Grateful Dead HQ dug into the band’s summer ’89 tour for this week’s All The Years Live pro-shot video, revisiting a vivacious, first-set “Cumberland Blues” from Wisconsin’s beloved Alpine Valley.
“From one of the Grateful Dead’s first home videos, Downhill From Here, this is the Dead at a later-era peak,” exaplains GD archivist/legacy manager David Lemieux. “‘Cumberland Blues’ was a song that always seemed to be played well, and when they nailed it perfectly, as they do here, it’s a six-man unit running at breakneck speed, acting as one unified force.”
On a previous edition of All The Years Live, Lemieux and company also showcased the “Uncle John’s Band” from this 7/17/89 outing.
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Watch the “Cumberland Blues” below:
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D of KC
May 29, 2020 at 3:54 pmBelieve this was the eve, after the show, that they TRASHED the lawn by making it into a huge mud slide. That didn’t go over to well with the security…. One messy hippy situation there kiddos! There was even mud ALL over the rest area nearby, surely they weren’t happy bout the clean ups….. Hence we weren’t allowed back to the venue!
D of KC
May 29, 2020 at 3:32 pmMan was that a WET run of three shows at Alpine July 1989! Saw the last 3 years there, 1987 thru 1989, two of the three eves (1st two nites) it rained big time! We sat up close two of the three, way fun! We stood in a FOOT of water that last night, say 3rd row in front of Jerry, unreal!!! Douglas of KC
Ernie merighi
May 28, 2020 at 11:40 pmWon’t load tried three times?! What’s up ? I also tried the Apple player doesn’t show me anyway to click on . I searched all around site. What or what’s going on. Thank you for your help✌️
Ernie
May 28, 2020 at 11:38 pmWon’t load tried three times?! What’s up ? I also tried the Apple player doesn’t show me anyway to click on . I searched all around site. What or what’s going on. Thank you for your help✌️
Hempster
May 28, 2020 at 8:11 pmAre we ever going to get anything from Deer Creek?
Walter Sobchak
May 30, 2020 at 4:08 pmNever been to Deer Creek and nobody can tell me definitively….
Did they have projection screens there?
If not then No we won’t see anything from Deer Creek only because it wasn’t pro shot on video.
Loose Lucy
May 28, 2020 at 6:11 pmHigh quality