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    One Night Only - May 11, 2016: 6th Annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies: Sullivan Stadium 7/2/1989

    Come one, come all! Join us as we boogie down the aisles of your local moving picture house for the 6th Annual Meet-Up At The Movies. This year's special cinema event is a bona fide classic - the previously unreleased Grateful Dead concert from Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts on July 2, 1989. Catch the Dead in fine form, kicking off their summer tour to a sold-out crowd of more than 60,000 fans, and pulling out surprises at every turn - from the rare show-opener “Playing In The Band” to the only time they ever started a second set with “Friend Of The Devil.” The concert also includes a spectacular performance of “Wang Dang Doodle,” one of the band’s finest sing-along versions of “Tennessee Jed,” two Bob Dylan covers (“Queen Jane Approximately” and “Quinn The Eskimo”) along with a medley of Traffic’s “Dear Mr. Fantasy” segued into the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” Not to mention a sequence that will bring you back to the Dead circa 1973: "Truckin'"> "He's Gone"> "Eyes Of The World."

    And if that's not enough, we've got an exclusive interview with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux on the making of the upcoming 12-disc July 1978: The Complete Recordings boxed set as well as previously unseen performance footage from Dead & Company.

    "Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies: Sullivan Stadium 7/2/89" will only be playing on the silver screen for one night! Come out and connect with Dead Heads in your neighborhood on Wednesday, May 11th at 7:00pm local time.

    Tickets are now available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com.

    WATCH "HE'S GONE"

    WATCH "TENNESSEE JED"

    WATCH THE TRAILER

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  • SPACEBROTHER
    8 years 6 months ago
    Caught it
    This was a tremendously enjoyable show. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase this on CD/DVD. During the July '78 box promo, Dave mentioned a criteria for release being that a show must be as enjoyable to listen to, even after the fortieth time as it is the first time. Anything from Summer '89 would be as enjoyable even after hundreds (even thousands) of listens. Shame we're limited to only a single one time ever viewing of 7/2/89, 7/18/89, 7/19/89 and 4/12/72. The notion that there are no plans to release these is just....silly.
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    muhlberg
    8 years 6 months ago
    Good Pick
    What a rowdy show this must have been. I was surrounded by folks who were at the show, all the way on the other end of the country in Emeryville, California, Twenty Seven years later. Wavering audio quality, which might explain the lack of a soundboard seed for this show on archive org Btree, etc. Still, a standout performance with "x-factor" energy, obviously. I think the Playin' only began a show twice elsewise in the 1980s. Folsom Field 80' and MSG 82'. This has that nasty uninhibited and good-humored 89' confidence and interplay amidst. The brief renditions of "Playin -> Crazy Fingers" clearly stir their enthusiasm and Garcia is totally playful throughout. It's wild to see him dominate the second set, in leu of Weir's hesitation to take the lead after "He's Gone" Jerry steadily commands the jam towards "Eyes of The World." Strangely dark moments of this show. "Wang Dang Doodle" is straight up nasty delta blues, unlike the diluted arrangements in years to come. "To Lay Me Down" has depth to its rustiness. I think it's the song's sole performance of 89'? Even the second set opener "Friend of The Devil" is eerily off-kilter. From the audience recording I had heard in the past, the "Dear Mr. Fantasy" segment caught my attention. The MOATM revealed much more. Next show, Buffalo (legendary), onward to Philly, New York, and of course Alpine Valley. RELEASE A DVD OF THIS! PEOPLE WILL BUY. :)
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    gcrueger
    8 years 6 months ago
    Miracle Ticket
    A few dozen faithful gathered here in Atlanta and it's always good to find the tribe again. Great show (the vocal trade-offs in He's Gone and the Dear Mr. Fantasy / Hey Jude medley stand out as particularly unique), personal memories of Dylan and the Dead two years earlier at the same venue, enthusiastic crowd, and best of all a kind stranger gave me a ticket. No, I didn't have my finger in the air, and I was more than happy to wait in line behind two other people and pay my fair share, but fate brought me my first Miracle ticket :) Goes to show you don't ever know!
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Come one, come all! Join us as we boogie down the aisles of your local moving picture house for the 6th Annual Meet-Up At The Movies. This year's special cinema event is a bona fide classic - the previously unreleased Grateful Dead concert from Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts on July 2, 1989. Catch the Dead in fine form, kicking off their summer tour to a sold-out crowd of more than 60,000 fans, and pulling out surprises at every turn - from the rare show-opener “Playing In The Band” to the only time they ever started a second set with “Friend Of The Devil.” The concert also includes a spectacular performance of “Wang Dang Doodle,” one of the band’s finest sing-along versions of “Tennessee Jed,” two Bob Dylan covers (“Queen Jane Approximately” and “Quinn The Eskimo”) along with a medley of Traffic’s “Dear Mr. Fantasy” segued into the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” Not to mention a sequence that will bring you back to the Dead circa 1973: "Truckin'"> "He's Gone"> "Eyes Of The World."

And if that's not enough, we've got an exclusive interview with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux on the making of the upcoming 12-disc July 1978: The Complete Recordings boxed set as well as previously unseen performance footage from Dead & Company.

"Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies: Sullivan Stadium 7/2/89" will only be playing on the silver screen for one night! Come out and connect with Dead Heads in your neighborhood on Wednesday, May 11th at 7:00pm local time.

Tickets are now available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com.

WATCH "HE'S GONE"

WATCH "TENNESSEE JED"

WATCH THE TRAILER

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