it was a blistering hot 2 days. Jerry playing was noticablyshaky and missing a few lines. But I'm sure he was uncomfortable withheat

Might be the worst Help On the Way > Slipknot combo of all time. Dreadful. Jerry in poor voice. Things get somewhat better as the show moves on. Probably one of the low lights from a year I love.

There were red flags all over the place there to indicate that someone needed medical attention, most likely for heat stroke given the 105-degree weather. People were going down! Finally found the water hoses in the back and could enjoy what is truly Grateful Dead awesomeness.

Great show! I listened to it from start to finish in one sitting.
Just throwing OMSN into the 1st set closer spot should grab your attention. 1st set is extremely varied and great tune selection.
2nd set feature all jam tunes plus I sang along the whole time pre-drums and is just wide open. drumz is all high octane!
Starting to Jones for Dead & Co @ Pittsburgh, PA big time this summer!

I don't have a lot of experience with the 90s dead as I am a neophyte but wow this seems like an awesome show. Loser is absolutely amazing

My first time "trippin'", BLITZ!!! I hold this concert true.

I've always loved the blistering solo during Loose Lucy!!!

I've kicked around long enough to know when the
boys are blazing on acid. The music reeks of the
stuff - I'm flashbacking just listening to it.
This, of course, makes for an excellent show.
It is true that Garcia has to struggle at times to contain his riffs within the bars, so to speak- his attempt to keep the beat on the UJB main solo is really very amusing. Almost pulls it
off ;-)
The sound is fine and clear, but definitely a little idiosyncratic. It's a matter of personal
taste, not a deficiency, IMHO.
Personally, I'm delighted that, even as late as 1990, the guys were able to doze heavily and enjoy themselves. Wish I had been there.
A really nice head to the whole listening experience. Almost a four star show, with some
special added consciousness-expanding enhancements that makes it all quite special.

Good show. Shitty sound.

Thad is right. This isn't good and it is mono sound. We need a good board of this, if anyone could please help.

Hey man, check out 6/8/90 if you never have. One of my favorite foolish hearts. Theres also a bootleg video of it on youtube. Cal Expo. I love archive. Peace n love

105 degrees fahrenheit but pretty amazing; cookin' more than just our skin. Broadcast on KPFK. This is the closest the band ever played to my home. (Actually my father's place, I didn't still live there). What was so cool about that, is that I could go to his house in Hermosa Beach and set up a Hi-Fi V.C.R. to record off the radio and just let it roll at high speed (I think?), and go to the show, and still get to the show in time and come back to a complete recording!
This is fun with "The Race is On". The "Help on Way" is mediocre, so that is partly why I only gave it 4. The next day is similarly hot and has it's moments as well, but wasn't broadcast on the radio. This show here, has the absolute greatest version of "Queen Jane Approximately" I've ever seen! Check out Brent's keyboard solo! Awesome! And I don't use that word lightly. Oh, how caan I forget my first "Loose Lucy"! Wowie Zowie.
It is too bad the folks without tickets blew it so they never played here again!

Enjoy,

Augy
San Diego

I have always liked this show. I wish I still had my old cassette. The mix on it was much better. I have never liked the mix on this SBD version. Awful, mono sounding mix that is all hi-hat cymbals. Horrible. Can't some great soul upload a good quality audience or a legit soundboard?

Phil lets it rip at the beginning of the show. Race>HSF is great. Does anybody remember Wier asking for a moment of silence for the Celts who just got bumped in the playoffs? 17+ years already.

Download Now!!!! 5 stars

Please help, How do you down load this show?

i did this whole tour working for bg presents and let me tell you that the cid was flyin! the boys were hot the venues were even better. the heads were at rare form for being good and at the end in oregon uncle bill suggested that n cal and s ore become 1 state and fuk southern cal.............it was a great time for alll.. mr leary nocked me down at cal expo and i remember him picking me up and saying "im sorry my brother" owsley was there selling 24 carat gold steal your faces it was a great time for all and the band rocked!@ that waS bRENTS LAST CAL TOUR i MISS HIMM!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WAS kentucky derby day 13 songs 1St set for 13 horses!!

Well as some of you might know Mr.Leary was ther and he brought some treats for the guys if you know what I mean. I think thats why they didnt sound to well and plus the heat was just a killer.Im sorry but it was a ok show and if it wasnt for Leary I would have ranked it lower.

These two shows were very hot! They both rocked. My favorite memory from these shows was seeing Tim Leary & Terence McKenna standing by the side of the stage in the crowd talking & grooving to the boys. Damn I wished I had taken a picture of them. These shows were some of my all time favs becuase they were some of the last Brent Shows I got to see besides the Shoreline the next month.
The Broadcast on KPFK were great & I was recording them as well from the taper section. I had one deck hooked up to a tuner to get that version as well. They both smoked.

If you want to hear the very best Loser...check out 7-20-82 Ventura. Jerry & Phil are so smoking at their first shows on the beach...

Only the great sound quality and Phil's drive enable me to rate this show a two. I could barely listen to the Help/Slip/Frank, I think only Phil was playing and everyone else could not keep a beat or remember the words. Not worth the download. Maybe it was the heat?

Check out this Mr. Fantasy

super show all the way.
:-)

I've been to 100+ shows and I'm here to say, the Grateful Dead Rocked as Hard & Tight as Ever. The best part about this show was the Groove -slick jams- havin' a Coke and a smile-cruise control set at 110 - in full effect. We were Lettin' the Good Times Roll; it was Derby Day on the soccer field, with Help on the Way. Busting Loose Lucy. Truckin' on Down the Road, it was A Miracle to hear Mr.Fantasy go Round. We got by...We Survived. Shiver me timbers Maine! If you're gonna call SLOP on anything, call the guy doing the recording high!!!!! B O N G !!!!!.

This was my first west coast show, and I absolutely loved it. The heat and so forth that many have mentioned here probably affected the style, all I remember is that it felt very "liquid". There was a point during the first set when Phil was just thumping like a madman, I thought it was our placement with relation to the speakers. The first time I really appreciated how incredible he is (or any bassist for that matter).

I know you all probably will criticize me for this statement, but my opininion of this show(i've been to way over 100 since 87) is SLOPPY for the Grateful Dead. The quality superb but the band at times seems like they are very stoned.

Phriends of Phil should be shouting from the rooftops for the first set of this show. It is a prime example of why bass guitar is not just an extension of the drummers' right foot, but a lead instrument in its own right. Check out "Race" or the intro to "Help". This is fun to listen to, and a must have for all Phil Phreaks.

They didnt play Foolish on the 18th, you must mean the next night 3-19-90.
Try these Foolish Hearts: 6-19-88 (1st foolish), 6-28-88, 7-12-90, 7-15-89, 5-6-90, 3-28-91, 7-19-90 and 6-11-93.

btw, sorry tito, I had a mislabled wav. it was supposed to be the 7-19-90 foolish, 3-28-91 is not to miss either, nice keys sound. Or the 9-11-88 foolish where jerry sings "Rice and wind" funny.

Where do Brent's Keys go during the race is on just when he is about to solo?

The Loser in the first set is one of the best versions played. The rest of the show is a very nice listen, as well. Recommended download.

So here I am. I feel very fortunate to have this as my 1st spread of shows. It was a VERY hot day and everyone was very nice about looking out for everyone else. What a great intorduction to the scene. The set list couldn't have been more perfect for a 1st show. Got my Help>Slip>Frank and the old standards of Playin, (which I think is an underrated version)UJB, Truckin, and Crazy Fingers with some more rarities like Race is on. It's too bad that this spread got slowly forgotten after my next show was RFK '90. I Had to go back and listen to this one to re- appreciate it. Both days have a nice groove for such a hot day. It might not be a energetic as the east coast spring but it has a nice spacey groove feel to the whole show.

So of course, The race is on. got a bad sun burn at this one. Hot show.Nice long first set. second set moves nicely as well. Good companion piece if you are downloading the next night, which you should. Anyone know what the actual lyric the band is singing on the line, "help on the way'? sounds like they are goofing around, but I can't make it out.

Rumor has it it took close to a decade to get town approval for the new Home depot center in carson because of the mess the heads left at this one.

yeah,i meant the next nights foolish.I wish i could get a good recording of the first Foolish.I have been looking for that for a long time.Check out the 2-21-95 Foolish.Its sick as fuck.There was no show on 7-1-90.so we both make mistakes

Im a big "Foolish" fan and have always enjoyed this version(and 3-18-90,and 95 salt lake) too).Anybody Know any good "Foolish Hearts"please let me know.

Check Nassau 3-28-91 for an epic 11 minute foolish heart

This weekend was a lot of fun, though, despite the great set lists, I felt this show lacked the energy of the spring tour they just finished, or the shoreline run they were about to do. Probably the heat. Nevertheless, good times all around, and this recording sounds quite nice. Side Bar, Check Alpine Valley, 7/19/89 for the BEST FOOLISH HEART EVER.

Those of us who started seeing the Band in the late 80's seem to have the strongest affinity for Brent. Love Foolish Heart and enjoy 90' more then any other year.
If your looking for good Foolish Hearts your right Hartford is one of the best. 3-28-90 and 7-19-90 are excellent to. Also 6-11-93

This was the first year I'd dropped acid so my friends knew I had to come. funny how you don't get shaken down at entry. the true last real American frontier as far as freedom and liberty existed at thease shows and everyone had such mutual respect. anyone and everyone willing to share a sip or a toke. The Grateful Dead Believe in their ability to cre8 magic and this show was proof. what an experience this was. meerly incredible. all the tie-tye scarfs I was wering by the end of the show, the thing I got stuck in my teeth gnawing on it, (boy my friends laughed at me for that) seeing Jerry Garcia live beeing the reluctant legend he was and getting to see how deadheads really are, man the heads are a big part of the show as well as the band. funny how there wasan't the hippie bazzar market out in the parking lot. I guess I was fortinate to score my "miracle" before going in. then metting Mr. Charle the candyman after the show and taking him with us back to the Holiday Inn. The Arcive and The Dead being willing to allow taping and trading will keep the magic alive! Loved this show!!! What Beautiful people!!!

Oh yeah.....I remember these shows. Jack Nickolson standing on the side stage watching Easy To Love You on the 6th, and EVERYTHING about the 5th. I had seen 38 shows at this point and I got so many firsts. Help>Slip>Franklins, Race Is On, Loser, Loose Lucy, 1st set Sat Night, GDTRFB, and a few the next day. Phil was a beast. Even my aud tapes from this one are good. I miss them.

I will never forget this show. From start to finish they rocked! Standouts were Help-Slip-Franklin's, Loose Lucy, and Mr. Fantasy. I remember Brent just wailing up there. Nothin like fryin' in the sun and listening to the dead!

Nice setlists at this one. The band was having fun, and so were we. Brutally hot smoggy L.A. day, and not in the best neighborhood either. No surprise we weren't invited back.

An hour an a half in 104 deg. sun to go the last mile. Did anybody ever figure out why? Great crowd, friendliest ever. Must have been from out of town. Or it was the CIA practicing interrogation techniques. I remember everybody walking in, sharing water, introducing their tribe to my tribe, busting out neccesaries to share and then rocking my ass off. I wish the tape came out one more star better.

Cinco de Mayo with the Dead! A blazingly hot day with a rough but great GD show. The Help-slipknot-Franklin's in the mid 1st set really launched things. I remember a nearly naked long dreadlocked head wearing an immense sombrero hoisting a spliff and yelling Arrrribaaa! next to my non-deadhead friend. Priceless.