For this week’s edition of ‘All The Years Live,’ Deadheads can be transported back to New Year’s Eve 1987, where the Dead opened their gig at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum with this celebratory version of “Bertha.”
Explains GD archivist/legacy manager David Lemieux, “One of the Grateful Dead’s most consistently played songs from 1971 to 1995, [“Bertha”] was one of the handful of songs for which the Dead never recorded a studio version, with the live version that opens Skull & Roses being the definitive version.”
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Watch the 12/31/87 “Bertha” below:
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There once was a band called Grateful Dead
May 20, 2021 at 10:37 pm…. and a country known as The United States of America ….. Remember this Pathetic jambands headline from Nov 2020? “Willie Nelson, Bob Weir and More to Participate in ‘Biden For President’ Livestream Fundraiser” … jambands most commented article.
Tipper Gore
May 21, 2021 at 9:26 amyep, and thankfully so. Thank god, and thanks for the 81.2 million cast votes for Sleepy Joe as well.
Thanks David
May 20, 2021 at 6:27 pmDid not know that about Bertha not being studio recorded. Many of my all time favorites were not either…
Bob Weir
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