Gear up for the Fourth of July with the good ol’ Grateful Dead.
This 7/4/87 set from Foxborough, Mass. starts off with an exhilarating “Touch of Grey,” and continues on with Grateful Dead classics like “Uncle John’s Band,” “Truckin’” and “Althea,” along with some of the songs off of the band’s 1987 album In the Dark such as “Tons of Steel.”
Throughout the celebratory, Independence Day set, the band gives off a very upbeat and playful vibe that keeps Deadheads dancing all the way through.
Between Bob Weir in his signature jorts, Phil Lesh with his American themed sweatband, Jerry Garcia’s late-’80s mullet and the Rhythm Devils’ cosmic drums/space, there is no better way to fuel your festivities than enjoying the Dead’s musical tradition.
And don’t forget to wave your flag “wide and high” all weekend long!
Watch below:
6 Comments comments associated with this post
Patrick Keilty
July 5, 2019 at 4:06 pmSilly wabbits still hung up on comparisons, when in reality its all pretty much been chopped liver since Brent checked out. Does that mean all the fun times die too ? Nope. Jerry told us – I know this song it ain’t never gonna end, he is correct
Bringing the magic to the next generations is so cool to experience.
Citi Field was more fun than any 60 year old foxboro alum should have.
smiling
July 5, 2019 at 12:21 pmDead & Co vs the Grateful Dead, no contest.
If you think it’s close you never saw Jerry!
Still a believer in Jerry, only!
July 5, 2019 at 11:23 amIf you are hating on 80’s Dead…….maybe you ought to go check out Dead and Co….
You might just believe they have a guitarist that plays GD material better than Jerry ever did….
Foxboro ’87…….may not have been an incredible gig, but on the re-listen it is BETTER than any fake GD show played after 1995…..
What is wrong with you people? Isnt this what you want? This is as real as it gets for the 80’s Grateful Dead…..
Thank you for posting this show……..we need more of this stoke right now and less mindless blab about how Dead and Co are re-writing musical history……
jaggerrich
July 4, 2019 at 3:56 pmThis is so effing great, Noble Yeoman Bobby Weir going high-pitched on Bucket now! A football stadium with 70,000 dancing their asses off……yessiree !!!!! whooooo baby! happy 4th to my American Friends to the south.
Jim
July 4, 2019 at 11:03 amGood show Garcia mullet, no mullet, is ah so cool. Would they have gotten to where they did without acid? I doubt it. If Steve Jobs gave credit to LSD why not the Dead? “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” —- Steve Jobs If only heroin didn’t exist.
Dick
July 3, 2019 at 5:28 pmOh, the 80’s! Weir’s shorts are an abomination, as is Garcia’s mullet. Mydland looks like Dennis Wilson’s twin. Sad drugs destroyed so much.