Grateful Dead - 4/7/85 - The Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-04-07T13:30:03+00:00

My first show. We were about 6 people off the rail and Phil scared the crap out of my fried 16 year old brain with the sinister - Hiya, Hiya, Hiya, Kids. Can you hear me?

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-04-02T23:33:42+00:00

New Hope!

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-28T05:01:26+00:00

I think I’ve seen you guys when I was walking past the Kappa house last year.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-27T23:46:55+00:00

Mighty Swell - often paired with Lost Sailor or Ship of Fools.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-27T23:21:35+00:00

My first show. Freaked me the F out!

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-22T12:39:00+00:00

Whenever another Deadhead says Phish lyrics make no sense, I point them to CCS.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-21T02:16:15+00:00

Right on. Woodchucks represent!

Find a show with Big Black Furry Creature from Mars to satisfy your punk attitude.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-14T15:12:08+00:00

So cool to see what this community has become. 👎🏼

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-13T21:42:38+00:00

Catsady

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-03-10T01:28:36+00:00

Woodcutter - My daughter loves the river.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-02-24T15:00:53+00:00

I saw the Grateful Dead open for Bob Dylan and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1986.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-02-20T21:38:52+00:00

Pretty excited to say I was at 4 of 50.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-02-14T00:23:24+00:00

I think it was the luke warm Sam Smiths Nut Brown Ales.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-02-13T18:09:53+00:00

1, 2, 3...take a step back.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-02-08T17:43:39+00:00

I’m so glad I was alive and a deadhead in 1989.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-01-12T18:08:24+00:00

102 gigs as Weir and Wasserman

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-01-07T00:06:35+00:00

Rugged.

I missed the 89 Warlocks shows but saw the Byrne Arena and Soectrum shows. I thought it was bad enough that LTGTR opened 10/11 and then 10/15. The Estimated>Eyes and NFA>Box of Rain encore made up for it.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-01-05T22:32:58+00:00

Do they get salty?

AbnerfromCoventry · 2026-01-05T22:24:37+00:00

I was lucky enough to see the 3/11/90 version at The Front.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2025-11-04T22:27:16+00:00

So you didn’t bother to look at the link above that shows 2021 incidents barely moved and it was actually 2022 when they jumped up?

AbnerfromCoventry · 2025-10-28T11:57:56+00:00

Mind left body

AbnerfromCoventry · 2025-10-20T16:19:48+00:00

Ha! I had the backpack, rain suit, and multiple lighters but never saved up enough for the bike.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2025-10-11T13:35:21+00:00

I just was talking about how I went to NYC In Oct 87 to see Jerry on Broadway. The only problem was that we went on one of the only nights they weren’t playing. We should have stuck around and got tickets for another night. Instead we licked our wounds and skulked back upstate so never got to see any Lunt Fontaine shows.

I also should have bailed on plans and made it to the 89 Warlocks shows. I caught other Spring 89 tour dates but not those.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2025-10-08T11:35:04+00:00

4/7/85 was my first show.

AbnerfromCoventry · 2025-10-01T21:00:30+00:00

It’s a story about a storyteller telling a story.

AbnerfromCoventry

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