Here’s another slab of delightful 1994 Grateful Dead highlights, covering the first two weeks of the band’s final Fall Tour, 25 years ago (September 16-29).
I’ve now posted mixes covering the whole year, with the exception of December. I think they establish that when The Grateful Dead were on point in 1994, they were an excellent band, whose best recordings are worth keeping handy.
More notes, and links to the other 1994 mixes, below the track list…
6h15m mp3 mix zipped up here (dates included in tags)
Disc 1:
- Let the Good Times Roll
- Cumberland Blues
- Jack Straw
- West LA Fadeaway
- They Love Each Other (final performance)
- China Cat Sunflower (instr. edit) > I Know You Rider
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Brown Eyed Women
- Tennessee Jed
- The Same Thing
- Black Peter
Disc 2:
- Feel Like a Stranger
- Touch of Grey
- Greatest Story Ever Told
- Jack-a-Roe
- The Music Never Stopped
- Little Red Rooster
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Ramble on Rose
- Queen Jane Approximately
- Standing on the Moon
Disc 3:
- Playin’ in the Band >
- Uncle John’s Band
- Terrapin Jam
- Playin’ Jam >
- Eyes of the World
- Jam (after Samba)
- He’s Gone
- Stella Blue >
- One More Saturday Night
Disc 4:
- Victim or the Crime
- All Along the Watchtower
- Estimated Prophet >
- Eyes of the World
- The Wheel >
- Good Lovin’
- Iko Iko
- Throwing Stones >
- Not Fade Away
- Don’t Ease Me In
Disc 5:
- Saint of Circumstance
- Jam
- Spanish Jam >
- The Other One >
- Wharf Rat >
- Sugar Magnolia
- Cassidy > (acoustic, no drummers)
- Bird Song (acoustic, no drummers)
In the month of September 1994, The Grateful Dead played three shows at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA and three at Boston Garden. In between was the first Phil Lesh and Friends show, which featured an acoustic set featuring everyone but the drummers. All these performances, except the first set of the first Shoreline show, circulate as soundboards, and this mix is drawn from them.
I’ve previously presented highlight mixes from the year’s Spring Tour and the Summer Tour, as well as posting two Fall Tour mixes from October, including one titled “October ‘94.” (Note that the Fall Tour link will take you to a page that starts with this September post - scroll down for the previous two.)
The dividing line between my September/October mixes is the 10/1/94 show in Boston, which is currently the only officially released show of the year, included in the “30 Trips Around the Sun” box set.
The principles of this “September ’94” mix are comparable to, but more generous, than the “October ‘94” one. In this case, I’ve let in more later songs and covers, and edited some flawed songs, rather than excluding them in their entirety. The other restrictions were the same – no new songs and no drums/space.
Lots of wonderful versions of classic and side-bar songs here. There are minor stumbles sprinkled around, but nothing you’re not used to forgiving, in the best or years.