Grateful Dead: Shakedown Stream

The Grateful Dead have joined in on the fun and started a weekly stream on YouTube. The series, titled Shakedown Stream will share both your favorite concerts and never seen before footage of shows. Last night, the series debuted with Truckin’ Up to Buffalo—the Dead’s much celebrated July 4th show from their 1989 tour. Sandwiched in-between shows in Foxboro and Philly, the Buffalo show was definitely one to remember—worthy of DVD, 2-CD and 5-LP box set releases.

The Grateful Dead have put the G back in TGIF with another Friday installment of Shakedown Stream. Tonight’s show is from 1993’s summer tour stop at Buckeye Lake. Earlier in the month, the Dead shared “Foolish Heart” from their Buckeye Lake show. Now we get to enjoy the two sets and encore! Set 1 Jack Straw, Foolish Heart, The Same Thing, Lazy River Road, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, When I Paint My Masterpiece, So Many Roads, Promised Land Set 2 Eyes Of The World-> Playin’ In The Band-> Uncle John’s Band-> Corinna-> Drums-> Jam-> The Wheel-> All Along The Watchtower-> Black Peter-> Sugar Magnolia, E: Brokedown Palace

The Grateful Dead will take fans back to their July 2nd, 1989 performance at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, MA for this week’s Shakedown Stream webcast to air Friday, May 8th at 8 p.m. ET. Announced following this past Friday’s webcast of the 1978 Closing of the Winterland show, the virtual series’ co-host and Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux also confirmed that the special guest to participate in the pre-show Q&A will be co-founding guitarist Bob Weir. The Dead’s 20-song performance on 7/2/89 saw the band at the height of their late-80s success following the release of In The Dark just two years prior. Songs which made their way into the setlist that night included “Playing in the Band”, “Wang Dang Doodle”, covers of Bob Dylan‘s “Queen Jane Approximately” and “Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”, “Friend of the Devil”, “Eyes of the World”, “He’s Gone”, “Sugar Magnolia”, and “Dear Mr. Fantasy” just to name a few.

Fresh off last week’s Shakedown Stream online event which featured an extensive pre-show interview with Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead will next air their June 17th, 1991 concert at East Rutherford, New Jersey’s Giants Stadium for this week’s webcast.

On May 22, the Grateful Dead aired their Apr. 21, 1972 performance at West Germany’s The Beat Club for their Shakedown Stream broadcast series. The show was a part of the band’s famed Europe ’72 tour. Audio from this Dead show had not been heard until it was released on the 2011 box set Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings. Later, the band premiered the video at the fourth Meet Up At The Movies event, which occurred in July of 2014.

The Grateful Dead‘s Shakedown Stream video series continues tomorrow with the broadcast of a previously unreleased concert from 1990. Pro-shot video of the band’s July 16, 1990 performance at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York premieres after a pre-show on Friday, May 29 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on the JamBase Livestreams Calendar via YouTube. The Grateful Dead’s lineup for their Buffalo area show on July 16, 1990 featured guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, keyboardist Brent Mydland, bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. Mydland died just 10 days later due to an overdose.

This concert was the last event held at JFK Stadium, which was condemned by the city six days later and would be demolished in 1992. The name Crimson White & Indigo is taken from the lyrics of the song "Standing on the Moon," which the Dead first performed earlier in 1989. The version of this song featured in this release is considered an exceptional performance by fans, with an extended ending improvisation.

The Grateful Dead team is digging into the archives for their next Shakedown Stream webcast coming this Friday, June 12th. The band will show their appearance at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on May 11th, 1991.

After a week off, the Grateful Dead‘s weekly Shakedown Stream archive concert webcast series returns this Friday, June 26th. Similar to the webcast two weeks ago, where the Dead revisited their May 11th, 1991 performance at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, the Dead will once again showcase a Shoreline concert—this time, their debut at the Mountain View, CA venue a few years earlier on October 2nd, 1987.

View from the Vault, Volume Two (or View from the Vault II) is the second entry in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead. This volume features the June 14, 1991 concert at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., and bonus material from a show at the same venue on July 12, 1990.

The latest edition of the Grateful Dead’s weekly archival series Shakedown Stream features a 30th anniversary of sorts as the red-hot July 10th, 1990 show from Carter-Finley Stadium at NC State in Raleigh, NC will be made available to the public for the first time ever this Friday, July 10th. This show, which took place in the middle of the Dead’s acclaimed 1990 Summer tour, is rife with highlights including pianist Bruce Hornsby sitting in for a good portion on his trusty accordion as well as an otherworldly lightning storm that struck a generator and enveloped the stage in darkness for several minutes during the first-set-closing “Promised Land.”

The first all new video from America's premier in-concert band in over three years. The Grateful Dead - A View from the Vault is over 2-1/2 hours of LIVE concert footage from the historic concert at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, PA in July of 1990. Jerry, Mickey, Bill, Phil, Brent and Bob thrill a packed stadium with the classic performance style that is uniquely their own. This contains both day and night footage, including the first ever video released version of the huge hit "A Touch of Grey". The DVD version contains over an extra hour of additional footage shot from Cardinal's Stadium during the same tour.

The Grateful Dead‘s Shakedown Stream archive concert webcast series returns this Friday, July 24th. For this week’s broadcast, the band will revisit their September 29th, 1989 performance at Mountain View, California’s Shoreline Amphitheatre. As JamBase notes, the previously unreleased show marked the Dead’s first rendition of “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” after a gap of 19 years. Friday’s webcast marks the third Shakedown Stream highlighting one of the Dead’s Shoreline Amphitheatre performances over the years, following the broadcasts of 10/2/87 and 5/11/91 last month.

The Grateful Dead have returned tonight with Shakedown Stream. While most of the streams have been from the late 80s and early 90s, this week’s stream is a gem from 1978—the Dead’s concerts in Giza. In 1978, the Dead were on fire. The momentum from their historic year of shows in 1977 carried them to one of their wildest destinations—Egypt. The Grateful Dead traveled to their third continent in the fall of 1978. For a string of three nights in September, the Dead set up on the East Side of Sphinx for one of the most historic runs in their history. Rocking the Cradle is a film compiled from the footage from the last two concerts on September 15 and 16.

The Grateful Dead webcast series Shakedown Stream will return for its final weekly installment this Friday, August 7th. For this week’s broadcast, the band will air a previously-unreleased show from World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, IL on July 21st, 1990. While this does mark the end of regular, weekly installments of Shakedown Stream, the series will return periodically. The next broadcast will be on Thursday, August 27th with a 48th-anniversary showing of the Sunshine Daydream concert that took place in Veneta, OR on August 27th, 1972.

Sunshine Daydream is a music documentary film starring the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was shot at their August 27, 1972 concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon. Unreleased for many years, the movie was sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it circulated on VHS and DVD, and as digital downloads. A digitally remastered and reedited official version of the film was released on August 1, 2013, showing only one time in selected theaters as that year's edition of the Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies. It was screened with Grateful Days, a new documentary short that includes interviews with some of the concert attendees.

The Grateful Dead‘s Shakedown Stream live archival video series returns on Friday, October 30. An airing of the Dead Ahead concert film featuring footage from the band’s October 30 and 31, 1980 shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City is planned. Dead Ahead captures the end of the Grateful Dead’s lengthy run of three-set shows that included 15 nights at The Warfield in San Francisco, two performances at New Orleans’ Saenger Theatre and eight concerts at Radio City. Each night of the run, which came in celebration of the band’s 15th anniversary, began with an acoustic set. The concert film also featured vignettes starring Al Franken and Tom Davis.

The Grateful Dead have announced the return of the Shakedown Stream series, set to come back on June 23rd in honor of what would have been lyricist Robert Hunter‘s 80th birthday. Wednesday will see an airing of the Dead’s July 14th, 1990 concert at Foxboro Stadium in Massachusetts. Next week’s broadcast will mark the first edition of Shakedown Stream in 2021, with the last installment airing on October 30th, 2020. The previously unreleased show features a highly relevant “Shakedown Street” opener as the Dead unwittingly chug down to the tracks to the end of the Brent Mydland era. The lyrics of the keyboardist’s fiery “Far From Me”, “this is my last song for you,” rang eerily prescient as he would die only 12 days later of a drug overdose. July 14th, 1990 also features the final live rendition of Mydland’s “I Will Take You Home” lullaby.