Grateful Dead 7-13-85 Ventura County Fairgrounds Ventura CA
Setlist: Set 1 One More Saturday Night Fire On The Mountain Walkin’ Blues Dupree’s Diamond Blues Mama Tried Big River Bird …
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Setlist: Set 1 One More Saturday Night Fire On The Mountain Walkin’ Blues Dupree’s Diamond Blues Mama Tried Big River Bird …
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Best listened to loud and outside! Great energy on the stage here!
I remember having a lot of fun at the China Garden restaurant with a room full of Deadheads getting rowdy to the house band. I remember a lady (Alison?) walking around the show and needing a reminder to pull up her top.
I remember dancing with the Hell's Angels and after the show, they started their bikes up backstage and it sounded like thunder. I remember a lady dancing in the surf. So glad I was there.
Impecable sound quality, sounds fierce in my headphones !!
See you at the show! Ventura 22
I remember this Dead act with " Fire on the Mountain ' with fire actually on the mountain above around the Cross for real. "Woke up this morning " and knew I was going to a Greateful concert.
This is my very first show. Went with my brother and was blown away by the scene. We were right on the beach in the band sounded amazing. Went on for the next 10 years seeing them wherever I could. Eventually move to the Bay Area just so I could see them and I have to travel. The new incarnations are OK, but nothing lives up to the time Jerry was but leader of the band.
Someone found a piece of gold in the haystack!
Wow he was extra fat in 1985.
Was in the Navy at the time, accidentally dropped…
Had backstage passes for both '85 Ventura shows and can verify this per Live Aid questions: There were 2-3 TV monitors set up at convenient hubs in the grassy flat area w/picnic tables behind stage, and possibly 1 onstage too, all tuned to the ongoing LiveAid simulcast. Flashback to this trippy moment while the Dead jammed: I wandered behind the stage and paused to watch one of the monitors, and it appeared as if the Live Aid act was singing a Dead song. No way I can remember either the Live Aid act or the Dead song, but for sure recall the odd sensory juxtaposition. (One of many that weekend.) Among West Coast Deadheads defining the 1980s 'Decade of Decadence" era, Ventura County Fairgrounds was a standout legacy venue guaranteed to leave you and your vehicle coated with awesome memories and lotsa dusty dirt. — "Ridin' like a surfer, ridin' on a tidal wave …"
There was actually a fire on the mountain . They went in a few minutes after,
Lots of good shows out there that I’ve listened to. This is an exceptional Fire! Wow. Jerry is really on top of things in this one. Thanks for posting.
my first show
Flash Back? What?
Excellent. NFA (@)-;}
California's finest point break combined with the greatest band of our fine states existence!
Scorching OMSN! I was so fing crushed the following year getting the phone call from my mom that Jer was in coma, had the whole summer tour tickets in hand starting with this one, Pitt seats for Missouri too . Amazing they played on the beach never made it
Ok , about the red shirt. Jerry got busted in golden gate park in January 85, and the spring tour came and we were super excited about this change from black T-shirt to red. Then the 3/24/85 Springfield show with Bertha opener, that sick "arrest me…JAILHOUSE" rumble , well you just have to hear it, but like so many examples of the songs taking on new/different meanings. Another interesting one was seeing Eyes in Paris and literally staying in a strangers home in Paris . I have always been super partial to 1985, I think it's their best year. The red shirt was just the beginning of this amazing year. They unveiled the "20 years so far" banner in the summer, and they had some sick breakouts, most notably the cryptical. The shows were amazing, the 2 merriweather, and now legendary Hershey park show in the rain. I was prolly the only one of my friends who made it to the Pittsburgh show to end that piece of the run, this Ventura was the next show
Are you feeling it now mister Krabs? 12:08
Jerry is fucking killing it here, but what Bobby is doing behind him is just ….chefs kiss perfect….
I too was there. Lived in Ventura back then. At one show I remember a train went by right behind the stage, but I couldn't hear it cause the Dead was throwin down the gauntlet.
breaks? we don't need no stinkin' breaks – jerry garcia
Red Jerry
The 85 sound was on a whole other level. Dupree's- hearing the captain nailing the lyrics!!
One of the best first sets of the 80s fo' sho' . Thanks again for a great video
The sound is really good, I wonder if Voodoonola was there when this was recorded and maybe the son of the Drummer?
I am blown away by Jerry, not only remembering all the music, but the lyrics to all those songs, every night for 40 years.
26:02 duprees
Bobs flub at the end of mama tried is impressive