Its really fun to hear Phil just bust on to the scene about halfway through the picasso moon opener. Ya know, you can dis this song if you need to, but i dont see how a real music listener could hear this and figure anything other than THEY ARE ROCKING THEIR ASSES OFF on this "stupud" song.

I like it.

I remember the second set was pretty A-OK as I recall. The Here Comes Sunshine 2nd set start and a Lucy In the Sky were much hoped for and seemed pretty cool, on this day in May of 1993. 92-93, also Bobby had that heavy, chunky effect coming from his guitar during these years. More reverb and sustain--it seemed like a tug of war of sound between him and Vince for a time during this era back behind ol' Jerry. years. Go back and listen to the 4/28/91 (P. Lesh-SBD upload) show and compare. The real fun starts mid-way through Bird Song......

it was great! i was there! enjoyed every minite of it!listen....it aint the best thats for sure,but if you were there it wasnt bad either.i got a soundboard tape that show sounds magnificent on.its a shame there is not a better sounding source for this show on the archive.iwill keep my personal experiences to my self at this show but it did sound much better there rather than tape.kept thinking bob was on slide and jerry on peddle steel.most fun i ever had a show.16 shows total and all of the vegas show run.good times........

you people have no idea of good dead shows...I think sting opened here....sorry if Im wrong....lighting storm ahead....jerry on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 97 dead shows under my belt and you rookies are hard to understand...

I'm sick of fake Deadheads bashing there favorite so-called band. This show was the bomb you have rain & lightning in the desert. Plus you had Jerry Garcia...right? This isn't the same band with the great Brent, or the great band in the '70s, or even the monsters of the 68-69 years. This is them now doing this for you remember that. Had Jerry took off a few years he'd still be around today. He gave his life for this. And all people can say is this show sucked...you suck! I would give my left foot to see jerry at his worst. He was up there for you and had every show been great it wouldn't be the Greatful Dead right. Just be glad that you where there and quit crying you Un-Grateful bitches.

A True Jerry fan untill the end.

bottom feeder was right on. It was such an amazing show and when the sky cleared for the 2nd set there was a broken rainbow for quite a while up in the sky. I still have the pictures to prove it.That night I turned 21 at midnight and went to play blackjack all night with deadheads drinking heineken. I won $160.

Whatever people think about sound problems from certain parts of the venue, or comparatively less than stellar jamming on certain tunes, or simply poor song selection...it is indisputable that this Bird Song is one of the more adventurous takes on a great song that the boys have played in the Nineties, including the Branford Eyeses...It is not smooth like those Branford Eyeses, but it is psychedelic and schizophrenic and surprisingly fun on every listen...

the Audience version of this is the most fun as it gives the listener the full weirdness effect of the swirling winds...a truly worthwhile DL for the Bird Song alone!

This was an awesome show for the extremely needy. It was a reasonably warm day, the parking lot shakedown street was always kind in vegas. We had driven in from so. cal. and were DEAD tired. There was clouds and some light rains and drizzle most of the day and into the first set. There was also some pretty impressive lightning.
Into the set break the sky was still crying. Then came the second set. The boys come out and start the usual routine of tune-noodling as I've heard it called. Then comes the opening lyrics of Here Comes Sunshine. The crowd went wild, the sky stoppped crying and the the sun came out . You might think i was on something but I swear that this is how it happened. The remainder of the second set was dry and the sky was blue for the rest of the day. INCREDIBLE!!! I have never and WILL never give a bad review of a show. In my opinion the boys put on an incredible show that day and every day. I have even been the catylist that has kept the music going before, but that is a story for another day. peace, danny

This show was my first real let down, it just wasn't there. I drove 17 hours from Portland to get there. My Bro feel asleep during drums and woke with the Bowl completely deserted. The Lucy was the only fun I had.

you say "tomato" I say "crap". 6 song first set that gets even worse beacuse those of us in the bleachers coundn't hear the first 3 songs because of Healy. We were then left with 3 tunes, one being Broken arrow. 2nd set has an out of key HCSS and a stale Playin>crazy. AT this point I was ready to leave but a Buddy traveled cross country and I felt obligated to stay. My buddy later told me he wanted to go, but was afraid to say anything. Also, my first days between and while the tune grew on me it really wasn't what I wanted to hear after sitting through this stinkburger.

Very hot first half of second set, and a fantastic sounding (I assume FOB) recording. The performance falters after drums, esp. a disjointed Watchtower, but the HCS, Playing>Crazy>Playing is great.
FYI, if you are good with splicing wav files, you can get the whole second set on one disc. Just enter out some of the pre-encore crowd, and be careful between HCS and Playing, as the tracks do overlap a bit.

best day of my life. you can really tell the guyz are excited about improv on this day. They push the envelope on Bird Song and Playin'. Nice mellow drums as well. As good as I remember it.