
Sugar Magnolia
Day Job
A Brokedown House Production
I was at these shows. Jerry’s voice was shot but he made up for it. The Spectrum was a magical place when the Grateful Dead was in town.
This was my 1st show & I was really into the white album at the time . Pure Magic
This is hands down one of the top 20 dead shows of all time
Just listen to how crisp and well-played Jerry's solos are. Bird Song and Dancin' in the Streets are amazing. '85 might have been a crappy year for Jerry's health and voice, but his guitar playing was phenomenal.
I’ve noticed that myself. Vocally he was off but his playing was super clean.
I've always liked his voice as though he strains we can still hear his mood underneath!
I agree he messed up lines sometimes but he still could play a mean guitar and I look at some of the 80s as different yes, but good.
I learned from my elders and ears I'm not a fan of most vocals..Jerry's guitar is all we need
First show spring 81
At one point I was renovating my cabin and this was the only tape I had. I kept switching sides over and over again. I must have listened to it at least a hundred times. I have every note memorized. 😅
Meeee22222!!!! Rebuild ing now alll spunn cookeezz
That's not a bad result...
Wow these are the down and dirty shows everyone was always talking about
i was at this show Easter Sunday 1985..FANTASTIC SHOW; tripped my face off!!!!
I remember starting out in Florida coming up through the Deep South to this show hearing Jerry singing "farewell old southern skies" and feeling that everything in the Universe was just as it should be!
Jerry looked terrible during the 85 tours but he played beautifully. Had great fun at those shows.
Nobody should dislike any live Grateful Dead show, or any show in general. No matter if the show was up to your expectations or not, we must respect, enjoy and love the fact that any live artist is out there doing there best...and fucked or not, the mess ups/accidents/or wrong experimentation that the normal listener thinks is messed up, is really the individual and beautiful things about this band, and live music in general...and what makes us keep listening to the same song1000 times over!! haha
Nobody should dislike any live Grateful Dead show, or any show in general. I have a problem with this way of thinking. Please refrain from telling people what to think, thanks. Where does that kind of wrong think process stop? Are you going to tell people how to vote? Are you going to tell people how to process information? Are you going to tell people what they should and should not do because it aligns or does not align with your moral compass? It's essentially authoritarian to make a statement like you did . I personally like this show , however it's up to the listener to decide if they like it or not and if they disliked it strongly enough to click the thumbs down. You are forgetting that the enitre point of dead tour was about FREEDOM . That includes free thought , it was not /is not a groupthink situation.
If I was an eagle I'd dress like a duck
Crawl like a lizard and honk like a truck
complete horseshit, BM.
She belongs to me has remained since I heard it in my 20th year, a delicious, sublime rendition.
Did you see the first time Garcia brought it out and played it solo, in Feb 85, at the Meadowlands,? Yeah, saw that live. They took those Feb 85 shows off the grid like they never existed - from the Meadowlands Rutherford NJ
BOY DID I LOVE SPECTRUM SHOWS. ALOT. A REAL LOT
dirty rock n roll vibes to all the Spectrum shows...good stuff
The Bird Song is one of the best Ever.I've seen 80 shows.Birds rock
We can hear you Phil!! This was my 3rd year of seeing shows and all three nights that year were SMOKIN' !! Philly was my home town and they never failed to kick ass....Thank you, Thank you, Thank you....
Never heard a bad show anywhere. I was here and remember every tune.
Seeing The Dead at the Spectrum in 85 was such a blast. I will never forget how much fun we had at my first ever show.
Spring 85 northeast tour replete with wonderful memories for me, especially Jerry at the 8:54 mark 😁
85 was a good year for these guys. Timeless music thanks to tapers..Thank you
I was in a bad place.
My friend grabbed me up. Took me with his crew. For the weekend. Saw the 3 shows there. Just what a lost soul needed.
The Nostalgia for this band as a non deadhead is quite remarkable 🙏🏽
Probably because it is part of who we are !! Wouldn't be who I am without them !!! They touched our souls 😁
It's more than nostalgia. It's a living and breathing part of us to this day.
@@jackiemanuel wow dude you told him
@@hippiejohn334 Well said Hippie John.
We are to the core brother
The boys loved Philly.
And it Great living 45 minutes away !!!! 😁🙌😁🙌😁💓😁 New York 55 minutes away !!! I consider the northeast as the crotch of Great Shows !!!! I had NY Philly , NJ , VA , Boston 😁 , etc . PS stay away from VA !!! ✌ Too All !!!
and we loved them!
@@hippiejohn334
Interesting. How come stay away from VA.
Thnx, friend
@@cjnav7832 probably locked up at lockn that's why
@@cjnav7832 Cops were brutal in Richmond, but the shows were worth it!!!
'84-85 just has such a different sound from what came before or after. Sometimes its awesome, sometimes it's really not. but that's the beauty of this band. this is pretty great.
Jeffrey Carter I agree
That sound continued into 86 right up until the summer stadium shows where Jerry got very ill before he died for the first time. His soloing tone at RFK is downright garage sounding.
Fair part of that iconic mid 80's is the plucky percussive tone of Brent's Yamaha GS-1 it could punch out chords, or let single notes chime like a bell. He would move on it 87 I believe to a Kurzweil and Roland sound module. This was a brighter straight chorus piano sound, less Rhodes like.
This was one of the best shows I've EVER had Da pleasure of participating in !
The song selection form these two nights in Philly is unbelievable.
Dennis Campbell yeazzzz it izzzy one fat night in Philadelphia with the dancing in the Streets and smokestack lightning oh we ah shuxxx I wouldn't stop for a million bucks.
Dennis Campbell
I was at this show.
Very memorable for me. But I just realized for the first time that Jerry was reading lyrics for “She Belongs to Me”on the floor to his right. I have never seen him do that. Understandable because they did not perform this song very often. But watching this now I realize that he was reading lyrics. Kind of satisfying to me because I never understood how the fuck Jerry could remember all those lyrics for so many years and so many songs.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Some of the headiest nugs were already making their way on tour along with some of the best hash oil I haveever smoked to date, dabbs included. Opium was profuse. I remember it was during Reagan and Bush and the beginning of the drug war against us in the parking lot with agents going around writing down our license plate numbers. It was the last time I went on tour in my own car. One of the best tours for good ganja and smoking hot numbers rolling off stage.
exactly what I am fighting against right now, see some of my videos of mexico on my youtube channel. And I file human rights violations claims and more, and take banks to court and make them pay before I shut them down, like BNYMEllon, a fascist behemoth that caused Iran contra,
stay tuned, records are made to be broken!
only users loose drugs
I was at the Saturday show in the lot ,no miracle tix to be found just scalpers with outrageous prices .My bad ,Up until then I had never paid more than 20 bucks . But got my first dose White Lightning Blotter 3 for one 2 for 5 told the dude I only had 3 bucks he wouldn't take my last dollar gave me a dollar back first and most intense trip ever , when we got back to Harrisburg yeah City Island I was tripping balls and started banging my lady and she turned into a skeleton when I came .Then spent the night talking to Gazoo from the Flintstones for the rest of the night in the bathroom . My life has never been the same.
Ahahhaha! "I started banging my lady and she turned into a skeleton when i came" mine usually turn into mermaids or something but whatever works like you say life's never been the same! L-o-L!
Thank you Voodoo! Been looking for this incredible Easter show for as many years that have passed since! The funky beat, the strong bass, piano, rhythm and of course Jerry made this one of my stellar fun crumbs on so many tours! Philly just showed us why the Dead play- therefore we follow!
jerrys tickling my eardrums and brain love it
My first show. Just shy of my 21st birthday. Drove out from Denison with Westy and Beth, stopped at Bucknell for the night and picked up Heidi, had Seder dinner on Saturday with Westy's family in Philly, and went to see the Dead on Easter Sunday. My first sensory impression was walking into the back bowl of the Spectrum on the lower level just as Phil was yelling, "Hiya, hiya, hiya kids... Can you hear me?!" and then they open with Do It In the Road?! Seriously?! Jerry looked and sounded horrible but it was a very memorable show for me. We worked our way down to the floor for the second set, and spent it about 20 feet from Jer. Epic... So grateful to have this video to relive that historic weekend... Cheers, and peace out... DRL
Yea he did. It's coming up, I'm watching that show they're on CC Rider. I lucked out back then because my friend was like the stub hub of the early 80's lol. I'd call him up and say the Dead are coming and he say I know you want 4 tix all nights right, up and it was done didn't have to worry about selling out. Man I still only payed 25 or 30 a tix.
Yea, that's cool man I was there to leaning on the stage. I think they did trucking, smokestack into Dew in the second set.
Yea and that was a good show for your 1st.
my first dead show. I had no idea what to expect, having not listened much before attending. They blew my mind with the "Do it in the Road" opener (I was and remain a huge Beatles fan). I went on to see the dead many more times. Thanks for posting!!!
EXCELLENT...thanks.
Epic Night in Philly.
I don't know any other mainstream rock band that would say, "thank you Jesus" at the end of their show!!! (Even if it was Easter). God bless the Grateful Dead!!
Wow 85...was listening to WYSP on the way home from the show and remember the DJ saying Jerry did a "pete townsend windmill" during 1/2 step, just saw what he was talking about!!
Was that William Paterson radio station?
Wow, thank you…I lived an hour from the spectrum all through the eighties, 70s too, and they played there often, I remember my favorite Shakedown was from there, maybe it was this one. They seemed to have a thing going that worked magically in that venue, really showed with Shakedown, Samson too, it’s like the sound was really big and reached far there….I once imagined a UFO hovering above, really awesome aliens listening in, taping the show like we often were…
my kids love phils intro, and i love my kids, and i love phil
THE PHIL ZONE
And Phil loves Philly!
There is something magical about 1985 . Love Lover Love Baby Baby Baby!!! Something about doing it in the road has a ring to it. !! woo hoo !!
Great Birdsong..
0:00:20 Why Dont We do it in The Road
0:03:40 Mississippi Half Step
0:10:35 CC Rider
0:18:30 Birdsong
0:32:10 Dancin
0:38:40 Deal
0:44:40 Shakedown
0:57:30 Samson and Delilah
1:07:40 She Belongs to Me
1:13:45 Man Smart Woman Smarter
1:21:06 Drums
1:29:50 Space
1:40:00 Gimme Some Lovin
1:46:00 Truckin
1:51:00 Smokestack Lightning
1:54:40 Morning Dew
2:04:00 Sugar Magnolia
2:13:20 Day Job
1:19:58...Bobby's shenanigans are priceless!! God I love this circus!!!
Bobby Rock Star! Least, dat wuz wat we called'um
Ah , I always said the circus was in town ! Great times they were 😁 😁😁😁😁😁😁
"The Bob and launch" or "the bump and drip" 🥄👃
Great time to be on tour, great memories, great show in Philly!!
My first show.
This was my first shows ; I was really into the white album so the opener felt like it was for me. That & the shrooms altered my mind DUDE🌞
Yea I was at that Dave's Picks 1983 opened with shakedown. Yea Jerry's voice was rough then but he still played that tiger guitar. I just remembered was Mayer borrowing the Wolf guitar again it looked like it. He said that plays so good it's unreal. That's cool 😎 he was able to use it I'll shut up now tend to ramble lol
My very first show👍🏻🏄
I was a puddle on the floor of the spectrum for this show- ahh youth. But still knew it was a good show.
Lol awesome 😁😁
I love how it was ambiguous between Wheel and Gimme right up until the choice was made. So much negotiation going on in those spaces.
20th anniversary shows saw many shows in 85 but not this one cool video excellent SBD 👍 ✌️🇺🇲
way cool to see Phil singing back-ups on "Dancing In The Streets." I didn't know he did that during this period.
Twotontessie fat dancing in the. streets. one could never count out any song at any time.
IF I try really hard I can smell the sweetness of kind and patchouli swirling in the air! does anyone else still wear patchouli oil?
Right before dancing in the streets Bobby says do you ever know you're not going to remember the chords f****** classic I love listening to old Dead shows you never know what you're going to hear
Easter Sunday. It was raining, fuck it was pouring. Had not seen the band for a bit and was shocked when I saw Jerry. What happened??? I think he was tripping real heavy. His vocals, appearance were nothing to write home about but man did he play that night. It was a short and sweet first set but that CC Rider and the way Jerry turned it out. Many thanks to the person who posted this show. It was a strange night but I've listen to this many, many times and it is sublime.
great shot during Deal at 43:00 when the camera pans over and the whole band is watching Jerry, who's in the zone and driving that bus..
noticed that
Admiration!!!
Absolutely. Lotta that vibe in Dancing' also.
I kinda remember this show.....they played a couple nights that week....after one show , we hitch hiked to Baltimore to see opening day , then hitched back and saw the next show. What a week.......Great to be young
this was a fun show. nice to be able to relive it.
The Voodman strikes again! Such a treat to get all this fresh stuff so late in the game, very rejuvenating, particularly since he tends to release shows I happened to attend.
I originally had this on a TDK cassette, listened so many times the sound flattened into a hiss!!
Reborn!!!
This is one of my favorite drums ever
This was one of my favorite tapes when I first got into the band.
God these Philly shows were hot hot hot!!!! Were they always so good at this venue?!!!! Ems
Darn good sound for youtube. I love '85.
I traveled via van w/ 5 other friends to these Philly shows from STL,MO....I remember Kim trading all my GD buttons on my jean jacket w/ 3 wood hippies from TN for a handful of blue ,moldy shrooms that sent us all on our way.Beatles tunes played by the GD.Jerry's voice was toasty but we had a lot of fun @ this hockey rink.We sold JJ bandanas & when we returned to the van all our bandanas,cash,perishables were taken by Nazi security.We bought 3D glasses and had fun watching all the police lights. :0)
ahhh yes 1985 maybe not their best but very entertaining to say the least with all he new stuff they played .this was my first year of touring only got shut out at Kaiser in Feb. and 12/30 show in Oakland.i remember buying complete box office tour packs of tikets for this year, in just 2 years would become a bit harder to find tix. this Philly run my favorite of spring for sure. keepup the good work bro great post.
I was At this show! My first Dew. She belongs to me! Do it in the road! What a great show! Typical Philly awesomeness
So strange when you hear your fav shows so much you remember every note of every solo Jer plays truly truly a beautiful nostalgic irreplacable memory
It was the best Easter ever !
The She Belongs to Me at 1:08 is so fine. You are a walking antique.
I was born at 8pm pacific time on this night and have always been curious if the Dead were still on stage
Show started around 8 I think if memory serves me right
That’s very cool! Right on Zack.
Thanks for posting the entire show...this was my first show and what a show indeed :D
I was at this show and I remember that "the fat man rocks" ! Jerry was amazing , that Birdsong was exceptional.
10:44. CC RIDER
One slammin' show!!!! One of the first great show that started in 1985 and the East Coast shows were never the same
I love it that they do Beatles songs , they sound funny when they do ! I love them when they do any other songs sometimes besides their own ! I just love anything that they do anyway ! Can’t help myself ! 🤣😂❤️🐇🌹🐰👽🪐🛸🧞🧞♂️🧞♀️🧜🧜♂️🧜♀️🧚♀️🧚🏿♂️🧚🏼angels !
jerry's totally shot voice really gives you the full bob dylan experience on she belongs to me. it really fits hilariously well.
the transition from truckin to smokestack is on the $$$
85' rocked, first show was at Brenden Byrne arena just before theses shows.
More in 30 years and it seems just like yesterday they said back then the trips war for kids and we sure were now Life Goes On and still the music never stops today's music can't compare to the things and times we did back then when life was definitely easier before and TV and internet still have old tapes from my D6 and shotgun Nakamichi microphones can you say can't live in the past but I sure would like to God bless
.... and I want to comment on the phenomenal skill of Mr. Vince Welnick, just because I have NEVER seen a comment where someone said something nice about the guy. His Heart was bleeding through his hands into that piano, you can tell..... and I like Donna too when she's not doing NFA.
perhaps you should dew that on a show Vince played
John Frank that's Brent not Vince
Every philly show in 85 is here on video exp my first show 4-6-85. Got on the bus and never got off.
ukslag These were my first shows too. They seemed old then when i was 17, but seem so young now.
photoslum i was 17 as well. I was a sr in high school. Went on a bus trip that a company in my town used to run. I went w a friend from school but a new teacher caught wind I was going and she wanted to go but my friend wouldn't give up his tix. I was pissed but had a good time. Then many philly and nyc shows to follow. But once Jerry died, they band died in my eyes. Watching the Chicago shows brought back memories but its not the same with Captain Trips
Where are you from? South Jersey for me
+ukslag
That was my first show too. I was 10 years older than you but was blown away on the 7th.
I traveled with friends from Baton Rouge.
If it wasn't for Brent I may not have gone back in the second night. The BUS stopped right in front of me during the Shakedown.
I have never gotten off.
+photoslum north jersey.
My second show. Sadly April 6 isn't on youtube but am so grateful this one is. I travelled from Baton Rouge to Philly with some friends and my hardcore punk ass instantly got on the bus. Saw so many shows after that but I will always be grateful to 'Deadhead Rob' for dragging my ass there.
Thanks voodoonola for posting this.
Rocky
It's sad to see how large Jerry became. Still, I love the speedy 85 toy keyboard dot-music jam! She Belongs To Me is always a favorite of mine. My 1st tape was 11-21-85, maybe that's why it's a favorite year of mine. THANKS for the video!
85 was an awesome year for shows and then it went downhill from there great music and killer doses I miss Jerry still after all these years
Stephen Dean I love me some 85 too, even though Jerry was visibly declining, his playing didn’t. Attended some of my favorite shows that year. But downhill from there? Surely you jest. What about 87,88,89,90? Great years. I feel the decline started after Brent died. But there were still some great shows to come in the 90’s. Just not as many
For real. Dozin at the knick is my all time favorite dead. I know it's not them at their best it's just my favorite and most listened to show(s)
Pretty amazing somebody recorded this - seriously we are talking 1985 ! there was still a war between VHS and Betamax- besides Jerry tearing it - good job on the sound quality !
Now that's a set list. Love 85
Great 2nd Set - Love the emotion in Jerry's vocals circa 20th anniversary period
hey thanks for posting this! you have made a whole lot of folks happy in a large way.i have great memories of getting these crispy boards just after the shows happened...jerry sounded rough but played clean...big fun.."why don't we do it in the road" can you hear me kids? the boys were having a blast...
Awesome thanks! Yea, the Spectrum was the closest venue for me, I remember this one!
I saw the first show, April 6th,,,,damn! wish i saw the 7th and 8th!!
Nice show!
Garcia: "We gotta do a verse of Dancin' in the Streets".
Weir: "Want to do it right now?"
Garcia: "YEAH MAN!"
I so enjoy hearing their minds at work on stage.
Gratefully acknowledged
sounds great love the DEAD
Yea the show is on Voodoonola if anyone is interested.
Can someone pls help me get over the occasional but strong grief of not having gotten the Dead earlier.
I graduated HS in '80 did sweet f-ck all but surf until '88 when I finally saw my first show in St. Pete '88.
I know, at least I got into them before the end of the 80s, but still… I die inside when I think of the shows I missed from '80 to '88
Thanks for the upload and production! Wonderful!
spectrum 85, what a wonderful Shakedown:!! NFA !!
John Hines
Never got to see the East Coast shows so I'm not quite sure what the difference is. audience is probably louder and more energy. SF Bay Area folks are somewhat jaded and more casual. I've always loved the fact that the dead and I both call the same place home created a certain vibe! Almost every show I ever went to has been here on home turf.😁✌✌🥰
Thanks voodoonola ! Just getting into The Dead, love it !
Easter 🐇 Sunday sermon from Pastor Bobby W.! Was on that tour for 3 weeks! And if you went to 2 shows that's NOT 🚫 being "On Tour"! ❄️🌍💥
Thank you so very much for the work you put into this. Nameste
I Was at this show! 6-7-& 8!
We were up front on Brent's side for this one!
It was kinda cool that these cat's loved playin' in philly. Of the 52 shows or somethin' like that i caught 48 of them and you would be hard pressed to pick a lame show out of them all. Civic center's '74, tower theatre'76, and the good 'ol spectrum. It was nice that there was a roof on the spectrum because on any given night we got soo high it was cool knowing that we could hold on to the catwalks to save us.
Ahh, yeah. I miss home and the spectrum. The fellas were an added bonus, f-ing septa was on strike as usual and I had to get back to Ardmore. Didn't matter, to see the captain was worth it all!!!! God, I miss him. Spectrum, LMAO 😆 miss it though.
I took the bus and subway...
I don't remember them being on strike!?
epic half step : )
I was on Brent's side a few rows up....Lots of fun this night!