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10/23/89
Charlotte Coliseum - Charlotte, NC

Set 1:
California Earthquake
Feel Like A Stranger
Loser
Walkin' Blues
Bertha
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Tennessee Jed
Let It Grow

Set 2:
Touch Of Grey
Looks Like Rain
We Can Run
Crazy Fingers
Terrapin Station
Drums
I Will Take You Home
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Standing On The Moon
Turn On Your Love Light

Encore:
Attics Of My Life

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Comments:

A great second night after a horrible 1st show
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i agree, this was the better of the two nights in a creepy town at a creepy venue. mellow show though all around, but well done, earthquake song was very emotional, and attics was sort of disapointing for me. of all the songs to bring back, why this one?
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I thought this show was the weaker of the two.

opinions vary, I guess.
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Attics as a disappointment? Your comment is disappointing....
-anon


Does anyway know the origin of "California Earthquake"? It sounds like a regional old-timey folk song to me, but I haven't been able to track it down. Anybody know!?
-anonymous


This was a very hot show!! The Bertha mid fist set blew everyone away. Second set was blistering from start to finish. Terrapin was tremendous, GDTRFB almost blew the roof off the place and ATTICS was the perfect encore. Get the tape, you will not be disappointed.
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Yeah, definitely not a cool town. I lived there many years and moved away! Best move I ever made. Denver now and staying for good.
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This was my FIRST show at age 13 - it ROCKED! I live in Charlotte now and can see how some thought it was a creepy venue
-Jen


"california earthquake" is a song by rodney crowell released on his 1st album "aint living long like this" and NOT the song of the same name sung by the mamas and the papas. thats all i know.
-gdjake (08/22/2007)


ps- i shouldve added that its a VERY well performed song sung by garcia. worth the download to have this one and the rare "attics". just my .02
-gdjake (09/03/2007)


I just think some of this show was sad because you can begin to hear the evidence of Brent's "situation" in an all too familiar croaky voice.
- (05/28/2008)


I'm with you Patman. The 80's version of Attics is not good. Thankfully it was balanced out with the very well done resurrection of Death Don't.
-Anonymous (05/20/2009)


They brought Attics back because it was one of only two non-Pigpen tune off of American Beauty that wasn't extensively performed. Till the morning comes is the other. I guess if it was a choice between those two, i'd pick attics as well. More emotional and fitting to the sound that was the 80's. obviously, there was no way to recapture the original vibe, but i think they just needed a new tune to shake thing up a little bit. things can get very mundane if you just keep playing the same tunes year after year.

As for the show itself, a marked improvement over the previous night. i've been to charlotte a couple of times in the past few years and it definitely isn't a place dead heads would be readily accepted even as visitors. guess it was the only place in NC big enough for the crowds they were drawing around this time.

and i can definitely hear the "coming trouble" in brents' voice. He sounds like he had a fat spoonful during drums, cause there is a blatant difference in his voice between WCR and IWTYH. Guess attics was a fitting return for his last few months. Sad when you have to watch friends destroy themselves.
-Murphy (05/21/2014)


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(04/16/79 - 07/23/90)

Lead Guitar: Jerry Garcia
Rhythm Guitar: Bob Weir
Bass: Phil Lesh
Keyboards: Brent Mydland
Drums: Bill Kreutzmann
Drums: Mickey Hart

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