Grateful Dead

Keith was using an electric piano that had little to no touch sensitivity. It could either be turned up or not, but there was no room for playing soft styled notes (called "piano"), due to the fact that it had inline pickups that were not designed to catch the resonance you get out of a real piano, which in turn gives you the ability to play soft (piano) or loud (forte). The only instrument Keith chose to play was an acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes. Those were all he used before the 74 breakup. After that, he was coerced into using synths, organs, and electric grand / baby grand pianos. Coerced by...I don't know for a fact which band member(s) but I would be surprised if it was anyone but Jerry. I prefer the acoustic pianos he used before they went on hiatus, mixed with the Fender Rhodes. Goodness me they were incredible. He also used the acoustic piano in 1976. The reason for the change was partly due to (we'll just say Jerry) wanting to change up the Dead's sound, which was the same reason Mickey Hart came back to the fold. I mention Mickey because the onstage volume became huge when he was there, which made it very difficult to mic and monitor an acoustic piano. It's the same reason Bobby spoke of ditching the Gibson hollow-body in favor of the thin sounding Ibanez. He just couldn't hear himself anymore (especially once Jerry re-incorporated the Wolf + two drummers + Keith's electric piano). So then he went with the thin upper register sounding rig. It was a strange time for the band's sound. There was this domino effect that soon had everyone changing their instruments. Thought you would be interested in the reason for the "heavy handed" sound of the playing. Love it in Truckin' from DaP 25.

Paranoid Pictures - "High School Madness" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A5DftXzIqs&ab_channel=terminalpictures…

I find this ongoing reference humorous, even though I don't necessarily get it...not familiar with that show, but I assume it was a good one from this oft-overlooked era. You people are funny. And that's one pretty decent looking 80's - 90's list too.... Sixtus

Thanks for the clarification Thin!

No problems. More 80's? More everything! Fuck Gainesville!

Where's the Anthem of the Sun 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition? And what about Gainesville?

5/7 and 8/80 are in there somewhereand Go to Nassau yes, quite a bit of 80s/90s has been released

I wish they would release something from the '84 - '88 time frame thats independant of an investment of hundreds of dollars for a box. The band, and Jerry in particular were performing well in '87 and '88. Even lot's of gems from winter/spring '89. Crisler Arena and the Mecca from S'89 are fabulous, even transcendant. Lots of gems throughout the '80s (and '90) at Cal Expo, Shoreline, the Greek, Red Rocks, Alpine Valley, Deer Creek, Autzen Stadium, Irvine, Henry J Kaiser, Laguna Seca, The Frost, and...and ...and... That Florida/Louisiana/Texas run in October '88 is pretty nice too. All of the Compton Terrace shows were strong. If they put out my first show, 7/1/84, I'll shut up.

9/3/8011/28/80 11/30/80 5/6/81 5/16/81 12/9/81 4/6/82 7/31/82 8/7/82 10/14/83 10/21/83 10/12/84 6/24/85 11/1/85 5/3/86 7/24/87 7/26/87 9/18/87 12/31/87 4/1/88 7/3/88 4/2/89 4/3/89 7/4/89 7/7/89 7/12/89 7/13/89 7/17/89 10/8/89 10/9/89 10/16/89 10/26/89 3/14/90 3/15/90 3/16/90 3/18/90 3/19/90 3/21/90 3/22/90 3/24/90 3/25/90 3/26/90 3/29/90 3/30/90 4/1/90 4/2/90 4/3/90 6/16/90 7/8/90 9/16/90 10/27/90 6/14/91 6/20/91 9/10/91 9/25/91 3/20/92 12/16/92 3/27/93 5/26/93 10/1/94 2/21/95 Officially released shows --- (or very close to full shows...e.g. Downhill From Here contains most of 7/17/89 but also has a few songs from 7/19/89) I'd say we are a lucky bunch but I'll happily take more as long as they don't sound any worse than 8/7/82.

I attended a show in 85, at the USF sundome toward the end or October. Good show, great crowd and fun party favors everywhere, Jerry wasted but still on fire. flash ahead to 88 and you are right Spacebrother, those 88 shows in Fla were great, saw the 2 in St. Petersburg, second was Bobby's birthday show, the city closed all the streets around the arena and we partied for 3 days, Jerry looked tired but still gave it his all. great times with great friends, man, I miss those days and Jerry too.