Pretty sure yeah. Maybe he was faded at this point. Love this show, the Dead Ahead footage is great, but you can find other pro shot stuff from those nights on YT. From what I understand they played this run to bail out radio city MH, they was going bankrupt at the time. Gave them all the proceeds, did the acoustic set

Yes. 5 years before coma

A good ways before

no man this is his healthy look

In comparison he looks great. Go look at sone 84 fall. Yikes

The legend Billy Cobham was a guest at these shows and sat in with the band during drums. The whole band was playing tighter and harder than maybe they ever had before. It was one of the few "high pressure" gigs that they actually killed at (according to the band at least whenever they had other great musicians around like at Woodstock or with Miles Davis they tended to play worse with this being a notable exception). Jerry was probably expecting someone to fuck up at any second so needless to say he was working HARD here.

@@newusernamehere4772 no way, where are the recordings of billy playing with the dead?? What songs did they do?

Well he usually flubbed at least one verse of getaway, must have been worried about it

@@brendanmcmahon1162 that's what I wqs thinking too. It seemed like he started to get more animated as the song progressed and he knew he was going to make it through the lyrics without forgetting any. I've been working on this song and the lyrics are cryptic, tricky and hard to remember. Good 'ol Robert Hunter :-)

@@jmandomac I've been a junkie before and the fact that he usually only flubbed one verse is pretty awesome. Dope is not known for helping remember