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Grateful Dead HQ Share Pro-Shot 12/31/87 “Bertha” for ‘All The Years Live’ Video Series

12:58 PM EDT on May 20, 2021


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: