For this week’s edition of “All The Years Live,” Grateful Dead HQ revisits the band’s early summer 1991 stop at Washington DC’s Robert F. Kennedy Stadium with a show-opening “Cold Rain and Snow.”
“From the Grateful Dead’s second release in the their View From The Vault DVD series, ‘Cold Rain and Snow’ is one of the longest-serving songs in the Dead’s repertoire, a state of their 1966 shows onward,” explains GD legacy manager/archivist David Lemieux. “It was played most years 1966-1995. From the Dead’s first album, its live recorded debut on an official Dead album was on 1976’s Steal Your Face.”
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Watch the 6/14/91 “Cold Rain and Snow” below:
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biggest fan ever
May 15, 2020 at 6:52 amWally’s back but where’s 400 shows Jim with his two cents?
Doug
May 14, 2020 at 4:44 pmAgreed 1000000% Wally. Especially for this series. There are hundreds, if not thousands of HQ (not modern HD mind you) videos shot by news stations all around the land throughout the band’s history. And probably the same shot by Dan or Betty or Candice or whomever. One song at a time that’s never been seen before isn’t too much to ask.
Walter Sobchak
May 14, 2020 at 5:55 pmDoug unfortunately none of which you mentioned qualifies as “pro shot video ” which is all that either Shakedown stream or All the years will show.
Even the TV news footage is a single camera and NEVER was allowed for the entire performance. These will only be taken from shows with multiple film or video cameras at several angles and vantage points. Therefore it basically is the shows from 87 on that had projection screens or were PPV events like NYE 83 85 and 87. Only other ones would be the large outdoor stadium shows that were at night that had projection screens or venues like Shoreline and Buckeye Lake.
Walter Sobchak
May 14, 2020 at 1:39 pmSweet baby Jesus this Lemieux guy sits on a goldmine of unseen pro shot footage and he expects us to keep getting juiced for something we had on DVD for over a decade already?
Now after hyping this weeks Shakedown stream as specifically ” Something previously unseen from 91″ and now they’re saying it’s 6/17/91 ?
Again 6/17 was both “meet up at the movies on 8/1/19 AND officially released on Blueay/DVD as part of the Giants Stadium box set. Look these are all stellar shows for it’s time but enough with the quickie hand jobs when you’re promising to get us some of the real.
Sorry for the rant but it’s becoming a chore to get amped for both “All the years” and “Shakedown streams ” when our Canadian friend chooses to stay on this tired trajectory.
Joe C.
May 15, 2020 at 12:30 pmAmen.