![]() ![]() 24, 1972 also included “China Cat/Rider,” as well as “Dark Star” and “Morning Dew.” My second show, at the Berkeley Community Theater on Aug. I always loved when they played “China Cat,” which was recorded originally on Aoxomoxoa, the band’s 1969 album it was like they were playing it for me. Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower “China Cat” is the Dead at their most sublime - an intricate Garcia/Robert Hunter song that sounds like jazz and reads like Beat poetry: I literally walked to my first Dead show, which featured a “China Cat/I Know You Rider” second set opener, just as they did in 1995. 26, 1971 at, of all places, an Irish football stadium, Gaelic Park, in the Bronx, New York neighborhood where I grew up. ![]() Twenty-four years earlier, I attended my first Grateful Dead show on Aug. When I think about it now, I had come full circle with the Dead that night in New Jersey. The parking lot was crowded with excited ’heads and vendors - a veritable “Shakedown Street.” They opened the second set with my favorite Dead song, “China Cat Sunflower,” and closed with the crowd pleaser “Not Fade Away,” then encored with “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Though I knew the tour had its problems, I hardly expected it would be the last time I would ever see the Grateful Dead this close to its original form, with Garcia at the helm.Īfterwards, my friends and I huffed a few nitrous balloons in the lot as we went through the set list in our heads that also included “Eyes of the World,” “Bertha,” “Wharf Rat” and a first-set closing “Deal” (a solo Garcia number). My final Grateful Dead show was on Sunday, June 18, 1995 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey (a.k.a. Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary: All Our Coverage Drugs, touring and diabetes had taken their toll.Īfter so many years on the road, Garcia was tired and he needed a break, just not his last break. On stage during the summer tour Garcia forgot lyrics and was “less animated than usual,” according to Chicago Tribune music scribe Greg Kot. ![]() As it turned out, Garcia made the decision for the band to stop performing for their legion of traveling fans. ![]()
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