Late 80s
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
Show stats
- Wednesday
- Day 48 of 1988
- Show #
- 4 of 82
- Era
- Late 80s
- Keys
- Brent
- Recordings
- 7
- Top rating
- ★ 4.67 (3)
- Best source
- SBD
- Total dl
- 82,326
- Songs played
- 17 · 3 sets
- Show length
- 2h 1m
- Longest track
- Desolation Row · 12:11
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★ · Came for the Desolation Row........ · Excess · 2011
......and stayed for the rest. Came to this show off a recommendation from http://www.headyversion.com (an interesting Dead site) that claimed this as one of the best versions of Desolation Row. After listening a few times, I'll admit, it's up there. Bobby really puts out on this one, the inflections in his voice certainly make this version stand out. In fact, Bobby's all over this show. Good, crawling Red Rooster and an emphatic (if spacey) Estimated into drums.
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- ★★★★ · Best show of the four nights · sugareesupreme · 2020
Agreed that this fourth and final night of the Kaiser run is the strongest performance of the run. Weir was burning to sing desolation Row, would have opened with it if he could have. It is a top notch version. Regarding the question below, he is repeating the novel pronunciation of "Einstein" that rolled off his tongue a moment earlier. Yes, he really nails this version. To me, all four nights are a bit blah, just short of that eleven on the knob that goes up to ten.
- ★★★★ · wtf · princeton-g · 2015
At the 4:35 mark of Desolation Row, at the end of the verse, Bobby says some kind of word, perhaps german like "Einstacht". What gives?, who knows the story?
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Setlist
Set 1
Set 2
Encore
Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)
Recordings on archive.org · 7
Best source
gd1988-02-17.sbd.miller.88399.sbeok.flac16
SBD -> Cassette Master (Sony D5/TDK MA-R90) · ★ 4.00 (9 reviews) · 19,811 dl
Compare all 7 sources
- gd1988-02-17.163696.fob.schoeps.unknown.ebel.flac16FOB Schoeps CMC 3 MK4-> PCM-> DAT · 594 dl
- gd1988-02-17.aud.schoepsCMC3.miller.14955.shnfSchoeps CMC3/MK41>Dat>CD · 3,536 dl
- gd1988-02-17.nak300.andrewf.96637.flac16OTS AUD: Nakamichi CM300's w/CP4 shotguns > patched thru one Sony D5 > Sony WM-D6C > Maxell MX-90's with no Dolby. · ★ 4.00 · 3,516 dl
- gd1988-02-17.sbd.hinko.24764.sbeok.shnfSBD > MC > DAT > CD >EAC > SHN · 3,742 dl
- gd1988-02-17.sbd.miller.88399.sbeok.flac16SBD -> Cassette Master (Sony D5/TDK MA-R90) · ★ 4.00 · 19,811 dl
- gd88-02-17.aud.wiley.16113.sbeok.shnfSchoeps CMC3/MK41>DAT>CDR · ★ 4.67 · 44,812 dl
- gd88-02-17.sbd.hinko.18297.sbeok.shnfSBD > MC > C > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN via Darryl Hinko · ★ 3.50 · 6,315 dl