JBL - Greatful Dead's Wall of Sound

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Originally Posted by michaelhigh

I saw the Dead 2 weeks before Jerry died... not to sound morbid but he seemes kinda lifeless that night... This was after the Dead had fired off an open letter to their fans basically saying: "don't come to the shows without tickets expecting a 'miracle' (as it were)... This was also after a roof collapsed in MO on a bunch of fans who had climbed onto a roof to see the show from an outside-the-venue location. Much disintegration and gate-crashing abounded at that time. 7-6-95 was the STL show, my birthday I might add.

I was a regular tour head from 77-90, but then things went downhill from there (IMO). After 90, I wouldn't travel far and wide to see them anymore. Just a few shows here and there. Besides the "seedy" tour scene, it was pretty apparent that Jerry was having difficulty, so much so that they began to turn Jerry's rig volume down. It was too painful to watch..He was on stage but he was in a different place. Very sad