Like I said a few days ago, it's good to be back! Again, I want to thank our friend @sirhotpants (Todd) for taking care of us last week with an exceptional write-up for WW XCI. Talk about giving the goods! 2 early shows, 2 late shows, 4 sets of NRPS, and an absolutely rip-roaring smokin' piece of primal Grateful Dead music known around here as Viola Lee > Cumberland! Man that is some powerful stuff right there. I trust a happy halloween was had by all



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I remember when I got back from this trip last year, and the very next Wednesday that followed. I'm lucky in the fact that I have a brother I'm close with (although we fought like cats and dogs at one point...don't we all?) and I got to share many life expierences with. Others aren't as fortunate and believe my I am Grateful for what I have. I touched on that a bit last year with the 2 Bonner Springs '91 shows, and I'm about to take a stroll down nostalgia lane this time as well.

And one thing my brother and I have is a lot of memories...all sorts of stuff. This helps on a 13 hour drive! Just talking about stuff, cracking jokes, reminessing about past trips, and listening to music. LOTS of music.

It was nice to have the Sirius XM Grateful Dead channel, but after a few hours of that I get tired of the '73-'77 shuffle. I love a '73 Eyes, and I groove to a '77 Estimated, but sometimes we both get in the mood for something else. Something that hits a little closer to home. Someplace we have been.



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Knowing what the XM channel had in store for us, I left Michigan with a few choice shows for us to listen to. As has been our custom for a few years now, we pretrty much exclusively listen to shows we were at...and let the magic of memory take the reigns from there.

This show I'm giving you today is special to both of us, and we probably listened to it all the way through twice last week. In fact, on the way there I popped it in just as we crossed under that New Holland Tunnel on I-80 west of Chicago and it pretty much carried us all the way to Des Moines.

The WW number and the year are a perfect match, which just happens to be an awesome coincidence. When I started this 92 weeks ago I didn't know this week would line up with one of my favorite memories from that year.

I remember it was cold. I'm talking cold! Like this kind of cold:



Per usual, we showed up ticketless, yet both managed to scorte tix in time to join the long, cold wait at the venue doors.

Man was it COLD! We laughed and laughed, remembering how we froze our asses off as the frozen throng was chanting for them to open the doors. I remember the awesome arctic knit sweater I bought in the lot (which I still have) because the next day I needed one more thermal layer.

I remember how hard it was to find smoke in the lot, since many of us didn't risk bringing any greenery with us over the Canadian border. Nobody had buds, but there were plenty of doses to go around! As is my usual custom, I ate my 2 hits right before I entered the building.

Long story short, lets just say one would have been sufficient .

We roll past the Iowa border as we start to crank Set 2. All talk has pretty much ended by this point. Of all the wonderful thoughts that race through my brain, one seems to prevail over all of them.

This is a damn good show! 20 years later it stands the test of time. I think the next time we break silence to hit a gas station (which are all called (KUM AND GO in Iowa LOL) is to shake our head in bewilderment that many dismiss these years as sub-par.

How lucky we both were to have been here, and how many others who weren't dismiss this era of my life as a waste of time.

I feel bad for those who don't see the light, who never got to experience this greatness that we did. I wish there was a way I could give everyone a piece of what touched us.

Yep, it was sometime last week while rolling through the corn and bean fields of eastern Iowa that I made my decission.

I'm giving you guys this show as soon as I get back!

Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart...you just gotta poke around...

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3-20-92 Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario

mp3 (part 1):http://www.mediafire.com/?o5gk0j1alo49ypk
mp3 (part 2):http://www.mediafire.com/?j6t7uqpj6j8j0ez

SET 1

Hell In A Bucket
Althea
Same Thing
Brown Eyed Women
Mexicali >
Maggie's Farm
Birdsong >
Promised Land

SET 2

Shakedown >
Women Are Smarter
Dark Star >
D/S >
Other One >
Standing On The Moon>
Lovelite

(E) U.S. Blues

Notes

Dark Star contains an instrumental 2nd verse.

A 6 song second set (!)

This Maggie's Farm brought the house down.

For some reason B.E. Women is missing from the soundboard sources. I have no idea why but it just is. Not that it kills anything, but the audience versions are on archive if you want to grab the best sounding one just to complete the file. It depends on how mych of a "completist snob" you are (like me).

Maybe next week I'll talk about my trip for a bit. I just got a new i-phone (my first) before I left so I got a slew of pictures. For those not too squeemish about hunting, I can show you the biggest buck of my life that I got with my bow and arrow.

"How lucky we both were to have been here, and how many others who weren't dismiss this era of my life as a waste of time.

I feel bad for those who don't see the light, who never got to experience this greatness that we did. I wish there was a way I could give everyone a piece of what touched us."-MIke

^so exactly true!
It is a shock 70's is so loved, Jerry's guitar wasn't even close to this one and all the midi and insanity he could pull from it. People don't realize what went down in that era, and it is still my go to years- probably cause I was there, but Jer was on fire!

And nice reminder of what seemed like an average setlist but was a good tape I got right away and listened to over and over. Wish I went so bad. Thanks again

The links don't work for me.

But, as always, great story.

Show looks super tasty.

A very fitting show with the snow I'm getting at school right now. It hasn't stopped in CT since it started at 11. Weird weird stuff.

I loved the first. No doubt that Maggies Farm and Bird Song were highlights for me.

Excited for the second set tonight after classes end.

Those Copps Coliseum shows were fun, both times (90 & 92). Thanks for the links!

This bad boy is a winner!!!

just listened to that Bird Song, as always twas awesome.