This sixth and final volume of SBD highlights of Summer '94 Grateful Dead is a lively conclusion to the series – approximately the length of a single show, 1970s-centric, and book-ended by some great deep cuts.
The 1994 tour ended at Giant’s Stadium, in New Jersey – but the circulating soundboards end one stop earlier, in Auburn Hills, MI. The band played two shows at The Palace, and this mix is drawn from soundboards of both second sets and one first set.
3-hour mp3 mix zipped up here (performance dates includes in song tags)
Disc 1: 60 minutes
- Satisfaction
- Way to Go Home (released on “So Many Roads”)
- Greatest Story Ever Told
- Row Jimmy
- Me and My Uncle >
- Mexicali Fakeout > Big River
- Lazy River Road
- Spoonful
- Black Peter
Disc 2: 50 minutes
- Estimated Prophet > Jam
- Spanish Jam
- New Speedway Boogie (edit) >
- Truckin’ > Other One tease >
- He’s Gone
Disc 3: 60 minutes
- Victim or the Crime
- Scarlet Begonias Jam > Fire on the Mountain
- Improv: Beat 1
- Improv: Beat 2
- Improv: The Creature Wakes Up
- Improv: The Creature Checks Its Texts >
- Improv: The Creature Attacks the Watchtower >
- All Along the Watchtower
- In the Midnight Hour
Notes:
- This is the first “Satisfaction” since June 1992, and the last one the band ever played. It’s currently my favorite version, but I’m no expert on all the versions.
- This is the first “Midnight Hour” since April 1993, and the third from last. (The other, final two were played during the Fall ’94 tour.)
- This is the first “Spanish Jam” since March 1993, the fifth from last, and quite cool. The next one, in September 1994, is nowhere close.
- Great “Black Peter.”
- “New Speedway Boogie” (edit): I haven’t heard a totally together late-era version of this song, but the band frequently found the groove and played around with the group vocals in fun ways. This one was flawed, but I like how the band used it as a wind-up for “Truckin’,” so I’ve edited it into a partly-instrumental version.
- This “Way to Go Home” was released on “So Many Roads.” I endorse that choice.
- “Me & My Uncle > Mexicali Fakeout > Big River”: My nominee for best ’94 cowboy song experience.